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Live now: The founder of Ciplex answers your entrepreneurship questions via video. Get involved!

The Next Web

'Got a question for Ilya? Use the chat feature above to get it answered live. Ilya Pozin is an entrepreneur, writer and investor. He is the founder of Ciplex , a digital marketing agency, and a columnist for Inc., Forbes and LinkedIn. In 2012, Inc. Magazine recognized Ilya as a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur. In 2013 LinkedIn selected Ilya as one of 100 Influencers, along with the likes of Richard Branson, Barack Obama, Tony Robbins and Mark Cuban.

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The New Combat Zone: Tech vendors and Digital Agencies

deal architect

'Microsoft spent $ 6 billion acquiring the digital agency, aQuantive way back in 2007. Think of how much more marketing has evolved since with social media, big marketing data. Last year Oracle spent $ 300 million acquiring Vitrue and Salesforce.

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A Sustainable Business Requires Time and Practice

Startup Professionals Musings

'Entrepreneurs seem more quickly frustrated these days when their “million-dollar idea” doesn’t turn into a sustainable business overnight. They don’t realize that it takes many skills to build a business under the best of circumstances, and today’s world of instant gratification doesn’t leave room for the patience and practice to develop these skills.

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6 Tips For Improving Your Online Storefront And Boosting Sales

YoungUpstarts

'By Michael Lee, Director of Global Marketing, Alibaba.com. Online storefronts are a wonderful way to sell goods and services, but presentation is key: too many businesses fail to market their storefronts successfully. Online storefronts have proven to be a cost-effective way to ring up more sales because they provide customers with self-service and self-ordering capabilities, which saves money and manpower.

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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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Potential Progress On Dealing With Software Patents

Feld Thoughts

'I woke up this morning to a great article by Nick Grossman at Union Square Ventures on The Patent Quality Improvement Act. Nick does a great job of describing the software patent problem, suggesting several solutions, and explaining how the Patent Quality Improvement Act helps the increasingly dismal situation around software patents. Nick has a great paragraph from Mark Lemley of Stanford Law School that describes a powerful solution to part of the problem – that of eliminating “

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9 Proven Tips To Control Your Inventory

YoungUpstarts

'By Crystal Wells, Product Marketing at Vendio. Controlling inventory is the ongoing process of identifying and managing the constant flow of items into and out of an existing inventory. When you don’t know exactly what inventory you have available, where it is located, or where it is for sale, it’s going to be difficult to manage your inventory effectively and can lead to an ever-increasing number of problem areas.

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Four Steps To Overcoming The Chaos (And Taming The 10,000-Pound Gorilla In Your Midst)

YoungUpstarts

'by Micheal J. Burt and Colby B. Jubenville, co-authors of “ Zebras and Cheetahs: Look Different and Stay Agile to Survive the Business Jungle “ Look around. Has a 10,000-pound gorilla taken over your company? Before you reply with a quick “no” and refocus on your to-do list, bear in mind that this giant beast is known by a second name — culture.

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President Obama Praises Tech Innovation in Austin

SiliconHills

'To kick off a nationwide initiative focused on creating middle-class jobs and spurring the technology industry, President Barack Obama is in Austin today. First off, he visited students at Manor New Tech High School, an innovative six year old school focused on science, technology, engineering and math. “Our economy can’t succeed unless our young people [.

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[Infographic] Explosion On Global Trade

YoungUpstarts

'International trade is exploding, but is your business prepared to tap on that opportunity? We’ve already seen how cross border trade has grown by leaps and bounds – especially in the Southeast Asian region -and also noted how consumers are increasingly buying goods online to help save time. But the trouble is that most businesses are simply not geared to leverage on this growth potential.

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Grow Your Business Fast, By Doing Less!

Mike Michalowicz

'I hope you have your seat belt on (even if you’re sitting in your office chair). At the very least you’re about to experience a jolt, and at the very best you are about to master the greatest tool for colossal business growth. This best kept secret is not so secret after all. It is something you likely have already heard about – it’s called Pareto’s rule, or the 80/20 principle.

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On the Hunt for Thunder Lizards in Austin

SiliconHills

'BY LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Mike Maples Jr. wants Austin entrepreneurs to create a “Thunder Lizard,” a $100 billion company within 10 years. He explained that the idea for Thunder Lizards comes from Godzilla, the fictional giant lizard hatched from radioactive atomic eggs in Japan, that stomped on entire cities, spit fire, [.] The post On the Hunt for Thunder Lizards in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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What if you don’t know what to ask?

