deal architect

JUNE 14, 2015

In the last few weeks, I have had a chance to visit Oracle UX design lab, talk to Infor’s design agency and interview folks about Fiori for my sequel to SAP Nation. I also had a chance to see a.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2015

Every business leader has blind spots which limit their effectiveness and success, but due to ego, over-confidence, or deferential subordinates, many live totally in the dark. Some are smart and humble enough to assume that they don’t know what they don’t know, but lack an effective process for shining a light on their blind spots. Both are equally surprised by their every setback.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2015

This is the best quote I’ve seen all week. It’s from Greg Sands post on TechCrunch titled The Real Silicon Valley. . Greg is a long time friend and co-investor. I’m on the board with him at Return Path and he’s on the board with my partner Ryan at VictorOps. Along with my partners, we are all LPs in Greg’s fund Costanoa Ventures.

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The Next Web

JUNE 14, 2015

No one knows the value of a great domain as much as a startup. That is why some of the most successful new startups shell out upwards of $500,000 for a category killer premium name. But where does that leave everyone else? According to Wakefield Research, 52 percent of people would change their name if they had a chance to. Naming a startup is often an exercise in frustration.

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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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YFS Magazine

JUNE 14, 2015

Here’s our weekly link roundup of small business buzz, musings and muchness. A curation of the best small business talk around the web.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2015

How to Build a Newsletter People Will Actually Read written by Sara Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Duct Tape Marketing Newsletter – Created with Placeit. Think about the last newsletter you received in your inbox. Was it a newsletter you looked forward to receiving or just another piece to add to the daily content clutter?

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