Sat.Feb 15, 2014

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Be An Entrepreneur While Seeking That Ideal Job

Startup Professionals Musings

'If you are one of the many people still searching for that job lost during or after the recent depression, or about to dump the loser of a job you have now, you should be working on starting your own business, in parallel with looking for that ideal job. Let me explain why this is a win-win deal, no matter what the outcome. You have probably secretly always wanted to run your own show, but with an existing job, never took the time to consider a startup.

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Kickstarter hacked, suggests you change your password immediately

The Next Web

'Kickstarter announced today on its blog that it has been hacked, after the company was advised by law enforcement that hackers had gained private customer information on Wednesday night this week. While the company says that no credit card information was accessed by hackers, it is advising all users of the service to reset their password immediately and ensure that any other accounts that use the same password are changed as soon as possible.

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Is it possible for an idea to be funded by a VC?

Gust

'While anything is technically possible, the reality is that venture capital firms do not fund “ideas” There are many wonderful ideas, and even many people having the same idea in the market at any given time. So what VCs fund is execution. Indeed, VCs only invest in one out of every 400 fully-formed companies that approach them for funding…let alone someone with a “startup idea” To put things in perspective consider this completely accurate post from Derek Sive

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Learn to work with purpose, or don’t work at all

The Next Web

'David Hassell is the CEO of 15Five. This post originally appeared on the 15five blog. All companies work towards measurable goals. New features in the product, selling target customers and boosting the bottom line. But goals are meaningless without knowing why you’re aiming for them. Seems obvious, but far too frequently we forget to examine why certain objectives were created in the first place.

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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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Raven + Lily: Empowering Women Through Design

Hunter Walker

'“Empowering women through design” is core value Raven + Lily uses to guide their business. I was introduced to R+L and their Ops Director Cameron Crake via our mutual friend Katy Roth down in Austin, TX. Their mission resonated with me so asked a few questions about how technology and social media have helped them grow. Here are Cameron’s thoughts: Q: Tell us the story behind Raven + Lily, and how you got involved?

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4 Rules of M&A for Startup Founders

K9 Ventures

'The following post was written by @TomioGeron for ExitRound based on an interview with me and was published on the ExitRound blog on January 9th, 2014. It is being reproduced in its entirety here with permission from the author… Manu Kumar, founder of seed stage venture firm K9 Ventures, focuses on investments that have a hard science […].

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Producers vs. Consumers on Social Media

K9 Ventures

'In case you haven’t noticed already, I’m making a concerted effort to start blogging again on a more frequent basis. It’s not that I have suddenly discovered lots of free time.

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Speaking about mobile and pies-in-the-face with a few of my friends at a Chamber event on March 6th

Jeff Hilimire

'On March 6th I’ll be moderating a panel at ATDC for the Metro Atlanta Chamber (of which I’m honored to be a new board member of this year) entitled, Technology Talk: Mobile Strategy. Danny Davis (CEO of Proving Ground ) and Donovan Panone (CEO of Sandbox Digital ) will be on the panel and I expect they will have a lot to say on this topic as they’re both experts in mobile and digital.

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