Sun.May 05, 2013

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The Damaging Psychology of Down Rounds

Both Sides of the Table

'Yesterday I wrote a post about “ proprietary dealflow for VCs.” In the article I discussed the downside of raising capital at a too high of a price and referred people to a previous article I had written encouraging founders to raise “ At the Top end of Normal ” as opposed to stratospheric prices. In the comments section Siqi Chen wrote a great question. “Whenever I hear advice about pricing a round too high for the next round, I can’t help but think: well, i

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9 Steps to Entrepreneur Real Social Media Results

Startup Professionals Musings

'If you are an entrepreneur these days, or trying to grow an existing business, everyone is telling you that you need to use social media. There are many ‘experts’ out there telling you how to do it, or even offering their services. But very few are talking about how to measure your results, and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment.

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One More Thank You

Life Beyond Code

'Can one more Thank You make a big difference? The answer is Yes – just ask any person who received that Thank You from you. Why is it “one more” Thank You? The focus of this article is on that “one more.” The concept is so simple but one that has changed my life in a very profound way. Let’s get to the heart of it right away. [ Note: Printing this page might make this easy to do this exercise but it not required ].

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Austin Mini Maker Faire: The Greatest Show – and Tell – on Earth!

SiliconHills

'BY JOSHUA SCHECHTER Special to Silicon Hills News The maker movement is one of the hottest trends in the U.S. right now and no place was that more evident on Sunday than the Austin Mini Maker Faire at the Palmer Events Center in Austin. A family-oriented day of discovery, imagination and inventiveness, the Faire offered [.] The post Austin Mini Maker Faire: The Greatest Show – and Tell – on Earth!

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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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Could Your Username Be Used For Fraud Detection?

Hunter Walker

'If you go to just about any social website and search for user “hunter walk,” there’s a reasonable chance you’ll find me. It just always seemed easiest to employ my real name and its uniqueness meant it was often available. Any site I register with would also see it’s the name in my email address and that my identity corresponded to a number of other sites where there exists proxy data suggesting I’m a good egg (eg in good standing on LinkedIn).

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Is Your Desk Keeping You From a Promotion? 5 Ways to Show You Mean Business.

YoungUpstarts

'by Gary Austin of Gary Austin Advertising. Stop what you’re doing and look at your workspace. Is it neat and organized with just a few personal items adorning the walls and desk? Or is it like a lot of other desks — a chaotic jumble of paperwork, files and empty coffee cups, with a computer monitor covered with sticky notes and a bulletin board overflowing with photos from your last vacation and nights out with friends?

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The Business Plan. Redux.

crowdSPRING Blog

'It has been some time since I last discussed business plans in these blog pages and I thought it might be time for an update. When Ross and I were developing the idea for crowdSPRING we wrote an extensive business plan – over 80 pages of detailed description, research, tables, charts, models, and projections. The very process of writing the plan was an integral part of developing the business: we were building ideas and analyzing the research we had been collecting for months and we were synthe

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Lemonade Day Austin – May 5, 2013 – Entrepreneurial Kids

entrepreMusings

'Every year there is a nationwide effort to encourage kids to think like entrepreneurs called Lemonade Day. This year it was held in Austin on May 5 (cinco de Mayo), 2013 and both of my kids participated with some of their classmates. One location was at the Rookie Triathlon and the other was at Mueller Lake Park. My daughter’s team made a profit of $91.

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[Singapore][Event] Crowdsourcing Week

YoungUpstarts

'Over the past few years we’ve seen how crowdsourcing, backed by the wisdom (and pockets!) of the crowd, innovated and changed the faces of many industries. By leveraging on the latest social technologies, new funding and payment methods, as well as the spread of niche communities with diverse interests, a new collaborative business paradigm has taken root in almost every space.

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