Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2011

Today’s post courtesy of the Dave McClure school of vocabulary. About a month ago I was meeting with a seasoned entrepreneur. After 10 minutes I felt like we were old buddies because we had both been through the trenches of startup tech land and had had similar experiences. He was recounting one of his higher profile startups to me. He founded the company, raised a bunch of money, built the product and established a good reputation and market position.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Near Field Communication (NFC) – a form of data transmission that allows simplified transactions, data exchange, and wireless connections between two devices in close proximity to each other – is one of the newest technologies currently being embraced by the mobile communications industry, and especially by handset makers. Samsung, for example, together with Google recently unveiled in an event Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” on the Samsung GALAXY NEXUS smartphone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Most of the entrepreneurs I know realize they have some bad habits, like maybe procrastination or not listening well, so they focus on dropping these. New studies indicate that a more productive approach would be adopting new good habits and behaviors that clearly move your business forward, like good time management and implementing customer recommendations.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications. Back in January 2010, I wrote a post that's one of the most popular on this blog: When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? That post looked at when and why you would use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. as part of your registration and authentication mechanism.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 28, 2011

While Jane was building SayAhh’s revenue projections , Dick focused his attention on building the expense side of the projections. He procrastinated for a few weeks because he was deep in product development, but surfaced a few days ago when he realized they had an investor meeting coming up and really should have at least a basic financial model ready in case the investor asked about it.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

During today's roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts. The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I asked a company the other day whether or not they were going to take advantage of a great event here in NYC. Its an opportunity to pitch Sony on a biz dev deal --a no brainer for nearly any company given the scope of Sony's areas of interest. ( applications are due this Monday the 31st ) The company said no because their main angel investor didn't think it was a good idea to let an audience see their pitch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2011

I have been spending some time recently with the online business press. Lots of great articles and information out there, so I thought it was time for another edition of the Business Press roundup! It is an incredibly dynamic time in the world of startups and small business: the economy continues to freak, but at the same time we are seeing a record number of new businesses formed every month.

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deal architect

OCTOBER 24, 2011

In aviation, shattered windows aside, we have always admired planes which break the sound barrier. Over the last decade, the general assumption has been cloud/SaaS is a SME phenomenon. But that’s a barrier Workday has refused to accept since its.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2011

Being fired is by far one of the worst experiences a person can go through, but one thing’s for certain – you’re not alone. Some of the most talented people in Hollywood, politics and sports have been laid off at some point in their careers, but their resilience and strong work ethic helped them move past the loss and keep their eye on the prize. Here are 10 famous people who flourished after being laid off: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Most people think innovation is all about ideas, when in fact it is more about delivery, people, and process. Entrepreneurs looking to innovate need to understand the execution challenge if they expect their startup to carve out a profitable niche in the marketplace, and keep innovating to build and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. Everyone thinks they know how to make innovation happen, but I can’t find much real research on the subject.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. ” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. It’s awesome having podcasting experts on board, Bob with pithy advice and Patrick producing and organizing the show which is a lot more work than you might imagin

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deal architect

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Robert de Niro notwithstanding, if Puzo and Coppola had made the younger Don Corleone as the first Godfather movie rather than the second would it have worked? And if they had not fleshed out characters like Fredo and Clemenza would.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2011

ESPN STAR Sports and mobile media company Affle today announced “Pinch A Dollar for Special Olympics”, a unique corporate social responsibility (CSR) campaign that sees the use of Affle ‘s mobile messaging app Pinch to raise funds for Special Olympics Singapore. Funds are raised in two ways: all proceeds from the download of the mobile app – at $0.99 each – will go towards the campaign, as well as a sub-application within Pinch that allows consumers to donate direct

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The Startup Toolkit

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Like many others, I tried “outsourcing my life” using a digital assistant. A year and a thousand bucks later, I’ve received one department store recommendation and an admittedly adequate spreadsheet of competitive research. I have since cancelled. Why didn’t it work for me? I think I just didn’t trust it/them/him/her (that I even have this ambiguity is indicative of the issues).

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2011

A few weeks ago a guest post titled Minimum Viable Personality appeared on Fred Wilson’s blog. The author was a Giant Robot Dinosaur who has been dishing out wisdom in all caps in the comments on Fred’s blog for a long time. I’m a huge fan of FAKEGRIMLOCK, occasionally commenting on his comments, but often laughing out loud or smiling with recognition of their brilliance when I saw them.

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deal architect

OCTOBER 27, 2011

on the innovation blog 3M’s stylish designer 3D Simulation of Hudson River ditching Tidemark – Analytics for the new world Fox’s Infrared at the World Series.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The fashion industry has been one of those to embrace new technological trends – from online shopping to group buying, the industry is one open to constant experimentation. So when a 24-year old graduate from Brown decided it was time for a new, innovative way to hunt for and buy fashion online, she introduced her own with NMRKT. NMRKT , pronounced “in-market”, is a fully interactive e-magazine featuring the latest emerging, up-and-coming fashion designers in New York City.

