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Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’

Startup Professionals Musings

These trusted sources are a new breed of professionals who may soon carry the new title of “information curator,” evolved from the “museum curator” role, where a domain expert filters and communicates the important elements of a past civilization or technology. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.”

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These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation

Steve Blank

To help a large Defense organization wrestle with how to increase the velocity of innovation in their ranks Steve Blank and I spent the better part of last week with our heads together reviewing everything we learned in the five years since we merged the concepts of problem curation and Lean while launching the innovation pipeline.

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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. But on the other hand if you have a product with a very high gross margin (software, virtual goods, etc.) Therefore if your app is geared toward leisure activities (games, communications with friends, etc.) then mobile is awesome.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!).

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Why You Should Embrace Opposing Views at Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

If you think it’s location-based services / find out where your friends are at while you’re out – let’s talk about whether we need to incorporate that into our product. I logged into a room to listen to music & see what the product was all about. To ignore FourSquare would be dumb. But I saw turntable.fm

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IGNITE! pitch event at Microsoft – September 4

David Teten

A place for geeks to share what they’ve done, who they did it with and connect with great companies and communities. In Geeklist we provide the global developer community a place to get credit where credit is due. A news curation dashboard for teams and organizations. Our first product Deaftel Wireless will change this.

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

The Impact of Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Lloyed Lobo In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Lloyed Lobo. He is an entrepreneur, podcast host, and community builder. Would you support that idea? [10:39] 11:32] The subtitle of the book has 13 rules.