Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

'Yesterday I wrote a post about “ growth hacking ” and why I thought it was wrong that people were hating on the term unnecessarily. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group.

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deal architect

JANUARY 12, 2014

'This continues a series of columns from practitioners I respect. The category "Real Deal" describes them well. From Google’s driverless cars to Amazon’s delivery drones, it would be silly to pretend machines are not taking over many activities humans have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

'By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. What does it take to get to that level?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2014

'Getting into business is often oversimplified. Many people believe that if you work hard and provide a quality product, the world will beat a path to your door and you’ll be set for life. The reality is that, on top of a serious work ethic and immeasurable determination, every business operator needs two specific -and often very dissimilar – skill sets to be successful.

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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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Gust

JANUARY 12, 2014

'Image via CEOAfterLife.com. Too many entrepreneurs confuse actions with momentum and results. We all know someone who repeatedly tells us how “busy” they are, when it’s hard to see what they get done. Momentum is moving things forward (mass x velocity). Founders or employees in constant motion, but with no momentum, will never get off the ground. It is true that motion in any direction is often better than no motion at all.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 12, 2014

'I’ve had continual performance problems with Feld Thoughts over the past few years. Yesterday, we moved the site to Lagrange Systems in an effort to meaningfully improve things. How’s it doing? And, more importantly, what’s your favorite high performance WordPress configuration? The post How’s the Performance of Feld Thoughts?

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Gust

JANUARY 12, 2014

'Image via CEOAfterLife.com. Too many entrepreneurs confuse actions with momentum and results. We all know someone who repeatedly tells us how “busy” they are, when it’s hard to see what they get done. Momentum is moving things forward (mass x velocity). Founders or employees in constant motion, but with no momentum, will never get off the ground. It is true that motion in any direction is often better than no motion at all.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 12, 2014

'There are disproportionately more Clay’s in the pottery business than people with other names. More people with the last name Singer sing and more Tyler’s tile than other folks. And yes, more John’s are the #1 guy in the #2 business than anyone else. How can this be? What we say we become. (And we say our name a hell of a lot of times.) Sure, you can change your name.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 12, 2014

'I’ve had the Nexus 5 for three days, only one of which was it actually on a cellular plan (AT&T), and I already love this phone. I was saying to a friend yesterday that it feels like the first time I got the iPhone back in 2007. It’s that good. Until Apple gets their act together ( they are currently try playing small ball ), it’s all Android and their larger screens and more flexibility for me.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2014

'This week marked the annual b2b marketing frenzy known as the Consumer Electronics Show (URL) in Las Vegas. 155,000 visitors, a record, trundled across an Exhibition Area the size of 37 football fields. This year saw a new group of visitors, spirited away in hospitality suites far above the 3100 exhibitors and their booth babes- the Ad Guys. They took home far more than a bad hangover and free pens.

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