Wed.Apr 22, 2015

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10 Principles Define Your Startup As Open Vs Closed

Startup Professionals Musings

'Too many customers have long felt distanced from many successful brands, seeing them as closed and mysterious environments, focused only on profits and killing competitors. They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency.

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[Singapore] GoBear Lets You Compare Insurance Policies Easily

YoungUpstarts

'Buying travel or car insurance can be a very complicated affair – it’s generally difficult to compare plans across different providers especially when faced with gratuitous use of industry jargon that seek to confuse prospective buyers than actually aiding in their understanding of the product. Here’s where GoBear ( www.gobear.com.sg ) comes in – the free-to-use meta search engine for insurance (on both desktop and mobile) allows consumers to search and compare hundreds

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The Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

'A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. We woke up to a city-wide power outage, and Day Two of the conference had stopped before it started. No lights, no wifi, and no A/V. What could have been a disaster evolved into a valuable, unplanned MVP: attendees embraced the three hours of darkness, while we organized unconference sessions and Q&A discussions, and gathered people in windowed rooms for impromptu meetings.

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The Board Operating System

Feld Thoughts

'In the comments to my post yesterday titled The Religion of Silicon Valley , Rosey commented that the choice of metaphor could be “ operating system ” instead of religion. “Brad, I expected your choice of metaphor would be ‘operating system’ more than ‘religion’, as the term ‘religion’ carries a lot of baggage and generally involves some supernatural truth claims.

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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 Specific is your BtoB Content?

Rembrandt Communications

'Original Copy for your Target Market = Sales Are you writing original, BtoB content specific to your target market? With so much content on the Internet today, it’s easy to “copy and paste” information just to post something and check that off of your “to do” list. But don’t do it! Sure. It’s easy, but […]. The post How Specific is your BtoB Content?

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Trust moving from individuals to systems

The Equity Kicker

'I just saw this rather depressing chart in the Washington Post. I guess there are a bunch of things that used to be commonplace that we don’t do anymore because we are worried about bad people – hitchhiking and letting our kids play on the street are two examples that spring to mind – so maybe it isn’t a big surprise. Not good though.

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Fresh from the SPRING: coyotejack

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this clothing project. Let us start the slow clap for coyotejack. Check out more great work on coyotejack ‘s profile page. Nicely done, coyotejack, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: 5IVE_STAR_CREATIVE.

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Social Enterprise Entrepreneur Shares Story

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Heath Shackleford- Good.Must.Grow. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Social Enterprise Entrepreneur Shares Story appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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5 Characteristics of SaaS Companies with Breakout Potential [Webinar Invitation]

Growthink Blog

'My Post last week on the fast funding and growth success of Domo (over $450 million in capital raised at a $2 billion valuation), generated a lot of great responses - some whimsical, some skeptical, but with the most interesting being variants of: "How can the lessons of Domo (and those of the other Tech Unicorn''s profiled), be best applied to my business and investment plans?

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How to Come Up with More Winning Tests Using Data

ConversionXL

'While testing is a critical part of conversion optimization to make sure we actually made things better and by how much, it’s also the tip of the iceberg of the full CRO picture. Testing tools are affordable (even free), and increasingly easier to use – so pretty much any idiot can set up and run A/B tests. This is not where the difficulty lies.

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Loop & Tie Selected for National Association of Realtors’ REach Accelerator

SiliconHills

'Second Century Ventures has selected Loop & Tie and six other organizations for its 2015 class of REach, a growth technology accelerator program. Second Century Ventures is the investment arm of the National Association of Realtors. The class, which is focused on the real estate and related industries, officially kicks off this week. It provides […] The post Loop & Tie Selected for National Association of Realtors’ REach Accelerator appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Finding Non Obvious Trends

Duct Tape Marketing

'Finding Non Obvious Trends written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Rohit Bhargava. Trends are funny things. People spend their entire careers trying to spot them, but more often than not, the prognosticators are either wrong or simply stating something that’s become obvious to others.

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19 Little Ways To Weave Stronger, Richer, Deeper Bonds With Friends And Colleagues

YoungUpstarts

'by Nancy D. O’Reilly, PsyD, author of “ Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life “. Nothing makes for a rich, fulfilling life quite like really great relationships. Our bonds with family members, friends, and (to a surprising extent) coworkers provide support, love, joy, and companionship and foster personal growth.

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5 Ways To Help Manage Someone You Hate

Mike Michalowicz

'Hate your co-worker or employee? Congratulations! You have completed the first step in making things work. Acknowledging you have a problem, after all, is the first step. Ironically, teams where everyone likes each other are typically weak teams. People (that includes you) have a tendency to like people who are like them. We revel in similarities.