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The Lean Startup SXSW 2013

Startup Lessons Learned

We're back! Once again, along with my partners at 500 Startups, we are proud to present the most substantive track at SXSW: [link] There was a running joke last year that "the Lean Startup track was the only place at SXSW you couldn't get out of the building." That's because the room we were in was so packed, the only way to stay for the next session was to refuse to give up your seat.

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Singapore Image Recognition Technology Used by Asia’s Newspapers

YoungUpstarts

by George Graver. A Singapore-based start-up company will soon have its technology adopted by a number of leading Asian newspapers, including Thailand’s The Nation , Hong Kong’s China Daily and The Star of Malaysia. The digital mobile service called iSnap allows a newspaper reader to access additional content through his or her mobile phone in Singapore , Hong Kong, or in any other supported location. iSnap users can point their mobile device’s camera at any image in the print

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Twitter Link Roundup #169 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

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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7 Interview Blunders and Bonuses

Up and Running

I’ve been interviewing several candidates over the last few months to fill positions on my marketing team at Palo Alto Software, and I am amazed at the number of people who show up for an interview unprepared. Some may say that it’s generational, but that’s not the case. I’ve interviewed candidates from seniors in college through 30-year veterans in the marketing or journalism industry.

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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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Boston Startup School Graduates To Institute With New York Expansion

ReadWriteStart

A new school designed to teach people the necessary skills to work within the chaos that are startups is coming to New York. The Startup Institute is an eight-week program for people that want to gain the necessary skills to work in a startup and find a job. Taught by volunteers from the local tech community, Startup Institute has four tracks for students looking for the necessary acumen to work at a startup – web development, product and design, marketing and sales/business development.

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[Review] The E-Myth Revisited

YoungUpstarts

Few books resonate with me as much as “ The E-Myth Revisited ” does. And for good reason too. Written by Michael Gerber – “The World’s #1 Small Business Guru” – its key takeaways are beautifully presented in the form of a compelling narrative involving the author and a small business owner named Sarah. Through the eyes of Sarah, the owner of “All About Pies”, I was whisked away on an enchanting entrepreneurial journey while learning the techn

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Live From the Startup Bus – Snufulupugus Pivot (Post #2)

Up and Running

Entrepreneur Zack Price is guest blogging his experience this week on the 2013 StartupBus as it makes its way from Chicago to SXSW in Austin. On StartupBus a team of strangers, traveling at 60mph, have about 72 hours to conceive, build, and launch a startup. You can catch up with Post #1 in this series here. . We’re on the Startup Bus – Its name is Fred.

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Is it better to burn out (in the office) than fade away (working at home)?

deal architect

Apologies to Neil Young and Def Leppard but the phrase has been rattling in my head as I continue to hear about the brouhaha about Yahoo!’s work-at-home decision.

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7 Indicators of the Work Ethic in Your Startup Team

Startup Professionals Musings

Great entrepreneurs have long been the epitome of people with a great work ethic. But many complain to me that it is becoming harder and harder to find team members and employees who demonstrate and live the same culture. Somewhere along the way, work ethic seems to have been replaced by a pervasive sense of entitlement, especially in the younger generations.

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Staying Great

Ben's Blog

'I move onward, the only direction Can''t be scared to fail in the search of perfection —Jay-Z, On to the Next One. As CEO, you know that you cannot build a world-class company unless you maintain a world-class team. But how do you know if an executive is world-class? Beyond that, if she was world-class when you hired her, will she stay world-class?

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7 Things Every New Entrepreneur Must Know

YoungUpstarts

By Robert D. Smith, author of “ 20,000 Days and Counting: The Crash Course For Mastering Your Life Right Now ” Warning: This article is not for the faint of heart. 1. This job is rough, tough, and most likely not for you. The vast majority of people I talk to who want to become an entrepreneur are 100% certain they can leave their job, create something out of nothing, and be financially self-reliant within a short time.

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If I were a CMO

deal architect

I would bask in all the attention the IT world is paying to me seeing that I am going to be spending lots of $$$ in the next few years. If Gartner says it is true, the IT world usually.

