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Why You Should Enlist a Business Mentor, Or Be One

Startup Professionals Musings

Building a business is not rocket science, so there is no magic success formula. Some people think you need to get an MBA to get it right, while others are convinced that those who drop out of school early (Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg) have the advantage. In my experience working with startups, the best approach these days is to find and use a good mentor (been there, done that).

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Under Development: Why the Construction Industry Needs Software Solutions

The Startup Magazine

The construction and building industries play a huge part in the ongoing expansion of our modern cities. It is for this reason that these industries themselves often being the slowest to adapt to change and embrace technology is so ironic. Incremental Industry. The construction and building industries are heavily reliant on a contracted workforce; that is, there are a great number of individually contracted ‘employees’ who are invoiced and paid separately, rather than through a centralised syste

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Transcript of Should Chatbots Be a Part of Your Marketing Strategy?

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Should Chatbots Be a Part of Your Marketing Strategy? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Transcript provided by Verbatim Transcription Services. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John: The bots are coming and they will take no prisoners. Today we’re going to talk about chat bots with Ben Beck on this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast.

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3 Reasons To Reconsider Pre-packing Your Company

YoungUpstarts

by Eamonn Wall, managing director of Robson Scott Associates. Prepack administration is an insolvency process. It is used by insolvency practitioners to sell the assets and business of an insolvent company as soon as it enters administration. The insolvency practitioner is able to do this if they have previously carried out a confidential marketing exercise, and are comfortable that they are achieving the best available price.

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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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Women Should Stop Acting Like Men In The Workplace

YFS Magazine

The business world is well overdue for a wakeup call when it comes to understanding the true value women bring to the table.

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Book: All Over The Place

Feld Thoughts

I’ve written this post in the style Geraldine used in her book. As you read this, assume that I’ve failed miserably at it and Geraldine is 1000x funnier and more clever than I am. I had a weekend of books. Amy’s cold drifted over into my part of the world so I slept a lot, ran a little to try to clear out the goo in my head, and read until I feel asleep again.

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Ironheart Corporate Advisory Disrupts Legacy Companies by Accelerating Growth in Mid-Level Firms

The Startup Magazine

There has been solid growth in the number of middle market firms in the US, according to the Middle Market Power Index conducted by Commercial Database company, Dun and Bradstreet. Between March 2011 and March 2016 the number of middle market firms nearly doubled, up 87 percent, while employment and revenues did double. With 183,000 mid-level firms reported in 2016, these companies play a significant role in the entrepreneurial world.

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Graham Cochrane: From Food Stamps To Making As Much As $75,000/Month Teaching People How To Mix Music Online

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Graham Cochrane is the creator of TheRecordingRevolution.com, a blog and teaching business focused on helping people learn how to produce and mix music. At the time of this interview, Graham had topped $600,000 a year in revenue, The post Graham Cochrane: From Food Stamps To Making As Much As $75,000/Month Teaching People How To Mix Music Online appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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How Paparide Network leverages the sharing economy to decongest cities

The Startup Magazine

Ayoub Moutiya, co-Founder and CEO of Paparide Network , talks about how he was able to leverage the sharing economy to not only reduce traffic in cities, but also clean-up pollution along the way. Ayoub Moutiya, CEO and Co-Founder of Paparide Network. How are consumer behaving in your specific industry, why is Paparide Network important and what problem does it solve?

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2018 PanelPicker Process Opens June 26

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 15, 2017 The almost year-long planning cycle for SXSW 2018 begins on Monday, June 26, when we start accepting speaking proposals for next year’s event. All speaking proposals are entered via the SXSW PanelPicker, which helps us leverage the best content ideas from the community of global innovators. A good strategy to get inspired for 2018 speaking ideas is to examine what kinds of sessions and topics worked best in March 2017.

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Monday Motivation: Work [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

Share This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. One of the reasons, I worked on a project I named Project Work Ethic was because often the difference between failure and success comes down to how hard you work. It was a project that looked at the correlation between success and work.

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Graham Cochrane: From Food Stamps To Making As Much As $75,000/Month Teaching People How To Mix Music Online

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Graham Cochrane is the creator of TheRecordingRevolution.com, a blog and teaching business focused on helping people learn how to produce and mix music. At the time of this interview, Graham had topped $600,000 a year in revenue, The post Graham Cochrane: From Food Stamps To Making As Much As $75,000/Month Teaching People How To Mix Music Online appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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8 Apps to Help Grow Your Small Business

Up and Running

When personal computing first became a thing 30-something years ago, it was seen as a godsend for small business owners. Computer software was able to handle tasks that owners either didn’t have the time or skills to do—or the money to pay someone else to handle. Typing, filing, accounting, and marketing were just a few of the skills that small businesses could take on with greater confidence and professionalism.

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Unconditionals

The Startup Toolkit

What’s the bit of your business you’d never give up? The reason you started it in the first place? The impact, the vision, the lifestyle, the invention, the team, or whatever else. That’s your unconditional. When you hit a wall and need to change what you’re doing, you pivot around both your learning and your unconditional. It’s no help to get stuck in spreadsheet-strategy-land and make abstract decisions that make sense on paper but tear out your heart.

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How To Solve The 6 Worst Office Problems You’ll Face This Summer

YoungUpstarts

by Jesse Wood, CEO of eFileCabinet. For many, summertime is the most wonderful time of year. For others, the season summons feelings of drear as they know they’ll spend most of their summertime at work. However, working in the summertime can be as easy as the season’s gentle breezes. Follow these guidelines to solve these typical summertime workplace problems, and your summer will be smooth sailing: 1.

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Why Trump’s Victory Caused Alec Ross To Run for Governor of Maryland – Five Question Interview

Hunter Walker

My friend Alec Ross is running to be Governor of Maryland. I support him and hope you’ll join me, just go to his website to learn more. I’ve known Alec since early in Obama’s presidency. He was working for Secretary Clinton on an initiative on “21 st Century Statecraft.” This project focused on ensuring America was sending more than just “guns and butter” abroad (ie military intervention or economic aid).

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NVIDIA GTC: Innovation Accelerating, Ecosystem Gelling & Opportunity for Human Advancement…

Austin Startup

NVIDIA GTC: Innovation Accelerating, Ecosystem Gelling & Opportunity for Human Advancement Exploding As those who follow my social media handles know (perhaps all too well), I spent last week in San Jose at the Nvidia GTC with Austin-based, GPU accelerated startups BlazingDB and Bitfusion. It was a very short but impactful trip, and now that I’m back in Austin, I’ve had a chance to organize my thoughts.