Sat.Jul 14, 2012 - Fri.Jul 20, 2012

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A Startup Advisory Board Dream Team is Priceless

Gust

Every startup faces a myriad of challenges that are well beyond the scope of any founder, so you need a few guiding lights to illuminate the road ahead. These should be carefully selected, with a proven track record, willing and available to help, and be completely trustworthy. Make sure they are willing to check their egos at the door. Let’s talk specifics.

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TechStars Patriot Boot Camp Is Happening This Week

Feld Thoughts

TechStars is running an event called the Patriot Boot Camp in Washington D.C. from July 18-20. About 75 veterans who are active or aspiring entrepreneurs have already been accepted and will be attending. During this three day event, they’ll get a mini TechStars-like experience. The number of people who have stepped up to offer to mentor these veteran-formed companies is just awesome.

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How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly

The Next Web

Editors Note: This is a guest post from Jeff Keacher , an engineer in Denver, Colorado. You can find him pretending to be an entrepreneur by fixing blurry photos or extolling the virtues of backup for photographers. Also, he loves playing hockey. You can follow him on Twitter @teuobk. . It’s never good to scare away your customers. It’s even worse if you don’t realize you’re doing it.

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How to Get Bloggers to Write About Your Startup: Insider Advice

ReadWriteStart

It’s every startup’s dream - to get the attention of the people who matter. You might think that refers to customers or clients, or even venture capitalists or angel investors. Nope. We’re talking about bloggers. Sure, investors and customers are vital to the success of a startup business, but few things can turn your tech startup into the “it” company on everyone’s lips (and tweets) as quickly as getting mentioned by a prominent blog or blogger.

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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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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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Google Hangout About The Broken Software Patent System – Today @ 1pm Pacific

Feld Thoughts

I’m on a Google Hangout today at 1pm Pacific time hosted by the EFF. I’ll be discussing the broken software patent system with Jason Schultz and Parker Higgins. I know this announcement is last minute – somehow the event eluded me and my calendar. Fortunately, due to the power of Twitter, I noticed that I was mentioned in a tweet about it.

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From Inmates to Entrepreneurs: The San Quentin Startup Accelerator

ReadWriteStart

Prison inmates have all day, every day, to sit around and think. It could be the world’s largest pool of untapped brain time. Chris Redlitz decided to put it to productive use. He founded the Last Mile startup accelerator program at San Quentin State Prison in California. “I’ve driven by San Quentin every day for the last 14 years, but never bothered to understand the prison system,” says Redlitz, who lives in Marin County north of San Francisco (where the prison sits on San Francisco Bay) and r

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The IBM CEO Study: The Directors Cut

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Francis Ford Coppola edited plenty in the Director’s version of his classic The Godfather. The studio made him add almost 50 minutes back to the movie when it was released. I smiled when Jon Reed shared with me IBM’s CEO.

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Want to be happier, more positive and more successful? Understand and embrace the rules of the game.

Jeff Hilimire

One of the biggest inhibitors to happiness and success is people not understanding and embracing the rules of the game. Your reality is what it is. You can do things to change that, sure, but for the most part these things are, well, reality. People who constantly struggle to accept their own reality are always going to have a hard time succeeding.

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Tenacious

Steve Blank

TE·NA·CIOUS /T??N?SH?S/. Adjective: Not readily letting go of, giving up, or separated from an object that one holds, a position, or a principle: “a tenacious grip” Not easily dispelled or discouraged; persisting in existence or in a course of action. When I was a entrepreneur I’d pursue a goal relentlessly. Everything in between me and my goal was simply an obstacle that needed to be removed.

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7 Ways to Help Startup Workers Innovate

ReadWriteStart

Being innovative is part of the DNA of a tech startup - or at least it should be. But when your employees are working 18-hour days, unleashing their inner innovators can be a challenge. These 7 tips can help get the ball rolling: 1. Set an example. An innovative company needs to start with the founders and top execs. While even the most creative founders can’t drive innovation all by themselves, someone has to lead the way.

