Month: February 2013

• February 27, 2013

  Baby Boomers Taking More Risks Than Gen Y, Study Shows

  See on Scoop.it – Entrepreneurship in the World In 1975, a 20-year-old Steve Jobs and his engineering buddy Steve Wozniak began working on the prototype of the Apple 1 computer in Jobs’ parents’ garage. Nearly 30 years later, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his dorm room at Harvard College. Samuel Pavin‘s insight: More entrepreneurs, less…
• February 21, 2013

  B2B Rocks … The conference, in Paris, for B2B startups

  

  B2B, B2C, B2Whatever … . Speaking of startups the target customer might not be the first question asked. It should come soon still with the “How do you make money” bit but look at a Twitter, an Airbnb, an Instagram and their pals, at first, they look sexy and their business orientation is not the…
• February 20, 2013

  Good idea, bad idea … Any difference for startups ?

  

  What is the recipe for a startup ? Usually, friends + beer + chill out + have an idea (or many weird/crazy/smart… really?/very stupid/whatever ideas). That is the cornerstone of a startup building process. Think of something, have an idea, good or bad, and build on it. Then, one question I usually face when meeting…
• February 19, 2013

  Great Employees Are Not Replaceable – Forbes

  See on Scoop.it – Entrepreneurship in the World One of the most important lessons I learned during my years as a CEO was that great employees are not replaceable. It isn’t the technology or the product that make a company great, it’s the people. Samuel Pavin‘s insight: A lesson to keep in mind. Hire good people but…
• February 18, 2013

  Article: Social Media Marketing: How To Turn Satisfied Customers Into ‘Brand Advocates’

  Social Media Marketing: How To Turn Satisfied Customers Into ‘Brand Advocates’ http://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2013/02/15/social-media-marketing-how-to-turn-satisfied-customers-into-brand-advocates/