Sat.Sep 20, 2014

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Why Recruiting Isn’t Over When an Employee Accepts Your Offer

Both Sides of the Table

'Recruiting. It is the bane of every startups existence because it takes up so much time, it is so competitive to sign people and it feels like unproductive time because it’s not moving the ball forward on product, engineering, sales, marketing, biz dev, fund raising. It consumes time and energy and the payoff doesn’t come for a long time.

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Startups Need To Build Solutions, Not Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

'Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Don’t create solutions looking for a problem , since investors ignore these, and customers other than early adopters are hard to find.

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Are there any websites or blogs where I can find many different authors/enterpreneurs/CEOs/etc sharing their insightful business experience in one place?

Gust

'There are several good answers here. Another multi-blogger site is the Gust.com/blog , which has lots of consolidated advice and experiences from some of your favorite Quora startup bloggers, including Tim Berry , Antone Johnson , Martin Zwilling , Bob Rice , Ilana Grossman and, of course, Yours Truly. And as long as you’re there (or if you don’t feel like reading :-), there are also many hundreds of short video talks from a large selection of the word’s leading entr

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Kids and Parents Learn to Code at San Antonio Youth Code Jam

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Luke Wright’s eyes lit up with excitement. “I just helped this 11 year old learn HTML and it reminded me of how I learned HTML in middle school,” he said. “Two high school students came to our school and taught us how to code.” Wright, a 16-year-old […] The post Kids and Parents Learn to Code at San Antonio Youth Code Jam appeared first on SiliconHills.

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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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The evolution of labour & where the rewards are heading

Start Up Blog

'There is a clear evolutionary path for the type of labour that humans have done in our time on this planet. The over riding theme is that work is hard. Survival takes effort and the easier we can make survival, the better our lives will be. All of the tools we have invented from spears, to wheels, to spanners to computational devices have made more possible with less.

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Massage.com Wants to Take the Stress Out of Getting a Massage

SiliconHills

'BY TIM GREEN Reporter with Silicon Hills News Dan Graham wants Massage.com to work like a good massage, relieving stress for massage therapists and their customers. Instead of kneading muscles, however, the online massage booking service does it by helping therapists find work and customers get a massage where it’s most convenient for them. “Essentially, […] The post Massage.com Wants to Take the Stress Out of Getting a Massage appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Weekend Favs September Twenty

Duct Tape Marketing

'Weekend Favs September Twenty written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road. photo credit: TumblingRun via photopin cc.