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We dont actually do what we propose

deal architect

Remember the UPS ad below? I thought about the ad as I read this Fortune article about HP. Two visiting consultants are waiting for the elevator at a big company's headquarters. One is from HP, the other from IBM. The.

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The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points

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5 Opportunity Areas To Motivate Any Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Equally often, I see startups who are on the road to implementing an idea, but haven’t figured out what problem it solves – the business plan waxes on eloquently for 20 pages about how great this product and

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How to Get Bloggers to Write About Your Startup: Insider Advice

ReadWriteStart

It’s every startup’s dream - to get the attention of the people who matter. You might think that refers to customers or clients, or even venture capitalists or angel investors. Nope. We’re talking about bloggers. Sure, investors and customers are vital to the success of a startup business, but few things can turn your tech startup into the “it” company on everyone’s lips (and tweets) as quickly as getting mentioned by a prominent blog or blogger.

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Insourcing more than a political slogan

deal architect

Insourcing is on US TV every day thanks to back and forth between the Obama and the Romney campaigns. Outsourcers may chuckle, smirk and discount the term as it is used in an opportunistic, nationalistic way. But they should be.

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Entreporn: learning vs doing vs wasting time

swombat.com

swombat.com. daily articles for founders. BY DANIEL TENNER. all posts. latest. get more! founders library. Im the CTO and cofounder of GrantTree , Woobius , and Vocalix, a full-time entrepreneur since 2007. I previously worked at Accenture and studied Physics at the University of Oxford. Here are the current projects Im involved in. On swombat.com , I summarise and comment on the best articles for founders each day, as well as post my own thoughts and advice, so you can read the most useful arti

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New Early Stage Financing Options for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Don’t be embarrassed, since even professional investors are often confused these days by the new terms, as well as old terms used with new meanings. In any case, it’s time to look again at the options you really have.

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From Inmates to Entrepreneurs: The San Quentin Startup Accelerator

ReadWriteStart

Prison inmates have all day, every day, to sit around and think. It could be the world’s largest pool of untapped brain time. Chris Redlitz decided to put it to productive use. He founded the Last Mile startup accelerator program at San Quentin State Prison in California. “I’ve driven by San Quentin every day for the last 14 years, but never bothered to understand the prison system,” says Redlitz, who lives in Marin County north of San Francisco (where the prison sits on San Francisco Bay) and r

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What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

What was supposed to happen is that a curious pair of scissors would be offered me, designed for a singular purpose that TSA could never accept, which is to sever the life-line of an infant. Pin It I would then have to make a choice — a choice already pondered — on whether I had the stomach to take that critical action myself, in a modern 1st-world existence where even the most precious and basic of life’s occurrences might be cause for ill-at-ease at the smell of blood or dis

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Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur)

pandodaily.com

Follow PandoDaily: Search. Main menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Deals. People. Products. Culture. PandoList. Events. Back Page. Books. Get Tickets. Fireside Chat with Mark Pincus. Post navigation. ← Previous. Next → Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur). by Sarah Lacy on February 26, 2012. Starting PandoDaily has been one of the most terrifying and exhilarating things I’ve ever done.

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Don’t Allow Your Startup To Be a ‘One-Trick Pony’

Startup Professionals Musings

Within the startup realm, there is a big difference between having an innovative product versus an innovative business. Some startups have a new technology, but stick to a tried-and-true business model. Others take an existing product, and give it new life with a creative business model. The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time.

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How to Get Bloggers to Write About Your Startup: Insider Advice

ReadWriteStart

It’s every startup’s dream – to get the attention of the people who matter. You might think that refers to customers or clients, or even venture capitalists or angel investors. Nope. We’re talking about bloggers. Sure, investors and customers are vital to the success of a startup business, but few things can turn your tech startup into the “it” company on everyone’s lips (and tweets) as quickly as getting mentioned by a prominent blog or blogger.

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Social: Product and Personal Brands

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I have been running a series of innovation posts about the London Olympics on the New Florence blog. It is expected to be the most interactive Games ever. What a great opportunity for skilled marketing teams to take advantage of.

