Up and Running

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We also spoke with small business owners who have used each service to learn more about their experiences. Choose from four packages: Bronze (creative design on a budget): US$299. Silver (best value for money): US$499. Silver (best value for money): US$499. Gold (attract expert designers): US$799.

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Lilia Stoyanova, CEO and Co-Founder of Transformify: “I’m very excited about our partnership as we’ll be able to offer remote job opportunities to Laboratoria’s students. They will have a chance to use their skills to land a job with one of our customers, based on 4 continents.

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America Technical Review Peru Chile 68

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

I am aghast that as a country we could elect a person who said such terrible things about women and minorities and who seems to be intolerant to those who don’t share the same religion or sexuality as him. he cares deeply about people, is the kindest person i know, and doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. We all know that.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Here are ten key tips, from us at Terapeak , to help small-to-medium sized sellers who fulfill their own orders to make the most of the coming holiday shopping season — and to avoid losing their minds while doing so: 1. If you rely on staff, ensure that they’re forewarned about the need to work on the weekend following the U.S.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

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. Use Glassdoor to find employee pain points. Oftentimes, they’ll go there to complain about the worst points of the job.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any job they have had. HD Carolina produces and publishes short videos about Fun and Interesting Things to See and do in the Carolinas. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Too often in government, problems are talked about in generalizations, users are not part of the design and development of solutions, and anecdotal information gets passed around without data to validate it until at some point it becomes “truth” and is accepted without verification.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Too often in government, problems are talked about in generalizations, users are not part of the design and development of solutions, and anecdotal information gets passed around without data to validate it until at some point it becomes “truth” and is accepted without verification.

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

On Tuesday, the US will learn about its next President. While the next POTUS will inherit a number of challenges, one particularly vexing one will be about the growing pessimism about automation destroying tens of millions of jobs and a.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

I talked about it with a few people. One brought up #blacklivesmatter and while I hope some important issues were highlighted, I really don't see these platforms bringing about positive change in the real world. I retweeted and liked things I cared about, but I can't say they led me to take much in the way of real action.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

but that, “The big things he’s right about” and Thiel continued to publicly support the unsupportable. You don’t get to be “right” about policy issues when you have been a race-baiting, misogynistic, intolerant demagogue. Or how about if we take what Trump actually says , Peter? You don’t get to create a division between the 3.3

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

We seek to grab your attention, hold it there for as long as we can, and leave you so satisfied that you’d give us a standing ovation – or sign your cheque book! We only see what is lit, and forget about everything else. 2 Use Motion to Grab Attention. Are there other tricks that you can think of which magicians can teach us?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In the last few years, I’ve heard more and more about a new type of small business, called a “micro-business” (or micro-enterprise). According to the Voice of Microenterprise (AEO) website, if one in three micro-enterprises in the United States hired an additional employee, the US would soon be at full employment.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

After all, what better way to celebrate the milestone than with a history-making AND historical show about the founding of our country – told via infectious hip-hop by a Latino and African American cast. All of us have to stop pushing away what we don’t understand, and it’s not easy. When did it come to this?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

A top lesson I learned very quickly about my first day of business is that empty spaces are foreboding,” says Eran Eyal of Springleap. Look to your close circle and incentivize them to help you look busy by either physically milling about or—if the event is virtual—commenting. Don’t worry about the overhead costs,” he says.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Richard Branson is one of the greatest tech & business minds of our time and I believe that even at this stage of my business, he’d have some powerful guidance and advice to potentially push us to the next level. I work on it for about 14 hours per day, thanks to this guy. He is THE motivation that I need daily. 10 – Jack Ma.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

My partner Seth sent out an email to our CEO list this morning titled Taking a deep breath after we received several emails from CEOs with questions along the lines of “how should we think about the result of the election / what should we do?” For many of you, as well as for us, it was a deeply disappointing night.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

When you hear “brand marketing,” what do you think about? She shares how brand marketing is really sales at scale, and helps us understand how to think about this approach to distribution and communication for young companies. Maybe big brands, big budgets, or even big wastes of money and time as a startup, right?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

You’ll still need to do the same types of conversion research, persona building, and experimentation that is common across conversion optimization, but let’s talk a bit about how and why B2B is different. Think about it this way: in B2B, sometimes optimizing means aiming for less leads. It’s called Optimizing for B2B.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

