Mon.Mar 26, 2012

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[Malaysia] [Event] InfoSecurity World 2012 – Combating The Rapid Rise In Cyber Threats

YoungUpstarts

by Yi Ning Lim, marketing specialist at GMO GlobalSign. The Infosecurity World Exhibition & Conference 2012 ( ISWec 2012 ) was held at Putra World Trade Centre from 21 to 22 March 2012. This inaugural event was officiated by Y.A.Bhg Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor, wife of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (pictured right). The central theme of this event was the enhancement of information security against the rapid rise of cyber threats.

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CopperEgg Releases v3 of RevealCloud

Austin Startup

CopperEgg, Corp., a real-time monitoring and analytics company, today announced the release of RevealCloud™ v3, the leading, real-time monitoring service for cloud, virtual, physical and hybrid IT deployments. RevealCloudv3 delivers a number of new features, including support for thousands of simultaneous nodes across any deployment model, enhanced at-a-glance user interface and real-time system Process Monitoring.

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SAP TCO spreadsheet cell D45

deal architect

Dennis Howlett reporting from Australia picks up on worries about Oracle DB costs in SAP customers. For the 20 years I have dealt with SAP customers, it has been a line item in their TCO spreadsheet, but the accounting is.

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Mobile Payment Platform Swiff Launches in Singapore; Targets Other Markets

YoungUpstarts

Earlier this year, I commented during the launch of UOB’s mobile banking iOS application that mobile payment options such as that offered by Square would be a boon to small business owners. It seems that the wish has somewhat been granted, with last week’s launch of Swiff ( www.swiffpay.com ), a new mobile payment platform that allows cashless credit card payments using mobile phones and mobile tablet devices as credit card or debit card terminals.

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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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SAP and Sustainability

deal architect

SAP’s annual sustainability report is out. As usual it is prodigious and professional. In the past i have commented that it was too focused on internal SAP efforts and what its customers were doing broadly, not how SAP’s software contributes.

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A New Dawn for Consumer Internet Acquisitions

Genuine VC

Over the past decade, VCs have been lamenting about the poor state of the IPO markets and that the number of real potential acquirers for consumer internet startups has dwindled down to a handful, if that. Many of formerly rich acquirers like AOL and Yahoo have long since faded past their heyday, and their appetite for acquisitions has subsided along with it.

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A New Dawn for Consumer Internet Acquisitions

Genuine VC

Over the past decade, VCs have been lamenting about the poor state of the IPO markets and that the number of real potential acquirers for consumer internet startups has dwindled down to a handful, if that. Many of formerly rich acquirers like AOL and Yahoo have long since faded past their heyday, and their appetite for acquisitions has subsided along with it.

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Two reasons why we need large indigenous tech companies

The Equity Kicker

For a while now I’ve been saying that large indigenous tech companies are a vital component of a healthy startup ecosystem. Large companies are important sources of entrepreneurs, executives that can help startups grow, partnerships, and exits and all these functions come from human relationships and work better locally. Smart companies like Google and Facebook recognise the value that comes to them from working with startups around the world and have made strong efforts to forge local relations

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Jumpstart Our Business Startups!

Growthink Blog

Thursday’s incredibly exciting news that the Senate approved H.R. 3606 - the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) bill - should hearten all that grasp the negative impact of the tangling knot of regulation on the flow of capital and the success of entrepreneurship in America today. Included in the bill is H.R. 2930 - the Entrepreneur’s Access to Capital Act - which for the first time legalizes investment-based crowdfunding.

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Are More Facebook Likes Better for Business?

Up and Running

Recently a client asked what I thought about the businesses on Facebook who seem to be obsessed with boosting the number of “likes” of their business page… and here’s my two-cents: Boosting your numbers and trying to prove how popular you are is just like old-school “blast and pray” advertising. You blast as much “stuff” into the universe as possible and pray something sticks and someone will buy.

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Why Youth Has an Advantage in Innovation & Why You Want To Be a Learn-It-All

abovethecrowd.com

[Follow Me on Twitter] A few relevant scenes from the recent blockbuster Moneyball: Peter Brand: Billy, Pena is an All Star. Okay? And if you dump him and this Hatteberg thing doesn’t work out the way that we want it to, you know, this is…this is the kind of decision that gets you fired. It is! Billy Beane: Yes, you’re right. I [.].

