The Next Web

MARCH 25, 2014

'Daniel Jacobson (Twitter | LinkedIn) is the VP of Edge Engineering for the Netflix API. Prior to Netflix, Daniel ran application development for NPR where, among other things, he created the NPR API. He is also the co-author of APIs: A Strategy Guide. “Get busy living, or get busy dying” – Shawshank Redemption Building great engineering teams is difficult, but it is also increasingly important as the world in which we live is more than ever driven by software.

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deal architect

MARCH 25, 2014

'In a recent blog post I discussed canine expert Cesar Millan’s view of a pack of dogs – alpha, those in the middle, those at the back. He talks about a role for each. Interestingly, in the IT world, lots.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2014

'by Michael Alter, CEO and President of SurePayroll . One of the greatest recurring expenses for a small business is payroll. Its impact goes beyond the bottom line as small business payroll is about paying mortgages, feeding families and not running afoul of local, state and federal regulations. Approximately 33 percent of small businesses nationwide trust their payroll to an outside source.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 25, 2014

'At version one, we are big believers in the vertical SaaS opportunity. Small to mid-sized businesses have long been underusing technology. A mobile-first approach, combined with a laser-like focus on a specific vertical, can create the right toolset to help SMBs achieve huge productivity gains ( I wrote about this nearly a year ago for TechCrunch).

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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 25, 2014

'Just look at your business – do you think it could deter an intruder? That’s the question that business owners should be asking themselves every day. Look at your flimsy front door, your fencing that even a little person could hop over and the area you’re in that’s more Mad Max and less Wall Street. Indeed, making your premises safe should be the main priority for any business.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 25, 2014

'Rob, Lee, and I couldn’t be more excited to share that as of Monday, Jay Acunzo has joined NextView as our Director of Platform and Community. Jay joins us from HubSpot, where he was a senior manager on the marketing team, specifically leading the blog and content strategy. In his Boston-based career, he’s also worked for Google and local startup Dailybreak, in addition to co-founding the community group Boston Content which has grown to hundreds of members.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 25, 2014

'The entrepreneur’s life is a “choose your own adventure,” adventure. It seems everyday, or every minute, we have a new path we can choose. Do you open the big red door and enter the cavernous room of new product offerings? Do you try to pry open the chest and make collection calls? Or do you draw your sword and try to fight off the endless stream of emergencies?

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 25, 2014

'‘Carried interest’ is the name given to the profit share schemes that investors in venture capital funds, typically called ‘LPs’, use to incentivise the partners at at the funds in which they invest. The partners are typically called the ‘Manager’, as their job is to manage the fund by making investments and managing the portfolio to maximise returns to LPs.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 25, 2014

'By AMY MCCULLOUGH Reporter with Silicon Hills News While the science behind Austin’s Adometry might be complex, the company’s goals are simple: To help marketing executives answer the questions, “How’s my marketing doing?” and “What should I do different?” Sales executives have Salesforce.com. Financial executives have Oracle Financials. But marketing officers have never had a […] The post Adometry Dominates the Marketing Analytics Market appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

'The right story can grow your business into an amazing success. That being said, consider this great story: On a beautiful late spring afternoon, twenty-five years ago, two young men graduated from the same college. They were very much alike, these two young men. Both had been better than average students, both were personable and both - as young college graduates are - were filled with ambitious dreams for the future.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 25, 2014

'I wrote a post a few years ago about using your lack of funding to your competitive advantage. The basic gist was that all businesses act within constraints and that the discipline that can result from having less money that a competitor – if you embrace it – has the ability to sharpen your focus, avoid the temptations of distraction and be more thoughtful about how and when you spend the precious cash that you have.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 25, 2014

'The Future of Marketing Is Organizing Behavior written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing I made the following statement in some social channels recently – “The future of marketing is less about demand creation and more about organizing behavior.” The comment stirred quite a reaction.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2014

'Compare Metrics, the leading provider of Adaptive Commerce navigation and discovery tools, today announced that Mike Sherman has joined the company as chief technology officer.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

'It’s not uncommon to hear about an ambition startup or entrepreneur wanting to change the world. But does the world really need changing? Is everything we live in so bad that some of it isn’t worth keeping? Are we that limited in our thinking that change is all we can come up with? Maybe what we really need to do is improve the world. And sometimes improving the world might just mean keeping some things exactly as they are.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 25, 2014

I wrote a post a few years ago about using your lack of funding to your competitive advantage. The basic gist was that all businesses act within constraints and that the discipline that can result from having less money that a competitor – if you embrace it – has the ability to sharpen your focus, avoid the temptations of distraction and be more thoughtful about how and when you spend the precious cash that you have.

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Bryce Dot VC

MARCH 25, 2014

'Saw this shortly after seeing a tweet from Pincus: My rule of thumb for entrepreneurs. Your Instincts are right 95% of the time, your ideas 25%. Fall in love with instincts. Kill ideas often.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MARCH 25, 2014

'Previously published in Upstart Business Journal. The UpTake: Crowdfunding is a great way to collect money for your startup. While there are risks involved, these strategies will help steer your business in the right direction—and hit your financial goal to deliver a new product. What’s your #1 tip for raising your target funding amount using crowdsourcing?

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entrepreMusings

MARCH 25, 2014

'As I try to resolve the issue of spam being inserted into my email feed, it seems the only way to test if the issue has been corrected (after making changes) is to write a test post and check my inbox in the morning. People will use this simply going online payment that viagra online without prescription viagra cialis be completely guaranteed and some lenders.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 25, 2014

'In a world of infinite choice, the ability to pick critical few metrics to focus on is, well…, critical. It is the difference between plodding along, or winning big. But choosing what to focus on is extremely hard. You have to have a deeper understanding of the business, an expansive knowledge of what is possible (and not just inside Google/Adobe Analytics), and, this is so, so, so important, the ability to balance the now and the near future.

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