Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2017

Before you start worrying about a candidate sourcing strategy or hiring your first employee, you need to have a little understanding of payroll. At Patriot Software , we’re payroll experts, so check out the links throughout this article for more detailed information from us on the various aspects of setting up your payroll.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2017

In 2014, Seth, Jason, Ryan, and I had the first of many conversations about our long-term plans for Foundry Group. The conversation that we started in 2014 has continued on a regular basis, both formally at our quarterly off-sites but also pretty much every time the four of us were together.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2017

Here are 5 things you need to know before you invest a single cent into the property market: #1 Property Tech Is Exists and You Need to Know About It. This leads us to our third point: #3 If You’re Not Working with an Expert, You’re Losing Out. And the best way to do that is to consult people who already know how to do it.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2017

Ten zillion words have been written about Net Neutrality. Help us send a message from startups and entrepreneurs that his rumored action to undermine net neutrality is not ok. The post Support Startups for Net Neutrality appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 18, 2017

If you’re a founder, data scientist, engineer, product or growth leader who is curious about how you can leverage data science to build a marketplace, this is the event for you! If you’re interested, please email us with the subject line “Marketplace Meetup” and we will send you an invitation. Hope that you can join us!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2017

The happiest of all people are those who have reached the point at which they no longer worry about money. For many, health is only a “deficiency need,” meaning you don’t think much about it until you are deprived of it. But the wonderful thing about self-actualization needs is that they never need to be completely satisfied.

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Up and Running

APRIL 19, 2017

Our comprehensive overview of the sales forecasting process offers an explanation of why sales forecasting is essential, gives examples, and offers helpful insights into how to forecast sales within your own business (hint: it isn’t about predicting the future). Don’t Want to Plan? Just Do a Sales Forecast.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2017

There are a number of notable conferences that happen across the US & Canada each year, but you want to make sure you pick the right ones for you so that you can gain the most out of each trip. Some of the tips really surprised us, so we hope they are able to help you in upping your game at each conference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

First of all, the glory days of “dot.coms” are gone, when investors “didn’t care” about profitability, and all the big money was focused on user count growth. But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” So let’s take a look. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2017

Businesses talk to customers about how they can better meet their needs and customers reach out to the business when their needs are not met. I admit, a lot of people started using my product because it was the cheapest option available to them. In fact, write about other businesses in your cluster. So why don’t we talk anymore?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2017

At its core, AREA as a process can be boiled down to four simple steps that you can use immediately to help you make smarter, better decisions when you’re facing a complex problem that you need to solve: Recognize that research is a fundamental part of decision making. Break down your research so it’s manageable and organized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2017

Equally often, I see startups who are on the road to implementing an idea, but haven’t figured out what problem it solves – the business plan waxes on eloquently for 20 pages about how great this product and technology is, but never gets around to defining the problem (investors call this the “solution looking for a problem” syndrome).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2017

When most of us imagine applying for a business loan, we probably think of driving down to the local bank where we’ve done business for years, speaking with a loan officer, and going through the loan application process with that known and trusted lender. Here’s the formula to use: 4. by Meredith Wood, Editor-in-Chief at Fundera.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 19, 2017

We live in our home and the guests stay with us. In fact, we have been able to build up an emergency household fund to help us when we have home repairs and other needs for our house. Here is my testimony in support of HB2551 from April 18, 2017. Members of the committee, My name is Josh Margolis.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 20, 2017

Lots has been written about why he is successful, mostly focused on his drive, vision, tenacity, resilience and intelligence, but I happened on a post morning which highlighted something that was new for me. Fortunately Sims spells it out for us. I’ve even read his biography , not something I’ve done for many people.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

There will also be opportunities as mentioned above to work with the selected project teams and likely some effort needed in collaborating with colleagues in the field, end users and community members, and even the larger international US Ignite network. What are the benefits of being a Challenge Sponsor?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 16, 2017

Thank you for reading and if you haven’t contributed before, please think about what you might be able to write! Help us spread the word by retweeting the stories and looking out for other great Medium stories we should include! There are more than 6,000 subscribers on Medium and 9,500 followers on Twitter.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 20, 2017

Remember, success is not about luck. Brain fog is one of the most irritating things when working and many of us find it reduces concentration and productivity levels. These milestones help you stay on track; so, it is important that each milestone is attainable, yet difficult enough to stretch you and make you work hard to reach them.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

It’s a great conference with about 150 attendees for the “Starter Edition” -- lots of online course creators, info product folks, SaaS people, and others. Having started and sold 3 successful bootstrapped businesses, and am now running 1 venture capital backed business ( Coach ), this is a topic I know a thing or two about.

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Hippoland

APRIL 16, 2017

I was moderating a VC panel a couple of weeks back, and we talked about the best way to get an investor’s attention. And the more I thought about it, the more I disagree. A strong elevator pitch will cover something unique about you / your story / any KPIs or metrics you may have / why what you’re doing is important.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2017

I think we talked about “ Best Practices are Stupid ” – a fairly relatively new book for him, and today we’re going to talk about something that is a book and a concept and some tools that are called “ Personality Poker ”. So, if you think about the workplace, we tend to want to surround ourselves with people who are similar to us.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 16, 2017

GPS enabled bikes The first thing I was curious about is how many of the BCycle bikes had GPS trackers. Fortunately for us, the GPS trips data includes position reported at approximately 5 second intervals. As in previous articles, all the code and Jupyter notebooks can be found on my Github.

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Rob Go

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s great that some of these firms are thinking about how innovation and technology will impact us in 10+ years instead of just the milestones needed to raise the next round in 12 months. Many of these funds have a focus on the long-view of innovation. We live in a time full of promise.

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