YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2013

'By Wain Kellum, CEO of Vocalocity. I grew the business that I currently lead as CEO from a start-up to more than 60 million dollars in revenue in less than six years. Because of this, fellow entrepreneurs are always asking me the proverbial question that is woven into the media interview of every successful CEO, “So, what’s your secret?”. I have more than 25 years of experience in leading fast-growth technology companies, and Vocalocity’s success follows on the heels of a long-standing track r

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 17, 2013

'As I continue to talk about Startup Communities , I say over and over and over again that the leaders have to be entrepreneurs. Everyone else – who I call the “feeders” (government, university, non-profits, big companies, VCs, angel investors) – have an important role, but the leaders must be entrepreneurs. Now – members of feeder organizations can play a leadership role, but in the absence of a critical mass of entrepreneurs, the startup community won’t ever

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2013

'Friends tell you what you want to hear. Mentors tell you what you need to hear. When the message is the same from both, you don’t need the mentor anymore. In that sense, you should think of a mentor more like your advisor who has done all he can. You always need the friend. Also don’t confuse a business mentor with a business coach. A mentor’s aim is to teach you what to do and how, in specific situations, unlike a coach who helps you develop your generic skills for deciding what to do and how.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2013

'Hiring trends are evolving rapidly, and in some cases even veteran talent acquisition professionals have been flatfooted as they seek to deal with the changing talent landscape. In Southeast Asia, having a pulse on those changes is getting increasingly important. According to LinkedIn’s recently released 2013 Global Recruiting Trends Report , the war for talent wages unabated across Southeast Asia.

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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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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 17, 2013

'I have done a lot of speaking engagements all over the world. Probably 200+ by now. And the event I have enjoyed speaking at the most, was TEDx Hoboken. There is something special about TED. And there is something super special about TEDx. Maybe it is the quasi-rogue feel it has. Perhaps it is the eclectic topics that are presented. Or maybe it’s the fact that everyone attending is looking to stretch their mind.

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The Next Web

JULY 17, 2013

'We’ve all been there, the current job isn’t quite fulfilling you or getting you where you want to be, but you’d rather not annoy your current employer by rubbing their nose in the fact that you’re seeing what else is out there. So what can you do? Well, Makeshift , which describes itself as “a new kind of startup studio” based in London, has today launched Hire My Friend to “give a leg up to the little guy”.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 17, 2013

'Tweet I received an email recently from one my newsletter subscribers named Zsolt , who is from Hungary. He had a really great question regarding what business models still work online. Specifically he was referring to the more social web 2.0 world of blogging, podcasting and social media, versus traditional internet marketing formats.

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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2013

'This story is part of Bplans’ “How I Did It” series—true stories of real businesses getting started, solving problems and finding success. Read the previous story here. Chardét at Corpão Bootcamp : How I Got My First Customer. “The greatest difficulty in acquiring customers for my Corpão Brazilian Bootcamp fitness classes stemmed from a limited budget, which forced me to be extremely resourceful.

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SiliconHills

JULY 17, 2013

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Startups need to begin by strategically envisioning where they want to be in the end—whether that’s a number, like earning $50 million in revenue, or a goal as simple as “I don’t want to have to pay to work, anymore,” said Cindy G. Goldsberry who spoke on [.] The post Avinde Accelerator on How to Organize Your Startup Selling Strategy appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2013

'The advent of social media marketing has unquestionably been a godsend for small businesses just starting out and operating within a limited budget. The capacity to reach millions of potential customers through networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, Yelp and others has allowed business owners to use the dollars saved in marketing costs to invest in growing their business in other areas such as purchasing materials or increasing inventor

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 17, 2013

'What If Women Ruled the World or Work written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Marketing podcast with John Gerzema. Turns out Athena was really into math! Sheryl Sandberg’s runaway best seller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead has really caused some interesting discussions and debates about women in the workplace.

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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2013

'What’s business planning all about? Why bother? Why would a company that doesn’t strictly have to do a business plan want one? What are some of the myths associated with business social media, and how can you get business ROI in social media? These are some of the issues Susan Gunelius and I talked about yesterday on Tim Berry on The Social Marketing Hour with Susan Gunelius — The Social Network Station.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 17, 2013

'What Is Leverage And Why It Is Your Only Path To Significant Wealth Online… This week I am in Melbourne writing to you from an apartment I am renting for a month in South Yarra.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

'“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” — Freewill, Rush. If you happen to be a sports fan (I am), one of the coolest features to emerge in our lifetime is the ability to program your DVR remotely. The game is about to start, and you forgot to record it. No problem — you can simply talk to your DVR remotely. It’s like magic.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 17, 2013

'This is a really interesting movie about how consumer services are building businesses on the private data that consumers are handing over, and by extension how big data is fueling new concerns about how that data can be reconstructed and infringe on our personal liberties.

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Jeff Hilimire

JULY 17, 2013

'I particularly love how they continue to evolve their free wifi access without it becoming too much of a hinderance. And using it to promote the download of the free app of the week is a terrific idea.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2013

'by T. Scott Gross , author of “ Invisible: How Millennials Are Changing the Way We Sell “ As a Boomer I have enjoyed razzing the Millennial generation. You can do that when you are the majority or if it is your name on the corporate letterhead (whatever that is.) But with 10,000 North American Boomers reaching retirement age every day, we are ever closer to posting a “Now Open Under New Management” sign on the bulk of the economy.

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Jeff Hilimire

JULY 17, 2013

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The Next Web

JULY 17, 2013

'Startup Stories is a series of short documentaries about Techstars companies hosted exclusively by The Next Web. This is the second episode of a series of short docs exploring the key moments, struggles and passions in building a company. We think startup stories are fascinating and want to help share these amazing stories following the adventures entrepreneurs go through on their mission to build a startup.

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