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Lose Weight and Get Strong Without Leaving Your House

David Teten

'My family and I are in the process of moving to another apartment, and we are thinking through how to design it to promote movement for us and our children. At ffVC, we’ve done this with our “ fitness office ”, which has received great reviews. Both at work and at home, we’re trying to make it as easy and natural as possible for people to raise their fitness level while going about their daily life.

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9 Startups That Made Life Better In 2014

ReadWriteStart

ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. This year’s hottest startups were all about boosting our productivity and well-being. They seized the opportunities presented by open APIs, and they rode the ongoing shift to mobile devices. In so doing, these small, innovative companies improved our professional and personal lives in ways that mattered.

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10 Keys To Success When Turning To Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

'As the economy recovers from some tough economic times, more and more people seem to be turning to entrepreneurship as an alternative to traditional employment. I applaud this trend, but caution all of you thinking this direction to approach entrepreneurship with your eyes wide open. It is not for everyone, as the entrepreneur’s path is fraught with challenges.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

'The landscape for how to turn life science and health care technologies into viable companies has changed more in the last 3 years than in the last 30. New approaches to translational medicine have emerged. Our Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences is one of them. But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. ———– The National Institutes of Health recognizes that Life Science/Health Care commercialization has two components: the sc

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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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A McDermott Dream Team?

deal architect

'I first met Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP, when he did a brief stint at Gartner in the late 90s. He was charismatic, showed good grooming and paid attention to whoever was in the room in an environment where analysts.

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Payment Predictions For 2015

YoungUpstarts

'by Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay. In the far future, when someone sits down and writes the definitive history of payments (riveting), 2014 is going to be a big year. Bitcoin reached historic highs but then went sideways. We had the introduction of Apple Pay, which was a major step forward for mobile wallets. The sheer scale and variety of data breaches finally got the public focused on security problems that have plagued the industry for years.

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Identify Leaders By Giving People Assignments

Feld Thoughts

'As the Boulder Startup Community evolved, I started to become inundated with people who wanted to get involved. Some of these were locals while others where people looking to move to Boulder, or who had recently moved here. Some where people known to me while others were new relationships. As the momentum, size, impact, and reach of the Boulder Startup Community grew, I found myself overwhelmed by the amount of requests I was getting to get together, meet, explore ways to work together, and jus

Community 192
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No more (CIO) excuses

deal architect

'The Workday Predict and Prepare videocast that Bill Kutik, Naomi Bloom, Brian Sommer and I recorded a couple of weeks ago is now available for on-demand viewing here (registration required) The video lasts an hour but, if I may say.

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Real Time Bidding In The European Market

YoungUpstarts

'by Frank Vitetta. Since the beginning of the internet people have been looking for the easiest and quickest ways to make money online and this is one of the main causes of the prevalence of online advertising in recent years. Lately however a new form of online advertising has been causing storms as a result of its effectiveness and efficiently compared to the old system.

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8 Keys To Creating A Memorable Customer Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

'Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their employees can and do deliver memorable experiences to their customers. The result, according to a recent Gallup survey , with 70 percent of workers not fully engaged, is unhappy workers and poor customer experiences.

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5 metrics every marketer should be watching

The Next Web

'You can always rely on Einstein to give good quote. One of his most famous quotes accurately sums up the biggest challenge of digital marketing measurement: “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” The internet has given marketers many things, one of which is more ways to reach potential customers directly.

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The mind boggling evolution of Gutenberg

deal architect

'On New Florence, I have run a 4 part series on all the technologies which are available to a modern-day author to deliver content in a wide range of formats. The eBook version The on-demand, paperback version The hard cover.

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Risky Business: Reasons Learning On-The-Go Doesn’t Work For Successful Startups

YoungUpstarts

'by Bruce Richards , full time trainer at Best STL ( microsofttraining.net ). For most small businesses, employees do on-the-job training, but that can spell disaster for startups that need to get workers out there in a hurry. Even the larger, more established businesses need qualified workers to represent them in a positive light, so they struggle with training techniques to get new hires on board quickly and effectively.