At Suu Balm ™, it was crucial for us to first develop an innovative offering with a strong, local foothold before taking our brand and product beyond the shores of the little red dot. Tip 2: Push hard on the art of the possible, be brutally honest about ability to execute. Tip 3: Manage internal efficiencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

He used the Central Park Five to differentiate himself from his political opponent. We elected a man who denied that Barack Obama was born in the US and then when confronted with this racial trope turned and blamed it on Hillary Clinton. He stoked support for solutions inconsistent with the law.” Vox did a good job of describing this.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

by Jeremy Cage, President of The Cage Group and author of “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work “ Most of us will die full of potential – and that includes businesses as well as people. The First Rung: Think About It. The Top Rung: Get Others Talking About It. JFK was a master at this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I like the authors’ outline of four major trends which shape the new pattern for making good business decisions: The recognition that “none of us is as smart as all of us.” The role of the leader in creating organizational judgment is often first about reframing decisions as not their own exclusively.

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

And the US needs a strong and vocal counterbalance to the hate and bigotry we just empowered. For many of you, as well as for us, it was a deeply disappointing night. And it’s easy to wake up today with a sense of fear and foreboding about the future of our country. That’s understandable.

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America Community Employee Cost 93

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

We also rightly have deep anxiety about the election results on Tuesday. We are all heavily influenced by the modeling our parents, siblings, friends and elders do for us growing up. I was thinking about this when I read this excellent post by Nicholas Kristof in today’s NY Times in which he endorsed Hillary for her strengths.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

You shouldn’t’ need us to tell you about the threat of data theft these days. It could be personal details about customers, or credit and debit card information. Or what about a fire? Of course, one of the major issues about big data is its size. And it should worry you. Overloading.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Basically, VCs told us that they were going to wait and see how the election turned out--and things didn't really thaw out until the following September. Here's what I would suggest: 1) Reassure your teams about your mission. If you felt good about what you were doing at your company yesterday, you should feel good about it today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Leadership is not about how well you give orders as the boss – it’s much more about what you do than what you say. Leadership is all about highlighting positives, rather than punishing negatives among team members. Some of these behaviors slip out of all of us in extreme environments.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Don’t assume you understand the customer/partner motivations and what they value most about the product/service. By aggressively communicating with customers and partners, it also level-sets their knowledge and expectations about the product/service. Customer and partner communications, education, and expectation setting is critical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

I found his observations, like the following, to be inspirational for those of us chasing an entrepreneurial dream: It’s all about the people. According to an MIT study a while back, only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Want to learn more about market research and find out how to conduct market research for your business? If you’re new to the topic of market research, read this article first. , the different types of market research, and useful resources you can use to start the research process. Market research resources.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

By Mario Moussa and Derek Newberry, authors of “ Committed Teams: Three Steps to Inspiring Passion and Performance “ If you want to learn invaluable lessons about leading people, you don’t need to look any further than Bruce Springsteen’s recently published memoir, “ Born to Run “ This is a rock star with substance.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Allaire was eating our lunch on.Form, a company called eShare was picking us apart on.Thread, and this new company called WebTrends was torturing us on.Analysis. We chose net.Analysis and went about selling the other two products to different companies. Work does not have to destroy us.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Some of us are simply born with the entrepreneurial mindset. Here are the 4 things that are stopping you from starting your business, and what you can do about them: An Idea. If you’re truly passionate about your product, you’ll have no problem finding ways to get it in front of the eyes of people who could use it.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Mark wrote an incredibly detailed post about the experience. Everyone wrote about the same day (we were all together) if you want to triangulate on the experience. ” The exercise lasted about an hour and was just before lunch. Cat ended by reminding us that the dominant emotion we should be carrying is empathy.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The best we can do is form an opinion based on the facts in front of us and then have the courage to act on that opinion. This last part is tricky because it requires us to park our ego on the side of the road at a time when we’re already feeling bad about our wasted work and the lost opportunity.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

When it comes to managing your financial life, not many get excited about the big, bad “B” word – budgeting, that is. It allows us to have more control over our lives in a variety of ways, including managing finances in an intelligent way. Letting Tech Lend a Hand. Generally speaking, technology is a beautiful thing.

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