Tue.Aug 25, 2015

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Corporation or LLC? Business Organizations for Tech Startups.

YoungUpstarts

By Celina Kirchner, associate at Michelman & Robinson LLP. One of the first actions you will take with your startup is to organize your company a separate legal entity to protect yourself from personal liability for the company’s debts. In the tech startup context, you’ll typically choose between a Corporation and a Limited Liability Company (“LLC”).

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Robots and our jobs

deal architect

Nice, and fairly comprehensive research by Forrester analyst JP Gownder. I like his balanced tone, not the Chicken Little tone so many recent books have taken “We forecast that 16% of jobs will disappear due to automation technologies between now.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980’s. While I don’t know Jerry very well, I like him and thought his post was extremely detailed and thoughtful. However, there were some things in it that didn’t ring true for me. I sent out a few emails to mentors of mine who had been VCs in the 1980s.

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The Morning After

Both Sides of the Table

Last night I wrote a post about how the fall in the stock market over a 3-day period may affect the venture capital markets. If you’re an entrepreneur or VC who wants somebody else’s view on that you should read it. This morning the US stock markets are rallying. So now what? Let me give you the quick summary of what I said yesterday: Public markets affect venture funding.

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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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What You Can Learn About Digital Storytelling From The Van Gogh Museum

Brandanew

Earlier in May, I visited the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. It was an exceptional visit. It prompted me to visit Arles and St. Remy where Van Gogh lived and created his wonderful masterpieces. Brands that connect not only make us feel good in the moment, they also make us react emotionally. The Van Gogh museum has this effect on a lot of people who visit it- offline or online.

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Planning The Right Data Storage For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

It is not a secret that today’s modern businesses have become increasingly dependent on computers for running many different aspects of their day-to-day operations. One very important aspect of running a business which has been taken over by I.T is the gathering and storage of data; whether it is data linked to customers or to the company staffs itself.

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Making sense of the bubble talk and the impact on startups

The Equity Kicker

There’s a lot of contradictory advice out there at the moment. On the one hand you have the ‘entrepreneurs should just do their thing and not pay attention to the markets’ folk and then on the other hand there are plenty of observers saying that a bubble has burst. Many people I respect are in the former camp. Tomas Tunguz said it clearest with his recent post Why the bubble question doesn’t matter which lists the things good companies do and points out that they are the

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I Chose Collaboration Over Competition (And It Transformed My Business)

YFS Magazine

What is holding you back from creating a business and life you love? Is it competition over collaboration?

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Why Corporate Entrepreneurs are Extraordinary – the Rebel Alliance

Steve Blank

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. The biggest surprise for me was getting schooled on how extremely difficult it is to be an innovator inside a company of executors. —– What Have We Lost? I’ve been working with Richard, a mid-level executive in a large federal agency facing increasing external disruption (technology shifts, new competitors, asymmetric warfare , etc.).

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Favor Launches Internationally with Service in Canada

SiliconHills

Favor, an app-based delivery service, is going international with its first delivery service set to launch in Toronto, Canada on Thursday. And the Austin-based startup will rename itself Favour in Canada to adapt to the local culture and customs. It offers delivery daily from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. in most of the Toronto metro […] The post Favor Launches Internationally with Service in Canada appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How to Apply for a Federal Tax ID Number

Up and Running

A federal tax ID number is also known as an Employer Identification Number, or EIN. It’s a 9 digit number assigned to a business by the IRS. The US Internal Revenue Service uses these numbers to: Identify businesses located in the United States and its territories. Recognize a business for purposes of tax documentation. Identify what business employees filing taxes work for.

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Able Lands $6 Million in Venture Capital and Expands Nationwide

SiliconHills

Able, a non-bank commercial lender, Tuesday announced it has closed on $6 million in venture capital and plans to expand its services nationwide. Blumberg Capital and RPM Ventures led the round with participation from Peterson Partners and Expansion Ventures AngelList Syndicate. The Austin-based startup plans to use the money to begin offering loans in 40 […] The post Able Lands $6 Million in Venture Capital and Expands Nationwide appeared first on SiliconHills.

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25 Online Business Tools And Apps For High-Growth Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

Which online tools and apps help entrepreneurs work smarter and.

