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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting. Following Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting with the students early in the quarter, Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken paid a visit to the class in Week 7 and four foreign ministers in week 8.

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13 Red Flags To Avoid In Your Investor Funding Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

After listening to hundreds of startup pitches, and reading even more business plans, most new venture investors develop their own favorite list of “red flags” that signal the beginning of the end of their interest. Others, like Guy Kawasaki , have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent enhancements or omissions that can kill your deal.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and around the world – has been interesting. Following Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting with the students early in the quarter, Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken paid a visit to the class in Week 7 and four foreign ministers in week 8.

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A New Age Of Marketing: How To Mix Traditional And Digital

YoungUpstarts

Marketing a brand or product can be a daunting task for the uninitiated. However, take a moment to think back to how the old guard used to handle it. Newspaper advertisements, billboards, phone books, radio—they always found a way to advertise even in an age where “digital” didn’t exist. Yes, there are arguments those methods are dead. There are people who are screaming about the death of traditional media — but that simply isn’t true.

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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 Recruiting Hacks to Help Startups Hire Top Talent

Up and Running

If you’re an entrepreneur or working in a startup, you’ve heard all the hype around the extravagant perks and benefits some companies, especially in the tech scene, are offering. Stories about companies with lots of ping pong tables, free yoga classes, gourmet chefs—it’s starting to feel like the TV series “Silicon Valley” is a little too much like the real-life Silicon Valley.

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Some of My Favorite Books in 2016

Feld Thoughts

Amazon is setting up Kindle bookshelves for some people, including me. If you want to see some of my favorite books from 2016 that I read on my Kindle, take a look at my Feld Thoughts 2016 Books. I log all the books I read (Kindle or physical) on my Goodreads page. Interestingly, Goodreads is also owned by Amazon. It’ll be fun to see if / how they ultimately integrate all this stuff.

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5 Business Tools Every Entrepreneur Needs Right Now!

YFS Magazine

The restaurant industry is extremely traditional, but the tech community has pushed me to embrace some cutting-edge technologies.

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You Need More Than An Idea To Start A Business

YoungUpstarts

An idea is where all business begins. But it’s not enough to have you take the first step on your journey to make it a reality. You’re going to need financing, momentum and the personal capital to get the ball rolling. Here, we’re going to look at the tools you use to acquire those: Have a goal. You might think that starting a business and selling goods or services is enough to get people on board.

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7 Tips To Convert Social And Press Mentions Into Sales

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When someone mentions your company in an online post, does it make a difference?

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Things You Will Need To Start A Career As An Uber BLACK Driver

YoungUpstarts

One of the toughest decisions that you will have to make in your life is in regards to the career that you will pursue. In order to pick the right career, you will have to take some time to do a bit of research. Among the best ways to make a living is as an Uber BLACK driver. By choosing this line of work, you will be able to provide transportation to the movers and shakers in an area.

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How To Become A Millionaire In Your 20s, 30s Or 40s

YFS Magazine

It's never too late to take the first steps toward being a millionaire.

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Compelling Reasons Why Your Business Needs A Mobile App

YoungUpstarts

In 2009, the Apple Corporation attracted international attention when it released advertisements featuring the tagline ”There’s an App for That.” The goal was to demonstrate how, no matter if you want to research information, play a game, or make a daily task simpler, there are mobile applications to help. A year later, the company even got the tagline trademarked, and by that time, people were well accustomed to using apps every day.

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UT Austin Professors Commercialize Technology to Detect Cancer, Etch Silicon Chips and Abate Underwater Noise

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News University of Texas at Austin Chemistry Professor Livia Eberlin is creating a better way for surgeons to rapidly perform and diagnose cancer biopsies. With a new pen-like medical device with a mass spectrometer, surgeons can extract molecules from tissue and test samples in real time. The sample […] The post UT Austin Professors Commercialize Technology to Detect Cancer, Etch Silicon Chips and Abate Underwater Noise appeared first on SiliconH

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Projecting Perfection: How To Present Your Business The Right Way

YoungUpstarts

Getting your approach to your business’s presentation right can be tricky. But it’s something that’s worth focusing on. That’s because the way your business is presented will have a huge impact on how people view it and judge it. So, you need to project a positive and perfect image to the world. If you can get this right impressing people and winning over clients will become much easier for you.

