Wed.Mar 22, 2017

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How To Improve Quality Of Life Based On An Internet Upgrade

YoungUpstarts

There are a lot of services online that greatly facilitate how we go about our regular lives. Whether we’re talking about how we conduct business or how we choose to spend Saturday night, there is almost always a solution in the online medium. Today’s trends have us leaning more and more towards streamed media while businesses focus heavily on cloud technology and use conference tools to get people together.

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How To Hire The Perfect CTO

YFS Magazine

As your business grows, so do your technology needs. Here's a look at how to find a good candidate and the qualities you should look for.

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4 Inspiring Startup Stories That Will Fill Your Heart With Hope

YoungUpstarts

Entrepreneurship is a tough journey especially if you are introducing a new concept or product into the market. And for this reason, many people look for inspiration from other successful entrepreneurs to keep them going. Knowing that someone else faced the same challenges as you and overcame them can be a great motivation tool. And even if these entrepreneurs come from different industries, the challenges entrepreneurs face are almost similar no matter the field.

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Increase supply and demand follows

deal architect

Michael Keaton, as Ray Kroc, looks straight into the camera in the beginning of the movie “The Founder” and makes a pitch for multi-spindle milkshake blenders. His pitch “increase supply and demand follows”. They allow a restaurant to make six.

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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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9 Ways To Spot An Opportunity For A New Business

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to startups and entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that all new businesses must start with a great idea. I have to disagree. I believe the best entrepreneurs start by finding a large opportunity, and only then use good ideas to capitalize on that opportunity. The best opportunities are recognized from painful needs, plus a growing population of customers with money to spend.

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Transcript of Get Anybody to Do Anything You Want

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Get Anybody to Do Anything You Want written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Transcript provided by Verbatim Transcription Services. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John: What if you get anybody to do anything you wanted? On this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast, I’m going to visit with sales trainer Phil Jones, where he talk about his magic words and this is not just for salespeople, in fact this is for non-sales people.

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5 Tips That Will Help You Hire The Right People For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli, founder of Weekplan. If you want to be the leader in your industry, you’ve got to keep the right people by your side. This is primarily the reason, that building an awesome team is high on the priority for every company. While good employees help you grow your business, bad employees hurt your brand name and and trigger a negative office atmosphere.

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Business Model Innovation Is About This — Not Technology

YFS Magazine

In recent years, technology has been the golden child of transformative business models. Change is coming. And technology won't be at the helm.

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4 Ways To Improve Your Management Skills

YoungUpstarts

When running your own business, taking steps to become a better manager has a range of great benefits for your company. Effective managers have better relationships with their teams, leading to greater employee satisfaction, engagement, and productivity. Along with this, improving your management skills can also lead to work being done more efficiently, increasing your profit margin.

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How to Use Coupons for Your Business (Without Losing Money)

Up and Running

Coupons can be a great tool for your business—or a great way to lose money. It all depends on how smart you are and how profitable you design your coupon to be. You may not realize it, but even on daily deal and coupon sites, you have more control than you might think. It’s not about how many people buy or use your coupons, it’s about making the most of it—both in terms of profits and getting new or return customers that become regulars (not “one offs”).

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Achieving Greater Agility Through Proper Business Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

by Dan McCarthy, event manager for Venueseeker. Business intelligence (BI) is the gateway for achieving greater agility. Agility in this sense means the flexibility to make more informed decisions based on a diverse array of data outlining consumer patterns and purchasing behavior. The BI and analytics market, in fact, is projected to grow to a $20 billion industry by 2019.

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Don’t Lose Your Audience by Posting too Much on Social Media

Mike Michalowicz

Jumping onto a social media platform before you understand it is like ordering dinner off of a menu written in a language you don’t speak. You might think you’re ordering a cheeseburger with bacon, but you’re really ordering sautéed grasshoppers in chocolate sauce with a side order of pickled cow’s feet. The experience can be the same with social media.

