Today I got the sad news that tech blogger, entrepreneur and health and fitness blogger Allen Stern had passed away. The cause of death has yet to be disclosed. This came as a shock to me as Allen had spent the last two years devoted to changing his lifestyle and improving his health. It was…
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We get it, you’re busy. You weren’t able to get to every Tech Cocktail post this week; baseball is upon us. We know. Fear not, because we’ve curated the week’s top 10(ish) posts as determined by the Tech Cocktail editorial team. To get the Tech Cocktail weekly wrap-up direct to your inbox, sign up for the Tech…
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On March 20, Hubspot peeled back the veil on its company culture by posting its CultureCode on Slideshare, snapping up 300,000 views in less than three weeks. The beautiful, 150-page presentation shares the beliefs, values, and practices that make HubSpot unique – from customer focus to transparency to autonomy, from honesty to high standards to…
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Do you know how much space is left on your iPhone? Do you even know how much space it had to begin with? Cofounder Raul Mujica of Kincast, an app for sharing videos with family, realized that many of his users didn’t. In fact, 40 percent had less than 10 percent space left on their…
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Last week, American Express OPEN and Daniel Isenberg announced a new program to help grow startup scenes across the United States, starting with Milwaukee. The program, called OPEN for Enterprise: Coalitions for High-Growth Entrepreneurship, is based on Isenberg’s work fostering entrepreneurship in Colombia, Brazil, and Denmark through BEEP. His perspective is that ”scale-ups” are more…
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The inaugural Big Kansas City, a two-and-a-half-day conference on innovation and entrepreneurship, was held recently at the National Airline History Museum in Kansas City. I was there to take part in celebrating the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the heart of the Midwest. It was a truly inspiring event, and, having listened to the event’s star-studded lineup…
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Is your Facebook feed redder today than it was on V-Day? You’re not alone. We’ve all, at the very least, come to know and recognize the Human Rights Campaign logo – and perhaps a few of the many creative variations of it – over the past week. What does it all mean? For equal marriage…
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Be Great Partners, a new incubator in Los Angeles, launched in February with a $6 million fund planned for startups. The company is actually a hybrid of an accelerator and an incubator (a coworking space with extra programs and mentorship). Like the former, Be Great Partners offers office space, mentorship, and capital (around $25,000 per startup,…
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Clarity, the site that help entrepreneurs set up phone calls with mentors, today released an ebook called “Get More Clarity: Straight Up Startup Advice from Experienced Entrepreneurs.” The free, 40-page book contains 100 short pieces of advice. Clarity chose them from among the best startup advice submitted from entrepreneurs around the world, including Dave McClure,…
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The line between insanity and entrepreneurship is razor thin (and at times, non-existent). Envisioning a world that no one else sees can accurately describe both camps. In order to construct this new reality, entrepreneurs are often forfeiting a 9-5 job, steady paycheck, and comfortable living quarters in the process, while their version of “normal” is anything but. When…
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This April Fools’, I want to encourage entrepreneurs to tell the truth – because it’s the opposite of what many do for the rest of the year. In The Entrepreneur Mind, Kevin Johnson puts it like this: “Rarely do entrepreneurs talk about how bad times can get. If we do talk about them, we gloss…
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We get it, you’re busy. You weren’t able to get to every Tech Cocktail post this week; still March, still mad. Us too. Fear not, because we’ve curated the week’s top 10(ish) posts as determined by the Tech Cocktail editorial team. To get the Tech Cocktail weekly wrap-up direct to your inbox, sign up for the Tech…
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Startup marketing often involves an “all of the above” or “by any means necessary” approach, and rightfully so. To meet short-term goals, the strategy, or means, becomes far less important than the outcome. Logically, the starting point for most startups is to drive traffic to the website (i.e., fill the top of the sales/conversion funnel)….
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Among the trends hitting the tech world today, big data is not one of the sexiest. If it conjures up any image at all, it’s pages of numbers and text with a vague bearing upon business reality. Released last Monday, Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data by Phil Simon hopes to…
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Every month, millions of Americans await the Bureau of Labor Statistics job report in hopes of seeing the job market take a turn in a more positive direction. While the difference between an encouraging or disappointing report is fairly small, fingers are crossed for good news. The slow economic recovery is nothing short of frustrating….
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Don’t have time to read? Here’s a quick but comprehensive summary of Kevin D. Johnson’s “The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs,” released on March 5, 2013. Who should read this: “Whether you are thinking of starting a business, celebrating your first year in business, or approaching ten years in…
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