Sat.Jun 29, 2013 - Fri.Jul 05, 2013

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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

'July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. We''ve just posted Round 6, which includes several more developer community-provided framework test implementations: Beego, Dart, Hapi, Jester, Luminus, Nancy, Yaf, Plack, Play-Slick, and Undertow. The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2.

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8 Reality Checks That Every Startup Founder Dreads

Startup Professionals Musings

'Starting a business is a lot like starting a marriage. At first, all parties are in dreamland, with a vision of changing the world, having lots of fun, and raking in the profits. But all too soon, reality sets in. Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues.

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Smarter Not Harder: Twelve Ways To Tame Windows 8

YoungUpstarts

'by Lance Whitney, author of “ Windows 8 Five Minutes at a Time “ You fire up your new computer, fresh with Windows 8, looking forward to trying out all of the new features and commands. Normally, you would enjoy poking around the latest version of Windows discovering what’s new and improved. But when Windows 8 pops up, its Start screen and colorful tiles staring you in the face, you feel a little bit like you did when you got your very first PC with Windows way back when.

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Will The Marketplace Fairness Act Affect Your Small Business?

Up and Running

'In May, the Senate approved S.743 , a bill dubbed the Marketplace Fairness Act, by more than a two-to-one margin. The bill was drafted to close what is seen as a tax loophole — one that has allowed online retailers to avoid collecting sales tax. If the bill makes it through the House, President Obama has indicated he will sign it into law. There has been a lot of debate thus far over the bill and I’ll try not to weigh too heavily with my own opinion.

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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 One Key Person That Will Help You Improve Sales

Both Sides of the Table

'This is part of a series that describes a sales methodology for technology companies or frankly many other types of companies, too. This post is about finding your “champion.” We developed this at our first company and called it PUCCKA – the overall methodology is described here. The “P” stands for Pain or the reason your customer needs to implement a new product.

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How to Find Your Personal Value Proposition

Duct Tape Marketing

'Marketing podcast with Sally Hogshead. Value propositions are a sales and marketing staple. It’s very difficult to get a purchasing conversation started unless the potential buyer understands some way in which a product or service they are considering adds value in a way that is somewhat unique from other offering. Lacking a strong value proposition lands one in the commodity pile.

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Complex Event Processing

deal architect

'A picture is worth a thousand words, correct? So, how much does a video translate to - exponentially greater number of words. With all the attention being given to Big Data, the realization is sinking in that we are creating.

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Why Focusing on Only One Buyer Will Lose You Sales

Both Sides of the Table

'This is part of a series that describes a sales methodology for technology companies or frankly many other types of companies, too. We developed this at our first company and called it PUCCKA – the overall methodology is described here. Pain. Unique Selling Proposition. Champion. Compelling Event. This post talks about the “K” or Key Players involved in a buying decision.

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4 Tips For Marketing… To Your Employees

YoungUpstarts

'by Nilesh Bhojani, co-founder of Markitty. You spend a lot of time and effort marketing to your customers and prospects: do you spend any on marketing to your own employees? Internal marketing helps with employee retention and improved hiring: more importantly, it helps your customers and other stakeholders get a consistent brand experience. Employees outside of sales and marketing are usually unaware of your positioning and latest marketing messaging.

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10 Lessons For Entrepreneurs on Building Trust

Startup Professionals Musings

'One of the first harsh realities that every entrepreneur has to learn is that most of the things that are critical to startup success are outside of their direct control. Just because you dream it and build it, doesn’t mean they will come – that encompasses not only customers, but also investors, partners, team members, and even your own family. They won’t come if they don’t trust you.

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A conflicted 4th

deal architect

'I find myself feeling even more patriotic than usual on this 4th of July for living in a country which allows me to have all the conflicting feelings I have after the NSA/Snowden affair a) Every country spies. Been going. Little to do with IT, but interesting!

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Is Your Website Traffic Seeing Fireworks or Fizzle?

Rembrandt Communications

'How to Boost Site Traffic with SEO Content ASAP! It’s the 4th of July and time to enjoy the fireworks! But if your Website is not seeing new traffic that leads to sales, you probably don’t feel like celebrating. Don’t worry. There is something you can do right away to increase online awareness… Are you [.].

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[Infographic] Are You An Entrepreneur?

