Thu.Jul 21, 2016

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Tips For Hiring Your First Employee As A Small Business Owner

YoungUpstarts

by Gyawu Mahama, Social Media and Marketing Manager at Hiscox Small Business Insurance. As a small business owner, you’re accustomed to wearing many hats. However, sometimes it’s necessary to just get an extra set of hands, especially as your business grows. This will allow you to focus on certain aspects of the business that may have been taking a backseat and even take a much needed vacation that can be difficult to find the time for as a small business owner.

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FOMO – A dangerous game for VCs

The Equity Kicker

“No VC has ever failed because of NOT having invested into a company.” This quote is from Alexander Ruppert’s The first year in Venture Capital — Lessons (to be) learned. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that a couple of Associates have been fired for passing on Uber or A.N.Other hot deal of the moment, so I’m not sure it’s 100% true, but the message here is spot on.

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What Can You Do About Ransomware On Your Systems?

YoungUpstarts

by Tim Mullahy, General Manager at Liberty Center One. Ransomware is on the rise. Rather than targeting enterprises and users to steal their personal data, criminals are increasingly taking an alternative approach: holding that data for ransom and turning a profit that way, instead. It’s much easier than trying to sell sensitive documents on the black markets – and as an added bonus, it’s much more difficult to trace, too.

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Research-Backed Strategies to Boost Your Gym’s Revenue

Up and Running

If you want to own your own gym or fitness center, you’re probably trying to figure out how you’re going to bring in customers, and keep them. If so, you’re on the right track. As you will shortly see, member retention is key to the success of a fitness center. Luckily for you, there are multiple things you can do to win over your customers. To help you out, we’ve hacked our way through the forest of general (and generic) ideas to find you only those strategies that have been proven to boost rev

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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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Starting A Gym Could Be A Dream Come True

YoungUpstarts

If you love sports and staying fit, you might want to consider starting your own gym or fitness business. There’s a great opportunity for big amounts of fun and profit with this business idea. Just imagine being able to go to work every day and doing things that you love. The best part is that setting up your own private gym , isn’t that difficult. Particularly, if you start off small and work your way towards a bigger company model.

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Actually, Procrastination Can Spark New Business Ideas

YFS Magazine

Sir Isaac Newton was only spacing out until that apple fell from the tree and sparked his genius to develop the law of gravity. This is a direct proof of how procrastination can do something positive for us.

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Growing A Business Is Hard, You Don’t Have To Do It Alone

YFS Magazine

If I told you that startups grow faster and stronger when they help one another, you’d probably think I'm being impractical and naive.

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Yes, I am still kicking!

ithacaVC

Hey everyone, it seems like forever since I added a new blog post. And this one is going to be brief to boot. . Things have been incredibly hectic mostly in a good way. At Cornell, at the beginning of June we opened our new eship space on campus called eHub. And our eHub location in Collegetown is opening in about a month. The construction has been time consuming and so has been working out the kinks of the facilities.

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Fresh from the SPRING: Sbdesign

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this Book Cover project. Let us start the slow clap for Sbdesign. Check out more great work on Sbdesign’s profile page. Nicely done, Sbdesign, nicely done!

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TriNet Expands Austin Office

SiliconHills

TriNet, a human resources solutions company, has expanded its Austin office in the Research Park area and has hired more than 80 new engineers. The company, based in San Leandro, Calif., now occupies 33,557 square feet of offices with employees focused on technology, sales and service. TriNet is focused on serving small to midsize businesses […] The post TriNet Expands Austin Office appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Phoenix Phenomena and the Unicorn Bubble

Bryce Dot VC

My brother is the smart one in the family. Unlike me, who only flirted with the idea of going to law school, he did the time and got the degree. Unlike most law grads he didn’t go to a firm or join the in house legal team at a big company, he joined a startup servicing the legal market. The company he joined, Serengeti Law , had an interesting history.

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The Forecast is Rosy

Austin Startup

July 24, 2016: Last week’s essay dealt with the fine art of pricing your startup product or service. Pricing is inextricably tied to your… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D

K9 Ventures

I started my tinkering with hardware first. As a kid I used to trek down to the “electronics bazaar” in New Delhi, known as Lajpat Rai Market , and go store to store to try and find the components I needed for whatever I was building. It was both fun and frustrating at the same time. It was fun as it was a scavenger hunt to find parts, but it was also frustrating as most of the vendors would look at me (not even a teenager yet) and not take me seriously.

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5 Data-Backed Tips for Boosting Your PR Response Rate

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Data-Backed Tips for Boosting Your PR Response Rate written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Learn the Benefits of Combining Email and Social Media via photopin (license). As a brand, your public image matters. However, it is important to note that 55 percent of people have a natural distrusts for brands. In the internet age not only do people discover information in a split second, but they can actually influence a brand’s future depending on what they share.

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22 Ways Brands Can Use Facebook Live Video to Drive Business

crowdSPRING Blog

It’s a well-established fact that video can drive major engagement for a brand. As Gary Vaynerchuk pointed out last year : The single most important strategy in content marketing today is video. Whether it’s video on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat or Youtube, the content you need to be thinking about creating and marketing on social for your business is video.

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Customer Journey Mapping: Waste Of Time Or Excellent Investment?

YoungUpstarts

Each customer has a story to tell, one that can be invaluable to an organization in understanding that customer’s needs and expectations in order to better build its business. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it can be all but impossible to find out what that story is. Typically, it comes in the form of disconnected data points or anecdotes that serve more to obscure the narrative than to reveal it.

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The Best Places Worldwide to Start Your High-Growth Startup

Up and Running

Do you want to start a high-growth startup business? If this is your goal, the rules are going to be a little different. Rather than focusing on the cities that have less expensive labor and best overall business growth (as I did in my recent article on the 10 best U.S. cities to start a business in for 2016 ), you will need to focus more on access to angel and venture capital funding, business incubators and accelerators, and a climate that is supportive of startups.

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Stop managers from gaming the system

Berkonomics

Business unit managers are under lots of pressure to perform, and occasionally are tempted to step over the line finding ways to look better than reality reflects. Of course, this has never happened to you, and you have never done this in your past. So we are speaking of a theoretical manager here. Of course. Here’s a way to prevent such behavior and create a tool for organization – and transparency at the same time.

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16 Tips To Rock Your Social Media Covers

Designmantic Blog

The cover image of your social media profile is the first thing a visitor will see. It’s your chance to make a great impression and communicate what your brand means. Most companies will upload a generic looking image which looks dull and boring. Social media profiles are just as important as your main website, you need to plan the visual look and feel to make a good impression.

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Portfolio POV: What’s Trending on Everipedia?

Mucker Lab

Guest post by Dave Liebowitz. Editor’s Note: This guest post is the first of an ongoing series offering up an insider-point of view from a portfolio company. Here, the “encyclopedia of everything” site Everipedia uncovers the top five trending pages of its site from the past week, revealing the unique value of it’s real-time knowledge database of… literally everything.