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Announcing our investment in Ada Support – the AI support platform that’s answering 2 million questions a month

Version One Ventures

As Ada Support launches its automated chat platform from stealth and announces an impressive $2.5 million seed round, we’re looking back at our journey with founders Mike Murchison and David Hariri. The story underscores the importance of perseverance and having the right founding team. Just after closing Fund II in October 2014, Boris took a trip to Toronto.

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Transcript of How to Free Up More Time in Your Work Week

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Free Up More Time in Your Work Week written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. john: So what’s your biggest problem? Is it time, is it focus, is it delegation? Those are the things I hear all of the time so that’s why I’m speaking with Mandi Ellefson. She is the CEO of the Hands Off CEO.

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Barcelona isn’t the new Silicon Valley – and that’s a good thing

The Next Web

In post-crisis Spain things are beginning to pick up. The country is the 4th destination for international tech talent and Barcelona, the second largest city after Madrid, is ranked at number 5 of 60 European startup hubs in Europe by the Mobile World Congress (MWC). Attracted by the lifestyle, a relatively low cost of living, and dozens upon dozens of co-working spaces, you’ll find many startups, “digital nomads” and European entrepreneurs operating in the city.

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Stand Out: Three Areas That Visually Push Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Lea Schneider. When it comes to running a business, you want to stand out and be outstanding. As a small brick-and-mortar business, you can easily be lost in a crowd of others. Potential customers driving down the road may only see a blur of shops outside the car window. You’ve got to clear the vision by making sure your company stands out. Address these three key areas to help you stand out so you are well on your way to be outstanding.

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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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Contentment

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I were at a delightful dinner with friends (new and old) last night who are deeply involved in Naropa. After a very long couple of days where I was very tired, it was nice to sit in a cozy house, eat home cooked food, and just talk about life. Near the end of the evening, I heard a line that will stick with me for a very long time. “Contentment used to be a virtue.

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Everything changes from concept to release.

Berkonomics

Close. You can take this headline as a rule, not an exception. You’ll recognize the truism, “No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy” first stated by German Field Marshall von Moltke way back in the 19 th century. Our variant of the “battle plan” truism is important to internalize. A product at the concept stage contains feature-functionality that customers may not want or be willing to pay for, or which just might not work well enough for release to the public.

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Tips For Finding The Right Franchise

The Startup Magazine

Opening a restaurant can be quite challenging. It comes with a slew of hurdles but if you are prepared and do the proper research along with supportive legal help then you can come out on the very top. One of the ways to open a restaurant is to go with a franchise which allows for a different approach that can either be positive or negative depending on what the owners’ main objectives are in regards to independence and future goals.

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U.S. VC Process for India Startups

The Startup Lawyer

As an India-based startup, closing on U.S. venture capital is similar to doing so if your company was completely US-based, with a few notable differences. In the past several years, I’ve represented several India-based startups through venture capital financings. To name just a few, clients have included Freshworks (formerly FreshDesk), WizRocket, and Shopalyst.

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Starting a Revolution with Social Media: Interview with Stephen Constantine of YouMap

The Startup Magazine

The founder and certified Mensa genius talks to The Startup Magazine about social change in the digital age and why he self-funded a project with the aim of helping groups better organize and report on social movements. Stephen Constantine, Founder and CEO of YouMap. Stephen Constantine first thought up his concept of YouMap when up all night watching political events unfold across the globe via Twitter.

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July 25 event: Tech Town Hall with Council Member Leslie Pool

Austin Startup

WeWork’s Domain location hosting at 5:30 pm —  RSVP here In an effort to connect Austin’s tech sector with their elected officials, Austin Tech Alliance is teaming up with WeWork to host Council Member Leslie Pool at a tech town hall next Tuesday evening at 5:30 pm. Come for the civic engagement — stay for the free beer. During our conversation with Council Member Pool, who represents District 7 in north Austin, we’ll discuss how City Council works, her priorities for the city, and how Austin’s

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Game of Thrones Inspired Wall Divides Office Workplace

The Startup Magazine

A team of parcel delivery experts combined their love for Game of Thrones and knowledge of cardboard boxes by building a wall which divided their entire office. When the team came across some spare cardboard boxes tucked away in storage, the idea to combine their shared love of the GoT series with some team building activity was born. Although the materials didn’t quite match that of the GoT version (which stretches over an impressive 300 miles) they managed to make the most of what they had at

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How to Free Up More Time In Your Work Week

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Free Up More Time In Your Work Week written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mandi Ellefson. Podcast Transcript. What’s your biggest problem? Is it time? Focus? Delegation? Those are the problems I hear about all the time and are seemingly the most difficult to solve. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Mandi Ellefson, a scalable freedom strategist and founder of The Hands-Off CEO.

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High Tech PJs? Startup Produces Performance Enhancing Sleepwear

The Startup Magazine

Innovation is often not coming up with a totally novel idea, but rather, taking an existing solution to a problem and using it to solve a similar problem in a different industry. Though the concept of temperature optimized clothing for athletes is nothing new, one startup decided to apply the same concepts of performance enhancing materials and attention to design, to the less competitive arena of your bedroom.

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Figuring out America’s Character

Campus Entrepreneurship

As we enter the hot summer months and I push deeper into research around the great American Research University, notions of national systems and character continue to play a role. Much of my work uses Frederick Jackson Turner and his frontier theory — see my recent paper on Universities and entrepreneurial ecosystems here ; SSRN version here ).

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Putting culture first: A CEO’s formula for success.

The Startup Magazine

Mike Wessinger, CEO, PointClickCare. “How did you do it?”. It’s probably the single-most asked question I get from aspiring entrepreneurs. From the outside looking in, it’s a fair question. I founded PointClickCare two decades ago with a background in sales and no technical skills. But I was able to take a simple idea to help nursing homes operate better and nurture it into the North American healthcare IT market leader for the senior care industry, with over 1,400 employees.

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Concentrate on Visitor Experience to Increase your Sales Pipeline

Duct Tape Marketing

Concentrate on Visitor Experience to Increase your Sales Pipeline written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Keeping your sales pipeline healthy reduces the worry for businesses that they are not receiving enough income. There are trends throughout the year that can affect the pipeline so how do you keep it topped up at a satisfactory level the whole year?

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Adapting to a Changing Reality – Why kiosk software might be a solution

The Startup Magazine

There are certain, timeless realities of business. They aren’t opinions, they are simple facts that dictate whether your business will be profitable or not. One of these, in many industries the most important one, is that the more you spend on labor costs, the lower your profits will be. Photo Credit: Pixabay. Labor costs, both in the creation and sale of your product, must be controlled to keep your company profitable.