Wed.Feb 01, 2012

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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

Startup Professionals Musings

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. But simply jumping in is not enough. Before you start spending money and time being a user, you need to understand how it can help you and your business. Using it randomly or incorrectly is a waste of your precious time.

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The Hacker Way

Startup Lessons Learned

I don't normally comment on the day's news, but I want to make an exception today to share something from Facebook's S-1 filing. Over the next few days, astronomical amounts of attention are going to be paid to Facebook's incredible business results: the 800+ million active users, the $3.7 billion (!) in revenue, and their growth rates, too. I hope at least some of that attention will be paid to the culture and process that made those results possible.

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Capital Innovators Graduates First Class of Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Tonight in downtown St. Louis the second group of companies to be funded by Capital Innovators will be announced. These will receive $50k in seed funding, free office space and credits toward other useful services as part of their acceleration program. We wrote about their innovative program last fall. Some of the first companies have launched products or services or are in the process of getting there, according to their entrepreneurs.

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10 Leasing Tips Every New Business and Startup Should Know

Up and Running

10 Leasing Tips Every New Business and Startup Should Know. By Michael Lockwood, President of TEQlease Capital. While startups and new businesses may already realize the many benefits of leasing their equipment, including conserving their cash and significant tax benefits, they also need to carefully research their equipment financing needs before signing the dotted line.

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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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The realities of Insourcing

deal architect

I recently heard Vice-President Joe Biden talk about bringing jobs home – what the administration is calling “Insourcing” – and had a deja vu moment. It was 2004 or 5 in a Bangalore hotel bar. It was way past bedtime.

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[White Paper] 7 Simple Smartphone Privacy Tips

YoungUpstarts

The mobile phone is an indispensable tool these days, be it for personal or business use. Our phones are chockful with sensitive information – your contact list, critical emails, and in many cases, user names and passwords – which only means that losing a phone can be disastrous. And it’s a lot worse if a phone meant for business use is the subject of identity theft.

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Who is an Entrepreneur?

Life Beyond Code

It’s hard to “box” an entrepreneur as there are so many different kinds of them. However, there are several characteristics that will make it easy to spot one. I have picked 11 really good definitions of an entrepreneur. Here they are (in no particular order). #1 Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach. “An entrepreneur is someone who does not expect compensation until he has created value for someone else.”. #2 Jean-Baptist Say, French Economist. “Entrepreneur is someone who tak

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Starwood and AT&T #FAIL And Bless Me With $180.76 Of Phone Charges

Feld Thoughts

Put this in the “every business traveller thinks this on a regular basis” rant category. Sure – I’m whining, but I imagine I’ll feel better after I get done. I doubt it has any impact on the universe, but hopefully it’ll be a story that rings true to some of you out there who travel as much as I do. And to my friends at Starwood and AT&T, you made my day yesterday, which was already intense, a lot harder than it needed to be.

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Who is an Entrepreneur?

Life Beyond Code

It’s hard to “box” an entrepreneur as there are so many different kinds of them. However, there are several characteristics that will make it easy to spot one. I have picked 11 really interesting quotes about an entrepreneur. Here they are (in no particular order). #1 Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach. “An entrepreneur is someone who does not expect compensation until he has created value for someone else.”. #2 Jean-Baptist Say, French Economist. “Entrepreneur is someone wh

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Why Facebook Clearly Belongs in the 10X Revenue Club

abovethecrowd.com

Attached are my thoughts on the Facebook S-1 along with some quick stabs at valuation. Brief disclosure, Benchmark Capital has a minority position in Facebook as a result of the acquisition of FriendFeed, a company that was incubated in our offices. I thought it would be useful to look at Facebook using the scorecard from our [.].

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The Best Laid Plans, Part III

OnlyOnce

The Best Laid Plans, Part III. Once you’ve finished the Input Phase and the Analysis Phase of producing your strategic plan, you’re ready for the final Output Phase, which goes something like this: Vision articulation. Get it right for yourself first. You should be able to answer “where do we want to be in three years?” in 25 words or less.

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It's Been Quiet Around Here

Babbling VC

As you've probably noticed I haven't blogged much in the past two months. This is a proactive choice. I needed to get away from venture capital, technology and all things start-up for a little bit and didn't want to pull myself back in by blogging in the meanwhile. Nevertheless, I couldn't stay away that long (note to self: figure out the "downtime thing" at some point in life!).

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Does Your Marketing Make the Grade

Duct Tape Marketing

Does Your Marketing Make the Grade This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing podcast with Laura Fitton (Click to play or right click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes or subscribe via other RSS device (Google Listen). A number of years ago Hubspot created something called the Website Grader, a tool that graded a number of important aspects about a website and concocted a score or grade based on those factors.

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Does this suggest we’re not as close as we think to the iPad 3?

Jeff Hilimire

Received this email from Apple on Monday. Either they’re going to be holding off on the iPad 3…or they’re going to piss off a lot of people that buy the iPad 2 for Valentine’s Day and then a week later hear there is an iPad 3 coming out.

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