Mon.Sep 29, 2014

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5 Things Every Small Business Should Know About Payroll

YoungUpstarts

'By Shrad Rao, CEO of Wagepoint. Managing payroll, and ensuring all the relevant taxes are paid, is a key part of the responsibility that comes with having staff. Employees want a paycheck on time. The government wants its money. And at the end of the day, all you want to do is catch up on your sleep! But making a mistake, especially when it comes to government taxes and regulations, could land you in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

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How to Add Serious Value to Your Online Community

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Add Serious Value to Your Online Community written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Jamie Thomson – Enjoy! . photo credit: Flickr – Andrew Becraft. According to research carried out by social media experts, Socialnomics , 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations, whereas only 14% trust advertisements.

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How To Have A Future-Proof Mobile Strategy For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

'by Vishal Gumber , founder of Appsquare. The world of mobility is changing at a rapid pace – from new devices to new technology, it is ever expanding in scope as adoption rates continue to climb. In 2014, most businesses have realized the need to adopt a mobile strategy, be it in the form of mobile apps, mobile marketing or even just having a mobile website.

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Follow up from Larry Ellison OOW Talk

deal architect

'I have written before Oracle’s biggest cloud differentiation is it can play in all three layers – application, platform and infrastructure –as-a-service. Larry Ellison’s talk last night expounded on that as he spent time on each layer. But in many.

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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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Seven Questions To Help You Attract Your Ideal Clients

YoungUpstarts

'by Mark Satterfield , author of “ The One Week Marketing Plan: The Set It & Forget It Approach for Quickly Growing Your Business “ If someone were to ask who your ideal client is, you might jokingly respond, “Anyone with a wallet!” But most business owners know there are very real dangers associated with trying to be all things to all people.

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The Tucked And The Untucked

Feld Thoughts

'Last night I gave the kickoff talk to the West Michigan Policy Forum. I did my riff on Startup Communities and followed it up with a short Q&A on issues specific to Michigan’s entrepreneurial scene. Afterwards, Amy and I went for a walk to the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to buy a Lighting to HDMI adapter so we could watch Print the Legend on the TV in our hotel room.

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7 Rules to Follow When Raising Money from Family or Friends

Up and Running

'Planning to show your friends your business idea? Keep these tips in mind. It’s tempting to ask friends and family to invest in your work when first starting a company. Money is tight and they want to help. However, soliciting money from loved ones can be a risky venture. To help mitigate this risk, we asked seven entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council what rules one should always have in place before raising money from family and friends.

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The four elements of life you need to balance

The Equity Kicker

'Running a startup (and an investment studio…) is a marathon not a sprint. It will be hard work, and unlike a true marathon there will inevitably be periods when you have to run flat out, but you need to look after yourself if you want to get to the end of the journey. There’s a lot of talk about what that means, but in Leading the life you want Stuart Friedman usefully sets out four areas of your life that need balancing (review and summary here ): work. home or family. community o

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Why You Should Care about Intellectual Property

Up and Running

'All businesses have intellectual property. In order to protect your business’s IP, learn the four different categories. Yes, your business has intellectual property (IP). In fact, 100 percent of businesses have IP. Your email list, logo, sales process, and even your website domain are parts of your IP. These intangible assets become very real when you value your business for investors, banks, and creditors.

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4 Pricing Mistakes You Should Avoid When Negotiating

Mike Michalowicz

'Life is one big, ongoing, negotiation. We negotiate about who’s going to drive, who’s going to pick up or fix dinner, who’s picking up the bar tab, and what we’re going to pay for a new car. Sure, some negotiations are bigger, scarier and have way hairier consequences if we screw up (job negotiations, our raise, our employee’s raise etc). But all in all, negotiations are fairly standard.

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Four Criteria for Hiring an Innovation Speaker

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

'Four Criteria for Hiring an Innovation Keynoter. Let this post work as a guide for meeting planners. You don’t have to hire me as your innovation speaker, but if you hire one, you’ll be well served if you pay attention to these four criteria and my comments in bold. Innovation is a complex, wonky topic and it has some special requirements that go beyond the classic things meeting planners look for in a speaker.

