Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 1, 2014

'I wish I could stake claim to the phrase “fractional hiring,” but I can’t. It is something Fabio Rosati , CEO of Elance, shared with me as we chatted on the phone a few weeks ago. The concept is this: Highly skilled labor, who, in the past, was only available as a full time hire or in an extended consultative capacity, is now available for specific, short term tasks and at a moments notice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2014

'When you have been on the startup firing line, you quickly learn that any insight from experts and entrepreneurs who have been there before you can make the difference between failure and success. Yet, many new entrepreneurs brazenly assume they are bulletproof, and march blindly into the fray. The result is that half or more of startups fail in the first two years.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 1, 2014

'From NYTimes article How Obamacare Could Unlock Job Opportunities : Were it not for Obamacare, [female entrepreneur Lauren] Braun, 25, would be confronting a phenomenon that economists call “job lock”: when people stay in jobs they dislike, or don’t want, solely to keep their health coverage. A Harvard Business School study in 2008 estimated that 11 million workers are affected by this dilemma.

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Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 1, 2014

'Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching a venture, trying to execute your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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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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Andrew Payne

MARCH 1, 2014

'Back in the mid-90s, I bought a new family PC for $3300. It had a few MB of RAM and a 386 processor. In today’s dollars, it cost nearly $5000 — try spending that much on a PC today! Recently, I built a machine with 32GB of RAM, a fast 4-core Intel processor, and 12TB of disk (raw size). It is several thousands of times larger and faster in nearly every dimension than that old family PC, at less than half the cost.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2014

'Weekend Favs March One written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from 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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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 1, 2014

'To be great at anything takes a lot of time. You hear it with every major achievement. Michael Jordan used to practice harder and more intensely than anyone. We’ve heard the 10,000 hour rule for greatness in the book, Outliers. I’m a huge fan of comedians and I love hearing their stories as they talk about how they eventually made it. It’s always a huge grind in crappy night clubs where they bomb time and again as they perfect their craft.

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Gust

MARCH 1, 2014

'The rating system provided by Gust on the investor side is not intended to be used as any type of objective or standardized measurement. That’s because it was designed to be completely customizable for each angel group or venture fund using the platform. Group administrators have the ability to turn ratings on or off, show or hide them, establish the scale for them, and decide on how many criteria a profile is rated.

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