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5 Monumental Legal Mistakes Made By Startups

YoungUpstarts

by Laura Costello. It is important for all startups to ensure that they fulfill all necessary legal requirements before beginning operations. Fulfilling these requirements early, ensures that your startup will not be subject to serious and business ending legal ramifications later. Consultation with legal experts in the field, such as experienced business lawyers in Melbourne , can ensure that you avoid these 5 monumental and costly legal mistakes commonly made by startups: 1.

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Book: Neon Fever Rising

Feld Thoughts

Neon Fever Rising by Eliot Peper was outstanding. But you can’t read it yet as it’s still in draft form. Eliot’s last book Cumulus was published a few weeks ago and has gotten awesome reviews. He’s turned into a writing machine and already had a draft of Neon Fever Rising ready to go when Cumulus was finalized. I first met Eliot several years ago when he emailed me a few chapters of the first book he was working on about a fictional tech startup in Boulder.

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A Letter to My Son on Becoming Independent

Both Sides of the Table

L’dor Vador Jacob. May 21st 2016. It is the day that you mark an important occasion, your Bar Mitzvah. And I want to stop on that thought — “mark an occasion.” My first-cousin Sam, who came from Dallas said it best. “I made sure to be here even though it’s easier to just skip travel because there are so few occasions in life where the whole family gets together and I wanted to be a part of that.

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8 Ways To Prevent Burnout While Running A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

New entrepreneurs routinely jump into a startup with a full charge of passion and energy, but often find themselves drained of both after a few months by the workload and challenges. As a result, burnout and loss of passion are consistently listed among the top causes of startup failure, according to many studies. The challenge is find ways to continually recharge along the way.

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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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[Sponsored] Ctrader Platform Becoming More Popular

YoungUpstarts

This new Spotware trading platform offers so much for forex traders and allows you to find ctrader forex broker that can ensure you make the best choices. cTrader trading platform for Forex customers is revolutionary and is the very first to use a HTML5 interface and of course the latest technologies to ensure trading is smooth, fast, and easy to use.

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You tell me!

This is going to be BIG.

There's no possible way I can get up to speed on what a founder knows about their industry, plan, goals, or team, in just a few hours or even days. Hell, I could spend weeks on it and, hopefully, it wouldn't make a difference. You should know way more about this than I ever could. That's why the consistent theme among the very worst pitches I take are the ones where the entrepreneur asks me what I think--about everything.

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Start Up Blog - Untitled Article

Start Up Blog

It’s easy to believe that reading Hacker News, Techcrunch, Quartz or Aeon is keeping us update with our industry. It’s not. Reading this stuff is the reality TV of the technology industry. It’s entertainment disguised as m knowledge and personal growth. All of us have already got a plan, and a list of things to do. If we invest time executing against those there’s a far greater chance we’ll instead be written about inone of these forums.

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VC Primer at Capital Factory

Austin Startup

A few weeks back I had a chance to visit with a group of Founders at the Capital Factory. We had a chat called “Inside the Black Box of… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Genstar Capital Buys Austin-based Accruent

SiliconHills

Genstar Capital, a private equity firm, last week announced its acquisition of Austin-based Accruent, which makes real estate, facilities and asset management software. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Accruent, founded in 1995 in California, had raised $32 million from two investors in two rounds, according to its Crunchbase profile.

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As seen on Hacker News

Start Up Blog

It’s easy to believe that reading Hacker News, Techcrunch, Quartz or Aeon is keeping us update with our industry. It’s not. Reading this stuff is the reality TV of the technology industry. It’s entertainment disguised as knowledge and personal growth. All of us have already got a plan, and a list of things to do. If we invest more time executing that, there’s a far greater chance we’ll instead be written about in one of these forums.

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Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund Expands to Austin

SiliconHills

The Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund is expanding to Austin in August. The fund is a joint initiative among Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox web browser, the National Science Foundation and U.S. Ignite. Mozilla is providing $150,000 in grant funding to Austin projects and tools that use the city’s Google Fiber network. The projects might […] The post Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund Expands to Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Texas-Squared Startup Newsletter #040

Austin Startup

Texas Startup & Tech News, Opinions & Events in the Lone Star State — SUBSCRIBE View this email in your browser Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Online Concierge Platform OnceThere Launches in Austin

SiliconHills

On a vacation, booking a place to stay is just part of the adventure. OnceThere, an online concierge service, seeks to provide a platform for travelers to book their hotel or vacation rental along with activities and tours once they reach their destination. The Austin-based startup, founded in January of 2015, last week launched its […] The post Online Concierge Platform OnceThere Launches in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “It’s You”

Scott Edward Walker

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar. Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching your venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball f

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13 Sites You Love Built With Ruby On Rails

YoungUpstarts

If you are reading this, you are probably into Ruby and obviously heard of Ruby on Rails – a useful and super popular web application framework. However, you might not be aware that some of your favorite sites are built on Rails! These services cover various spheres including entertainment, gaming, education, jobs, and much more. With the help of our friends from Rails Ware Web Development Company , we have gathered 13 famous sites built with Ruby on Rails framework: 500px.

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