Mon.Jan 16, 2017

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Maintain CTRL Over Your Business: ALT Ways To DEL The Tech Threats

YoungUpstarts

Running a business comes with a lot of different types of things to keep track of, especially when you are in the startup business. Due to the low amount of employees in a standard startup company, you may find yourself taking on a lot more tasks than you normally would if the business was much better established. There are certain things that you need to think about to make sure that your business is safe and free from potential data thieves, and as they say, prevention is better than cure, so

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Thoughts on SaaS in 2017

BeyondVC

When we started boldstart in 2010, a core thesis of ours was to invest in next-gen SaaS which we called SaaS 2.0 at the time and best highlighted in our end of 2015 review: SaaS 2.0, reinventing for the mobile first workforce will continue to remain robust. We also see older school SaaS companies being rebuilt with more flexible back-end technologies like microservices and reimagined with a more responsive and beautiful UI.

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The Application Vendor is dead. Long live the Application Vendor!

deal architect

I have just come back from a round the world trip with frequent reminders of Great Britain's wide influence - Victoria Harbour, Raffles Hotel, Brabourne Stadium, Kipling's Kim in bookstores among others. You could almost visualize the rise and fall.

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8 Reasons To Promote Corporate Social Responsibility

Startup Professionals Musings

Businesses are finding that being socially responsible can be great for the bottom line, as well as good for employee morale. Of course, a company still needs to make a profit to survive, but supporting a worthy cause can be the most profitable brand building you can do. Witness the growth and popularity of Patagonia in outdoor clothing, and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

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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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How Blacklane went from one city to over 250 around the world

The Next Web

In the lead-up to Tech5 2017 – the annual competition organized by TNW and Adyen which celebrates Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies in The Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Sweden– we’re launching a series of remarkable stories of businesses that experienced extreme growth. We asked these companies to tell us the data backed story on how key decisions were made, which growth hacks led to the much loved hockey stick curve, and how this impacted their company.

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[ADV] Boodmo – Online Catalog For Buying Car Spare Parts

YoungUpstarts

Boodmo.com is India’s largest online company which provides a suitable marketing platform for people looking to purchase auto parts. It was established back in 2015, as a section of Smart Parts Online Pvt. Ltd. It offers a large number of automobile parts, including both aftermarket replacement as well as genuine parts, which are provided by more than four hundred suppliers from all over the country.

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7 Reasons Your Content Marketing Is Broken And How To Fix It

YFS Magazine

Correcting these common mistakes will help you generate content to attract the right kind of prospects and earn higher ROI from your content marketing efforts.

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How to Get 70 Percent of Your Invoices Paid Instantly

Up and Running

You’ve probably had to ask yourself: Why don’t my clients pay on time? Payment delays are often a matter of life and death for a small business. According to a U.S. Bank study, 82 percent of business failures are due to cash flow issues. So I was surprised when I spoke with Jevgenijs Novickis , co-founder of Swipe Gateway , who claimed 70 percent of his clients’ invoices are paid on time.

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Five Books I Want to Read in 2017

VC Cafe

Daunt Books, one of London’s charming book stories in Marylebone High street. “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” ? Mortimer J. Adler. This was going to be a post on the books I’ve enjoyed reading in 2016. I will mention some of those but instead, I’ll keep it forward-looking and hopefully get a recommendation or two from readers of this blog!

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How To Survive As An Expat Entrepreneur Abroad

YFS Magazine

With opportunities for business in every corner of the world, many entrepreneurs travel far and wide in search of success.

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7 Steps To Launch A Passive Income Business Selling Services Online

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Welcome to a complete overview of the steps to launch what I call a Services Arbitrage business. If you’re not sure what this is, read my introduction here: Services Arbitrage: The Perfect New Business For Non-Experts Looking For A Laptop Lifestyle Income Stream The following seven steps represent the key phases. The post 7 Steps To Launch A Passive Income Business Selling Services Online appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Celebrate MLK Day With These 25 Inspirational Quotes

YFS Magazine

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?" This and other profound lessons from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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“Monopoly” Board Game Was Invented By a Woman, Who Was Then Written Out of the Story

Hunter Walker

Growing up I LOVED the board game Monopoly. We’d keep a legal pad to track the side deals, such as allowing one player to raise money from another in order to fund the purchase of houses & hotels. But I’d never heard the actual story of its beginnings until recently when I read about The Landlord’s Game, a precursor from which Monopoly was essentially copied.

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I’m Ready To Relocate My Business: What’s Next?

YFS Magazine

While there is no guarantee of success, relocating could be your next best move both personally and professionally.

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7 Steps To Launch A Home-Based Business Selling Services Online

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Welcome to a complete overview of the steps to launch what I call a Services Arbitrage business. If you’re not sure what this is and you’ve never heard the story behind how I launched an online editing company, make sure you read Part 1 and 2 first. Here are the. The post 7 Steps To Launch A Home-Based Business Selling Services Online appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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My plans for 2017: Join me if you can, I could use the help

Austin Startup

At the end of 2016, I went through the bittersweet ending of another chapter in my life by leaving Mercedes/moovel/RideScout. However, it leaves me as excited for the future as anytime since I started RideScout and retired from the Army in 2013. The possibilities are endless and I wanted to share what I’m working on in the hope you will join me. There is no better week than Trump’s inauguration to remind us that life is sometimes complicated.

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Monday Motivation: Martin Luther King’s Street Sweeper [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

Share. This motivational video is perfect for entrepreneurs and business owners on Martin Luther King Jr. day. It’s a reminder that if you are a business person or an entrepreneur and you received that calling be sure to remember to give it your all and do your best. Take pride in every day and everything that you do. If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.

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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “You’re Gonna Die” (via Gary V)

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being a founder; and whether you’re launching your venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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The long view

The Startup Toolkit

If you wanted to be in a band but didn’t know how to play any music, you’d probably start by learning an instrument and finding friends to play with. You would be neither surprised nor disappointed to hear that it takes a couple years to get to where you want to be. You’d just shrug and get started doing a little bit each day. A whole category of startup problems (especially around cofounders, funding, dealflow, and skills) work the same way[1].

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Episode 131: Bringing in the Top-Talent with Mark Hunter and Dr. Sabrina Starling

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. On this episode we talk with Mark Hunter the owner of Hunter’s Home Center and his business psychologist Dr. Sabrina Starling. This is part two of a two-part series. Part one was episode 130. Now, in this episode we interview Mark Hunter who has used hiring strategies and techniques on how to bring in top-talent and Mark explains, from his experience, how top-talent can drive profitability in the business, can make the business itself grow faster than ever,

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The one secret that Micro VCs keep when they reject a startup.

Hippoland

Check out my side project Rejectionathon (discount code: EYFRIENDS), which helps founders get over their fear of rejection. The next one is on Jan 29, 2017 in Mountain View. As an entrepreneur, it never even crossed my mind to think about how investors decide which companies to invest in. Lots of investors blog generically about how they invest in great teams / big markets / maybe some traction / yadda yadda yadda.

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