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Bruce J. Rogow on SAP Nation

deal architect

'Bruce J. Rogow is the closest to a Yoda in the IT Industry. With his background at Nolan, Norton, then Gartner, now as principal at IT Odyssey (where he crisscrosses the country in his car visiting CIOs and cataloging their.

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Fellow VCs: Here’s Where to Invest $1B+

Genuine VC

'A couple weeks ago my colleague Dimitri Dadiomov published a post on NextView’s “View From Seed” blog which answered the question “Should we take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders?” The (obvious) answer of “yes” he supported with comprehensive research about the entrepreneurial activity coming out of Harvard’s business school. We knew that it was formidable, but the sheer number of founders, companies founded, dollars raised, and (early) exits from HBS founders over the past six years

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Are You Living For The Weekends? Tactics to Help You Turn TGIF into TGIM

YoungUpstarts

'by Peter K. Studner, author of “ Super Job Search IV: The Complete Manual for Job Seekers and Career Changers “. Are you a TGIF person? Do you slog unenthusiastically through the workweek, counting the days and hours until the weekend begins? If so, was it always this way? Or was there a time when you were excited about your career and (even if you’d never admit it now) looked forward to seeing what each new workweek brought?

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Three Startup Books To Buy Today

Feld Thoughts

'As a huge reader, I love the recent plethora of startup / entrepreneurship books. I’m involved in three new ones – one that I’ve co-authored, one that FG Press has published, and one where I’m part of a Kickstarter campaign. I encourage you to grab each of them. The first is Startup Opportunities: Know When To Quit Your Day Job.

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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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4 Yoga Principles That Will Make You Unstoppable In Business

YoungUpstarts

'by Paresh Shah , founder and CEO of Glimpulse. Most people associate yoga with sweaty spandex-clad people who greet the day in downward dog and spend hours twisting their bodies into pretzels. But yoga isn’t just a fitness fad; it’s an ancient practice dating back thousands of years that’s known to deliver a host of incredible benefits. Not only is yoga good for the mind, body, and spirit, but it can also be a valuable tool for enhancing your business.

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My Kickstarter campaign is live -- I hope you'll be a part of it.

Startup Lessons Learned

'Since I published The Lean Startup, I have been compiling stories about the challenges and rewards of adopting the methodology. Sometimes I would interview people and take notes, and they’d ask me what I was writing and where the story might appear. “I don’t know,” I’d say. I really didn’t. Writing a book is painful, and I wasn''t sure I ever would do it again.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s year of books – Ed Catmull’s ‘creativity’ review

The Next Web

'Caitlin is Editor in Chief at Page19 and frequently writes about marketing, communications, and creativity. This post originally appeared on Blinkist. Mark Zuckerberg’s 5th pick for his Year of Books is Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc. Read on for insights from the Pixar & Disney Animation Studio president on managing a team of creative superstars, why business plans aren’t always the answer, and what creative DNA really looks like in a business.

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Things To Consider When Starting An IT Company

YoungUpstarts

'by Alex Christo. Starting an IT company is not an easy job. In fact, starting any company is difficult. However, if you are interested in opening an IT company, there are a number of other factors that you will have to consider. First of all, you will have to decide the type of services that you will offer. Most IT companies offer a wide range of services to their customers.

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Every job you do has your signature on it

The Equity Kicker

'I just read this on a post by Slack and Flickr founder Stuart Butterfield titled Rules of Business : Every job you do has your signature on it. When I was around 10 or 11 years old, my father offered me $10 to move a cord of recently-delivered firewood from the driveway into the garage and stack it up inside (I am old; $10 was a great deal of money back then).

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8 Questions to Ask Before Launching an Online Store

Up and Running

'You want your launch to be amazing—so make sure that you’re prepared. The one thing that many entrepreneurs have learned over the years is that an online business is only as good as its digital storefront. Even assuming you had access to the best and most effective marketing campaigns available, there would still be a high probability of your customers failing to convert if your site cannot facilitate a smooth transaction process.

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The Gift of the Ask

This is going to be BIG.

'It''s very easy to think of an ask as a negative--of a burden on someone. When it comes to startups, however, especially when you''ve built up a great reputation and done a lot of good work for others, people are not only eager to help you, but they take great pride in being asked. Working with you is an opportunity. Getting a chance to take a leap with you is an opportunity.

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You were born to pitch

Start Up Blog

'Pitching is one of those things that some of us love and and some of us hate. But, we all know it is a necessary part of startups and economic life in general. Here’s something many people don’t know – everyone is good at pitching, everyone is doing it everyday, and in fact, it was the very first thing we did the moment we were born.

