YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

by Nate Vickery, editor-in-chief of Bizzmarkblog.com. Starting up a business is an enormous and serious task that will most definitely pose many challenges along the way. The whole process is a continuum, so it is of high importance to do it well and know where to start. The competition is fierce and with the constant development of technology and social media advances, everything has become bigger, better and faster.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

At the outset, it is worth noting that when it comes to the world of venture funding, I am a bit of an outsider. Until a handful of years ago, I didn’t even know what venture capital was, let alone anything about the complicated process of actually acquiring VC funding. I don’t know this world on an intimate, personal level. I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Ukraine is a country rich in talents in the technology industry. The number of startups that has sprung in the country in the last decade is beyond expectations. Most of the startups in the tech industry, however, are centered around software. It is understandable since software development requires less time and fewer resources (particularly financial ones) than prototyping a piece of hardware.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Opportunity for City Council to support tech-forward means of addressing affordability challenges On Thursday, September 7, Austin City Council will meet to discuss potential amendments to the city’s proposed budget. Two proposed amendments would provide funding for the City of Austin to help develop the Affordable Housing Solutions App: an Austin-born application with the goal of allowing residents to search for available affordable housing units based on their family’s needs, including proximi

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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 5, 2017

by Trevor Throness , author of “ The Power of People Skills: How to Eliminate 90% of Your HR Problems and Dramatically Increase Team and Company Morale and Performance “ Let me take a moment to smash a myth that has been embraced by millions of young people throughout North America. It has become the watchword of a generation; a sacred cow; a touchstone of our whole society: You can be anything you want to be!

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Transcript of The Hidden Personality Types That Drive Everything We Do written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Let me ask you something. How do you handle expectations? What’s your tendency when expectations arise, when you set goals, when you have objectives, when people ask you to do things?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In the beginning all businesses are just people playing out an idea. It’s never the other way around – there is no idea so big that it doesn’t need people to make it succeed. Investors know this, hence the saying “Bet on the jockey (founder), not the horse (idea).” A great jockey is a great role model. Like it or not, everyone looks to the entrepreneur as the jockey role model in a new business.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

by Jessica Mendiola, Audit Manager at Sensiba San Filippo. We are living in an age of convenience — a time where just about anything can be ordered online and delivered straight to your doorstep. As more consumers choose the convenience of online outlets over instore retailers, manufacturers are flocking toward selling their products on an easy-to-use online platform.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

People still think of Rimini as a cut rate, third party maintenance provider for on-premise Oracle, SAP, IBM and Microsoft software. That was Rimini 1.0. In a talk series I did with them last year, I saw Rimini 2.0. Because.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

We have provided premium IT services of all sorts to a range of SMEs for many years. We’ve learned a great deal about broadband in that time; here are our best pieces of advice on the subject: 1) Check Your Provider’s Offerings. Technology is always improving, but a lot of broadband service providers don’t go out of their way to deliver the full benefits of those improvements to their clients.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

On the podcast today, NextView cofounder Rob Go sits down with Andy Rachleff, VC veteran and the president, CEO, and executive chairman of Wealthfront. They talk about how Andy came up with the term product-market fit, how he applied his own lessons (and updated them) in building Wealthfront, and the mental models founders can use to unlock their real unfair advantage in a tactics-obsessed world: how you think.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

by Lauren Ruef, Research Analyst for Nvoicepay . Flow state, the brainchild of Hungarian psychologist and positive psychology researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, is a laser-like state of focus achieved by those at the peak of their ability. A runner hitting his stride on a forest trail, body and breath in rhythmic unison, is in flow state. An artist uninterrupted in her studio, scattering paint on a canvas and creating dimension with backhand sweeps of vibrant color is in flow state.

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

We live in troubled times. They call for principled leadership, standing up for values, and for ignoring our darker angels. Whether that was the intention of SuccessConnect or not, I certainly walked away from the event with that message. Rob.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. But startups need to remember that even zero paid media doesn’t mean that marketing is free.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Ted Rheingold just passed away. He was an amazing guy beloved by many. Endlessly joyful, inspiring, and loving. His autoresponder (typos and all) is one for the books, and like great poetry, worth reading over and over. My cancer (ccRCC, metastic) has gotten the upper hand and I’ll be. putting all my resources into managing it. In my stread, please keep these very important messages in place: * be good to each other. * enjoy evert day. * wanting is suffering. * The journey is still the des

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

by Paul Towers, founder & CEO of Task Pigeon. Investing in startups is a lot more than just buying “stock” in a company. For investors who have come to the table with a history investing in publicly listed companies or the property market, it’s easy to think that backing startups is largely a “set and forget” strategy. For startup founders and CEO’s it’s also just as common to see them place too much focus on the amount of money raised, and the pre-money valuation, rather than the value tha

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

When I started my healthy snacks startup five years ago, I knew I would have to juggle a lot of balls at the same time to make it successful. I would have to make terrific hiring decisions, line up top suppliers to buy the choicest ingredients for our snack bars that we would produce, buy the best manufacturing equipment we could find to ensure product quality and shelf life, create a network to distribute and sell our products, and figure out the best way to promote it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

