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How To Manage Cash Flow When Starting An E-commerce Company

YoungUpstarts

Starting your very own e-commerce company can be an exciting proposition. In many ways, getting an e-commerce company off of the ground is easier than a standard business; depending on your business model, you may not have to keep as much physical inventory, hire as many workers or deal with as many tax considerations. However, there are numerous concerns that are identical to brick and mortar businesses.

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Escaping the Design Trap in Agile Marketing

crowdSPRING Blog

The biggest trend in marketing in 2016 has been the idea of “agile marketing.” Workfront, a project management solution provider, defines it as : A tactical marketing approach in which teams identify and focus their collective efforts on high value projects, complete those projects cooperatively, measure their impact and then continuously and incrementally improve the results over time.

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How Politics, Regulations Affect Startups

YoungUpstarts

by Leslie Katz, Greenberg Traurig LLP. “Today, I follow the rules. Tomorrow, I will work to change them,” a serial entrepreneur recently told me. This statement reflects the increasing recognition of the importance of, and the nexus between, the growth of technology and the political, legislative, and regulatory arena in which startups now operate. While regulators are becoming more familiar with the nature and capability of startups to change aged industries rapidly, the idea that a company can

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We Need More Entrepreneurs In Congress

Feld Thoughts

As we come to the end of a particularly noisy and contentious election cycle, a thought echoes over and over in my mind – we need more entrepreneurs in Congress. As I continue to believe that innovation and entrepreneurship are the key drivers to our economic future, it’s frustrating to hear such little cogent discussion around it. I recently got a call from a long time friend, Martin Babinec.

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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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LinkedIn Marketing: A Small Business Guide

Up and Running

If you’ve looked for a job in the past five years, you’ve probably made sure to spruce up your LinkedIn profile. But, LinkedIn isn’t just a social networking site for job seekers—it’s also a great marketing platform for businesses. If you’re looking to become an expert voice in your particular industry, you may want to consider adding LinkedIn to your social media marketing arsenal.

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5 Ways To Create A More Positive, Fulfilling And Happy Workplace

YFS Magazine

When you run your own business, you’re the person who has to give yourself a pep talk, and if you employ other people, then you are the positivity gauge.

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5 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Famous Leaders And Their Failures

YFS Magazine

Even the most successful and influential business leaders had their share of epic fails.

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How To Market Through Your Customers

Mike Michalowicz

We all know an effective marketing campaign can be the key that unlocks the door to a world of new customers. The trouble is that consumers are buried under a sea of images and attempts to separate them from their money. What’s ideal is word of mouth – the better-than-anything-you-could-pay-for form of spreading the word about companies and products worth supporting.

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San Antonio Raises Money for a New High Tech High School

SiliconHills

The world is preparing for a new industrial revolution with artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, augmented and virtual reality and more. To meet the workforce needs of the future, schools need to do more than teach reading, writing and arithmetic. They must teach students skills that are actually in demand in the workplace today. That’s what […] The post San Antonio Raises Money for a New High Tech High School appeared first on SiliconHills.

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48in48 Atlanta 2016 in photos

Jeff Hilimire

WOW. Just, wow. We did it again! We built 48 nonprofit websites in 48 hours! And dozens of logos, tons of social content, 48 email templates, SEO services, and much more, all in the span of 48 hours at General Assembly’s office in Ponce City Market. Over 200 volunteers came and donated their time to make this happen, and when we ran the numbers, we provided over $1.5 million in services for Atlanta’s nonprofits!!!

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How often should I spend money on Marketing?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post How often should I spend money on Marketing? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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The Mildly Inauthentic Nature of Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

The Mildly Inauthentic Nature of Social Media written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I wrote a bit of an off the cuff post on Facebook yesterday that drew far more interaction and conversation than I expected. I think in part because it came dangerously close to defining an uneasy feeling that many people have about sharing in networks like Facebook.

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Austin Tech Alliance releases voter engagement app and core principles

Austin Startup

Yesterday evening, Austin Tech Alliance, a nonprofit recently founded to educate and activate the grassroots of Austin’s tech sector… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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The best days and worst days of investing

Hippoland

Check out my side project Rejectionathon (discount code: EYFRIENDS), which helps founders get over their fear of rejection. The next one is on Nov 13, 2016 in Mountain View. This post isn’t for you. You are probably trying to get your round done and this post won’t help you with that. This post is mostly for me. Sorry. Two years in, people often ask me what it’s like to be an investor – what I like and what I don’t like.

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After IoT’s DDoS: What now for consumers

Austin Startup

Last Friday’s distributed denial of service attack against a company that provides the equivalent of an address book for the internet has… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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#GoRemote engages talented youth with social good

Transformify

Ocober, 2016 – London, UK. Transformify unveiled #GoRemote campaign engaging students around the globe with social good. By offering remote jobs to people in 90 countries on 4 continents, Transformify has good insights of job markets in various countries worldwide and their access to education. #GoRemote aims to help young people around the world establish their personal brand, enhance their skills via e – learning, and get noticed by top employers.

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Hello, World: SXSW Gaming!

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: October 25, 2016 Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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