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These 8 Disciplines Define A Fundable Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Aspiring entrepreneurs often ask me what to do first when starting a business. Let me assure you, there is no absolute right or wrong, but there is real value in doing things in a sequence that minimizes the risks, optimizes your efforts and generates the best “first impression” on potential investors. Just don’t try to sell your business to investors before it is well established.

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Improving Employee Recognition Efforts – Overcoming The Challenges

YoungUpstarts

by Steve Sims, CDO of Badgeville . A recent Gartner report clearly illustrated the need for recognition of quality performance for employees. The report states, “Recognizing a job well done is a proven method of increasing employee morale and engagement. This is especially important in organizations with an increasing proportion of Generation Xers and “millennials”… and in highly people-centric businesses and industries where working as part of a team is needed to meet organization

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Moving Your Startup into Its First Office

Up and Running

More than a few tech giants got their start in cramped quarters, typically in a basement or garage. As they grew, a need for office space became essential. Not just that, but a search for space that catered to their business’s needs—whether that was an area large enough to facilitate massive supercomputers, or just one that could fit in a few employees and exude professionalism to potential investors and clients.

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Starting a startup as CTO / Head of Product

Gust

After less than a year, Glassbreakers is now a team of 10, we have thousands of active users on our free product, we’ve expanded into enterprises with paying customers and raised over a million in seed funding. After a few of my Glassbreaker matches inquired, I started to reflect on what it’s like to build a startup. Read more >. The post Starting a startup as CTO / Head of Product appeared first on The Gust Blog.

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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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7 Easy Ways To Find Quality Tenants

YoungUpstarts

Finding the right tenants for your property is essential to your success as a property owner. Protect your investment and search out the best candidates for your tenancy with these simple steps: 1. Avoid Renting to Family. It might seem like a good idea to rent to good ol’ Uncle Ned, but renting out to family and friends can backfire in the worst of ways.

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One Month launches 30-day startup bootcamp course and competition

The Next Web

Educational startup One Month promises to help build coherency and knowledge in certain areas of programming and business in just 30 days’ time. Now, the company is expanding on that idea by helping aspiring entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground in just four weeks. The company’s new bootcamp, ‘One Month Startup,’ will take participants through every phase of creating a startup — from ideation to prototyping and initial user acquisition — in 30 days.

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Is Your SaaS Homepage As Optimized As You Think?

ConversionXL

There’s no denying that your homepage is vital to your site, especially if you’re a service (including SaaS) company. It’s likely one of your most visited pages, acting as a proverbial launch pad. While you read about optimizing individual landing pages day in and day out, optimizing homepages is less frequently explored. Do the same old rules from 2005 still apply?

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Top 6 Digital Marketing Myths Debunked

YFS Magazine

There’s no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to digital marketing. What works for one business may not work for another, so when it comes to these marketing myths, don’t believe the hype.

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Drako Motors Creates Software to run Electric Sports Cars

SiliconHills

By HOJUN CHOI Special Contributor to Silicon Hills News Dean Drako’s launched his first tech company while still attending high school in 1982, when computers with monitors were only just becoming the norm and what we now know as the Internet was still in its infancy. Bringing together more than 30 years of experience as […] The post Drako Motors Creates Software to run Electric Sports Cars appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Monday Morning Motivation: Sacrifice

Hearpreneur

Wise words from Kobe Bryant, one of the top NBA players of all time. Today , he announced that he would retire after the season is over. Some argue that he is the best Laker of all time but there’s one thing that is certain, he was on another level. Greatness is infectious. In business and in life maintain that same mentality. #lakers #kobebryant #greatness #mamba #blackmamba.

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Top 5 Recruiting Mistakes Most Startups Make

YFS Magazine

Be patient, the cost of a bad hire can be far greater than waiting for the right person.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: November 9th – 29th

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 “VCs are swinging for the fences & unicorn hunting. Paint that picture. Or don’t Uber down to Sand Hill.” – @jasonlk [link] Quora: What are some entrepreneurial stories of resilience?

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Not sure that mobile is taking over everything yet? Then you must not have heard what the Oxford word of the year is…

Jeff Hilimire

Yes, you heard that right, the Oxford word of the year is… That’s right, its an emoji. To be more specific, it is the “Face With Tears of Joy” emoji, or the LOL Emoji, or even the Laughing Emoji. Here’s what happened. Oxford University Press (OUP) worked with SwiftKey (an alternative keyboard for Android and iOS) to determine which emoji was the most popular this year.

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The VC Market – 2015 and 2016

Rob Go

In October, we held our annual Limited Partners meeting at NextView. In addition to reporting on the progress of our funds and the exciting stuff happening with the portfolio, we shared some thoughts on the broader market environment for VC’s and venture backed technology companies. If you tracked the headlines this past year, you would have seen what looks like a roller-coaster of activity.

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What is Cyber Monday, and What Can it Mean for Your Business?

Duct Tape Marketing

What is Cyber Monday, and What Can it Mean for Your Business? written by Alex Boyer read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This morning, the Monday morning after Thanksgiving in the United States, is one of the least productive business mornings in America. Employees across the country (and even around the world) are pulling out their credit cards and giving their employers headaches as they complete their holiday shopping.

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How to Use Storytelling to Get Clients for Your Business

Brandanew

Storytelling is a powerful means of communication and it’s also a great tool to attract new customers to your business! You can use stories to gain trust, to persuade and to connect with prospective customers, making them much more willing to take the leap and hire you. In this post I will share some proven ways in which you can use storytelling to get more clients for your business.

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Business Funds: How To Make Sure Your Money Is Safe At All Times

YoungUpstarts

With regards to the business industry, money makes the world go around. It is the lifeblood that ensures success and prevents failure. So, when it comes to your business’ cash, you need to know it is safe at all times. Problems can occur that will put the security of your money at risk. When and if they do happen, you need a backup plan or several backup plans.

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Episode 56: Task Management and Virtual Outsourcing with Chris Ducker

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Bestselling Author and Entrepreneur Chris Ducker joins Mike Michalowicz, Chris Curran and Kristina Bolduc for Episode 56 of the Profit First Podcast! Chris talks about the benefits of bringing your business virtual. Our Guest . Chris Ducker is a serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker and author of the bestseller, “Virtual Freedom”.