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View from Seed

Our entire team at NextView is very pleased to announce that Ginny Mineo will be joining us as Director of Platform. Ginny comes to us from HubSpot, where she had a tremendous impact on the company in a variety of ways. Most recently, she led the team responsible for growing their successful podcast audience and expanding the company’s presence on emerging channels like Medium.

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Appbase Delivers on Global Users Expectation for Realtime Apps, Tapping Into $4.5 B Market

Austin Startup

As started a few weeks ago with RackN, I am putting forward a Spotlight Series on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Next up, Appbase — wow… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Welcoming Ginny Mineo to the NextView Team!

View from Seed

Our entire team at NextView is very pleased to announce that Ginny Mineo will be joining us as Director of Platform. Ginny comes to us from HubSpot, where she had a tremendous impact on the company in a variety of ways. Most recently, she led the team responsible for growing their successful podcast audience and expanding the company’s presence on emerging channels like Medium.

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Welcoming Ginny Mineo to the NextView Team!

Rob Go

Our entire team at NextView is very pleased to announce that Ginny Mineo will be joining us as Director of Platform. Ginny comes to us from HubSpot, where she had a tremendous impact on the company in a variety of ways. Most recently, she led the team responsible for growing their successful podcast audience and expanding the company’s presence on emerging channels like Medium.

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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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12 Key Levers of SaaS Success

For Entrepreneurs

This presentation is from my talk at the 2017 SaaStr Annual conference in San Francisco. It offers an overview of a simple model to understand a SaaS business and the key levers a CEO can pull to get the most impact. The presentation covers: Optimizing the SaaS Funnel: Get inside your customer’s head Break down.

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Five Business Technology Trends for 2017

Up and Running

There are many year-end rituals, including time with the family, shopping online for sales, and making last-minute tax moves. As we settle into a new year, there are annual rituals too—and one of those rituals for business leaders is looking ahead and assessing the trends for the coming year. If one of your rituals for the new year is looking forward, here are five business technology trends you should consider as you make your adjustments. 1.

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Want To Be More Successful? Take Cold Showers More Often

YFS Magazine

Can freezing cold showers improve your business approach and general emotional intelligence? Here's what I've learned first-hand. This article Want To Be More Successful? Take Cold Showers More Often appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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Stop Selling!

YoungUpstarts

By Larry Kendall, founding partner of The Group, Inc, author of “ Ninja Selling: Subtle Skills. Big Results. “ Whether you are selling a product, a service, or an idea to your boss, friend or investor, you will be more successful when you get people moving toward you. If they feel you are selling them, they will emotionally move away from you.

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Foundry Group on The Twenty Minute VC

Feld Thoughts

I’ve become a huge fan of Harry Stebbings, the intrepid entrepreneur turned VC whose age (20) matches the title of his podcast ( The Twenty Minute VC.) Today, at SaaStr at 1:40pm in the Hypercritical section , Harry is interviewing me about – well – whatever he wants. Harry has done hundreds of 20 minute VC interviews over the past few years.

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How To Expand Your Brand

YoungUpstarts

Building a brand is a friendly way of phrasing ‘building a business’. It sounds less intimidating, but both those phrases mean exactly the same thing. Of course, neither idea should overwhelm or intimidate you and your company, because neither is quite so out of reach as you might assume. The formula behind building a successful brand for a business and continuing to grow it, day by day, is more straightforward, methodological and mathematical than you might think.

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What Does Integrity Mean, Really?

YFS Magazine

Most people think of integrity as being a virtue. That it’s all about being honest and morally righteous, but that's not completely accurate. This article What Does Integrity Mean, Really? appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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10 Ways Churches Can Thrive Financially by Ruby Tan

Mike Michalowicz

Many years ago, I invited a non-Christian friend to volunteer with me at a Christian organization for their annual fundraiser. She was surprised to have received so many phone calls from strangers who wanted to give. She said, “At my work place, I had to call our customers who owe us money repeatedly to pay us, but here, people just called in to give money.

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Techstars Impact Report 2016: a year of milestones

David Cohen

The Techstars 2016 Global Impact Report was released on February 7. This report is a showcase of what Techstars has accomplished in 2016 and over the past 10 years, as well as a thank you to all the people who have contributed to the success of entrepreneurs around the world. It’s been an amazing 10 years, to say the least. We started with the simple belief that great startups can be built anywhere.

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uShip Names New CEO

SiliconHills

Austin-based uShip, an online shipping marketplace and freight automation software provider, on Wednesday announced Mike Williams has joined the company as its new Chief Executive Officer and board member. uShip also announced that Jim Martell, the company’s interim CEO since last December, has been named Executive Chairman of uShip’s board.

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Business Lessons From The Greatest Super Bowl Of All Time

Growthink Blog

As a lifelong New England Patriots fan, Sunday's Super Bowl was a sport-watching roller coaster like none other. In addition to being an awesome inspirational adrenalin rush from the desperate competitive effort displayed by both teams, this game like few in recent memory served up many tasty nuggets of business value and wisdom. Here are my top five: #5.

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More Words of Wisdom from Paul Graham: Choosing Your Co-Founder

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a short video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present startup guru Paul Graham , co-founder of Y Combinator and a brilliant entrepreneur and investor. In this brief interview from a few years back (via TechCrunch ), Paul shares some solid nuggets regarding founders and co-founders, including the following:

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Making Data Sexy

Duct Tape Marketing

Making Data Sexy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Annie Cushing. Okay, I’ll be the first to admit that the headline for this post is kind of silly. But let’s face it, data, analytics, metrics and the like are just not some people’s cup of tea. (Yes, another cliche.). The problem with this fear or lack of interest in all things related to data is that you need data to make decisions.

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Worried about the Current Political Environment? Five Ways to Support Women in Tech Today

Austin Startup

By Anvita Gupta Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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How To Get Step-By-Step Assistance For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems like every day I hear from an aspiring entrepreneur who doesn’t know where to start, or doesn’t have the time or expertise for all the mechanics of starting a business based on their great idea. While I can route them to hundreds of resources on the Internet for individual pieces of this task, I never found an online platform that integrates all the required activities, until now.