Sat.Aug 18, 2018

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The Advantages of Slow Growth for StartUps

The Startup Magazine

The main aim of any business is to grow and expand, achieve success and make as much money as possible. It’s therefore easily understandable why so many new companies push on to try and grow as quickly as they can. Yet fast growth isn’t always the best route. Source: Pixabay. Research from the Universities of California, Berkley and Stanford University found that a big problem for many failed tech start-ups was premature scaling, essentially businesses growing too fast.

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How To Choose The Best High-Risk Credit Card Gateway For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

A high-risk business is one that is considered to operate in a high-risk industry or one with a high risk of financial failure. Such business includes online gambling business, online dating, CBD business, medical marijuana business, online pharmacies and drugs stores and many others. These businesses regarding merchant services are those with a high propensity for chargebacks or customer fraud.

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10 Keys To Delivering Innovation As An Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

As a startup investor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 exist ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). Startups which display real innovation, such as alternative energy sources and new medical treatments, are still rare.

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Hi. Hello. And Bye Bye Business Cards!

K9 Ventures

I last ordered business cards in 2009. I think I ordered a thousand of them. And I haven’t run out of them yet — because most times when I need them, I don’t have them on me. They’re either at the office, or in my car, or in my backpack; but never with me where/when I need them. Handing someone a piece of paper in 2018 to exchange contact information just seems archaic and mind-numbingly dumb to me.

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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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Incorporating Your Business: Tips to Follow

The Startup Magazine

If you want to grow your business and achieve added protection for all your assets, incorporating is the way to go. One thing’s for sure, converting your business into a corporation provides a great deal of advantages that allow you to secure your assets from cases such as a looming bankruptcy or a lawsuit. Source: Pixabay. Still, the process of incorporating a company has to be one of the most complicated things for startup owners to handle.

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The Best VC on Instagram

Hunter Walker

The world doesn’t need your content, but if you enjoy creating, you should do it, without hesitation. That would be my advice to you as a human. But whenever a fellow investor tells me they need to tweet more, write more, start a podcast, etc, for purposes of content marketing, I tell them “sure, if you enjoy it. And pick a medium that you actually enjoy using, otherwise it’ll never work longterm.” So it made me smile when I found a VC using Instagram in a way that I find

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Weekend Favs August 18

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs August 18 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.