Mon.Apr 14, 2014

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‘Do-It-Yourself’ Startups Have Never Been Easier

Startup Professionals Musings

'Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. The cost of entry has never been lower. Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, lawyers, venture capitalists, or Angels. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up.

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Female Founders: What the numbers mean and what they don't

This is going to be BIG.

'Last week, there was a Business Insider article measuring the percent of female founded companies that NYC seed funds invest in. Brooklyn Bridge Ventures came in first, with a whopping 61%. Lerer Ventures was second, with just under 20%. So, clearly, I''m making some kind of a portfolio-wide bet there, right? Nope. Well, it''s gotta mean something, right?

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How’s the launch of Robots Love Ice Cream doing?

Jeff Hilimire

'Since we launched Robots Love Ice Cream for iOS – you did download it , right :) – on the 9th, I’ve been asked by a ton of friends how the launch is going. So, five days in… We were featured in the Apple App Store on April 10th, which looks like this. and we’ve had a ridiculously high ratio of five star ratings and reviews. and the press has loved the game so far. and we had our first fan create a cake of the game!

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[Infographic] The Richest People In Tech

YoungUpstarts

'Warning: These folks are rich. From Bill Gates and Larry Ellison to Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, the founders of the world’s largest tech companies not only have influence across the technology world, their incredible wealth also gives them incredible social and political clout. Think of it – between them the top ten technology billionaires have a collective worth of over $316 billion in total.

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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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Why entrepreneurs shouldn’t shoot down ‘bad’ ideas

The Next Web

'Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea Technologies and a mobile strategy advisor. He can be contacted via Twitter @rahulvarshneya. Ever noticed that whenever Facebook implements a new design change on their website, just how many people crib and rant about the change? Most people are habituated in the way they use products and services and any change, even the slightest brings about a sudden reaction of resistance.

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Americans Are Quitting Their Jobs and Pursuing Entrepreneurship

Up and Running

'The number of Americans quitting their jobs is at a 5-year high , according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Entrepreneurial activity has also been on the rise as of late, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Could these trends be related? I’d say so. The number of Americans quitting their jobs is at a 5-year high, and the number of entrepreneurs is growing, too.

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What type of market are you operating in?

Version One Ventures

'When we look at investment opportunities, we need to consider the type of market that the potential investment is in. How much room is there for a market leader or leaders? Is it winner-takes-it-all or winner-takes-almost-all? Is there room for multiple potential winners? Winner takes all. These markets are driven by network effects and only one company will win in the space.

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Get epic business growth by instilling these data gathering habits

The Next Web

'David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo, helping your team organize itself using simple #hashtags. A business whose true north is growth will know that collecting quantitative and qualitative data is critical. Organizing your company’s data and knowledge from the beginning is not optional. Without this system, you might struggle to understand why your visitors and users are doing what they do, how they value your product and how they pass on information about it to others.

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Why Small Teams Win: Eight Reasons To Stick To The “Two-Pizza” Rule

YoungUpstarts

'by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard and author of “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “. Your organization is forming a new task force, cross-functional team, focus group — whatever you want to call it. And as usual, it’s time for the never-ending quest to “loop people in.” The more brains, the better, reason The Powers That Be.

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5 Essential Elements of a Useful Social Media Plan

Duct Tape Marketing

'5 Essential Elements of a Useful Social Media Plan written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: mkhmarketing via photopin cc. Living inside the bubble of the social media marketing world, it’s easy to forget that many organizations still don’t know how to reconcile social media into their everyday sales and marketing routine.

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The Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Coming “Resource Revolution”

Reid Hoffman

'Over the next decade and a half, 2.5 billion people in China, India, and other developing countries will join the global middle class. They are going to need skyscrapers to live in and super-stores to shop in. They are going to want smartphones, cars, flank steaks, air conditioning, pet clothing, Disneyland vacations, and probably some throw pillows.

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When something bad is good

Start Up Blog

'Today I was lucky enough to record a Beers Blokes & Business podcast with Wil Anderson – about funny business. Turns out the business side of comedy has a lot of similarity with entrepreneurship. Comedians are, certainly in their early days – solopreneurs. Wil was amazingly honest and generous with his insights and story, but there was one thing in particular which stood out to me.

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Austin Tech Happy Hour on Thursday

Austin Startup

'This will be our first event at a different venue in a long, long time. Our home venue, Molotov, has been purchased and is slated for shut down and re-branding. We don''t want to get you too far out of your groove though, so we''re heading next door to the Dogwood for your happy hour pleasure.

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6 Tax Preparation Tips for First-Time Small Business Owners

Early Growth Financial Services

'This guest post was contributed by Michael Lewis of Money Crashers. With the April 15 due date for tax filings looming, first-time small business owners and their advisors may be working down to the wire to complete tax returns or readying their requests for an extension of time to file. Here are some tips that will help you finalize your 2013 taxes and make next year’s tax filing less onerous.

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Gazzang Appoints Peter Schlosser as Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Austin Startup

'Gazzang, the big data security experts, today announced the appointment of Peter Schlosser as vice president of worldwide sales.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: March 24th – April 13th

Scott Edward Walker

'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past three weeks. Cheers, Scott. . Top 5 Tweets. I’m listening to this great interview of @MitchWainer — from a phone call to @Jason to a $37.2MM raise from @a16z : bit.ly/1dVy70L.

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Making MA More Competitive – An Innovative Way Around the H-1B Visa Cap

Rob Go

'There was great news yesterday in the MA entrepreneurial community when Governor Patrick proposed sweeping legislation to ban companies from enforcing non-compete agreements. I’m really excited about this, and think that it will have a big impact. But just as important in my mind is a proposal that was introduced to allow international entrepreneurs to build businesses in Boston with an exemption from the H-1B visa cap.

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Location independence is okay

The Startup Toolkit

'When I tell people I moved to Barcelona, their first question is whether it’s a good place to start a business. To be honest, I have no idea. I just live here; my company is based in London. I didn’t really plan to move. One morning, facing the prospect of my fifth London winter, I was wondering which cafe to work from when I had a moment of clarity and asked why I wasn’t choosing which country to work from.

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8 Marketing Rules It’s Safe Ignore

Early Growth Financial Services

'Previously published in The Agency Post Just because everyone else is doing it, doesn’t mean you should, too. There are marketing rules and practices that some consider tried and true, but these eight entrepreneurs try to look past them. For them, tradition, page views and SEO aren’t the only way to run things. Read on to find out what practices they ignore and why.

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