YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

by Bob Adams, serial entrepreneur and founder of BusinessTown.com. You might be thinking that a business plan doesn’t make any sense for your small new enterprise. After all you are not planning on trying to get even a bank loan, let alone venture capital. Isn’t that what business plans are really for anyway: raising money? No, the best purpose of a business plan is to help you and your team (if you have one) develop, refine and update your plan for the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Angel investors and venture capitalists don’t make equity investments in nonprofit good causes. The simple reason is that it’s impossible to make money for investors when the goal of the company is to not make money. Yet as an active angel investor, I still get this question on a regular basis, so I’ll try to outline the considerations in common-sense terms.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Capital investments are like gasoline on a startup business’s metaphorical fire. They allow you to hire more people, purchase new technology, and establish new business connections, among many other benefits. If you’re like most startup CEOs, your startup has been your personal fiefdom and baby. You make all the decisions, when you want, how you want.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Quantified Media is media agency creating opportunities for skilled graduates and professionals in the field of digital advertising and direct response marketing. Its office is located in Midtown in New York City and it is inviting applications from suitably qualified individuals with a passion for combining creativity and technology to create effective advertising campaigns.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In the global economy, activities surrounding logistics and transportation represent a huge sector. Indeed, the ways in which the L&T industry contributes to the modern world’s economic and social progression isn’t easy to adequately measure, let alone overstate. As seems to be the growing trend in the industrial world (and thankfully so), logistics companies are turning progressively “greener” in their activities, opting for electric trucks rather than standard diesel-powe

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

As a CTO, I can definitely say without a doubt that few people understand what a CTO does. When I tell someone I’m a CTO, I’m often met with a blank stare. Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles. A chief technology officer (CTO) is a C-suite executive who is focused on scientific and technological issues including web applications, mobile applications, electronic and digital media development.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Tackling the Sales Aspect of Being an Entrepreneur written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jim Brown. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Jim Brown, founder and host of SalesTuners. He and I discuss sales training and techniques. Brown has spent the last 10 years helping lead two companies from $1M to more than $10M and one from $1M in funding to $0.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

TrustRadius, founded in 2012, announced Wednesday it has raised $5.5 million in additional funding for its technology review platform. The Austin-based company reported LiveOak Venture Partners led the Series B round with participation from existing investor Mayfield. To date, TrustRadius has raised $13 million. In addition to the funding, the company added Bill Macaitis, former […].

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

In a field that strives itself on innovation and the progression of mankind, it severely lacks something that is arguably essential for progress in the workplace. Women. Estimates show that only about 14% of engineers in 2012 were women (Crawford) and that number hasn’t gone up far in recent years. Ever since the industrial revolution, more and more women have been trading in their baking pans for briefcases.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The tech industry is often associated with startup offices packed with young men in their twenties or thirties working long hours on the next Facebook or Google. Unfortunately, this perception is not necessarily misleading. A PWC research reveals that only 3% of the female students would consider a career in tech as their first choice. Why? A quarter of the participants stated that the industry is too male dominated.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

When most people think of work, they focus on earning enough to pay for all their living expenses. If they’re aspirational, they may think of it as a vehicle for creating a wonderful lifestyle. Still, few people think of work as an opportunity to be happy. Happiness is often considered something that occurs when you’re away from all the hassles of a job.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Transcript of Enhance Your Life With a Side Hustle written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: You know, in my podcast, I generally talk to entrepreneurs, but today I want to address those of you that are in a company, that are working in a job, and the need for a side hustle — not only the monetary aspect of a side hustle, but the confidence and the ability to really give you something maybe over and above what you’re getting

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Here are some tips on how to play the game, get ahead, and get funded. With the recent influx of startups, there is a lot of competition for venture capital funding. However, the majority of venture capital goes to men, with only 16.8% of global VC deals going to companies with at least one female founder. On top of this, only 2–3% of VC deals go to companies where the founder is a person of color.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Business productivity is all about having the right people, even though I’m bombarded daily with online tools and mobile apps that promise to solve every problem with automation and data. In reality, business success and satisfaction is about doing the right things at the right time, which requires leadership and coaching. But coaching doesn’t always work the way you expect.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

by David Tattersall, Head of Client Relations at Handpicked Accountants. The road to success as a startup company can be a rocky and ultimately insurmountable one for any number of reasons but poor financial management is certainly a common cause of crisis among fledgling businesses everywhere in the world. Here are some key areas of focus worth having in mind if you are running a startup company and aiming to strike the right balance between prudence and optimism when it comes to financial man

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

If you are in the startup ecosystem — or just a casual reader of tech sites — I’m sure that the majority of the fundraising stories you must have heard in past few months had a new term attached to them — ICO. The fundraising didn’t happen by selling out the equity of the company but by selling something called ‘tokens.’ It might be hard to believe for some, but companies have actually raised more money through ICOs than from VCs in 2017.

