Sat.Nov 23, 2013

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Enterprise Software has its perks

deal architect

'You think it is all boring? See what 3 of my friends in the industry got to do recently Mini Peiris at NetSuite got to ring the closing bell at the NYSE Fred Studer gets to star in this really.

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7 Key Realities Many Startup Founders Never Learn

Startup Professionals Musings

'When I started mentoring entrepreneurs and startups a few years ago, I anticipated that I would get mostly tough technical questions, but instead I more often hear things like “Where do I start?” I find that the basics are actually the hardest to answer, just like your parents found out when they first tried to fill you in on the “facts of life” a long time ago.

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How a bad technology decision can bite for years

deal architect

'Kelly, the flight attendant, saw me shake my head as I entered my connecting flight to the Bay Area this week. I recognized the plane as an older Southwest 737-300 plane with no wi-fi. An email a few days prior.

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Is the Marketing Strategy not important in a business plan when pitching to VCs?

Gust

'Marketing strategy actually is quite important to most investors. The bottom line is that if no one shows up to buy or use your product, it doesn’t matter one whit how cool or great or innovative it is. And investors do not like top-down projections (“we’ll get a 10% market share…”). They very much want to see how you are going to get your first customer, and your second, and your third.

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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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Prevent Stealing With A Picture Of Eyes

Mike Michalowicz

'Studies show that people adhere to rules more when they think they are being watched, even if the watching eyes are fake. A recent stop at a McDonald’s showed this technique in practice. Above the drink and condiment bar where customers serve themselves are the eyes of Mona Lisa. Clearly this isn’t strangely placed art work, it is a technique to prevent customers from over serving themselves.

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“How we built our startup office in three days”

The Next Web

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From email newsletters and online forms to $25k in three months (no coding required)

The Next Web

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Older, Richer, More Customers: Accelerators Go Corporate

VC Cafe

'Zack Weisfeld Microsoft Accelerator. The success of start-up accelerators like Y Combinator, Tech Stars and 500Startups has spawned hundreds of clones, including more than 15 in Israel. Now the Israeli R&D Centers of Fortune 50 giants like IBM, Citibank, Cisco, Orange and Microsoft are crashing the Accelerator party, nurturing startups in search of an illusory dream: street cred.

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