Thu.Apr 21, 2016

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Money Management Tips For Virtual Assistants & Small Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

by Diana Ennen and Kelly Poelker, co-authors of “ Virtual Assistant, The Series: Become a Highly Successful, Sought After VA “. Money management is one of those topics many virtual assistants and small business owners routinely put off and hope for the best. It’s front and center on the mind on April 1 st in anticipation of the April 15 th tax deadline, but then it goes straight to the back burner for the rest of the year.

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Startup Advice

Both Sides of the Table

I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by F’ing up at my first company.

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Hiring Your First Engineer: A Technical Entrepreneur’s Take

View from Seed

How do you build your engineering/dev team from the ground up? There are a few different ways to do it, but unfortunately, none bring a guarantee of success. Let’s make a few assumptions: You are a founder, you have your idea, and you have your money. It is just you. You need to bring in the right people to build your product. What kind of engineers do you need?

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Current Startup Market Emotional Biases

Feld Thoughts

Bill Gurley wrote an incredible post yesterday titled On the Road to Recap: Why the unicorn financing market just became dangerous … for all involved. It’s long but worth reading every word slowly. I saw it late last night as it bounced around in my Twitter feed and read it carefully just before I went to bed so the words absorbed into my brain.

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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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Building A Business: Getting The Word Out Fast

YoungUpstarts

When you build a new business from scratch, there is plenty to take on board. If you are like most people, you will probably find that there is more to do than you had anticipated. However, don’t let this put you off. If anything, those who succeed in business are those who actively enjoy the challenges. Nothing is a hurdle with the right approach! One of the major challenges early on will be spreading the word about your company.

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9 Virtues To Succeed In Life, Business And Football

YFS Magazine

I am a professional kicking coach and our camp’s theme for this season is ‘Never Settle’. I truly believe that if you are willing to put in 100% and demand more from yourself, that your path to success increases ten fold.

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These 7 Priorities Make Me A Better Entrepreneur

YFS Magazine

The difference between a wantrepreneur and an entrepreneur is this: an entrepreneur is serious about their craft. An entrepreneur knows their success in business and life are interdependent.

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How to win the battle against patent trolls

The Next Web

2015 was one of the worst years on record for patent troll lawsuits. Most of the lawsuits that snagged headlines involved tech titans – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon – but small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) were far more frequent targets. While these cases may make for less sensational news stories, they show that no business, no matter how small, is immune.

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Short term clarity vs long term upside

The Equity Kicker

We’re all happy in the Forward Partners office this morning because one of our partner companies has just sent an update showing they’ve been growing at 30% per week for the last fourteen weeks. That’s quite some growth and I couldn’t be happier for the team there. It’s well deserved. But it got me thinking about the trade off between short term clarity and long term upside in seed stage investing.

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Austin Tech, VOTE FOR Prop 1 on May 7

Austin Startup

It’s the safest option, it protects the jobs of 10,000 drivers, and protects Austin’s reputation as a global innovation hub. Continue reading on Medium ».

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UT at Austin Professor Led Startups Disrupting Oil Recovery, Social Media and IoT

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News At the April meeting of the StARTup Studio on Tuesday night, Ultimate EOR, People Pattern and AwiaTech Corp. presented their ventures. All of them have University of Texas at Austin professors at the helm. The monthly StARTup Studio invitation-only meetings take place at WeWork on Congress and […] The post UT at Austin Professor Led Startups Disrupting Oil Recovery, Social Media and IoT appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Power of the glass half empty

Berkonomics

Dave’s note: This week we again welcome my co-author of “Get Scrappy” to give us some of her sage advice in only a way she could express it. You’ll enjoy her style and message… By Kim Shepherd. It’s great to get good reviews and hear positive feedback. positive is good. But negative is powerful. Don’t get me wrong: the glass is half full.

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Startup Credibility

Austin Startup

April 24, 2016: You’re financially viable to commence operations, either by running leanly or by having achieved an adequate level of… Continue reading on Medium ».

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Adding Referral Marketing to Your Overall Campaign: 7 Proven Tactics

Duct Tape Marketing

Adding Referral Marketing to Your Overall Campaign: 7 Proven Tactics written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Jack Moreh. Word-of-mouth advertising has been around since the first shopkeepers opened their stores and began selling to the public. They all hoped that their customers would like their products and their service and refer their friends.

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How Wikimedia Foundation, Coursera and others are building trust, coaching their managers and keeping their employees

Reid Hoffman

My latest LinkedIn post on how Allied Talent is helping implement the ideas we wrote about in The Alliance.

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A Notable Omission

Bryce Dot VC

“Why the Unicorn financing market just became dangerous…for all involved.” That was the title of the bombshell dropped on silicon valley last night. This wasn’t the first time that Bill has sounded this alarm, nor is he the only one to have been calling out bad behavior in the VC funding market. But his post was detailed and thorough and took the conversation to a level few have pressed.