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For Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

As anyone involved with startups will tell you, focus is key to success. But, it can be very hard when there is a huge overload of topics clamoring for a startup CEO’s attention. In order to achieve the necessary focus and understand what you need to accomplish to ensure success/survival, you need to truly understand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Every so often a promising entrepreneur seems to freeze in the oncoming headlights and gets run over by his competition. Why is it that his idea which seemed so fundable only months ago fails to attract investors today? The team is the same. The company's market is the same. The only change might be a visible new competitor, or another economy downturn, resulting in investors holding their money, and that makes all the difference.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

by Uzair Khan, VP of Sales & Marketing at Enterprise Monkey. Wondering what your audience is glued to while you are busy using traditional advertising, core campaigning, and doing paid marketing for your products? Exactly where they need to be, on their smart screens scrolling some viral internet discussion. Social Media Listening, as the name says, is a technique through which you can listen (analyse) the social media platforms to gauze what people are talking about your brand, your produc

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

We often make assumptions about a tech company’s culture based on where it’s from. Valley startups are perceived differently from those in London, which are seen as different again from those founded in Amsterdam, Berlin or Paris. It’s not hard to find information about the competing merits of starting a business in different locations, and we assume that the surrounding culture of the tech hub becomes absorbed into the business itself.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

We are very happy to announce our investment in Manifold , the easiest way to find and manage essential developer services. . Manifold’s value proposition is to give developers a better way to find and manage all the various cloud services that can help them build and scale their applications. Today, you don’t need racks of servers and months of development time to add in ops like databases, email, or debugging.

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YFS Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The power of customer relationships shouldn't be underestimated, especially if you value customer loyalty, positive reviews and word-of-mouth advertising.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

by Esther Choy, author of “ Let the Story Do the Work: The Art of Storytelling for Business Success “ A few years ago, when I was attending a workshop on preparing elevator speeches, the facilitator asked, “How many of you would rather get poked in the eye than attend a networking event?”. I felt a rush of relief, because the facilitator had acknowledged how I sometimes react to networking.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

It’s hard to believe, but it’s been a bit over two years since Tim Devane joined us as a Principal at NextView. Tim joined our investment team as the first non-founder, and also as the first NextView team member based in our New York office. It’s not easy to pave a path with no one before you, but Tim has done just that and done it admirably.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Amy and I have been big supporters of a movie about immigration called For Here or To Go? With our friends at Boundless , we are sponsoring a week of screenings in Seattle. We are supplying a bunch of free tickets and – when they are used up – will still have a set of paid tickets available. It’s playing at the Landmark Theaters Crest Cinema Center from Friday 9/22 to Wednesday 9/27.

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Eric Friedman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

At the beginning of last year I jokingly said that one of my resolutions was to try to always be positive with startups I hear about. Fast forward to a year+ later and I am still sticking with this resolution – staying positive in a sea of what can sometimes seem like endless negativity. It has become all too common to quickly dismiss or make fun of the “new thing” and I wanted to stop the trend.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

by Dave Crenshaw, author of “ The Power of Having Fun: How Meaningful Breaks Help You Get More Done “ When it comes to having fun, how are you doing? It’s sort of an odd question, isn’t it? It’s certainly not the kind of question most would use to initiate conversations at parties. Having fun is more valuable to your life — and your career — than you likely realize.

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YFS Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Create an office space that conveys your culture. In turn, your team will feel better about coming to work and produce even better results.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

BY LAURA LOREK Publisher with Silicon Hills News From the outside, 500 W. 2nd street might look like any new skyscraper in downtown Austin. But inside, it’s got that Google flair with scooters in the lobby, a swing, balance boards, a ceiling made of recycled canoes, an Airstream trailer food truck, outdoor movie theater, dog […]. The post Google Unveils its new Office in Downtown Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Kauffman Fellows and Techstars are running another cycle of the Venture Deals course with me and Jason Mendelson. Signups close tomorrow as the course runs from 9/24/17 – 11/13/17. The course is free to everyone. The seven-week course, which is about five hours of work each week, has the following agenda. Week 1 – Introduction of key players/Form or join a team.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Have you ever been so against something that you just don’t want to change with the times? You have the way you perform a task, and you do not want to change because it is how it has always been done. Businesses feel the same way when new regulations occur asking for them to modify the way they have always done something. Why do they need to change their business practices when what they are doing is earning income and not hurting anyone?

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YFS Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Today, PR and SEO are two sides of the same coin. One depends on the other to spread content, drive branding, and of course, keep Google happy.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

We can all relate to rummaging through drawers or stacks of papers, looking for that one elusive item we need but just can’t remember where we placed. And as technology has evolved, so have our storage troubles. We no longer have only physical storage issues to contend with, but additionally, cyber junk drawers stuffed full of a mix of photos, important documents and all the other random odds and ends that get downloaded, shared, and squirreled away.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Being an entrepreneur or business owner has its share of ups and downs. While the downs can be pretty low the ups always seem to triumph for a true entrepreneur at heart. Milestones are what entrepreneurs and business owners work towards. Once you finally reach a certain point then reflection can truly begin. Finding enjoyment in running your business keeps it from becoming stale in the long run.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

If you are the proud owner of a brand new business, your first concern is to make a profit. To do this, you’ll need to know how to quickly and cost effectively advertise your business. The goal here will be to reach the largest possible audience in the shortest amount of time. In the old days, you were limited to advertising your business via the medium of radio, newspapers, or TV.

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YFS Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It takes more than a cool idea to make it in today’s startup world. For every success story, there are dozens of failed attempts.

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