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Peter G James Sinclair: How To Use A Blog To Become A Speaker, Top Earning Coach And Land A $100,000 Book Deal

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Peter G James Sinclair, the founder of MotivationalMemo.com, a blog he created to help motivate others and also motivate himself, came into my world first as a member of my Membership Site Mastermind training I ran a. The post Peter G James Sinclair: How To Use A Blog To Become A Speaker, Top Earning Coach And Land A $100,000 Book Deal appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com. [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTune

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5 Easy Ways To Increase Facebook Group Engagement

YFS Magazine

Here are 5 ways to increase engagement in your Facebook group starting right now.

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Intel Seeks Inventors for New Reality TV Show with $1 Million Prize

SiliconHills

A new television series “America’s Greatest Makers” is looking for inventors, makers, designers and engineers who are creating the next big wearable or smart-connected device. The competition, backed by Intel, Turner Broadcasting Mark Burnett, the producer of “Shark Tank,” “Survivor” and “The Apprentice,” will award a $1 million grand prize and other prizes for the […] The post Intel Seeks Inventors for New Reality TV Show with $1 Milli

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User Experience Is The Only Experience That Matters

YoungUpstarts

by Q Manning , CEO of Rocksauce Studios. App and tech development can sometimes turn into an ego trip. Put a bunch of brilliant minds on a great idea, and they’ll continue to grow the product’s features to an unruly state. They forget that before a product can rake in the big bucks, it has to be something that consumers want to use. That means keeping things simple.

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The Single Most Potent Marketing Tactic of All

Duct Tape Marketing

The Single Most Potent Marketing Tactic of All written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. I get asked a simple, pointed question just about everywhere I go. What’s the number one thing I can do to grow my business right now. Yep, everyone wants one tactic they can employ to massively grow their business.

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7 steps to starting a company in 2 years for 20-year-olds

Jeff Hilimire

What would you do if you were a 20-year-old today that ultimately wanted to start his/her own business? I heard this question asked on a podcast I was listening to last week, and I started to think about how I would answer it. My own personal experience is that at 20 I was in college, playing tennis and spending every other free moment building websites.

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On Zirtual, the Market, and Back to the Future

Rob Go

It’s been an interesting few weeks in the startup world. The chatter around Zirtual quickly moved on to the market correction and general nervousness all around. During this time, I happened to catch the second half of Back To The Future II on TV (yes, I still watch normal TV now and then). This made me think of an analogy that Angus Davis shared at an Angel Investing event a few years back.

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3 Tips for Getting to Product/Market Fit

Early Growth Financial Services

This guest post was contributed by BJ Lackland, CEO of Lighter Capital. One of the hottest topics in the SaaS startup world is product/market fit. What is all this buzz around? In a nutshell, it is about one simple thing: making something people want. Making a product with robust market demand is critical when wooing VCs. After all, VCs are willing to bet on your company only if they foresee the potential for extraordinarily large returns—the kind you simply can’t generate for them unless

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On Zirtual, the Market, and Back to the Future

Rob Go

It’s been an interesting few weeks in the startup world. The chatter around Zirtual quickly moved on to the market correction and general nervousness all around. During this time, I happened to catch the second half of Back To The Future II on TV (yes, I still watch normal TV now and then). This made me think of an analogy that Angus Davis shared at an Angel Investing event a few years back.

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Hosted PBX, A Revelation In Telecommunications Technology

YoungUpstarts

Telephonic technology has gone several notches high with the arrival of Hosted PBX. This business telecommunication technology is gradually taking the world by storm. All kinds of business ranging from small to medium size can have an advanced telephone system. Hosted PBX solution is cost effective and more economical. It doesn’t involve large scale capital investment as in case with telephone equipment.

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Overcome Millennial Myths To Land Your First Job

YoungUpstarts

by Rose Ernst, national director of the G10 Associates program at Genesis10. Did you know that, as a member of the millennial generation (b. 1980-1997), you are now part of the largest generation in the workforce? By sheer number alone (55 million workers), you and your peers now exceed both Baby Boomers and Generation X in the US workplace. Which means that you are in a unique position to influence a major shift in the way we all work!