YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2015

by Gaurav Sharma, a founder of Antipull and digital strategist at Nine Hertz. In this era, mobile applications have almost replaced the use of desktop versions. As mobile apps can be accessed anytime at anywhere, people feel more convenient with apps instead of waiting to load for a whole website. According to the recent statistics, the number of mobile apps in Android and iOS has crossed over 1.6 and 1.5 million respectively.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 29, 2015

First of year-end posts I will run over the next few days. This time of the year, my wife Margaret likes to take the family to the Caribbean, usually on a cruise. The island breezes are gentle, the rainbows at.

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Looking at the bottom row of my iPad’s homescreen (which is essentially my laptop’s desktop, since the iPad Pro has replaced my laptop ), you get a sense of the things that I check on a regular basis to absorb the news. I referenced the many ways I receive content to read on a daily basis back in September, but the iPad has changed a few of those habits.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2015

by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, authors of “ The Entrepreneurial Culture: 23 Ways To Engage and Empower Your People “ and “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “. Firing a client is one of the most difficult decisions a business owner will ever make. And when push comes to shove, few actually do the deed. First of all, firing clients goes against everything a business owner knows.

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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

Startup

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 29, 2015

I went looking for the video clip of Tamir Rice running around with a toy gun. I hadn't seen it before the trial verdict. I have to admit, my first reaction was, "Jeez, that's hard. It really does look like he has a real gun." Then I saw a tweet from a white friend of mine about how he used to play with guns as a kid, too. I had forgotten about it, but so did I.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Out of everything we’ve published in 2015, there were some articles that truly connected with readers across the world. Here’s a look at the 20 most read stories we published in 2015.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Opening a franchise is only safe when you have all the information you need to make a smart investment decision. Remember that you always need to read the fine print, especially when opening a franchise!

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 29, 2015

A couple of years back I was enamoured with the idea of reputation and the reputation economy. I even came close to joining a startup focused on reputation but am glad I didn't. I even had an idea to start my own business around the management of online reputation. Unfortunately, I don't believe that the evolution of our online behaviour is healthy when it comes to reputation.

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 29, 2015

It is always fun to get the “auto generated” annual blog report from WordPress. They came up with some interesting factoids and other cool information about the last year of Ithaca VC. Here is the report. Enjoy. See you in the New Year!

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 29, 2015

By GRAHAM DICKIE Special Contribution to Silicon Hills News People are to led to entrepreneurship for a number of reasons. They want to strike gold. They feel like they have a need in their own life no one else is addressing. Other types of work bore them. For 27-year-old Jonathan Placa, it was the desire […] The post Lessons Learned from a Failed Startup appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 29, 2015

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Tim Ferris , a brilliant author, entrepreneur and angel investor. In this interesting clip from a couple of years ago, Tim shares his ingredients for success for startups, including: “a burning enthusiasm or passion for what you’re building” (at 0:43); “a div

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Phunware, a mobile marketing platform for brands, Monday filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $49.9 million. The Austin-based company, founded in 2009, has previously raised $47.7 million in five rounds of funding, according to its Angellist profile. In June of 2014, Phunware raised $30.7 million in Series E funding. […] The post Phunware Raises $19.3 Million of $49.9 Million VC Offering appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Your plan just got rejected. Welcome to the club. Whether it was angel investment you were after or venture capital, or even investment from friends or family, you didn’t get the money. Reality check: You’re the rule, not the exception. In an average year in the U.S., more than six million businesses get started. But, fewer than 100,000 businesses get angel investment, and fewer than 5,000 get venture capital.

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SVPG

DECEMBER 29, 2015

NOTE: This article is from the foreword to the new 2nd Edition of The Art of Scalability by Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher. I’m reprinting it here because quite a few people have written me asking how to get their old-style company to start behaving more like a modern technology-powered business. Perhaps your company began as a brick-and-mortar retailer, or an airline, or a financial services company.

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