Tue.Aug 06, 2013

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Getting Engineers into the Lean Startup Cycle

Startup Lessons Learned

'Guest post by Lisa Regan On August 20, Eric will sit down with developer and Hut8Labs co-founder Dan Milstein for a webcast you can join to discuss “Getting Engineers Into the Lean Startup Cycle.” This conversation will be a great opportunity for engineers and engineering managers to learn more about implementing Lean Startup ideas. It’s also for founders who want to think about how engineering and the rest of the business team can realign around a shared set of goals.

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Miami: A hot spot for venture capitalists

David Teten

'(from my guest column in the Miami Herald ). A few weeks ago, I had my first-ever opportunity to visit the Miami startup ecosystem. I was visiting as part of Terrapinn Private Equity World, a leading private equity conference for the Latin American technology community. You might assume the event took place in Sao Paolo or Mexico City, but no, it was in Miami, and will be again in 2014.

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Robots as Tools, Toys and Teachers

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News You too, can make your own robot, using Artoo, a micro-framework for robotics using the programming language Ruby. Mike Ford, a software engineer at Trion Worlds, spoke Monday night to a group of around 30 people at Austin RB meetup at Capital Factory about the Artoo technology [.] The post Robots as Tools, Toys and Teachers appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Meet the Grand Prize Entrepreneurs of the BEC Boost

Up and Running

'This has been a year of many firsts, but one of the most notable in the entrepreneurial community was the first-ever California Business and Entrepreneurship Center (BEC) Boost : a state-wide startup business plan competition that granted tens of thousands of dollars in cash and prizes to the top entrepreneurs in three age groups (14–17 years old, 18–27 years old and 28+ years old).

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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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How Long Should It Take For a Startup to Succeed?

Startup Professionals Musings

'Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. So once in a while it’s good to look at some facts to temper our imagination. I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”.

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What have you done for me lately?

deal architect

'This article about IBM''s large contract with customer Bharti Airtel in India provides a nice microcosm of the churn happening around legacy software and outsourcing contracts. Bharti has moved away from Lotus Notes as its email platform and is rebidding.

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Startup Day Across America on August 29

Feld Thoughts

'Though it may seem as if politicians in Washington, D.C. have a hard time agreeing on anything, those on both sides of the aisle seem increasingly keen to support entrepreneurs and their communities. Some recent examples include the passage of legislation expanding crowdfunding under the JOBS Act and meetings similar to one hosted last month by the Global Accelerator Network in which we worked with the Small Business Administration to gather 16 accelerators to demo their programs for the White

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[Infographic] State Of The Internship

YoungUpstarts

'Do you recruit interns? Well, many startups and small businesses do. It’s a good way to bulk out your workforce while trying out talent to see if they would be a good fit. But the internship landscape is changing and trends can change, so your recruiting and hiring methods need to adapt in order to snare the best talent out there. Do you know when students start looking for internship opportunities, what channels they’re frequenting the most, and what kind of perks they find most enticing

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Do lean startup principles have a place in the enterprise?

The Next Web

'Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by James Donelan , the VP of engineering at MuleSoft , provider of the world’s most widely used integration platform. There is a lot of talk about the lean startup and whether it works or not. Some proclaim it is critical to the success of any startup and that it is even the DNA of any modern startup. Others claim that it’s unproven , unscientific and gets your product to market in a haphazard way that is ungrounded in quality.

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Healthbox Picks Seven Startups For Inaugural Accelerator Program

YoungUpstarts

'Jacksonville, Florida-based and healthcare technology-focused business accelerator Healthbox has identified seven companies that will be selected to participate in its inaugural accelerator program. The companies, chosen as those that have the highest possibility to scale within the state of Florida, are either involved in consumer engagement – where they help consumers proactively manage their health or the health of their loved ones – or in wellness, making it easier for consumer

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How Loss Motivates People To Buy

Mike Michalowicz

'More people buy my books after I speak, than before. It’s what you would expect, of course. But why is it? The same number of people are there before and after the event. The books are on display before and after. Almost all the attendees know who I am already (thanks to the event flier). So why don’t they buy the books before I speak?

