Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. The reality of most startups is about survival. And because running a company requires money to fuel staff and offices and acquire customers and the like, much of the time spent in early days at a start feels l

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2015

by Gaurav Sharma, a founder of Antipull and digital strategist at Nine Hertz. In this era, mobile applications have almost replaced the use of desktop versions. As mobile apps can be accessed anytime at anywhere, people feel more convenient with apps instead of waiting to load for a whole website. According to the recent statistics, the number of mobile apps in Android and iOS has crossed over 1.6 and 1.5 million respectively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Great technology leads to innovative solutions that are possible, but not necessarily great businesses. Rube Goldberg illustrated this principle many years ago in cartoons, but I still find inventors that are creating solutions today looking for a problem. In addition, every solution has to fit into the current political, cultural and economic environment to make it a viable business.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Second of year-end posts I am running this week. Yesterday I wrote about enterprise software trends. To me 2015 was about how three A’s – Amazon, Analog, and Automation – are changing the outsourcing landscape, and looking forward, how these.

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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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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Looking at the bottom row of my iPad’s homescreen (which is essentially my laptop’s desktop, since the iPad Pro has replaced my laptop ), you get a sense of the things that I check on a regular basis to absorb the news. I referenced the many ways I receive content to read on a daily basis back in September, but the iPad has changed a few of those habits.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 28, 2015

For small businesses and startups, SEO can be a tough game to play. When companies compete against larger, better-funded competitors with sophisticated SEO strategy, it can take several months, if not years, to challenge them for search engine visibility. One way to accelerate SEO is to fully leverage the social media potential. Here are the five best ways to boost SEO through social media.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Third of year-end posts I am running this week. The other two were about enterprise software and outsourcing trends. I recently saw The Big Short. Well done, actually funny, adaptation of the book. With so many things in the movie.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 30, 2015

By Michael Chotiner. Getting a new car or truck every two or three years used to be emblematic of prosperity — a status symbol of personal and business success. Status aside, in the 20th century it might have made sense to get a new vehicle every few years when you calculated car payments versus the cost of reliability risks and repair expenses. That was then, this is now.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Happy New Year To YOU! Dear Brandanew readers , It has been a wonderful year, and looking back at the year gone by, we feel grateful for your support and interest. It’s time to say Happy New Year! We thank you for your persistence in allowing us to create wonderful new things through this year, and challenging us for pushing the envelope ahead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Does it really take a few flaws to make a great entrepreneur, or are the rest of us just confused about what a perfect business person is all about? In the past I’ve written about the positive attributes of great entrepreneurs , so this time I thought I would focus on the negatives that I see often, and I challenge you to find someone that has all the positives and none of the negatives.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 29, 2015

First of year-end posts I will run over the next few days. This time of the year, my wife Margaret likes to take the family to the Caribbean, usually on a cruise. The island breezes are gentle, the rainbows at.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2015

by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, authors of “ The Entrepreneurial Culture: 23 Ways To Engage and Empower Your People “ and “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “. Firing a client is one of the most difficult decisions a business owner will ever make. And when push comes to shove, few actually do the deed. First of all, firing clients goes against everything a business owner knows.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 27, 2015

I’m three days into trying to figure out the best way to deal with our large collection of digital photos that have accumulated since 2000. When I started (on Christmas Day – I figured it was a one day project) Picasa said we had around 35,000 photos. After several different clean up approaches, we now have about 15,000. That’s the power of Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro which has been probably the cleanest and most straightforward part of this whole exercise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Can you imagine an entrepreneur who is actually afraid of success? None will ever admit it openly, but I’m a strong believer that actions or lack of action speaks louder than words. In my years of advising startups, I’ve seen too many cases of seemingly irrational actions, or just freezing with that “deer in the headlights” look when it’s time to make a critical move.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 29, 2015

I went looking for the video clip of Tamir Rice running around with a toy gun. I hadn't seen it before the trial verdict. I have to admit, my first reaction was, "Jeez, that's hard. It really does look like he has a real gun." Then I saw a tweet from a white friend of mine about how he used to play with guns as a kid, too. I had forgotten about it, but so did I.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Business owners and managers understand how critical the benefits of a highly skilled and educated workforce are, and you may be wondering what it takes to attract the cream of the crop to your business. While a competitive salary can go a long way to encourage the prime candidates to join your workforce, there are other benefits that can swing their favor in your direction.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

From the comments, tweets, and emails I got on yesterday’s post My Travels In Digital Photo Organizing Hell it appears I have a common problem. Basically, the existing photo approaches – in general – have created a massive mess. Apple and Google have just made this worse by continuously changing their underlying tools and approaches.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 26, 2015

As new ways of work are evolving, such as the adoption of cross-functional teams, and distributed/virtual work environments, companies need to find new ways to manage employee performance. For nearly everyone working today, annual employee evaluations are as status quo as coffee breaks and bi-weekly paychecks (direct deposited of course). But have you ever wondered what incited this practice in the first place?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2015

