Thu.Aug 06, 2015

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Cash Flow 101: The Best Ways to Manage Cash Flow

Up and Running

(Note: This is the fourth installment in our “Cash Flow 101” series. The first, second, and third installments can be found here, here, and here. ). Businesses that lack positive cash flow—i.e., those that pay more money out than they bring in—will almost assuredly be forced to shutter their doors sooner or later. Without positive cash flow, all companies (and small businesses in particular) likely won’t possess the agility necessary to respond to today’s quickly evolving business landscape.

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18 Ways to Make Your Financial Model Stand Out to Investors

David Teten

The median investor looking at your proposal is in her 40s. Her eyes are going, not to mention her brain. I look at a lot of spreadsheets and analytic reports, and way too many are difficult to read and therefore hard to understand. In an effort to make my life easier, I’ve summarized here the steps that will make it much easier for people to read, understand, and hopefully invest in your business.

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12 Things a Small Business Owner Can Do to Get the Most Out of WordPress

Duct Tape Marketing

12 Things a Small Business Owner Can Do to Get the Most Out of WordPress written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. WordPress is a popular CMS platform, so you’re in a great place if you use it as the foundation for your website. With millions of themes and plugins, a superior experience can be had. It’s easy to get started, and an out of the box solution is free.

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Startups Should Be Responsible for Explaining Equity to New Employees

View from Seed

When someone goes to work for a larger corporation or public company, the compensation package generally includes an annual salary, a performance bonus or commission plan, 401(k), and health insurance. When someone goes to work for an early startup, the compensation package general includes an annual salary, health insurance, and, instead of fixed-cost performance upside, a percentage of unvested options to purchase equity in the company.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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A history of enterprise software

deal architect

Many of my writing and speaking bios use the moniker “innovation historian.

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4 Ways To Get Your Finances Under Control

YoungUpstarts

If your finances are starting to get out of control, the first thing to think about is what your earning is compared to your spending. If you’re only breaking even or are coming up in the minuses, you need to start thinking of some ways to tame your bank accounts. Below are four useful suggestions that anyone can implement: 1. Additional Income. If you have too many debts or payments to make, it is worth thinking about a side job or an additional income source.

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Stand Out With Brevity

YoungUpstarts

By Beth Noymer Levine, author of “ Jock Talk: 5 Communication Principles for Leaders as Exemplified by Legends of the Sports World “ When was the last time you or someone you know complained because a speaker was brief? Quite the opposite, right? Like bling, brevity immediately gets our attention. It’s a quick way to be memorable and ensure that your audience retains your points.

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Startups Should Be Responsible for Explaining Equity to New Employees

View from Seed

When someone goes to work for a larger corporation or public company, the compensation package generally includes an annual salary, a performance bonus or commission plan, 401(k), and health insurance. When someone goes to work for an early startup, the compensation package general includes an annual salary, health insurance, and, instead of fixed-cost performance upside, a percentage of unvested options to purchase equity in the company.

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Business Opportunities In The Home Care Industry

YoungUpstarts

by Sarah Schwarcz, business development representative at Senior Planning Services. Recently, the national attention being paid to the home care industry has increased substantially. This is due to a variety of factors: the increasingly larger senior population, the changing face of senior assistance expectations, and the need for better in-home care, among others.

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A16Z Podcast on Startup Communities

Feld Thoughts

Last week I participated in a podcast hosted by A16Z titled How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe. I got to talk with AnnaLee Saxenian , the Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Innovation. Her book, Regional Advantage , had a huge impact from on my thinking around Startup Communities. From a 2010 blog post of mine about a bunch of books that I had read on a week off the grid.

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4 Must-Have Apps to Make It as a Beauty Professional

Up and Running

While you may be a talented nail artist, the queen of updos, and a highlight expert, one thing they don’t always teach you in beauty school is how to run your own business. Nothing compares to your first day on the job as a beauty professional—between keeping clients happy, making ends meet financially, and finding the time to do it all, it’s a nerve-wracking experience for many.

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4 Tips To Write Emails That Get Opened, Read and Clicked

YFS Magazine

Following this advice is truly the best (and easiest) ways ever to write emails that get opened, read and clicked.

