Topic: startups
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Scaffolds and gators
Friday, March 1, 2013 · Topics: org-culture, startups
From Social Insites Blog: When does a start-up stop being a start-up? It’s a question that provides great link-bait on the interwebs, and I’m not going to answer it. There are a few hallmarks of start-up culture that we continue to cultivate here at NewsGator that make this a place to love. · Go to Scaffolds and gators →
Your startup is a tribe (and your customers are members, too)
Friday, July 20, 2012 · Topics: brand-strategy, customer-experience, startups, tribes
From FastCompany: Why should you cooperate with your customers? Survival is a pretty good motivator. · Go to Your startup is a tribe (and your customers are members, too) →
IDEO launches a start-up incubator (but don’t call it an incubator)
Thursday, July 12, 2012 · Topics: ideo, startups
From FastCompany: Rather than work for just the biggest companies in the world, they’ll be working with some of the smallest. It’s part of their new Start-Up in Residence program, a five-month boot camp for just one lucky start-up team who will work right aside IDEO out of their Chicago office. · Go to IDEO launches a start-up incubator (but don’t call it an incubator) →
How to win the talent war
Thursday, June 7, 2012 · Topics: employee-engagement, entrepreneurship, startups
From Fast Company: The formula for a successful startup is simple: create a product that people need, and hire ridiculously talented, highly motivated people to build it. Finding ridiculously talented, highly motivated people is by far the more challenging side of this equation. Here’s how to do it. · Go to How to win the talent war →
Linda Rottenberg’s high-impact endeavor
Friday, April 20, 2012 · Topics: entrepreneurship, mentoring, startups
From strategy+business: This social entrepreneur pioneered a new model for mentoring startups in emerging markets. Now she’s replicating it around the world. · Go to Linda Rottenberg’s high-impact endeavor →
Google’s creative destruction
Friday, April 20, 2012 · Topics: startups, venture-capital
From FastCompany: Venture-capital firms have been the engine of the United States’ innovation economy. At Google Ventures, the search giant’s investing arm, Google thinks it can build a better one. · Go to Google’s creative destruction →
Establishing rules of engagement
Saturday, March 24, 2012 · Topics: startups, team-development
From Jeffrey Cufaude: In order for us to do anything with each other, we first have to understand how we want to be with each other. Having stated and understood rules of engagement, shared agreements for participation, helps create a safer climate for individual participation. Defining norms for a conversation, community, or organization helps people understand “this is who we are and how we will do things here.” As Margaret Wheatley has said, “To create learning organizations, we must understand the underlying agreements we have made about how we will be together.” · Go to Establishing rules of engagement →
Occupy movement: The world’s 50 most innovative companies in 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 · Topics: creativity, innovation, startups
From FastCompany: Disruptive. Small-d democratic. Transparent. Tech savvy. Design savvy. Local and global. Nimble. Values-driven. No matter your gut reaction to what has sprung out of a seemingly sketchy September landing on New York’s Zuccotti Park, the Occupy movement is spiritually akin to the innovative companies we laud elsewhere on this list and in each issue. Square, for example, is working to disrupt an established trillion-dollar payment infrastructure that puts the little guy at a disadvantage. Occupy, meanwhile, is challenging a political, financial, and social establishment that has resulted in income inequality and puts most Americans at a disadvantage. Both attempt to make a more fair future. · Go to Occupy movement: The world’s 50 most innovative companies in 2012 →