YoungUpstarts

'We’ve already looked at what kind of mindsets and skillsets make the best entrepreneurs , but can you tell if you’re a natural born business leader? Is it the ability to manage money? Your innermost motivations? Or how about the way you conduct yourself while networking or even how organized you are? Well, here’s a fun infographic that is pretty much a flowchart that helps you determine if you’re a true-blue natural entrepreneur, a budding entrepreneur with a lot of pote

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How to Turn Your Million Dollar Idea Into a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

'Based on my own experience and feedback from friends, every investor is approached by at least ten entrepreneurs with a “hot idea” for a new business, for every one who has a real “plan” for a new business. That’s why I often say that ideas are worth nothing, until they are put in the context of a business plan and real people committed to executing the plan.

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More Global Innovation

deal architect

'We hear so much about Silicon Valley and Bangalore and Shanghai that it is refreshing to hear about innovations in other parts of the world. Singapore Changi: Best airport in world Silicon Fen in Cambridge, UK Low Cost AND Long.

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Problem Solving Versus Empathy

Feld Thoughts

'A classical relationship problem is the dichotomy between solving a problem and providing empathy. If you really want to understand this, spend two minutes and watch the awesome “It’s Not About The Nail” video below. Amy and I have figured this out extremely well in our relationship. We talk about it in Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur using the example of the scene from the movie White Men Can’t Jump to frame the situation.

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5 Traits To Look For When Promoting A Millennial

YoungUpstarts

'By Courtney Templin, Chief Operating Officer at JB Training Solutions and co-author of “ Manager 3.0: A Millennial’s Guide to Rewriting the Rules of Management “ Millennials will be leading our organizations and will outnumber the baby boomers in the workforce by 2015. That’s soon! In our new book, “ Manager 3.0: A Millennial’s Guide to Rewriting the Rules of Management “, we offer a look at each of the generations in the workforce, but we focus on millenni

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How to Recognize Smart People for Your Startup Team

Startup Professionals Musings

'Helpers do what you say, while good help does what you need, without you saying anything. People who can help you the most are actually smarter than you, at least in their domain. Top entrepreneurs spend more time putting the right team in place to accomplish their objectives than they spend on any other components of their job. Some entrepreneurs are so in love with themselves (narcissistic) that they insist on answering every question, and making every decision.

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Unrecorded conversations

deal architect

'"You know what’s really outrageous? There are billions of unrecorded conversations every day, and the people having them don’t even have the decency to permalink them." said this snarky commenter on a blog post on Link Rot. Could not put.

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Your Words Should Match Your Actions

Feld Thoughts

'Over the past few months I’ve watched several powerful and successful VCs and entrepreneurs damage their reputations by having their words not match up with their actions. I think this is especially true in the context of a long term relationship. This is a deeply held value of mine and of my partners at Foundry Group. I occasionally screw up and when I do I own it, apologize, and learn from it.

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Is It The Right Time To Be An Entrepreneur?

YoungUpstarts

'by Stacey Thompson. While our country’s economic conditions are improving , the job market is still very much an employers’ market, and good-paying jobs that one could spend many years in are hard to come by. A knee-jerk reaction to this might be, “Why not just work for myself?” As many experienced entrepreneurs would tell you, it’s not quite as easy as it sounds.

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7 Entrepreneur Actions to Balance Family vs Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

'I know some entrepreneurs with successful businesses, and others who seem to have a great relationship with their family, but I can’t think of many who have both. Some people would argue that these two successes are mutually exclusive, but I’m not convinced. Individually, they both take focus, commitment, and a variety of skills, all the strengths of a good entrepreneur.

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7 Steps to be a Game Changer in the Lives of People

Life Beyond Code

'First, a quick definition of game changer. According to the dictionary, it is. A newly introduced element or factor that changes an existing situation or activity in a significant way. So if you want to be a game changer in the lives of others, you have to be that “element” that will change their life situation in a significant way. To keep things simple, let us assume that significant way is something positive and one way to do that is by expanding the space of possibilities for th

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Regroup Successful

Feld Thoughts

'My theme for Q2 was “regroup.” I wrote about this in my post When The Sun Comes Out in early May as I was starting to feel my depression lifting. It’s officially gone at this point – I feel normal, and have for at least a month (probably six weeks.) That’s long enough to declare this depressive episode over. The feedback I’ve gotten from talking openly about my depression has been incredible.

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Understanding Data And Context

YoungUpstarts

'By Nathan Yau, author of “ Data Points: Visualization That Means Something “ Look up at the night sky, and the stars look like dots on a flat surface. The lack of visual depth makes the translation from sky to paper fairly straightforward, which makes it easier to imagine constellations. Just connect the dots. However, although you perceive stars to be the same distance away from you, they are actually varying light years away.

