Sat.Sep 19, 2015

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7 Ways That Entrepreneurs Must Lead To Succeed

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the realities of being an entrepreneur is that you have to keep learning and changing to survive. Everyone on the startup team knows there is no buffer, and no personal isolation from impact based on your job description that can save you. Thus everyone has to make sure they are focusing on what is important, and making leadership decisions to save the business.

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10 Power Questions To Get Your Business Un-Stuck?

YFS Magazine


Ask these questions of yourself, out loud, every morning for a minimum of one week, and you’re sure to see a shift in the way you think and operate your business. 

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Austin Companies Compete For Free Trip to Oslo Innovation Week

SiliconHills

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Oslo, Norway, is the home of Edvard Munch’s The Scream, the Viking Ship Museum, and a growing innovation conference where, this October, some intrepid central Texas startup will get the opportunity to pitch against contenders from Hackney and several Nordic countries, all expenses paid. Capital Factory is […] The post Austin Companies Compete For Free Trip to Oslo Innovation Week appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Managing Employees: Are You Making These 6 Huge Mistakes?

YFS Magazine

There’s always something you can be doing to make your employee’s lives better while increasing the capability of your workplace, and there’s never a wrong time to start.

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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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CarForce Won the IBM SmartCamp Austin Pitch Competition

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News CarForce, a connected car startup, won the IBM SmartCamp Austin 2015 pitch competition last week at Capital Factory. CarForce makes a hardware diagnostic device that plugs into a car’s dashboard to allow dealerships to know when the car needs maintenance. It is going into trial this fall […] The post CarForce Won the IBM SmartCamp Austin Pitch Competition appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Weekend Favs September Nineteen

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs September Nineteen written by John Jantsch read more at 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.

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Is Social Media Making Us Stupid?

Brandanew

Inane selfies, lame memes, ridiculous games, unverified yet incendiary political as well as religious propaganda, photographs of breakfast, lunch and dinner, it goes on. Social networks today are full of things that arguably add nothing towards any cerebral cause. In their contemplative moments, many people do ask: is social media making us stupid? We spend over 20 minutes globally on an average purely on Facebook , where’s it taking the next generations?

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10 Things To Do To Appear ‘Innovative’

Street Smart Product Manager

Being “innovative” is all the rage nowadays. Companies big and small, tech and non-tech, are striving to seem innovative to employees and customers. I’ve worked at such companies, and I’ve helped many product managers working at such companies through my product help calls. As such, I’ve seen companies that are actually trying to be innovative, and those that seem more interested […].

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OMG I Needed That Vacation

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I are back in Boulder after spending a week off the grid in Aspen. We sent my mom a birthday present from the Prada store and she responded with an OMG so I figured it was ok for a 49 year old to use it publicly if his mom used it privately. On our way to Aspen last Friday, I spent most of the time in the car asleep. I could tell I was super grumpy based on the tone of some of my recent blog posts, what was rolling around in my head, and Amy’s mildly concerned questions about how I

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