Mon.Dec 21, 2015

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Your 2016 Budget: A Cost And Analysis Guide For Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

by Richard Milam , the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated. Budgets are a tricky facet for any business owner however being one of the most critical aspects to the operations, productivity, profitability, and growth of a business. Every year, dynamic markets, the state of the economy, and consumer demands change the requirements of a business and the costs of operation.

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Why You Should Embrace Transparency Marketing

ConversionXL

Various studies have estimated the average consumer sees anywhere from 3,000 to 20,000 marketing messages each day. Of course, most of these go unnoticed. One possible reason? People are increasingly tuning out inauthentic and blatant marketing attempts. For this reason, we’ve seen a recent rise in what’s known as ‘transparency marketing.’. Though transparency and authenticity have always been virtues extolled by thought leaders, certain blogs, companies and movements have given greater exposure

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Humility Trumps Arrogance: The Donald’s Missing Piece

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin McHugh , president of JKM Management Development and author of The Honest Executive. The idea of Donald Trump as president of the United States is past the phenomenon stage. His campaign is no longer a circus sideshow. It is in the center ring – the main event. The proclaimed master of self-promotion has the world where exactly where he wants it.

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6 Useful Tips To Maximize Your eCommerce Sales During Christmas

Brandanew

Christmas is literally around the corner. If you’ve stepped towards the malls or shopping centers you probably already realize that it is busiest time of the year. Online businesses and brands are no exception. ECommerce sales during Christmas tend to see a big surge as customers prefer the quietness of at home shopping compared to the hassles of finding parking and a store full of people.

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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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4 Operational Features Every Online Business Should Work To Improve Upon

YoungUpstarts

Regardless of the industry a company operates in, there are certain practices and processes that need to be optimised in order to facilitate ideal business outcomes. Whether you offer a product or service, or cater to other companies or consumers, systems need to be established and fine-tuned to promote customer satisfaction, reduce overheads, increase profits, and create a more sustainable business model.

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10 Things Successful Entrepreneurs Simply Will Not Do

YFS Magazine

There's no doubt that in order to be successful you have to work hard. However, the difference between successful entrepreneurs and unsuccessful ones is
 that they work hard on the things that matter the most.

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Why I Don’t Have To Follow VC Blogs Anymore

Feld Thoughts

Two words: Mattermark Daily. When I started blogging in 2004 I think I was the third VC blogger after David Hornik and Fred Wilson (if you were, or know, of another pre-2004 VC blogger, please tell me so I can update my historical recollection.). I remember lots of people asking me why I was doing it. I heard plenty of trash talk from other VCs, especially second hand, such as “He doesn’t have enough to do”, “He’s not spending his time doing his job”, or &#

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The 15 Best Movies for Entrepreneurs of 2015

Up and Running

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, not because of time with family and celebrating the holidays, although those thing are pretty fantastic. This is my favorite time of the year to watch movies. As the year comes to a close and things start to wind down, I like to catch up on the movies I meant to see, and check out the holiday’s big new releases.

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3 More Startup Lessons You Wish You Knew Sooner

YFS Magazine

I concede, this may sound a tad dramatic at first glance. But I assure you, there is immense value derived from these two words.

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Julie Huls to Resign as President of the Austin Technology Council

SiliconHills

Julie Huls, the president of the Austin Technology Council, confirmed she is leaving the nonprofit organization in the first quarter of next year. “I’m super proud of what we have built together,” Huls said. “I’m totally confident the organization will continue to expand, support and strengthen Austin’s technology industry.” Huls has led the Austin Technology […] The post Julie Huls to Resign as President of the Austin Technology Council appeared first on SiliconHills.

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When You Think of Austin, We Want You to Think of Giving

Austin Startup

According to all sorts of national lists, Austin is objectively awesome for a lot of different reasons. But if you look closely, Austin… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Walker Twitter Highlights: November 30th – December 20th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and video clips relating to startups, entrepreneurship and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bitly ) for the past three weeks. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Here’s my new post on the importance of vesting schedules for founders: [link] Quora: “Is Y Combinator asking too much equity for $120k worth of funding?

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Changes to IRS Deadlines for Tax Year 2016 – What You Need to Know

Early Growth Financial Services

As if keeping track of what taxes to pay and when wasn’t hard enough already, Congress has changed some important filing deadlines, which are effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2015. Sadly, your personal tax deadline is still April 15th, but there have been several shifts in the business tax world that should be on your radar. Shoe-horned into the very exciting-sounding Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015, the changes include the follo

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Planning Your 2016 Content Marketing Calendar

Duct Tape Marketing

Planning Your 2016 Content Marketing Calendar written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. There are only a few weeks left in 2015, and that means it’s time to start planning your marketing calendar for 2016. Actually, that time was about three months ago, but we both know that you’re probably just now getting around to it. Hey, no worries—we’re all busy small business owners here, so we’re not going to judge you if you’re running a little behind.