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Top 3 Ways To Own The Boss Role

YoungUpstarts

By Arvind Parthiban, CEO of Zarget. The startup bug has reached epidemic proportions. In the U.S., nearly half a million new startups were launched every month last year, according to the Kauffman Index. And all of those new businesses will need more than a viable value proposition to survive; they’ll also need competent management. Some people are born leaders, but even for those with innate leadership skills, making the transition from employee to boss takes planning and effort.

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5 Reasons Startups Need Revenue As Well As Users

Startup Professionals Musings

Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Both have worked. Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400B. Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500M users into a $22B public company, now growing revenue.

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The ideal email deck

Hippoland

Check out my side project Hustleathon , which helps founders get over their fear of rejection. The event is on July 17, 2016 in the Bay Area. Since I wrote a post on how you’ll need multiple pitch decks , I’ve gotten a number of questions around what should go into them. Today I want to spell out the ideal email deck – at least, ideal if you’re sending it to me. :) Short & sweet ~5 slides is sufficient Should be skimmable in 10-30 seconds; E.g.

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Are those people idiots? How to think about competition.

This is going to be BIG.

A lot of founders who pitch me tell me that they're the only ones doing something. They're in the same ballpark as a major player, doing something just one tiny bit off from what they are, and they expect this company to get their lunch eaten over the next seven years while an IPO-sized company is grown right under their noses. So, the people who work at your competition.

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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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Between the Queen’s Honour and Brexit, it was a Memorable Week for Austin Tech Delegation

SiliconHills

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News It has been an almost surrealistic couple of weeks for Fred Schmidt. First, the director of international for Capital Factory learned from the British Consulate in Houston that he had been named a Most Excellent Member of the British Empire for his services to U.K.-U.S. relations, a […] The post Between the Queen’s Honour and Brexit, it was a Memorable Week for Austin Tech Delegation appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Two years ago we moved our startup from Los Angeles to Austin and I’m glad we did

Austin Startup

I’ll be honest — growing up in Berkeley, California, the last place I expected to ever end-up is Texas. I‘m not crazy about BBQ, in fact I… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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The future of stealing music and everything else

Start Up Blog

Before technology allowed for recorded music, it was a pretty difficult thing to steal. You’d listen to the medieval minstral and maybe sing it to yourself after they’d left town. Heck, I’m sure that’s what they wanted. In those days, money only happened when they we’re ‘in the room.’ But then music changed… it was something you could listen to when the musician wasn’t present.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share What Makes Their Business Unique

Hearpreneur

Share In the current generation of business being unique is a top priority to getting noticed. Each day some new story comes out about some creative marketing plan that takes the cake and drives huge traffic to a business. The Taco Liberty Bell April Fool’s joke or Verizon’s real life ‘Can You Hear Me Now?’ promo can only be described as unique. If a business is to survive and thrive making an effort to be unique is a must.

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The future of stealing music and everything else

Start Up Blog

Before technology allowed for recorded music, it was a pretty difficult thing to steal. You’d listen to the medieval minstral and maybe sing it to yourself after they’d left town. Heck, I’m sure that’s what they wanted. In those days, money only happened when they we’re ‘in the room.’ But then music changed… it was something you could listen to when the musician wasn’t present.

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