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5 Types Of Bad Websites And How To Whip Them Into Shape

Up and Running

'Every family has one: Whether it’s your youngest nephew, your oldest daughter, or your third cousin, you probably try to shuffle the dreaded problem child to the end of the table at Thanksgiving. They can be spoiled, attention-starved, or just plain destructive, but the one thing they all have in common is that, sometimes, it’s hard for their parents to see the problem.

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How To Get Testimonials For Your Business

Mike Michalowicz

'So how do you get testimonials for your business? In short, you ask for them. But asking is not enough since a client will almost always say yes, yet now they have the burden of doing it. So they don’t. Or they forget. And you get frustrated. And everything gets just a little bit awkward. Here are the steps to getting great testimonials for your business, without putting a burden on anyone else: 1.

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I Love Living In America

Feld Thoughts

'I woke up to a flurry of grumpy stuff about our government intermixed with lots of posts wishing everyone a happy 4th of July. The dissonance of it bounced around in my head for a while and – when I was on my walk with Amy and Brooks the Wonder Dog – I finally asked Amy a few questions to calibrate my reaction to some of the stuff I had read this morning.

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[Asia] HKers, Singaporeans Eye Higher Salaries: jobsDB

YoungUpstarts

'It looks like the Singapore worker has a big and growing appetite when it comes to salary expectations. In a flash of the blindingly obvious, the recently released bin-annual jobsDB Asian Consumer Market Survey – which canvassed the opinions of 1,893 participants from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand – revealed that workers in Singapore, as well as in Hong Kong, are becoming more ambitious and seeking out new, higher paying job roles, even in t

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Bitcoin opportunities

The Equity Kicker

'I’m sat here at the Bitcoin London conference organised by my friends Shakil Khan and Pamir Gelenbe mulling over opportunities in Bitcoin. Here are my thoughts, many of which are inspired by, or re-hashes of, what I’ve heard on stage. Bitcoin’s momentum continues to grow. Regulation is getting clearer, but is still a big issue. Governments are starting to recognise that virtual/crypto currencies will co-exist alongside fiat currencies.

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The Most Common Business Growth Plateau

Mike Michalowicz

'I want to ask you a question. It’s multiple choice. Similar to the one that your grade school teacher would spring on you as a pop quiz. Or when she had just enough of your class’s relentless fidgeting. I want to ask this question because most of us get it wrong. At least, in practice. And until you get this right, your business’s growth will plateau.

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Explaining The Bead-Chain Experiment

Feld Thoughts

'My partner Ryan send around the following awesome video about a bead-chain experience. It’s a fascinating phenomenon. Beautiful, actually. Now, while the experiment, especially in slow motion, is beautiful, I especially enjoyed the discussion around trying to explain what was going on. I’m in conversations like this all the time – where someone is trying to explain how or why something happens based on observation.

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The Customer Experience, Louis C K, And Shopping Your Own Business

YoungUpstarts

'by Micah Solomon , customer service consultant, speaker and author of “ High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service: Inspire Timeless Loyalty in the Demanding New World of Social Commerce “ Customer service consulting can be intensive. Technical. Highly detail-involved. But sometimes, the simplest things tell the most. You don’t need to burn the midnight fluorescents huddled over a spreadsheet to discover some of the issues dragging a company down in its attempts to bond, for life, wi

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Email Retargeting: Not Just For Websites & Display Networks Anymore

ConversionXL

'According to a survey of over 72 Million customers shopping on 86 retail sites, marketing data company, Custora has learned that Email is the number 3 source of customer acquisition. This is outpaced only by Organic Search with 15.8% of total customer acquisition – and CPC with 10% acquisition. In the last four years, Email has quadrupled it’s customer acquisition rate, reaching nearly 7% of total acquisition , making it a serious contender for where you should be focusing your ti

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Don’t Be The “The”

Mike Michalowicz

'There is an interesting phenomena that happens when you do a lot of speaking – you see a lot of other people speak. They can teach you a lot. Over the years, it has become my preference to sit in the middle of the room – in the middle of the crowd – when someone else is presenting. Firstly, I learn a lot about their subject. Secondly, I learn a lot about what we, as attendees, like and don’t like.

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Living the Startup Life

Feld Thoughts

'I loved this video review of Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur. I watched it this morning and smiled a huge smile. Thanks Cynthia Morris for taking the time to do this. And, as the sun shines in my world again, I’m happy that others are spreading the love around. The post Living the Startup Life appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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