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8 Morale Boosters All Entrepreneurs Should Practice

Startup Professionals Musings

Most successful entrepreneurs will tell you that their primary motivation is to “change the world” and to build something lasting, not to make a lot of money. But the conventional wisdom is that employees work for money, above all else. Yet my own experience, and a relevant McKinsey survey , leads me to believe that non-cash motivators may be more effective in the long term than financial incentives.

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The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List 2013

VC Cafe

It used to be hard to find information about early stage startups. Team members (and their background), funding to date, metrics (not just the vanity metrics shared by management). VC Cafe collated the top startup intelligence tools for 2013. These include startup research, market size for startups, competitive analysis, startup maps. [[ This is a content summary only.

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6 Things Not To Say When Pitching To Investors

YoungUpstarts

by Daniela Baker. With the ongoing credit crunch, especially for small businesses, angel investors may well be your best hope of getting your startup off the ground. According to the Angel Capital Association , in 2008, angel investor groups put, on average, $1.77 million into 6.3 investments. But when you ask investors for money, you have to pitch to them directly, and you have to do it right.

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Springtime in the Enterprise

deal architect

Deb Wolf of Workday sent me their new badge for this blog (on right) last night, and the blue background cheered me up. I reached right away for my MP3 and played ELO Hey there mister blue sky We're so.

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Your First 7 Seconds Better Be Positively Memorable

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs are all about firsts, and the most important is you making a great first impression – on investors, customers, new team members, and strategic partners. Poor first impressions can be avoided, but I’m amazed at the number of unnecessary mistakes I see at those critical first introductions, presentations, and meetings. The key message here is “preparation.

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Time to Spring Forward and Do Something!

Rembrandt Communications

It’s almost spring, and even if there is still snow on the ground, it’s time to think about new beginnings – for you and your business. Do you need a fresh start? If so, it’s time to create (or update) your specific goals for today, this week, this month, and this year. To start, write [.].

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Intel’s Distribution for Apache Hadoop Software To Help Process Big Data

YoungUpstarts

There’s much ado about how Big Data – data sets so large and complex that it requires exceptional technologies to efficiently process such large quantities of data within a certain time-frame – will be the next frontier in computing. The trouble is that while a lot of talk about big data infrastructure focuses on the capture and storage of such large amounts of data , there’s not quite enough of it on processing all that data and converting them into actionable insights.

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The Fall and Rise of Verticals

deal architect

In the late 90s, Gartner used to grade outsourcers on a poster with scores for verticals, horizontals, geographies. Couple of those years, I was on the team which graded the offerings. A provider gave us the same reference client for.

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Twitter for Business Misses Critical Body Language

Startup Professionals Musings

Whether it’s a business or personal interaction, multiple studies show that as much as 50-65% of the communication is nonverbal. That means that people addicted to text messages, twitter, and email may be sending only half the message, and receivers often misinterpret even that half. Yet the use of SMS text messaging for all purposes, including business, has grown consistently worldwide since it was introduced 20 years ago, to an estimated 7 trillion/year, according to the Quora statistics websi

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Best word of advice: Simplify

Version One Ventures

I’ve noticed a common theme carries across most of the advice I’ve given to entrepreneurs lately, and that’s to s-i-m-p-l-i-f-y. For example: 1. Simplify your vision. If you find yourself rambling for minutes on end, it’s time to reign in your mission statement. Nobody will remember a 2 or 3 paragraph description, but they will remember a simple statement that’s been distilled down to one powerful sentence. 2.

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[Infographic] The State of SaaS

YoungUpstarts

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) – essentially online, on-demand services where software and related data are centrally hosted in the cloud and accessed by users typically through computer browsers – may be the new and hip way to sell and deliver software services, but it’s still lagging far behind packaged software services by a mile.

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Data doesnt lie, but does it convince?

deal architect

Last week at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, the first session I attended had Michael Lewis moderating a panel which included Nate Silver, the baseball, now political analytics whiz. Lewis mentioned how his book Moneyball rattled a number of.

