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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is very much the dream occupation of the jack-of-all-trades, not-necessarily-master-of-any individual who possesses “raw intellectual horsepower.

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How To Ensure Your Employees Reach Their Full Potential

The Startup Magazine

Every employer wants to get the best out of their employees. After all, the more productive they are the better your profit margins will be. And productivity and profitability build on each other. Getting to profitability allows you to reward them for their efforts. Though it may not be conventional, one way to enhance productivity might be to purchase all your staff a mattress to help them with their sleep.

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Entrepreneur Revolutionizing Online Shopping by Connecting Users Across Devices

Hearpreneur

Internet users are turning to online shopping more than ever before. Thinkover , the fastest growing digital shopping platform known for revolutionizing and streamlining the art of online and mobile shopping, has announced the release of its first-ever Android version alongside the release of new social features that will enable users to discover, share, explore and follow others on the app.

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Customer Success Metrics: More Than A Number

YoungUpstarts

by Allison Yount, Director of Customer Success at Scout RFP. Great SaaS solutions are easy to adopt and even easier to use — but that doesn’t mean that they should lack the human component. A check-in call and invoice in the inbox doesn’t cut it; instead, customer success teams should implement a strategic success plan that will help maintain a healthy level of communication and trust.

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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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Outsourcing Is A No-Brainer For Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

Understand your hourly wage, explore your options, and soon you can outsource your way to more time, more money, and a more valuable company.

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Creating In Solitude Hoping For A Successful Big Reveal? Rethink This Strategy.

YoungUpstarts

by Anna Sabino , author of “ Your Creative Career: Turn Your Passion into a Fulfilling and Financially Rewarding Lifestyle “ There are business owners who dream of being inventors. Being first in a category is more important to them than being successful and avoiding risk. Their ego pushes them to aspire to be first and surprise their clients with products they had never seen before.

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It’s Never Too Late To Get The Skill Training You Need

YoungUpstarts

Have you ever thought about going back to school? This may be the necessary move for you to make if you want to get a higher paying job. However, there may be plenty of things that are holding you back. One of them may be the feeling that you really don’t want to have to go back to school and sit in a classroom like a teenager again. Another one may be that you just don’t feel that you have the time or the money to be able to commit yourself to going back to school full time.

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How to cheat legally on your tax return.

Berkonomics

Close. When do you cross the line between honesty and dishonesty in tax planning? Is it ethical to allocate income between periods to take advantage of tax breaks? Can expenses be put off until the next period to increase income, or accelerated into this period by prepayment to decrease net income? Where do you draw the line, assuming no intent to defraud?

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How to Deal with Employees with Financial Problems

The Startup Magazine

No matter how much job satisfaction and enjoyment an employee receives from their role within your company, the bottom line is that their primary reason for doing the work is the remuneration they receive. Little wonder then that when individuals are dealing with personal financial problems, it can have a negative impact on their job performance. Knowing the right way to deal with such situations can greatly improve the chances of a positive outcome for both employer and employee alike.

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Content Marketing is About Customers, Not Keywords

Duct Tape Marketing

Content Marketing is About Customers, Not Keywords written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch About Content Marketing for Small Business. I’ve had content marketing for small business on the brain recently so I thought I’d write about it today. “ Boy, there is a topic that hasn’t been covered recently,” said nobody in a long time.

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SXSW is a Strong Reflection of What’s Hot in Austin says Hugh Forrest on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Publisher with Silicon Hills News When South by Southwest started in 1987, it was a music only event and in 1994, the Interactive conference launched. “There was this thing called the Web but not many people understood what it was,” said Hugh Forrest. “What was state of the art in 1994 was […]. The post SXSW is a Strong Reflection of What’s Hot in Austin says Hugh Forrest on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast appeared first on SiliconHills.

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What Denver Should Do When Amazon Doesn’t Choose It For HQ2

Feld Thoughts

Ian Hathaway, my co-author for my next book – Startup Communities 2: The Next Generation – has a great blog post up titled The Amazon Bounce Back. Colorado, specifically Denver, is in the final 20 cities bidding on Amazon’s HQ2. This open bid process is an absolutely brilliant move by Amazon for a variety of reasons. Enormous branding : Everyone, everywhere, is talking about Amazon.

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The downfall of middlemen businesses

Hippoland

I think we’re at a really interesting time with technology. We are going to see a lot of software “middle(wo)men businesses” be replaced. Payment processing companies. A lot of marketplaces. Businesses where there are two sides and some company sitting in the middle who doesn’t provide much value – these are the kinds of companies that are going to be disrupted soon.

