Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 9, 2013
'The traditional mode of starting a company is to plan a serial process, where you complete once all the steps, leading to the “big bang” launch of the company. I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP).
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 9, 2013
'Social media marketing is probably the most heavily written management topic on the planet. Unfortunately, many books, articles, blogs and podcasts on social media focus too heavily on the “feel good” factor of success stories. These tend to be more inspirational than instructional. Ric Dragon’s seminal publication “ Social Marketology: Improve Your Social Media Processes and Get Customers to Stay Forever ” is different.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 9, 2013
'I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. Kudos. The 20-minute video of my presentation is here if you’re interested. And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime.
deal architect
JUNE 9, 2013
'The disclosures of the NSA supposed access to Microsoft, Google, Apple and other data is going to draw plenty of Congressional investigation, Obama bashing and even more foreign criticism of the US Patriot Act. But it will likely only skirt.
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
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 9, 2013
'One of more interesting trends touched on during Crowdsourcing Week in Singapore last week , but was not explored in any great detail, was the how online work has been taking off in Asia as part of the changing work landscape in this part of the world. While keynote speaker Ross Dawson, the author of “ Getting Results From Crowds: The definitive guide to using crowdsourcing to grow your business “, spoke on how the future of work is now changing as technology slowly displace labor,
deal architect
JUNE 9, 2013
'on the innovation log The Landsat Archives Mobile apps and passenger trains Solving Traffic Jams caused by eCommerce Big Data wins a Pulitzer Experiential Modeling for services businesses Apps: a sustainability bright spot The brave new world of customer data.
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This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 9, 2013
'The other day I went to dinner with a friend. My phone was low on power--drained from listening to the Mets take 20 innings to lose a game. I plugged in before we went out. When we were ready to go, I instinctively reached for my phone, because I never really walk out the door without it. We weren''t going far, but that wasn''t the point. It has become an appendage--a tether to the rest of the world, preventing me from straying too far from the other billions.
Growthink Blog
JUNE 9, 2013
'I periodically read research reports about business failures. I always find them interesting, although often they are depressing. Such as what I recently read. Which was research from Bradley University in Peoria, IL. This research found that 70% to 80% of new businesses fail within their first year. And while this was frustrating enough to read, the research further stated that half of those companies which do survive the first year will fail within the next four years.
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