Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I don’t have children yet but when I do, I know I’m going to want to make sure they’re intelligent, creative, compassionate, and self-confident—probably what every non-parent hopes for, right? Wishful thinking aside, I do still want to raise children who feel the world is their oyster. I don’t want to bring up ruthless little businessmen that hike drug prices 5,000 percent, but people more like Blake Mycoskie and Sanjit “Bunker” Roy who temper business smarts with a whole lot of compassion.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I review a lot of board decks with a beautifully hand-crafted page with metrics for the company. That makes me nervous. . I prefer to see a screenshot of an internal dashboard, not something created for the board, and I prefer to see that same dashboard in the same format at every meeting. The reason is that the real value of the board deck is not (ironically) for the board; it’s for management to track their own performance.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 16, 2015

During my visit to Singapore couple of months ago I noticed taxis had front and back cameras recording live video. Like police body cameras they provide a digital audit trail. Why do taxis around the world, I wondered, not have.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This past month at Brandanew has been more offline than online. We hosted our first digital marketing workshops in Ann Arbor, which were received wonderfully by the audience. Ann Arbor’s been a wonderful move for me and Brandanew. It’s a city full of academics, interesting people and creatives working towards business success. I meet many people with new ideas.

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

by Stan Huser, founder of SunDocumentFilings. Are you hiding behind your website? In the rush to start a home-based business, many entrepreneurs forget the legal issues required to do business. Even if you aren’t a corporation or an LLC, your state government may have rules about what business name you can use. If your name is John Smith and you run a business called Smith House Painters , then you’re using a business alias (also known as a “trade name”).

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I was surprised to read this morning that Waterstones, the UK’s largest chain of bookstores, is undergoing a resurgence. At a time when all their competitors and brethren around the world are going bankrupt they have posted a profit for the first time since the financial crisis and are opening new stores. There’s lots of things I love about this story.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I don’t care what your skills are. If you don’t give a s**t, it will be reflected in what you do. And I, your employer, will lose. I could give a s**t about your skills, if you care tremendously about your work. It will be reflected in what you do. And I, your employer, will win.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This weekend, the youth soccer team I coach suffered a heart-breaking loss in our league’s championship game. In addition to losing the game in its final moments, to add insult to injury, we did so on an incorrectly called penalty kick! The loss was emotionally hard on our players, parents, and on me as the coach, as we all played back in our minds and in conversation how things could and should have gone differently and of the unfairness of sports where luck and circumstance often play outsized

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2015

When you keep company culture central during growth periods, good work and better employee engagement follows.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 16, 2015

RetailMeNot, the world’s biggest online deal site, brought a lot of Christmas joy to the 73 residents of Coupon, Pennsylvania. The Austin-based company gave the town a surprise recently. RetailMeNot collected the Christmas wish lists of people from the town of Coupon. But they weren’t wishes for themselves. They were presents for their neighbors.

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Recently I was meeting with one of the great Atlanta entrepreneurs, and personal friend and mentor, Charles Brewer , and as always I was trying to soak up as much of his knowledge as I could. The way he built MindSpring, by starting with values before he even had an idea for what the company would be, is as inspiring a startup story as I’ve ever heard.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Chiron Health, which provides telemedicine healthcare consultation for doctors with patients remotely over the Internet, announced Wednesday it has raised $2.3 million in seed stage funding. The Austin-based company also released its iPhone and iPad app for patients. “The telemedicine industry has been experiencing enormous growth over the last 12 months, and video visits are […] The post Chiron Health Raises $2.3 Million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The Secret to Building High Quality Links written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch. Today I am doing a solo episode about link building. No matter what Google tries to do to devalue backlinks, they still remain an important factor in your ranking. Getting high quality backlinks to your content is one of the more important factors is getting your content to rank.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Heat maps are a popular conversion optimization tool , but what good are they really? It’s easy to say that they help you to see what users are doing on your site. Sure, of course – but lots of other methods do that too, and perhaps with greater accuracy. So how are heat maps useful in the pursuit of higher conversion rates? What is a Heat Map?

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Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS) is pleased to announce the latest addition to its full-service tax department, Chief Tax Officer Anjum Tunuli. Under Tunuli’s direction, the tax practice of EGFS will continue its commitment to providing tax services and consulting to individuals, small businesses and venture-backed startup companies in a variety of industries.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. If you don’t know what this is, let’s work with the simple Wikipedia definition which is pretty good. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

By Will Reynolds, CEO of SecureDocs. 2015 has been a great year for SMBs with a strong US economy, relatively easy access to capital and a seemingly endless demand for new technology, apps, devices, medicines and innovative services. Here are some broad predictions to consider as you navigate your SMB business into the new year: 1. New sources of funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Boy wearing Oculus Rift via Wikipedia As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. In reality, crowdfunding has become a major startup funding vehicle, with an estimated contribution of $30 billion in 2015, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

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