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6 Tools to Help You Manage a Remote Team

Up and Running

In the last few years, remote work has become an attractive solution for many employees and employers. Around 67 percent of companies allow some employees to work from home on occasion, and 38 percent allow employees to work remotely on a regular basis. The perks of a remote working situation are pretty obvious for employees, but there are also several amazing perks for their employers, too.

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8 Ways to Cure the Procrastination Habit in Business

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are a chronic procrastinator, or your work partner is one, there is never enough advance notice to get things done without a crisis. You can’t get things done on time unless you get started on time. Otherwise, your business and your career suffers, and you may never even see it coming. Luckily, this is a malady that can be cured if you are willing to make a few adjustments.

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The What, How & Why of Hiring a Business Development Lead at Your Startup [Traction #35]

View from Seed

Kristen Craft is VP of business development and marketing at Ovia Health. For this episode, Jay sat down with Kristen while she was head of biz dev at video platform company Wistia. They talk about what business development roles actually do for their companies, and when and why a founder would hire someone to lead up the function. This is a deep, nuanced exploration of a job role that doesn’t often fit as neatly into departmental categories as engineering, product, sales, or marketing.

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Joining the Defy Ventures Board

Feld Thoughts

I recently joined the Defy Ventures board. If you aren’t familiar with Defy Ventures, here’s a post that I wrote after my first prison trip with them at the end of last year. Early this morning, on my run in Melbourne as I tried to shrug off jet lag, I listened to a Reboot podcast that Jerry Colonna did with me and Cat Hoke, the CEO of Defy Ventures , a few weeks ago.

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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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Why Every Startup Needs A Mission

YFS Magazine

A clear mission is critical. However, many startups are unaware of its value.

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Launching a Podcast — for $110 and in 2 months

Austin Startup

I’ll be posting a lot more on podcasting and personal branding in the future, so hit that follow button on Medium, or check out the Austin… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Five Events to Attend in Austin This Week

SiliconHills

We’re still basking in the glow of the Austin Technology Calendar Party last Friday at Galvanize Austin. It was a great event and a good time for all. If you missed it and you want a Austin 2017 Wall Sized Tech Calendar for $30 each, please contact Laura Lorek. Austin always has a lot of […] The post Five Events to Attend in Austin This Week appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How To Understand And Deal With Stress

YFS Magazine

The body’s reaction to stress might be a natural thing, but prolonged or continuous stress isn’t.

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Monday Motivation – The Ant Philosophy [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

Share. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. #1 – Ants never quit – They’ll keep looking until they find another way. #2 – Ants think winter all summer – Think negative when it’s positive. #3 – Ants think summer all winter – Thing positive when it’s negative.

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“Startup Village” Track: March 10–16

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 23, 2017 Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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How Important Is The Idea?

Rob Go

I was on a panel last week with some friends in the VC and angel ecosystem. One thing that gets repeated often (that I generally agree with) is that ideas are a dime a dozen. As investors, we tend to value the grit and tenacity of a founder and their commitment to solving a problem more than the particular idea. The typical sound-bite from this type of discussion is something like “Having the right idea is not that important.” But this does not sit entirely well with me.

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Machine Learning with Austin BCycle?—?Bonus Edition

Austin Startup

What more can we learn with 3 years of trip data? Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Non-traditional exits: taking money off the table, startup-to-startup mergers, business processes, equity swapping

The Startup Toolkit

Startup success isn’t quite as binary as it first seems. Beyond the standard acquisitions , plus the classic option of earning profits to pay dividends, you’ve got a couple other ways to get paid. As the business matures, founders are permitted (and even encouraged) to put some of the money they’re raising from investors into their pocket instead of into the business.

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Episode 132: Be Profitablie from the Start with Tess Wicks

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. On this episode we talk with Tess Wicks and discuss how Profit First can be applied to start-up businesses. A lot of businesses start up and believe they have to put all of their money back into the business until one day it can be profitable. Tess Wicks tells us something totally the opposite. She says a start-up business needs to be profitable from the very first moment.

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Should You Hook Up With A Partner Or Stay Single?

YoungUpstarts

by Geordie Killen, CEO of Control Fire Protection. Starting up a business is no simple matter. Just ask any business owner that you know and they’ll pepper you with horror stories of how their venture started out. And overcoming the start up stages of the business iss every entrepreneur’s pride. One of the most important decisions every business owner have to deal with during the initial stages is whether to find a business partner or not.

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5 Tips On Turning Your Passion Into A Thriving Business

YoungUpstarts

by Joe Josland, founder of JJosland Photography. As a wedding photographer I’ve been lucky enough to find an outlet for my passion that offers everything I ever wanted in a job: flexibility, fun and wonderful moments. But as a first time business owner, I’ve also had my fair share of hurdles to overcome. Here are five tips from my personal experience that will help you turn a passion into the perfect enterprise. 1.

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