Thu.Dec 03, 2015

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How to Retain Tech Talent in Competitive Markets

View from Seed

This post on how to retain tech talent was written by Dan DeMeyere, director of engineering at thredUP. NextView is an investor in thredUP, and this post originally appeared on their engineering team blog. Retaining engineering talent has become an increasingly challenging task for any engineering manager in the Bay Area. Engineers have a lot of power in the current market and, as a result, it’s easy for engineers to leave and find a new position elsewhere.

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Crowdfunding: Strategies For Fundraising Success

YoungUpstarts

As crowdfunding has gained in popularity, the battle for pledges and page views has turned increasingly competitive, particularly on crowdfunding portals featuring thousands of active projects jostling for attention. Whether you are planning a charity fundraising ideas through Plumfund, or looking for working capital for your new startup through Indiegogo, Kickstarter, HeadFunder or any of the other top 10 crowdfunding sites , if you are depending on that portal site alone to launch your campai

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Workday Predict and Prepareexciting new additions

deal architect

Next Tuesday, the old pro (he has over a hundred such panels under his belt) Bill Kutik will moderate Workday’s annual look-ahead videocast. There should be plenty of new wrinkles Naomi Bloom and Brian Sommer, two of the best in.

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The Inbound Myth

Duct Tape Marketing

The Inbound Myth written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Carbon Fiber Magic Mouse via photopin (license). Inbound marketing is a topic that’s getting tons of attention these days, and for good reason: inbound has had a dramatic impact on the business landscape. The core of inbound is this: create valuable content for your prospects and put it in places (on social media, websites, publications, and search terms) where they hang out.

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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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SAP Nation: a year later

deal architect

I released Volume 1 of SAP Nation a year ago. It was a new genre for me. Previous books had been forward looking, focused on innovations. SAP Nation was more historical analysis and modeling to understand how we got to.

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11 Tips For Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

By Mitchell Berk, CEO of Selective Search. Imagine you are sitting in front of a 2,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. The pieces are sized in various shapes and spread randomly across your table. Around the table are four individuals, three of whom can’t see the final product of this puzzle. The fourth is called an entrepreneur. The greatest exhilaration and reward in being an entrepreneur is clearly seeing things that others cannot see, and instinctively knowing how to accomplish your vision.

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The Baby Boomer Seller Tsunami: Why 2016 Is The Year To Sell

YoungUpstarts

By Al Fialkovich, Managing Director, Founder and Co-Owner of Transworld Business Advisors of Denver. Thinking of selling your business in the next five years? Don’t wait. It has been a national conversation in recent years and no one can argue that the impending baby boomer’s retirement will affect how business markets operate currently. It will be no different for mergers and acquisitions and small business sales.

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The growth mindset

The Equity Kicker

I’m a big believer that most forms of intelligence can be learnt. We all have an innate level of ability, but our happiness and success in life depend much more on how much we grow than where we started. Practice is a simple and powerful tool that helps us get better at all tasks and for me self-reflection and a willingness to get stuck in are the other main weapons in the armoury (and both of these are learnt skills.

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The 3 Marketing Techniques Every Entrepreneur Should Learn

YoungUpstarts

As almost any business executive will tell you, the most crucial component to success is marketing. It doesn’t matter what product you have – it can sell with the right approach. Have you ever heard the old adage? If you tie a catalogue to a dog’s tail and let him loose on the street; eventually someone will buy something from him.

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All Investing Has Impact

This is going to be BIG.

I've always had a problem with the term "impact investing". It's as if the investments that you made that aren't part of an impact investing strategy hang from the ceiling Mission Impossible style in a temperature controlled environment making no discernable impact on stakeholder's lives. Leave no trace. Leave no fingerprints. Only, we know that's not the case.

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Tweet Your Way to Trade Show Stardom

Up and Running

It can be an expensive hassle to travel long distances to trade shows, weighed down by boxes of promotional brochures, swag, and branded signage. But spending the time, money, and schlepping power on industry conferences can have a huge positive impact on your brand. According to the Trade Show News Network: 81 percent of trade show attendees have buying authority. 67 percent of all attendees represent a new prospect and potential customer for exhibiting. 46 percent of trade show attendees are i

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How We Talk When We Talk About Ambition

Bryce Dot VC

Many many years ago I got a call from a VC friend who was passing on an investment I’d sent him. This isn’t unusual. Most VCs pass on most things most of the time. What was unusual to me then, and remains with me now, is the reason for passing. The company, which will remain nameless, was a software business that was sold to large and small companies.

