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6 Things You Need To Start A Construction Business

YoungUpstarts

by Paul Murray, Director of Jem Design. Starting a construction business can be profitable for you under the right circumstances and with helpful advice. Whether you’re someone who has some experience in the construction industry or a veteran who wants to venture into something different, opening a construction business needs a lot of research and study.

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Every New Business Needs A Unique Selling Proposition

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup and every new business needs a unique selling proposition (USP) to get people’s attention these days, and make it stand out in the information overload we all see. Your concept has to be understood by customers and investors in 30 seconds or less, and everyone needs to immediately see how awesome it would be, or that they would be nuts not to have it.

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Financial Options To Help Your Business Grow In 2017

YoungUpstarts

Is this the year you’re going to grow your business to the point where you feel like you’re really achieving something? Well, it’s probably going to require a healthy injection of money to do that. Here are some financial options for you to consider if you want your business to grow in 2017: Look for investors. If finance is the reason your business hasn’t grown as much as you want it to so far, why not look for investors?

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3 Smart Ways To Make Your Office Life Healthier

YFS Magazine

While it’s tempting to blame our office life and busy schedules for our lack of focus on health, that isn’t a valid excuse.

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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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Building A Great Team Culture

YoungUpstarts

by Jack Litewka, author of “ The Sophisticated Manager: A Guide to Success “ You’ve got a Great Idea for a product or service. You dream of creating a Great Company. Those two things – a Great Idea and a Great Company – are not the same thing, and the latter does not automatically follow from the former. There are countless Great Ideas for products and services… and only a few of those Great Ideas result in a Great Company.

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10 Steps To Protect Your Business From Cyber Extortion

YFS Magazine

In the shadowy world of security threats and bad actors, cyber extortion is a growing trend.

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New Course Open: How You Can Start A Business Selling Services Online (Services Arbitrage)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I’m excited to announce I have opened the doors to the Laptop Lifestyle Academy, which includes my new Services Arbitrage course. I’m teaching Part 1 of Services Arbitrage and taking questions live on February 1st, and Part 2 with another live coaching session on February 15th, 2017. As an Academy member you can. The post New Course Open: How You Can Start A Business Selling Services Online (Services Arbitrage) appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Expa Labs – Some Lessons Learned

Eric Friedman

With the first group of Expa Labs companies moving on to the next phase in their development and the application period for the next Expa Labs group now open, I wanted to take a step back to share some of the lessons I learned from working with each of the companies in our first group. The platform and learnings Expa has built by launching companies over the past three years was foundation on which Expa Labs was built.

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Samba TV’s Austin Engineers Create Interactive Television

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Samba TV, a San Francisco-based company which provides real-time television data and analytics, opened an office in Austin two years ago. Omar Zennadi, co-founder of Samba TV and director of engineering, heads up the local office with ten employees. It’s primarily engineering focused, he said. Zennadi is […] The post Samba TV’s Austin Engineers Create Interactive Television appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Change this Habit & Watch Sales Soar

Growthink Blog

Last week, I wrote about the “Commercially Important People, the " CIPs ," in all of our business lives, and of the importance of being very clear as to who they are (and are not!), and to then connect and communicate with them in a manner and with messaging apropo of their so special and valuable status. A fundamental premise of the post was that the distractions and "leveling effect" of modern technology and social media make it dangerously easy to treat our contacts and professional network t

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LinkedIn and Snapchat’s Much Needed Makeovers Plus More Social Updates

Austin Startup

I always want to start these roundups saying “a lot has happened in social media recently.” However, I quickly realize I would end up… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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New Course: How You Can Start A Business Selling Services Online (Services Arbitrage)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I’m excited to announce I have opened the doors to the Laptop Lifestyle Academy, which includes my new Services Arbitrage course. As an Academy member you receive the full Services Arbitrage course in video, audio MP3 and text transcripts. In this new course you will learn: Why Services Arbitrage is the. The post New Course: How You Can Start A Business Selling Services Online (Services Arbitrage) appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Entrepreneurial Lessons Through Craft Beer

Duct Tape Marketing

Entrepreneurial Lessons Through Craft Beer written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Couture. Creating an entirely new category of business has its upsides and downsides. On one hand, you get to take advantage of your unique position in messaging and publicity. Of course, you may also find that you spend a whole lot of extra time getting people to understand your concept.

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Please stop doing custdev about stuff you could have googled

The Startup Toolkit

A founder wants to make better music education app. With so many potential instruments to teach, the founder decides to start with just one (this is right) and then decides to talk to customers to figure out exactly which to pick first (this is wrong). Talking to customers about this sort of question is a huge waste of time and is yet another customer development antipattern (see also novelty , big-name , and meetings ).

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Turning a Failed VC Pitch Into a New Connection and Future Business

Up and Running

I enjoy sharing my experiences as an entrepreneur with friends and family. There are few things that light up a room like the realization that there are real opportunities outside the world of cubicles and the nine to five office culture. One of the stories I find myself repeating, especially when talking to people that feel they are at the end of their rope, is the story of how I launched my first business.

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Lessons Learned From a Million Miles and 5 Kids

Bryce Dot VC

It was super early and I was still waking up and maybe I was a little grumpy but seriously why was this flight attendant being so nice to me? They had way too much energy and knew way too much about me to be so in my face at 5am. “This is a big day for you today isn’t it Mr. Roberts?” Um. Sure? Silence fell over the cabin as the Captain saddled up to my arm rest.

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