Wed.Jul 22, 2015

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8 Team Member Types Challenge Every Startup Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Cash isn’t always the scarcest resource startups have to invest – more often it’s the leadership capital of under-experienced and over-stretched entrepreneurs and co-founders.

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How and Where to Obtain Business Licenses and Permits

Up and Running

Everyone has to deal with the nitty-gritty details of starting a business; no matter your industry, getting started safely and legally involves at least a little red tape. You need to make your business an official legal entity, and take an in-depth look at what permits and licenses you need at the local, state, and federal levels to be able to operate your business without fear of being hit with a fine—or worse, having to close down.

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Traction by a Thousand Cuts: How The Muse Scrapped to 4 Million Visitors [Traction Podcast #7]

View from Seed

The NextView podcast Traction shares the incredible stories of the creative and unusual things entrepreneurs did to make initial progress in an important area of their businesses. You can listen on iTunes or SoundCloud. Stories to date include LinkedIn, General Assembly, NatureBox, InsightSquared, and more. It’s always amazing to hear people’s founding stories, but few have struck me as just plain necessary for entrepreneurs to hear today than this one.

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How Startups Can Beat Seasonality

YoungUpstarts

by Ted Karkus, CEO of Prophase Labs. I’ve been investing in, buying and restructuring small businesses for over 20 years and it’s a passion of mine to see everyone succeed from employees to shareholders, owners and investors. One of the issues however that appears to hamper growth or even attract investors is the acceptance of some of the lulls that come in the off season.

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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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5 Digital Storytelling Projects That Inspire Us

Brandanew

Everyone loves a good story. Why are we always seeking captivating plots in series and novels? For that matter, why do we try and connect every song to an instance? Because when things become relatable, they make more sense and that holds true for marketing as well. Digital storytelling projects or just ideas inspire us. Brands today are delving into digital storytelling modes , sharing their own experiences and spending time framing posts to promote their products but seem like they are solvin

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Planning For Your Family’s Financial Future

YoungUpstarts

Personal financial planning is a challenging task for anyone, and when your family grows, it just gets more complex. Family finances have to take into account the various needs of each member if the budget is going to stretch to make sure everything is covered, meaning that you will need to adjust the plan regularly as the family grows and ages. No matter what, though, there are still basics that everyone needs to cover, it’s just that how they work and how you balance your resources between the

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Choosing people over algorithms

The Equity Kicker

It seems to me there might be an emerging trend back towards human curation. LinkedIn’s new Pulse App features human curation, the same is true for Apple’s forthcoming news app , and Apple’s new music service similarly makes a big deal about it’s human editors, including former BBC Radio 1 favourite Zane Lowe. Two of these examples are from Apple, making it early to generalise, but there’s definitely a strong meme that humans are better than algorithms when it come

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3 Habits Of Exceptionally Likable Entrepreneurs And Brands

YFS Magazine

Likability is a way for you to compete and offer a one-of-a-kind experience for the people who do business with you.

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Accenture Acquires Chaotic Moon

SiliconHills

Accenture has scooped up an Austin original: Chaotic Moon. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Chaotic Moon, founded in 2010, is known in Austin as a creative technology studio, that pushes the boundaries of technology. In 2014 during SXSW, the studio launched a drone and tasered an intern at its offices. It has […] The post Accenture Acquires Chaotic Moon appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How Entrepreneurs Can Fund An Endless World Trip

YFS Magazine

Becoming a world traveler while running a successful company is the new normal for many business owners.

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Fresh from the SPRING: LOREWREN

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for LOREWREN. Check out more great work on LOREWREN ’s profile page. Nicely done, LOREWREN, nicely done! Related posts: from the SPRING: airborne. Fresh from the SPRING: ShahabasPoozhithara.

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Should You Sue When A Clients’ Bill Is Past Due?

YFS Magazine

If standard attempts to collect a debt fall short, here is what you need to consider.

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Why Leaders Eat Last with Simon Sinek

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Leaders Eat Last with Simon Sinek written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Simon Sinek. For this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, we’ll revisit my conversation with Simon Sinek , author of Start With Why and the most recent Leaders Eat Last. First off, if you’ve not read either of these books, I suggest you get both.

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More Words of Wisdom from Kevin Rose

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Kevin Rose , CEO of HODINKEE , an advisor to (and former Partner of) Google Ventures , and the founder of Digg.

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Driving in the Networked Age

Reid Hoffman

How soon will it be illegal to operate human-driven cars on public streets? Read my full post on LinkedIn : Today, as individual drivers compete for space, they often work against each other’s interests, sometimes obliviously, sometimes deliberately. In a world of networked driverless cars, driving retains the individualized flexibility that has always made automobility so attractive.

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One-Tailed vs Two-Tailed Tests (Does It Matter?)

ConversionXL

There’s a lot of controversy around one-tailed vs two-tailed testing. Articles like this lambast the shortcomings of one-tailed testing, saying that “unsophisticated users love them.” On the flip side, some articles and discussions take a more balanced approach and say there’s a time and a place for both. In fact, many people don’t realize that there are two ways to determine whether an experiment’s results are statistically valid.