Mon.Feb 20, 2012

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Enterprise Vendors: Big Hat, No Cattle

deal architect

From MIT Technology Review: “"Customers are coming to us and saying 'I'd like a Watson,' " says Stephen Gold, IBM's director of worldwide marketing for Watson. Eventually, that might be possible, but first they need to have the right data.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. She hasn’t raised any venture capital. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary.

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7 Ways and Why to Treat Your Career Like a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The days when you locked and loaded your career in school, and then blasted away down that same narrow path the rest of your life, are gone, never to return. Career survival today requires thinking and acting like an entrepreneur starting a business, staying nimble and resilient, willing to pivot, and supersensitive to the market realities of supply and demand.

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A telecom Happy Hour?

deal architect

I was at a restaurant recently which had an every day/all day 2 for 1 happy hour. And it occurred to me how bars and telcos share a common trait: awkward hours for convenient pricing. Well this restaurant – Chili’s.

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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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Book: Inside Apple

Feld Thoughts

I expect many of you have read at least one book on Steve Jobs and Apple since Jobs’ death. If you, like me, grabbed and consumed a copy of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, I have a recommendation for you. Go buy a copy of Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired–and Secretive–Company Really Works by Adam Lashinsky. It’s much better, much more interesting, and in many ways, more revealing.

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Knowing your startup like the back of your.napkin.

This is going to be BIG.

When Chantel Waterbury came to pitch me back in August of 2010 for chloe + isabel , she started off the conversation with a simple description--that there were four other companies in her space each doing over a hundred million dollars of revenue and that, in total, they still made up a small percentage of the overall market. She told me a few assumptions about how much each of her merchandizers would sell, and within a couple of minutes I was super psyched about the potential for her business a

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Facebook, Serenity, Courage, and Wisdom

Growthink Blog

Over the last two weeks, we have discussed the lessons of liquidity , sector, and outliers to be learned from the extraordinary returns earned by Facebook's early investors. Now let's turn to the only topic that self-interested and red-blooded investors really care about when it comes to Facebook and its IPO. Which of course is, how the heck can they get a piece of a company like Facebook before it becomes, well, Facebook?

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Whitney Houston’s Legacy And What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Her Rollercoaster Life

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

It might seem a bit weird to have an article about a recently deceased pop singer on a blog about Internet Marketing, but bear with me, today we’re talking about Whitney Houston.

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Facebook IPO repurcussions

Start Up Blog

The upcoming Facebook IPO is a very interesting scenario. Not just from a startup / social media or tech point of view but from an economic one. There are a lot of facts and figures being thrown around, but from my point of view I’m interested in just a few of them and what they mean for tech entreprepreneurs: 100 Billion Valuation: If the IPO is successful the expected valuation is 33 times their current revenue.

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Foursquare Turns Into Powerful Local Search Engine

Duct Tape Marketing

Foursquare Turns Into Powerful Local Search Engine This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Between you and me I had become a little bored with Foursquare. I think it has application for many small businesses and certainly know some businesses that use it quite well. As a consumer user however, it never really offered up enough value. I think that’s changed with the introduction of what Foursquare is calling the Explore function.

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The Profit Motive

Start Up Blog

Has been a guiding business maxim certainly since the industrial revolution. But I’ve now found a replacement terminology I can really feel. Then: Profit Maximisation. Now: Purpose Maximisation. This comes from a book worth reading called Drive by Dan Pink. Sure, startups need cash to stay alive, but our purpose is what people really care about.

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The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It!

Occam's Razor

The single biggest mistake web analysts make is working without purpose. We work very hard. We torture SiteCatalyst. We send out a lot of data. Then we resend it again and again. And yet our work results in very little impact on the business in terms of action taken by company leaders. Why this sad state? Almost always we dive into the ocean of data first.

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Facebook IPO repurcussions

Start Up Blog

The upcoming Facebook IPO is a very interesting scenario. Not just from a startup / social media or tech point of view but from an economic one. There are a lot of facts and figures being thrown around, but from my point of view I’m interested in just a few of them and what they mean for tech entreprepreneurs: 100 Billion Valuation: If the IPO is successful the expected valuation is 33 times their current revenue.

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Management Teams, MBA Monday’s, The Crucible

entrepreMusings

Fred Wilson has been doing a very interesting series on Management Teams for the last several weeks on his blog. It is part of his MBA Monday series and this section was on building and maintaining the management team. They just did a wrap up post called The Management Team – Guest Post By Jerry Colonna – The Crucible of Leadership. It’s well written and gets to the heart of the matter of what makes the difference between good and great leaders and managers.

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The Profit Motive

Start Up Blog

Has been a guiding business maxim certainly since the industrial revolution. But I’ve now found a replacement terminology I can really feel. Then: Profit Maximisation. Now: Purpose Maximisation. This comes from a book worth reading called Drive by Dan Pink. Sure, startups need cash to stay alive, but our purpose is what people really care about.

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Video: mass production of millimetre scale flying robots

The Equity Kicker

The robots are coming. I made that point in a tweet last week about Google’s driverless cars, and if you watch the video below you will see that insect sized robots are on the way too. These insect sized bots can be manufactured as a single sheet which then folds up into a 3D shape like a children’s pop up book. This pop up technology is very clever and enables cheap mass production of these robots.

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