Sun.Oct 28, 2012

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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

The buzz on “growth hacking” has spread all across the world. Classes on growth hacking are being taught in Singapore. Companies from San Francisco to London are recruiting growth hackers. The first Growth Hacking Conference popped up a few weeks ago. This rapid craze beseeches an explanation. Why has growth hacking so strongly resonated with the startup community?

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Small Business and Startups: Slice & Dice Your Customer Service Data

crowdSPRING Blog

After every quarter I delve into our customer service data to have a look at a few things: first (and foremost) are we effectively meeting out goal of providing world-class customer service to our community? Next, what is the demand on our system and do we have capacity available to meet it? Third, have we improved our performance across the key metrics of speed, quality, and efficiency?

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Meg Whitman and Ginni Rometty in 2016

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We are at a historic point in the industry's evolution. Two strong and accomplished ladies are leading our biggest and most iconic tech companies, HP and IBM. As I read and heard about Meg Whitman at Gartner’s event in Orlando.

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Every Good Startup Practices Constructive Conflict

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs are not prepared for conflict, or actively avoid it. Their vision, passion, and focus are so strong that they can’t imagine someone disagreeing, much less fighting them to the death. But the reality is that startups are composed of smart people, with emotions as well as intellects, working in close proximity under much pressure, so conflicts will occur.

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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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More New Florence

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on the innovation blog Half and half Cool robots Too young to drive – but not to invent Third Angle Orthographic Projection of iPhone 5 Drones map Peruvian ruins A majestic afternoon on San Francisco Bay Innovating cast iron cookware.

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Standing Ovation Before The Speaker Begins

Feld Thoughts

A few weeks ago at Thinc Iowa I noticed the tradition they had of giving a standing ovation to the speaker when the speaker took the stage. I had never seen that before and thought it was awesome. Speakers also got a standing ovation after their talk. As someone who does a lot of public talks, the first sixty seconds of warming up a room are often awkward (even if well executed) and the standing ovation at the beginning eliminated all of this for me.

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Choose Your VC Wisely”- Conversation with Felda Hardymon

VC Cafe

Felda Hardymon is a highly successful venture capitalist and popular Harvard Business School professor, where he teaches “Venture Capital and Private Equity”. Sharing research and examples from the. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Registering Your Social Enterprise

Business Plan Blog

'Once you have decided on the proper entity type for your social enterprise, the next thing you need to do is file the proper paperwork with the proper authorities to begin the process. The best place to start is your state’s Secretary of State office. You can find their contact information here. Register Your Name (State): Find the form your state requires to register the name of your social enterprise.

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Social Impact Bonds Webinar Panel | Video | #SOCENT

Campus Entrepreneurship

Doing some work on a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) for the Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship and came across this interesting video on social impact bonds. Worth checking out. Social Impact Bonds Webinar Panel – YouTube.

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5 tips to make your bootstrapped venture work

The Next Web

My life after graduating from George Washington University in the spring of 2009 began inauspiciously: Like millions of Americans, I was on the front end of what would turn out to be an extended economic recession, with little in the way of opportunity and a deep desire not to move back into my parents’ house. To avoid that fate, I decided that I would start my own company — and I would make it work.

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Great Startup Teams Foster a Culture of Likability

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Larry Ellison Photo by Oracle PR. You don’t have to be likeable to everyone to be a great entrepreneur, just to the people who count. Of course, we can all point to apparent exceptions, like Ted Turner or Larry Ellison, who are sometimes seen as lions, downright predators, or even jerks. Yet I’m told that even these guys are considered quite likable by an intimate group of business and personal associates.

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