Wed.Apr 06, 2016

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5 Ways To Promote A Safe Startup Environment

YoungUpstarts

As the owner of a startup, health and safety probably aren’t the first things on your mind. After all, you’re busy building a company from the ground up! You’re meeting investors and keeping the company ticking over. There are hundreds of other things to consider and thousands of decisions to make. Health and safety hardly seems like an issue when you’re working with just a small group.

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Bootstrapping Is Much More Fun Than Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

If you really want to start a business your way without a boss or professional investor hovering over you, then just fund it yourself or through friends and family, and grow it organically. It’s more possible to bootstrap today than a few years ago, as the cost of entry continues to go down. According to many experts , over 90 percent of successful businesses currently start this way.

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Global Access To Your Content Marketing eCourse!

Brandanew

Last week, we hit a small technical glitch, which left us distraught (it was quite a bummer, you’re right). Globally many of you could not make easy payments and we’re so sorry for that experience. But now we have good news, wooHoo! To help all of us get full access to our Content Marketing for Beginners eCourse , we’ve now fully recorded the course, created all the course material AND made it available for everyone globally.

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The Team Slide: You Had Me At Hello

For Entrepreneurs

This is part of our series “Pitching to Investors” that shares real examples and practical advice from the Matrix General Partners on creating your pitch deck. See intro to the series here: Five Ways to Nail Your Pitch and Win Over Investors. Our goal in this series is to help entrepreneurs nail their pitch so.

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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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Vital Advice For An Awesome Office

YoungUpstarts

The office is a very important part of your business. It’s the main hub of activity; where all the money gets made. If your business has a great office, then it can do great things. Keeping that in mind, here’s some of my best advice for an amazing office: Make It Modern. You may not think this is a major point, but having a modern office can make a big difference.

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The Venture Deals Course – Spring 2016 – Is Free

Feld Thoughts

The Kauffman Fellows Academy is offering another session of the Venture Deals course on the NovoEd platform. This time it is free and runs from April 24, 2016 – June 13, 2016. We’ve done this course several times in the past with classes of around 100 people and have gotten great feedback. Last year, we started talking to the Kauffman Fellows Academy and NovoEd about doing it for free to reach a wider audience, and in the context of #GiveFirst offer it for free, as the primary motiva

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How Video Conferencing Can Take Your Business To The Next Level

YoungUpstarts

by Nicole Swartwout, partner at CallTeks. As your business grows, the need for video conferencing across multiple sites becomes essential. Having the right solution in place can help take your business to new highs and keep a healthy spirit of collaboration alive and well. On the other hand, a system that isn’t well planned can quickly become a lingering IT nightmare plagued with spotty connection, audio issues and low-quality video.

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UK micro-VC

The Equity Kicker

I’ve been reading a lot about the development of micro-VC this afternoon. It’s currently the fastest growing subsector of the VC market has mushroomed into quite a phenomenon. You can see the number of funds in the chart above (note that the 2015 figure was as of last August), and chart author Samir Kaji , a bit of an authority on this sector, predicts the total will grow to 350.

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Shark Tank Lessons for Startups

YoungUpstarts

by Amit Damani , cofounder of Vista Rooms. Anyone who watches Shark Tank would swear that it is by far the best reality show ever. The 2009 series was a hit in the US and albeit we got it a few years late, this show has got Indians hooked on. Currently in its 7th season, the show features a panel of potential venture capital investors, called “sharks”, that considers offers from aspiring entrepreneurs seeking investments for their business or products.

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How to Start a Luxury Day Spa

Up and Running

If you dream of operating your own luxury day spa, now may be the perfect time to get started. While running a successful spa can be challenging, according to Lynne McNees, president of the International Spa Association, the spa industry has the bonus of being (nearly) recession proof. The reason is simple: When times get tough, the need for stress relief increases.

