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Containing Growth Chaos: Five Things To Do When Your Company Is On The Upswing

YoungUpstarts

By Bryan Miles, CEO and co-founder, Miles Advisory Group, Inc. When businesses begin booming, that’s typically a good thing. The irons in the fire have taken on a life of their own, blazing along the path we’ve set. We see balance sheets go from being in the red to finally creeping into the black and, if we’re fortunate enough, beyond our wildest dreams.

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Why Women Make The Best Product Managers

SVPG

Recently I gave a keynote address to the Mind The Product Conference in London , and in that talk I wanted to illustrate, by example, the essential role that very strong product managers play for their team and their company. Most people noticed that all six of my examples were female. I didn’t call that out explicitly during my talk because my view is their performance speaks for itself.

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You Can’t Build A Business Without Accountability

Startup Professionals Musings

Maybe it’s just me, but I sometimes feel that accountability is a rare talent in business today. In big businesses, people are quick to defer with “that’s not my department,” and even startup founders too often blame failures on the economy or the lack of investors. As an investor and advisor to entrepreneurs, I see accountability, or lack of it, as an override to even the best idea.

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Betabrand’s Enlightened View Around Depression

Feld Thoughts

I’m proud of my friends at Betabrand about a bunch of things, including a fundraiser they recently did called YogAID that generated over $85,000 for the Techstars Foundation. Last week an email hit the Foundry Group EXEC list from Betabrand’s CMO Aaron. I asked him if I could share it because it was full of some enlightening stuff around depression that was prompted by the suicide of a friend of Aaron’s.

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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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4 Entrepreneurs Explain What Being USA Made Means to Them [Sponsored Post]

Hearpreneur

Share Communities are everywhere. They are interest based, community based, location based and even social-economically grounded. The point is there is common thread that brings people together whether it is offline or even online. That common thread could be startup entrepreneurs or mid-sized CEOs or even mompreneurs. Either way, we at CEO Blog Nation tried to highlight the different communities within the entrepreneur and business owner world.

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How do seed investors benchmark startups?

Hippoland

It’s all very confusing to understand how investors benchmark different kinds of companies. When I was an entrepreneur, I had no idea how this all worked. How does a social app such as Snapchat get funded vs say a developer tools company like New Relic? Obviously, their milestones and KPIs are very different. In this post, I’m going to very *simplistically* dive into some high level categories and talk about how early stage investors consider each.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: September 11th – October 16th

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 month (the first three of which are from Quora). Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. Quora: “What are the best productivity hacks of startup CEOs?

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Five Austin Companies Land on Fortune’s Best Place to Work List

SiliconHills

Fortune Magazine held its Great Place to Work conference last week at the Sheraton Austin Hotel aimed at celebrating the nation’s best small to medium sized businesses. And it named a Georgetown-based software company, AgileCraft as the number one best place to work out of 50 small businesses in the country. Three other Austin-based companies […] The post Five Austin Companies Land on Fortune’s Best Place to Work List appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Takeaways From Two Months on Medium

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: October 16, 2016 Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Social Media Marketing Ideas For Small Business

YoungUpstarts

Are you a small business looking to expand your social media presence? Well, these tips have been created to help you do so. They’re actionable, easy to implement and can result in notable social media gains with a little work. 1. Use Affordable And Useful Tools for all of the Heavy Lifting. These days social is huge. Facebook has an astonishing 1.65 billion active users per month.