Mon.Feb 15, 2016

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So What is The Right Level of Burn Rate for a Startup These Days?

Both Sides of the Table

There is much talk these days that startup valuations have decreased and may continue to do so and that the amount of time it takes to fund raise may take longer. As I have pointed out in previous posts , 91% of VCs surveyed believe prices are declining (30% believe substantially) and 77% believe that funding will take longer than it has in the past.

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“Change is hard and change is slow. But I think we’re on the right track.” CODE2040’s Laura Weidman Powers on Diversity in Tech

Hunter Walker

My business is about investing in extraordinary founder talent so it pains me that I can’t write a Homebrew Term Sheet to Laura Weidman Powers. But alas, she’s changing the world through another awesome channel right now, CODE2040. I’ve gotten to know CODE2040 as a Mentor, Panelist and Donor. And here I get to know her a little better via Five Questions: Hunter Walk: We met during CODE2040’s first class of students.

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How To Make Your Product Story Successful

Brandanew

Writing product stories, case studies and content in general around your product has one overarching purpose- convince and convert. You want the customer to read, get wowed and be interested to contact you if you’re a B2B player. Or simply be convinced to buy if you’re offering a product for direct sales. This is what you need to make your product story successful.

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The Secret To Entrepreneurial Success Is In The Thinking

YoungUpstarts

By Steve Siebold, author of “ How Rich People Think “. Every entrepreneur dreams of major league success, but many settle for less than their share. The top performers in life, while indeed very knowledgeable in their fields, all share one similar characteristic: the success is in the thinking. While average performers think about how to survive with the least amount of pain and struggle, the most successful people think big and plan their brilliant futures.

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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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Take A Very Deep Breath

Feld Thoughts

A few weeks ago I noticed my post How Can This Be A Billion Dollar Company? getting a surprising number of new Twitter shares. Since I wrote it in the summer of 2014, it must have been picked up somewhere and hit a new chord. I wish I had titled it what was in my mind when I wrote it, which was “How Can This Be A Billion Dollar Company and other b t VCs ask early stage companies” – that would have been more fun to see in my Twitter feed.

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What Every Millennial Should Know About Setting Up Their Finances For The Future

YoungUpstarts

As a young adult, one of the biggest challenges you will face is finding a balance between living life comfortably and setting up your financial future appropriately. You have bills to pay but you want to enjoy life. Is it possible to overcome this challenge? The fact is, it is indeed possible to pay your bills whilst cultivating healthy financial habits.

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Lessons From A Lizard: How Brand Storytelling Moves Customers To Buy

YFS Magazine

“Hard sells” don’t work
 anymore, not when there are companies out there who are “selling” others things first – relationships, trust, entertainment, information and inspiration.

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How to clarify your goals in 1 minute

Start Up Blog

Setting goals can be harder than it sounds. Here’s a simple way to do it. Write down the answer to these 3 questions: What am I trying to to Achieve, Avoid and Preserve. They are much easier to answer because they provide a value set and a guiding philosophy. The answers will come as soon as your start writing… try it. Here are my three answers for my work: I am trying to achieve a reputation for thinking, writing and speaking on technology & business.

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4 Essential Beliefs Entrepreneurs Should Live By

YFS Magazine

Every successful entrepreneur — from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk — fed themselves
 positive thoughts to grow their confidence. If you’re having trouble succeeding as an entrepreneur, then perhaps you need to check your diet.

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Hired Works with 150+ Austin Tech Companies, Raises $40 Million in Series C Funding

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Hired is changing the way developers and knowledge workers find jobs. The company, founded in 2012 in San Francisco, opened an office at WeWork in downtown Austin about a year ago. It now works with more than 150 local technology companies from startups to publicly traded companies […] The post Hired Works with 150+ Austin Tech Companies, Raises $40 Million in Series C Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Tips To Start A Business While Working Full-Time

YFS Magazine

Working full-time and running a business is undeniably difficult, but you can do it with both courage and patience.

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Austin’s Newest Coworking Site TechSpace to Open in March

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Just in time for South by Southwest, TechSpace, Austin’s newest coworking site is opening its doors. TechSpace Austin expects to open the first week of March, said Mallory Beck, TechSpace Austin’s site manager. TechSpace, located at 98 San Jacinto Blvd. next to the Four Seasons Hotel, will […] The post Austin’s Newest Coworking Site TechSpace to Open in March appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Steps To Become A Social Entrepreneur And Change The World

YFS Magazine

The new generation of entrepreneurs have a strong attraction to social entrepreneurship.

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It seems I’ll never be as successful as I could be. And I’m ok with that.

Jeff Hilimire

I just finished the book on Elon Musk ( Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future ) and I highly recommend it. You talk about a person that truly wants to change the world, that’s the guy. So now I’ve read a biography on Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and several on Steve Jobs. All of them have (at least) two major things in common that propelled them to extraordinary levels of success: A desire so strong to bring their dreams to reality that they are willing to e

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How We Are Effectively (And Inexpensively) Learning To Market Through Facebook

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Facebook can be a great tool for marketing a small business. However, it takes a carefully crafted and well executed plan to be effective. I share our efforts to expand our marketing reach through Facebook with the help of Kane Harrison and the team at Talkapolis in this article at Forbes. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post How We Are Effectively (And Inexpensively) Learning To Market Through Facebook appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Monday Motivation – Raise Your Standards [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

Share. If you don’t know exactly what you want…you’re not going to achieve it.

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Five Essential Elements of a Terrible Small Business Ad

Duct Tape Marketing

Five Essential Elements of a Terrible Small Business Ad written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: # Propag Ford 1905 02 via photopin (license). Last week, when I opened my mailbox, I found a relic from a bygone era. It’s one of those things that shouldn’t really exist anymore outside of a marketing museum, and yet somehow does—a great testament to the power of tradition, perhaps.

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Episode 67: Cash Reserve and Profitability with Robin Robins

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. This week Mike Michalowicz, Chris Curran and Kristina Bolduc welcome guest Robin Robins who took her business from $0 in 2003 to $10 million in revenue in 2015. This episode is chock-full of insights including why niche specialization helps grow your business (even if your niche industry collapses), the “enough is enough” stage, how to have a personal cash reserve and a business reserve, and how to diagnose the different products offerings you have an

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January tech news from Africa: Summed up by a single word

The Next Web

As expected, a quiet month on the African tech scene, summed up by just one word: Netflix. The VoD service provider used the CES event in Las Vegas to launched its service globally, taking its internet TV network to more than 130 new countries around the world. It is also available across Africa. Netflix’s Africa launch, speculated on for so long, took the continent by surprise, but in reality it is the latest escalation of the VoD battle in Africa that has also seen the likes of Naspers and Eri

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