Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Since I am a techie at heart, I always get excited when founders pitch their new innovation as “disruptive,” meaning that it is so unique that it will create a new market and disrupt the existing value network, displacing established products and markets. Unfortunately, I have learned that investors and customers are wary that big changes will take a long time, and cost more money.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

What do you know about Israeli B2C startups? In this post I shine a spotlight on the consumer segment in Israel and explore the trends in consumer tech in Israel. Continue Reading → This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. After spending a good amount of time researching about the benefits of having a startup, you are ready to open your own startup. WAIT! I have got a shocking statistic for you, startup enthusiasts. Almost 90 percent of startups fail within the first five years of their inception. There are a good number of published research studies that back this claim.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Early on as an actress in Hollywood, when Reese Witherspoon attended meetings to discuss her movie characters and mentioned a character flaw she would like to accentuate, the male producers would almost always say yes, but that would make her unlikable. In those meetings, Witherspoon said she felt like she was always reminded she had […]. The post Actress Reese Witherspoon Encourages Women to be Ambitious appeared first on SiliconHills.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

by Miron Lulic, founder and CEO of SuperMoney. Offering free access to credit at the point of sale (POS) is a powerful business-generating tool for companies of all sizes. However, not all companies have the working capital available to offer in-house financing programs. Partnering with a third-party POS financing platform is an attractive solution but finding a partner with competitive rates and reasonable implementation costs can be a challenge.

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Four years ago, Adam and I concocted this crazy idea to try to pull off a hackathon over a weekend, building 48 nonprofit websites in 48 hours with a hundred of our closest friends in Atlanta. We decided to call it 48in48. Fast-forward to today, and this past weekend we just finished our first international event – London! This was our 6th event of the year, and 13th since we got started.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Brand identity plays a huge role in the marketing success of your business. A logo is the backbone of your branding, and is the first marker many clients will associate with you and your product or service. It can be easy to over design a logo or create one that overwhelms and pulls focus from your business’s M.O. However, by simplifying and condensing the process and paying attention to key elements will ensure you’ll have a logo that’s guaranteed to leave a lasting impression.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Running a start-up business is challenging. With today’s fast-paced business environment and a very competitive market, you need to have charismatic leadership, strong motivation, technical skills, passion, and commitment to ace the industry. Having a good coach can make a difference, just like how a sports team need to have one to win a match.

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