Thu.Jan 14, 2016

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How to Find the Perfect Startup Job [An Insider’s Guide to Finding, Vetting, and Negotiating]

View from Seed

Editor’s note: Today, NextView is excited to release this ebook from partner David Beisel. Below, find an excerpt and free download of How to Find the Perfect Startup Job. Spend a few hours browsing content about startups, and one thing becomes painfully obvious: There’s a TON of it. And while plenty of it does a great job addressing the most common question I receive as a seed VC ( how to secure funding ), the second-most common question I get seems almost entirely missing from the

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Your Job In 2016 And Beyond: The “Human In The Loop” Future Of Work And Technology

YoungUpstarts

by Richard Milam , the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated. Technology is changing the future of work and the workforce. We have entered in an industrial revolution of the digital age, and just as machines took over the heavy duty human labor in manufacturing plants, computerization and digital technologies are now efficiently performing the manual data- and business-related workload of humans.

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Attention investors: can you just be upfront with your thoughts?  K thx bye.

Hippoland

The first time I ever tried to fundraise, I was completely clueless. My team had built a highly technical product that allowed consumers to co-browse with each other, but we had no customers / users. A lot of investors turned me down, but I didn’t even realize it, because they were not clear in their rejections. Investors would tell me: “Oh this is a very interesting product.

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7 Ways To Stay Steady In Constant Change

YoungUpstarts

by Beverly Jones MBA, JD, PCC, author of “ Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO “ No matter where you work, it may seem that you face demands that are always changing. Even if your leaders have a clear vision, the marketplace shifts constantly, and the job they asked you to do yesterday may not be relevant tomorrow. But it is possible to become more comfortable with all the tumult, and to position yourself to bounce back when the next wave of change comes along.

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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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Clouds on the horizon

The Equity Kicker

Through much of last year there was talk of a bubble in venture capital, particularly in late stage investments. Valuations were stretched, both on a fundamentals basis and compared with the public markets, and there were even whispers of a ‘new paradigm’ for valuing companies now that businesses can expand around the world so fast. It was inevitable that the heat was going to come out of the market at some point and my hope was that it would come out sooner rather than later, and th

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Critical Decisions About Financing Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Managing your business requires you to make dozens of important decisions every week. Decisions about your finances are critically important. If you make smart choices about your finances, you can grow your company’s sales and collect enough money to manage your operations. Use these tips to stay on top of your finances: Smart financial management. Here are some examples of good financial decisions that can keep your business on track: Monitoring cash flow : Every business needs cash inflows to

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Harvest your social media contacts

Berkonomics

You may not know that you have access to many “free” sources of social media contacts to help you in your marketing effort. The first semi–secret source is your LinkedIn contact list. You probably thought it was proprietary to LinkedIn, or at worst, available only when sending messages through LinkedIn to your list. I have thousands of LinkedIn contacts and am willing to assume you have a large number as well.

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3 Online Tools To Build A Professional Brand Image

YFS Magazine

Most businesses want to be seen as professional, high-quality and reliable. These three simple tools will help you craft this type of image and will grow your business into a brand you can be proud of.

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Increasing Diversity in Austin’s Tech Ecosystem

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News South by Southwest, the nation’s largest technology conference, has worked hard to tackle diversity in technology to get more people who are not middle aged white guys as speakers and participants, said Hugh Forrest, director of SXSW Interactive. Last year, SXSW declared diversity in tech as its […] The post Increasing Diversity in Austin’s Tech Ecosystem appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Information Technology Predictions For 2016 And Beyond

YFS Magazine

These are just a few of the predictions that will likely happen in 2016. Consider it a snapshot of the IT community.

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Yes, we are all in the technology business

Start Up Blog

A few weeks ago the surfing world was astounded when Kelly Slater released a video of his new wave pool. The launch of his 10 year long project to KS Wave Co, and OMG did surfers loose their minds. The reason it matters for this here blog has little to do with surfing. It has to do with technology. I would never have believed a wave this good could come from a pool.

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So, You Got Laid Off. What Next?

Hunter Walker

The fact that some startups don’t work out, or need to occasionally take one step back in order to take two steps forward, is a fact of this business. It means that good people can sometimes find themselves out of a gig, which is always jarring even when there are great opportunities to land elsewhere. Over at the Homebrew blog, our Head of Talent Beth Scheer put together a post on what you should do if you lose your job.

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5 Winning Strategies for Millennial Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Winning Strategies for Millennial Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: shutterstock. It’s no secret that millennials — young adults between 18-34 — are a hugely sought-after market segment. With upwards of 200 billion burning a hole in their pockets annually, winning their trust, and ultimately their business is a boon to any company.

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Deciding How Much Equity to Give - How Much is Less Important Than What It's Worth!

Small Business Force

Equity and percentage ownership has always been a lightning rod for discussion and controversy with startups and entrepreneurs. It is also less understood than it should be, with dilution and control issues being major points of concern. You're placing a bet that the work they do will increase the value of your startup One of the first blog posts I ever wrote was entitled " 100% of Zero is Still Zero.

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The Conversion Rate that Actually Matters in Mobile Apps

ConversionXL

Conversion optimization for mobile apps is getting more sophisticated. At first, click through rate was key. Then we became more performance-oriented and measured click to install conversion rate. But that’s just not enough today. Don’t get me wrong, an install is still an important milestone in the mobile consumer journey, but it should only be a step en route to your final destination – that is, creating an app with sustainable commercial value.

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All My Comm Channels

Feld Thoughts

I realized yesterday, as I was driving to Denver, that my comm channels shifted again after I returned from sabbatical in December. This happens periodically, mostly as a result of me taking some time away and changing things up on re-entry. The largest change is that I’m batching my email. Rather than reading and responding to email on my phone throughout the day, or using slack time in my calendar to check and catch up on email, I’m doing a pass in the morning, another pass late in

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Everlaw Raises Series A led by a16z

K9 Ventures

Today K9 Ventures’ portfolio company Everlaw announced that it has raised $8.1M in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz , with participation from K9 Ventures. I couldn’t be more excited about Everlaw’s Series A round as it reflects a recognition of the amazing work that the company, co-founded by CEO AJ Shankar and Jeff Friedman , has done over the past few years.