Sun.Jul 27, 2014

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A Great Discussion with @skupor @davemcclure @msuster on Changes in the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

'I recently attended and presented at Dave McClure’s PreMoney conference in San Francisco. I go every year because I love events hosted & moderated by insiders involving discussions by insiders because it maximizes the amount of real discussions people have. What you’ll see if you watch the video is an unscripted and unfiltered look into how Scott Kupor & I see some of the changes and challenges of the venture industry. tl;dr version.

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

'It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly Store. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.

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The toolkit for mobile ad buyers: Steps to scaling your advertising on mobile

The Next Web

'Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, a professional speaker and freelance writer. This post originally appeared on Adknowledge. Whether your business is focused on mobile gaming or travel, it’s essential that your organization continue to scale your advertising on mobile devices year over year. This growth is critical to your business in order to outpace competitors, reach a larger audience, engage your customer base where they are most active and to increase your relevant messaging at dif

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Local get together – Book launch

Start Up Blog

'As my regular readers would know, I’v recently released a book: The Great Fragmentation – why the future of business is small. Now live and available for sale. I recently sent an email to some of my supporters and friends inviting them to a shindig to help me celebrate – just some drinks and food among like minds. Then I thought, holy wow, there are no greater supporters than the readers of my blog.

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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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Trimming the fat: Evaluating your business partnerships and nurturing their success

The Next Web

'Jim Ivers is the Chief Security Strategist for Covata. For any industry, partnerships are the lifeblood to a successful and long-lasting business. Like any meaningful relationship, strong partnerships are not built overnight, nor do they happen by chance. They are the result of hard work, constant evaluation, and the confidence to terminate the ones that are unproductive or toxic.

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Best Colleges for Creating Billionaires

ithacaVC

'Business Insider published an interesting ranking last week, name the The Best Colleges For Becoming A Billionaire. The ranking only includes 10 colleges/universities, and Cornell ranked #7. Here is Cornell’s data (UHNW stands for Ultra High Net Wort, and the trigger is having over $30mm in assets): 7. Cornell University. Number of billionaire alumni: 14.

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Wingz – Airport Rides and One Bad UI Issue

Venture Chronicles

'I’ve been using Wingz to get to/from the airport. The idea is simple, black car service like Uber but exclusively for airport transportation, and a big advantage is that you can schedule the rides in advance. With a web-based and mobile app, it’s alway available and convenient. Wingz is aggressively priced, about 40% less expensive than a typical black car service, and so far my experience with the drivers has been exceptional.

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Elephants Strike Back

entrepreMusings

'Phone booths in Dubai The title of this post comes from my son with affirmation from my daughter. We are on a journey back to my homeland and plan to see and ride an elephant or two. As usual, life has been busy and all the blog post ideas that fleet across my mind, never end up making it into a proper post. I’m hoping that while we are on numerous airplanes and airports that I will have a few moments to write up some posts to share after we return.

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5 Entrepreneur Ideas That Investors See Too Often

Gust

'People are always asking me for an inside tip on Internet sites that will be “the next big thing.” Those are hard, since someone has to invent something innovative, but I do have some views on other ideas whose time has come and gone. In some cases, these are concepts that have already been done too many times, and the space is crowded. In others, the concept has been tried too many times, or no one has yet succeeded in making any money.