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Venture Chronicles

OCTOBER 22, 2011

Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ official: release in November, SDK available today (updated with screenshots) | This is my next… tags: blog android. Business on the run: Why California struggles to compete | The Desert Sun | MyDesert.com. tags: blog. Web Conferencing Review 2011 | Best Web Conference Services | Online Meeting Services – TopTenREVIEWS.

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For Entrepreneurs

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Scalable pricing is a powerful tool to grow revenue in a SaaS or software business. It allows you to capture more of the revenue that your customers are willing to pay, without putting off smaller customers that are not able to pay high prices. It also provides a great way to continue to grow revenue [.].

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deal architect

OCTOBER 23, 2011

On the New Florence blog Photomicrography Nespresso: Idiot Proof espresso? iPhone Road Trip The Cult of Bang & Olufsen.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Watching a movie isn’t exactly a social experience – sure you may attend a movie with friends, but once the film rolls it’s pretty much a personal, individual experience. With the advent of social technologies, perhaps that is set to change. That’s something the Creators of Tomorrow – a group of enthusiastic young engineers, entrepreneurs, designers and independent thinkers forged together by a common belief to inspire creativity and innovation in youth today –

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Today's case study answers a bunch of questions all at once about Lean Startup principles: can they be used inside a Fortune 500 company? can they be used to sell physical low-tech products? can they be used in a retail store? I have been confidently answering questions like these non-stop for the past few months. I do believe the answer is yes. But, as the saying goes, seeing is believing.

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Life Beyond Code

OCTOBER 25, 2011

We all are familiar with mediocrity. It’s everywhere and growing rapidly. Here are seven reasons that are contributing to the alarming rise of mediocrity. 1. Amplify without Accomplishment. Logically, you should accomplish first and then amplify it. It makes sense that way. Enter Social media and the world changed a bit, at least that’s what many people are thinking.

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Rembrandt Communications

OCTOBER 23, 2011

Are you getting ready to launch a big, Google Ad campaign just because you think it might work? Well, it may be just what you’re company needs to boost online awareness. But before you begin your pay-per-click (PPC) campaign as part of your search engine optimization (SEO) process, there are three main questions to ask [.].

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

As much as people love mom-and-pop businesses, it can be hard for these small shops to compete with the big guys. Nonetheless, some of the biggest and most successful companies in the world got their start as a small mom-and-pop business. Many of these small business owners never envisioned becoming international corporate giants, but when you’ve got a great idea, the sky is the limit.

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The Startup Toolkit

OCTOBER 28, 2011

This is a long and specific post, but enough startups rely on UGC (user-generated content) to some degree that I wanted to put a few thoughts down. Customising, voting, and sharing are not use-cases. Saying your app is “fun” because it “lets you share” is like saying the fridge is useful because it has handles. Sharing is an enabling feature, not a value proposition.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

In the late 90s, Tom Peters famously declared that we were all CEOs of our personal brands. In Fast Company he wrote: "Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 23, 2011

On Tuesday, October 18, my colleagues John Frankel, Wei Deng , Raffi Sapire , and I attended Techstars Demo Day, followed by the Bloomberg Empowered Entrepreneur Conference. The morning began to the tune of Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind” as twelve startup teams walked across the stage. David Tisch introduced the first startup, announcing that 1200 companies applied to the program, out of which 12 were selected, comprising of 31 entrepreneurs. 25 New York-based investors have given money, a

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

If you’re a small business or entrepreneur that needs some quality, professional media production work but have no idea where to look for a reliable provider, ProductionHUB ( www.productionhub.com ) is probably your answer (or at least, it will give you your answer). Florida-based ProductionHUB is a search engine for media and entertainment serving film, television, video, live event and digital media production.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

On November 9th, I’ll be helping launch Startup Colorado. We’ll be having a kickoff event at CU Boulder from 6:30pm – 8:35pm. Startup Colorado will be one of the regional initiatives under the umbrella of the Startup America Partnership. Startup Colorado is an initiative to make a meaningful impact on entrepreneurship and new company creation in the Front Range.

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Gust

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Assume you have the right factors to get angel investment: experienced team, good product-market fit, growth potential, defensibility, and a reasonable shot at a successful exit. Have you asked yourself whether that’s what you really want? Have you considered the tradeoffs? This might seem awkward on this site, suggesting that you don’t want angel investment.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Job creation is political topic #1, so we have a particular interest in portfolio companies like Identified and TheResumator , which help match employers and job seekers. Identified launched its public beta last month. Effectively, Identified gives you a score for your desirability as an employee. It’s similar in principle to Klout. Identified uses three attributes to evaluate your profile: Your education, work history, and your network.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Washington Post has just launched On Small Business , a new online channel that focuses on entrepreneurship and small business. On Small Business is produced by the team of Capital Business , The Post’s weekly business publication, and will host a panel of experts to address important questions facing small business. There is also a daily blog that will look at the news of the day from a small business owner’s perspective.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It’s not quite halloween, but our friends at SVB are hosting an event for me and Jason Mendelson in Boulder on Thursday night to discuss our new book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist. We’ll be handing out signed copies of our book along with answering any questions about venture capital, startups, entrepreneurship, beer, or our upcoming halloween costumes.

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