Sat.Feb 13, 2016

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10 Answers That Make Your Startup Plan Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who are looking to attract investors need to develop and pitch a plan -- preferably written -- that answers every potential investor question about your startup before it is asked. You may be quick on your feet with answers, but if investors have to ask any of these questions, you raise the specter of hiding something, or of not being astute enough to know what’s important.

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

It’s time to get real on Multinational Tax avoidance. In case you don’t know, many of them of have the pleasure of only paying 1% tax on their revenue. Some pay next to nothing in Australia, but you can bet all of them pay less than you and me. Their ‘so called’ profit numbers are much lower than you’d expect them to be based on their revenues. So low, that you’d probably close down the business if your profit to revenue ratios ever got that low.

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6 Apps To Help Busy Entrepreneurs Get Fit

YFS Magazine

Considering how quickly the year is slipping by, it’s understandable that some find it difficult to fit exercising into an already overcrowded schedule.

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A tyre is only flat at the bottom

Start Up Blog

When I got my first car I once had a flat tyre and asked my dad if he could come out and help me change it, show me how to do it. And he said; “I wouldn’t worry about it, it’s only flat at the bottom.” A pretty funny dad joke. But a very good analogy for problems we face in business. The entire business is running smoothly, except for some cultural problems in the warehouse.

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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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AT&T to Test 5G Wireless Service in Austin

SiliconHills

AT&T, the nation’s second largest wireless network, announced last week it plans to test super fast wireless connectivity in Austin. While many carriers just rolled out 4G service, AT&T is working with Ericsson and Intel on 5G solutions. It’s going to do outdoor tests and trials this summer. “And, we expect field trials of 5G […] The post AT&T to Test 5G Wireless Service in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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More Words of Wisdom from Sam Altman

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post our favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Sam Altman , the President of Y Combinator and the former co-founder and CEO of Loopt. In this interesting presentation at PlatziConf Mexico in May 2015, Sam shares some solid advice for founders and startups, including the following: Startups “need to build

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