Mon.Oct 20, 2014

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30 Compelling Reasons to Start a Business

Up and Running

'Are you toying with an idea for a business? A lot of people think about starting a business, but for whatever reason the idea never becomes a reality. If you’re an entrepreneur who is on the fence about starting a business, we have the encouragement you need to take the first step. We asked 30 business owners to offer persuasive reasons for entrepreneurs to launch a business.

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Right Entrepreneurs In The Right Place Get Funded

Startup Professionals Musings

'I’m a strong believer that investors invest in people, before they invest in a business plan, or an idea. But I continue to learn that there are a host of other factors, maybe not even related to you or your business, that could keep you from getting the funding that you need. You may not have control over many of these, but it helps to know, for planning purposes, what is really happening.

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Maximizing Your Workplace Productivity

YoungUpstarts

'Whether you’re just starting out in your first job or you’re a veteran employee, everyone gets behind every once in a while. Thankfully, it isn’t too hard to get yourself back on track and primed for success in the workplace. To stay productive in the office, all you need is a little motivation and some organizational strategies to help you out. And hey, if you’re interested enough to be reading how you can improve that productivity, you’re on the right track to success already.

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The perfect workspace: How to design an office that boosts productivity

The Next Web

'This post is brought to you by Staples - We have everything your business needs to Make More Happen every day, including furniture and décor to boost productivity. We’re all looking for quick ways to intuitively boost productivity. Today, there are many apps and services to help keep you organized and stay on task. There are books, articles and entire websites that focus on helping you change how you work.

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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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When DIY Is A Terrible Idea

YoungUpstarts

'By Jonathan Barsade, founder and CEO of Exactor. DIY (“Do-It-Yourself”) is a great idea when the task requires minimal expertise and failure will result in minimal damage. However, DIY is a terrible idea when the task is complicated and failure can bring down your entire business. This is why taxes are the ultimate DIY snare for business owners.

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Teach them to fish: 5 leadership lessons for mentoring employees

The Next Web

'David Hassell is the CEO of 15Five. This post originally appeared on the 15Five blog. To succeed as an entrepreneur you must constantly overcome countless factors that are beyond your control; market changes, employee attrition and tech/product issues. You have to keep moving quickly towards execution or competitors will swallow you whole. But you can’t do it all by yourself.

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What’s on your home screen? Checking in with HowAboutWe co-founder Aaron Schildkrout

The Next Web

'Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io. “What’s On Your Home Screen” is presented by Fueled, a New York and London-based mobile app development company that produces award-winning apps for big brands like Barneys to hot startups like QuizUp. Online dating isn’t easy. Finding a match, and getting said match to go out on a date is tough enough.

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Optimism and skepticism in evaluating startup investments

The Equity Kicker

'In a recent interview Marc Andreessen said: I’m optimistic arguably to a fault, especially in terms of new ideas. My presumptive tendency, when I’m presented with a new idea, is not to ask, “Is it going to work?” It’s, “Well, what if it does work?”. That got me thinking. Andreessen is a smart guy who has a lot of experience with startups and who spends a lot of time thinking about the best ways to invest and build businesses.

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International Traveling: How To Cut Phone Costs

Mike Michalowicz

'If you have ever traveled internationally, whether for business or pleasure, and talked on your cell phone, you may have received a shock when you returned home. Most people don’t realize, when they set out on their travels, just how darn expensive it is to communicate with people back home while they are gone. If you are going to do it via phone, it is going to cost you!

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Small Business and Startups: Number One Leadership Skill

crowdSPRING Blog

'“Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald. Let’s see. Strength? Nah. Productivity? Nope. Ability to instill fear? No way. The number one skill any great leader needs is the ability to communicate clearly, effectively, and quickly. Great leaders do display strength and determination, that’s for sure; great leaders do lead by example and can get piles of work done in the time it takes to write this paragraph; great leaders can

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Understanding the 600+ Sessions for the 2015 SXSW Interactive Festival

SiliconHills

'BY HUGH FORREST Director of the SXSW Interactive Festival Geek Christmas has arrived! On October 20, the SXSW Interactive Festival unwrapped more than 600 accepted sessions for next March in Austin. This is the biggest announcement for the upcoming season, as these 600 sessions represent the bulk of daytime programming for the 2015 event. Content […] The post Understanding the 600+ Sessions for the 2015 SXSW Interactive Festival appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Secret to Getting More Repeat Customers

Duct Tape Marketing

'The Secret to Getting More Repeat Customers written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Rachel Daley– Enjoy! . So you’ve made a sale. “YES! I sold my product! Ultimate goal met!” Mmm… not quite. One of the most critical post-sale mistakes is to assume that your job is done once you make the sale.

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Sorting Out Advice

Tim Keane

'Being an entrepreneur is one of the hardest jobs there is. OK, so it’s not high altitude forest-fire fighting, (unless you’re starting a fire jumping service!).

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Cratejoy Banks $4M Series A Financing

Austin Startup

'Cratejoy announced $4M Series A financing led by Charles River Ventures, and it it also open for beta testers.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: September 29th – October 19th

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 three weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. Love this interview of @JessicaMah by @Jason : [link]. “The psychology of being an entrepreneur is so brutal…” (at 54:48).

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@TechCrunch Highlights Growth of Midwest Innovation Economy (And Case’s Rise of the Rest)

Campus Entrepreneurship

'Beyond being born and raised in Chicago and spending many years on campuses in the Midwest (BA, MBA), I worked in the tech community during the Internet Bubble and love the Midwest’s continued growth. That said, the optimistic story in TechCrunch by Jonathan Shieber, seems to be a throwback to 15 years ago with the added focus on Case’s idea of the ‘rise of the rest.’ (BTW, we were the Silicon Prairie back then — Divine Interventures, May Report, Halo – Starb

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Headed to China…

Jeff Hilimire

'I’ve had a hard time dedicating time to this blog over the last few months. There are a lot of reasons why (no excuses, I could have kept up with it better), but the main one is that we have been preparing to adopt a little boy from China. And I’m excited to say, tomorrow we leave to go get him! So this is my way of saying that my already slack blogging is going to become even slacker while we’re away (non-existent actually), and I’ll be looking forward to picking it bac

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How Project Management Software Can Help Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

'by Rob Bellenfant, founder and CEO of TechnologyAdvice. Startup companies are small, and almost always focused on growth. At the start, they rely on a few core team members, and there’s little overhead involved in managing workflows or tracking performance. The goal is to get bigger, better, faster, and stronger, but achieving these goals brings new obstacles and challenges.

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The Future Is A World Of Robots And Drones

Feld Thoughts

'Thanks for the all notes of concern about my bike accident on Thursday. I’m doing a lot better – still a little fuzzy and tired feeling – but on the mend. I’ve gotten confirmation that it wasn’t a hit and run – I clearly lost control of the bike during a turn, crashed into a curb, went over, and landed on my head.

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Startup Culture Rot

This is going to be BIG.

'It starts early. You''re a founder and you''re super busy just keeping the company afloat. You don''t have a lot of time for much more than eating, sleeping, and selling--whether that means raising capital, pitching to investors, marketing your product or ringing the bell with early revenues. You don''t have time to do things like write an HR handbook or a values statement.

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Tools I use: TextExpander

Eric Friedman

'A few years ago a friend recommended I take a look at a mac tool called TextExpander that is a quick way to type things with a shorter code. It is along the same lines as having a canned response to emails that come in often. The benefit is that TextExpander runs in the background and works anywhere you get a cursor prompt. The nice things for teams is that you can create custom text that everyone can use and always be sharing the most up to date information.

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