Wed.Jul 06, 2016

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

I talk about failure a lot because I think it can be tremendously instructive and I think that success without failure often masks underlying lessons. I even prefer to fund entrepreneurs who have experience some level of set-backs in their careers or startups because I think it brings a humility to decision-making that I find healthy. I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer

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How and Where to Write About Technology in Your Business Plan

Up and Running

Often, a business plan introduces a new technology that requires some explaining. On one hand, as a reader of business plans for investors, I see way too many business plans that ask a reader to wade neck-deep through technology to get to the business. That’s a great way make your reader run in the other direction! It’s a business plan, not a term paper or thesis.

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Suck Less | A Plea For User-Centric Design: Powered By You!

Occam's Razor

Analysts, honestly, make the world go round when it comes to any successful business – yes, data is that important. As you might expect from any role, they also make a handful of important mistakes. I've written about the biggest mistake web analysts make. Today's post is an adjacent mistake: The cardinal sin of spending too much time with data and in reports!

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7 Keys To Signing Business Advisors That Add Value

Startup Professionals Musings

In my role as an angel investor to startups, I’m struck by the broad variety of advisor strategies I see in investor presentations and business plans that cross my desk. Some entrepreneurs are “lone rangers,” never mentioning any outside guidance, while others tout dozens of advisors. In my experience, both of these approaches will likely have minimal value for your venture.

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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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6 Tips For Entrepreneurs To Deal With Mental Stress

YoungUpstarts

by Swati Kapoor, Practo. Managing a business is no joke, and entrepreneurs frequently face challenging situations that impact them mentally. This, coupled with the modern way of living, can get you stressed at some point. It is considered normal to experience a small amount of stress in everyday life. In fact, that stress may be good for you. However, you don’t want to feel extremely stressed at all times as that could become the root of several problems.

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What Your Content Says About Your Startup

Rembrandt Communications

Are you guilty of these 3 big mistakes? We get it. You’re a busy small-business-owner with a limited budget. And this means you probably cut corners by writing all of your website copy, e-mails, blogs, newsletters, and more. Yes, you finish and post the content on schedule, but what does the final product really say […]. The post What Your Content Says About Your Startup appeared first on Boost sales fast with content marketing strategy, SEO and PR here.

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Our Q2 2016 Round-Up

Version One Ventures

Hope you had a great Canada Day and Fourth of July weekend! Here’s a quick recap of some of this quarter’s news clippings for V1 and our portfolio companies. Keep in mind that these are just the things that have been announced publicly; other equally important and interesting things have been happening behind the scenes too. Funding announcements. We made three new investments this quarter.

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Nine Things Your Customers Actually Want From You

YoungUpstarts

So, you want to push your company up to the next level of success. You might even already know that the customer driven method is the most effective method of doing that. But what do customers actually want? How do you actually follow in the example of great companies with loyal customers? In this article, we’re going to look at just a few answers to those questions: A story.

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4 Fears Every Entrepreneur Feels At First (And How To Overcome Them)

YFS Magazine

In the wise words of the late Nelson Mandela, "The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.".

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Content From LPs

Feld Thoughts

My partner Lindel Eakman wrote a post a few days ago about his transition from Austin to Boulder and a really helpful one about how to work with him titled A Human User Interface….with lots of quirks. This prompted me to poke around for other content from the limited partner (LP) side of the LP/VC/entrepreneurship universe. I think the first LP blogger was Chris Douvos who periodically puts up an instant classic post at Super LP.

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A Deeper Look At Social Entrepreneurship: Key Trends In 2016 (And Beyond)

YFS Magazine

Social entrepreneurship is the next generation’s secret weapon for tackling chronic social challenges and creating the change they want to see.

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How the Crowd Might Save Don Draper and the Agencies

crowdSPRING Blog

In the days of Don Draper, things were different. Day drinking and sexual harassment were acceptable, yes, but so was the idea that creative work was to be acquired under very specific circumstances. You had your account men and your creatives. You bought and sold stories. Charm was your most valuable currency, and the exchange rate for client dollars was glorious.

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The Stark Reality Facing Austin Startups Right Now

Austin Startup

For a long time now, I have compared startup offers against that of established companies. The comparison boils down to this: Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Austin Ranks Fifth on CBRE Group’s Tech Talent Scorecard

SiliconHills

The key to a thriving technology center is tech talent. And Austin has it, according to a new report from CBRE Group, a commercial real estate services and investment group. The city ranks fifth, up three spots from a year ago, in its annual Tech Talent Scorecard which ranks 50 U.S. and Canadian markets. The […] The post Austin Ranks Fifth on CBRE Group’s Tech Talent Scorecard appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How should business owners assess the value of their businesses?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post How should business owners assess the value of their businesses? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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iCars Launches Executive Car Service in Austin

SiliconHills

Another startup has entered Austin’s ride hailing market. iCars, based in San Francisco, launched its web and mobile platform on Wednesday to connect customers to executive car service operators and chauffeurs in Austin. The company first began offering service in the San Francisco Bay Area in February. “iCARS’ expansion into Austin signifies the growing demand […] The post iCars Launches Executive Car Service in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Invisible Influences that Surround Us

Duct Tape Marketing

The Invisible Influences that Surround Us written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jonah Berger. Most of us believe we are in charge of the decisions we make throughout each day. To some extent we certainly are, but many of the decisions we make – what to wear, what to eat, what to buy, what to say – are driven by forces at the subconscious level.

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Want to Win Millennials? Understand Marketing in the Experience Economy

crowdSPRING Blog

Love ’em or hate ’em, Millennials are here to stay, and they’re a different breed of consumer than those of days gone by. They grew up with the internet. Maybe they vaguely remember the sultry tones of the AOL dial up , but just barely. They processed their teen angst in texts tapped out on smartphones and punctuated by emoji that may or may not be seeped in innuendo.

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Episode 102: Rethinking Happiness With Doug Kisgen

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Today we talk about the process of rethinking happiness with Doug Kisgen. He shares some interesting insights that happiness does not correlate with money but rather is determined by multiple factors. He shares his experience working at ‘Boys Town’, helping teenage boys reintegrate into society to become upstanding citizens.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 34: Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken

Steve Blank

Countries or people you meet sometimes don’t like our policies on a given issue, but what they almost universally admire and aspire to is American entrepreneurship, innovation, education, science and technology, and volunteerism, philanthropy. The State Department is working at the intersection of foreign policy and technology to keep Americans safe, serve the country’s interests and promote freedom of expression around the globe.

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Hamilton & Democracy 2016

thebarefootvc

Back in January I bought tickets to go see Hamilton on Broadway, purposefully the Friday before the Presidential election. I hoped we would be on the verge of electing our first female president. I thought going to see the show would be a tribute to how far our country has come. After all, what better way to celebrate the milestone than with a history-making AND historical show about the founding of our country – told via infectious hip-hop by a Latino and African American cast.