Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

'We all intuitively know how important human connections are in business but for many people it’s like exercise or eating well – one of those things you keep meaning to get around to. It reminds me of a line my wife and I often jokingly say to each other after seeing the awesome film “ Notorious ” about the life of Biggie Smalls. “I know mothafuckas who know mothafuckas.” Please just take 8 seconds to listen to this clip on YouTube – it’s priceless

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Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

'Image via Flickr by krossbow. These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation. Of course, having no reputation is usually better than a bad one, but don’t wait for someone else to establish a good one for you. It’s time for every business and business person to proactively create a positive presence, before someone else puts you in a defensive mode that is hard to win.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2014

'In reality, so-called “Founder’s” shares are simply common stock, issued at the time of startup incorporation, for a very low price, and normally allocated to the multiple initial players commensurate with their investment or role. But that’s only the beginning of the story. These shares are allocated and committed, but not really issued and owned (vested) until later.

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The Next Web

MARCH 23, 2014

'Adam Benzion is the founder of Entirely—a Seattle startup focused on social innovation, keen on connecting more people in more places to create special things together. “Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.”— Steve Jobs Anyone who’s paying attention these days has probably figured out that computer programming is fast becoming the new standard of literacy in our technology-driven economy.

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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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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 23, 2014

'If you want something, you’ve gotta make it happen yourself. No one is going to hand it to you on a silver platter after all. So go make it happen. And please don’t get pissed at us “other people”. We’re not bad, we simply don’t have a silver platter. The post They Don’t Have A Silver Platter appeared first on Mike Michalowicz.

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The Next Web

MARCH 23, 2014

'Sarah Judd Welch is the founder & head of community design + BD at Loyal where she designs communities for startups, brands, and Fortune 100s. I’ve never felt entirely comfortable defending my work in community. Yes, I’ll tell you about Return on Investments (ROI) all you want, but truly, community has much bigger ambitions. I spent the summer between middle school and high school busing from San Jose’s suburban edges to downtown where I spent my days tutoring students at the local element

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 23, 2014

'Recently, as I binged through multiple streaming episodes of the Wire on HBO, House of Cards on Netflix, and Homeland on Showtime, I had an uneasy feeling that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Something was missing from the experience. An absence that the marketer in me noticed but, at first, could not quite put my finger on. Sitting back watching Season 2, as Kevin Spacey channeled the Danish Prince and Robin Wright hit the perfect notes as Lady MacBeth of our nation’s capital, i

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 23, 2014

'I’m a slow learner. It’s rare that I fully understand things the first time I hear about it. This might even sound ridiculous, but some things I first heard about in primary school and secondary school I’m just starting to comprehend now as a middle age man. Political, social and philosophical lessons I got front teachers, family and friends.

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Street Smart Product Manager

MARCH 23, 2014

'In my last post, I talked about how an MVP is not the smallest collection of features to be delivered in the first version of your product. An MVP is about delivering real value to customers for the purposes of maximizing validated learning. So how to go about defining an MVP? It all depends on […]. The post A Case Study In Defining An MVP appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 23, 2014

'…and this video happened.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 23, 2014

'by Andrew Sobel, author of “ Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others “ During your career you’ve heard or read lots of advice on networking. And chances are you’ve picked up a subtle, underlying message: More is better. Why else would you have left the last conference you attended with a briefcase full of business cards?

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