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7 Basic Tips For App Development

YoungUpstarts

Better app development isn’t hard, in fact it just takes the right mindset and some well thought out planning. Here’s how to do so: 1. Start With A Clear Goal. Any strategy for successfully creating and promoting a new app relies on setting up clear goals for your new software. One of the best ways to think about this need is by concentrating on the problem your app is going to solve.

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Potential Pain Points When Starting a Small Business

Up and Running

If you feel restless working for someone else and have come up with your own idea for starting a business, you should consider the challenges that you will face ahead of time. Owning and running a business is incredibly rewarding—but it comes at a price. Stress, painful mistakes, and sacrifice all accompany the pride, excitement, and sense of accomplishment that comes with creating your own money making machine.

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Entrepreneurs Turned Angel Investors: A Look At Some Of The Best

YoungUpstarts

An angel investor who also has experience in the start-up world has a much greater understanding of how businesses work, what fears and concerns the start-up owner or owners have and much more. They have gone through many of the experiences and situations that people in the businesses they are helping are going through at the moment or will go through in the future. 3 Great Examples of Entrepreneurs Turned Investors. 1.

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Get a Grip on Innovation — 10 Questions, 20 Minutes

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Get a Grip on Innovation — 10 Questions, 20 Minutes. Ten questions for you to focus on assessing the state of your organization’s innovation program. Twenty minutes to learn something and take action steps. If you think your current program is working, non-existent, or just a disaster — you will learn something by taking this quick survey.

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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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Attention Healthcare Administrators: These Technologies Can Keep Your Facility Competitive

YoungUpstarts

If there is one thing that can be said of living and working in the 21 st century, it would be the impact technology has had on literally every aspect of daily life. If you hold an MSHA degree (master of science in health administration) then some of these bits of technology can make your life a whole lot easier. Not only is technology vital to healthcare but the right technologies can keep your hospital or healthcare facility competitive.

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Entrepreneurship Is Intellectual Immigration

Feld Thoughts

At the MIT Celebration of 50 Years of Entrepreneurship in November, I heard a number of fantastic lines that have stuck with me. One of them was from Noubar Afeyan. “Entrepreneurship is intellectual immigration.” As I sat in an audience of about 200 extremely accomplished MIT graduates spanning over 50 years, I thought to myself “he just f **g nailed it.” I’m a huge fan and supporter of immigration, especially around entrepreneurship.

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Is It Time to Trim Your BtoB Waistline?

Rembrandt Communications

How to improve the health of your business in 2017 Welcome back from the holidays, BtoB owners! I hope you got some much-needed R&R and also had some fun. And if you’re like most people, you may notice that your clothes fit a little more snugly from overindulging a bit during the holidays. Well, it’s […]. The post Is It Time to Trim Your BtoB Waistline?

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For Life Coaches, Travel Expands Your Business — Here’s How

YFS Magazine

It really does not matter where you plan to travel to; these experiences will support the growth, personally and professionally.

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Hardware as a SaaS business (HaaS?)

Eric Friedman

With CES in full swing, I have been thinking more about hardware businesses that have a SaaS component for ongoing revenue and support. I have personally experienced this with a Dropcam (now part of the whole Google Home system so technically a Nest Cam ) that was an initial hardware purchase($199.99) with a $9.99 non-required component to get a 7 day history of content the camera collects.

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Skybell Co-Founder Reveals How To Launch And Ship Products In Record Time

YFS Magazine

Many people told us it couldn’t be done: inventing, creating and shipping an award-winning product in seven months – especially with only $100,000 in initial funds.

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Six Austin Entrepreneurs Make the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 List

SiliconHills

Forbes just named six Austin entrepreneurs to its 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. The list highlights “game changers” under 30 years old who are transforming industries and changing the world. Forbes picked 600 honorees from more than 15,000 submissions. It picked 30 winners for each of 20 categories. In the consumer tech category, Forbes […] The post Six Austin Entrepreneurs Make the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 List appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Outdated SEO Tactics You Should Stop Using Asap!

YFS Magazine

If you’re not keeping up with those changes, you could be using SEO techniques that haven’t worked since 2010.

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Wanna Guess Who Going Down First in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

Austin Startup

Whenever I read about the upcoming Fourth Industrial Revolution of robots replacing workers, the narrative is fast food workers and blue… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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We need to open up the digital black box

Start Up Blog

Imagine for a moment you bought something at the supermarket, a packaged food you intend to eat and it didn’t have an ingredient list, let alone a nutrition panel. You’d think twice about consuming it wouldn’t you? In the early days of packaged foods this was the way things were. It was exactly as explained – we had no ideas what was in the box.

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Indie Microblogging Kickstarter Project in Austin Reaches its Goal in One Day

SiliconHills

Independent microblogging is a hot topic right now. Manton Reece, a developer and podcaster in Austin, launched a Kickstarter to publish a book on microblogging and to spur interest in his new Micro.blog software. It’s a timeline and publishing platform for the open web. Within one day, Reece’s Indie Microblogging Kickstarter was fully funded. And […] The post Indie Microblogging Kickstarter Project in Austin Reaches its Goal in One Day appeared first on SiliconHills.

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#GoRemote Campaign Covers the World

Transformify

33 days, 4 continents and numerous entries - #GoRemote covered the world. Hundreds of young people around the globe grabbed a chance to take part in the contest, showcase their talent and portray the benefits of remote work in their entries. The battle was tough, especially, in the Script category. Two contestants were going step in step. And finally, on the 20th December we announced the winners: Best Video - Atanas Stefanov: Have you ever dream for a change?

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5 Simple Ideas to Make 2017 Your Best Year Ever

Growthink Blog

A lot of optimistic energy is pulsing through the business and financial markets in these 1st few days of 2017. Perhaps more than in any other year since the Great Recession, “macro” conditions feel right for businesses across a wide swath of industries and markets to have breakout years. Here are 5 ideas to make it so for your business: 5. Push the Risk Envelope.

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A primer on convertible notes, convertible securities, and equity

Hippoland

If this is your first time raising money, the mechanics of how investors buy into your company can be very confusing. Here’s a quick primer on how investments tend to work in startup companies at the seed stage. Note: this is super basic, and there are a lot more details that will not be covered here. Equity Traditionally, investors have invested in companies to receive equity, or shares in a company.

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Top 5 Benefits Of Switching To Cloud Hosting

YoungUpstarts

There are multiple benefits in switching from traditional web hosting to cloud hosting. We will talk about the most important ones below. Business owners should read them very carefully since making the right decision now will help them save money and get more value for their money. If you decide to do that step make sure to choose an SSD cloud server.

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The Importance of Choosing Yourself

Duct Tape Marketing

The Importance of Choosing Yourself written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with James Altucher. Choosing Yourself sounds a tad selfish for some, but the fact is, it’s the only choice that allows you to be of service to others. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is James Altucher.

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Every Startup Needs Intellectual Property To Thrive

Startup Professionals Musings

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. You need all these before you start looking for funding.