Tue.Jan 17, 2017

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Building A Customer-Facing Brand As A One-Man Business

YoungUpstarts

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com . A number of entrepreneurs operate their business as freelancers or sole proprietors. This can include personal trainers, lawyers, accountants, musicians and even bloggers. Building a business brand in this case can be tricky – would you want to build your own personal brand, or should you be building a brand for your company?

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Hacking for Defense Goes National

Steve Blank

Our goal was to scale Hacking for Defense classes across the US – giving students the opportunity to perform national service by solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanista

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Surplus time

The Startup Toolkit

While most folks invest to beat inflation’s 6% (or whatever) each year, Mark Cuban suggests sitting on a large pile of cash and accepting that you’re going to lose some each year. The reasoning is that even very super-rich folks have trouble getting their hands on lots of cash in a hurry, so having it sitting around means you can pounce on limited-time deals noone else can pursue.

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Hacking for Defense Goes National

Steve Blank

Our goal was to scale Hacking for Defense classes across the US – giving students the opportunity to perform national service by solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanista

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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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Restaurant or Food Truck: Which Is Better for a Beginner?

Up and Running

The days when food trucks were associated with grungy building sites and fried food at the fair are long gone. These flexible small business ventures are recognized as an exciting and viable option for foodies wanting to follow their dreams. Generally considered a more affordable entry for beginners, the unique marketing and legislative challenges in the food truck environment can come as a surprise.

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Is 2017 The Year Of Flat Headcount?

Feld Thoughts

If you are growing at a rate of less than 50% year over year, you should consider viewing 2017 as the year of flat headcount. As budgets are settling down and getting approved for many of the companies I’m on the board of, I’m seeing a general trend of much less headcount growth in 2017 than in 2016. In some cases, companies got ahead of themselves.

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Announcing our investment in Blockstack, The New Decentralized Internet

Version One Ventures

This is an exciting time for cryptocurrencies. As we recently wrote in Cryptocurrency’s Second Act , the rise of Ethereum revealed that cryptocurrency is not a winner-takes-all market. It has evolved from a sole player with a limited use case into an ecosystem with at least two cryptocurrencies at scale, and many others trying to get to scale. We’re seeing interesting new use cases built on top of cryptocurrencies and the new ability to monetize software and open source.

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Is Your Business Ready For Super Rapid Growth?

YoungUpstarts

It’s every business owner’s dream to start a new company and for it to explode out of the blocks. But let’s be honest – it’s a rare occurrence. The vast majority of new businesses take 18-24 months to get to a stage where they are safe, let alone successful. That said, when growth does occur, few business owners are genuinely ready for it.

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Conscious Startups Will Shape The Future Of Social Good

YFS Magazine

Here are five ways you can hit the ground running as a conscious startup.

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Tighten Those Bootstraps And Stop Making Waste In Your Manufacturing

YoungUpstarts

Operating a company that makes products can be hard. Of course, for some, this is a dream. But, it usually comes with more problems that a lot of people expect. For example, the waste from a manufacturing plant can be very hard to deal with. Often, you’ll find that this waste is toxic or hazardous. This means that you have to take extra care when disposing of it.

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What Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Social Selling

YFS Magazine

Are you using social media to sell directly to prospects?

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Spreading The Word: How To Make More People Aware Of Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Spreading the word and getting your startup’s message out there can seem like an uphill struggle at times. When there are so many other bigger business with bigger budgets to fight against, it’s not easy at all. But who ever said that running a business was going to be easy? That’s not how it works, and it’s up to you to find solutions to this challenge.

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This Is How Disruptive ‘Unknown’ Products Go Mainstream

YFS Magazine

Have you ever wondered how new products move into mainstream success?

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7 Tips for Independent Bicycle Dealers to Grow Profits This Year by Eric Levenhagen

Mike Michalowicz

Profitability is the main key to business success. Some analysts say right now is as tough a time as any to be an independent bicycle dealer (IBD). The industry has been on the decline as of late. Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. If you don’t want to get left in the dust, take notes from some of the industry’s most notable experts to get pedaling down the path to a more profitable business this year.

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Roomify Relocates to Austin to Scale its Dorm Room Furnishing Business

SiliconHills

By Laura Lorek Reporter with Silicon Hills News Roomify moved from Dallas to Austin last summer to plug into the city’s vibrant tech entrepreneurial scene. “This is where we wanted to scale the company,” said Shanil Wazirali, the startup’s co-founder. Last May, Wazirali, 27, and his cousin and co-founder, Sagar Hemani, 25, raised a seed […] The post Roomify Relocates to Austin to Scale its Dorm Room Furnishing Business appeared first on SiliconHills.

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7 Tips for Independent Bicycle Dealers to Grow Profits This Year by Eric Levenhagen

Mike Michalowicz

Profitability is the main key to business success. Some analysts say right now is as tough a time as any to be an independent bicycle dealer (IBD). The industry has been on the decline as of late. Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. If you don’t want to get left in the dust, take notes from some of the industry’s most notable experts to get pedaling down the path to a more profitable business this year.

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Should Your Have A Lifecycle VC In Your Seed Round?

Rob Go

Although seed investing has become increasingly the domain of specialized seed funds, large lifecycle VC’s continue to participate as well. In the last three investments I’ve made, there has either been a lifecycle VC involved or one was interested but didn’t end up being part of the syndicate. There has been a bunch written about the signalling risks associated with large VCs investing in seeds.

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7 Tips for Independent Bicycle Dealers to Grow Profits This Year by Eric Levenhagen

Mike Michalowicz

Profitability is the main key to business success. Some analysts say right now is as tough a time as any to be an independent bicycle dealer (IBD). The industry has been on the decline as of late. Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. If you don’t want to get left in the dust, take notes from some of the industry’s most notable experts to get pedaling down the path to a more profitable business this year.

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Transformify Joins Social Enterprise UK to Enhance Socially Responsible Recruitment

Transformify

Transformify joins a network of around 10,000 organizations across the UK as a member of the Social Enterprise UK to make a bigger societal contribution and give socially responsible recruitment a chance to benefit the society. What are social enterprises all about? They trade to address social problems, improve communities, people’s lives, or the environment.

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Jonas Weigert on A/B Testing Beyond the Landing Page (Q&A)

ConversionXL

As conversion optimization continues to mature and become adopted by more organizations, it’s always interesting to see how companies are approaching growth and optimization. Especially, for me, in the tech startup space, as these companies often live and die by data, and tend to build their organizations around experimentation. LawnStarter is one such company, so we sat down with their CTO, Jonas Weigert , to learn about how they experiment across their product and communication and how t