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Mindset & Tools

Start Up Blog

'There’s a whole lot of tools we have at our disposal which didn’t even exist a few years ago. From a business perspective many of them present a counter intuitive option to the ‘Harvard Industrial Complex’ Yes, those established principals of what we thought we already knew about what worked in the market. Trust the crowd to co-design our product?

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Pristine.io Raises $5.4M From S3 and Capital Factory

Austin Startup

'Pristine, developers of the only HIPAA-compliant video streaming and checklist solutions for Google Glass, announced today that it has raised $5.4 million in Series A financing. Austin-based S3 Ventures led the oversubscribed round, which also included Capital Factory, HealthFundr, and a syndicate of strategic clients. This new financing enables the company to expand its R&D, sales, marketing, and operations teams, supporting the company’s rapid growth.

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You say ‘ello’, I say goodbye

Start Up Blog

'While it is around 6 months old now, and still in beta, there has been a lot of noise about Social Networking Startup Ello. And rightly so. A decade or more deep into this social connection thing people are starting to realise, that corporations like Facebook and Twitter, are well, just corporations. They just have incredibly compelling and usable products, from which they’re motivated to deliver what all public corporations aim to do – increase shareholder wealth.

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Pristine Lands $5.4 Million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

'Pristine, the startup that develops healthcare apps for Google Glass, has raised $5.4 million. Austin-based S3 Ventures led the round, which also included Capital Factory, HealthFundr and several clients. The company plans to use the money to expand its research and development, sales, marketing and operations teams. “The team at S3 has pioneered cutting-edge developments […] The post Pristine Lands $5.4 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Leading a Startup Within a Family Business

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Luci Armitstead leads a startup within a family business. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Leading a Startup Within a Family Business appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Drink Up! It’s International Coffee Day

SiliconHills

'“We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.” – Jerry Seinfeld Today is International Coffee Day. What does that mean? it’s a global marketing gimmick designed to get you […] The post Drink Up!

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Shameless Promotion of Ithaca

ithacaVC

'Over a year ago I posted on how entrepreneurial the Ithaca Mayor, Svante Myrick, is. Here is that older post from August 2013. Today I spent the day with Mayor Myrick in NYC spreading the word on how awesome Ithaca is for startups. Development Counsellors International (DCI) arranged the tour, and we hit 7 media outlets, including Crane’s, Fortune, BloombergTV, Fox, The Street and the New York Business Journal.

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10 Mistakes I’ve Made So You Won’t Have To – the PDF version thanks to Foundr Magazine

Jeff Hilimire

'The publisher of Foundr Magazine reached out to me and asked if they could publish my blog post, Ten Mistakes I’ve Made So You Won’t Have To , in their October issue. And they were kind enough to send me a PDF of the article , which they did a fantastic job of making look much better than my version!

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Walker Twitter Highlights: September 9th – 28th

Scott Edward Walker

'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past three weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. “Keep it flat; keep it meritocratic; keep it small; be generous with the equity but be quick to fire.” - @naval on.wsj.com/1p1WY8t.

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Joining A Startup As CFO Is A Good Path To The Top

Startup Professionals Musings

'Every investor is looking for the “dream team” of executives to put money on. Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. That’s how important the people are. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) role is usually considered second only to the CEO, because financials are critical.

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Who is the Product Person?

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'Who is the Product person? When we talk about early stage venture capital at Lightspeed, this is the single most important question we can ask when making an investment. Why? Because the product person is the artist with the vision who sees a masterpiece where the rest of us see clay. After 10+ years of venture capital experience and two startup experiences of my own I’ve learned to appreciate how rare it is to find a truly stellar product person, and also that startups without a product

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VC Portfolio Strategy

Rob Go

'VC’s, and particularly seed focused VC’s, pursue a variety of different strategies in their portfolio. Every firm thinks about things a bit differently. It probably doesn’t really matter too much to entrepreneurs, but after a couple conversations about this with founders recently, I thought I’d share how we tend to think about it.