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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Join a CEO peer group. If you are in a peer group with other CEOs , it’s much easier to get perspective on what’s happening to you. Sometimes, you don’t feel comfortable describing your fears and frustrations to your cofounders or investors on your board, but a peer group allows you to do this in a safe way.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

Both Sides of the Table

By now many of you know the Harlem Shake but what you may not appreciate is the broader trend behind the video and it has mirrored my general views on how TV will work in the future. 200 million views. Suck it traditional TV. TV of the future will not always have linear stories. Why would it? Gangnam Style Meets Torso TV. think Apple.

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Staax thinks peer-to-peer payments can onboard a new generation of stock investors

TechCrunch

What sets Staax apart, though, is that it allows for peer-to-peer payments in stock. For better or for worse, Robinhood helped inspire a new generation of investors to enter the stock market. Oftentimes, the barriers to investing are logistical, she explained. Image Credit: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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The Long Economic Case for Snapchat

Both Sides of the Table

Yesterday I wrote a primer on how to use Snapchat for my peer group of “over 30” people who don’t yet “get” Snapchat. Today I want to talk briefly about why I believe Snapchat is an important media company. From the business perspective you need to understand a few things about media and video in particular.

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How to Come up With Great Ideas

Paul G. Silva

Here is what the 4×3 foot poster looks like: Download & print the 4×3 ft poster , grab some sticky notes, and follow along. If your startup/organization/team struggles with ideation (the process of coming up with ideas), you fall into one of two camps: Those who struggle to come up with any ideas. The Short Version. The Details.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

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You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies? I described that phenomenon in this post. Declining prices & margins in a small market is much less interesting. Add unemployment to debt.