Sat.Mar 15, 2014 - Fri.Mar 21, 2014

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How do I Really Feel About Anonymous Apps Like Secret?

Both Sides of the Table

'By now you likely know that Marc Andreessen weighed in on anonymous apps in a 12-part Twitter diatribe. Anonymity. As the old joke goes, “on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog.” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. This was in part due to a tremendously busy 30-day period for me (in which my overall writing has been down) and in part the inevitability of knowing that weighing

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5 Tips To Quickly Advance As A Professional

YoungUpstarts

'by Jeffrey Fermin, cofounder of Officevibe. Have you ever wondered what really makes an employee awesome in the eyes of the boss? There are always the obvious answers: they love friendly, motivated, enthusiastic workers that are passionate about their job. That’s great and all but how do we actually become this kind of worker and how do we use that to advance in the corporation?

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Why you should hustle every day (and how Jerry Seinfeld did it)

The Next Web

'Herbert Lui does marketing for clients such as Pivotal Labs, Busy Building Things, and Renegades. This post originally appeared on the Busy Building Things blog and was edited by Robleh Jama. What do software development hosting service GitHub, venture capitalist Fred Wilson, and entrepreneur Karen Cheng have in common? They all practise every day.

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In WordPress Hosting Hell? Pantheon Now Supports WordPress

Feld Thoughts

'You may noticed from prior posts that we’ve had a difficult time at Foundry Group managing our growing portfolio of WordPress sites. We are not alone. You would think that by now, managing websites would be a solved problem, but that’s just not true. Talk with any professional marketer about their websites and two things will become clear: 1) websites are absolutely central to how digital marketing gets done and 2) websites are a giant pain in the ass.

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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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Want to Work for a Startup? 10 Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

mashable.com

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How Emotionally Intelligent Are You?

YoungUpstarts

'by Molly Reynolds , Director of Business Development for LUCID Public Relations. Between the hours of nine and five, should you care that one of your employees may be going through a divorce or have a loved one battling cancer? “Leave your personal life at the door,” isn’t that what good managers advise? We all know the most effective employees are stoic, logical, and even clinical when navigating the corporate world, right?

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A Tale of Two Fundraising Stories

This is going to be BIG.

'Here are two contrasting startup stories I''ve seen firsthand. With one company, a founder and his super inspirational, creative, and established buddy hatch a plan to build a very strong content brand that serves as a platform for a lot of diverse revenue streams--events, ecommerce, advertising. You could think of it as a spin on Thrillist. With the author staying close as an advisor, they build a real, cashflow positive business and start to think about where they could go with some outside c

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15 Things to Blog About

Up and Running

'(Note from Tim: I post here every Wednesday and I’ve posted more than a thousand posts since I started this blog on Entrepreneur.com in 2007. Today I’m proud to offer this space to Melinda Emerson, “ The Small Biz Lady ,” who is the author of this guest post.). It doesn’t matter if you’re an experienced business owner or novice blogger, everyone has a point when they get stuck for ideas when creating that next great post.

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Need To Know: Answers To The Questions That Every First-Time App Developer Asks

YoungUpstarts

'by Scott Hirsch, f ounder and CEO of Appsbar. Apps are increasingly becoming a vital part of how businesses deliver services and goods to consumers, in fact Gartner predicts that by 2017 apps will generate more than $77 billion in revenue and be downloaded more than 268 billion times. For anyone that wants to capitalize on this massive growth market, where do you begin, what resources do you need?

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Why You Shouldn’t Decide Anything Important at Your Board Meeting

Both Sides of the Table

'This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. There is an old saying in poker that if you don’t know who the sucker at the table is – it’s you. The same can be said of critical decisions in a board meeting or frankly any other meeting where major decisions are ratified. If you’re turning up to important meetings hoping to persuade the critical people who attend of a decision you’re trying to make and having already “counted your votes” you are sub-opt

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Get the Heck Out of the Building in Founder’s School: Part 2

Steve Blank

'With a ~$2 billion endowment the Kauffman Foundation is the largest non-profit focused on entrepreneurship in the world. Giving away $80 million to every year (~$25 million to entrepreneurial causes) makes Kauffman the dominant player in the entrepreneurship space. Kauffman launched Founders School - a new education series to help entrepreneurs develop their businesses during the startup stage by highlighting how startups are different from big companies.

