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4 Morning Tips To Kick-Start Your Day

YoungUpstarts

by Emma Rosser of Publicize. An effective morning ritual can kick-start a productive day. Many entrepreneurs start their day with a morning run, personal meditation or writing in their journals. Silicon Valley guru, Tim Ferris claims that small tasks like this, provide a feeling of control and organization, this could even be accomplished by making your bed.

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How To Attract More Clients With Facebook Groups

YFS Magazine

The aim of Facebook Groups is to make it easy to connect with specific sets of people. Groups are dedicated spaces where you can share updates, photos or documents and message other group members.

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4 Roadblocks Your Start-Up Business Could Face

YoungUpstarts

Image credit: Detour road closed from Shutterstock. Starting a business is difficult. Doing it when you’re young is even more difficult. You haven’t had the time to experience what the world of work is really like. There are loads of potential roadblocks that you will face, and it’s important to be aware of that. You should never start a business without doing as much research as you can, but you can’t plan for everything.

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All new jobs are created by young companies

The Equity Kicker

It isn’t new news that all net job creation happens in young companies, but it’s interesting to see that it’s been consistently true for 31 years. Expect this phenomenon to become more pronounced as startups form a larger and larger part of the economy. This is US data ( source ). Would be interesting to see the same in the UK.

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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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Oslo and Austin EdTech Companies Celebrate SXSW Edu

SiliconHills

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Oslo EdTech Cluster and Austin’s EdTech Action held an Oslo-Austin happy hour at Capital Factory Wednesday night with 60-second pitches from edtech companies from both cities, including a couple of Norwegian companies with offices at the Capital Factory. At the event, Norwegian Consul General Morten Paulsen spoke […] The post Oslo and Austin EdTech Companies Celebrate SXSW Edu appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Supporting DonorsChoose and #BestSchoolDay

Feld Thoughts

When I sat down this morning with Amy she started reading off people who had funded entire cities worth of projects on DonorsChoose this morning. Amy has DonorsChoose in her twitter feed and we quickly figured out what was going on. I saw Fred Wilson’s post on #BestSchoolDay and we agreed to fully fund projects in a number of cities that we have connections to.

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Here’s Why Entrepreneurs Should Only Do Things They’re Obscenely Good At

YFS Magazine

Okay. I know, pretty ridiculous. Fun to talk about, but we all know that if this were to play out in real life, it would be a disaster.

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Discovery Coaches

SVPG

In my last article on Discovery Sprints I mentioned the concept of Discovery Coaches and several people asked me about that, so I thought I’d describe more about what this role is and when it’s helpful. For many years, as teams move to Agile methods (they usually start with Scrum), many companies decide to contract with or hire an Agile Coach.

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3 Ways Improv Comedy Can Up Your Entrepreneurship Game

YFS Magazine

While you may have no interest in making your living as a comic, here's a look at three ways improv can up your entrepreneurial game.

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How can I trust that my virtual employees are working?

Berkonomics

Dave’s note: For the second week, we welcome my co-author of “Get Scrappy,” Kim Shepherd, to give us her answer to the oft-repeated question: “How can I trust that my virtual employees are working?” You’ll recall that Kim is an expert here, managing her company of over one hundred employees around the world literally from a post office box – with every one of them, including herself, working from home in a virtual environment.

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The All You Can Eat 24-Hour Buffet: SXSW Interactive Kicks off

SiliconHills

BY LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News South by Southwest Interactive didn’t always get a lot of respect. In 1998, the conference, then called SXSW Multimedia had a hard time gaining traction and took a backseat to the music and film conferences, said Hugh Forrest, executive director of SXSW Interactive. It was called SXSW […] The post The All You Can Eat 24-Hour Buffet: SXSW Interactive Kicks off appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Formerly Homeless CEO Now Helps Businesses Grow to Meet Their Potential

Hearpreneur

Share Entrepreneurs set out to be successful in whatever they do. It might not be the first thing they bring up when asked the why or how of their chosen path. When it comes right down to it, being an entrepreneur means that you are able to find success on your own terms. That success might mean your product does well in the marketplace, being you’re able to live how you’ve always wanted, or you’re able to grow and help your business flourish.

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Robert Scoble Leaves Rackspace for UploadVR

SiliconHills

Robert Scoble, who has worked in various roles with Rackspace for the past seven years, announced Thursday he is leaving the San Antonio-based tech company to join UploadVR. Scoble made the announcement at the Pre Conference Summit SXW20, a daylong event put on by the W2O Group at the Zach Theater in downtown Austin. Scoble […] The post Robert Scoble Leaves Rackspace for UploadVR appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Same Old Song

Austin Startup

March 13, 2015: Another year, another badge. It’s SXSW Interactive time again, and I’m guessing this is about my 10th appearance, beginning… Continue reading on Medium ».

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ATC Names Barbary Brunner as its New CEO

SiliconHills

The Austin Technology Council on Thursday announced the appointment of Barbary Brunner as its new CEO. Brunner will take the reins from Julie Huls who has served as the organization’s president for the past six years. She announced her plans to resign in December. Brunner has more than 20 years of experience as an executive […] The post ATC Names Barbary Brunner as its New CEO appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Moving Beyond the Mundane: Aceable to the Rescue

Austin Startup

Technology enables a certain level of efficiency to our lives that is easy to take it for granted. With tax season and election days… Continue reading on Medium ».

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The Secret to Discovering the Top Converting Marketing Channels for Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

The Secret to Discovering the Top Converting Marketing Channels for Your Business written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. You switch off the computer, put your phone on silent and look at the blank sheet of paper on your desk. It’s a big moment – you’ll need absolute silence to concentrate. Planning your marketing spend for the next 12 months is no mean feat.

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The unfair advantage of moving your Startup to Austin

Austin Startup

Why it’s easy to lose the forest for the trees when you’re in a True tech ecosystem Continue reading on Medium ».

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Books for Innovators and Entrepreneurs | #Sprintbook #CleanDisruption

Campus Entrepreneurship

I started reading Tony Seba ‘s Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation — I decided to read more books in 2016, now that the Phd on student entrepreneurs is done. A few weeks ago while in Tokyo I heard Tony speak and spent some time with him after his talk. While I’ve followed solar, Tesla, and the like from a distance, the deep dive with Tony and his book has converted me.

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Awesome Austin the non-techy SXSW

Austin Startup

Food, outdoors, music and where to work in Austin Continue reading on Medium ».

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VC is About Saying “Yes”

Rob Go

My biggest frustration as a VC has been that it’s a very negative job. You say “No” all day long, and it wears you out. I’ve warned people getting into the industry about this, because in most operating roles, you end up saying yes much more often, and you feel like you are doing something positive every day. But… I’m looking at this from a new POV these days.

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It’s The Little Things: Seven Reasons Why Small Innovations Are Hugely Powerful

YoungUpstarts

by Patrick Stroh, author of “ Business Strategy: Plan, Execute, Win! “ To stay relevant these days, your company must innovate or die. For many leaders, scarier words have never been spoken. But it might take the pressure off to realize the I-word doesn’t necessarily mean what you think. An “innovation” doesn’t have to be a hot new product worthy of Steve Jobs or a Eureka!

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