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How I Learned To Embrace Selling With Confidence

YFS Magazine

It's not always about having the best product or the best price. It's about people, helping them and being yourself throughout the buying process.

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State of Startups from First Round Capital

ithacaVC

I just read a fabulous post from First Round Capital. Two Cornellians are partners there (Howard Morgan, one of the founders of the firm, and Bill Trenchard, who I once represented as his company’s lawyer when he was a Cornell student in like 1997! – how time flies by… ). The post is titled State of Startups 2015. Not only does it have some great insights, but it is really fun to read and view.

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Sales Tools Can Shorten Sales Cycles And Help You Sell More

YFS Magazine

What all businesses have in common is the need to continually boost sales in order to grab more market share and achieve brand recognition.

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Are Unicorn Horns Going to Pop the Tech Bubble?

SiliconHills

Is the technology industry’s investment bubble about to pop? WBUR Radio Host Tom Ashbrook tackled that topic Wednesday morning on his On Point Radio show on National Public Radio. The conclusion was we’re already seeing the bubble deflate, but it’s not going to be as big of a bust as when the Dot Com bubble […] The post Are Unicorn Horns Going to Pop the Tech Bubble?

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DFW Startup Community SAFE Update 2015

The Startup Lawyer

About two years ago I wrote “Safe and Sound? A Primer on the New YC Docs” for LaunchDFW regarding the Y-Combinator SAFE docs and their application to the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) startup community. My conclusion was that SAFE docs were likely too startup favorable to take off in the DFW startup Community as many investors … Continue reading → The post DFW Startup Community SAFE Update 2015 appeared first on Startup Lawyer.

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BidPrime Expands its Austin Headquarters

SiliconHills

BidPrime, which moved to Austin last year, is expanding. The company doubled the space on its headquarters from 2,000 square feet to 4,000 square feet at 1301 S I-35. The company moved to Austin last year and had 16 employees. It’s currently at 22 employees. BidPrime, founded in 2009, provides real-time notification of new federal, […] The post BidPrime Expands its Austin Headquarters appeared first on SiliconHills.

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DFW Startup Community SAFE Update 2015

The Startup Lawyer

About two years ago I wrote “Safe and Sound? A Primer on the New YC Docs” for LaunchDFW regarding the Y-Combinator SAFE docs and their application to the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) startup community.

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Q2 of Austin Buys Social Money for $10.6 Million

SiliconHills

Q2 Holdings, an online banking company, announced this week the acquisition of Social Money, a financial services software company based in Des Moines, Iowa for $10.6 million. The Austin-based company, traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol QTWO, said Social Money is best known for its cloud-based platform called SmartyPigproduct that assists […] The post Q2 of Austin Buys Social Money for $10.6 Million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Outcomes, Circumstances, and Happiness

Rob Go

I had a profound realization this year that I’m only now reflecting on. It’s been a work in progress, but really culminated this summer when I was on vacation with my family. Every august for the last 6 or 7 years, we’ve spent a week on Martha’s Vineyard and have rented the same house every year. It’s a beautiful place, and it’s usually the highlight of the summer for us.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 12: Andrew Breen and David Binetti

Steve Blank

Culture matters whether you’re just starting up or innovating inside a big company. And corporate innovation efforts are hampered by the very processes that make big companies successful. The challenge of innovating inside a big company was the focus of discussion with the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111.

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Whoa. Wow! Hmmm. Yes! (How Steve Jobs got it right.)

Berkonomics

Credit Dr. Mark Goulston with this headline. Mark teaches that there is a process to innovation that can be summed up with these four words. In fact, he states, that’s exactly how Steve Jobs described his “aha moment.” So let’s paraphrase Mr. Jobs as we describe this process. Jobs was invited to Xerox Parc research facility and – against the better judgment of the research coordinator – shown three projects the engineers were working on.