YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2013

'by T. Scott Gross , author of “ Invisible: How Millennials Are Changing the Way We Sell “ The Millennial generation is here. They feel entitled. They negotiate everything. And they ‘ll tell you exactly what is on their mind… even if you don’t want to know. Let’s see you make a team, and a profit out of that! Before we go any further (and before those of you with short attention spans form an opinion and clock out)… let me apologize.

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SVPG

JUNE 25, 2013

'Note: This article is a collaboration between myself and my long-time friend and colleague Jeff Patton. We often work together to help product teams. We have both long argued that the best way to evaluate product teams is by their results; the outcome they generate, not their output. That said, many teams are still learning the techniques and methods of strong teams, and in this article we wanted to highlight what to look for in a strong product team and how to help the team develop.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 25, 2013

'Bitcoin is uniquely suited for applications where capital mobility is critical. Other applications are largely spurious. There are several proposed advantages of cryptocurrencies in general and Bitcoin in particular: Anonymity. Store of value. Medium of exchange. Investment. Irreversibility. Independence from any government policy. Freedom of capital movement.

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deal architect

JUNE 25, 2013

'In The New Technology Elite, I cited a 2002 anecdote where Steve Jobs is supposed to have told Dan Wood, founder of Karelia Software, then a partner “You know those handcars, the little machines that people stand on and pump.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2013

'If you are an entrepreneur for the first time, or entering a new business area, it’s usually worth your time to assemble an Advisory Board of two or three executives who have travelled that road before. But if you select the wrong people, or use them incorrectly, the impact will not be positive for your company or your image. For perspective, you need to remember that boards of advisors, unlike directors, have no formal power or fiduciary duties, but rather serve at the pleasure of you the busi

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2013

'by Micah Solomon , author of “ High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service: Inspire Timeless Loyalty in the Demanding New World of Social Commerce “ If you haven’t yourself experienced the customer experience at your business, is it really wise to invite an unsuspecting public in? Can you assume, with any confidence, that they will enjoy something you’ve never tried yourself?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2013

'3D printing may be all the rage in the startup world now, but how many of us actually know that it was a Dutchman who actually created the world’s first 3D-printed house ? In fact, The Netherlands would really like you to know that while it may be a really small country in northern Europe, that they are actually quite an innovative people. So much so that the Royal Netherlands Embassy has developed DailyDutchInnovation.com , a website wholly dedicated to celebrating Dutch startup and inno

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2013

'I had a shitty website day on Friday. But an awesome Flickr day today. It was my anniversary and I wanted to post an anniversary tribute to Amy. I ended up writing a post titled Happy 20th Anniversary Amy. I dug up a bunch of old pictures (hosted in our very large photo archive on Dropbox), crafted a WordPress blog, uploaded the photos in the media center on WordPress, and published the blog.

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Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2013

'This is interesting: Stanford Business School professor Charles O’Reilly on Why Some Companies Seem to Last Forever : What explains this longevity? Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Charles O’Reilly calls it ‘organizational ambidexterity’: the ability of a company to manage its current business while simultaneously preparing for changing conditions. ’You often see successful organizations failing, and it’s not obvious why they should fail,’ O’Re

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2013

'As you become successful, people will want to buy you a cup of coffee and “pick your brain.” Even if you want to genuinely help, it’s impossible to say “yes” to everyone and not impact your own productivity. Here’s a helpful video from Marie Forleo, a marketing and lifestyle expert. Marie offers good tips on smart ways you can respond to people who ask to “pick your brain” Do you let people “pick your brain”?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JUNE 25, 2013

'Beg forgiveness for writing again about CPSI (Creative Problem Solving Institute) but feel compelled to share my experience at the conference. I’ve just returned and am still digesting a very rich creative learning experience. I’m thinking differently. Disclosure: KILN was a sponsor this year at CPSI. CPSI 2013 returned to a college campus, and to Buffalo, after many years of bouncing around the country.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 25, 2013

'Whilst I was away in India Scalextric applied the finishing touch to an awesome piece of customers service. Fiona and I bought a digital Scalextric set for our son Stanley on his fifth birthday some eighteen months ago. (For those that don’t know, digital Scalextric is like normal Scalextric except that there is an extra button on the controller which allows the car to change lanes on special track pieces and that you can race up to six cars at a time, still on two tracks.

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Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2013

'Much like there are fads in fashion, there are also fads in business practices. Leadership styles and trendy products come and go, and as an entrepreneur, it’s important to identify which of these new ideas may stick and resonate with your business. And for many entrepreneurs, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is doing exactly that: sticking around, and resonating both with their employees and their customers.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 25, 2013

'It’s not that difficult to be an expert on yesterday. The way it was done. The story of who won and why, or even the implementation of the known formula that works (worked?). Experts on yesterday have the rational and believable viewpoint. They can support their position on that pesky little thing called evidence. Of course evidence is always historical.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 25, 2013

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Tech Ranch was born on the side of a mountain, when Kevin Koym was snowboarding. He’d started about seven companies, including the very first internet banking application. He’d worked for Steve Jobs at NeXT, participated in several skunkworks projects—loose teams working without much organizational structure on innovative [.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 25, 2013

'In the modern marketing era demographics have been used as the marketer’s major tool to target an audience, find out who our users were and predict customers based on age, income, location, education and other nefarious clustering techniques. But this is now coming to an end. Demographics are over. We don’t need to use an invented tool to find out who our audience is….

