Sat.Dec 31, 2011 - Fri.Jan 06, 2012

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StartupRoar Adds Personalized Subscriptions

SoCal CTO

Aggregage , the platform that powers StartupRoar has added a powerful personalization engine. That means that the site now allows users to sign-up and have their content personalized based on their interests. You can sign-up via the "Personalize Your Content" button on the right side of the interface shown to the right of the red arrow below.

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Top 10 Mom Marketing Trends As We Enter 2012

YoungUpstarts

By Stacy DeBroff, founder and CEO of Mom Central Consulting. 2011 proved a watershed year for recognition of the power of Mom Marketing. What changed? Moms’ overwhelming embrace of social media and the profound impact of the recommendation culture on their consumer purchasing behavior. As this evolution took place, we saw a number of trends emerge in the Mom Marketplace through our research studies and work with Mom influencers.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors.

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – 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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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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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Home. About Me. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. GrabCAD & Professional Communities. January 4, 2012. Today one of our portfolio companies, GrabCAD, announced it’s Series A funding led by Matrix. NextView originally invested in the company’s seed round in the spring of 2011 and we again participated in this latest round along with Atlas Venture.

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Joe Stump on Lens.ly, a project by Mokriya

Life Beyond Code

Mokriya , a company that I am very close to recently released a photo app for iPad called Lens.ly. With Lens.ly, you can download your Flickr albums for offline viewing – for example, you are on a plane or in a place where there is no Internet connection. It is one of those apps that you wish Flickr provided by default. They didn’t and that created an opportunity for Lens.ly.

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Small Businesses and Startups: Worst. Advice. Ever.

crowdSPRING Blog

A few weeks ago I wrote about New Year ‘s resolutions for small businesses , but the other day I realized I had left one out. This one is not an action item, nor an intellectual exercise. It is at once very simple, but also incredibly difficult, especially when under pressure to get a new business off the ground to improve performance in an existing one.

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Microsoft launches the Kinect Accelerator

David Cohen

In mid-November, Microsoft announced its launch of the Kinect Accelerator , a Seattle-based accelerator program powered by TechStars. Since then, hundreds of applications have poured in from hackers and entrepreneurs eager to tap into the possibilities of the infinite motion sensing world. What innovative idea that leverages the Kinect do you have? Remember that Kinect is not just for XBox anymore, it’s also going to be widely available on Windows and I’m expecting a whole new array

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What might SAP learn from Apple

deal architect

My friend Dennis Howlett has written a post with that title. WTF you may say – different markets, different species. Not really. My next book focuses on the “technology elite”. There are user organizations, consumer tech companies, enterprise tech companies.

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Interesting New Tech Blog for your Radar Screen

Both Sides of the Table

Over the holiday I became aware of a new tech blog that aims to have deep insights into the next generation of technology, which they call The Hypernet. Why should you care? Well, it is established by some of the industries more successful investors – Mike Maples and Roger McNamee. My favorite post was this one (image above) in which they talked about their 10 hypothesis for technology investing.

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Check the Work Ethic In Your Company, If You Dare

Startup Professionals Musings

Great entrepreneurs have long been the epitome of people with a great work ethic. But many complain to me that it is becoming harder and harder to find team members and employees who demonstrate and live the same culture. Somewhere along the way, work ethic seems to have been replaced by a pervasive sense of entitlement, especially in the younger generations.

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

The benefits of microfinance have been debated since the ’70s when the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh began making tiny loans to impoverished small business owners. In 2006, Muhammad Yunus, the bank’s founder and “the father of microfinance,” won the Nobel Peace Prize. Since that time, at least one study has shown the practice does little to empower women in oppressed cultures or improve quality of life for poor people.

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The future of work and workers

deal architect

Over the last few weeks been thinking of the radical changes in the workplace. No, not just SAP/SuccessFactors and the hype around that. More macro trends a) My two nephews, on either side of 30 years, visited over the holidays.

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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

Both Sides of the Table

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. One of the most important articles I read during the entire year was David Brook’s op-ed article on “ The Haimish Line.” In it Brooks talks about his recent trip to Africa with his 12-year-old son.

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London Calling

Startup Lessons Learned

Happy New Year! Four months ago, T he Lean Startup debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. Since then, I have been immersed in a non-stop whirlwind book tour of North America, filled with as many events, interviews, and talks as I could physically manage. On Monday, I’m taking The Lean Startup across the pond to the UK to launch the first international edition.

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[Review] The Mesh: Why The Future Of Business Is Sharing

YoungUpstarts

Every now and then, you pick up a book which offer such a compelling new idea that you simply cannot put down. “ The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing ” by Lisa Gansky is one such title. In an increasingly crowded, economically uncertain, and environmentally damaged world, people are becoming increasingly wary about the financial and personal burden of buying and owning stuff.

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IBMs Great Society?

deal architect

As Sam Palmisano gets ready to retire, expect to see more glowing articles like this by Steve Lohr in the NYT. The man deserves plenty of kudos, but I thought he got carried away for taking credit for “solving societal.

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This Is The Smell Of Inevitability

Feld Thoughts

In the “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me” category, “ a Missouri federal judge ruled the FBI did not need a warrant to secretly attach a GPS monitoring device to a suspect’s car to track his public movements for two months.” I had to read that sentence twice. I simply didn’t believe it. Fortunately this one will go to the Supreme Court.

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Add Some Zing to your PR and SEO this Year!

Rembrandt Communications

On your mark, get set, go! The alarm clock buzzes. You do your morning ritual, and it’s time to get back to work… but hold on just a minute… Are you starting off where you left off in 2011, or do you have new and specific, public relations (PR) and search engine optimization (SEO) goals [.].

