Sat.Apr 12, 2014

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How Stories Best Communicate Your Startup Value

Startup Professionals Musings

'The entrepreneur’s challenge is to effectively communicate their value proposition, not only to customers, but also to vendors, partners, investors, and their own team. Especially for technical founders, this is normally all about presenting impressive facts. But in reality facts only go so far. Stories often work better, because humans don’t always make rational decisions.

Chad 279
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Do what you love: Why you are not your job

The Next Web

'Paul Jarvis is a Web designer and bestselling author. His upcoming book, The Good Creative, outlines the 18 habits of the world’s most respected artists. “If we believe that personal fulfillment is really the ultimate purpose of labour, then who do we expect to do all the other jobs that are not so existentially fulfilling?” -Mika Tokumsitu Even as someone who works for myself and makes a living off of creativity, it’s not always fun.

Web 167
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What has been the highlight of your week and why does it stand out?

Gust

'SIIA (the US Software and Information Industry Association) named Gust the Best Collaboration Solution of 2013, at the gala during the All About The Cloud annual conference in San Francisco on Thursday. Since this is the closest our industry has to the Academy Awards, and since it’s the second year in a row we have won it (beating the other nominated products from Google, Adobe and SalesForce.com ), I’m a very happy camper.

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3 ways to build a winning big data research and development team

The Next Web

'Jim Meyerle is the co-founder of Evolv, a big data company that optimizes workforce performance. As a co-founder at a big data analytics software company, where recruiting talented data scientists and engineers often feels like finding a needle in a haystack, I regularly get asked about lessons learned in building world class, big data-focused R&D teams.

Developer 136
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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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The Ethicist: VC Edition

Hunter Walker

'Sunday brings the NYTimes and the Sunday Times brings The Ethicist , a column currently helmed by culture writer Chuck Klosterman. While the questions debated are widely varying in subject matter, I don’t recall any addressing venture capital. Maybe the Secret app is our version of The Ethicist but rather than publishing anonymously, let me post here: What assumptions should entrepreneurs make with regards to VCs and confidential information?

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Weekend Favs April Twelve

Duct Tape Marketing

'Weekend Favs April Twelve written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road.