Mon.Aug 21, 2017

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What People Look For Today In A Smart Home System

YoungUpstarts

by Julian Lee, founder and CEO of Ambi Labs. An article from the Saturday Evening Post in 1900 forecasted the “home of the twentieth century”. From elevators, to “houses cooled by liquid air”, where home automation is the standard. Since the introduction of household appliances, we have enjoyed a degree of automation, helping us navigate chores and tasks easier.

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Recognizing and Reducing Fear Makes Leadership Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Trying to be a business leader by instilling fear in your employees and partners is never a good approach, but it is particularly devastating in a startup. Yet I see this approach used all too often by new entrepreneurs, most of whom are not natural tyrants, but who are fighting to mask their own internal fears and insecurities about starting a business.

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Smart Blogging Tips For Small Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

by Brenda Berg. As a small business owner, you’re required to oversee all your own marketing efforts. This includes your blogging strategy, which you may not feel comfortable with. If you’re just starting out, this is the guide for you. Here are some smart tips that will help you create a good blogging strategy, and get the most out of what you put online: Listen to your audience.

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Stories of Scale: Standing out in SaaS with custom tracking metrics

The Next Web

Stories of Scale is a content series we’re doing with startup participants from our conference in a partnership with EQT Ventures, sharing growth stories and lessons from industry insiders centered around 4 pillars: technology, business, human optimization, and communication. During our TNW Conference in Amsterdam, we sat down with Perry Oostdam, co-founder of Recruitee.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Aviation Answers – A Breakdown Of Roles Within The Airline Industry

YoungUpstarts

For many decades, the notion of working within an airport or actually up in the air, on a commercial vessel, has been associated with a certain kind of glamour. This is why, every year, thousands of graduates and career hopefuls apply for jobs in the aviation industry. In reality, all airport roles can be pretty tough. They come with a great deal of responsibility.

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How To Run A Business, Raise A Child (And Stay Sane)

YFS Magazine

Raising a child and building a business reminds me that I’m fortunate enough to be involved in shaping more than one miracle.

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Is VC Funding the Real Unicorn in Silicon Valley?

Up and Running

From myths to memes, the unicorn has always represented the highly elusive ideal: a beautiful creature so rarely seen, every sighting is both a privilege and an unforgettable event, as well as a sign of good fortune to come. It’s understandable, then, that the term “unicorn” has come to be used routinely in the world of business funding to refer to those rare and beautiful privately funded startups—especially in the tech space—that have reached the upper echelon of valuation, being valued at ove

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“My editors value impact stories” – Recode’s Jason Del Rey on Evaluating His Success

Hunter Walker

I think his colleague Peter Kafka introduced us? Or at least that’s my best guess for how Recode’s Jason Del Rey and I started hanging out a few years back. Jason rocks the Commerce beat but his reporting chops are only the start of my admiration. He’s a dad to two young kids and it’s been fun seeing that side of him develop.

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Monday Morning Motivation: Jay-Z on Lonzo Ball, Branding & Starting a Business

Hearpreneur

[link]. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. Jay-Z talks about starting a business, Lonzo Ball, Nike & him getting started.

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On No Sides.

This is going to be BIG.

On no sides is genocide an ok thing to promote with your free speech or to organize a group around. On no sides is the Confederacy, the sole purpose of which was to defend the institution of slavery, a thing to be admired. On no sides is the eradication of Nazis and the KKK a slippery slope to the end of free speech in our country. It is perfectly right and acceptable for a society to draw lines--to point to levels of despicable behavior and say "No--in no uncertain terms.

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My advice to a small, growing company about office space

Jeff Hilimire

Adam Albrecht, CEO of The Weaponry, posted recently about his search for office space. He asked for advice from people who have experience with this, and having started and grown multiple businesses, I have quite a bit. My response on his blog is below. — First off, I’m with you that the status quo is, “a company needs an office… just because they always have.” People think that for the wrong reasons, because to your point people can work anywhere.

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