Tue.Jun 30, 2015

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“Seed Is the New Series A” – Making Sense of the Confusion

View from Seed

A few weeks ago, Manu Kumar wrote an excellent post detailing the current state of the seed financing landscape. Read it – it’s excellent. I agree with most of the things that Manu wrote, and I’ve been thinking about the topic quite a bit over the last several days. One very common meme these days is that “seed is the new A.” I kind of agree, but I also kind of think that the whole phrase is confusing people.

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4 Pitfalls To Avoid In Pursuit Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

by Mark Halstead, partner at RedFlagAlert. There is a lot that can happen beyond your control as an entrepreneur but here are four common pitfalls that it’s important to avoid if you’re aiming to take your business from inception to sustainability and on to real success: 1. Failing to prepare. There is a lot to be said for seizing a moment and learning quickly from your mistakes when it comes to starting up a new business.

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How Entrepreneurship And Angel Investing Remove Barriers For Women

Early Growth Financial Services

This guest post by Geri Stengel was originally published on Forbes. Opportunities are growing for women to sidestep the glass ceiling and steer clear of the glass cliff, that corporate “opportunity” for leadership given to women and minorities when there is high risk of failure due to a crisis created by former leaders or because needed resources aren’t given.

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Get A Mentor To Become As Smart As You Think You Are

YoungUpstarts

by Jeff Carter, managing director and founder of Grand Coast Capital Group. Early in my career, I found myself bouncing from job to job, unhappy with where I was headed and unable to figure out what was wrong. I decided to seek advice from a highly successful guy I greatly admired: my dad. After determining what you’re passionate about, he said, the key to success is to get a mentor — and not just any mentor.

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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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The No-Nonsense Guide to Negotiation

Up and Running

In my experience, the mere mention of “negotiation” brings about one of two reactions in people. Some grin with glee, excited to leap into discussions and meet their competitor on the battlefield. Others grimace with anxiety, shaking their head as if to say “No. Not me. Please—not me.” No matter which camp you’re in, the common truth is that in order to secure the best possible deals for your business, you’re going to have to negotiate.

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Critical Decisions To Manage Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Your first year of managing a start up business can be extremely difficult. It’s difficult because you must address so many issues at the same time. An entrepreneur must oversee employees, manage finances and keep customers happy. Your work in year one can make or break your business. Operating efficiently. To grow your business profitably, you must be efficient.

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[Infographic] Apps For Work Productivity

YoungUpstarts

Technology can be a two-edged sword; your computers and multimedia entertainment mobile devices can be constant form of distraction, but used right they can also enhance or maximise your work productivity – consider the plethora of productivity apps that’s built around managing your to-do lists, calendar and scheduling, or even those that help you with your ideation or project management.

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Film and TV distribution startups please roll up

The Equity Kicker

I’ve just read an awesome description of the disruption going on in all the major storytelling media by one Hugh Hancock. I haven’t come across Hugh’s writing before, but he gets right inside the worlds of film, TV, games, prose, virtual reality and comics, with an insider’s knowledge and a light and witty style. It’s the TV and film pieces that got me the most.

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Jessica Nazarali: How To Start Coaching Online And Make $257,000 In Your First Year Of Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Jessica Nazarali dabbled in entrepreneurship in her late teens, buying brand name items from second hand clothing stores and selling them for a profit on eBay. Blogging is what kick-started Jessica’s online career, which led her down. The post Jessica Nazarali: How To Start Coaching Online And Make $257,000 In Your First Year Of Business appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com. [ Download MP3 | Transcript

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Overhaul Boring Meetings With These 4 Tips

YFS Magazine

If the goal is to stimulate engagement and share profitable ideas, then you absolutely need to make your environment more appealing.

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RideScout Acquires GlobeSherpa

SiliconHills

RideScout, a mobile app for ground transportation options, Tuesday announced its acquisition of Portland-based GlobeSherpa. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Austin-based RideScout’s CEO and Founder Joseph Kopser discussed the acquisition with GlobeSherpa CEO and Co-Founder Nat Parker in a livestream video. GlobeSherpa provides a mobile app that lets people book and […] The post RideScout Acquires GlobeSherpa appeared first on SiliconHills.

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16 Brilliant Social Media Articles Every Entrepreneur Should Read

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at sixteen curated social media articles that are definitely worth a click, like, share and tweet.

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16 Step Checklist for the Perfect Blog Post

Duct Tape Marketing

16 Step Checklist for the Perfect Blog Post written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. You work hard to create content – sometimes on the fly in the midst of the raging storm that is entrepreneurialism. In the rush to get the thing out though you can diminish its impact through oversight and sloppiness.

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Before They Were Market Leaders, Great Brands Did This Really Well

YFS Magazine

You want to be top of mind. You want to be the preference, not just an option, but so does everyone else.

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AtScale Case Study

Early Growth Financial Services

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Protected: Acquiring proven entrepreneurs is a smart way to innovate

Reid Hoffman

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11 Best Social Media Tools For Small Businesses And Individuals

Brandanew

Creating a brand presence on all major social platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+ and LinkedIn has become a must for businesses irrespective of their size. But does it all end at fancy social profiles or does social media marketing run deeper? I say, the latter. Social media marketing isn’t just about creating a profile, posting a few pictures of cats and dogs and running a couple of ad-campaigns.

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The 4 Unexpected Ways Leaders Spark Innovation

Mike Michalowicz

What do Abraham Lincoln, King Arthur and Mahatma Gandhi have in common? No, this is not the start to a bad joke. These famed leaders are known for their ability to assemble disparate teams who, collectively, accomplished the “unaccomplishable.” They utilized techniques and strategies that brought the best out of their people. Not just hard work, but innovative thinking that changed the world.

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