Wed.Feb 22, 2012

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How to Give Your Startup Idea The Sniff Test

Startup Professionals Musings

I have a certain friend who called me a while back, all excited about his latest revelation. “What if you could go to a web site and find all the recipes you could make today, with just the ingredients you already have in your kitchen? I’m going to start a website to offer this service!” I’m sure you all realize that there could be quite a distance between a great idea and a great startup.

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A Historic Day

deal architect

This is one in a series of periodic posts to recognize articles, blogs, books, videos interviews I think are worthy of sharing. The category A Rare Medium Well Done says it nicely This time it is Sam Fuld of the.

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5 Apps You Can Use To Customize Your Facebook Timeline

YoungUpstarts

Social networking giant Facebook launched Facebook Timeline last December as a new way for people to share their (entire) lives online. Perhaps people are just resistant to any kind of change; there are entire Facebook groups dedicated to sharing their hate for Timeline. But for those of you who actually like or don’t mind it, there are various apps you can use to improve your Timeline profile.

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NextView Ethos – Tribe

Genuine VC

When we started NextView Ventures, we deliberately took time during our first offsite together to define a shared sense of “Ethos” which we are going to use as guiding principles in building our firm. All five of them (Authentic, Blank Canvas, Golazo, Invited Guest, & Tribe) we’ve listed on our website since it went live a little more than a year ago, and my partners in recent blog posts have discussed in more detail two qualities of our Ethos, Invited Guest and Golazo.

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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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[Infographic] New Grad’s Guide To Personal Finance

YoungUpstarts

Recently graduated? Not sure how to handle your own finances? You’re not alone. Many college graduates are saddled with credit card debt, crushing study loans and sustained unemployment after graduation – coupled with poor financial literacy and management, can potentially mean financial doom down the road. You can avoid all this by careful financial management – all you need to start with is by setting a budget.

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Collaborative Consumption is Creative

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

I don’t plug a lot of videos on this blog — how many video’s are all that relevant to creativity and innovation? This is the exception, I have one I’d really like you to watch, after you read this Jay Leno style “set up” Growing up in anti-communist America the world was black and white. [.].

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Two signs of things to come – body hacking and targeted advertising

The Equity Kicker

I am going through a period of blue sky thinking as I look for new areas in which to focus our investment efforts, and the great thing about that is I get to look at and play with a lot of cool stuff. I’m also short on time today because my week so far has been two full days strategising on Monday and Tuesday with my partners at DFJ Esprit, and two board meetings today, followed by a discussion class at London Business School this evening, and I need to finish today’s blog post before my next bo

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Just Say No

OnlyOnce

Just Say No. An OnlyOnce reader submitted this story to me a couple months ago: Went to a small, high-end restaurant last night. There were ~10 people there when our party of 9 arrived. Another group of 10 arrived soon after – amusingly, the chef declined to allow them to be seated. I asked him why afterwards – he turned down at least $1,000 worth of business.

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Secrets to Select and Evaluate Innovative Business Ideas

crowdSPRING Blog

While browsing the web I came across this useful guideline for selecting and evaluating business ideas made by the Board of Innovation. Very useful for when you have several solutions to solve a problem or create a new business and you want to avoid innovative ideas from falling to the cracks. A hint for scoring cards: here at crowdSPRING we usually use prime numbers up to 11 to score the complexity of implementing a solution.

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What does the price of gas have to do with your business?

Up and Running

This week, the national average price for a gallon of gas hit $3.57, according to an article in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune. Prices are expected to reach $4 per gallon by April, and may surpass the previous all-time national average high of $4.11 (July, 2008). High gas prices don’t just have an impact on our personal driving habits. What do you think they mean for your business?

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Stick to "Clean Business"

Babbling VC

This is the opening scene as well as "outro" of Nicolas Cage's film "Lord of War". I'm not going to write much! I'm not going to get political about the movie either. It's a great film to see how the dirty side of business works. Watch this opening scene.amazing. Highly recommend the movie too. Remember, this is based on the true story of five gunrunners. . .

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Infoglide Announces I-BIRDS

Austin Startup

Infoglide is announcing a unique application that allow bank and other financial institutions to collaborate when spotting and tracking fraudulent and money laundering activity. There are several anti-fraud technology solutions that help a department, or an entire bank detect fraud. But I-BIRDS (Inter-Bank Intelligent Risk Data Search) is the first collaborative tool that works across several organizations, and is also data privacy compliant.

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7 Stages of the Content Hourglass

Duct Tape Marketing

7 Stages of the Content Hourglass This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. The need to produce content in marketing has grown so foundational that you can’t really get through a day without hearing about it, reading about it and perhaps stressing out about it. Marketers are beginning to think and act more like publishers and are producing, curating and repurposing content like never before.

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Collaborative Consumption is Creative

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

We want to know the story and the people behind the products we eat or use. I don’t plug a lot of videos on this blog — how many video’s are all that relevant to creativity and innovation? This is the exception, I have one I’d really like you to watch, after you read this Jay Leno style “set up” Growing up in anti-communist America the world was black and white.

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My 3 Most Important Lessons Learned in Business School

Rob Go

My Three Most Important Lessons Learned at Harvard Business School. Business school sometimes get a bad rap in the startup world. Some of it is deserved – it’s big opportunity cost, and until fairly recently, the approach to most business schools to entrepreneurship has been more about theory than practice. Thankfully this is changing. But what is very positive about business school and what hasn’t changed is that they are an amazing collection of people and opportunities that can

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Today I’ll be at my favorite event #startupriot

Jeff Hilimire

Startup Riot is my favorite event ever year, bar none. I’ve been to SXSW , I’ve been to CES , and a slew of others, and for me nothing compares to Startup Riot. First off, @sanjay runs a great event, which is not an easy thing to do. Sanjay describes the event as: It’s one day where thirty startups present for 3 minutes each and then answering questions for 3 minutes.

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A quality framework for crowds - A Crowded Space

A Crowded Space