Tue.Nov 12, 2013

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The Good Ol’ Boy Decline: 8 Tips To Help Women Take Over The C-Suite

YoungUpstarts

'by Vickie Milazzo, author of “ Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman “ Corporations who insist on maintaining a good ol’ boy network are making (and keeping) themselves stupid. You’re probably thinking that is an extremely inflammatory statement, especially considering many of those same organizations are amongst the most profitable in the world.

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7 Strategies For Beating The Failure Odds Online

Startup Professionals Musings

'It seems like everyone has an Internet startup these days. The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day.

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How to effectively communicate with your graphic designer and get the results you want

The Next Web

'Josephine Sabin is the Marketing Manager for DesignCrowd. Getting the most out of your graphic designer is often reliant on being a great communicator. If you want a brilliant end product, one-line briefs simply won’t do. With over 140,000 designers ready to offer their talents on DesignCrowd.com , we’ve had our fair share of design briefs for all sorts of projects.

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Startups: A Verbal Wave at Social Media Means Diddly

Gust

'Startups: Investors expect new marketing. The fundamentals still apply but tools and realities are different now. If you don’t understand the broader implications of social media, content marketing, curation, engagement, and relationships, then you desperately need a great reason why not. And don’t think you can just wave your hands at it. You have to really know it. .

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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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Getting a New Receptionist with TextUs.Biz

Feld Thoughts

'While I have nothing against receptionists, I’ve always felt like it was a thankless job that should be able to easily be replaced by the machines. Many of the people I know who are receptionists spend their time doing lots of other things and I’ve always felt like it would dramatically improve their life if they could focus on all the other things, rather than split their attention between those and being a receptionist.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

'Reid Hoffman. Essays on Entrepreneurship, Civics and Intellectual Life. Essays. About. 6.7K Flares. 6.7K Flares. × At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time.

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The Foundation To Habit Change

Mike Michalowicz

'Do you have a habit you want to change but can’t? People struggle their entire life trying to change bad habits, because they neglect to take the most foundational step. To change a bad habit, you must first change the words you use to describe yourself. If you call yourself lazy yet try to establish a habit of drive, it will be impossible to change.

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7 Sneaky Negotiations Tips

Growthink Blog

'Negotiating is one of the most powerful skills you can use regardless of your business type. Not only are there ample negotiating opportunities when buying, selling, or managing for growth; being able to negotiate well can mean the difference between reaching your desired outcome or not. Make it a habit to negotiate all important items and it will add up in a major way.

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Eric Ries and Kent Beck Discuss Product Development

Startup Lessons Learned

'Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We’ve made some cool additions to our pre-conference webcast lineup , including two conversations with founding figures for methods that underlie Lean Startup. On November 14 (that’s this Thursday) at 1p PT, Eric Ries will speak with Kent Beck, a creator of Agile software development, about facilitating the work of engineers and product teams.

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Company Helps Sell Wellness and Prevention for Healthcare Systems

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Pearson Talbert. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Company Helps Sell Wellness and Prevention for Healthcare Systems appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Startup Funding Preparation: Approaching Friends and Family

Business Plan Blog

'Startup Funding Preparation. Starting any business will require some initial capital, even if only to register the business. Most startups will have additional expenses to develop the product or service, acquire a physical location, pay employees, market the business, etc. Unfortunately, angel investors and venture capitalists are rarely interested in funding a company at this stage.

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Noisy Browser Tabs and Finding Your Stuff

Venture Chronicles

'I read this today and thought “yes, it’s about time” When a tab is streaming audio in Chrome 32 Beta , an indicator will appear next to the close tab X. The indicators will change depending on the source, so streaming audio will be denoted by a speaker icon, a red circle will indicate a Web cam, and Chromecast’s box icon will notify you when you’re broadcasting a tab to your television.

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When short-term wins negatively impact long-term success

Jeff Hilimire

'I was talking to a friend recently who works at a large organization and he was venting about how frustrated he was with the culture at his company of working hard for short-term wins at the detriment of long-term success. Be it to impress the C-suite executives, or to wow the press, or to appease the shareholders, it seems most large companies today are focused entirely too much on short-term gains.

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11 Favorite Entrepreneur Tips and Hacks for Maximizing LinkedIn

Early Growth Financial Services

'Originally published on Inc. LinkedIn is bigger than ever as a business tool. Are you actually making the most of it? Try some of these little-known tricks and tactics. LinkedIn is a powerful social network—not just for making connections, but for sharing content, recruiting talent, and keeping customers in the loop. We asked 11 successful founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council to divulge their favorite hacks to get more out of LinkedIn. 1.

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Bangkok.NET user group: Write better javascript (slides)

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

'We had our fourth Bangkok.NET user group last Wednesday. Things went well although my presentation could have been a bit shorter :-/ Thanks to everyone for coming!

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Would you rather be an alpha developer or an enterprise developer?

The Next Web

'Sinclair Schuller is the CEO and co-founder of Apprenda. Prior to Apprenda, Sinclair held positions at Morgan Stanley, Eden Communications, and consulted for the State University of New York’s (SUNY) vast IT systems. Why are the so-called “alpha developers” all the rage right now? In a recent business trip to San Francisco, I heard the term “alpha developer” over and over again, and it has officially driven me crazy.

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3 Essential Pieces of Marketing Content Every Business Must Create

Duct Tape Marketing

'3 Essential Pieces of Marketing Content Every Business Must Create written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing photo credit: Preneur Marketing via photopin cc. Business owners and marketers get that they need content. The idea has been drummed pretty hard the last few years so now they blog, pay others to blog and upload all manner of “how to” video to YouTube.

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10 surprising social media statistics that might make you rethink your social strategy

The Next Web

'This post was originally published on the Buffer blog. Social media is changing faster than ever, as if that wasn’t something everyone already knew! If you’re managing social media for your business , it might be useful to know about some of the most surprising social media statistics this year. Here are ten that might make you rethink the way you’re approaching social media. 1.

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Sweden top, UK second in Europe by per capita venture activity

The Equity Kicker

'Ben Rooney just posted an analysis of VC and entrepreneurial activity in Europe which included the two charts above. They confirm that the US is still meaningfully ahead of UK in terms of VC dollars invested per head, but show that we are closer in terms of number of VC funded companies per head. I see this as a good sign. You have to have the companies before you can invest lots of money in them so hopefully the number of companies funded per head is the lead indicator and the gap in funding

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