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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

As a child, I believed logical arguments were enough to convince anyone of anything. You just needed enough time to explain them in painstaking, rational detail—others would listen and understand. As an adult, I know the world operates on story first and logic second. The truth only matters for good stories, but most people don’t know how to tell them.

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What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?

Both Sides of the Table

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. While I’m not an LP, the following post represents my discussions with more than 100 LP firms – specifically ones that do fund VCs – and full survey data from 73 firms , so I’ve tried to capture the essence of what I’ve learned.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

Note: Nothing within this article should be construed as legal advice. Please consult a patent attorney for more information about filing for a patent, and getting your idea to market. . Everything you see around you—every item you own, every book you’ve read, every app you use, every website you browse—was once nothing more than an idea in someone else’s head.

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ABWAAuthoring by Walking Around

deal architect

Over three decades ago, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, used the term “Management by Walking Around” in their classic The Search for Excellence. They also invented the concept of “Authoring by Flying Around” as they scoured the globe for “smart.

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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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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 23: Nina Tandon and Brandon McNaughton

Steve Blank

In a startup cheap may be expensive. And just having cool technology doesn’t make a successful business. What it was like to get out of the research lab to build a startup was the focus of interviews with two of the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern).

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How To Manage Cash Flow For Your Startup Business

YoungUpstarts

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. At the outset, managing the cash flow for your business seems like a no-brainer. It is not too difficult to realize that your expenses should not be more than your income. But things are not this straight-forward in real life. Take the example of a typical agency that provides marketing services to clients.

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Ways In Which You Can Help Your Employees Further Their Career

YoungUpstarts

As much as employees must take charge of their own career and not rely solely on their organisation that they are with in order to further their work aspirations, there are ways in which business owners can help individual employees mould their career path and help them become better at their job and more confident in their role, which will directly affect their task output and result in a happier and more successful company overall.

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Scale-ups are the difference between growth and recession

The Equity Kicker

I was at a Draper Esprit investor presentation this morning and CEO Simon Cook quoted Xavier Rolet, CEO of the London Stock Exchange from his recently published report on 1,000 companies to inspire Britain: We want particularly to shine a light on the companies variously identified as ‘gazelles’, ‘the vital 6%’ or ‘scale-ups,’ which have a remarkably disproportionate impact on UK national economic output.

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3 Steps to Becoming a Networking Ninja

crowdSPRING Blog

Ninjas are agile, fast, and efficient. Business networking is typically the exact opposite. It’s often slow, confused, and discombobulated. Yet, while many people avoid it, networking is one of the most important tools in a business owner’s toolkit. When we network, we increase our knowledge and opportunities, and we also amplify the messages we spread about our companies.

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10 Really Smart Ways To Improve Your Website Traffic

YFS Magazine

They key here is to not just do it all at once. Instead, reap the benefits by key opportunities and become habitual in your execution of each strategy.

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Doing Financial Projections Right (A Five Step Process)

Growthink Blog

Especially this time of year - when so many of us are assembling and committing to our professional resolutions and goals, questions arise as how to best develop financial (growth, revenues, and profits) projections for our businesses. Questions including: Should projections be “realistic” – i.e. feel “doable” and in line with past results or… …should they be “aspirational,” not hot air by any means but also representative of goals that make us feel more than a little anxious as to our ability t

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10 Really Smart Ways To Improve Your Website Traffic?

YFS Magazine

They key here is to not just do it all at once. Instead, reap the benefits by key opportunities and become habitual in your execution of each strategy.

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Fresh from the SPRING: folker

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for folker. Check out more great work on folker ’s profile page. Nicely done, folker, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: 5IVE_STAR_CREATIVE. Fresh from the SPRING: Janisa.

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Mayors’ Pitch Competition at SXSW to Award $25,000

SiliconHills

In a post on Medium, Austin Mayor Steve Adler announced a new pitch competition at South by Southwest aimed at providing solutions for America’s biggest cities. The competition is open to startups with products or programs that can solve tough challenges for cities, according to the post. A panel of mayors and industry experts will […] The post Mayors’ Pitch Competition at SXSW to Award $25,000 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How Do UX Professionals View Conversion Optimization?

ConversionXL

It’s always fun to find out what others think about what you do. In regards to conversion optimization, we’re of the belief that UX is a big part of our process and that great UX leads to more conversions. But how do UX people view conversion optimization? What do they think it is, and how do they think it fits into the organizational context with UX?

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Savara Pharmaceuticals Closes on $20 Million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

Savara Pharmaceuticals Tuesday announced it has closed on $20 million in Series C financing. The Austin-based company plans to use the funds to test AeroVanc, an antibiotic that can be inhaled to treat Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, also known as MRSA, lung infection in people with cystic fibrosis. “The new financing will help support the AeroVanc […] The post Savara Pharmaceuticals Closes on $20 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Turd Biscuits and Lemonade Stands

Austin Startup

A Different View of Austin Fundageddon 2016 Continue reading on Medium ».

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Lead Generation – A Complete System

Duct Tape Marketing

Lead Generation – A Complete System written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Leads are the lifeblood of every business. Clients are actually the lifeblood, however, without leads there are no clients, but that’s a topic for another post. Today I want to focus on how you get enough appointments, phone calls and contacts to grow your business in a systematic manner.

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Turd Biscuits and Lemonade Stands

Austin Startup

A Different View of Austin Fundageddon 2016 Continue reading on Medium ».

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