When raising your first round of capital, there are a few common mistakes many entrepreneurs make. To help you become a savvy founder (and avoid these mistakes), we asked nine successful entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council to talk with us about the mistakes they’d made in the past, and to give a bit of advice on how others can avoid doing the same. 1.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

When you have an idea for a business, it’s often best to run with the idea to see if it will take off. By using a few simple tips, you can make sure that your business is a success. Don’t quit your current job before seeing that you can make a profit from your business idea as you might find that it will take some time to build a customer base.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Building a brand is an investment. We’ve all been there, most brands don’t start with investors and I personally, am not rich. But I did have a plan.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Amy and I take an annual one month sabbatical completely off the grid. This is something that each of my partners and their families also do – we rotate throughout the year and the other partners completely cover for whomever is on sabbatical. Based on the experience of the past two years, this has had a dramatic positive impact on our lives, our relationship with our families, our mental health, and our longevity in our business.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Apparently content is King. Well, hopefully I can present some evidence which might help you open your mind to who the real king is, and I’m saying it is distribution. I’ve had this contention for some time, and while amazing content can ride the sharing train and be crowned in the online kingdom, the big D of Distribution still determines who wins and loses when it comes to the commercial market.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2015

As a Singapore-based small or medium enterprise (SME), you probably have already realised that the local market may just be a little too small for your business ambitions. But even going regional can be challenging, much less going global. If you’re looking for help in that area, you may want to check out “ Go Global “, an industry initiative by Google and Singapore trade authorities SPRING Singapore and IE Singapore along with seven other partners to look at providing SMEs in

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I speak to many entrepreneurs and one particular skill that seems to be missing from a majority of young entrepreneurs is their ability to integrate fun into the daily grind.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 26, 2015

When I played tennis as a teenager, I remember reading The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by Tim Gallwey. Near the end of my recent sabbatical + birthday vacation, after almost seven weeks of tennis where I played at least five days a week, I decided to read it again. It held up. Written in 1974, Gallwey uses the concept of Self 1 (the thinking part) and Self 2 (the feeling / doing part).

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2015

We think of media advertising as either paid or free – placed by paying a fee or by a PR firm or by you at no placement cost, especially when you provide editorial content beneficial to the publisher. But this new era of Internet advertising has given rise to two more forms you should know and use in addition to the two traditional types above. Owned media comes from the databases you own, such as your company’s web site, email.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Inbound marketing service provider HubSpot recently released its first ever State of Inbound Report for Asia – which surveyed some 400 marketing and sales professionals at virtually all levels and across all industries in Asia to compile some of the most comprehensive analysis on online marketing in this part of the world. According to the study, 3 out of 4 marketers in Asia use mostly inbound strategy, such as SEO, content creation, social media, and lead generation to drive ROI.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The holiday season is a joyous time of year that sends entrepreneurs around the world into a frenzy. If you’re anything like me, every year you've put off more than a little self-care just to keep up with the pace.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Applying for a small business loan can be a time-consuming and stressful process. Many business owners want to know their chances of getting approved (or that they even stand a chance) before investing their time into searching and applying for loans. So, what are your chances? Lending is never black or white, so it’s very hard for a business owner to find a concrete answer; the best way to know is to apply.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Defaults are powerful, often deceivingly so. Even if you don’t put much thought into it, you’re nudging your users to act in a certain way. It’s up to you, then, to make sure that you’re nudging them to the best possible action for your company and themselves. What Is a Default? When two or more choices are given for a feature, a default is the option that is automatically assigned by the company or maker.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Looking back at 2015, Austin’s technology industry had a really good year. It was a year filled with big acquisitions, the largest of which was Dell’s offer to buy EMC Corp. In addition, lots of interesting developments like Google’s autonomous cars testing on the streets of Austin continued to showcase the city’s innovative backbone.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Out of everything we’ve published in 2015, there were some articles that truly connected with readers across the world. Here’s a look at the 20 most read stories we published in 2015.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 26, 2015

In the wake of NYTimes getting some critical facts wrong about Facebook and terrorism, Dan Gillmor calls on news organizations to adopt the principle of “ it’s ok to out your anonymous source if it turns out they were lying ” [note it’s not clear that the NYTimes was lied to, rather they blame it on their source not having deep understanding of social media and bad reporting].

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 1, 2016

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Jay Jay, my special guest for this podcast, also happens to be a close friend. We’ve spent countless hours hanging out in our original home town of Brisbane Australia, talking everything from business, dating, to travel and. The post Jay Jay: Professional Magician Takes His Skill Online, Attracts 40 Million Views On YouTube And Makes $100,000+ Selling Magic Courses appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com. [ Dow

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 29, 2015

A couple of years back I was enamoured with the idea of reputation and the reputation economy. I even came close to joining a startup focused on reputation but am glad I didn't. I even had an idea to start my own business around the management of online reputation. Unfortunately, I don't believe that the evolution of our online behaviour is healthy when it comes to reputation.

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