Fri.Dec 14, 2012

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Twitter Link Roundup #158 – 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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My disappointing Android upgrade

The Equity Kicker

About a month ago I dropped my old Samsung Galaxy Nexus on the floor at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris and when I picked it up the screen was quite badly cracked. I was of course annoyed at myself for dropping the phone but a little part of me was quite pleased, because the new Google Nexus 4 was due for release a couple of days later and now I could get one with a clean conscience.

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10 Entrepreneur Qualities That Tag You as Fabulous

Startup Professionals Musings

To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. Some people, and some entrepreneurs, have that something extra, like Simon Cowell is searching for on the X-Factor , that you can’t quite put your finger on. But the entrepreneurs that have “it” seem to be able to effortlessly get team members, investors, and customers to follow them anywhere.

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What does it feel like to be the CEO of a start-up? 3 FULL TIME JOBS.

Scalable Startup

Being the CEO of a startup is crazy, fun, very hard work, inclusive, humbling and of course can be quite rewarding. Weekends are meaningless. There is a continuous decision stream where each decision informs the next. Your mind is thinking 24 hours a day, even when you sleep. When you’re the CEO of a startup, a real startup with product and some cash in the bank and/or revenue, there are 3 FULL TIME JOBS. 1.

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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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Shanghai-Based Mailman Group Launches Startup Fund

YoungUpstarts

Shanghai-based social media and technology company Mailman Group earlier this week announced the launch of a new startup fund that looks at tapping the burgeoning technology startup scene in Asia. The Mailman Group ‘s new startup Venture fund aims to fill the gap of Series A funding in the region of US $0.5 to US$2 million in the region, and will provide cash and mentorship to selected startups.

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How to Remain King of the World amidst Titanic Disruptions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

There has been a lot of conversation recently on the future of the media industry, specifically drawing comparisons between TV and film and the shrinking music industry. It’s been over 10 years since Napster came on the scene to disrupt traditional music business models, sparking a wave of debate on the right mix of “free” vs “paid” content going forward with digital that has yet to be fully settled.

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Top 40 Innovation Blogger? (Top 10!)

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Precious readers, greetings from the dark night, where I write, jet-lagged, arthritis-nagged, caffiene-jagged — but writing for you, once again, trying to provide insight, information, and ultimately value about this wacky idea of innovation. Please forgive the somewhat naval gazing aspect of this post. The good news for you is over the past year you may have missed some of my more interesting posts and the bullet list below provides some quick links to stuff you might find interesting.

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Travel 2013 – There Is Only One Of Me

Feld Thoughts

At some point in the future, the machines will take over. At that time the machines can create Feldborgs if they so desire; until then there is only one of me. After a day like today it’s hard to accept that I can’t go to every city on the planet and talk about Startup Communities. Today I was in LA – starting at LaunchPad LA , followed by a meeting with Ivee (so, so cool), then an interview with Jason Calacanis for This Week In Startups , and finishing up with a fantastic eve

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The Startup Glory Equation

Life Beyond Code

Every now and then somebody will ask me what would be a super simple way to achieve startup glory? Not in the exact same terms but something that will lead towards that. I struggle with it because there are so many ways to succeed in a startup (depending on what the level of success is) and there are probably ten times that number of way to fail in a startup.

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All Introductions are Not Created Equal

A Crowded Space

Everyone knows that the best way to approach VCs is through an introduction. Mark Suster points out 4 obvious channels for introductions : lawyers, recruiters, portfolio companies, and other entrepreneurs. There is also other VCs and angel investors. But, from a VCs perspective, all intros are not created equal. There is a huge difference in my level of excitement for a startup based on the person that makes the intro. .

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We Are Austin Tech: Gary Hoover

Austin Startup

Today on WAAT we spoke with Gary Hoover. Gary founded Bookstop which sold to Barnes & Noble along with Hoovers, a leading business information website. His experience with these and other startups has made him the perfect person to share some hard won advice with entrepreneurs everywhere. Gary believes that the most succesful businesses are those that are customer centric.

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I bet you wish you were an Engauge client now… #evernote #moleskine

Jeff Hilimire

…cause if you were, you’d likely be getting one of these sweet Evernote moleskine pads. No pressure, there’s still a few more days left in the month to start a project with us ;).

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Developing a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Curriculum

Steve Blank

In 2012, in partnership with Stanford University , U.C. Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. The class was designed to teach educators (and the entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship.

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