Fri.Aug 16, 2013

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8 Keys to Entrepreneurs Who Can Make New Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

'The ultimate compliment that any entrepreneur can get is that they can “see around corners.” This is a statement that they are willing and able (and successful) at projecting market and technology turns, not just straight-line innovations. They have the courage to make bold decisions, often contrary to conventional market research. Steve Jobs of Apple has been maybe the most visible example of this phenomenon, but others often mentioned include Richard Branson (Virgin Group), Joe Costello (Cade

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Being A Great CEO

Feld Thoughts

'Matt Blumberg’s new book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business , is about to come out. If you are a CEO and haven’t preordered it, I recommend you go get it right now. I had a chat with a CEO I work with who has had a challenging year scaling up his company. He – and the company – have made a lot of progress after hitting a low point this spring.

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[Singapore] SMB Tech This Week

YoungUpstarts

'Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus (Available in Q4 this year). The upcoming Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus is the more powerful brother of the Korean technology giant’s original ATIV 9 Windows 8 Ultrabook, and its aluminium, uni-body design includes various enhancements over its previous model, including an Intel Haswell 4th generation processor, a Windows 8-optimized touchscreen to give you a choice of inputs and a display screen that can – finally – flip open 180 degrees for different view

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Smart Start for your Startup

VC Cafe

'On one hand, it''s never been easier to launch a startup. On the other hand, the chances of success seem to be ever decreasing. This post covers how to smart start your startup and maximize the chances of achieving product-market fit. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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Tech startups create the most jobs

The Equity Kicker

'One of the things I like about working in the startup ecosystem is that as a group we make a significant contribution to the economy. The most obvious manifestation of that is in job creation so I was please to see the two charts below on PandoDaily this morning which show that tech companies do indeed create jobs. It’s interesting to see that on average the job creation slows down significantly when companies get past their fifth birthday.

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How to get and keep your startup’s A+ players

The Next Web

'This post was originally published on the 15Five blog. . The definition of an A+ player varies across industries and departments. To one CEO or manager it may mean the most productive (by far), to another the very best team-worker. Or perhaps they’re the magnificently creative, or the most technically gifted employee. Whatever the benchmark, how does company best attract, hire and retain their A+ players?

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CodeHS to Teach San Antonio Students Programming Skills

SiliconHills

'In the past, some kids took classes in High School to learn vocational skills like repairing a car in the auto shop class or crafting some cabinets in the woodshop class. But today’s workforce requires more high tech skills and most public schools have not kept pace with the change. In fact, less than 5 […] The post CodeHS to Teach San Antonio Students Programming Skills appeared first on SiliconHills.

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OnlyOnce – The Car

OnlyOnce

'OnlyOnce – The Car. Not really contemplating a brand extension to my blog — the book is enough, but my friend Bill Wise just saw this car today in Larchmont, NY!

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Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment

Jeff Hilimire

'Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment. I heard Mark Suster use this quote in a talk recently and I just love it. Especially now, as I reflect on Wednesday’s sale of Engauge and the journey that I’ve been on for the past 15 years ( 10 years with Spunlogic , then 5 years with Engauge after they acquired us).

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A Day Spent With Noah Kagan Founder Of Appsumo

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

'I Spent A Day Tagging Along With Visiting Appsumo Founder Noah Kagan On His Trip To Australia. This Is What Happened… A couple of weeks ago I booked myself into a startup event in Melbourne. The main speaker I was keen to hear from was Noah Kagan , founder of Appsumo and early employee at Facebook and Mint.

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What I've Learned Since Releasing Uncover

Spencer Fry

'Uncover launched publicly on May 8, 2013. Roughly three months ago. I wanted to share with you what I''ve learned since Uncover ''s release that I haven''t touched on in the recent articles I''ve published: Just Launch , Sales or Die , Building for the Enterprise , and others. Three months is both a long time to be out in the market and also incredibly short.

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Trying the new SurfaceRT

Guy Nirpaz

'I’m writing this post on a new SurfaceRT at the Windows store in Stanford mall. Keyboard experience: I’ve started with the ‘touch cover’ ($119.99) keyboard – that didn’t really work well for me. It kept missing key strokes and I switched to the Type Cover ($129.99) which feels much more natural for typing. Touch experience – seems very good.

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Consume/create

The Startup Toolkit

'false While you’re waiting for the bus, do you open up a game or your notebook? When you’re bored at home, do you fire up reddit or a text editor? Downtime is important. I’m not categorically against the former. But I do find my life feels considerably more meaningful when I’m in the habit of doing the latter. I remember an old post by Patrick (which I can’t find for the life of me) where he was talking about getting over his 20-hour-a-week World of Warcraft habit.

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[Review] Manage Your Day-To-Day

YoungUpstarts

'Most entrepreneurs I know struggle to manage their workloads – if you’ve ever missed an appointment, constantly finding yourself fighting against that email inbox taking over your whole life or dealing with that never ending to-do list, you’d know what I mean. The incessant, tough demands of both work and personal lives can take an especially heavy toll on those of us who just aren’t too good at managing our time and dealing with the nitty-gritty.