Fri.Nov 04, 2016

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5 Ways Entrepreneurs Are Chefs Creating New Recipes

Startup Professionals Musings

I realized a while back that creating a new company for the first time is a lot like whipping up a great dinner entrée for the first time – you need a recipe, even though it may look simple. You know the basic ingredients, and you can visualize the results you want. Yet you may not be so sure where to start, and how to put it all together. In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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Co-founder Equity Split: A New Framework to Objectively Divide Startup Ownership and Get Back to Building a Business

Gust

We’ve just released our free Co-founder Equity Split tool. It’ll give you a fair and objective recommendation about how to divide your startup’s ownership, so you and your co-founders will have a sensible, real starting point for this notoriously hard, crucially important conversation. Many startup founders find themselves lacking clarity and direction when it comes time to divide their.

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Denis Vranich, Canadian Executive, Emphasizes Hard Work For New Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Many people have the dream of opening one’s own business and working for themselves. Thanks to the technology boom and the advent of the internet, today more than ever people are able to open their own business and nurture their startup ambitions. Of the more than 7 billion people living around the world, over 400 million are entrepreneurs who are living out their dream of owning their own company.

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After 20 years: Updating the Berkus Method of valuation

Berkonomics

Well, it had to happen. Originally created in the mid 1990’s to help with the imprecise problem of how to value early stage companies, especially those in technology, I developed what soon became known as “The Berkus Method” when published in the popular book, “Winning Angels” by Harvard’s Amis and Stevenson with my permission in 2001. But a lot of time has passed since then.

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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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Optimizing Website Content For An International Audience

YoungUpstarts

by Lewis Robinson. Many U.S. business owners who conduct their businesses internationally often make the mistake of seeing their websites only from their US audience’s perspective. However, it is important to consider your website’s appeal to users from other countries to effectively attract and maintain your international audience. One of the best ways to achieve this is by coming up with global marketing campaigns.

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Finally, 4 Practical Ways To Overcome The Fear Of Entrepreneurship

YFS Magazine

Mindset hurdles and limiting beliefs can get in the way of even the most ambitious aspiring entrepreneurs.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Use Social Media To Recruit Employees

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at four undeniable reasons why social media should be at the forefront of your hiring practices.

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Fine-Tune Your Relationship Skills To Avoid A Communication Breakdown

YoungUpstarts

Communication is such a vast tool in the workplace. It is what will help you develop relationships with customers, potential business partners, and your employees. It is undeniable that it is the most essential skill in your toolbox. You need to develop it constantly so your business can develop! There are so many different ways that you can use communication to grow your business.

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4 Tools to Help You Stay Organized and on Track While Starting Your Business

Up and Running

Are you tired of being a “wantrepreneur”? What if you could get all your entrepreneurial questions answered—along with questions you haven’t even encountered yet? Udemy offers a course entitled “How to Start a Business: Business Ideas to Success” that does just that. The course is a unique, full-scale answer to questions asked by over 300,000 first-time entrepreneurs like yourself.

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Breakroom Basics And Beyond

YoungUpstarts

By Lea Schneider. Building a great working team is a goal for every company. As you work toward that goal, keep in mind that your breakroom is a tool you should be utilizing. Breakrooms are sometimes the measuring stick by which an employee feels valued. You don’t have to break the bank to impress them, although investing in your employees’ breakroom might be a good business decision.

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The Inaugural Austin Design Week Kicks Off on Monday

SiliconHills

Design is “more important than ever before,” in business, according to Wired. And Austin takes design seriously. That’s why a team of creative minds launched the first Austin Design Week, which kicks off on Monday. The week includes a variety of events where people can share their work, ideas and work spaces and learn from […] The post The Inaugural Austin Design Week Kicks Off on Monday appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Growing Your Small Business with Geofencing

Duct Tape Marketing

Growing Your Small Business with Geofencing written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Pixabay. Geofencing and Your Small Business. Geofencing is a location-based mobile service that allows businesses to send notifications to smartphone users within a specified geographical area. It is widely utilized as a marketing tool to directly engage potential customers in the area by sending promotions and information straight to the consumer’s phone.

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Austin-based HealthTronics Acquires HealthTech Solutions

SiliconHills

Austin-based HealthTronics this week announced it has acquired Plymouth, Minnesota-based HealthTech Solutions. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Acquiring HealthTech Solutions further enables HealthTronics to make available a wide array of clinical treatment options to doctors and hospitals of any size – from comprehensive medical centers to offices in remote, rural communities,” […] The post Austin-based HealthTronics Acquires HealthTech Solutions appeared f

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Women Who Reign: Tiffany Wong

Austin Startup

“Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Growing Your Small Business with Geofencing

Duct Tape Marketing

Growing Your Small Business with Geofencing written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Geofencing and Your Small Business. Geofencing is a location-based mobile service that allows businesses to send notifications to smartphone users within a specified geographical area. It is widely utilized as a marketing tool to directly engage potential customers in the area by sending promotions and information straight to the consumer’s phone.

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You Don’t Need a Master Plan You Just Need to Start

Bryce Dot VC

Startups are overdosing on ambition these days. Everything has be a billion dollar idea that changes the world or it isn’t worth doing. These days, even a billion doesn’t seem to be enough : I’ve probably sat in on eight unicorn presentations [recently], and five of them use the world ‘trillion.’ Now I don’t think I had heard the word trillion in an investor presentation before that day.

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Here’s Why Project Management Matters Most to Your Small Business

Austin Startup

Project management is one of those exciting things that looks easy until you try it. The basics of managing a project from the beginning… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Guest Post: Why Investing in Professional Design is Key to Good Print Jobs

crowdSPRING Blog

Solid design is the key to growing your business. Period. Point Blank. Fin. We could (and probably will) talk until we’re blue in the face on this subject, but we thought it might be helpful to hear it from others as well. So this guest post is the inaugural post in a new series on the crowdSPRING blog highlighting the importance of investing in good design.

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New Partner Joins #GoRemote - Britcham Chile

Transformify

We’re excited to welcome our newest partner, the British Chilean Chamber of Commerce (Britcham Chile), joining the supporters of the #GoRemote campaign. Britcham Chile specializes in providing market insight and assistance to UK companies wishing to enter the Chilean market. By joining the campaign, launched by Transformify, Britcham Chile will help students around the globe engage with social change.

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Rethinking corporate innovation at Techstars

David Cohen

At Techstars , we’re building the best global ecosystem for founders to bring new technologies to market. One of the impacts that I think we’ll have long time is to change the way that corporations engage with startups. We want to help make those engagements effective and efficient for both parties. We do this in a few different ways. First, we have an internal team of five people that focus on corporate relationships.

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