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Your Brain On Vacation: 11 Proven Benefits Of Taking Time Off

YoungUpstarts

Your brain works hard every day, regulating your breathing, controlling your heart rate, helping you shout answers at the TV while “Jeopardy” is on. Isn’t it time you gave it a rest? Sure, you could zone out for a few minutes and take a so-called “brain vacation,” but then you risk making all your other organs jealous. Allow us to give you the incentive to book that trip you’ve been debating taking to the Bahamas : your brain reaps terrific benefits like these when you shut the office down and c

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Entrepreneurs Who Can See Around the Corner

Startup Professionals Musings

The ultimate compliment that any entrepreneur can get is that they can “see around corners.” This is a statement that they are willing and able (and successful) at projecting market and technology turns, not just straight-line innovations. They have the courage to make bold decisions, often contrary to conventional market research. Steve Jobs of Apple has been maybe the most visible example of this phenomenon, but others often mentioned include Richard Branson (Virgin Group), Joe Costello (Caden

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7 Ways to Help Startup Workers Innovate

ReadWriteStart

Being innovative is part of the DNA of a tech startup – or at least it should be. But when your employees are working 18-hour days, unleashing their inner innovators can be a challenge. These 7 tips can help get the ball rolling: 1. Set an example. An innovative company needs to start with the founders and top execs. While even the most creative founders can’t drive innovation all by themselves, someone has to lead the way.

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More New Florence

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on the innovation blog You say football, I say soccer Rapid Charging EVs Mobile apps for the bottom of the pyramid Trends in the kitchen Gigapixel cameras How to turn your iPad into a Surface.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 2]

Agile VC

Last week I wrote about some of the common factors that have led great VC firms to stumble or even fade from existence entirely. I wanted to follow-up with some observations of paths to greatness for a select group of firms. Also it’s also worth noting a few clever hacks that some firms have taken which may not assure greatness, but can help avoid the pitfalls that have ensnared past firms.

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Entrepreneurs Need Market Data to Back Their Vision

Startup Professionals Musings

Most startup founders know exactly what they want to design and sell, and they are personally convinced that everyone will buy one. Yet they often fail to realize that their view is likely biased, and will be instantly discounted by potential investors. Business plans with no “industry expert” data on your target opportunity size and growth are routinely rejected.

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7 Ways to Help Startup Workers Innovate

ReadWriteStart

Being innovative is part of the DNA of a tech startup - or at least it should be. But when your employees are working 18-hour days, unleashing their inner innovators can be a challenge. These 7 tips can help get the ball rolling: 1. Set an example. An innovative company needs to start with the founders and top execs. While even the most creative founders can’t drive innovation all by themselves, someone has to lead the way.

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The elastic Workday

deal architect

We have long written about the elasticity of the cloud computing business model. Salespeople in the field have just as long used FUD about the supposed rigidity of its applicability. It only works for small and mid-size businesses. It only.

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Startup Stock Exchange – Buy And Sell Startup Shares

YoungUpstarts

If you’re a small startup that has been pounding the streets and banging on the doors to raise a round of funding, you know how tough that can be. And with the success of Kickstarter.com , you probably wonder why there aren’t more online social crowdfunding solutions that caters more to small businesses. Well, you may want to check out Startup Stock Exchange then.

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Some Entrepreneurs Never Learn to Manage Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. They run into difficulty when their business reaches the $1-2 million annual sales range, or their employee count exceeds 5-10. It’s here that entrepreneurs must shift their thinking from tactical and operational, to strategic and managerial.

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From Inmates to Entrepreneurs: The San Quentin Startup Accelerator

ReadWriteStart

Prison inmates have all day, every day, to sit around and think. It could be the world’s largest pool of untapped brain time. Chris Redlitz decided to put it to productive use. He founded the Last Mile startup accelerator program at San Quentin State Prison in California. “I’ve driven by San Quentin every day for the last 14 years, but never bothered to understand the prison system,” says Redlitz, who lives in Marin County north of San Francisco (where the prison sits on San Francisco Bay) and r

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We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.

deal architect

People howl at me when I ask enterprise vendors to benchmark themselves against operational efficiencies and innovations at Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google or I mock Western telcos for not matching broadband speeds and economics in Japan and S. Korea.

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