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Sarah Timmerman: How Fashion Website ‘Beginning Boutique’ Grew To $4 Million A Year In Sales And Became Australia’s Top Ranked Social Media Brand With Over 1 Million Followers

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] I love this interview. Sarah Timmerman is from my hometown Brisbane, she’s grown a $4 million a year women’s fashion online retailer, gathered a million followers on social media — and she has done it starting with. The post Sarah Timmerman: How Fashion Website ‘Beginning Boutique’ Grew To $4 Million A Year In Sales And Became Australia’s Top Ranked Social Media Brand With Over 1 Million Fol

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One thing we must learn from Tinder to create a successful app

Start Up Blog

The reason Tinder works is simple. It replicates human behaviour in the real world. The moment someone walks into a night club they look around at the faces of people and say to themselves, Yes, No, No ,Yes, No, No, No, No Yes, Yes. And the people they are looking at are doing the same thing back at them – assuming of course they are both looking to meet someone.

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5 Brilliant Brand Lessons From Bethenny Frankel

YFS Magazine

Bethenny Frankel has built a profitable career by being unapologetically.

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Keys to Successful Angel Group Presentation

Tim Keane

GUEST POST By Tim Taylor "The Pitch Coach" from Silicon Valley ([link] The key to a successful angel group presentation is to keep in mind that your objective is to get people in the audience thinking to themselves “This is.

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BioMed SA Celebrates 10th Anniversary

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Ten years ago, a group of leaders in San Antonio, led by former Mayor Henry Cisneros and the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, created an advocacy organization for the city’s biomedical industry. They founded BioMed SA with the core mission to raise the visibility of San […] The post BioMed SA Celebrates 10th Anniversary appeared first on SiliconHills.

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More Words of Wisdom from Peter Thiel

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a brief video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Peter Thiel , the co-founder of PayPal, author of the book “ Zero to One ,” and a brilliant entrepreneur and investor.

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Five Things to Know About A Chart of Accounts

Early Growth Financial Services

1. What exactly is a Chart of Accounts (COA)? In simple terms, it is an indexed listing of all the different account classifications for your organization’s expenses. A COA is targeted to your company’s specific revenue streams and forms the core of your accounting system. 2. Why do you need a Chart of Accounts? Your COA helps you track and report each class of items for which you spend or receive funds.

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The Phoenix Project

OnlyOnce

The Phoenix Project : a novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford is a logical intellectual successor and regularly quotes Eli Goldratt’s seminal work The Goal and its good but less known sequel It’s Not Luck. The more business books I read, the more I appreciate the novel or table format.

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How Does Content Marketing Help Your Social Media Strategy

Brandanew

The importance of social media is the writing on the wall. Social media is not only the easiest way of knowing the consumer but also a fantastic channel to offer services and find new leads. Increased usage of social media allows business and brands to create value by building a community of loyal followers. Considering the global social media population has crossed 2 billion and we are producing millions of pieces of social content per minute, how can brands be distinctive?

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The ultimate template for business failure

Start Up Blog

There is actually a business template for business failure, and you know what it is? The template itself. Yep, that single powerpoint sheet with the company logo in the top corner that gets sent around to the team to fill in for their upcoming budgeting, marketing or strategy planning. It tells us so much about prevailing attitudes to change and anything different.

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Double down!

Berkonomics

This piece of wisdom came from Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO of Amazon, during a board meeting for one of the companies where he sits as board member. Jeff asked the question “Is there anything big or small, which is working better than you expected? Is there anywhere we could double down?”. Bezos’ point was that we spend a lot of time focusing on what’s not working in Board meetings (especially during difficult times) and not enough time focusing on what is surpassing expectations and how we c

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What Asia and Facebook’s Free Internet Project Have in Common?

Transformify

Nepal. Days before the earthquake in April 2015. Buildings that could hardly survive an earthquake and the kindest people I have ever met. Just five days later it was all history. Nepal was in ruins and thousands were reported dead or missing. The world watched the terrifying videos over and over again, and donated. Now, a few months later, the world is already silent.

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