Thu.Jul 17, 2014

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Ladies, It’s Time: Go Be You

YoungUpstarts

'There are articles all over the internet about the marginalization of women and how, even in our advanced society, most of the professional workspace is a male dominated “boy’s club” where women are expected to drop out, become soccer moms and, basically, be reflections of the men and children who surround them. This is stupid. We’ve written before about how important it is for women, especially in today’s society, to retain their autonomy and to be their best selves.

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How to Incorporate Brand Advocates into Your Marketing Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Incorporate Brand Advocates into Your Marketing Strategy written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Holly Cordner – Enjoy! photo credit: Intersection Consulting via photopin cc. When asked about how and why they make purchases, most people say that reviews and recommendations play a major role.

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Apple And IBM Bury The Hatchet In The Collaboration Economy

YoungUpstarts

'By Topher Morrison, author of “ Collaboration Economy: Eliminate the Competition by Creating Partnership Opportunities ”. If you need any further proof that the information age is dead and the collaboration age is now in full swing, bitter rivals Apple Inc., and IBM have announced that they are going to be collaborating to create approximately 100 business apps for the iPhone and iPad.

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Mentors 2/18: Expect Nothing In Return

Feld Thoughts

'The second element of the Techstars Mentor Manifesto is Expect nothing in return (you’ll be delighted with what you do get back). It’s extraordinarily simple while being profoundly hard. It’s simple because it’s easy to say “I’m doing this without any expectations.” That felt good, right? You are going to be a good mentor, helping another up and coming entrepreneur, and it’ll be good karma.

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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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Thinking Big: How To Beat Big Competitors As A Small Business

YoungUpstarts

'by Lewis Robinson. Many big businesses spend a lot of cash on recruitment. This is possible because large corporations have big pockets. However, smaller companies don’t always have the same resources. How then, are they supposed to be able to compete for top talent? This is an issue that can be found across the board, from hiring, to marketing, to production, and beyond; is it possible to remain competitive as a new or small business when your industry is home to well-established giants?

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The psychology of side projects: How creative hobbies improve our performance at everything

The Next Web

'This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. At any given time, I have a side project running. It’s often a new blog or a Tumblr or a book or a newsletter. Sometimes I try to design WordPress themes. Other times I try photography. This ethos of new projects and new improvements runs throughout our Buffer team. We love to find ways to grow, excel, and improve through side projects and hobbies.

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The beginner’s guide to Facebook ads for startups, small businesses and non-profits

The Next Web

'Rewind the clock a few years and you’d frequently hear people suggesting that Facebook is a great marketing channel because it was free to have a presence. If you built a good Facebook page for your business and attracted lots of fans, you’d have a valuable platform to talk to potential and existing customers. But times have changed and Facebook are pulling in the reigns.

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Startups: make your sites responsive

The Equity Kicker

'Google has upped the intelligence of it’s mobile search and now indicates when sites won’t render well on a mobile device. It’s a short step from there to not putting those sites in the top search results. This comes in the year when Google expects mobile search volume to pass desktop search volume, and makes it clear to me – responsive design is the only option for startups now.

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21 of the best B2B growth tactics to test

The Next Web

'David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo, helping teams organize using simple #hashtags. This post originally appeared on the Twoodo blog. As you are all probably tired of hearing by now, growth hacking is not simply a series of tricks or tactics, but a mindset to do what it takes to grow a company. It is data-driven and dovetails quite a bit with online marketing.

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Towercutting with goTenna

This is going to be BIG.

'I''m excited to share that goTenna, a Brooklyn Bridge Ventures portfolio company, has launched the presale of its point to point communications device. Have you ever texted anyone in the same room and thought about the infrastructure behind it--about where that message travels to, the great distances it gets bounced around, all to travel ten feet, in just milliseconds.

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Tech discovery site Product Hunt joins Y Combinator’s summer intake

The Next Web

'Most startups that hop into the a Y Combinator term are trying to get their business plan and product together, up-voting product curation site, Product Hunt already has buzz around it thanks to curated early adopters of founders, tech journalists, and VCs. Now its getting ready to truly enter the startup world with today’s news that it has joined the prestigious accelerator program.

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What I Learned From My Appearance on Shark Tank

Up and Running

'It’s not everyday that a television producer handpicks you to appear on ABC’s hit show “Shark Tank,” but that’s what happened to entrepreneur Kelly Costello. Costello is the founder of Puppy Cake, a company that sells boxed cake mix for dogs. It’s a lot like the do-it-yourself Betty Crocker cake mix, except the ingredients are changed to fit a puppy’s diet.

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How to hack your ‘To Do’ list

Start Up Blog

'To do lists are just one of those things. We know they matter, a lot. We know that having them and following them certainly leads to getting more done. Then why is it, that they tend to get longer and not shorter? It’s because not all tasks are created equal. It’s because our human operating system is a 200,000 year old piece of software not designed for a list based society.

Design 101
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How Small Retail Can Sell More

Mike Michalowicz

'Every small retail store wants to know how they can go about selling more of everything. And why wouldn’t they? The more they sell, the better their business is likely to do. While we may realize this, finding ways for small retailers to successfully sell more is easier said than done for many. And it is actually a lot easier than you may realize! Over the past year, I have had the opportunity to meet with countless small business store owners.

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Don’t be defensive, but defend.

Berkonomics

'When meeting with investors, during the period devoted to feedback after your presentation, you will hear comments and recommendations that don’t resonate with you. Some will be from a misunderstanding of your explanation. Some listeners will challenge your assumptions. Some will seem to ask just plain show-off questions, in which the questioner wants you and others in the room to know that s/he knows more than you do.

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How to Hire the Best Attorney for Your Small Business

Up and Running

'Hiring professionals for a small business is an important process. The best attorney for your business will depend on what the legal needs are for your company. In fact, there is a good chance there is no one attorney who can handle everything, so the best attorney may actually turn out to be a law firm with several attorneys having different specialties.

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Announcing NextView Ventures II

Rob Go

'On behalf of our team at NextView, I’m very pleased to announce that we have just closed our second fund. NextView Ventures II is $40M, twice the size of our first fund, and we continue to be exclusively focused on seed-stage companies pursuing internet-enabled innovation. As former operators and product-oriented entrepreneurs, Dave, Lee, and I tend to think of our firm as a startup company and our approach to investing as our product.

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V is for Venture: Day 3 of V2V 2014

Austin Startup

'The final day of SXSW V2V 2014 was all about the “v” for “venture” in the name.

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Are We in Tech Bubble 3.0?

Early Growth Financial Services

'With Priceline’s announced purchase of OpenTable coming at a 46% premium to where OpenTable’s stock recently traded, the highest for an internet stock since before the Great Recession, following hot on the heels of Facebook valuing WhatsApp at $19B, and Uber’s valuation recently topping $18 billion in its latest funding round, I figure it’s time to share my thoughts on whether we are indeed witnessing the latest bubble.

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The Gift of Feedback, Part IV

OnlyOnce

'The Gift of Feedback, Part IV. I wrote a few weeks ago about my live 360 – the first time I’ve ever been in the room for my own review discussion. I now have a development plan drafted coming out of the session, and having cycled it through the contributors to the review, I’m ready to go with it. As I did in 2008 , 2009 , and 2011 , I’m posting it here publicly.