Berkonomics

'Great executives and managers seem to intuitively know what they don’t know. But it is not at all uncommon to not even know what questions to ask. How do you avoid being sideswiped by the new product you never saw coming, or by the “black swan” event no-one ever thought of – that might threaten your business? Speaking with a roundtable group of fellow associates, most all of them CEOs, we addressed this question and spent an hour brainstorming how to protect against just such a lack of

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The Economic Impact of Austin’s Technology Industry

SiliconHills

'Austin’s technology industry contributes $21 billion annually to the city’s economy. The city has 3,787 technology companies which employ 105,667 or 9 percent of the local workforce. Brian Kelsey, an economic development consultant and lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin, prepared this information for the Austin Technology Council’s CEO Summit on Wednesday.

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Going Global At Launch: Tips For Building A Micro-Multinational Startup

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Gary Whitehill resides on the board of advisors for the Dell Center for Entrepreneurs. In our hyper-competitive global economy, startups are just as likely to find their first customers in Paris, France, as in Paris, Texas. The barriers to international commerce continues to crumble at a dazzling pace, paving the way for the rise of what SmallBizTrend’s Anita Campbell calls the “ micro-multinational.”.

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Beyonic Wins the IBM Global Entrepreneur Pitch Competition

SiliconHills

'BY SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Beyonic, a company whose software connects major global finance sources with payment networks in the developing world to facilitate mobile payments, won the IBM Global Entrepreneur pitch competition Wednesday at the IBM campus on Burnett. Beyonic founder Luke Kyohere, from Uganda, said 20 percent of the $150 [.

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How Great Business Writing Gets Done Quickly

Duct Tape Marketing

'Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Steve Aedy – Enjoy! Great writers know a thing or two about how great writing is done. After all, that’s their job. For you, the business owner or marketer who needs to do some writing, it’s helpful to know what counts for your particular needs. I Think, Therefore I Have a Headache.

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Finding Funding for Tech Startups in Austin

SiliconHills

'A familiar compliant in Austin from tech startup entrepreneurs is that there’s never enough money to fund their ideas. Some say that good companies don’t have trouble raising money. But others disagree. On Wednesday, a panel of VCs and Angels talked about the money available for deals in Austin at the Austin Technology Council’s CEO [.] The post Finding Funding for Tech Startups in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Habits of Self-Made Billionaires (Infographic)

Business Plan Blog

'If becoming one of the world’s richest people were easy, we’d all be doing it. Unfortunately, that is not the case, becoming a self-made billionaire involves taking an enormous amount of risk. Of the 100 richest people according to data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index , 36 were born to humble households and 18 have no college degree whatsoever.

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My earliest memory of being a leader

Jeff Hilimire

'It was the second grade. I was the established class clown by then. And I was about to experience my first leadership moment. I was, in fact, the class clown all the way through school, and the thing I always found ironic was that from grade 1 to grade 8, I was constantly in trouble for my snappy comments during class, often getting N’s in conduct (Not Satisfactory) and one time even getting paddled by the principal.

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7 Steps for Your Mid-Year Startup Tax Review

Early Growth Financial Services

'April has come and gone—and so too have our thoughts of taxes. For many entrepreneurs, tax time happily comes just once a year. But that’s not really true. For entrepreneurs, staying on top of your taxes is a year-long activity. Or at least it should be… That may sound grueling, but in fact it’s the opposite: if you stay on top of your taxes throughout the year, come tax time, you won’t have to do the eleventh hour entrepreneur scramble.

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Our Investment in Cover

Bryce Dot VC

'Last week Timehop reminded me of a dinner I threw for 10 strangers in New York a year ago. On a lark I decided to organize a group of folks who followed me across various channels of social media so I could put some names and personalities with you all. It was a really fun night filled with interesting conversations and new connections. One diner at the table mentioned he’d just left his gig to pursue a few ideas for companies he couldn’t shake.

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Character is …

crowdSPRING Blog

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The Dark Side of #EDTECH & #MOOCS

Campus Entrepreneurship

'Thinking about the negative implications of innovation and technology on campus. From Marc Perry at Chronicle of Higher Education: Companies, colleges, and columnists gush about the utopian possibilities of technology. But digital life has a bleaker side, too. Over the weekend, a cross-disciplinary group of scholars convened here to focus attention on the lesser-noticed consequences of innovation.

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Create Your Own Golden Rule

Mike Michalowicz

'“Treat others like you want to be treated,” doesn’t have to be your company’s golden rule. It can be. Or it can be something different. Your golden rule is the one thing you and your employees adhere to over everything else. “Make the world’s best coffee,” could be your golden rule. Every decision from coffee beans, to packaging, to shipping, to the frequency of taste testing all need to serve the world’s best coffee.

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‘Why I 3D printed an iPhone shoe’ | Video

Campus Entrepreneurship

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