Sat.May 23, 2015

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9 Key Tests For Innovation Potential In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for smartphones. Perhaps hard questions need to come before ideas, rather than after.

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From co-founder to ousted CEO of 500px: Trials, errors, and lessons learned

The Next Web

Started in the early 2000s as a community on the LiveJournal blogging platform, 500px has become one of the most popular places in the internet to store professional and amateur photos, with more than 50 million images in its archives. Its history, however, has been a bumpy ride, which ended for its co-founder Oleg Gutsol last year, with him being ousted from the CEO role and the company itself.

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The Problem With Virtual Tip Jars is Calling Them Tip Jars

Hunter Walker

Earlier this week both Bijan and MG wrote about virtual tip jars in relation to micropayments for online content. Bijan’s post is kinda glass half-full, while MG’s is glass half-empty. We continue to use the tipping comparison to imagine how we can reward content creators. I think it’s the wrong metaphor because it imagines a world of variable post-creation payment based on the optional goodwill of consumers.

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Change ‘we’ to ‘I’

The Next Web

Recently I had an interesting conversation with someone who works at a bigger company. We spoke about inefficiencies at different levels, and how to get s**t done. He said something that made an impression: “Change ‘we’ or ‘us’ to ‘I’ as much as possible, and force others to do the same. It is very easy to say ‘Shouldn’t we be doing this’ but it won’t change things.

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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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Weekend Favs May Twenty Three

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs May Twenty Three 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.