Occam's Razor
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
If you bring sharp focus, you increase chances of attention being diverted to the right places. That in turn will drive smarter questions, which will elicit thoughtful answers from available data. The result will be data-influenced actions that result in a long-term strategic advantage. It all starts with sharp focus. Consider these three scenarios….
deal architect
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
It’s open season on GE. BusinessWeek has a cover article and calls it an “astonishing mess”. Competitors are gloating they are getting GE resumes in droves. My friend Brian Sommer recently tweeted “3 1/2 yrs. ago, I gave a copy.
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YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Liability insurance is the term used to describe a range of insurance policies that protect a business or individual from being sued and held liable for injury, negligence or malpractice. Some common forms of liability insurance include Cyber Insurance , employer’s liability and workers’ compensation. These forms of insurance can cover legal payouts and costs, in the event that you are found liable for an adverse event.
deal architect
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
It’s open season on GE. BusinessWeek has a cover article and calls it an “astonishing mess”. Competitors are gloating they are getting GE resumes in droves. My friend Brian Sommer recently tweeted “3 1/2 yrs. ago, I gave a copy.
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
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Having a same employer for years on end will soon become history — independent contractors could account for half of the workforce in the US in just a decade’s time. The current labor market looks more like a ‘one-night stand’ — workers increasingly value short-term work arrangements, flexible working hours, and unconventional work spaces. The platform economy’s one-night stand marketplace pioneered by Uber, TaskRabbit, and Deliveroo, however, posed a setback for workers, who are no longer entit
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
It’s perhaps time for marketers to face the proverbial elephant in the room. As scandal after scandal breaks out, with the eternal outrage machine of social media destroying careers as quickly as they elevate them, marketers are forced to face an arena they wisely limited their exposure to – politics. That is not to say marketing and politics are strangers, depending on context they range from strange bedfellows to a natural consequence of an industry (nobody would be shocked if Heckler & Ko
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YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Eighteen months ago, San Diego-based MergerLabs was born out of CAPTARGET, a leader in private equity deal origination, owned and operated by Gabe Galvez. Galvez, a major player in private equity and investment banking, saw the need for marketing services geared toward these sectors. Merger Labs, a full service digital marketing agency for middle market private equity and M&A professionals, is the first of its kind.The new firm’s success caught the attention of Wonderist Agency.
SiliconHills
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Austin-based RigUp announced it has raised $15.8 million in funding. The company, founded in 2014 as an online marketplace for services and labor for the energy industry, also secured a $30 million credit line from Silicon Valley Bank. RigUp has raised $63.8 million to date, according to CrunchBase. The company plans to use the money […]. The post RigUp Lands $15.6 Million in Venture Capital Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
The City of Austin has proposed an ordinance requiring all employers to provide a minimum of 1 hour sick leave for every 30 hours an employee worked, capped at eight days annually. Most businesses with more than 50 employees already provide sick leave benefits, but others don’t. There are questions regarding the impact of such an Ordinance on small business?
SiliconHills
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Bryan Menell, a serial technology entrepreneur, announced Tuesday the launch of Verimos, a data bank with information on health and wellness powered by Blockchain technology. Menell, who unveiled his latest company at a press conference at Capital Factory, said the company is partnering with all kinds of businesses in the wellness industry including health food […].
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
The Forrest Four-Cast: February 6, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event , 50 finalists will show their stuff before a panel of judges. Half will pitch on Saturday, March 10 and the remaining 25 companies the following day. A winner in each of 10 categories will be announced at the SXSW Accelerator Award Ceremony, 7 pm Sunday, March 11, at the Hilton Austin.
David Cohen
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Techstars is the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. So, when Techstars mentors, investors, and friends Rajat Bhargava and Will Herman told me that they were writing a book to help guide founders on their startup journey, I was immediately excited. I’ve known Raj and Will for a number of years now and they are great entrepreneurs and also great mentors at Techstars.
Jeff Hilimire
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
I was honored to be interviewed on the Imagine More podcast recently, and they also asked me to do an Instagram take-over showing “a day in the life” kinda thing. And then they packaged it up for me so I could show it off. Pardon the small breaks and pauses throughout , that’s from the Instagraminess of this ;). The post A video of a typical day for me as CEO of Dragon Army appeared first on Begin the Begin.
The Startup Toolkit
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Something that stood out in Daily Rituals is how many of its creatives had a strong tendency toward using certain hours of the day. For myself, I can focus up until about lunchtime, and then any deep work goes out the window. So if I fritter away my mornings on meetings or messages or margaritas, I know won’t get any of my big creative task (programming, writing, whatever) done that day.
Up and Running
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Building a boss brand is the process of reviewing where you are, and where you want your life and business to go. Since 2006, I’ve been learning how to combine passion, purpose, people, and profits. This has included serving both sole practitioners and multi-million and billion-dollar brands in multiple industries—retail, consulting, energy, and education, to name a few.
Jeff Hilimire
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
I’m such a huge Warren Buffet fan. He just gets it. Aside from the wealth he’s amassed, and his clear business + leadership skills, he’s just a good human being who believes in helping others. I’ve written before on his advice on how to start your day and what he claims is the single biggest reason for his success (along with Bill Gates,) but this list of five things to focus on to be successful is probably one of my favorites of his.
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