In my role as advisor to small businesses, I often think of the old joke, “In a bacon-and-egg breakfast, the chicken is very involved, but the pig is committed.” Some business owners claim to be committed, but seem quick to look to someone else to make the hard decisions, or some external factor to blame for challenges. On the road to success, the buck always stops with you.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

This week marks my fourth year at Version One. And to celebrate, I want to share the story of my interviews with Boris, my first endeavour to build a sourcing model, and his incredible leap of faith. In the summer of 2013, I was introduced to Boris by a fellow Canadian, Brendan Baker. I had met Brendan that past Spring when I had just left Insight Data Science and he was at Greylock Partners.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The success of a business encompasses more than just the financial data that acts as proof of its success. Products and profits don’t paint the whole picture, it takes more and many of the measures of success go beyond financial matters. However, the social impact a business has on a community can affect the bottom line of a business and much more.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

An elevator speech is a 30- to 60-second answer to the question, “So, what do you do?” It’s a quick summary of your business and its value proposition. A great elevator speech will spark interest in your business and hopefully lead to a deeper conversation. Elevator speeches are a great opportunity for entrepreneurs. Whether you’re at a party, at a networking event for startups, giving a quick overview to a potential investor, or just meeting new people, a solid elevator speech is your chance to

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes it comes right back to the founder, in terms of a malaise often called “founder’s syndrome.” A few years ago I was intimately involved with a promising startup that taught me about this issue.

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YFS Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

You can accomplish great things with the right strategies. These lessons will help you with big projects you encounter in the months ahead.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

by Lewis Robinson. Starting a business during these hard economic times might have been difficult, but it isn’t entirely impossible. However, if you are to launch and gain traction with your startup successfully, you will need more than a fancy business plan; you will need actionable ideas on how to handle important aspects of your business such as production, marketing, and distribution.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

I woke up from a dream about being in my early 20’s. It was a complicated one that included struggling to finish my graduate degree (yup – that’s clearly an anxiety dream) along with meeting with Bill Gates and trying to sell him my company (something that never happened but clearly has some fantasy element to it.). As I was brushing my teeth, parts of the dream stuck with me, as some do.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Close. I guarantee that there comes a time when growing businesses outgrow the original span of control of the entrepreneur. It is a critical period, and is a test of the entrepreneur’s desire and ability to delegate. And I found from experience – after investing in many other entrepreneurial businesses over the years – that this stage typically occurs first at about twenty employees or $3 million in net revenues (or gross profit) for most any kind of company.

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YFS Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you want to keep it real and prove to the world you aren’t another wantrepreneur, here's what you need to know and do now!

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Zakaria Hersi is one of those fortunate people who has been able to stitch his vocation and avocation together seamlessly in his quest to achieve success – on his terms. On one hand, he’s a tech innovator and entrepreneur whose creativity has earned him awards and accolades on two continents – Europe (Sweden, to be more exact) and Africa (eastern, and in countries like Nairobi, his native Somalia and Mauritius).

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

I came across this article recently discussing the Startup Hustle Bubble which is occurring in many entrepreneurial circles. The title said that working 9-5 is for losers. I tend to agree, but in the opposite direction than many of the Silicon Valley disciples espouse. They promote the 18 hour work day, I reckon that’s a. Continue reading → The post The Hustle Hoax appeared first on Steve Sammartino.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Hurricane Harvey hit South Texas hard and with billions of dollars in losses, it is proving to be one of the costliest natural disasters in our nation’s history. Houston, Beaumont, and the Port Arthur area received more than 50 inches of rain in a short amount of time flooding many houses and businesses and wreaking […]. The post In the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Businesses and Individuals Donate Millions to Help with Relief Efforts appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YFS Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Discover how some of today's brightest founders scale ideas and make millions with these 10 innovative lessons from business leaders.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Whether you are setting up a garage as a business, or are somebody that likes to tinker with cars and other vehicles, there’s a lot to consider in getting started. While the equipment side of things may be easy enough to decide on, the layout of the garage itself can create a number of headaches for budding mechanics. And many feel that they have to install a pit on site, in order to allow access to the underside of vehicles.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

As my writing progress on my two books – Startup Communities 2 and #GiveFirst – continue to equal zero and the pile of unread stuff reaches higher into the sky than the stack of turtles going all the way down , I’ve decided to try a new process thing. I’m going have a reading and writing week starting today and going through 9/17.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The Austin-based on-demand delivery service, Favor, announced Thursday that it has reached profitability and raised $22 million in venture funding. S3 Ventures led the Series B financing round, which included existing investors. “Scaling a high-touch, hyper-local logistics business is no easy task, and all the credit goes to our team’s relentless focus executing on our […].

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YFS Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

If you want to retain your hard-won customers, build their loyalty by making the following best practices part of your company’s core values.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Working in the medical industry is notoriously incredibly difficult. Long hours, very intense logical reasoning and also the emotional bond doctors strive not to feel for their clients in stressful medical situations can all combine to make the job seem suffocating. This is why those working in the medical industry, no matter what capacity, deserve a standing ovation from all of us, and at the very least our quiet respect.

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