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Score releases stats on Veteran owned businesses Infographic by Score Happy Veteran's Day and congratulations to the vets who own businesses. The crew at Nerd Stalker thanks and salutes you! Based on stats released by Score, US Veterans make <Fill in the blank>. Check the stats on Vets and their business acumen below:

SCORE Shares Growth Industry Statistics for Budding Entrepreneurs Industry Growth Statistics to Consider (photo courtesy of SCORE) Our friends at SCORE , in partnership with  The Deluxe Corporation Foundation , the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, has gathered statistics into an infographic which identify today’s most promising growth industries for entrepreneurs looking to start a successful small business. Now, before you get excited and rush off,  i ndustry growth is just one factor in choosing the best industry for a new small business . Other important considerations can include target market, location and competition.  Do some homework and enjoy.  

Entrepreneur Debra Chen Share C-Level Executive Stories By Women and For Women Meet Debra Chen. She created a media channel to help women professionals share stories. Debra entered the work world on the male dominated trading floor of Lehman Bros. and is currently working with IRTH Communications working in the Investor Relations communications consulting area where she has a chance to share thoughts and ideas with other C-Level executive women. We interviewed Debra recently to talk about her new channel called - Vanity + Trade . Debra shares her story and her motivation to create this unique on-line channel for women. 

Picture courtesy of Founders Space Founders Space 's Steve Hoffman , aka Capt. Hoff" share his startup tips on "Mentors." In this segment he explains what you should look for in a mentor and his thoughts on characteristics of a good mentor. Check out what Steve has to say.

Happy New Year everyone. We wrap a great year of  Startup Blog  Insights for 2014 with the Top 10 articles of the Startup Blog with Taffy Williams -- Examiner.com writer and entrepreneur. We do a deep dive on the top 10 blogs of 2014 with Taffy's insights into what he feels made them one of the top hits for 2014. Let's start off 2015 right, g ive it a listen or view!

Picks of the Week: Where We’re Going Next | Adaptive Path http://bit.ly/1o5ghmF Google hit by more than 144,000 'right to be forgotten' requests http://bit.ly/1stJnfG (Lance Whitney / CNET) Coin vs Plastc vs Final: New credit card concept focuses on security | BGR http://bit.ly/1vWXyJ9 Stalking Greatness: This Cryptocurrency May Save America http://bit.ly/1qmhNew RoomAlive transforms your living room into an interactive video game http://bit.ly/1o5hEBN Google Ordered To Remove 122 Search Results Possibly Damaging Complainer’s Reputations http://bit.ly/1smVa0d (Akky Akimoto / Asiajin) Speed Round: Two Engineers Have Created the Doll Every Young Girl Should Be Playing With - Mic http://bit.ly/1vWVOPZ What to expect at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce pcworld.com/article/282517 … via @pcworld (Chris Kanaracus / PC World) What Everyone's Getting Wrong About Home Automation http://bit.ly/1o5hJp5 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick Flouts Beats Ban, Ge...

This month we explore agile thinking as it pertains to startups and entrepreneurs. We catch up with Taffy Williams of  Startup Blog  and Examiner.com for his insights on his article on "4 Agile Thinking Skills for Entrepreneurs." Taffy covers the  skills Keep up the pressure, Adjust plans as needed, Try something different and Get feedback . Give it a watch!

Nerd Stalker interview with Dennis List of Dutch startup Rocki , forgive the video quality (or just listen to the audio version under the video above) we were at the mercy of hotel lobby wifi. Rocki has created a very clever small and lightweight device that can jump on wireless networks and execute instructions via the web to play audio to any speaker it's connected to. Want to connect speakers all over your compound? Just connect more Rocki's and your all set. With Rocki you can have more than one phone controlling the music and create a music queue together, think dj battle. The silicon like cover comes in seven different colors and (as of this post) the device is sold for the very less than Sonos price of $49 (plus version) or $89 (play plus version). The device can fit in the palm of your hand and is extremely light. Some future plans for Rocki are to solidify some partnerships with as many music providers as possible, think Spotify and the others. Also they say...

Nerd Stalker interviews Sheldon Laube, the CEO of Artkick [www.artkick.com] -- a new Silicon Valley startup that is bringing digital art to every home in America and thus fully realizing Bill Gates' original vision. Sheldon has been the co-founder of four startups—the first a software consulting firm (CCT) in his college dorm room (with Glenn Ricart). Since then he was the first Chief Information officer of PriceWaterhouse, the Chief Technology Officer of Novell, the co-founder of USWeb, the co-founder of CenterBeam, and the Chief Innovation Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Artkick brings endless art streaming free to anyone with an internet connected TV. The images you love appear on your wall easily and instantly. Information and content on the art you view is visible on your smartphone or tablet, allowing you to learn more about art every day. We downloaded the iOS versions and installed on an iPhone 5 and iPad Air then connected (via AirServer ) to our mac mini me...