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Riding the Rails Between Austin and San Antonio

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News The $1.8 billion LSTAR passenger train from Georgetown to South San Antonio is on track, but will take about 10 years to complete. When it’s up and running, the passenger train will make 32 round trips daily with 16 stations on a 118 mile railroad and will [.] The post Riding the Rails Between Austin and San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Buying Capacity for Performance? Try PernixData Software!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'PernixData announced the general availability of the Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP) today. Congratulation to Poojan Kumar , Satyam Vaghani and the entire PernixData team for an amazing execution! It’s hard to believe how far the company has come along in just 18 months since founding. The revolutionary FVP platform aggregates and virtualizes flash storage across servers to create a scale-out data tier to boost storage performance with no impact to the existing storage infrastructure.

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10 Real Profiles of Angel Investors

Growthink Blog

'There are hundreds of thousands of individual or "angel" investors in the United States (and many more throughout the world). This is many, many times greater than the mere 6,000 members of angel investor groups. And here''s the key: the vast majority of these individual investors are what I call "latent angel investors." That is, they have the interest and ability to make an angel investment.

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Private Life / Business Life: It's Either / Or

Babbling VC

'Bijan recently had a really interesting post about Steve Jobs and the bio about him. More importantly though he alluded to the fact that separating family and private life from work is a difficult task. I actually tweeted out his post with my opinion: it''s "either/or" and not "and" when it comes to private verses career. . I know a lot of people will take me to task on this.

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CSC Buys Infochimps

SiliconHills

'CSC, based in Falls Church, VA, has purchased Austin-based Infochimps. “Infochimps Inc., with offices in both Austin, TX and Silicon Valley, becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary, reporting into CSC’s Big Data and Analytics business unit led by Sashi Reddi, VP and GM,” according to this blog post by Infochimps CEO Jim Kaskade. Terms of the deal [.

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Angel Investment Trends in Q1 2013

Business Plan Blog

'Angel Investor Valuations Remain Strong. Angel investor median deal sizes increased as valuations remained strong in the first quarter of 2013. The majority of deals went to healthcare, mobile and internet startups. Highlights from angel investing in the last quarter include: The median angel deal size for Q1 2013 reached $680K – up 5% since last quarter and 24% since the same quarter last year. 81% of deals were completed in angel groups’ home states.

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Why Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post and why he’s the most authentic leader going

Jeff Hilimire

'Jeff Bezos just bought The Washington Post and the snarky tweets and blog posts are pouring in. And if you only use 1/3 of your brain, its easy to make fun of anyone who buys a print publication in this day and age. But that’s not what he’s buying. Bezos understands that people will still pay for high-quality written content. He learned that when he created Amazon and revolutionized the book industry.

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10 Great Tools for Employee Time Tracking

Early Growth Financial Services

'Originally published in LifeHack. Ask The Entrepreneurs is a regular series where members of those involved in the Young Entrepreneur Council are asked a single question that aims to help Lifehack readers level up their own lives, whether in a area of management, communication, business or life in general. Here’s the question posed in this edition: What’s your favorite tool for tracking employee/contractor time and why?

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3 Social SEO Tweaks Every Business Should Make

Duct Tape Marketing

'3 Social SEO Tweaks Every Business Should Make written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing SEO, Content and Social Media are so tightly wound together these days that business owners and marketers need to grab every little advantage they can to wring the most out of their efforts in each area. Most of the major social networks have created ways to help content producers enhance the sharing of their content on their respective networks by making it

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Where to Start a Tech Startup

Austin Startup

'An infographic from the folks at Bizbrain.

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COC: A new metric for thinking about cancellations in SaaS business models

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

'This is the second article in a series on novel ideas for SaaS metrics, which started with The unprofitable SaaS business model trap. You’ve probably know that cancellations kill growth in scaling SaaS companies. You probably know this is because as you get large it’s hard to continue growing fast enough to cover the amount of customers you’re losing by cancellation.

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