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My mum doesn’t understand

Start Up Blog

For the best part of the last 10 years I haven’t been able to explain to my mum what I actually do for a living. Both with startups I have created and jobs I have had. Probably more so with the paid roles I have had. And this is an important insight into the world today and how we all fit into it. How my mum responded to various activities I have undertaken: My blog: Why do you do that?

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Walker Twitter Highlights: March 19th – 25th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past week and a couple of blog-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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My mum doesn’t understand

Start Up Blog

For the best part of the last 10 years I haven’t been able to explain to my mum what I actually do for a living. Both with startups I have created and jobs I have had. Probably more so with the paid roles I have had. And this is an important insight into the world today and how we all fit into it. How my mum responded to various activities I have undertaken: My blog: Why do you do that?

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4 Top Myths About Start-up Pay

www.noamwasserman.com

I’ve been collecting data about startups and compensation since 2001. Here’s what entrepreneurs think they know about startup pay–and what actually happens. Entrepreneurial decision-making is often guided by anecdotes, rules of thumb, and intuition. Sometimes that’s because entrepreneurs don’t have time to look at reams of data, sometimes it’s because they’ve learned to trust their gut, and often it’s because the data just isn’t there.

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Generation Flux And Women Leaders

entrepreMusings

Two very interesting reads. One by Fast Company on the changing nature of our workforce and a redefining of generation based on the way people view their careers regardless of their age. The other is by Harvard Business Review on whether women make better leaders. Here they are: This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business.

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Last week I traveled with Usher and Matt Ryan

Jeff Hilimire

Silly post, but on a flight to London last week I was a few rows behind Usher. And then this weekend on my way to the Dome to watch the Hoosiers take on Kentucky, I was on Marta with Matt Ryan (Matty Ice to you Falcons fans). Usher was with a full on entourage whereas Matt Ryan (second photo below, hat on) was more like in a scene from the show Entourage, as his boys were pretty loud and had the Marta “cops” tell them to quiet down a few times.

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Re-think in orders of magnitude

The Startup Toolkit

How many sales calls can you make a day? 10? 20? You prep for each one, take notes afterwards. That last one was stressful and the guy yelled at you, so maybe you get a cup of coffee. You’re barely break even, and you’re paying yourself peanuts. Sales guys have way higher salaries than you do. The model works, but how will you ever scale?

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

We ran the first National Science Foundation Innovation Corps class October to December 2011. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made ~ 2,000 customer calls in 10 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. 19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. Watching the final presentations it was clear that the results were way past our initial expectations (comments from mentors as well as pre- and post-class survey data suggested that most of the

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Too Many Leaders Still Rely on Their ‘Golden Gut’

Startup Professionals Musings

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

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7 Competition Crushing Value Propositions

Duct Tape Marketing

7 Competition Crushing Value Propositions This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Page one of Warby Parker's infographic laden annual report. One of the biggest challenges that any small business faces in the area of marketing is standing out from everyone else that say it’s doing what you’re doing. Until you can firmly offer a solid reason for why you should buy from or hire us over everyone else, you’ll compete on price.

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An act of highest contribution

Life Beyond Code

A common and guaranteed problem in the life of many smart people is “lack of time.” However, it is hard to believe that assertion when we think about the following (not the entire list, of course). Recent movie “Hunger Games” grossed $68 million on the opening weekend. Somebody had to be watching that movie. The video gaming industry took in $9.5B in 2007, $11.7Bin 2008 and $25.1B in 2010.

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How will Tablets and Kindles change reading?

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'The first attempts to capitalize on a new medium are always simple ports from an old medium. The first TV shows were newscasts – basically the same as radio, a guy reading the news. The first e-commerce sites were cataloges ported to the internet, with the same copy and a single picture. But over time, content that is customized to each medium comes to the fore.

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Secret Wish Cartoon #9, Creativity and Fame

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Andy Warhol’s famous quote from 1968 , that everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes has come true hasn’t it? I just watched a YouTube of a 12 year old dancing to the Maverick’s “Dance the Night Away” — 38,000 views and counting (authentic if nothing else). The democratization of the media has happened, for better or worse.

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