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Go Fill Up Some Gas Tanks Today

Feld Thoughts

I’m spending the day working at Yesware. I’ve been an investor from inception and love what this company is doing. I also love the culture – I wrote about it in my post The Monastic Startup. If you use Gmail and Salesforce and are not also using Yesware, take a look at email for salespeople right now. It’s an atypical day for me.

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David Tisch: Don’t Invest in the What, Invest in the Why

VC Cafe

In his talk at London Web Summit, David Tisch, a New York based super-angel with more than 90 portfolio companies, founder of the Box Group and formerly TechStars NY, was asked by David Rowan, "You pretty much see everything in New York. What do you look for in startups you invest in?". [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

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[Infographic] China, World’s Second-Biggest Online Shopping Mall (For Now)

YoungUpstarts

We all know that China, as the world’s most populous country, has plenty of potential to catch up and overtake the United States in terms of total online retail spending this year. In fact, China’s e-commerce has taken off and grown in spectacular fashion, growing 55-percent last year to US$194 billion. Much of the growth can be attributed to the rapid rise in technology adoption as well as the rise in spending power of the nation’s middle class.

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More Innovation

deal architect

On the New Florence blog Samsung’s Next Big Spend The Skype of Money Transfers Super Bowl ads – the tech lineup The GE NFL initiative on concussions Richard III, five centuries later Geeks as the new civil libertarians The Big.

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Why Am I Forbidden From Using My iPhone In US Immigration Areas?

Feld Thoughts

I’m in the Little Rock airport on my way home. After having an abysmal travel day yesterday that started off at 5:30am with me being detained By U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Toronto airport, I finally got to Little Rock around 4pm, made it to the Startup Arkansas event around 5:30pm, and did two hours of open office hours, a Startup Communities talk , and general Q&A.

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ExitRound Introduces Startup Euthanasia

VC Cafe

Dealing with failure in startups is a hard thing. The chances of success aren’t great to begin with: be it the war on talent, series A crunch, or slow product market-fit, among other things, can kill a startup. So, in case the. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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[Infographic] 2013 Is The Year Skilled Workers Are In Demand Again??

YoungUpstarts

Finally some good news for the global economy – the jobs scene is once again looking brighter in 2013. According to an annual survey conducted by compensation data and software provider PayScale, Inc. of employers on their compensation best practices, uncovered rare optimism about the economy and increasing business confidence. The PayScale’s 2013 Compensation Best Practices Report , which surveyed companies across the United States, Canada, and 11 additional countries to understand

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More New Florence

deal architect

on the innovation blog The Big Data of Credit Cards Drone School Not your father’s eBay Technology and Fashion Week The SOTU tradition The Interrogation Bot The Polygrapher’s Algorithm Netflix gets into original programming.

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How Is Your Q1 Going?

Feld Thoughts

Now that we are in March, you should have a pretty good view of how your Q1 is likely to end up. If you are a revenue generating company, you’ve probably got a formally approved 2013 plan by now (if not, why not?) Your board is paying attention to your performance against plan, and you and your management team are executing based on the plan you had approved, which likely includes both a revenue plan and an expense plan.

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Bitcoin – the future of money?

The Equity Kicker

I’ve been watching the progress of Bitcoin with increasing interest for a year or two now and I’m a bit surprised I haven’t written about it here before. I’m writing today because the number of mainstream use cases of Bitcoin seems to have been growing recently and this morning I got an email from the Boost.vc accelerator saying they were reserving five of 15 slots in their next programme for Bitcoin companies.

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Why I Like Our Investment in Triple Lift

Genuine VC

The web has become increasingly visual. Of course the same broadband penetration trends which catapulted the rise of online video over the previous decade also empowered delivery of image-heavy web pages. But more importantly and more recently, the proliferation of high-resolution screens epitomized by Apple’s Retina display means that today’s web browsing experience can be far more visually stunning than ever before.

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Nimble Offers Free Year Of Software To Startup Accelerators

YoungUpstarts

Social relationship management platform Nimble is launching a program that would see it offer startups a year of free access to its social relationship software. As part of the company’s corporate commitment to helping nurture startups, Nimble will be offering them a complimentary 2-user premium version of Nimble with 100 GB additional storage for 12 months (worth US$1800) through over fifty partner startup accelerators.

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