Arizona 154
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Super Angels Are A Boon To Startups Needing Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

'Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over 60 times as many companies, according the Center for Venture Research. A major chunk of this activity is provided by the new class of Super Angels, who may look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money.

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The Endless Struggle That Boulder Has With Itself

Feld Thoughts

'I’ve now lived in Boulder for 19 years. It was an amazing place when I moved here and has evolved into an even more stupendous place over the past 19 years, notwithstanding the irrational and self-limiting struggle that the Boulder City Council seems to have with change. Over the past decade, the Boulder Startup Community has had significant success and impact on the culture and dynamics of the city.

Denver 159
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The new telcossame as the old ones

deal architect

'My wife booked the family on a Christmas cruise through the Caribbean. Brilliant suggestion. It’s tougher to get the aging kids to agree on a destination but there was no argument about this one. I was just a tad wary.

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How to build a social ecosystem from scratch

The Next Web

'Olga Steidl is the Growth manager at Inbot. How many meaningful connections have you built this week? How many old connections did you nurture? When was the last time someone excitedly called you to tell you about a project they launched with someone you introduced them to? When you live and breath the mantra “never eat alone” you know how important it is to attract and spend time with people you like: the right type of people that help you naturally move forward mentally, emotionally and, of c

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Business 2015 - Optimism, But Upgrade Your Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

'Even though it has been a long haul since the recession, it’s nice to see more optimism as we close out this year and head into a new one. A November 2014 report by Kiplinger asserts that economic momentum is back on track. Growth is projected to continue at a 3 percent rate, consumer confidence is gaining strongly, hiring is on the rise, and job openings are at a near record level.

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The Year’s 10 Best Movies for Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

'Chef (May 2014); Open Road Films. Jon Favreau (who also wrote and directed the film) stars as Carl Casper, a head chef who is fired after a video of his spat with a food critic goes viral. That’s when he decides to start a food truck and reignite his passion for cooking. This is the only movie on my list that actually involves an entrepreneur starting a business.

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Saluting the brave innovators

deal architect

'One of the most enjoyable phases of writing a book is the conversations I get to have with some of the most innovative executives in the world. With SAP Nation, that was tough to arrange at the start – many.

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9 tips for retailers to generate more online sales in 2015

The Next Web

'Paul Rogers is an experienced ecommerce customer acquisition consultant who works with retailers from all over the world, primarily on the Magento platform. Following on from the busy holiday peak, now is the perfect time to start thinking about how you can generate more revenue via your e-commerce website in 2015. We’ll focus on growth opportunities in both customer acquisition and customer experience.

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Fundamental Software Problems That Haven’t Been Solved Yet

Feld Thoughts

'I hate doing “reflections on the last year” type of stuff so I was delighted to read Fred Wilson’s post this morning titled What Just Happened? It’s his reflection on what happened in our tech world in 2014 and it’s a great summary. Go read it – this post will still be here when you return. Since I don’t really celebrate Christmas, I end up playing around with software a lot over the holidays.

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Seven Tech Trends to Watch in Silicon Hills in 2015

SiliconHills

'3D Printing – The roots of this industry can be traced, in part, to innovators at the University of Texas at Austin. And it’s growing by leaps and bounds every year. Austin-based startup MakeXYZ.com aggregates 3-D printers worldwide, with the goal of being the Kinkos of 3D Print shops. Other companies include Structured Polymers, re:3D […] The post Seven Tech Trends to Watch in Silicon Hills in 2015 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Fresh from the SPRING: TheBluesman

crowdSPRING Blog

'When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this holiday gem submitted in this illustration project. Let us start the slow clap for TheBluesman. Check out more great work on TheBluesman ’s profile page. Nicely done, Bluesman, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: lenty.