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Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2013

'A retired writer is looking for something to do with his time. He remembers many great meals at many great restaurants, and wonders if he could recreate those memories for others, in his own way. So, he ventures into the restaurant business. He plans every detail of the decor, hires a Michelin-star chef, focuses on seafood, high-end service and sustainability, earns rave reviews from local press, is even featured in the New York Times… and then, three years later, he fails.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 25, 2013

'As has been widely reported, Google Reader is shutting down July 1, 2013. Now, in typical Google fashion, no one really knows what will actually happen on the that date, but as I it see you have about three choices if you are to continue to consistently consume blog content. Move to a new RSS reader. There are actually many options for moving your existing RSS subscriptions to another setup that can pretty much make the change a non event and may even turn up some enhancements.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 25, 2013

'Skyonic Corp. announced it has raised $128 million in funding to build a carbon capture and mineralization plant. The Austin-based company raised $9 million last July and has raised a total of $48 million in a Series C round of investment. It also secured a loan of $80 million from Apollo Investment Corp. and Maxus [.] The post Skyonic Secures $128 million to Build a Carbon Capture Plant appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 25, 2013

'Civitas Learning today announced $8.75 million in funding led by Emergence Capital Partners, a California-based venture capital firm with a rich history of investment in technology-enabled services companies. Returning investors include Austin Ventures, First Round Capital and Floodgate. New investors include Felicis Ventures and New Markets Venture Partners.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 25, 2013

'By LAURA LOREK Founder Silicon Hills News The evolution of technology and the evolution of plants and animals share a lot in common. And the genesis of big ideas might still be a mystery but innovation, in the aggregate, can be broken down into a series of processes. Those are a few of the big [.] The post Pondering Innovation with the Santa Fe Institute in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JUNE 25, 2013

'Originally published in Under30CEO. How should bootstrappers allocate resources for marketing and advertising? How do you figure out what’s reasonable when your company is still new? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 25, 2013

'Seeing as how last year I suggested (along with a million other people I’m sure) that Evernote create a Reminders option and they finally did that recently, I thought I’d throw out another recommendation. There needs to be an ability in Evernote to connect contacts to your notes. I try to make sure I “attach” a contact’s name to every note that involved a meeting or discussion with someone so that when I search for that person’s name I can see my latest subst

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2013

'By Josh Golden, CEO of Table XI. 5 things every entrepreneur should know: 1. Learn about your customer’s needs and try as hard as possible to deliver a solution that solves the customer’s business problem. Whether you’re running a product or a service-based business, make sure that you are solving a real business problem. Pretty pictures or a big pile of features are totally useless if the problem is not meaningfully solved.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JUNE 25, 2013

'Originally published in Under30CEO. How should bootstrappers allocate resources for marketing and advertising? How do you figure out what’s reasonable when your company is still new? The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2013

'Phone calls. We all have important ones and want to maximize the impact, which can be hard to do when you aren’t face-to-face. Many first-time entrepreneurs have grown up digital natives so have a really good intuitive feel for technology & design but don’t yet have the business basics down. . This shows itself when people try to do an elevator pitch, send concise, actionable emails or have a quick phone call with you to ask for help. .

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 25, 2013

'If you don''t know Peter Drucker, you should: he''s known as the man who invented modern business management. He wrote 39 books on the subject and is widely regarded as the greatest management thinker of all time. And Peter Drucker is credited with two of the most important quotes in business management. Here''s the first: "If you can''t measure it, you can''t improve it.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 25, 2013

'This article is a guest post from Bronson Taylor. Bronson is a co-founder and host of Growth Hacker TV , the only educational platform focused exclusively on helping startups grow by acquiring, retaining, and monetizing users. They have over 60 episodes, with guests from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, DropBox, and many more. Image above from Toban Black.

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Jason Ball

JUNE 25, 2013

'I’ve recently migrated my entire photo collection to Dropbox, and thought I’d share my thoughts on the experience. First, photos are such precious parts of our lives, if you don’t have a backup plan for yours, you should count on losing them. Second, I’ve lived in an Apple world since 1998, and have used every version of iPhoto produced, and finally moved over to Aperture because my library had grown to big, and I’d bought a DSLR, so wanted something more “pr

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Software By Rob

JUNE 25, 2013

This article is a guest post from Bronson Taylor. Bronson is a co-founder and host of Growth Hacker TV , the only educational platform focused exclusively on helping startups grow by acquiring, retaining, and monetizing users. They have over 60 episodes, with guests from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, DropBox, and many more. Image above from Toban Black.

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