The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

'Today is the day that eight hopeful startups got to pitch their ideas to investors at startup accelerator Springboard’s Internet of Things (IoT) demo day in Cambridge, England. The eight teams hail from all over the world – including entrants from Montreal, Toronto, Portugal and Bulgaria – and have spent the last three months tirelessly working away on their hardware-based startup ideas for the Internet of Things in preparation for today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2013

'Entrepreneurs have to know when and how to say ‘no,’ and be good at delivering the message. All startup leaders are besieged with requests for their time, attention, talent, money, or influence, and sometimes even good requests won’t fit into the time and energy you have available. Startups require focus, so you need to say ‘no’ to some things, in order to do the important things well.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2013

'Introducing our latest column! Every week we’ll round out some of the latest technologies – gadgets or otherwise – that’s caught our eye in Singapore. This week, we look at two mobile computing devices: Microsoft Surface Pro. The Microsoft Surface RT , the first of the technology giant’s foray to compete in the mobile tablet market, was an excellent travel companion with its incredible battery life (almost 8 hours) and its sleek and light form factor but the curren

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 7, 2013

'Customers notice when things change. Different is the easiest way to break out of the noise of competition. It doesn’t guarantee that people will buy, but it does guarantee they will notice. Be new. Be different. And be way better.

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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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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2013

'In the startup world, you hear the title “co-founder” a lot more than “founder.” Even when someone says the latter, oftentimes you come to find out the person is forgetting to mention the “co” part, because in actuality, there are others involved. It’s almost as if we – the startup community – have been led to believe that you need partners. Discussion of starting a one-man or woman show is getting more rare.

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The Startup Lawyer

JUNE 7, 2013

'Working to close a small angel investment prior to your incubator’s demo day usually falls somewhere between a moderate distraction and a huge pain in the asymptote. It’s not worth the effort to close during this time period for a small amount. While angel investors usually let startups set the terms (convertible note, priced round, [.].

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2013

'Whatever your business, when you are in the process of growing your company, commercial success can often take priority over staff morale. As cartridgesave.co.uk has matured, we have come to understand that people make the business, so we have put into place a set of rules that we abide to in all aspects of our work: “Is it better for our customers?

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SiliconHills

JUNE 7, 2013

'The White House has honored 11 immigrant innovators and entrepreneurs as “Champions of Change,” including a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. The immigrants are “the best and brightest from around the world who are helping create American jobs, grow our economy, and make our nation more competitive.” Amar Sawhney, medical device inventor [.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2013

'Winning the game of organic search comes down to three essential activities. 1. Figuring out what to write about in order to rank well for your key terms – Keyword research. 2. Figuring out what others are doing that currently rank above you – Competitive research. 3. Figuring out how to build authority for your content in the eyes of search engines – Link and networking research.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 7, 2013

'AdBm Technologies, which created a noise abatement system to protect marine life from underwater oil and gas drilling operations, is a finalist in the Founder.org Big Ideas Competition. AdBm is one of 10 finalists in the competition, which received more than 500 submissions. The competition’s mission is “to inspire students to chase big ideas and [.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 7, 2013

'Last week I bought a Samsung Chromebook. The reason for taking the plunge is that my son needs a new computer and I talked with my wife about getting him a laptop instead of a new iMac. The only desktop computer in the house is his, Lisa and I both use laptops and tablets while working, reading, whatever, and rarely sit in our home office. As a result, if my son used his computer he was often doing it unsupervised and at his age I still want to have a watchful eye on what he is doing.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2013

'by Carlo Pandian. When you start a new business or have been trading for some time and are looking for new sources for sales, it can be hard to work out where you can move your attentions to next. If you have a strategy in place that isn’t working then perhaps you should consider our five sources that many businesses miss out on. They could be a key part of the roadmap to future success for your business. 1.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 7, 2013

'Every once in a while I dig through Google Analytics to see what trends are going on with this blog. And since I started it in January of 2009, the top posts have changed significantly along the way. Top 10 all-time posts (in terms of traffic): #1 – Evernote vs. Instapaper (Jan 2011) – This post counts for a whopping 4% of my traffic ALL TIME.

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Small Business Force

JUNE 7, 2013

Being able to close sales with prospective customers is the single most important determinant of the ultimate success of an entrepreneurial business.Yet, few entrepreneurs feel they possess the necessary skills to accomplish that task and achieve that success. Too many make the process needlessly complex, driven by their lack of confidence, which is usually driven by their lack of sales experience.And complex just increases degree of difficulty.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 7, 2013

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Small Business Force

JUNE 7, 2013

Being able to close sales with prospective customers is the single most important determinant of the ultimate success of an entrepreneurial business. Few entrepreneurs feel they possess the necessary skills to accomplish that task and achieve that success. Too many make the process needlessly complicated, driven by their lack of confidence, fueled by their lack of sales experience.

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