Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2018

Heidi A. Voorhees, CAE. EDUCATION Bachelor of arts, majoring in commercial recreation/business, Central Michigan University; master of business administration, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. MY FIRST INDUSTRY JOB Straight out of college — convention assistant, SmithBucklin. MY PREVIOUS THREE JOBS Vice president of strategic initiatives, Institute of Food Technologists; senior vice president of housing, Experient; and two short stints at tech startups (BOB.tv and Eved).

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2018

Originally published on the Shep Blog As an entrepreneur, particularly at the beginning of your journey, you will constantly have to come up with and refine your message in a multitude of different formats. Whether it’s a thirty-page business plan, a ten-page pitch deck, a five-minute presentation, a one-page executive summary or a twenty-second elevator pitch, your primary goal is to answer the question, “What does your company do?

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Transformify

JANUARY 2, 2018

The world of business is more competitive than ever. Not only are you competing with other companies for business, but you also have to compete with your coworkers when it comes to promotions and raises. If you choose not to compete, you will end up passed over and underemployed, even if you are working full time. So how do you compete with your coworkers without ending up with a toxic work environment?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

by Gustavo Oliveira, teacher of the DeRose Method. Since we were born, we have been conditioned by specific patterns of behaviors. We are what we repeatedly think, feel, eat and behave. Even when we see that our behaviors are not rewarding, rarely are we able to change these habits and attitudes. It is much easier to plan around them than to change them.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2018

Will Millennials Change Manufacturing? The largest generation in the U.S. is taking its place in manufacturing — and the experts are betting this tech-savvy cohort is ready to stir things up. By Steve Minter, Industry Week . Dark, dirty and dangerous — mention the 3Ds of old-time manufacturing and HR managers shudder. It’s exactly the image they don’t want the public — or millennials considering careers in manufacturing — to have of the industry.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

We’re well past the point of keeping up with every advancement in the tech field – things are simply moving too fast. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t affected when things move forward. New technology makes its way into our lives and businesses faster every year. Unsurprisingly, that will continue in 2018. But since it’s almost impossible to keep up with every tech change that will affect you this year, we’ve collected four that are on our radar.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 2, 2018

I’ve always believed the technology shifts we ought focus on shouldn’t be the abrupt, but changes in the tide of consumer behaviour and the economy. The reasons shifts are more important than definitive events is that we have time to react to them, build around the movement and benefit from the change. Disruptive events are. Continue reading → The post The technology shifts you need to focus on in 2018 appeared first on Steve Sammartino.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2018

Investing in people is expensive, so budget for it. However, managing uninspired people, high turnover or a disengaged workforce will cost you everything.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 2, 2018

Not gonna lie. All those “Books of 2017” posts made me kinda wishing I kept a list of my own. No way for me to go back and figure out what I read last year (I give away most books once I’ve completed them) so instead will make this a living post, where I add as I finish. If we generously start 2018 on 12/26/2017, here’s what I’ve read so far in reverse-chron order: 4) Finding Flow – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [non-fiction].

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2018

In a surprising finding, blacks and whites have the same risk of developing diabetes when all biological factors for the disease are considered over time, reports a large new Northwestern Medicine study. The finding flips long-held beliefs that there is an unexplained or genetic reason why blacks have double the rate of diabetes compared to whites by midlife, which is considered early onset.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 2, 2018

We all know that Google Docs is a powerful word processing tool and one of the main core applications of Google. It allows students the opportunity collaborate in live time from any device, and from any location, in addition to constantly making learning visible. Google Docs is probably one of the most used G-Suite apps in the educational domain and one that offers many features above and beyond our old traditional ways of digitizing text.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2018

Capital Factory does a lot of different things to support entrepreneurs. I think of it like a body or ecosystem with different parts that all work together and are interdependent. The physical coworking space is the bones and body. It is our home. It gives a sense of place and a “where” for everything else to happen. The 1,000 meetups and events we host every year are the heartbeat.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2018

As 2017 drew to an end, we noted the continuing flood of Illinois biometric privacy suits filed over the past year. There are literally dozens of cases pending, most in Illinois state courts, alleging violation of Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which regulates the collection, retention, and disclosure of personal biometric identifiers and biometric information.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2018

Formalloy's Formax 3D metal deposition toolhead. Looking for an interesting 3D metal printing. Read the whole entry.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 2, 2018

I’m obsessed with continuing to optimize my process for getting things done. The single biggest contributor to my success going forward will be how well I manage my own time. And to achieve the six big things I want to accomplish in 2018 , I’ll need to be very efficient with what I do, and how I do it. Recently, I wrote a post entitled, My Operating System: How I stay productive and get things done.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

There’s a lot of allure to the world of entrepreneurialism. The idea of being independent and following your own course is a big part of it, as much as the gratification of seeing your product or service take off with customers. It’s the kind of environment where people may think that concepts like business forecasting or change management are all well and good, but really the province of big businesses – not more fledgling organizations.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2018

The past is ungraspable, the present is ungraspable, the future is ungraspable. – Diamond Sutra. Now that it’s 2018, the inevitable predictions for 2018 are upon us. I’m not a predictor. I never have been and don’t expect I ever will be. However, I do enjoy reading a few of the predictions, most notably Fred Wilson’s What Is Going To Happen In 2018.

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