Sun.May 10, 2015

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10 Steps Up A Great Entrepreneur Legacy Continuum

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur and business leader waits too long before really working on the legacy that he wants to leave to society and his family. They realize too late that they don’t really want to be remembered for how many hours they spent on airplanes, how many emails they produced, or even how much money they made for the business. If you disappeared today, what would your legacy show?

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NetSuites expanding ecosystem

deal architect

I usually look to spend time with vendor and customer executives at user conferences, but at SuiteWorld last week, I found myself spending time and learning more about NetSuite’s growing application and services ecosystem. The striking theme – while there.

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[Event][Asia] Next Bank Asia 2015

YoungUpstarts

This year’s instalment of banking and financial technology conference Next Bank Asia will be taking place on May 27-28 in Singapore with the theme of “Tracking the Digital Shift”, where participants will be engaged on topics surrounding disruptive technologies relevant to the Asian financial sector. o be held at Red Dot Design Museum, Next Bank Asia 2015 – first founded in 2011 – looks to bring together over 200 financial professionals, entrepreneurs, innovators,

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How I got 60 leads in 24 hours with just a landing page

The Next Web

Dmitry Dragilev runs a growth hacking consultancy helping startups grow and acquire customers through unconventional ways. He also runs a service called JustReachOut helping startups get featured in press. This blog first appeared on Kissmetrics. A few weeks ago a startup asked me to figure out the cheapest and most sustainable way for them to get 25 qualified leads to try their product.

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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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[Review] Social Physics

YoungUpstarts

Why do ideas spread from person to person? How do we marry the worlds of social influence, big data, and behavioural economics? Enter ‘ Social Physics ‘, a concept coined by MIT Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland. Director of the Human Dynamics Laboratory, Pentland’s book “ Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread-The Lessons from a New Science ” proposes a new theory of human social interaction.

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Please Succeed or Fail Fast: Why Large VCs & Seed Rounds Could Lead to Portfolio Conflict Down the Road

Hunter Walker

Despite some speculation, I’m not @StartupLJackson. However, after reading this article about his NVCA talk , I’m realizing I might be Naval Ravikant because there’s a lot in there that I’ve been thinking about as well. Our early stage fund Homebrew debuted just two years ago in early 2013 but already I’ve witnessed a dramatic change in how BigVC thinks of seed.

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Why Lawsuits Are On the Rise at Startups and What To Do About It

Both Sides of the Table

*. Lawsuits. I’m so tired of the nature of the legal system in the United States where bullying, intimidation and mobster-like shake-downs are becoming prevalent. As I write these words I already imagine my next deposition in which I’m asked to read this out loud. Lawsuits are becoming so prevalent these days. Even when I’m not the one being sued I find myself being dragged into deposition after deposition and my blog (along with all my emails) are being served as evidence.

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