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Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast

Up and Running

'As noted in The New York Times’ “Corner Office” columnist Adam Bryant’s latest book, Quick And Nimble , the origin of the expression “culture eats strategy for breakfast” has mostly been linked to the legendary management thinker, Peter Drucker. However, there’s no proof that Drucker was the first person to make that statement. Though it would be nice to know who’s due credit, it’s not a necessary step towards reaping the benefits of its meaning.

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The expansive role of the Chief Digital Officer

deal architect

'Five years ago when I was writing about GE for The New Polymath, one of their executives casually described someone as “analog, not digital ”. It was meant to be unflattering and I knew then the term “digital” would be.

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Why Some Innovative Leaders Get Exceptional Results

Startup Professionals Musings

'How is it that only a few business leaders and entrepreneurs seem to drive exceptional results and disruptive innovation in this rapidly changing market economy (marketquake)? These few seem more adept at executing market and technology turns, not just incremental evolution. They consistently take bold steps to stay ahead of the curve, often contrary to conventional wisdom.

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12 Tips For Thriving In A To-Do List-Dominated World

YoungUpstarts

'by Andy Core, author of “ Change Your Day, Not Your Life: A Realistic Guide to Sustained Motivation, More Productivity and the Art Of Working Well “ As hard as I work every day, shouldn’t I have “arrived” by now? It’s a question that nags at you as you slog through each day, bound to the tyranny of your to-do list, one eye constantly on the clock.

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Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast

Up and Running

'As noted in The New York Times’ “Corner Office” columnist Adam Bryant’s latest book, Quick And Nimble , the origin of the expression “culture eats strategy for breakfast” has mostly been linked to the legendary management thinker, Peter Drucker. However, there’s no proof that Drucker was the first person to make that statement. Though it would be nice to know who’s due credit, it’s not a necessary step towards reaping the benefits of its meaning.

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5 Questions for a CEO: Brett Jacobsen, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School

Jeff Hilimire

'This is the seventh installment of my “5 Questions for a CEO” series. The first was with Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta; the second was with Devon Wijesinghe , CEO of Insightpool; the third with Mark Feinberg , CEO of Uruut; the fourth with Simms Jenkins , BrightWave Marketing; the fifth was with Rob Kischuk , CEO of PerfectPost; and the sixth was Kyle Porter , CEO of SalesLoft. .

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How To Size Your Marketing Budget For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

'It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment. When questioned, founders usually mention word-of-mouth, viral marketing, and a top quality product.

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The Power of One

deal architect

'I have heard Dave Duffield of Workday say in all the companies he has started he has never felt as much customer unanimity than at Workday since all of them are all on the same release and have plenty to.

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15 Things to Blog About

Up and Running

'(Note from Tim: I post here every Wednesday and I’ve posted more than a thousand posts since I started this blog on Entrepreneur.com in 2007. Today I’m proud to offer this space to Melinda Emerson, “ The Small Biz Lady ,” who is the author of this guest post.). It doesn’t matter if you’re an experienced business owner or novice blogger, everyone has a point when they get stuck for ideas when creating that next great post.

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[Infographic] How To Start A Startup In College

YoungUpstarts

'We’ve previously established that college may be the best time to start a small business (in fact, here are 22 reasons why ). College is certainly an ideal time to get your venture off the ground, and we’ve seen so many examples of businesses started from tiny dorm rooms that’s grown massive – just think Facebook and Google, for example.

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Most Startups Get Stuck In The Early Struggle Stage

Startup Professionals Musings

'Every startup wants to be a predictable success, yet so few ever achieve this enviable position. In reality, getting there is not a random walk, and requires an understanding of the stages that every business must navigate and the organizational characteristics necessary at each stage. Les McKeown, in his book “ Predictable Success ” outlines these stages and characteristics for any business.

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Why is subscription management so painful?

deal architect

'You would think as we have moved to everything-as-a-service, subscription management and admin would have become easier. Not so, it would appear. I get a renewal on my Spot Satellite messenger service. Cannot find the “do not renew” switch on.

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Why I Recommend Writing For At Least An Hour A Day

Feld Thoughts

'Last year Inc. Magazine invited me to write a quarterly article for them for both Inc. Magazine and Inc.com. I wrote three – this is my last one. I’ve enjoyed writing for Inc., but earlier this year decided to stop writing for other web sites , at least for a while, as it had become a burden with all the other writing that I’m doing.

