Fri.May 10, 2013

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Twitter Link Roundup #178 – 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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Willamette Angel Conference Invests More than $450K

Up and Running

'Yesterday’s Willamette Angel Conference (WAC) 2013 event invested more than $465,000 in four Oregon startups, highlighted by more than $250,000 in Portland-based Sonivate , which has developed a fingertip-mounted ultrasound probe that enables imaging while leaving both hands free to do work with simultaneous tactile feedback. . Three other startups got WAC investment at the event: Amorphyx , a Corvallis company with innovative technology that reduces manufacturing costs and increasing the

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Tech Wildcatters Pitch Day 2013

The Startup Lawyer

'Tech Wildcatters has just announced a new location for their 2013 Pitch Day. Pitch Day 2013 will be held on Thursday, May 23 from noon to 3pm (Dallas Texas Time) at the Granada Theater. Prior Pitch Days were held at the Magnolia, but due to demand, Pitch Day 2013 will be held at a larger [.].

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Acing The Job Interview — 6 Tips For Veterans

YoungUpstarts

'by Florence Black. Going to job interviews is stressful for everyone, and almost everyone has been or will be to at least one job interview. Returning military personnel may find their first batch of interviews when looking for a civilian posting especially harrowing. Changing careers and working cultures is not easy, but these six job interview tips should help you feel more relaxed and give you a better chance at landing your dream job: Prepare Talking Points.

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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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So, marketing.

Jeff Hilimire

'Someone commented recently on this blog suggesting that I talk more about marketing. And it made me realize that I really don’t write much about marketing here these days. I’ve always said this blog would reflect the things I’m interested in talking about at any given period of my life. Sometimes I’ll talk about technology. Sometimes leadership.

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[Infographic] The Evolution Of The Internship

YoungUpstarts

'Internships have always been the time-honored way for those interested in picking up a particular craft, ever since the first apprentice picked up a tool and worked under the guidance of a master artificer. But it has certainly evolved over the centuries – today students embark on internships during their college years to gain out-of-the-classroom experience prior to entering their industry.

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YouTube launches channel subscriptions

The Equity Kicker

'Google yesterday announced the launch of paid subscriptions for YouTube channels. So far this is only for a pilot group of around 30 hand-picked channels, but they say they are going to expand to a broader list of qualified partners that will operate on a self-service basis. I take that to mean that getting approval to charge for a YouTube channel will be somewhat like getting approval for an app to appear in the Google Play store – most everything that isn’t offensive will get appr

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Learn More About the Austin-San Antonio Connection at RISE

SiliconHills

'I moved to San Antonio in 1989 from Beaumont, Texas. In San Antonio, I covered the nascent high technology industry including a pioneering, but now defunct company called Datapoint and about a half dozen spin off companies formed by former Datapoint executives. Back then, Michael Dell was still building his PC company, founded in 1984 [.] The post Learn More About the Austin-San Antonio Connection at RISE appeared first on SiliconHills.

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A Ridiculously Awesome Opportunity for 8 Business Owners

Duct Tape Marketing

'What if you could spend 3 entire days working on your business with only seven other business owners under my guidance. Oh, and what if it was free. I am conducting and filming a live 3 day workshop in San Francisco June 26-28 and eight lucky business owners get to join me for free as my in-studio business case studies. (Well, you do have to pay your travel, but the workshop is free).

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Austin’s Battling a Global War for Tech Talent

SiliconHills

'With the explosive growth in Austin’s high tech industry, can companies find enough tech talent locally? That’s a big issue technology executives in central Texas are grappling with right now, said Susanne Bowen, CEO of PeopleAdmin and chair of the Austin Technology Council’s Community Foundation. She moderated a panel of experts on the subject of [.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Dick Costolo

Scott Edward Walker

'To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Dick Costolo , the CEO of Twitter and a very impressive leader. In this interesting, three-minute clip from a few years ago, Dick provides the following four nuggets to entrepreneurs: Have an authentic company voice; Have an entrance strategy, not an exit st

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A Slice of Silicon Hills Gets Healthy with Greenling

SiliconHills

'BY ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Fresh fruits and vegetables are great right? But unfortunately, not everyone has time to go to the store twice a week and get them. Now, thanks to Greenling, you can have fresh healthy food come to you. Founded in Austin in 2005, Greenling delivers locally produced and [.] The post A Slice of Silicon Hills Gets Healthy with Greenling appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Should Your Startup Have a Transparent Email Policy?

Early Growth Financial Services

'By Sarah Khogyani from AffinityLive. Recently, Stripe co-founder Patrick Collinson revealed to Quora and Inc Magazine their transparent email policy. To put it simply, everyone on their team can read everyone else’s emails and this, he says, allows for better workflows and more opportunities for collaboration. In a recent blog post, he elaborates, “We value autonomy, rigorous debate, and avoiding hierarchy to the extent that we can.

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RISE Week Kicks Off on Monday

SiliconHills

'RISE Week 2013 kicks off on Monday! Are you ready for a week of fantastic sessions covering everything from how to juggle entrepreneurship and having a family to crowdfunding or finding angel or venture capital investment for your startup? This year marks the seventh year for RISE, which stands for Relationship and Information Series for [.] The post RISE Week Kicks Off on Monday appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Is That "Fire in Your Belly" Leading to "Burnout?"

Small Business Force

Recently, there was an article in the Wall Street Journal on CEO "burnout." While it focused, primarily, on larger public companies, "burnout" is an issue that is applicable with lessons to be learned for entrepreneurs and small business owners. The CEO job, whether you're running a $2 billion public company or a 3 person start-up can be a lonely, pressure-filled experience with endless problems interrupted by short spurts of satisfaction.

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The best gift I’ve received in quite some time #arresteddevelopment

Jeff Hilimire

'Thanks @GumboShowJoe !

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Is Your Website “Soooooo 2008?”

Up and Running

'2008 may not even seem that long ago to some of you. But so much has changed in marketing since then that quite frankly a website even developed in 2010 can seem – well – “old school.”. According to Pew Internet & American Life Project back around 2008, only about ½ the North American population even used online devices and a mere 8% were deep users of the web.

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7 Startup Habits Investors Read as Staying Power

Startup Professionals Musings

'I’m always looking for evidence of early startup characteristics that might be predictors of long-term success. Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Of course, we would all like to have a magic list based on more definitive tracking of many real startups over time. In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and publi

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What’s Your Company’s First Impression (The Armpit Syndrome)

Mike Michalowicz

'If you have ever visited my home state of New Jersey there is a chance that the visit left you with one of two impressions. You may believe it lives up to its dubious name, “the armpit of America” or, alternatively, you may have concluded that good ‘ol NJ is quite a beautiful state. How is it possible to have such a dichotomy? The answer, in short, is that there are two ways to enter the state: by car or by plane.