Tue.Jul 28, 2015

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10 Tips For Making The Most Out of Video Conferencing

YoungUpstarts

by Arthur Pait, AVer Information, Inc. Modern day businesses need to incorporate videoconferencing into their repertoire – whether it be for the rise of satellite employees or to speak with a client. It’s not as common (or necessary) to meet face-to-face anymore with new technology, however, technology still poses its pitfalls. Here are some tips on how to pick the appropriate videoconference solution: Make sure to measure how large your conference room is.

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What Makes a Great Consumer Startup Marketer?

View from Seed

While the startup environment in Boston has vastly improved over the last several years , I continue to hear the sentiment that it’s really tough to build a great consumer startup in Boston. This is expressed by people outside of Boston, but it often comes from those within our community too. There are a couple reasons cited for the challenge of building a consumer company in this city, but I want to focus on one in particular.

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Do You Need A Personal Brand?

Brandanew

Our world is dominated by brands. Brands are everywhere. Whenever we buy something, we usually check what brand it is. Brands tell us about the existing reputation of the product. But what exactly is a personal brand? Can individuals build brands ? Well, surely various celebrities and sportspeople have built such brands around themselves already but what about the normal people?

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How Social Media Impacts Young Investors

YoungUpstarts

In today’s digital age, more and more young people are turning to social media to influence almost every decision they make from the clothing they wear, to the jobs they seek, to investments in their future. As a result, social media is having a huge impact on literally every investment platform in ways that just weren’t possible as recently as a decade ago.

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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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Unicorns Without The Magic

Feld Thoughts

I got the following email recently, titled “Unicorns Without The Magic.” “With the rise in venture capitalism it’s hard to say the word “start up” and not be offered an abundance of accelerator programmes, free office space, free apartments & a free bible of connections. I myself have felt the pressures of the world of start up wonders & the prospects of investment.

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Help Me, Help You: Time Management Strategies For Small Businesses

YoungUpstarts

By John Oechsle, CEO/President of Swiftpage. As a small business owner, you have a lot on your plate. You’re managing your business’ value in the marketplace on a daily basis while at the same time striving to maintain superior customer service and employee satisfaction. There’s a lot on your mind and the minds of your employees, too. Some days, it feels like nine a.m. becomes five p.m. in a heartbeat.

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7 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From The Most Successful Investor Of The 20th Century

YFS Magazine

Here's an inside look at essential lessons I have learned by following the insights and life wisdom of Warren Buffett.

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What’s the Secret to Your Success? With Michael Chinnery of Divinity Olives

Up and Running

Olives are harvested on the Chinnery’s land in New Zealand. In Mangawhai, located in the New Zealand countryside, lies a beautiful olive grove. This grove is the site of a family-run business that plants, grows, and harvests these olives and then uses them to manufacture premium quality extra virgin olive oil. This is the home of Divinity Olives, a company run by married couple Michael and Leanne Chinnery.

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How To Turn Marketing Automation Fails Into Wins

YFS Magazine

It sounds like such a good idea—software that automates repetitive marketing tasks such as email, social media, website personalization, etc.

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The Biggest Entrepreneurial Problem

Mike Michalowicz

Ask any entrepreneur the biggest problem they have in their business and inevitably boil down to profitability. The common responses to the biggest problem question are: We need more sales! We need to grow! We need to be more efficient! We can’t get work done! We need better people! We need more clients, more projects and more demand! All of these point back to one common underlying factor, the entrepreneur needs more profit.

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App Puts Patients and Providers on the Same Page

SiliconHills

By TIM GREEN Reporter with Silicon Hills News Corinthian Health operates 20 centers where patients get critical intravenous drug treatments for chronic neurological and autoimmune diseases. The monthly sessions of infusions can last up to eight hours. If the patient isn’t properly prepared or the complex drug mix is off, the patient can suffer significant […] The post App Puts Patients and Providers on the Same Page appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Quickie Homebrew Update: Clementine Acquired by Dropbox & UpCounsel Raises $10m Series A

Hunter Walker

News from Homebrew this past week! Our very first investment, an enterprise mobile communication company called Clementine, announced they’d been acquired by Dropbox. It’s a great fit for the team and tech, a solid outcome for investors and now we have a stake in a unicorn :). Our second investment UpCounsel announced they’ve closed a $10m Series A financing that we were happy to support.

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HP Cracks Whip On Employee Dress Code—Should Small Business Follow Suit?

YFS Magazine

Do you think HP's new office attire mandate is a move in the right direction?

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10 Steps to Building a Repeatable Marketing System

Duct Tape Marketing

10 Steps to Building a Repeatable Marketing System written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing is a system, plain and simple. Now, some people take that to mean that you simply create a one size fits all, turn-key set of tactics and call it a day. The truth, however, lies not in the repeatable tactics, but in the repeatable process based on the right strategy.

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5 Tips for Networking Your Way to Investor Referrals

Early Growth Financial Services

This guest post was contributed by BJ Lackland, CEO of Lighter Capital. If you’re an entrepreneur looking for capital to grow your business, a key part of the process is getting a face-to-face meeting with potential investors. It’s during these informal coffee meetings or full-on boardroom presentations that you get to pitch your startup and answer investor questions.

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Tough Doesn’t Quit, Except at Breakfast

Venture Chronicles

I was at a dinner on Sunday night and seated next to me was retired Admiral Eric Olson , who had a long and distinguished military career. He retired from the Navy in 2011 as the commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command. Interesting man, to say the least, but also incredibly gracious and unassuming. I asked him what qualities he could identify that would be indicators of success as s Navy SEAL.

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BERKONOMICS CELEBRATES 6TH ANNIVERSARY WITH OVER 100,000 CIRCULATION

Berkonomics

September 21st, 2015 marks the sixth anniversary of publication for BERKONOMICS , the blog containing insights for business management, entrepreneurs, and investors. Starting with just 4,000 circulation in 2009, BERKONOMICS has grown to well over 100,000, and is read on five continents by an audience that is 45% female. One third of its readers are aged 25-34.