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Why Raising Too Much Money Can Harm Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Amongst the most often asked questions I get from founders is, “How much money should I raise?” Reflexively founders want to raise as much money as they can because they figure it will give them more resources, better chances of competing and a longer runways before they have to do the often painful job of asking, yet again, for money. Every time you ask for money you’re faced with the possible of feeling literally and figuratively like a failure.

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What It Means To Be A Professional

YoungUpstarts

By Vadim Kondratiev, Head of Sales at Anadea Inc. When a project owner seeks for a software development company, they often mention in their inquiries that they want to deal with a very professional developer. They want their project to be cared of properly. But what kind of service do they actually want their developers to provide? What is the difference between a professional and an amateur attitude?

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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

Agile VC

Preface: As a consumer, I am excited by the prospect of autonomous vehicles and the individual and collective benefits they can provide. As an investor, I am also bullish about the innovation wave already in its early innings around mobility and autonomy. But a realistic understanding of the potential timeline for autonomous vehicle adoption is vital to decision making as a startup entrepreneur or investor in this area. . ==.

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The Problem is the Advertising, Not the Ad Blocker

crowdSPRING Blog

Media companies and publishers are mad. Like, really mad. Well, maybe more nervous than mad, but certainly angry enough to sound a lot like digital geriatrics shaking their fists at the ad blocking kids running up and down their site. Their agitation is understandable. After all, the clever little extensions that give the rest of us a faster, cleaner, less irritating web experience are eating away at ROI for advertisers and revenue for publishers.

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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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The Responsibility Glitch

Feld Thoughts

On Tuesday, Jerry Colonna and I had a fireside chat hosted by the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network titled Making Mental Health a Priority. We did it at DU in partnership with Project X-ITE and had a powerful afternoon. Last night I had dinner with a CEO I like a lot where we talked about some of the things he was struggling with. I used a concept with him that I’d been mulling about and tried out publicly at the event with Jerry.

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6 Steps To Creating A Customer Service Plan For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Parker Davis, CEO of Answer 1. You hear it everywhere these days. “Best in class customer service.” Seems like everybody’s got it. In fact, a Google search for that exact term yields almost 250,000 results. That’s a lot of top-notch customer service. For most companies, this is just marketing speak. Business owners know that great customer service can be a key part of consumers’ decision making process, so they stick this phrase in their marketing packet.

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10 Resources to Help You Grow Your Clothing Company

Up and Running

Running a successful clothing company isn’t just about dreaming up new designs. If you want your business to flourish, you’ll need to keep up to date with the industry, learn the ins and outs of sourcing and manufacturing products, and turn to other successful clothing designers for inspiration. To help your clothing business reach success, here is a list of 10 varied resources, guaranteed to make the process of starting and growing your clothing company easier and more enjoyable.

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How to spin-off a startup (without making your head spin)

The Next Web

Trello grew quickly. So quickly, in fact, that in 2014 it was something of a headache for us at Fog Creek. We had other existing products that people loved and made us a nice pile of cash each year. But, we risked ignoring them as Trello took up more and more time and resources. We needed to make some changes, but what exactly? What we knew was that Trello needed VC funding if it was to continue to grow as fast as it needed to.

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Putting A Value On Creativity: 5 Pricing Lessons We Learned The Hard Way

YFS Magazine

How do we affix a value-price to our services without losing clients and new business opportunities?

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Are you the leader if no one follows?

Berkonomics

Here is a variation of the “tree falls in the forest” question. In past insights, we’ve looked at leadership skills, ways to enhance effectiveness, and how to develop creative ideas that motivate and propel your organization to greatness. Here is the ultimate question for a leader…. You’ve heard the old saying that you can lead by fear or lead because people want to follow.

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How To Gather High Quality Customer Feedback

YFS Magazine

Keeping your customer’s best interests in mind is the most simplistic and powerful way to tell how you're doing.

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Fresh from the SPRING: L3golas

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for L3golas. Check out more great work on L3golas’ profile page. Nicely done, L3golas , nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: LOREWREN. Fresh from the SPRING: badaboom.

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Well Then Just Quit

Austin Startup

July 1, 2016: My “Keep Calm and Carry On” essay last week was written before the Brexit vote, and I’ve since seen that slogan and flag in… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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What book format do you prefer and why?

Jeff Hilimire

I’ve gotten into the habit of listening to books on Audible while driving or running, and reading on the Kindle before bed, on weekends (when there is time), and on trips/vacations. My general rule of thumb is fiction on the Kindle and non-fiction/business on Audible, but it’s a loose rule. Here are the books I’ve read so far this year.

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10 Ways to Engage the Disability Market and Keep a Competitive Edge

Austin Startup

(Updated June 2016) Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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How To Use Interactivity to Increase Engagement (and Conversions)

ConversionXL

Interactivity tends to lead to better engagement, and it’s thought that better user engagement equals more conversions and more long term satisfaction with a brand. The web is an inherently interactive medium, so there are infinite ways to implement interactivity onto your site. Of course, it’s not a silver bullet strategy. Just because something is cool or popular – or just because it looks cool – doesn’t mean it works on the bottom line.

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Discount Code Network – Save More And Spend Less

YoungUpstarts

One of the best means for successful online business is to offer consumers the option of saving money when buying goods and products. Saving help customers to give less and different firms also compete enthusiastically in this global market. Discount codes and other saving offers are offered to consumers with a free hand to select high-quality products without worrying the price.

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15 Reasons Businesses Should Be Celebrating #SocialMediaDay

crowdSPRING Blog

Happy Social Media Day, everyone! Who’s ready to party like a minor MySpace celebrity circa 2004? In all seriousness though, it’s a day worth observing. Launched in 2010 by Mashable, the digital holiday was all about acknowledging what has since become a nearly ubiquitous part of our daily lives. As Mashable explained way back then: Social media has changed our lives.