Living and working here in San Francisco, we think that the start-up universe centers here and for all practical purposes is the San Francisco / Silicon Valley (wink). Well, not true. The global ecosystem seems to be taking hold at a feverish pace and you don't have to be here in San Francisco to be relevant. After the conclusion of Global Entrepreneurship Week, we catch up with Torsten Kolind , CEO of YouNoodle to discuss the global startup ecosystem. Give it a watch. Also, a bonus infographic from YouNoodle, Startup Weekend and Global Entrepreneurship Week is found below.

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Most people who we talked to here were always skeptical but after a few weeks of trying the Bulletproof Diet , they were converted. The words I hear from the true believers before the diet was "lack of energy", "super tired", "lack of focus, after a few weeks of the diet they said words like  "changed my life", "more energy and focus","enjoying many things I didn't used to enjoy". So for most of us who aren't world-class athletes, would you give up a chance to get to your optimal performance in your career, work or passions. The theme of the 2nd day of the Bulletproof Conference "Bio-hack Your Life" was "Life Changing".  "Optimal Performance in Life" Day one of the conference, Jay Schroeder and Charles Maka demonstrated some tools like the EVO ARP POV Sport instrument which allows the body’s systems to respond more efficiently to work. In Day two, Jay and Charles continued demon...

Love cruises? Love Startups? Well, you can do both. Today, marks the maiden voyage of Unreasonble At Sea where 14 entrepreneurs travel through 14 countries over a 100 day period. Unreasonable At Sea is a mentor-driven accelerator for tech-entrepreneurs who desire to take their ventures into new international markets, and they choose to work exclusively with entrepreneurs working on social and environmental challenges.  These entrepreneurs have been chosen because their ideas will help the global challenges affecting the world. 

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Nerd Stalker interview with Sam Rahimi and Tammy Manor of Canadian startup iBroadcastTV(we broadcasted this interview live on iBroadcastTV). iBroadcastTV is a social broadcasting service that allows you to have your own personal TV channel as well as allow users to view others personal TV channels. Sam and Tammy tell our Greg Viloria aka @SocialGreg their path to entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley and their vision for iBroadcastTV.

6mins Interview with Trevor Goss, founder of ideakick. From the ideakick site: So you want to know what happens at an ideakick? Well, here’s your answer… IDEA PITCHES The main point of coming to an ideakick is to pitch an idea that you have for something… anything. This might be something you’ve been thinking about for 6 months or it might be something you’ve been thinking about for 6 minutes. It’s all good. Basically what happens is you get to stand up in front of the group and tell them what your idea is. You have a total of 10 minutes, and in that 10 minutes you can use as much time as you want to tell everyone about your idea. Once you’re done, everyone else in the room gets to use the rest of the time that’s left to “kick” the idea around. Don’t stress about whether your pitch is refined or not. This isn’t like you’re testifying before Congress or anything like that. All you really need to do is say enough to get the conversation started. You might talk about a specific id...

Nerd Stalker has the honor of being a longtime media partner for SF New Tech and during that time we have seen many a startup present. Sure there have been a few flops but for the most part we’ve been blown away by great demos. Increasingly startups are approaching us asking how best to present for the format. I finally got around to writing some observations on what seems to work vs. what (in my opinion) does not. Although this is specific to the 5 minute SF New Tech format, we think that some of this can apply across the board. We hope some of you entrepreneurs who take the brave leap to present can gain some value from this post. Be warned if your not the first presenter, chances are your going to swap in a laptop, ipad or some device to an external display. This tends to work quickly about 70% of the time so try to nail it. Make sure your battery is fully charged and bring your own dongle(s) you'd be amazed how many presenters miss these basic steps. If your relyi...

An amazingly candid talk from the ex DIGG CEO, Jay Adelson . Cathy Brooks and Jay talk about his early days in other companies he ran, lessons learned, work/life balance, east coast vs. west coast, why he left DIGG and the (declined) CURRENT.TV and Google acquisition offers. An interesting moment occurs when a woman in the audience notifies Jay of breaking news that DIGG laid off 37% of their staff at that very moment.

Listen to the Steve Blank FailCon 2010 fantastic talk. Customer Development Past Present Future Steve Blank (Not all the same slides from the talk but most are, will swap out if/when they are made available)