YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2016

By John Canfield, VP of Risk for WePay. A prospective client contacts you via email or your website, seeking your services on a big, new job. He mentions that the job also involves a third party, so he wishes to pay you for the whole job if you can then pay that other party involved. Sounds a bit dubious. But he’s got a good explanation. He’s seen your design portfolio online and wants to contract for your services to design his new business website if only you can pay his photographer so it’s a

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Inspire Positive Conversations Behind Your Back written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Today everybody can publicly give a thumbs up or down to each customer experience. Whether you’re an Uber driver or a brain surgeon, you have to accept that online reviews are now built into the buying process. While negative reviews can certainly impact business, it’s second only to having none at all.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Giving what is required. FADE IN. EXT. ST PAUL’S AVENUE ABA – MORNING: It was a warn and easy morning in the heart of Aba Abia State and the sun rises with each second. DESOLVE TO: INT. MERILENE LODGE – SECOND FLOOR – DAY. The sound of a TV adverts coming from the sitting room. BUCHI, 31, is a motivational speaker and an inspirational stalwart.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2016

There is likely no business owner who hasn’t made a few mistakes in the marketing department. When it comes to marketing your business, “trial and error” comes with the territory of finding which avenues will work best for your brand and your target audience. However, as a startup, too many mistakes could put a dent in your budget and ruin your brand’s reputation.

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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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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 15, 2016

I had lunch recently with a founder. We were talking about current and future board configuration for his company and he said “Up until this point, all my board seats were simply for sale. Whenever a new investor showed up, they wanted – and got – a board seat.” I loved the phrase “board seat for sale.” It’s exactly the opposite of how I think about how to configure a board of directors, but I recognize that it’s a default case for many VCs and, su

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2016

by Michael Dermer, author of “ The Lonely Entrepreneur: The Difference between Success and Failure is Your Perspective “ We are often running from fire to fire and don’t think about the ways we can be more efficient, more balanced, more rested and more effective. Entrepreneurs just go and go and go and don’t have time to think about how to better manage themselves.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2016

It is uncommon for startups, especially new ones, to limit their expenses and bootstrap. It is one of the commonly used strategies to survive, especially in today’s competitive market. According to studies by the Villanova University and its online Master of Science in Analytics program , however, there are still several types of tax a startup must pay in order to operate legally.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2016

It’s that time of year again to think about change, improvement, and new achievements for your company in the new year.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Higher education is expensive, and not everyone can afford it. However, what even fewer people can afford is paying for a higher education and still not being able to find a job. So while there is indeed more to an education than employability there is absolutely no shame in being a bit picky over which degree you commit to. Here are some of the top degrees for employability today: Business and administrative studies.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2016

After 5 months of crazy hustle this company built an app that enabled their client to close a $6.3 million seed round. Here's how they did it.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Ghost buttons are transparent calls to action that appear on websites and in apps. They tend to have a thin border and a text label that sits within the transparent body of the button. The use of this type of button reached a peak around a year ago, but can still be seen across a wide range of websites. They’re generally used more on websites that use a minimalist or flat design.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2016

If your website engagement down, then it is time to focus on user interaction to provide value through your online presence.
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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 15, 2016

While allowing that the next 16 days might produce a podcast which blows my mind, I’m ready to pick my favorite startup podcast of the year. “ What’s Love Got To Do With It ” brought three longtime friends together – Jerry Colonna, Fred Wilson and Brad Feld. What’s great about the interplay between the trio is they’ve all worked together in different contexts over a 20+ year period, so there’s no b t.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 15, 2016

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Professor-led startups at the University of Austin at Texas just got a big boost in seed stage funding this week. Bob Metcalfe, director of the Innovation Center at UT and professor of innovation, and Robyn Metcalfe, director of Food+City at UT, donated $100,000 through their Metcalfe Family […] The post Ethernet Inventor Backs Innovation Grant Program at UT Austin to Accelerate Professor-Led Startup Activity appeared first on SiliconHills.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2016

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 AVARTDE. Check out more great work on AVARTDE’s profile page. Nicely done, AVARTDE, nicely done!

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 15, 2016

“The only thing that separates my success from all those other people who want to be successful so bad is doing it,” William Hurley, known as Whurley, serial entrepreneur and cofounder of Honest Dollar, acquired by Goldman Sachs and Chaotic Moon, acquired by Accenture. For anyone paying any attention in Austin, it’s been quite a […] The post Whurley Touting the Benefits of International Travel From Austin on British Airways appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2016

At the start of my graduate career, I decided to think about the end. (Because who really lives completely in the moment?) The foreseeable… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Transformify

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Written by Julie Morris. For business owners and busy professionals, any time of year can be stressful, but when the holidays roll around the stress and anxiety can be overwhelming. This is often the busiest time of year for many businesses, and most professionals find themselves struggling to get their end-of-the-year to-do list taken care of while accomplishing holiday tasks at the same time.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2016

And tips on how you can actually get a pair Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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