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Get Connected: A Young Person’s Guide To Local Networking

YoungUpstarts

'by Alicia Lawrence, WebpageFX . “It’s not what you know, but who you know.”. That saying is very, very true, especially for young professionals. In any industry, it’s important to have business contacts, on which you can develop highly useful relationships. Why? It doesn’t matter what field you’re breaking into, everyone is in the people business.

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Founder’s Stock Is Gold, If You Know The Rules

Gust

'Image via Flickr by BullionVault. In reality, so-called “Founder’s” shares are simply common stock, issued at the time of startup incorporation, for a very low price, and normally allocated to the multiple initial players commensurate with their investment or role. But that’s only the beginning of the story. These shares are allocated and committed, but not really issued and owned (vested) until later.

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Only the paranoid thrive

deal architect

'The EU may be upset with the Russians these days. But European – and US -executives are more worried about Russian cyber criminals especially as details of the Target data breach emerge. A growing number of CIOs continue to invest.

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Your startup might be your baby, but your employees aren’t

The Next Web

'This post originally appeared on the 15five blog and has been republished with permission. Running a company can often feel like caring for a newborn child. There is a natural and healthy fear that arises that if you are not eternally vigilant then something bad will happen. With a baby, this is called good parenting. With a company, this is called micromanagement and it is universally resented by all employees.

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Want A Better Startup? Hire Diverse Interns.

YoungUpstarts

'by Nathan Parcells , co-founder and CMO of InternMatch. Picture this: You’re a growing startup – home to innovative thinkers who have similar backgrounds, educational experiences, and interests. To stick with your level of growth, you hire like-minded professionals who will readily snap into your company culture, both personally and professionally.

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What does it feel like to invest in a failed startup as an angel investor?

Gust

'It’s not great…but it IS part of the business. If you are an angel investor, the only way to do it is to take things very seriously. If you take angel investing seriously, you should aim to develop a portfolio of at least 30-40 investments over 5-10 years of active investing. If you invest in 40 startups, 20 of them (absolute minimum!

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Ignoring Anonymous Coward and a Rant on Anonymous Apps

Feld Thoughts

'Suddenly anonymous apps are all the rage again. Secret and Whisper are the two that have recently made headlines, but there’s a cockroach like proliferation of them being funded by VCs. As one of my favorite BSG quotes goes, “All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.” I was generally ignoring this until I read a long post by Austin Hill titled On your permanent record: Anonymity, pseudonymity, ephemerality & bears omfg!

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The common elements of good storytelling

The Next Web

'Paul Jarvis is a Web designer and bestselling author, who’s obsessed with nature and hairless rats. His latest book, Everything I Know, is a guide to freelancing as a creative professional. My favourite activity while I lived in Tofino, BC was attending my artist friend, Roy Henry Vickers’ storytellings. His art gallery is a large room, set mostly in cedar, with an inset middle area where people can sit at several levels and listen.

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7 Tips For First Time Job Seekers

YoungUpstarts

'First time job seekers may be intimidated by the job hunting process. Although it can be overwhelming at times, finding your first job can also be fun and exciting. If you’re just getting started or are having trouble finding opportunities, use the tips below to help you through the job searching process. What Jobs Interest You? Before you start searching for a job, consider your interests.

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Spring Tips to Spend More Time Having Fun

Rembrandt Communications

'Get ready to take a break and enjoy the season! Spring is finally here, and that means you will probably want to spend more time doing fun things outside. But if you are a small business owner, it can be difficult to get away from the office in order to enjoy yourself. With this in […].

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Do One Thing For Yourself Every Day

Feld Thoughts

'If you are interested in learning about Venture Deals , my partner Jason Mendelson and I created a course with the Kauffman Fellows Academy on NovoEd which is running for the first time from 3/31/14 – 5/19/14. The course will demystify venture capital deals and startup financings and give both first-time and experienced entrepreneurs a definitive guide to secure funding.

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Emotion in marketing: How our brains decide which content is shareable

The Next Web

'This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog and has been republished with permission. Every day it seems like we feel hundreds of different emotions – each nuanced and specific to the physical and social situations we find ourselves in. According to science, it’s not that complicated by a long shot. A new study says we’re really only capable of four “basic” emotions: happy, sad, afraid/surprised, and angry/disgusted.