YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 18, 2017

Perhaps no other mystery has ever been as intriguing and evident as that of time. Although life and death are both metaphors of time, yet neither of these realizations can hold on to the reality of time passing away. Apparently, everything important that needs to depend on making the most of the available time. The hours wasted never return in the same way again, and one must start refreshing the task from the point of the last milestone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2017

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. One would think that with all the sad stories and tools published over the past twenty years, this problem would be behind us. But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 18, 2017

When people think of manufacturing in the US, they often imagine huge plants hiring thousands of workers. While this may be true for some industries, like automobile manufacturers, for example, most manufacturers in the US are small to medium sized enterprises. This trend began in the early 1980s and gained considerable momentum in the early 1990s. Today, more than half of the US manufacturing sector has less than five hundred employees.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 18, 2017

As an entrepreneur you hear this question nonstop, how big can your company get? When looking at startups, the fact of the matter is that some business models are worth more than others. The underlying way to show value as a startup is scalability. Scalability effectively analyzes growth as a standard in your business model. Businesses like Sourcify that focus their company around software are more scalable than consumer product brands like Original Grain.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 18, 2017

As online retail sales increase markedly each year, there’s no better time than the present to start your own eCommerce store. Increasingly, people are choosing to buy products from their phones rather than drive to a physical store. So you can take advantage of this modern digital trend, we’ve compiled the 5 fundamental steps you should take when launching an eCommerce store: 1.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 18, 2017

The end of the year isn’t merely the end of the financial year for many companies, it’s also the time when many people take a few extra days off. And the two entangle each other in a sort of ROI tango many people are afraid of. Will you reach your quarterly goals? Will you end the year in the black? And especially for publishers like us, can you cut through the holiday noise and keep reader engagement up?

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Rembrandt Communications

JANUARY 18, 2017

No budget for SEO copywriting and more? No problem! It’s the beginning of the year, and that means it’s time to put your 2017 B2B content marketing strategy into action. But, it’a also that month when your mailbox is full of holiday bills. You need to start marketing to increase sales, but you also need […]. The post B2B Content Marketing Strategy with Zero Funds appeared first on Boost sales fast with content marketing strategy and PR here.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 18, 2017

In 2016, the corporate world continued to adapt to the increasing number of remote and mobile workers. It hasn’t always been easy, particularly for bigger businesses, but statistics show that flexible employment models can contribute to higher levels of productivity. The challenge is determining where the traditional working environment belongs in this new hierarchy.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2017

You have thought of the concept repeatedly. You have written mission statements and defined your product or service. You have built business strategies, financial plans, spent hundreds of hours raising capital, and now it’s time to select your team. As a startup, your hiring process is going to differ from that of a big business. Established large companies almost always have an organized and clear structure, streamlined hiring process, and regimented training.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2017

In life and business, there will be times when you fail and times when you’re embarrassed.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 18, 2017

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Austin entrepreneurs Joseph Kopser and Bret Boyd have launched Grayline, a corporate consulting firm. Kopser previously worked as global president of moovel, a subsidiary of Diamler AG. Moovel recently announced plans to consolidate operations to Portland. Kopser cofounded RideScout and sold it in 2014 to Car2Go, an […] The post Grayline is the Brainchild of Joseph Kopser and Bret Boyd appeared first on SiliconHills.

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ithacaVC

JANUARY 18, 2017

Once in a while I get the question “What do I need to know about investing in a startup?” The context is typically where Friend A has asked Friend B to invest in Friend A’s startup business. Then Friend B asks me the question. This happens multiple times a year. It is a fair question. And one that is hard to answer definitively.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 18, 2017

In 2013, Zac Maurais and Ben Doherty launched Favor in Austin to deliver food to people’s doorsteps. The startup quickly grew and later that year, Favor attracted $2 million in seed stage funding. The next year, the company landed $13 million with plans to expand nationwide. Those plans came to a halt this week. Favor […] The post Favor Pulls out of Other States to Focus on the Texas Market appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 18, 2017

At Singapore Changi Airport for a fee available to all is the “Commercially Important Person,” or CIP experience. At its highest "Jetside" level, as they exit their planes traveling CIPs have a uniformed agent greet and whisk them to the tarmac to a waiting Mercedes that chauffeurs them to a special terminal where customs is cleared quickly, luggage routed, and for travelers with connecting flights amenities of the elegant CIP lounge include complimentary food and drink, free wifi, private showe

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 18, 2017

Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm, announced Thursday its plans to acquire Planview, an Austin-based software company. The two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Thoma Bravo to acquire Planview form Insight Venture Partners. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Thoma Bravo will become the new majority shareholder of Planview […] The post Thoma Bravo Acquires Austin-Based Planview appeared first on SiliconHills.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 18, 2017

Brad wrote a fun post a couple years ago about rituals, including one about The Annual Dinner that he and Amy, Fred and Joanne Wilson, and Mariquita and I have been having not quite annually for almost 15 years now. His most poignant comment (other than that apparently he and I are both getting larger and greyer in sync with each other) is about the power of marking the passage of time together with the same group of people.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 18, 2017

Amy Ingram is my assistant. She schedules my meetings and reminds me about appointments I have. She’s virtual, so I send her emails with changes I want and she makes them, and I can tell her dates and times and locations that generally work for me to meet with people. She’s responsive and polite, and she works at any time of day that I want her to.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 18, 2017

Get Rich Today by Teaching written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Danny Iny. Teaching is the new selling – has been for about ten years now. But, something has changed in the last year or two. Used to be that people could place some information online and as long as that info was useful, they were teaching.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 18, 2017

If, as I once did, you see culture as fluffy nonsense, then you’ll end up with a default culture that you didn’t choose and don’t want. In practice, this is about as good as giving up control over day-to-day operations of your company. Default cultures vary, but the quality of urgency/busyness is always present. Although busyness hurts the business [1], it’s fiercely contagious since the infected (aka busy people) are visibly suffering and thus seem to have the moral high

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 18, 2017

by Rafael Romis, CEO of Weberous. A lot of small business owners want everything to be perfect before they launch a business. During my time as a web designer and later running my own web design company, I’ve seen countless small business owners agonize over the size and placement of their logo on their websites. They want to put a box around it, they want it to be 50% bigger, they want it to be on the right side, then the left side, then in the center… then back to the right.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 18, 2017

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" -- Emma Lazarus (from "The New Collusus" memorialized on the Statue of Liberty) Coffee Mug available from Politically Comical The Statue of Liberty has seen better days.

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