The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

'Gili Golander is a co-founder and CMO at Bazaart. Bazaart is the most beautiful way to mix your photos into mind-blowing images. When I started my startup journey two years ago, one word came to my mind whenever I thought about marketing: liars. You see, coming from a UX background where the focus is on giving people a great product experience, I tended to look at the marketing side of business as something reserved to slick types – characters often played so well by George Clooney.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2014

'Most startups dream of attracting a celebrity endorsement, and assume that it will take their startup to the stars. Startups such as Chirpify have managed to flourish and raise millions with endorsements from folks like Lil Wayne and Snoop Lion. Others go the way of 12Society , an LA subscription commerce startup with six celebrity sponsors, but still couldn’t get any traction.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2014

'The startup scenes in Southeast Asia – Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, among others – have been thriving, attracting scores of students and young graduates who want to be part of their local startup movement. And many of these startups, some flush with cash and others eyeing international expansion, are hiring. The problem, however, is knowing which startups are hiring.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

'New domain names are launching at a rate of seven per week just this past month alone. As more new domains become available, it may be difficult to figure out which is best for you to purchase. Here’s a look at various industries and available domains that are right for you. 1. If you’re in finance. Finance-related domain names that have become available to pre-register include.bank,loans or.ventures.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2014

'What happens when you put three students who are passionate about youth entrepreneurship together? That’s what happened when University of Maryland undergraduates information systems and marketing double major Scott Block and Avi Eisenberger, and computer science major Justin Searles, got together to discuss the challenges of student entrepreneurship.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 3, 2014

'I’ve loved being involved in Orbotix from the very beginning. I got to know Adam and Ian, the founders, even before they got into Techstars. Their original company name was GearBox and they probably wouldn’t haven’t gotten into Techstars except that both Nicole Glaros and I said “we love these guys – f**k it – let’s try a hardware company this time.” Paul Berberian, one of Adam and Ian’s lead mentors during Techstars joined them as the third

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 3, 2014

'The NYC startup community maintains a positive, supportive atmosphere. We celebrate a strong effort. However, that often makes it hard to tell who actually excels at their job and who just mails it in or got lucky. This goes for founders, employees and investors alike. I was just noticing that a professional acquaintance of mine just changed jobs for the third time in two years--going from startup to startup to startup without, ostensibly, accomplishing much at any of the companies.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 3, 2014

'On Thursday March 6th I’m doing my first public talk about my newest book – Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors. If you’ve got a copy, bring it and I’ll sign it. If you don’t have a copy, our friends at Silicon Valley Bank have sponsored one for each of you. But don’t be bashful, every good writer loves it when you buy a book also, even when he gives one away.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 3, 2014

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Congressman Lloyd Doggett and John Holmes, vice president with Freescale Semiconductor[/caption]Congressman Lloyd Doggett said some immigration reform bill must be passed this year, because if Congress waits until January, the hurdles will be even greater. Rep. Doggett spoke Monday morning at Capital Factory on a panel about […] The post Immigration Reform Needs a Strong Push Now Panelists Say appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 3, 2014

'When you were a child, you believed in superhero thoughts. You believed you could create your own Spider Man web wrist launchers, swing from building to building, and fly tree to tree. You believed you could build your own Wonder Woman invisible jet, deflect bullets with your bracelets, and get people speaking the truth once you lassoed them. You believed one day you could be as strong as The Thing and crush stone with your fist.

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Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2014

'As a small business owner, you might be thinking about venturing into the online sales world. For some businesses, an e-commerce site complements the sales made in a brick-and-mortar store. For others, a virtual storefront is responsible for 100 percent of sales. Either way, capturing internet sales requires some skills. You need some marketing smarts and some website design knowledge.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 3, 2014

'One of the wonderful pleasures of being a teacher online is you never know who is going through your materials and what they are doing with them. Years later people show up with amazing success stories, making big money, and you had no idea they were ever influenced by your work. [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud … Read the rest of this entry » The post Morgan Brown: How To Start A Blog About Home Loans As A Side Project, Turn It Into A $4,000/Month Inc

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 3, 2014

'I read The Mom Test this weekend. What a great book! When I started with Forward Partners I went out to speak with a bunch of our target customers, entrepreneurs, and I learned a bunch of stuff which helped shape our strategy of empowering great entrepreneurs with minority stake investments and real-world useful help – but I’d have learned much more if I’d read this book first.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2014

'In today’s review I’m assessing whether websites in question are doing a good job at getting people to take action. If you want more people to do something on your site, you need to: make them understand what you offer and why they should want it, make it easy to take action, ask for action at the right time. Background reading: How to Use Behavioral Design for Boosting Conversions (Using The Fogg Behavior Model).

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SiliconHills

MARCH 3, 2014

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News It’s that crazy time of year in Austin when locals leave for Spring Break and rent out their houses and apartments for gobs of money to the estimated 30,000 people expected to attend this year’s South by Southwest Interactive. That’s right, it’s the biggest, wildest and wackiest […] The post Guides to SXSW 2014 in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2014

'Why The New LinkedIn Publishing Option is Worth Your Time written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing LinkedIn recently starting rolling out a new content program that allows LinkedIn profile holders to add long form blog posts. The program piggybacks a bit on the Influencer program launched in 2013 that features long form content from folks like Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Maria Shriver and Mark Cuban.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2014

This post is presented by Business Is Great Britain. How do you take a small business serving your local community and turn it into a worldwide phenomenon worth millions? You need a good idea, of course. But after that, you’d better have a plan for keeping your team tight, wrangling with paperwork and time zones, and dealing with unexpected costs.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 3, 2014

'If you want to discuss liquidation preferences, vesting schedules, or anything startup-related, I’ll be holding an office hour session this Friday March 7th from 130-230pm at UP Global’s SXSW Startup Oasis. The office hour portion of Startup Oasis is blocks of time where you can meet with mentors across a diverse range of skill sets. […].

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 3, 2014

'Once upon a time simple forms of industry knowledge were a significant competitive advantage. The little things we knew about our industry from working in it mattered. We had to earn expertise over long periods, and the release of that expertise to prospective customers. We traded in trade secrets. But now those days are coming to a close. In a market where anyone can know anything about an industry (from the worlds experts) with just a few key strokes, then we need change our view on what crea

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Rob Go

MARCH 3, 2014

'I spent a few days in LA this past week and attended the UpFront Ventures conference. It was a fun, high-quality event and I was glad to learn a lot about the great stuff happening in LA and catch up with a bunch of friends old and new. In particular, I was glad to begin to deepen a couple digital-only professional relationships that I’ve had for a while.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 3, 2014

'This is a blindpost suggested by @gumboshowjoe (who started a new company recently!). It was posted on LinkedIn by the CEO and Chairman of Lockheed Martin and is titled, What People Look for in Great Leaders. I thought it important to point out that when I write posts like this one, I’m not saying to myself, “What’s so great about me?

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