Wed.Jul 08, 2015

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10 Ways For Entrepreneurs To Meet Cash Flow Peaks

Startup Professionals Musings

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. I often get asked about the real alternatives to bridge this valley, and there are some good ones I will outline here.

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4 Ideas For Getting Your Business Idea Off The Ground

YoungUpstarts

Having a good idea for a business is the easy part. Trying to get it up, running, and off the ground? Well, that’s another thing entirely. However, there are several ways that you can start developing your idea for relatively little cost. We’re going to have a look at some suggestions for you, so give them a look over and see if they help start turning your imagination into a genuine business opportunity.

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ProtoHack Co-founder Prioritizes Social Good Over Profit—Here’s Why

YFS Magazine

When you’re looking to launch a startup centered on social good find out what you’re passionate for it and run with it.

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5 Entrepreneurial Lessons I Learned From Failing Fast In My First Venture

YoungUpstarts

by Chris Thornham, co-founder of FLO Cycling. You have a brilliant idea for a new business. You love it, and you think other people will, too. So you take the plunge headfirst, right? Not so fast. My brother Jon and I started our first company with a similar mind-set, and it failed in a matter of months. We created Painting With Purpose, a charitable organization that sold digital copies of paintings created by children with special needs.

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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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Why we like investor decks

The Equity Kicker

When we are introduced to promising entrepreneurs and ideas our first response is to ask for information about the company or project, usually an investor deck. The extra information helps us to know whether there’s enough chance of an investment happening for a meeting to make sense. I like to think that’s beneficial to us and the founder because it saves time, although I recognise there can be value in getting feedback even if there’s no chance of investment.

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Should Startups Hire Consultants? 7 Benefits To Hiring Consultants

YoungUpstarts

Consultants may not be right for every company, but the proper expert can be ideal for many purposes within a small company. Startups can benefit especially well from a consultant’s ability to determine unmet needs and proper direction through at least seven practices. Accomplishing Specific Tasks. It can be very helpful for a company to get something big off of its plate by using a consultant for a very specific task, so that there is a clear goal and a way to determine failure or success

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The Essential Differences Between Cash and Profits

Up and Running

You’ve got to keep your cash flow positive, not just your profits. I learned how to manage cash flow first in business school, in a classroom setting, but it didn’t really mean anything to me until years later, as I was building my own business. Once my sales and profits skyrocketed, my cash flow dropped. It was all theoretical until I found myself in danger of going under and missing payroll, while at the same time the business was booming.

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5 Simple Steps To Create Compelling SEO Content

YFS Magazine

Learn how to position yourself as an expert by writing and distributing SEO content for your startup or small business.

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Fresh from the SPRING: Graphis

crowdSPRING Blog

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 Graphis. Check out more great work on Graphis ‘ profile page. Nicely done, Graphis, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: SUJITHFAB. Fresh from the SPRING: uniquemind.

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6 Key Hires For Your Startup

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at six key hires that can greatly support a growing small business.

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The Shoulder

Mike Michalowicz

I am working on my next book as I write this. One of the privileges of being an author is you get to speak with extraordinary people from all walks of life. Today was no different. I spoke with pro-surfer Holly Beck , and what she shared with me about surfing (and business) just can’t wait for my book to be published. She told me about the shoulder.

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Go Fund Me Page Set Up for Omni Shooting Victim

SiliconHills

A tragedy unfolded early Sunday morning at the Omni Hotel in downtown Austin, in which a gunman shot a cab driver, Conrado Guadalupe Contreras, 60. And now Edward Kargbo, president of Yellow Cab Austin, has set up a Go Fund Me page for Contreras’ family to pay for his funeral expenses. The site has already […] The post Go Fund Me Page Set Up for Omni Shooting Victim appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Why Products Fail [PODCAST]

Street Smart Product Manager

Why do products fail? What are the three important milestones for a new product? Why is it so important to get to market fast? How do you manage stakeholders when building a new product? What is an MVP? What are the key skills of a good product manager? How do you stay in touch with current trends? … Continue reading Why Products Fail [PODCAST].

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Does Ghostwriting Mean Intellectual Prostitution?

Brandanew

I was discussing a client case with my mom – she often comes up with enormously high standards of quality so, I seek her judgment and views. A client that I recently spoke with misunderstood our blogging product. Brandanew provides strategic and implementation support for Corporate blogs , but we don’t ghostwrite. We just don’t have a service like that.

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A Watch To Watch Out: New OTP-Generation Token From Protectimus

YoungUpstarts

Did you get to think how our lives have changed drastically in the last two decades? How many things that mattered or embodied our vision of progress and future technologies have just vanished? How many gadgets were there to dream about, to present our loved ones, to save money for, and then to become outdated waste with only purpose to be relegated and sent to drawers in the end?

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