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The Optimizer’s Guide to Web Accessibility

ConversionXL

What if you found out you are, at best, only optimizing your site for 81% of the people who might possibly visit it? Whether you’ve spent years perfecting your site’s usability or are just getting started, you’d want to know about that other 19%, right? That 19% represents millions and millions of people with disabilities who can’t access or engage with sites in the traditional way.

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Roundup of 2017 VC Predictions and Tech Industry Reports

VC Cafe

2017 Predictions. “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” Niels Bohr. Hope your 2017 is off to a great start. With more VCs blogging, it’s great to see the plethora of predictions being shared. Below is a selection of themes and predictions for startups/venture/tech in 2017. This doesn’t include the various lists of ‘hot startups to watch’ (where normally there’s a correlation between the startup and the recommending VC’s portfolio), but

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Four Qualities Every Angel Investor Looks For When Backing A Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Luigi Wewege, President and CEO of Vivier Group and author of “ The Digital Banking Revolution “ It is widely known that no matter the entrepreneurial endeavor, it will never reach its full potential without receiving a decent amount of financial support. Securing adequate financing for any new venture nowadays is an exceptionally difficult proposition, which is why angel investors are considered so valuable to the startup ecosystem.

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What every entrepreneur should know about doing business in Bangkok

The Next Web

Paul Srivorakul is a Thai-American serial entrepreneur. Paul graduated from UC Berkeley and started his career working in sales for Ask Jeeves Inc. Since then he’s successfully started and exited three startup companies. Today he’s wearing shorts and a blue short-sleeve t-shirt with “Acommerce” across the front. Paul’s sitting in an open office filled with young people and with wild animated characters covering the walls.

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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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5 Super Tips From A Minority Woman On How To Succeed In 2017

YoungUpstarts

by Jamie Wright , millennial lawyer and political pundit. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, African Americans make up less than five percent of the lawyers in the country. But you cannot rest on your laurels and wait for the statistics to get better before you blaze your own trail into your career of choice. You have to be the one to help change those statistics.

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5 No-Nonsense Steps To Improve Your Company’s Image

YFS Magazine

By covering these five bases, what you are really doing is showing the world that. your word is your bond and your brand image is one that can be trusted.

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Doctor Reveals 7 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Stay Healthy And Stress-Free

YFS Magazine

At the end of the day, it’s great that you enjoy your work, but it’s more important that you enjoy your life more!

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10 Ways To Promote Globalization In The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Globalization in the workplace is about more than just sharing different cultures. This business movement is a way to help open up your products and services to an entirely new world of consumers. Embracing globalization can help your company reach even richer levels of success. Here are 10 ways to promote globalization or help you get started on this journey with your organization: 1.

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Are You Making These 5 Startup Mistakes?

YFS Magazine

I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but following your passion does not always lead you to a pot of gold.

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Can you pierce layers in supplier–customer partnerships?

Berkonomics

I recently experienced an amazing effort of outreach by a vice president of a large national customer asking for a meeting with the product development team of a critical supplier, one of “my” companies. The goal, the VP stated, was to “see if these guys are battle hardened veterans that have dealt with the real-world product and delivery problems” of a nationally important customer.

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11 Tips for Health Coaches to be more Profitable in 2017 by Amber Dugger

Mike Michalowicz

11 Tips for Health Coaches to be more Profitable in 2017, written by Amber Dugger. It is a very exciting time to be a health coach. Thousands of motivated, determined and knowledgeable health coaches are graduating each year from health coach training and are paving their own path to a career of gratifying and fulfilling work. One area that is so often overlooked in health coach training is how to run a profitable health coaching business.

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How To Know When It’s Time To Hire An SEO Expert

YFS Magazine

Here are 4 questions you should be able to answer to be sure you're hiring an SEO expert at the right time in your business.

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11 Tips for Health Coaches to be more Profitable in 2017 by Amber Dugger

Mike Michalowicz

11 Tips for Health Coaches to be more Profitable in 2017, written by Amber Dugger. It is a very exciting time to be a health coach. Thousands of motivated, determined and knowledgeable health coaches are graduating each year from health coach training and are paving their own path to a career of gratifying and fulfilling work. One area that is so often overlooked in health coach training is how to run a profitable health coaching business.

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Infocyte Receives $3.4 Million in Funding

SiliconHills

San Antonio-based Infocyte, a cybersecurity startup, received $3.4 million in Series A funding led by Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners. Other investors included Feik Enterprsies and Hollis Family Partnership. As part of the deal, Live Oak General Manager Venu Shamapant and Nicolas Hollis, CEO of Coherent Cyber, will join the Infocyte board of directors.

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11 Tips for Health Coaches to be more Profitable in 2017 by Amber Dugger

Mike Michalowicz

11 Tips for Health Coaches to be more Profitable in 2017, written by Amber Dugger. It is a very exciting time to be a health coach. Thousands of motivated, determined and knowledgeable health coaches are graduating each year from health coach training and are paving their own path to a career of gratifying and fulfilling work. One area that is so often overlooked in health coach training is how to run a profitable health coaching business.

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5 Ways to Monetize Your Content in the Age of Facebook and Google Dominance

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Ways to Monetize Your Content in the Age of Facebook and Google Dominance written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Smart marketers know they need to build a presence on the information giants, Facebook and Google, to remain relevant in today’s digital age. Facebook and Google currently dominate online advertising, search, and traffic.

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Software Will Change Approaches To Smartphones

Austin Startup

A couple of years ago, I had a smartphone based crisis on which phone was best for me. Constantly trying to get something that would suit… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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My 2016 Phone Homescreen

Jeff Hilimire

About once a year I share my phone’s homescreen ( here are many from years past ) partly to reflect on the apps I’m using the most and how that’s changed over time, and also in the hopes of my friends sharing the apps that they are using the most. This is a screenshot of my homescreen at the end of 2016. Some notables: Two folders – The second screen on my phone (I try to only have two screens) has many folders, but on my homescreen I have a folder for the apps and games

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Two ways to get a bonus 100k on your next funding round

The Startup Toolkit

Say you raise 500k, giving you 10 months of runway to build whatever. The money’s a blessing that allows you to buckle down and focus on product. You crack out some of those clutch features that have been sitting in the backlog for too long. It takes a couple months, and upon launch you realise they weren’t quite the right thing. You over-engineered some parts and missed the mark on others.

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Episode 130: The Profitability of Top-Performing Employees with Dr. Sabrina Starling

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. On this episode we talk with Dr. Sabrina Starling and she talks about how you can quickly double your profitability by hiring top-performing employees. At First blush, the strategy doesn’t seem like it would work until you realize that a top-performing employee can perform, according to Dr. Sabrina Starling, 900-1200% better than a warm body and as a result you need fewer employees, you need to offer fewer benefits, reducing your overall payroll costs subst

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Help Launch Gaza’s First Coding Academy

Feld Thoughts

Several months ago I agreed to be part of a funding campaign for Gaza Sky Geeks. This is an organization that we had previously supported through the Techstars Foundation , which is how I was introduced to them. The goal was simple – provide enough funding for a generator for the organization. I can’t remember what the first goal was, but I think it was around $60,000 total.

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