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All you need to know about the 2015 EU VAT changes and how we implemented them at TNW

The Next Web

'If you’re wondering what developers are doing over in Europe today, a good guess (besides recovering from a hangover) would be that they are trying to figure out how to implement the new EU VAT rules. If you have a business and you’re selling digital products or services to people and businesses in EU countries, these new rules apply to you. Note to tech companies outside the EU: Although nothing changes for you when selling digital products to EU companies or consumers, officially you have to

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Asimov’s I, Robot and Hertling’s The Turing Exception

Feld Thoughts

'William Hertling is one of my top five favorite contemporary sci-fi writers. Last night, I finished the beta (pre-copyedited) version of his newest book, The Turing Exception. It’s not out yet, so you can bide you time by reading his three previous books, which will be a quadrilogy when The Turing Exception ships. The books are: Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears.

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Parking Panda Launches in Austin

SiliconHills

'Finding a parking spot in downtown Austin can be a challenge especially during major events. Now Parking Panda, a free app that lets drivers find, reserve and redeem parking in advance, seeks to make that task a lot easier. It has launched in Austin. The service is now available statewide with service in Dallas, Houston, […] The post Parking Panda Launches in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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6 Big Mistakes To Avoid When Buying A Business

Mike Michalowicz

'Have you considered the possibility of purchasing a business? If so, there is a good chance that you may make one of the many mistakes that are common in people purchasing pre-existing businesses. But it doesn’t have to be that way; you can take steps to avoid these problems. The more you know what the frequent errors are, the more you can work to avoid them.

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Why I’d rather email than pay for advertisement

The Next Web

'Poornima Vijayashanker is the founder of Femgineer, helping entrepreneurs and tech professionals (especially women) level up their careers. “Why is email the most effective channel for converting customers?” Exactly a year ago I had 10 people subscribe to my email list each month. I let out a big sigh and thought, “How am I going to go from 10 to 10K?

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The Gift of Uncomplaining Tech Support

Feld Thoughts

'On today, the first day of the new year, I give to my wife Amy Batchelor the gift of a lifetime of uncomplaining tech support. While in Bora Bora, one of the books I read was Stewart Friedman’s Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life. It was “ok” so I ended up skimming a lot of it. But I picked up one great thing from it which made the entire book worthwhile.

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Be an Adaptive Business Leader.

Berkonomics

'The title of this insight happens to be the name of a CEO roundtable organization I belong to, and have been a member since 1989 (Adaptive Business Leader Organization – or ABL). The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors.

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Marketing: 6 Reasons Why Reverse Psychology Works

Mike Michalowicz

'In 1961, William McGuire developed a theory that he called the Inoculation Effect. He used the theory – based on the medical practice of inoculating patients to confer disease resistance – to describe the process by which we can become resistant to attempts to persuade us. It turns out that we develop resistance by being forewarned, or educated, about future attempts to persuade us.

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Are entrepreneurs finally closing the gender gap?

The Next Web

'Ilya Pozin is a serial entrepreneur, writer, and investor. He is the founder of online video entertainment platform Pluto TV, social greeting card company Open Me, and digital marketing agency Ciplex. We still suffer from some form of gender bias in the workplace. When given the choice for a female or male boss, 33 percent prefer a male whereas only 20 percent prefer a female, a new Gallup poll found.

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Foundry Group Traditions: Gnip Exit Gift

Feld Thoughts

'Foundry Group has now been around for over seven years and I’ve been working with my partners for 14 years. We’ve started to develop some traditions. One of my favorites is exit gifts. When a company has an exit that generates a return for us, we give a gift to the partner who served on the board. These gifts are generally tuned to what the partner loves such as musical stuff for Ryan and Jason, bike stuff for Seth, and art for me.

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Ithaca Ranks #5

ithacaVC

'Yet another “best place to win” poll highly ranks Ithaca at #5. This one is by Outside Magazine. Check out the results here. I love Ithaca! Happy New Year… almost!!

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Top 10 Most Popular Stories on Silicon Hills News in 2014

SiliconHills

'These are the top ten stories with the most views on Silicon Hills News in 2014. 1. Dropbox to Expand in Austin and Hire 170 employees 2. Zach Dell’s Startup Thread is a Dating Site Just for College Students 3. Billionaire Mark Cuban “Likes to Party Like a Rockstar” and Invest in Startups (this story […] The post Top 10 Most Popular Stories on Silicon Hills News in 2014 appeared first on SiliconHills.