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How To Use 401(K), IRA Or SEP To Kick-start Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Rick Pendykoski, owner of Self Directed Retirement Plans LLC. ‘Starting my own business’ is becoming a consistent answer to the usual questions of ‘what are your future professional plans’ or ‘where do you see yourself in 5/10 years or retirement’. People are getting bolder about taking the entrepreneurial plunge and aren’t afraid of taking the risky route.

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10 Tips For Recent Grads Who Want To Become Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

Obviously, there are many more considerations and things to do and learn when you decide to become an entrepreneur. However, if you start with these, you will have a plan and
 the major pieces in place by the time you launch.

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Why Should Your Startup Get Funding in Austin?

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Startups and investors engage in a complicated dance in Austin’s funding ecosystem. It is a topic which has generated a lot of discussion about whether enough investors and funds exist to finance entrepreneurs in Austin or whether the startups just aren’t good enough to land investment. On […] The post Why Should Your Startup Get Funding in Austin?

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5 Smart Ways To Reduce Workers’ Compensation Costs

YFS Magazine

Unfortunately employees get hurt and sick at work. It’s important to take care of them. After all, like you, they’re invested in growing your business.

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When to resist technology

Start Up Blog

My readers know that I love technology – I literally rub my face in it. But technology is not always the answer. Sometimes it pays to resist the use of it. This is especially true when technology lacks differentiation or is the lazy option. A hand written letter has far more value today than an email, tweet or whatsapp message does. We know you care more, we know you made more of a concerted effort with a pen and a post box.

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When Winning, the Right Way, is the Only Thing

Growthink Blog

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. - Rogers Hornsby One of the real privileges and joys of my life is coaching my eight and nine-year old sons' various youth sports teams. And with springtime that means Little League Baseball. This Saturday was a particular delight, as after playing our game, I took my sons and a few of their teammates to watch an exhibition game between a local traveling team and an al

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The greatest pricing hack of all time

Start Up Blog

Before I tell you this story, you need to understand a couple surprising facts about airlines. Fact 1: The airline industry is a ‘net loss’ industry. If you add up all the profits and all the losses of airlines since commercial aviation began it’s around $60 billion in the red. Fact 2: The profit margin on a 1 hour flight is around $2 per passenger.

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How can a new entrepreneur build credit?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post How can a new entrepreneur build credit? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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What if we reversed the customer loyalty programs?

Start Up Blog

Loyalty programs are generally based on how much money someone spends. Spend a fortune with a brand over a long period of time and they might throw you a freebie or two. What if companies set out to be loyal to customers instead? What if from the very first interaction they aimed to be loyal to the ‘unproven trust’ you’ve given them?

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Am I an Entrepreneur with ADD or Because of It?

Duct Tape Marketing

Am I an Entrepreneur with ADD or Because of It? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Peter Shankman via Twitter. Marketing Podcast with Peter Shankman. As a growing number of people are diagnosed with ADD and ADHD those same people are starting to look for better ways to understand and manage what has been categorized as a significant disorder.

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Episode 77: Transitioning from Check-by-Check to Profitability with Keith Fear

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Welcome to Episode 77 of the Profit First Podcast! Today, Keith shares his story of how he was trying to develop a business in hot air ballooning for years while working a full time job. While the business revenue grew, their profitability was never enough where they didn’t have to take on debt and were surviving check by check.

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The Science of Bad Decisions and How You Can Avoid Making Them

crowdSPRING Blog

If you’ve recently made a bad decision (or a baker’s dozen of them), you are not alone. Not a single person is immune from making bad decisions. Humans make mistakes. Let’s face it, even though we often deny it, we have inherently imperfect judgement. Anxiety, stress and fear can easily distort our choices. In fact, in the competitive and strenuous world of small businesses and startups, it’s much too easy to make bad decisions.

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5 Insights from Every Speaker of ConversionXL Live 2016

ConversionXL

Last year we pulled off a fantastic event, and we were keen to do even better in 2016. We succeeded. I’ve never been to a better conference in my life. We had 450 attendees from 28 countries to take over a full resort for 3 days. Once we include pre- and post-conference activities, the whole thing lasted for 5 days. So much fun, really great and smart people, tons of learning.