Fri.Apr 18, 2014

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

'When I was a kid, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was going to be the next Boris Vallejo! (You know, the famous fantasy and sci-fi artist who always painted ripped, shirtless men and buxom, bikini-clad women atop flying dragons and Pegasuses… Yeah, I wanted to be him.). There were two problems with my future career plans though: 1) I wasn’t very good at art, and 2) my parents made it clear there wasn’t a snowball’s chance that they would pay for me to go to art school

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Twitter Link Roundup #219 – 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 , I post links to posts or videos I 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 I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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7 Things Entrepreneurs Don’t Realize They Need

YoungUpstarts

'Dream of quitting the rat race and becoming your own boss? Better read this list first. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration , 50% of all new businesses fail in the first five years – probably because they didn’t have one of these essential seven items. 1. A successful business. Wait, what? You’re supposed to have a business before you start a business?

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Simple is as simple does: The downsides of avoiding complexity

The Next Web

'Evan Hanlon is the Director of Audience Strategy at Xaxis. There’s a certain type of person I’ve learned not to trust: someone who insists that they can make things simple. I recognize how problematic that is for me, a person whose job it is to in fact make things simple. But I suppose it’s because I dive into what lurks behind the design studio slides and know just how deep the rabbit hole goes.

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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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[Infographic][UK] Keep Your Business Going, Rain Or Shine

YoungUpstarts

'Just what exactly is going on with the weather at the moment? The UK being what it is, we’re not averse to a bit of rain. However, what we’ve seen over the last few weeks has verged slightly on the side of ridiculous. By now, the majority of us will be familiar with the infamous image of the railway line hanging mid-air in Dawlish, Devon, when the sea wall beneath it collapsed.

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A guide to creating your startup advisory board

The Next Web

'Alana Muller is the President at Kauffman FastTrac, an organization that equips entrepreneurs with the business skills and insights, tools, resources, and networks to start and grow. This post originally appeared on the Clarity.fm blog. The entrepreneurial journey is full of twists, turns, ups and downs. That’s why you need the support of trusted advisors.

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Connecting the Sellers of NYC's Salesperson Community

This is going to be BIG.

'What''s easier to hire for in NYC? Developers or salespeople? Well, let''s see. if hiring is a function of the top of the funnel--the number of leads you get, you have to imagine that at least finding larger pockets of those people is helpful to the process. There are two meetups of Ruby devs that total over 3,000 people in NYC. There''s an iOS developer meetup that hosts over 4,000--and two more than have more than 1,000 each.

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Why You Can’t Motivate An Employee

Mike Michalowicz

'I get it. You want a dream team, a devoted group of employees who would move mountains, face their fears, and work tirelessly to help you meet your entrepreneurial goals. I hate to break it to you buck-o, but they ain’t you. They may love you and their job, but nobody will ever be as determined as you to make your business a success. And if you think money will make the difference, you are fatally wrong.

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Web startup principals apply to every kind of new business

Start Up Blog

'Recently I’ve been exploring the hardware space, especially now I’m deeply involvement in Tomcar Australia – a startup which builds cars. I’ve become more focused on what we can learn in the web / software / mobile space, and apply it to the hardware space – startups which build actual physical things or any non digital kinda startup.

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Microsoft Expands its Data Center Operations in San Antonio

SiliconHills

'In 2008, Microsoft opened a $550 million, 470,000 square foot data center in the Westover Hills area of San Antonio. At the time, a Microsoft executive said that was just the beginning of Microsoft’s investment in San Antonio. She was right. This week, Microsoft announced a $1 million donation to the University of Texas at […] The post Microsoft Expands its Data Center Operations in San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Power of Video Throughout the Customer Journey

Duct Tape Marketing

'The Power of Video Throughout the Customer Journey written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Brad Jefferson – Enjoy! . The business benefits of video for brand discovery, web traffic and customer engagement have been widely documented over the years.

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Geekdom on the Move

SiliconHills

'For the first time in its more than two year history, Geekdom will close its doors Friday at 2 p.m. But don’t fret. It’s only temporary. Geekdom, the downtown technology incubator and co-working space in San Antonio, is moving to the historic Rand building, which dates back to 1913, this weekend. It will reopen on […] The post Geekdom on the Move appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Questions For a New CEO: Joe Koufman, AgencySparks

Jeff Hilimire

'This is the ninth installment of my “5 Questions for a CEO” series. The list so far: Raymond King , Zoo Atlanta. Devon Wijesinghe , Insightpool. Mark Feinberg , Uruut. Simms Jenkins , BrightWave Marketing. Rob Kischuk , PerfectPost. Kyle Porter , SalesLoft. Brett Jacobsen , Mount Vernon Presbyterian School. Jacqui Chew , iFusion Marketing. Joe Koufman and I worked together at Engauge (after I tried to recruit him for 3+ years he finally came on board!

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Rooster Teeth Rules the YouTube Roost

SiliconHills

'By LESLIE ANNE JONES Reporter with Silicon Hills News It might be the biggest online entertainment production house you’ve never heard of. Rooster Teeth celebrated its eleventh anniversary on April 1, and its much-loved series Red vs. Blue, which debuted in 2003, is now the longest-running American sci-fi show and has sold 1 million DVDs. […] The post Rooster Teeth Rules the YouTube Roost appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Stress and daily writing

The Startup Toolkit

'I used to think I “carried stress well.” But it turns out that stress is actually just easy to ignore (for a while) thanks to all the fun and booze and distractions available. But it builds. I’ve broken down from it a couple times now, which basically kills whatever project I cared deeply enough about to get stressed over. Startups are made out of people.

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