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Protect Your Business – Disaster Preparedness, Recovery And Business Continuity Planning

YoungUpstarts

by Tom Hughes, Vice President – Small Business Product Management, AT&T. Four years ago, a storm developed in the Caribbean. What started as a tropical depression quickly turned in to a super storm. Two days later, Hurricane Sandy smashed into the Caribbean and then the East Coast of the United States. Devastating events happen every day — hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, wildfires and otherwise.

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How An Entrepreneur Can Win In This Age Of Disruption

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of entry to the entrepreneur lifestyle is at an all-time low, but the challenge of winning and success is at an all-time high. Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction.

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NYC Tech Podcast: Shai Goldman of SVB on Local Growth & Who Makes His All-Startup Basketball Team

View from Seed

NextView’s NYC podcast rolls on. Today, I talk to Shai Goldman, one of the most active community builders in NYC Tech, on his background, the evolution of the local startup scene … and who he’d draft to an all-startup pickup basketball game. Follow me and Shai at twitter.com/tdevane and twitter.com/shaig. Listen below or wherever you get your podcasts: The post NYC Tech Podcast: Shai Goldman of SVB on Local Growth & Who Makes His All-Startup Basketball Team appeared first

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Startup Success: HR Basics For Building A Happy Team Of Employees

YoungUpstarts

You might pride yourself on your winning ability to sweet-talk sceptical investors and difficult customers, but even the most finely tuned people skills will only take you so far when it comes to running a successful business. According to data collected by CB Insights, a divided and conflicted team is one of the top 20 reasons most startups fail. Putting infrastructure in place to look after the needs of your employees and keep them happy is a task you can’t afford to exclude from the to-do lis

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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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Looking for New Science Fiction?

Feld Thoughts

If you – like me – love science fiction, I encourage you to support the new sci-fi magazine Compelling Science Fiction. The editor, Joe Stech, lives in the Boulder area and has been actively involved in the Boulder/Denver startup community. He’s using Patreon as a funding model, which I’m a big fan of for new and indie writers.

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What Ten Promising Startups Taught Us About Marketing New Products

YoungUpstarts

by Stephen Wunker, David Farber, and Jessica Wattman, authors of “ Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation “ This past August, Mass Innovation Nights launched its 11 th MIN FOODIE event in Somerville, Massachusetts. Bringing together ten food and food tech startups, the night was an opportunity for these new business to showcase their ideas and get the word out about their companies.

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Don’t Deliberate, Just Motivate!

YoungUpstarts

Running a business, you will be at the head of a team. It will be up to you to keep your team motivated, and this is in your best interest. A motivated team will work harder to make your business a brilliant success. They will be more productive, delivering a faster turnaround to customers and clients. As such, you should always see the reputation of your business improve.

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Excited to be an Investor in The Wing

This is going to be BIG.

It means a lot to me to find financial opportunities investing in companies that I can be really proud of--education companies like Tinybop and Tinkergarten , or companies at the forefront of fair labor practices like Homer Logistics. There are others that haven't launched that I'm equally as proud and excited about--and now one more has launched. I'm thrilled to be an investor in The Wing --a Home Base for Women on Their Way.

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Self-Discipline Will Make You Unstoppable — Start With These 5 Steps

YFS Magazine

There is no other way to success as an entrepreneur without self-discipline. You can’t pass "GO" without it.

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Angel Investment: A Curated List of Our Best Articles

Up and Running

If you’re seeking angel investment for your startup, it’s to your benefit to learn as much as possible about angel investors and the types of questions they’re likely to ask, especially given how much competition you’ll have. Below, we’ve curated a list of our best resources on angel investment. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, be sure to let us know!

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Dell Extolls the Third Industrial Revolution and the Internet of Everything

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Everything in the technology world improves about ten times every five years, Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies said at the first Dell EMC World Wednesday morning. “That means 15 years from now, we’ll have another 1,000 times improvement in power, speed, efficiency and capacity compared to […] The post Dell Extolls the Third Industrial Revolution and the Internet of Everything appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Closing My Business: How I Knew It Was Time To Move On

YFS Magazine

Passion changes. It’s fleeting. And I’m convinced that if we follow it, we’ll never catch it.

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Where to go when your city is gone

Growthink Blog

“The chief business of the American people is business.” - Calvin Coolidge, 1925 “I went back to Ohio / But my city was gone” - The Pretenders, 1984 My 1980’s childhood growing up in Worcester, Massachusetts was a blessing that perhaps I never fully appreciated until having sons of my own, now ages 9 and 10, and especially so through the darkness and despair of this political season.

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Golden Angels Announces IRR Results

Tim Keane

It’s not very often that angel networks disclose results. Most of us are ready and willing to discuss our approaches, beliefs or methods, but usually stop well short of providing the proof of our assertions. Today, Golden Angels is publishing.

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Learn How to Speak Like a Pro

Duct Tape Marketing

Learn How to Speak Like a Pro written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Grant Baldwin. Lots of folks seem to be teaching public speaking these days and with good reason. While becoming a sought after and highly paid speaker may be a dream for some, learning to present your ideas in a more effective manner is a good idea for all.

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Chiropractor Turns Entrepreneur

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Chiropractor Turns Entrepreneur appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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What to Expect When A Startup CEO Is Expecting

Austin Startup

I have three babies: a toddler, a startup, and an infant. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Efficient multiple-stream concatenation in Java

TechEmpower

I want to combine the elements of multiple Stream instances into a single Stream. What's the best way to do this? This article compares a few different solutions. Stream.concat(a, b). The JDK provides Stream.concat(a, b) for concatenating two streams. void exampleConcatTwo () {. Stream a = Stream. of ( "one" , "two" ); Stream b = Stream. of ( "three" , "four" ); Stream out = Stream. concat ( a , b ); out. forEach ( System. out :: println ); // Output: // one. // two. // three. // four. }.

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7 Scrappy Ways to Launch An App

Austin Startup

Cross-posted from my blog Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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