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The Value-Driven Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Lior Levin. When you work in a startup, the hours are long and the work can be punishing. You might make decent money – or be in the running for a great payoff later – but the initial investment of time and energy that goes into a startup can be difficult to deal with. While there is nothing wrong with making money and using it to buy the things that you enjoy, so many of us don’t feel satisfied with the current state of affairs.

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How blogging has gone mainstream

deal architect

Between my consulting, speaking, book writing and blogging I am blessed to have access to a wide range of technology vendor executives, CIOs, and influencers. What was impressive in my recent book project compared to that to The New Polymath.

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Book: The Business of Venture Capital

Feld Thoughts

In the fall of 2010 Mahendra Ramsinghani reached out to me by email about a new book he was working on called The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies. He asked for two things: (1) some of my time for him to interview me and (2) intros to other VCs and LPs.

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Good Sources for on Pros & Cons of Convertible Notes

Gust

Entrepreneurs: if you’re looking seriously at angel investment, and you have the kind of product-market fit and management experience investors will like, you need to take a good look at convertible notes. Do yourself and the investors you want to talk to a favor: take a few minutes and do some homework on this issue. I’d suggest you start with Fred Wilson’s Financing Options: Convertible Debt , one of his MBA Mondays series on his AVC blog.

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MentorMob.com Aims To Revolutionize Learning Through Crowdsourcing

YoungUpstarts

It’s undeniable how the Internet has revolutionized education , especially with the use of online video learning through sites such as Khan Academy. But while there is plenty of great educational material out there on the Web, the problem is locating it; in fact, it is said that about 66-percent of time spent learning online is wasted simply looking for the right Internet sources.

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What might IBM learn from Apple

deal architect

Mark Fidelman blogged “Why every company needs to be more like IBM and less like Apple.” His arguments are cultural. IBM is supposedly open, more socially savvy. Apple is, in contrast, closed, secretive. Very different reality from the famous “Big.

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Calling All Entrepreneurs – Sign Up For Startup America And Help Us Win

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been a big supporter of the Startup America Partnership since its inception at the beginning of last year. The organization is now a year old and is starting to really have some impact. I’m psyched about the groundwork they’ve laid down and their plans for 2012. One of the initiatives I’ve been very involved in is Startup Colorado which we launched a few months ago.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: ERP Galore

ReadWriteStart

At today's roundtable, we had an unusual amount of discussion on ERP startups. Given that ERP is such a mature market, the fact that all this startup activity is going on in ERP is a bit puzzling to me. Rural ERP. Surjith Singh from Chennai, India, pitched Rural ERP , a business that intends to focus on supplying rural Indian small and micro businesses with local language ERP systems.

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Why 88% Of New Year’s Resolution Fail And What You Can Do About It Right Now

YoungUpstarts

by Tom Connellan, author of “ The 1% Solution “ Everyone knows that New Year’s Resolutions are truly difficult to keep. It seems totally doable on December 31st, when everyone’s upbeat and you’re on the brink of a fresh new year: You confidently proclaim that this is the year you will shed those pounds, or get in shape, or start sticking to a budget.

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More New Florence

deal architect

on the innovation blog Plantronics’ cool new digs IBM’s annual ‘5 in 5’ Tableau – making spreadsheets snazzy 3D printed Christmas Tree ornaments.

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New Course: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy

Feld Thoughts

For a number of years, my partner Jason Mendelson has been teaching an extremely popular course at CU Boulder Law School with Brad Bernthal titled Venture Capital – A 360 Degree Perspective. While it’s a course taught in the law school, it’s (not surprisingly) become popular with the MBA students at CU Boulder. Brad Bernthal, Phil Weiser (the Dean of the CU Law School), and I have been talking about a new course to compliment VC 360 called Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Publ

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Speed Kills: Bootstrapping Activity in Your Network

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, a guy I met was raving about the idea behind Loosecubes. He's always looking for random desks and conference rooms and so booking them on the fly like AirBnB seemed like a great idea to him. He put in a request for a space but didn't hear back right away. This wasn't all that surprising, because it's a relatively new community and I'm sure people aren't getting requests everyday from it yet.

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New Year’s Resolution: Get An Early Start On Tax Season

YoungUpstarts

by Sharon Lechter, founder of Pay Your Family First. You read that right. As one year comes to an end and another begins, people often look to make changes in every aspect of their lives – especially finances. So now is a good time to think about taxes. Yes, really! It’s not too early to look ahead to tax season to consider steps you can take now to make that often dreaded deadline a bit easier.

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More New Renaissance

deal architect

on the innovation blog The “God Particle” Rare Earths Drama Reinventing the way we remember Jet lag – without the flight.

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My 2011 By The Numbers

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been obsessively tracking data about myself since 2009. The most visible data I track is on Daytum which includes Miles Run (by location), Books Read (by type), Airplane Flights (by carrier), and Nights In Town (by city). I also track all of my running data (most recently on RunKeeper and SmashRun ) and all of my health data (including what I eat) on Fitbit.

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Get a mentor, not a critic.

Gust

The dictionary definition of a mentor is “an experienced and trusted advisor,” or “leader, tutor or coach.” The definition of a critic sounds similar, “a person who offers reasoned judgment or analysis.” The big difference, of course, is that a mentor looks ahead to help you, while a critic looks backward to tell you what you did wrong. We can all learn from both of these approaches, but in my view the mentor is far more valuable than a critic.

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Will Time Torpedo Your New Year’s Resolution?

YoungUpstarts

by Doug Sundheim, executive coach and co-author of “ 25 Best Time Management Tools and Techniques “ It will according to one expert. Every year about this time, millions of New Year’s resolutions are made. People are going to lose weight, get in shape, learn a language or some other skill, spend more time relaxing, eat better, spend more time with their family, travel more, and in general improve their lives.

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