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Moving from LA to Austin for Sputnik ATX Accelerator Program

Austin Startup

Read about Pei’s experience going through the application process to Sputnik ATX and moving from California to Texas on the fly. One of the hardest decisions we’ve had to make was one of the fastest decisions we have ever acted upon. With less than 2 days between being accepted and starting the program , we packed up our bags and took Pei to Austin, Texas.

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The downfall of middlemen businesses

Hippoland

I think we’re at a really interesting time with technology. We are going to see a lot of software “middle(wo)men businesses” be replaced. Payment processing companies. A lot of marketplaces. Businesses where there are two sides and some company sitting in the middle who doesn’t provide much value – these are the kinds of companies that are going to be disrupted soon.

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Small Investors

ithacaVC

It is highly typical for a startup to have small investors on its cap table. Founders often raise money from friends and family and other angels. That is all well and good… and 100% normal. Without friends and family and angels there would not be many companies for VCs to look at! The treatment of the friends, family and angels (FFA) as the startup matures and raises larger rounds of financing over time is interesting.

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7 Ways to do Drip Marketing for SaaS

ConversionXL

It’s no secret that email is the most effective acquisition channels for any marketer. In fact, according to Campaign Monitor , for every $1 spent, email marketing generates $38 in ROI. But with all the noise today, it’s getting harder to get noticed. Today, it’s not enough to send the right emails; you need to send the right emails at the right time.

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How Love Lets You Scale — with Y Combinator’s Sam Altman

Reid Hoffman

In this week’s episode of Masters of Scale, Sam explains why it’s so important to make something that’s loved, even if by only a small group of people. Read the full post on LinkedIn.

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An update on Kai

Jeff Hilimire

Photo: That’s Kai on the left, and my two daughters with him on the right. One of his big joys when we have to go to Columbus, Ohio, for his surgeries is to get the smiley-face pancakes. I’ve shared on this blog before about my youngest son, Kai, who we adopted from China three years ago. He has some serious medical issues which my wife chronicles on her blog, My Kid Circus.

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SXSW Startups: DashTag Tracks Soccer

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 31, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event , 50 diverse startups will face off before a panel of industry experts. Half will pitch on Saturday, March 10, and the remaining 25 will pitch on Sunday, March 11. Winners in 10 categories will be honored at the Accelerator Award Ceremony at 7 pm on Sunday, March 11, at the Hilton Austin.

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Why We Invested in Attentive

View from Seed

Five years ago, TapCommerce CEO & Co-Founder Brian Long had a vision of helping brands deliver customers, revenue, and ROI across mobile devices. A lot has changed since then, but one industry megatrend has remained constant: consumers’ radical adoption of mobile commerce and retailers’ desire to reach them on these devices. More recently, Brian started a new company, Attentive , with a remarkably similar vision and problem-set, but with a different solution: personalized mobile

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The Different Types Of Shares And Ownership Of A Limited Company

YoungUpstarts

If you have decided to incorporate your company as opposed to acting as a sole trader, you will need to understand the types and class of shares that you could issue. In order to issue shares , you have to provide the company name and address, the director and shareholder and the agreement of all initial shareholders to create your company. When first forming your company, there is not a set type of share that you have to use.

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Best Practices: Using Social Media to Transform Your Brand

The Startup Magazine

Are you looking for new opportunities to sharpen your brand and boost your company’s marketplace visibility? Is your strategy looking to broaden your appeal to new prospects and existing customers alike? Social media marketing is essential to this effort. Here’s how you can harness some of the world’s most effective social media sites to improve your standing in the marketplace.

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What does it mean to be an “executive”?

VC Adventure

At Foundry we have active and lively CEO and Portfolio Executives email lists. They are among the things that I love the most about the community we’re creating at Foundry – watching execs across the portfolio (who refer to each other as “Foundry cousins”) help each other out and share ideas. It’s an important reminder that great companies are created not by solo, heroic efforts, but by the collective force of entire communities.

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Startup Or Franchise: What’s Best For You?

The Startup Magazine

Running a business is a great way to earn a living. You have a great deal of freedom about what you do with your time, and you have the autonomy to make most of the decisions about the way you run your business. The buy or build decision is one of the first. While those things are true about any business you run, there are some other areas that differ based on what type of business you get into.

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Smarter Immigration

deal architect

President Trump spent plenty of time on immigration in his State of the Union speech this week. I wish he had spent more time on each of the four pillars he identified and two policy changes he announced – we.

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