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How to Find a Business Partner

Up and Running

You don’t have to do everything yourself—a partner can be an asset to your business. Entrepreneurs have a reputation for trying to do it all singlehandedly. In the early days of starting your business, you may feel like you’re wearing several hats—too many, in fact. For this reason, you might consider working with a business partner. Not only does having a business partner distribute some of the work, it gives you someone to bounce ideas off of, the benefit of an additional skill set, and

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A Victory for Artists Everywhere – Thank You Taylor Swift!

crowdSPRING Blog

Thank You Taylor Swift! Wow. Words I never once imagined being typed by my own fingers. But, credit where credit is due, Miss Swift went up against Goliath, carefully aimed and swung her sling and, Pow! The monster was vanquished! If you don’t know what I am talking about here, a little background: about a year ago, Apple acquired Beats Music, the music streaming service and manufacturer of a popular line of fashion-forward headphones.

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7 Ways To Turn Team Conflict Into Positive Results

Startup Professionals Musings

The best startup teams don’t shy away from some healthy friction and heated debates between team members or founders. That’s the way smart people with innovative insights make real change happen. Yet we all know that there is a fine line here, beyond which heated debates generate so much emotion and drama that the entire team becomes dysfunctional. The obvious challenge is to channel these interactions in a way that maximizes their value to the startup as positive results, without letting them s

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How To Preserve Your Company Culture After An Acquisition

YoungUpstarts

by Benoit Vialle, COO of NakedWines.com. Companies are bought and sold every day. Maybe the acquiring company is looking for a unique technology asset to round out its portfolio. Or perhaps the acquired business seeks an acquisition deal to gain access to a wider marketplace. No matter what the reason, an acquisition tends to shake things up at both businesses.

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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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14 tips to manage a remote dev team

The Next Web

Managing a team of developers can be a difficult undertaking when you’re working remotely. And effectively overseeing team members working solo in different time zones all over the world, as many tech companies now do, is even more complex than having just one or two off-site freelancers. That’s why I asked fourteen members from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: We work with a big team of developers, all remote.

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Learn From Mentors, Not Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

by Clay Clark, founder of Thrive15.com. We can all choose to achieve success if we are willing to work hard and to implement proven best-practice business systems and strategies, yet your path to success doesn’t have to be as painful as mine if you choose to learn from mentors rather than from mistakes. The famous actor, writer and comedian Steve Martin once famously said, “Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

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The New Generation Likes Its Media On Smartphones

YoungUpstarts

TV, tube or the box as some may call it, has worked like a magnet for adults. There have been TV jokes on adults because some feel an average adult person does only one thing after coming back from work – watch TV. An average person does spend quite some time in front of the television. As you can see from the data below (Source: Nielsen), an average adult watches media on TV more than any other device.

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Ray Kurzweil on the future of employment

The Equity Kicker

In this ten minute video Ray Kurzweil explains his view that as robots and AI automate low skilled jobs new higher skilled jobs will be created. In other words human labour will move up the skill ladder, as we have done before when we moved from agriculture to manufacturing and from manufacturing to knowledge work. I think he’s right about that, but as I’ve written before I’m worried that the job destruction might happen much faster than the job creation and we will suffer majo

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Curator: Retail Truths, Twitter SEC Cash Grab, Strong Team Drawbacks, Holiday Social Media

YFS Magazine

Here’s our weekly link roundup of small business buzz, musings and muchness. A curation of the best small business talk around the web.

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The Importance of Linking Social Enterprise to Mission

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The Entrepreneurial Mind : Bettie Kirkland – Project Return is a non-profit that helps released felons integrate into the workforce. To support this program, they have launched a social enterprise, PROemployment, that is a temporary employment agency that gives clients valuable work experience and helps provide revenue support for the mission of the non-profit.

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3 Steps To Raise Seed Capital From Investors

YFS Magazine

These three steps will help you start fundraising and act as an initial foundation.

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Monday Motivation – Be Hungry [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. The hungry people have a vision of leaving a legacy. . How do you get to that next level? You must learn to dominate. You cannot compete… This is about massive amounts of action. . People that are hungry are unstoppable. .

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18 Brilliant Content Ideas For Your Email Newsletter

YFS Magazine

We are often told a newsletter and getting more email.

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Monday Morning Motivation – The Vigorous Worker [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. Remember that the difference between those people that are the most successful is often just work ethic and putting in more time and effort. While work ethic doesn’t guarantee greatness, it is often the one thing consistent of the greats and successful people.

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Admittance Technologies Gets $3.9 Million Investment

SiliconHills

Admittance Technologies has received $3.9 million in funding, according to a filing with federal regulators. The Austin-based startup raised the money from 15 unidentified investors on June 26th, according to its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The startup, founded in 2010, created the CardioVol technology platform to measure blood volume using a […] The post Admittance Technologies Gets $3.9 Million Investment appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 questions for New Story after a month in Y Combinator

Jeff Hilimire

I can’t tell you how excited I was when Brett Hagler , CEO and co-founder of New Story (funding life-changing houses for homeless families), told me that they were accepted into Y Combinator (YC). YC is THE premier startup accelerator program in the world, and very few startups make the cut to get into the program. Side note: I donated my last birthday to New Story.

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Being a Business Leader Amid Historical Events

Seeing Both Sides

There was an overwhelming torrent of news last week. The two Supreme Court decisions and the response to the tragic church shooting in South Carolina are among the most indelible events of our time and all three will be memorialized in history books and discussed for decades to come. Last week, a CEO friend ( Jen Medbery of Kickboard) asked me a series of great questions that I've been thinking about these last few days: How do I address current events within my own company?

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Episode 34: Married to Mayhem Featuring Susan Fuller and Krista Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Susan Fuller and Krista Michalowicz join us for Episode 34 of the Profit First Podcast. They share their stories of what it’s like to be married to busy entrepreneurs! Our Guests. Susan Fuller (left). As the wife of a guy with too much tolerance for risk, Susan Fuller has endured, conquered and made peace with the high-flying, high-risk, entrepreneurial spirit that has been her steady course for 21 years of marriage.

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How to Leverage News Stories on Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Leverage News Stories on Social Media written by Alex Boyer read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Supreme Court via photopin (license). Social media has revolutionized the way people talk about news and major events. Really, it is just natural. When you hear about an interesting event or news story, what do you want to do?

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The Beginner’s Guide On How To Create A Remarkable Business Blog

Brandanew

Recently, a Brandanew community member asked us this question on Facebook- “I have my own apparel site and I do some associated blogging with it, but I am thinking to take it into complete blogging space” This is a big question depending on how you look at it. There are plenty of to-dos before you start a blog for your business, and I will enlist some ideas here which can help anyone struggling with this question.