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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

James covers the genesis of Ministry of Awesome following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011, and provides updates on Ministry of Awesome approaches to startup founder support and programming. We’ve got some really incredible people that have joined our team to provide that one-to-one mentorship and advice.

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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

Both Sides of the Table

Are we headed for a long era of innovation in which startups are the new norm? Yes, there is unprecedented innovation. So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. But what does this all mean? As with the late 90′s the answer is “Yes.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. Here talking about lithium-ion batteries and the early lead we’ve squandered in that market: “ With some technologies, both scaling and innovation take place overseas. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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If you’re creating truly innovative products, you often have no idea whether the proverbial dog will eat the dog food. Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. You have a hunch.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Tags: Start-up Advice. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. File sharing?

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

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So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. The goal was to create innovations outside of MySpace and then MySpace would acquire them at pre-agreed prices based on how well they performed. This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. Enter Facebook.

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Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities???with $15 million to?

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Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. It’s what venture capital teams at innovators like First Round Capital and True Ventures realized 15 years ago? —?this is classic community management. I connected with Clay Christensen and stayed in touch until he passed. (If