Fri.Aug 28, 2015

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Winners Aren?t Born That Way: Debunking The 3 Myths Of Advantage

YoungUpstarts

By Larry Weidel, author of “ Serial Winner: 5 Actions to Create Your Cycle of Success “ Itʼs easy to get the impression that the most successful people have been given some kind of advantage that the rest of us donʼt have — a special gift of physical, mental, or economic privilege that made their rise to greatness inevitable. This reinforces the often-unconscious belief that average people like you and me have a disadvantage that makes real, lasting success almost impossible.

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6 Top Motivations That Drive The Best Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience mentoring new entrepreneurs and aspiring business leaders, I see far too many who seem to be driven by all the wrong reasons. Everyone seems to espouse extrinsic motivations, such as getting rich, having power, and fulfilling parent dreams, when in fact a focus on satisfying internal interests and desires will likely lead to more success, as well as satisfaction.

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A Quick Guide To Making Your Website Stand Out Online

YoungUpstarts

If you’re reading this blog or stumbled across this website, you’re probably an online entrepreneur. You’ve got a great idea, and maybe already started your own website. But, you’re having trouble standing out. You’re writing blogs and making connections, but you’re struggling to rise above the crowd. Don’t get disheartened. Every business starts out like this.

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9 Ways To Stand Out On Facebook Without a Big Budget

Brandanew

Even though Facebook is known for changing its News Feed algorithm on an almost weekly basis, it still continues to be the first platform people look for a brand name they come across. Reason? The largest growing segment in 45+ age group. Facebook is now a way of life, not just for the young! Making a mark on Facebook and standing out amongst the very many offering products/ services in the same category, can be a herculean task – especially for those businesses that are running on a budge

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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 Ways To Earn Better ROI From Email

YoungUpstarts

When it comes to implementing a marketing tactic for your business , most companies today are sticking to those that involve digital. This is smart, but what companies need to realize is that digital goes beyond websites and social media. It also includes email marketing. Some companies opt to forgo email marketing because they don’t want to be considered spam mail or flood their customers’/clients’ inboxes with advertisements.

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Meet the 13-year-old founder building an incredible tool to understand startups

The Next Web

Soroush Ghodsi is 13-years-old. It shouldn’t matter. It doesn’t really matter. And yet… I first encountered Soroush when I emailed him about an experimental anonymous Twitter bot called Whispererly, not realising that it was a side-project from such a young entrepreneur. After working on Slik – his *real* company, which lets you search, filter and track companies based on criteria including investment round, employee count, page visits. etc. – he “reached out” (I hate that term) to me again.

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Negotiating styles

The Equity Kicker

My friend Jason Tavaria posted this link to charts about national negotiating styles to an email group I’m a member of (apologies to other members of the ICE Group reading this for the repetition). This is how we English negotiate: I certainly recognise that in myself and my compatriots. Perhaps more interestingly it also helps make sense of where I’m different.

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This Cost-Saving Strategy Can Help You Build A Better Business

YFS Magazine

By now, I’m sure you’ll be aware of the many benefits of this strategy, but have you ever thought about how it can actually make you money too?

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Is Austin the Next Hotbed for Food Startups?

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News In the 18th century, Napoleon Bonaparte offered a cash prize to anyone who could come up with a way to preserve food for his troops on the battlefield. Nicholas Appert won the reward by devising a way to use heat to preserve food in glass jars sealed […] The post Is Austin the Next Hotbed for Food Startups?

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5 Money-Making Marketing Tips For Startups

YFS Magazine

When an entrepreneur decides to launch a startup, multiple challenges and roles.

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How to Keep Discounts from Killing Your Business [PART 3]

Up and Running

Now that we’ve covered advertising law and privacy issues in Part 1 and Part 2 of this article, the last legal issue I will consider is anti-spam legislation. It may not sound exciting, but it is important, especially if you’re taking your business’s marketing into your own hands. It’s also important to note that t here are differences in terms of what laws apply between sending out a physical mailer to a mailbox, and sending an email.

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The Teacher Is The Best Student

Mike Michalowicz

It is one of my favorite personal ah-ha moments: My friend, JB Blanchard, and I were hastily walking to a speaking event I had on a college campus. We were running a little bit late, so we took some shortcuts through buildings. As we passed a classroom, he muttered “There’s the best student.” I didn’t notice what he said. My mind was rehearsing the speech I was about to deliver.

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Your Small Business News Roundup 8.28.15

Up and Running

Bringing you the latest news on small business and more—this week we’re covering 3D printing, millennials at work, and what you need to know about Black Monday. . Black Monday. This past week was one of the bumpiest in stock market history: An 8.5 percent drop on China’s Shanghai Composite Monday prompted panic around the world, including a 1000-point opening drop on the Dow Jones index.

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No Cliffs, Just Big Peaks and Valleys

ithacaVC

I have been thinking a lot about the crazy stock market swings. Will it impact our portfolio companies? Certainly, but not exactly sure how. Is there such thing as timing luck? Certainly, we sold a company to a Chinese buyer on July 1st. That would not have happened much after that! Will startups have a tougher time raising capital? Certainly, investors get nervous with any volatility.

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The Secret Sauce for Optimizing Your FAQ Page

Duct Tape Marketing

The Secret Sauce for Optimizing Your FAQ Page written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: photopin. Having the human touch is a no brainer for companies that are starting out. It’s undeniable that, cost aside, companies would much rather have sales people closing deals in addition to their support team personally answering every inquiry and problem that arises.

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NMSU NSF I Corps Team Pivots from Bullet Proof Backpacks to Improved Helmets #concussion #NSF #ICORPS

Campus Entrepreneurship

Nice story from New Mexico State University highlighting its participation in the NSF Innovation Corps — “Researcher teams with student” reads the headline. The story highlights the value of the NSF I Corps and lean startup methodology as the firm pivoted from its initial focus on bullet resistant backpacks to its current focus on bringing improvement to the helmet industry.

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How To Find Blogging Inspiration

Brandanew

Sometimes, being consistent with blogging is a tough ask for brands and Startups. Not just because it is time consuming, but also because of the sheer effort. To create good content is a challenge that demands constant effort and sometimes the genius inside of us can exhaust itself pretty well. But hitting a wall is also about finding a door to go across.

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Visit to Halcyon Incubator | #SOCENT #Incubator #DC

Campus Entrepreneurship

Earlier this week I was fortunate to tour Halcyon Incubator in the Georgetown neighborhood of DC. The year long social entrepreneurship incubator, offers 8 early stage social entrepreneurs the opportunity to live and work in the Halcyon House (a bit more on the property later). For the first 5 months the entrepreneurs participate in the ‘residency’ phase with skills sessions, pitch opportunities, weekly lunches, mentors, consultants and others supporting their ventures development.

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Twitter Link Roundup #284 – Late Summer Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

I guess I have a travel bug this month. Sad me, it’s August but there’s no time for vacation right now. I’ll have to continue from last week and fantasize about the places I would be visiting, oh if I only could. For instance, I do really like a good market in an exotic locale, and this may be one of the most comprehensive lists of these places yet crafted.