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Monday Motivation – When We Were Kids

Hearpreneur

Share. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. Remember when you were a kid and you could do anything in the world. We have been conditioned to think smaller to act with fear. Go back to when you were a kid and any and everything was possible. Don’t believe the mass thinking.

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From Lab Bench To Market Potential

YoungUpstarts

by Dr. Shawn Watson, Chief Executive Officer at Senescence Life Sciences. Healthcare companies typically face tougher challenges in their start-up years than those faced by their counterparts in other sectors, due to heavy up-front capital and, at times, lengthy high risk research. These trends usually mean that the founders of the company end up with lower amounts of equity and a more complex system of corporate governance when compared to other industries.

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Maybe you don’t know where the finish line is

Jeff Hilimire

“Nice guys finish first. If you don’t believe that, then you don’t know where the finish line is.” ~ Garry Shandling. It’s true. Whether or not nice guys finish last, or first, is all a matter of perspective on the finish line. Some of the most successful business people I’ve met are real a$$holes. But are they winning, really?

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BrewDog’s Secrets To Brewery Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

From starting the brilliantly bizarre cereal cafe craze to setting off the man bun revolution, hipsters are often given a hard time for their varied trends. But whilst we’re still not sure what the point of a rainbow bagel is, one thing is certain – where hipsters go, money follows. Just look at the rise of independent microbreweries. Craft beer started out as any another millennial fad until growing whispers and Instagram hashtags took the industry to a whole other level.

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Make a Donation to UVC

ithacaVC

Warning: this is a non-profit fund raising email! I am on the board of Upstate Venture Connect (UVC). UVC is a non-profit focused on helping build the upstate NY startup community. Among other things, UVC (i) connects people via events and newsletters, (ii) helps groups create seed/angel funds, which then invest in NYS companies, and (iii) maintains an ecosystem map and calendar.

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7 Reasons Every Startup Should Use A Booking Software

YoungUpstarts

Whether you’re planning to launch a startup soon or the dream has already begun to materialize into a busy endeavour, chances are you’ve considered upgrading or adding to your current software toolbox. Most of us already use some sort of calendar or scheduling app to keep our busy lives organized, but what about a booking software or service that will help your clients book their own appointments and service dates online?

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Young Mom's Dilemma

Transformify

“Back in college I always thought I would have a great career, I was very ambitious. I pursued a degree in Economics. But you know how it happens quite often. I met my husband, we got married and our first child was born shortly after. Now, I’m a mom of three. Our youngest is two, and older ones are 5 and 7. You can imagine it was quite difficult to pursue the career having to take care of the 3 kids.” Susan, as thousands of other young moms, put her dreams aside to be a good w

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Office Space: Five Ways To Choose The Perfect Premises For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

One of the most important things to consider when setting up a business is one of the premises. Precisely where will this business actually be based? If it’s a particularly small business or one that’s purely online, then you may be working from home. But for the majority of business, it’s pretty likely that you’ll need a dedicated space for it.

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Episode 123: Create a Profitable Crowdfunding Campaign with Ariel Hyatt

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. On this episode we interview Ariel Hyatt and the conversation is about how to run a profitable crowdfunding campaign. Ariel is the author of a book called a Crowdstart:The Ultimate Guide to a Powerful and Profitable Crowdfunding Campaign and shares the necessary elements in creating a campaign that will bring revenue and profit to the business.

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Five Lessons Founders Can Learn from Donald Trump

This is going to be BIG.

Honestly, it's difficult to think about anything else besides the election and this impending clown show of an administration these days--but I'd really like to get back to blogging about startups. Consider this post part of my own transition team of posts. While the country is far from a startup, founders find themselves as essentially newly hired CEOs with a lot of uncertainty surrounding them.

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