Mon.Jul 14, 2014

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10 Entrepreneur Alternatives To Investor Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

'The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. I often get asked about the real alternatives to bridge this valley, and there are some good ones I will outline here.

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[Infographic] WYSIWYG: DIY Websites

YoungUpstarts

'It used to be that designing and developing websites was an expensive proposition; without in-house web designers one needed to hire an agency that was wont to overcharge for web development work. These days, there’re a slew of web tools that allows anyone – at whatever level of design expertise – to put together websites for cheap.

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How To Disrupt The Investing Business, With Katina Stefanova (Ex-Bridgewater Management Committee)

David Teten

'I had a conversation recently about the investing business with Katina Stefanova , who recently left Bridgewater, the largest hedge fund in the world. I’ve always had great respect for Bridgewater, which unlike most investing organizations realizes just how critical processes and culture are to investing success. Katina served as a Senior Executive and Management Committee Advisor at Bridgewater Associates.

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How To Turn Flexible Working Hours Into A Win-Win Situation

YoungUpstarts

'by Sean Blanks, marketing director of www.cartridgesave.co.uk. Did the news that that every employee now has the right to request flexible working strike fear into your heart? It needn’t. We decided to introduce flexible working five years ago, specifically for our team of programmers. Employees with this skill are notoriously hard to recruit and so we decided to add it to the recruitment package, feeling it would be perceived as a perk that would suit their traditionally more unsociable hours

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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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Why the future of work is already here

The Next Web

'Sean Kim is an entrepreneur, new-born writer, and striving life-hacker. This post originally appeared on the Sketchfab blog. It’s a beautiful afternoon as I write this post at the Dineen coffee shop in Toronto. I’m also instant messaging a co-worker in New York City, about to get on a Skype call with our Community Manager in the Netherlands, and sending an email to our development team in Paris.

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Thriving Through Inevitable Conflict

YoungUpstarts

'by Joel Freimuth, President of Blue Pearl Consulting Firm. For anyone running a family business, conflict is nearly unavoidable. According to the Family Firm Institute, 20% of family businesses report weekly conflict, another 20% report monthly conflict, and 42% report conflict three to four times per year. While conflict can be defined in many ways (divorce, death, accusations, etc), family businesses are hit the hardest and necessitate the most proactivity.

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Mentors 1/18: Be Socratic

Feld Thoughts

'Since today is the first day of the new Techstars Boulder program, I figured that it’s time to get rolling Deconstructing The Techstars Mentor Manifesto. My goal with this series of posts is not to get the detail right, but to flesh things out and get your feedback. So please comment on anything and challenge everything to help me get it better.

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Bitcoin: things only grow this fast when something important is happening

The Equity Kicker

'Coindesk just published their quarterly ‘ State of Bitcoin ‘ presentation. This slide stood out for me: Looking at the massive year on year increases in most of these metrics I’m reminded of some wise words from Jeff Bezos. In around 2002 I was stuck in my hotel room in Egypt due to food poisoning and the only English TV available was an American business channel.

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How to make cold calling suck less

The Next Web

'Anand Srinivasan is a digital media consultant and the author of the book “Cold Calling Success: Tricks & Strategies.” He also runs a newsletter for entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship Daily. Regardless of whether you are the sales guy making the phone call or the prospect receiving them, we all hate cold calls. Yet, it is one of the most inevitable aspects of sales.

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Stop Doing These Right Now

Mike Michalowicz

'Every once in a while we need to evaluate our actions and decide what to continue doing or stop doing. Here are some tips on what to stop doing right now to better your business and your morale. 1. Office Gossip. I get it, I really do. I know how addictive and interesting it can be to talk about the other guy (or gal). But, truth be told, office gossip chips away at your integrity.

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3 Day Startup San Antonio Nurtures New Entrepreneurs

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Stephanie King attended a 3 Day Startup program at Geekdom in San Antonio last weekend with an idea for a startup. “I quickly realized I needed more focus,” she said. Instead of pitching her idea, King joined Spotduct, a startup focused on creating short videos for brands […] The post 3 Day Startup San Antonio Nurtures New Entrepreneurs appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Tom Menditto: Pittsburgh ADHD Coach Goes From $300 In The Bank To $30,000 A Month Applying Online Marketing To His Local Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

'Get ready to be inspired… Tom Menditto is one highly passionate fellow! Tom rose from a previous life suffering from the mental illness ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). He mastered his own condition and today helps other people do the same through his coaching practice based in Pittsburgh. [ Download. The post Tom Menditto: Pittsburgh ADHD Coach Goes From $300 In The Bank To $30,000 A Month Applying Online Marketing To His Local Business appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Jou

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Business Money Is Tight Right Now, What Are My Options?

Up and Running

'Every business has ups and downs and while many make it through, others don’t. According to the SBA , approximately half of all new businesses started each year survive five years or more and one-third survive 10 years or more. Maybe you need money to buy inventory, to grow or even to strengthen your offering. Whatever the reason, the question is still: what are your options when you know you need a bit of extra cash on hand?

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Prioritizing Your Product Features

Spencer Fry

'Because Uncover is a bootstrapped company, our resources are limited and we constantly need to prioritize what we work on. We don''t have the luxury of having raised hundreds of thousands of dollars or more to try a hundred things and hope that something sticks. For most products, there are a lot of plausible ideas that you could implement at any given time, and often you see that happening.

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The Future of Mobile Security for Small Business

Up and Running

'How strong are your locks? For most businesses, smartphones and tablets have already become regular pieces of office furniture, chirping and buzzing beside an employee’s computer. Under a workplace protocol called BYOD, or “Bring Your Own Device,” employees tote their own tech with them into the office, using them to complete their tasks.

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Entrepreneurial Approach to Real Estate

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Mark Hill. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Entrepreneurial Approach to Real Estate appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: June 16th – July 15th

Scott Edward Walker

'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past four weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. “Whoever needs the deal least has the most leverage in a negotiation.” - @venturehacks bit.ly/1oe2WmP.

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Dragon Army update: Things are going great

Jeff Hilimire

'A funny thing happened this weekend. I updated my LinkedIn profile to include the non-profit that I co-founded, MATCH Atlanta. After updating it, I specifically moved the MATCH listing down a few pegs in the list of my “experience” because I didn’t want people to think that I was no longer with Dragon Army. However, LinkedIn sent a handy email out as an update to people and it said, “Congratulate Jeff on his new job!

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Smarter Ways To Backup Your Data

YoungUpstarts

' by Simon Whitford, Senior Regional Marketing Manager, Content Solutions Business, APAC, WD. Seconds tick by; your brow is slicked with cold sweat. You try desperately to open and re-open a document painstakingly prepared and assumed safely tucked away on your desktop. Unfortunately, error messages pop up repeatedly; regret sinks in at not making backing up your data a priority.

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The Delusion of Customer Testimonials

A Crowded Space

'I’m in the fortunate position of being able to see a lot of pitches from a lot of different startups. One of the things these pitches have in common is testimonials from lots of happy customers. It’s not very surprising given the point of the pitch deck. . But, I believe the testimonials can be leading to a larger form of delusion in startups.

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The Pony’s Lucky Horseshoe

David Cohen

'Jerry Neumann’s “ Betting on the Ponies ” is easily the single best thing I’ve read online in 2014. In it, Jerry thinks through how angel investing relates to unicorn hunting, plain old luck, high frequency investing, the importance of having a system and sticking to it, and much more. If you’re involved in early stage investing and you haven’t yet read it twice – please go and do that right now.