The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

'Noam Fine, co-Founder and CEO of Widdit , providing app developers engagement solutions over the mobile and Web platforms. We read every day about new startups that have raised capital and have just recently launched their app or platform. Of course, a creative idea and raising funds is only half the battle, as was recently pointed out by Zach Miller in a recent post on Forbes on Israel’s flourishing startup scene.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

'Tom Perkins is one of the founding members of the venerable venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins. He just had his Mitt Romney moment and his name will forever be etched in the collective consciousness of the tech community for this terribly insensitive and tone deaf letter to the Wall Street Journal. The headline of Mr. Perkins letter to the WSJ?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

'Nicholas Clark is the CTO of DoubleDutch , the company that creates social event apps for trade shows and conferences. In September of 2013, Apple released iOS 7 and hinted that legacy SDK support would soon be dropped. At DoubleDutch (where we make mobile applications for trade shows and conferences), this iOS 7 announcement provided an opportunity for us to reevaluate the state of our product.

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deal architect

JANUARY 25, 2014

'Last summer when I started to interview executives for the Karl-Heinz Streibich book, The Digital Enterprise, I presumed most would talk to me about how they are using social, mobile, analytical and cloud computing in their industries and countries. That.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2014

'Don’t charge the hill until you are “ready.” This probably seems obvious to military types, but I see entrepreneurs violating this rule all the time. They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Needless to say, they usually get shot down, and get no second chance.

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Gust

JANUARY 25, 2014

'There are actually no angel investing ‘journals’ per se, because there simply are not enough active, professional angel investors to make a market. There are, however, quite a few blog posts on the subject, although most are written for an entrepreneurial audience, rather than angels themselves. And there is one really excellent weekly podcast to keep you up to speed.

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Gust

JANUARY 25, 2014

'There are actually no angel investing ‘journals’ per se, because there simply are not enough active, professional angel investors to make a market. There are, however, quite a few blog posts on the subject, although most are written for an entrepreneurial audience, rather than angels themselves. And there is one really excellent weekly podcast to keep you up to speed.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 25, 2014

'We all get satisfaction from being on top. If you have the newer car, I’ll get solace in the fact that my child has better grades than yours. If I have the bigger income, you will get solace in the fact that you have the happier family. And when we compare closely on something, we will both make an extra effort to come out on top. That’s why leaderboards are so effective.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 25, 2014

'For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something…almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 25, 2014

'I was excited to see Care.com''s successful IPO yesterday for multiple reasons. . First, it augurs well for 2014 as another strong IPO year in genearl and for technology companies in particular. A University of Florida professor has a nice analysis of the 2013 IPO market and shows that there were 146 IPOs in 2013 (51 VC-backed, although NVCA claims 82 VC-backed), up from 94 in 2012 (48 VC-backed) which had been in turn up from 81 in 2011 (44 VC-backed).

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