Sun.Dec 15, 2013

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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

Gust

'Image via niaje.com and www.yec.co. There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. Yet, according to many sources , over 90 percent of all businesses are started and grown with no equity financing, and many others would have been better off without it.

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In Search of Digital Excellence

deal architect

'When Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of Software AG invited me to help with his book The Digital Enterprise: The Moves and Motives of the Digital Leaders, he invoked Tom Peters and his best seller In Search of Excellence. Karl-Heinz said we.

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How Good Is Your Business At Reading Weak Signals?

Startup Professionals Musings

'When the economy tanks as it did in the recent recession, that’s a strong signal that things have to change, and it’s hard to miss. But most of us in business have to deal most of the time with weak signals, or change that is happening in a far more subtle way. These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world.

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How to Disrupt Traditional Industries with New Ideas

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News The Internet is empowering people to innovate and create new ventures. But where exactly does innovation come from? That’s the question Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, posed to a panel of “disruptioneers” during the closing keynote address at Dell World. Innovation mostly started in the U.S and […] The post How to Disrupt Traditional Industries with New Ideas appeared first on SiliconHills.

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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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Breaking the Ice: Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Jay Leno

crowdSPRING Blog

'This is the season of holiday parties, get-togethers, casual drinks with colleagues, and networking events galore. It is highly likely, nay inevitable, that you will find yourself at some event, chatting with somebody who you may not know well or may not even know at all. This is where your networking prowess should kick in, right? Where your charm, your business acumen, and your conversational skills should shine, right?

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Good Criticism vs Bad Criticism

Mike Michalowicz

'I finished a speech last month and hustled to the back of the room to autograph books. It is my mini-rockstar moment and I love it thoroughly. Until I get a criticism. . Sometimes it is subtle. “Great speech, Mike. I think I saw your tie on a Brady Bunch episode.” Are you sure? I just bought it off the discount rack at Sears. Note to self: Mike Brady should not be my fashion role model.

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Circle Media Merges with New York-based S3i Digital

SiliconHills

'Circle Media, based in Austin, announced that it has merged with S3i Digital, based in New York. Mark Piening, Circle Media president and founder, used to work at Bazaarvoice. The company is part of the portfolio of the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) of the University of Texas. The new company, called Circle Media, will focus […] The post Circle Media Merges with New York-based S3i Digital appeared first on SiliconHills.