Wed.Oct 02, 2013

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[Singapore][Event] AppHACK Singapore 2013 by AngelHack

YoungUpstarts

'The Singapore chapter of AngelHack – the largest global startup competition and series of hackathons in the world – will be organizing AppHack Singapore 2013 , which looks to gather over 150 Singapore-based software developers and entrepreneurs together where they will create great mobile applications over the span of just 24 hours. To be held at the offices of Microsoft Singapore on 23-24 November, AngelHack Singapore aims to get various judges from Silicon Valley to judge the com

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JumpCloud – Jump to the Next Level of DevOps

Feld Thoughts

'Two of the themes we love to invest in are Protocol and Glue. We’ve especially been interested in companies that make software developers and DevOps lives better. Some examples include SendGrid, Urban Airship, VictorOps, Pantheon, MongoLab, and Cloudability. To that end, Raj Bhargava and I created a company called JumpCloud late last year (our eighth venture together).

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Dont BYOD

deal architect

'In the last couple of weeks I have been in meetings where staff have brought every configuration of laptop, tablet, mobile device and we have chuckled about the joys of “Bring Your Own Device” policies. Well, expect a big employee.

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Entrepreneurs Must Measure ROI On Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

'If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. But, contrary to what most people preach, it isn’t entirely free. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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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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Oracles Executive Advantage?

deal architect

'I saw this BusinessWeek graph on IBM’s executive suite on the way to Oracle OpenWorld and then had the chance to listen to and spend time in smaller sessions with (in brackets are years they joined Oracle) Mark Hurd (2010), Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP) Industry Commentary'

Software 247
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How to Reduce Your Bounce Rate

Rembrandt Communications

'Why are customers leaving your Website? If you are watching your Google Analytics, you can tell how long your customers are staying on your Web pages and reading the information. If your “Bounce Rate” is high, your customers are not sticking around long enough to purchase your products and services. This is not good. So […].

SEO 210

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Key Questions for Bringing Lean Startup to Established Companies

Startup Lessons Learned

'Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Our next webcast tackles a particularly challenging topic. On October 8 at 10a PT, we’ll be talking about bringing Lean Startup methods to established companies, precisely the kinds of businesses that are most resistant to experimentation, even as they desperately need it. Eric Ries will be joined by Patrick Vlaskovits and Brant Cooper , co-authors of the NYT-bestselling book “ The Lean Entrepreneur ” and frequent advisers to For

Lean 167
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East meets West: Why Chinese app developers are targeting US smartphone owners

The Next Web

'China is the world’s largest country with more than 1.3 billion people. It is also the world’s largest smartphone market. For mobile app developers, the impressive figures are enticing. After all, it’s all about reach for mobile apps. The larger your customer base, the more opportunities for monetization, and therefore the more attractive your startup is for investors.

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Creating a Thought Leading Company

This is going to be BIG.

'Mashery is heavily featured at the Business of APIs conference. Their participation has been a huge win for them--leading the company to customers, media visability and an opportunity to help shape the conversation in their industry. So how did they get involved? They started the conference. Duh. Lots of companies struggle with getting the attention of a market, because they don''t take a lead in educating that market.

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More on design and lean

The Equity Kicker

'It seems there is a growing body of thought about combining the lean and design thinking approaches to innovation. I’ve just read two articles on the subject. The table below from the first article I linked to (Design Thinking vs Lean Startup, Mueller and Thoring 2012) provides a great breakdown of the similarities differences. From my perspective in the startup industry where we have been employing ‘lean’ for sometime, the opportunity is to take some of the research ideas fro

Lean 108
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Sparefoot and Sputnik Creative Make Best Young Companies to Work for List

SiliconHills

'Turnstone, in partnership with Wharton management professor and human resource expert Peter Cappelli, has selected 15 Best Young Companies to Work for nationwide. The list includes two companies in Austin: Sparefoot, an online marketplace for self-storage, and Sputnik Creative, a digital and branding studio. Turnstone received more than 100 nominations in its inaugural contest.

Austin 70
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Two weeks in, here are the 10 things I love about working in the Atlanta Tech Village

Jeff Hilimire

'The Atlanta Tech Village is the brain child of David Cummings , a friend of mine and co-founder of my new company, Dragon Army. And several other companies. He purchased a 5-story building in Buckhead (corner of Piedmont and Lenox) with the idea of getting 600+ entrepreneurs in Atlanta stuffed into the same location and let the magic happen. The building is in the middle of major renovations – to be completed sometime in the middle of next year – but its already the best “pla

Atlanta 72
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What Works With Twitter Today

Duct Tape Marketing

'What Works With Twitter Today written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Dan Zarrella. Twitter has been with us for a while now – about a century in Internet years. While it has changed and grown and evolved into a staple of the media landscape, many marketers have grown to effectively tap Twitter in a handful of useful ways as well.

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An Idea Is Easy, Doing The Idea Is Hard

Mike Michalowicz

'In this episode of On A Roll, Mike Michalowicz shares why it is so easy to give great ideas, and why it is so hard to actually do them.

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Austin Tech Happy Hour Next Week

Austin Startup

'It''s Austin Startup Week, and we''re happy to host another happy hour event while all our tech friends are out and about the downtown area. The next day will begin the second weekend of the ACL Festival, so we''ll also be hoping for the cooler fall weather to decend upon us. Come and share a cool beverage with your friends from the Austin technology community.

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A Little Misunderstood

Bryce Dot VC

'After the flurry of press yesterday around Cover’s launch I received a telling note from one of the investors in our fund. I don’t have permission to share their exact words, so I’ll offer a dramatic rendering here: WTF were you guys thinking?!? Srsly? A restaurant app? What happened to Alpha Geeks and working on “things that matter”? Is waiting for your bill at a restaurant that big of a problem?

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Numerify Bends the Arc of the Cloud Business Analytics Toward Democratization

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'Numerify announces $8 million in Series A financing to revolutionize business analytics in the cloud. Founded by the pioneers of the business intelligence industry from MicroStrategy, Hyperion and Oracle, the company aims to arm every decision maker with meaningful numbers to effectively manage their business. The past decade has witnessed the advent of cloud delivered operational applications driven largely by time-to-value, reduced maintenance, elastic scalability and cost.

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