YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2015

'By Ron Kaufman, author of “ Uplifting Service: The Proven Path to Delighting Your Customers, Colleagues, and Everyone Else You Meet ”. We love receiving great customer service. That’s no surprise. But did you know that great service can actually elicit a physical reaction? Well, it can! A recent American Express Service Study found that 63 percent of its 1,620 respondents said they felt an increased heart rate when they just thought about great service.

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Up and Running

APRIL 15, 2015

'Being an entrepreneur is a pursuit that can have tremendous rewards for those with the gumption to pursue it. Starting and growing your own enterprise requires patience, tenacity, and creativity. When you transition from working for others to building your own business, there are new challenges that you will face. One of these is learning how to be an effective leader.

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deal architect

APRIL 15, 2015

'…We have no time to stand and stare….No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. A poor life this if, full of care…. I am feeling poetic today thanks to William Henry Davies.

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Rembrandt Communications

APRIL 15, 2015

'3 Tips to Boost Online Awareness Fast How is the weather in your area? For most, temperatures are rising, but you may be experiencing more rain. And as the poem goes, April showers will turn into May flowers. With this in mind, what are you doing to advance your business on the rainy days? If […]. The post Rainy Days Mean Better Content Strategy!

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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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Scalable Startup

APRIL 15, 2015

'How to design a board of directors. By Tom Nora. There was an article recently in VentureBeat about how much control the startup CEO founder has over his/her board of directors. Unfortunately, this actually isn’t true in most cases, especially for first time founders, for many reasons. Many factors come into play in early board formation including the founder’s goals, investors, cofounders, early appointees, family, friends.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 15, 2015

'By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News The end of NASA’s space shuttle program was the beginning of the commercial space age and the race to Mars. The Texas Space Economy Initiative seeks to cultivate that industry and Austin wants to serve as the hub of innovation in the new space race. In January, […] The post Austin Seeks to Become a Hub for the Space Industry appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 15, 2015

'Jim Collins famously has taught us to set BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) in his book Built To Last. Together these goals define the big vision you have for your business’s future. While I understand that the “Hairy” part is meant to be cheeky, it can take many an entrepreneur off course. I suggest setting a new type of BHAG. I call it the Big BANG.

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The Startup Lawyer

APRIL 15, 2015

'I am happy to present an upgraded StartupLawyer.com! While just a soft launch, we added a left-side navigation bar with the intent of making content more accessible. Early reviews have been positive: About a year ago we released a Glossary. Now with a custom plugin, we have integrated those defined terms into applicable blog posts.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 15, 2015

'Last week , data management and dashboard start up Domo announced it had raised an additional $200 million in growth capital, bringing its total haul over the past four years to a truly remarkable $450 million. Now given that the company has yet to even come close to breaking even, this can be viewed as either a great validation of Domo''s business model, or as more evidence of the “Bubble Mania” of the current technology financing landscape and a screaming signal to get out while you still can

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 15, 2015

'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 martinroy. Check out more great work on martinroy ’s profile page. Nicely done, martinroy, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: 5IVE_STAR_CREATIVE.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 15, 2015

'Seismos, a data analytics company for the oil and gas production, has received $4 million in funding. The Austin-based company plans to use the funds on marketing and engineering. Javelin Venture Partners led the funding round with participation from Osage University Partners and other oil and gas technology-focused investors. As a result of the deal, […] The post Seismos Gets $4 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

'The era of stable lifetime jobs for business professionals within a single company are gone. Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly, and business professionals are quick to jump to new opportunities for growth and survival, with no ties to special benefits or pension plans. Thus smart business professionals are rapidly becoming the new entrepreneurs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 15, 2015

'Highest Duty: The Search For What Really Matters written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Capt. Sully Sullenberger. My guest on this week’s podcast is former airline pilot, speaker, entrepreneur and author of Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters , Captain Chesley “Sulley” Sullenberger.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 15, 2015

'This morning I’m giving a keynote (i.e. kickoff) talk at an event, and the theme is around “Passion” I like talking about passion :). I decided to do something different for this talk. Instead of using slides, I’ll have no slides, but I’ll have this page of notes to help guide me. I’m also going to have an exercise halfway through that I think will be really fun, and I’ll report back on how that goes.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 15, 2015

'I came across Passwork today and was really impressed with the presentation as well as focus of the product. This is the kind of product that I would instinctively sign up for and test drive… but for an unrelated reason I started poking around on their site to find out more about the company. It became clear that the company is Russian and this fact alone represents a major impediment for any company in the security software space.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 15, 2015

'Traditionally, kosher wine has been dismissed by wine connoisseurs as excessively sweet, unappetizing, and certainly only called for as part of the ritual observance of Jewish holidays. For me, Manischewitz wines define this category. Whereas kosher hot dogs are viewed by many consumers as better than regular hot dogs (Hebrew National comes to mind), and kosher salt somehow evokes something special that makes some consumers believe it is better than non-kosher salt, kosher wine is viewed as in

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 15, 2015

'This chart (which I saw on Broadstuff and was originally published in the Harvard Business Review ) is from audited company accounts following mergers and acquisitions: …we looked at the value of brands and customer relationships as revealed by M&A data covering over 6,000 mergers and acquisitions worldwide between 2003 and 2013. The beauty of M&A for examining valuation trends is that M&As reveal the dollar valuations of all assets at the time of the acquisition.

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