Fri.Nov 07, 2014

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A Perspective On When A Business Plan Adds Value

Startup Professionals Musings

'As a startup mentor and investor, I am approached regularly by aspiring entrepreneurs who assert that business plans are a waste of time. They cite sources like the BusinessWeek story, “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ” and this Forbes article. From my perspective, much of this advice is an urban legend and just plain wrong. Based on my experience, a business plan always adds value to the entrepreneur – most people can’t build a complete plan in their head, and need the process o

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6 Things That Can Kill Business Growth

Up and Running

'Want your business to flourish? Avoid these six pitfalls. Whether you’re kicking around a business idea or working through your first year, it’s never too early to start thinking about growth. After all, the goal of every entrepreneur is to grow a profitable business. What kills business growth? Marc Meyer, a business professor and startup expert, explains.

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Twitter Link Roundup #242 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

'Here we go! Time once again for our weekly roundup of the articles, videos, posts and quips that we shared with you over the past week on our very own crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account ). We like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and various random stuff!

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Five Learnings Of Growing From A Local Online Startup To An International Business

YoungUpstarts

'By Willem Nout, project manager and Head of Search for Flipit.com. I started out working for Imbull almost four years ago. Two 28-year old founders, a friend they hired to come work for them fulltime and one intern in a nice but small office in Amsterdam. Now four years later ‘our’ office is situated in a monumental church, probably the coolest office in Amsterdam, employing a staff of sixty people from seventeen different nationalities.

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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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How to keep your remote employees accountable without playing Big Brother

The Next Web

'Michael DeFranco is the CEO and Founder of Lua. Often times, budding entrepreneurs think the hardest part of starting a business is just that: Starting it. The simple act of biting the bullet and going it alone. Yet with most good businesses come future employees; and with every employee comes management and mentorship challenges and opportunities.

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“When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off”

The Equity Kicker

'When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off. Karl Marx. Vinod Khosla wrote an article yesterday about the coming impact of artificial intelligence. In the final paragraph he uses the above quote from Karl Marx (one of my favourite philosophers) to make the point that history might not be a good guide for what’s going to happen next.

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Eagle Eye Networks Cloud Security Camera Mapping Takes Video Surveillance to New Level

Austin Startup

'Eagle Eye Networks, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of interactive cloud security camera mapping as part of the Eagle Eye Cloud Security Camera Video Management System (VMS). The new global mapping offers users the ability to view or record video directly from a map or physical layout.

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Using Social Media to Generate Sales Leads

Duct Tape Marketing

'Using Social Media to Generate Sales Leads 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 Dawn Ellis – Enjoy! photo credit: Free Images. If you’re looking to generate sale leads successfully, you need to go where the people are.

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How to Get Your Coworkers to Care About User Research

Startup Lessons Learned

'Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. If you build products or services, then having empathy for your users is part of your job. Good news: If you build products or services, then we have empathy for you. We talked with Laura Klein, a preeminent expert on user experience, about the questions she gets asked most often by other product pros.

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From Zero to Thousands: 5 Steps to Get Your Social Media Up and Running

Duct Tape Marketing

'From Zero to Thousands: 5 Steps to Get Your Social Media Up and Running 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 Rachel Wisuri – Enjoy! photo credit: pixabay. Maybe you’re a new business, or maybe you’re an older business who recently decided to get active on social media.