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Honest Dollar Wins ATI SXSW Pitch Competition

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Honest Dollar, the company that’s been sweeping the 2015 SXSW pitch scene like Adele at the Grammy’s in 2013, won the Austin Technology Incubator pitch competition Monday morning. There was no cash prize but, as CEO Whurley explained, Honest Dollar just closed out a $3 million round, […] The post Honest Dollar Wins ATI SXSW Pitch Competition appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Small Business and Startups: Why Transparency Matters

crowdSPRING Blog

'What we got here, is a failure. To communicate. Profound words from a film, that in retrospect, feels a bit dated and quaint. In the Paul Newman classic, “ Coolhand Luke ,” the antagonist uses those words to control the prisoners who are his charges, and those words usually communicate the punishment that is to follow. In business, failure to communicate comes with its own form of punishment: poor performance, confusion, degraded teamwork, and reduced productivity.

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The Robot Petting Zoo at SXSW

SiliconHills

'For the first year, South by Southwest Interactive featured a “Robot Petting Zoo” at its festival. A room at the JW Marriott Hotel downtown housed a variety of robots including drones, tiny programmable bug-like Ozobots, an autonomous six-legged social robot known as DAR-1, the Double Robotics telepresence robot and Bujold, one of the most heavily […] The post The Robot Petting Zoo at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How to Create the Ultimate New Customer Experience

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Create the Ultimate New Customer Experience written by Sara Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Tell me about your “buy” process. This simple question causes confusion for many of our small business clients. In response they might say: “Once a new customer signs on, we send them a contract and maybe even an invoice and start working with them.”.

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Silicon Valley VC Bill Gurley Says Enjoy the Upside While it Lasts

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News A few unicorns will die this year, said Bill Gurley, a prominent venture capitalist with Benchmark in Silicon Valley. Unicorns are giant technology startups, backed by venture capital, that hope to turn into multi-billion dollar companies. Gurley didn’t specify which companies he thought might bite the dust. […] The post Silicon Valley VC Bill Gurley Says Enjoy the Upside While it Lasts appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Advice to Grads: Join A Winning Startup

Seeing Both Sides

'Around this time of year, many students are focused on finding a job in Startup Land and building their careers. If you have your own idea and no one can talk you out of it, that''s awesome. But for most undergraduates and graduate students, they have no idea how to get plugged in to the startup community. I gave some advice in my post, Seeking a Job in Startup Land , but I didn''t give specific pointers to companies who I think are emerging winners and thus good places to begin your startup c

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The Second Annual SXSW Print Edition of Silicon Hills News

SiliconHills

'If you are in Austin, we hope you are having a fantastic time at South by Southwest Interactive. It’s one of the most thought-provoking tech conferences in the world and it continues to draw fascinating speakers and attendees. Having so many creative people in one place leads to a great time and lots of ideas […] The post The Second Annual SXSW Print Edition of Silicon Hills News appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How To Purchase Books At Online Stores

YoungUpstarts

'Buying books online gives the ardent readers ultimate shopping experience as they get to find a huge variety of books. Biographies, Novels, literature books, academic books, you can find everything and more from a single book store at the most affordable prices. If you often buy books online you would surely be looking for ways to save money as some these books can be really expensive.

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Irish Prime Minister Meets with VCs at SXSW

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News As Hugh Forrest tweeted recently, “It’s not your mother’s SXSW any more” when the sitting head of a nation comes to SXSW as Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny spent time with venture capitalists at SXSW and spoke briefly with reporters Sunday, the day Ireland officially opening the […] The post Irish Prime Minister Meets with VCs at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Episode 19: Time Tracking and Maximizing Profits with Matt Rissell

Mike Michalowicz

'Show Summary. Matt Rissell, co-founder and CEO of TSheets, joins Episode 19 of the Profit First Podcast. Matt dives into how time tracking protects employees and helps employers maximize their profitability. Our Guest. Matt Rissell is the co-founder and CEO of TSheets, an Eagle, Idaho-based technology firm that provides online, GPS-powered time tracking for companies with hourly employees.

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7 Critical Questions Before You Become an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

'As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, the most common question I get is, “I want to be an entrepreneur -- how do I start?” The obvious answer is that you need an idea first, but I’ve come to realize that the process is really much more complex than that. Many people with great ideas never make it as entrepreneurs, and true entrepreneurs can make a business out of anything.

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