Wed.Dec 10, 2014

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10 Innovative New Global Ways To Grow Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

'The world of marketing is changing faster than technology these days. Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and more recently added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. Mobile and global are driving all of these in innovative new ways to grow your business.

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Harvard’s Big Moves to Improve Its Startup Spirit: An HBS Student’s Take

View from Seed

'NextView Ventures is excited to welcome Dimitri Dadiomov to the team as an MBA Associate. He is currently a second year student at Harvard Business School and will be focused on supporting the early-stage startup community in Boston and its schools. He’ll work with NextView through his final semester at HBS. This is his first post to The View From Seed.

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SAP Nation Excerpt: PrologueThe Happiest Place on Earth

deal architect

'Amazon has released SAP Nation on the Kindle. Over the next few weeks the book will be available in other print and eBook formats. As I have done with my other books, I plan to excerpt here about 10% of.

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K&S Ranch

Steve Blank

'In 1976 Saul Steinberg created the March 29th cover of the New Yorker and created a visual meme of a city who was completely self-absorbed. Kirby Scudder , a neighbor on the California coast just did a poster of the view of Palo Alto as the center of universe. Kirby has done several of these city posters here. I thought it was a fun poster given its unique vantage point from the Pacific Ocean looking towards San Francisco Bay.

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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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11 Tips To Help Reluctant Networkers Survive, Connect, And Thrive At Holiday Parties

YoungUpstarts

'by Alaina G. Levine, president of Quantum Success Solutions and author of “ Networking for Nerds: Find, Access and Land Hidden Game-Changing Career Opportunities Everywhere “ If you aren’t a natural connector, you’re probably dreading the coming deluge of holiday events and parties. Sure, you know you should take advantage of the opportunity to network at these gatherings (especially if they’re work-related), but small talk and introductions just aren’t your forte.

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MergeLane – An Accelerator for Women-led Startups

Feld Thoughts

'I have been talking, writing, and helping advocate for women in technology for a long time. While my most visible role is as chair of National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) since its inception in 2006, I’ve tried to be actively involved and supportive of as many initiatives as I can. My partners and I are focused on promoting diversity in our fund (here’s a run-down of our stats ) and have recently back several female CEOs, with a few more about to happen.

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Get Ready For Q115 Fundraising Insanity

Feld Thoughts

'One of the dynamics of going away for a month off the grid is that you come back to a wall of data. I’ve been absorbing it the past two days and it’s fascinating to ponder how my brain is processing it versus the normal continuous flow of information on a real-time basis. I’m not a predictor. As we enter the time of year where every media-related thingy publishes it’s “best of 2014″ and “predictions for 2015″ lists, I simply pass on participating

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Making Forward Partners a company we are proud of: Our culture

The Equity Kicker

'Forward Partners is a venture firm, but the size of our startup team and the way we support our partner companies makes us very different from conventional venture capitalists. One of the exciting aspects of that for me personally is that if we are going to deliver on our mission of delivering amazing help to amazing startups we need to think of ourselves as a company that attracts and retains great people, rather than a partnership of investors.

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The End of Hyperscale Envy

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'When Avi Networks founders Umesh Mahajan, Murali Basavaiah, and Ranga Rajagopalan first came to Lightspeed in 2012 with their vision of bringing the benefits of a hyperscale approach to application delivery and layer 4-7 services, it made perfect sense to us. We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare

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What New Payment Options Can You Offer Customers?

Up and Running

'Whether consumers will pay by credit or debit card, check and cash are no longer the only payment consideration for merchants—particularly as payment technology has evolved to include EMV credit cards, contactless payment, and mobile wallets. Though accepting the latest payment method that consumers prefer is an important aspect of delivering a positive customer experience, new payment technologies require effort and financial investment to implement.

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Texas Venture Labs Fall Expo Showcases New Startups

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News The Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs at the Univerity of Texas at Austin showcased 12 Austin startups and three Alumni companies at its Fall 2014 Expo last Friday. The companies presented in three different categories with the consumer products and services startups kicking off the event at […] The post Texas Venture Labs Fall Expo Showcases New Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Turn An Argument Into A Productive Discussion

Mike Michalowicz

'If you think about how many hours you spend with colleagues per week, it is easy to see why you may sometimes find yourself smack dab in the middle of an argument. As much as we would like to think arguments can just simply be avoided, the truth is that at times, we just need to, well, have it out. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a right and wrong way to go about having that argument because there is!

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Payoneer Is Coming to crowdSPRING!

crowdSPRING Blog

'We are happy to announce that, as of next week we will be offering a new payment option for crowdSPRING Creatives. In addition to receiving your awards via PayPal you will also have the option of signing up for Payoneer , a leading provider of global payment solutions, for additional flexible and low-cost payment options. We will no longer offer direct Bank Wire transfers, but through our friends at Payoneer, you can now choose between two additional payment options: a pre-paid Credit Card or b

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Having it All This Holiday Season!

Growthink Blog

'Why not truly have it all this holiday season? Spend great time with family and friends and enjoy the blessings of the season that those that work hard in building and leading businesses so richly deserve…. …while developing a steely resolve and a solid plan to profit from the awesome opportunities and possibilities that the New Year is sure to bring.

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Fresh from the SPRING: hookartist

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 logo project. Let us start the slow clap for hookartist. Check out more great work on hookartist’s profile page. Nicely done, hookartist, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: bokomoslav. Fresh from the SPRING: greenblack.

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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

'The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad ® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors. It’s made a big bang.

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