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Rewards and Risks of Blogging for an American Audience

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Posted: June 7th, 2011
at 6:17pm by mnp


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Should You Hire MBAs at Your Startup?

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Guy Kawasaki says he values startups at $100,000 per MBA and $1,000,000 per engineer. We’ve got 3 MBA’s and 2 engineers (our CTO is both - double credit!!!), so he values us at $2.3mm. (Source)

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Posted: June 7th, 2011
at 6:16pm by mnp


Categories: business,development,entrepreneurship,jobs,innovation

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Posted: June 7th, 2011
at 6:16pm by mnp


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Mind and Machine: The Future of Thinking

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Posted: June 7th, 2011
at 11:26am by mnp


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Designers and Programming

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-You’ll better understand the medium you’re working in. If you know what database queries will be faster than others, you can make the right response time tradeoffs. If you know what’s easy to code and what’s difficult to code, you can get your ideas implemented faster (and more of them, since development time is a limited resource.) Understanding what your medium does well and where isn’t as effective makes for more informed design decisions.
-Knowing how to code helps you produce better prototypes. The best way to communicate a design idea to your teammates and clients is through an interactive prototype. Producing your own quick prototypes brings your ideas to life sooner, releasing that inner brilliance you’re carrying around and helping everyone see what your designs are really about.
-Knowing how to code helps you identify bugs and flaws in the production code. As your team’s designs start to come to life, you can play an essential role of helping the developers isolate interaction problems, which means your end product will be the best it can be. (Source)

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Posted: June 7th, 2011
at 11:26am by mnp


Categories: design,development

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Did You Know?

Here’s a scary figure for you - 57% of consumers will abandon a site after only a 3 second wait. Where do you think they’re going? For a typical query to Google often thousands of relevant results are returned. There’s plenty of options available so there’s no real need to hang about when a page takes it’s time in getting you the content your interested in. If the top result is slow, we’ll likely just try result number two in the list. (Source)

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Posted: June 7th, 2011
at 11:26am by mnp


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Enjoying the Grind

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The daily grind was not easy (or pleasurable). It was extremely difficult to get used to at first-eating less fast food, exercising, gradually learning more about proper diet and nutrition. Self-discipline is a difficult thing to build, especially when you’ve never had any before. But over the weeks and months I’ve come to enjoy the daily grind. I now enjoy reading new nutrition and health books, and learning how the body works. I enjoy preparing, cooking, and eating my own healthy meals. And I even look forward to pushing myself harder and harder during workouts. via

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Posted: June 7th, 2011
at 11:25am by mnp


Categories: life,development,health

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60 Minutes : High Speed Traders

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Posted: June 7th, 2011
at 11:25am by mnp


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Minority Owned Startup Culture

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There are some cultures that are more entrepreneurial than others. That’s just the way things are. For instance, Indians are considered a minority, yet they tend to be very entrepreneurial. The same can be said for other Asian cultures. So the general minority tag doesn’t work here. Instead we need to separate each of these minority groups and look at them independently. What you’ll find is that certain groups/cultures are more business minded than others.

Hispanics and African Americans tend to be less entrepreneurial than Whites. Why? Because of the difference in cultures. The real issue comes from within the culture itself, and has little to do with external factors (contrary to what many believe). Unfortunately, culture is an intangible, which makes it hard to point to specific notions within each culture that contribute to being one way or the other. The best I can think of is to look at what kind of behaviors are encouraged within each culture. Starting your own business is not something that is encouraged in all cultures.

So my opinion is that this really isn’t a problem. It’s perceived as a problem by many entrepreneurs, because we think this is the road to happiness, but it’s not really a problem. It only becomes a problem when there is a big percentage of minorities that want to start a tech business, but can’t. However, the reality is that a majority of people in certain groups just aren’t interested in tech startups. And of the small percentage that are interested, their success rate seems to be in line with non-minorities. (Source)

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Posted: June 7th, 2011
at 11:25am by mnp


Categories: entrepreneurship

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