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Monday is your friend

Start Up Blog

'I’m typing this on a Sunday evening. I’ve had various times in my life when I used to hate Sunday, not due to its own features and benefits, but because it was the pre-amble to Monday. Mondayitus. The dread for Monday was so deep and worrisome that it ruined the day before it which is was a free day. And what is more ironic is that I even liked Thursday more than I liked Friday, because Friday was too close to Monday.

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How To Find An Angel Funding Match For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

'Fundraising is brutal. Actually, according to Paul Graham of Y-Combinator fame, “Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making something people want.” More startups may fail for that reason, but a close second is the difficulty of raising money. A while back, I outlined “ The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business ” for startups, listing angel investors as alternative #6.

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Online Store SEA Citizen Reinterprets High Street Fashion For Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

'As if fashion blogshops have not already taken a large bite out of the earnings of traditional brick-and-mortar fashion retail businesses, they are also facing competition from fully-fledged fashion e-commerce sites. Where blogshops used to be run by independent owners who source products on buying trips to Seoul and Shanghai and are run on a small scale, some of these online fashion stores have set higher sights.

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Productivity’s at an all-time low? 10 tips for revitalizing your workflow

The Next Web

'Ilya Pozin is an entrepreneur, writer and investor. He is the founder of Open Me , a social greeting card company, and Ciplex , a digital marketing agency. He’s a columnist on entrepreneurship and marketing. Productivity is a hot topic for just about everyone in the working world. But when it comes to those of you in a leadership role , the need for increased productivity and efficiency may be even more glaring.

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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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It’s What You Do With What Happens

Mike Michalowicz

'I have come to believe that the events we experience as entrepreneurs are the same for us all. The founders of Google and the founder of Spanx, experienced the same things you and I have (or will). Therefore, it is not what happens to us that determines our entrepreneurial success. It is how we deal with what happens. Seek the opportunity in every challenge your business faces.

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Mark Cuban and Cotter Cunningham to Speak at Longhorn Startup Lab

SiliconHills

'Longhorn Startup Lab started out two years ago as a way to jump start undergraduate entrepreneurs at the University of Texas at Austin. The program run by Bob Metcalfe, UT professor of innovation, and Joshua Baer, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Capital Factory, has graduated four classes so far. Ben Dyer, entrepreneur in residence at […] The post Mark Cuban and Cotter Cunningham to Speak at Longhorn Startup Lab appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Start with fiction

Start Up Blog

'While many startups are new versions of existing ideas, in our quieter moments all entrepreneurs would freely admit they wouldn’t mind changing the world. Me included. If we want to do this, then one of the most important things we can do is ignore the facts. Facts specialise in yesterday. They are by definition an historical account of what we understood or what happened.

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R.I.P Lou Reed

Guy Nirpaz

'Lou Reed Past away today at the age of 71. Didn’t know the man. Just his music. I’m sad today. Here’s the best version of ‘sweet jane’ that I recommend. enjoy.

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

'I started a couple of weeks ago with the first part of a post on small business trends for 2014; today I have 5 more trends that I’d like to share. Two things to note: first, crystal balls like this one populate the Internet and mine is no better or worse than the many others out there. Secondly, trends are trends and nothing more. Some of them have legs and will be with us for a long time, others are like vapor – these may be in vogue at this moment in time, but a trend today is a mere memory

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Telco R&D Centers in Israel Scorecard

VC Cafe

'Next month, one of the leading European operators is expected to announce a dedicated, Israel-focused venture capital fund. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to innovation clusters, some telcos are getting a better ROI from Israel than others. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How Do You Build a Company People Love to Work For.and Customers Love to Do Business With?

Small Business Force

For many entrepreneurs, this sounds like some idealistic dream; some cultural nirvana for their company. In fact, for most small businesses, accomplishing just one of those two monumental challenges would be great thing. But both? Well, it's not only possible, but if you accomplish one of them, you will almost always accomplish the other. And it's rooted in a very fundamental premise that I've touched on in the past - how you treat employees and customers are inextricably tied together.