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3 Personal Branding Tips To Succeed In A Tight Job Market

YoungUpstarts

The employment landscape has become more competitive, with millions of people vying for jobs. Gone are the days when one could slap their skills and academic achievements onto a CV (curriculum vitae), and expect to be pursued by several employers for an interview on an immediate notice. It is for such circumstances that you should pay attention to your personal brand.

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Bathroom Bill Will Blight March Magic

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 22, 2017 On March 6, SXSW was one of several organizations that spoke at a press conference opposing SB6 (the so-called Texas Bathroom Bill). Representing our 200-person company as well as the thousands of forwarding-thinking professionals who come to Austin each spring, I said: “SXSW opposes all discriminatory legislation and unequivocally supports civil rights for all.

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4 Questions You Must Answer to Develop Your Marketing Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

4 Questions You Must Answer to Develop Your Marketing Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Developing a marketing strategy for your business can be tough, especially if you don’t know where to start or what to focus on. I’ve found that if I get stuck while putting together my own strategy, or a marketing strategy for clients, I just need to refer back to the four questions below to help guide the way.

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Advice for Startups from Gary Vaynerchuk at SXSW 2017

Austin Startup

“What’s the best way to get our message out there and create our brand?” Gary Vaynerchuk at SXSW 2017 on Content + Facebook Gary Vee is the man who gives advice straight and doesn’t sugarcoat it. He did a live Q&A with the audience at SXSW Interactive 2017. A dozen or so people sprinted to the microphone as soon as he got on stage. Gary is known for his Daily Vee streams where he’ll share stories, give advice, and even commonly calls up members of his audience to answer their questions live.

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How to Improve Mobile UX with Digital Wallets

ConversionXL

Today, there are more than 2.32 billion smartphone owners around the world. These devices aren’t just for browsing social media, texting, and making calls. They take owners beyond mere communication and act as resources for consumers who are finding and researching products – and in more and more instances, making purchases. Mobile Commerce to Take Over as Primary Checkout Point.

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Monetizing Medium

Austin Startup

I’ve seemingly gone on a writing spree about monetization lately which doesn’t really fit into the Austin Startups theme. However, while the culture of California startups has always been to scale first, then monetize; Texas’ startup culture is money first, then scale. So there’s my reasoning with seasoning. Blogging platforms, what a hell of a hard business to make money in.

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It takes time to get there folks or ITS ALL ABOUT THE RUNWAY

Jeff Hilimire

I continue to believe more and more that runway is the key to entrepreneurial success. Give me a hard-working, passionate, smart entrepreneur + ample time and I’ll show you a successful business. I don’t care what the idea is. Greatest idea in the world, or worst idea ever, doesn’t matter. Give them enough time and they’ll figure it out.

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Persistence: The Struggles and Opportunities of a Latino Entrepreneur

Austin Startup

Latinitas Reports from SXSW 2017 We live in a time where Latinos are becoming a vital part of the commercial and business world. As consumers, we are causing advertisers to adjust their messages to fit our interests. As entrepreneurs, we are creating businesses at a rapid pace. However, it is proving to a be a challenge to expand our services throughout the country to include segments of the market where non-Latinos can also benefit from services.

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Get Anybody to Do Anything You Want

Duct Tape Marketing

Get Anybody to Do Anything You Want written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Podcast Transcript. The title of this post is misleading and maybe even a bit disturbing to some, so let me clarify that I mean for good only! By studying human behavior and language, you can put yourself in the best possible position to do good and help others by virtue of the products and services – and more importantly – the results you can bring.

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Weighing in on Judge Gorsuch

VC Adventure

A number of people have asked me to share my views on Neil Gorsuch in more detail. I’m sure the curiosity stems from the intersection of my personal relationship with Neil and my absolute distain for President Trump. I am aware given the current political climate that views on this are very polarized. And while a SCOTUS pick will always stir up emotion, the combination of the hyper polarized environment along with the backdrop of Merrick Garland not getting even a hearing for the same seat

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