Wed.Dec 17, 2014

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5 Lies CTOs Tell To Feel Better About Coding

YoungUpstarts

'by Jinesh Parekh, CEO of Ruby on Rails consulting shop, Idyllic Software. Hey there, you amazingly resourceful person. You’re doing everything. You’re coding, testing, fixing issues and managing people. Cheers to you! Or not. You’re the CTO. And you shouldn’t be coding. Wait. Before you berate me, I did not say you shouldn’t know how to code.

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The Best Free Apps and Online Tools for Entrepreneurs and Obsessive Collectors

Up and Running

'As we head toward the new year, you’re likely thinking about setting goals and getting things organized. To help you prep, I’ve collated a list of tools—for both web and mobile devices—that have helped me and others get things done, save time, and work more productively. I should preface this list by saying that I have not included “to do” apps primarily because everyone else does, because there are so many of them, and because they’re all pretty much variations of one another.

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SAP Nation Excerpts: Chapter 1The Customer Pivot

deal architect

'Amazon has SAP Nation on the Kindle and in softcover. Over the next few weeks the book will be available in other print and eBook formats. As I have done with my other books, I plan to excerpt here about.

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5 Unusual Start-Up Ideas For The Driven Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

'In the ever-changing, always-evolving world of entrepreneurship, one hard truth remains consistent: you have to be different to be successful. Whether it’s taking something popular and giving it a unique twist or creating something completely original and brilliant, entrepreneurs rarely make it unless their business concept has something unusual about it.

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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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Solve Your Gmail Contacts Problem

Feld Thoughts

'I live in Gmail. Gmail Contacts has been lame for a long time. Within an email, it’s even lamer on the right side bar, especially since it could be so amazingly useful. FullContact has just released their FullContact for Gmail product. It’s a free download in the Chrome Store. I’ve been using it for about six months since and it’s just awesome.

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Nine Bullsh*t Habits To Avoid At Work In 2015

YoungUpstarts

'by Geoffrey James, author of “ Business Without the Bullsh*t: 49 Secrets and Shortcuts You Need to Know “. With a new year coming, this is an excellent time to expunge work habits that irritate coworkers and make you less effective. Achieving success requires more than just doing the right thing. Success also means changing the behaviors that hold you back.

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A Guide to Crafting Your LLC Operating Agreement

Up and Running

'An operating agreement is the document that sets the rules for your LLC. You’ll be able to choose your management structure, lay out who’s responsible for what, and many other important issues. In this article, we’ll talk about how to create your own LLC operating agreement, what you should include, and where you’ll need to keep it when you’ve made one.

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How to price yourself as a freelancer

Start Up Blog

'As the friction of employment is being removed, many people are taking the opportunity to freelance out their skills. The independent digital craftspeople are arriving thick and fast, but one of the trickiest parts of doing such work is knowing how to price it. Getting it wrong seems scary, as it can be the difference between getting paid this month or not.

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Typing as Core Competency

OnlyOnce

'Typing as Core Competency. We just had our annual typing tournament in the Return Path New York office , and it got me thinking on this topic. Fits, hats off to my colleague Rosemary Girouard for her smashing victory this year, even with an injury, and to fellow finalists Caroline Pearl and Nicole Niemiec for excellent showings. So this is going to sound silly, but I’m increasingly thinking that typing speed is a core competency for many jobs.

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Is Positive Thinking Bad For Your Business?

Mike Michalowicz

'Is there such a thing as being too positive? Yes. Positively yes. At a recent Anthony Robbins event, run by the king of positive himself, nearly 24 people severely burned their feet while walking across burning coals. The objective of the fire walk? To provide people with a metaphor for overcoming their fears with positive thought. I look like at least 24 of them did have enough positive mojo going on.

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Fresh from the SPRING: JohnBlaine

crowdSPRING Blog

'When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for JohnBlaine. Check out more great work on JohnBlaine’s profile page. Nicely done, JohnBlaine, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: bokomoslav. Fresh from the SPRING: greenblack.

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6 Ways That Lack Of Focus Can Kill Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

'Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In reality, more features will more likely make the product confusing and less usable to all. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers.

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The Three Year Plan

Growthink Blog

'December is a natural time to reflect upon the accomplishments of the past 12 months, and to set goals and objectives for the New Year. In doing so however, most of us think too much about next year , and too little about our longer term and multi-year business horizons. There are some benefits to this, I mean who can really forecast market and competitive conditions and customer wants and needs beyond just a few months these days?

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The Role of Luck in a Startup

Duct Tape Marketing

'The Role of Luck in a Startup written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing podcast with Mikkel Svane. When you look at a seemingly successful company – say one that went from meager to startup to household name to public phenomenon – it’s easy to gloss over what it took to get from the garage to the board room.

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Let’s help the Boys & Girls Club! Oh, and I met Shaq.

Jeff Hilimire

'This post is a long time coming. Ever since my good friend took a job at the Boys & Girls Club ( donate! ), my eyes have been opened to the wonderful things they do at that organization. I knew peripherally with B&GC did, but wasn’t fully aware of how awesome this organization was. And then I met Shaq. Here’s the story. My friend at B&GC and I have been talking about doing a tour of one of the clubs so I could really see the operation first hand.

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6 More DON'T's When Starting Your Business!

Small Business Force

Several months back I created a blog post entitled "6 DON'Ts When Starting Your Business". In it, I noted that, primarily, because of the availability of technology, this has, without question, been one of the easiest times ever to start a new business. It has also, probably, never been more difficult to make a start-up successful than it is today. Critical to that is the importance of focus in the early going.

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I-Corps at the NIH: Evidence-based Translational Medicine

Steve Blank

'If you’ve received this post in an email the embedded videos and powerpoint are best viewed on www.steveblank.com. We have learned a remarkable process that allow us to be highly focused, and we have learned a tool of trade we can now repeat. This has been of tremendous value to us. Andrew Norris, Principal Investigator BCN Biosciences. Over the last three years the National Science Foundation I-Corps has taught over 700 teams of scientists how to commercialize their technology and how

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