Fri.Oct 24, 2014

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Make Every Member Of Your Startup Act Like An Owner

Startup Professionals Musings

'Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. Then they are surprised to see productivity and creativity take a big dip. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business.

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Twitter Link Roundup #240 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , we post links to posts or videos we enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that we’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Ten Tools You Can Start Using Today to Maximize Your Productivity

Up and Running

'Add these to your tool box. Everyone wants to be productive. In fact, most people are looking for ways to become more productive than they already are. Just this morning, we posted about ways to be productive even during your down time and I have to say, having tried the Pomodoro Technique myself, I can vouch for the efficacy of that method. The basic premise is that you can get yourself to focus on even the most strenuous or boring task for 25 minutes at a stretch.

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The Business Model Canvas Gets Even Better – Value Proposition Design

Steve Blank

'Product/Market fit now has its own book. Alexander Osterwalder wrote it. Buy it. —— The Lean Startup process builds new ventures more efficiently. It has three parts: a business model canvas to frame hypotheses, customer development to get out of the building to test those hypotheses and agile engineering to build minimum viable products.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Victims and Leaders

Feld Thoughts

'In a recent board meeting, at a particularly challenging part of the conversation, I did a retrospective of the past five years as a lead up to making a point. I prefaced it by saying “I need you to take a leader approach, not a victim approach.” I realized no one knew that I meant by this, so I told a quick story, which I first heard from Jeremy Bloom, the CEO of Integrate , retired pro-football player, retired Olympic skier, and someone I adore.

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The Quick And Easy Guide To Setting Up A Website For Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

'Every business needs a strong online presence in the 21st century. Whether you run a small neighbourhood store or a multinational manufacturing company, a professional website is critical to how the world sees your organisation. If you’re concerned that you don’t have the knowledge and expertise required to set up your own website, you may be in for a shock.

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Tips for companies attending office hours

The Equity Kicker

'Every month we run an open office hours. It’s a great way for us to meet with lots of founders, improve our deal flow and hopefully give a little back to teh community. Many other VCs do something similar. We’ve just had our October office hours, and we’ve now met with approaching 100 founders through this programme. Most entrepreneurs come here to pitch us.

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5 steps to finding a winning brand name

The Next Web

'Olga Steidl is the Growth manager at Linko. Earlier this year, we faced a surprise hurdle. Due to a conflicting trademark in the US and a subsequent cease and desist letter, we were forced to change our brand name just before the public launch of our product. Saying goodbye and starting anew To say that we loved our name, “Linko,” doesn’t even begin to describe the situation.

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How to Be Productive, Even During Downtime

Up and Running

'With all the updates from Apple being released lately, I’ve been spending more time than usual sitting at my desk waiting for files to download or for my computer to restart. It’s a common time-waster for me, even when it’s not release season at Apple. I’m often sitting at my desk waiting for a file to upload or waiting for a Skype call to start.

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6 Easy Ways To Refresh An Old Product Or Service

Mike Michalowicz

'Baking soda used to be used for … baking. While it’s still in the pantries of most homes, baking soda is the poster child for reinvention and repositioning. It’s not just for cookies. It’s used as a deodorizer, a household cleaner, and even in toothpaste. Think about it … if a simple product like baking soda can be reinvented as so many different things, how much can you stand to gain by reinventing your products or services?

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Bryce Dot VC

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