Thu.Jan 11, 2018

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How Can Working In America Benefit Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

Let’s say that you’ve been running your organisation for quite a while now, and you’re looking for the opportunity to spread your wings and aim for something even bigger. If this sounds like you, and your aspiration for 2018 is to expand your business globally, then look no further than the US. Pre-existing businesses and start-ups alike will benefit greatly by taking advantage of the resources available in America, ensuring that their company expansion was the right decision to make.

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Entrepreneur Builds on Technology Platform to Power the Barbershop Industry

Hearpreneur

Technology is changing the way people think and do things. It’s through it that one entrepreneur builds a mobile technology platform, theCut , that powers the barbershop industry. In just 18 months his platform has grown to more than 70,000 users and booked more than 300,000 appointments. He believes in technology’s ability to enact change and level the economic playing field.

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What Every Bitcoin Investor Should Learn From a Dictator Named “Awesome”

Austin Startup

Bitcoin investors should learn a lesson from Awesome, a dictator who lost his life introducing the one of the world’s first fiat currencies Bitcoin investors should learn a lesson from Awesome, a dictator who lost his life introducing one of the world’s first fiat currencies. A fiat currency is a form of money to exchange goods and services that has no intrinsic value.

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Personal update: on building a meritocracy in our startup ecosystem

Hippoland

Happy New Year! I am so excited and hopeful for 2018. I grew up here in the Silicon Valley during the dot com boom. It was an exciting time. My childhood very much had a strong influence on my career choices. My parents were not in the tech industry. I went into engineering simply because of where I grew up and the mentors who surrounded me. Had I grown up anywhere else, I seriously doubt I would have even thought about starting a company.

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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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SAP: When you come to a fork in the road, Take it!

deal architect

“Who pays when the SAP data center goes on strike and the solution is down?” Data Center going on strike? That portion of a quote from Hermann-Josef Haag, spokesperson for the DSAG HR management working group made me stop in.

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Personal update: on building a meritocracy in our startup ecosystem

Hippoland

Happy New Year! I am so excited and hopeful for 2018. I grew up here in the Silicon Valley during the dot com boom. It was an exciting time. My childhood very much had a strong influence on my career choices. My parents were not in the tech industry. I went into engineering simply because of where I grew up and the mentors who surrounded me. Had I grown up anywhere else, I seriously doubt I would have even thought about starting a company.

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Why Investing in the Everyday Economy Isn’t Just a Consumer Strategy

View from Seed

For several months now, my partners and I have spent a lot of time talking about why we’re investing in the Everyday Economy. We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. W e’ve also shared why our approach is also “horizontal” — a company we invest in doesn’t have to neatly fit into the consumer spending verticals, but it should have the potential to touch millions of

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5 Ways Millennials Are Impacting The Startup Boom

YoungUpstarts

by Nate Vickery, editor-in-chief of Bizzmarkblog.com. As the majority of the workforce shifts from one generation to the other, the industry is bound to change, as well. At the moment, it is reshaping itself in order to meet the needs of the ever-growing millennial population within its ranks. Now, while a lot of people whine about the ‘entitled millennials’ who expect a trophy every time they do anything, this is not necessarily true and some of these changes are overwhelmingly positive.

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What’s a company board good for, anyway?

Berkonomics

Some of you have gotten along forever without a board of directors, or used your spouse as the “other” board member from the start. But there are some very good reasons to build a great board composed of some outside members. And good board members can add real value to you and the company. In other posts, we cover legal responsibilities of a board, how to pay board members, the limits of their responsibilities, dealing with under-performing or “noisy” board members, and more.

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The Three Benefits Of Nailing Before Scaling

YoungUpstarts

by Courtney Reum and Carter Reum, co-authors of “ Shortcut Your Startup: Speed Up Success with Unconventional Advice from the Trenches “ Too often we see leaders who have the entrepreneurial instinct to move quickly go wide before they’ve nailed the most crucial early steps. Part of this is avoidable by setting, prioritizing, and achieving the mile.

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I’m A VC

Feld Thoughts

As a preparation for something new and exciting, let’s reminisce a little. In 2011, we did our first Foundry Group music video “I’m a VC.” I remember being amazed when the Youtube views went over 100,000. I recall being equally amazed when I heard that our IT guy ( Ryan ) had cleaned up our random Google accounts, deleted video@foundrygroup.com, and as a result deleted the video.

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Health, Safety And Wellness Guide For Company Events

YFS Magazine

Ensure your next company event is safe for attendees and promote healthy choices and behavior. This agenda coupled with providing a good time is the goal.

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Why It Is Essential to Put Strategy Before Tactics

Duct Tape Marketing

Why It Is Essential to Put Strategy Before Tactics written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch About Strategy. Marketing strategy is one of my favorite topics, and it’s been a distinguishing mark over the years of Duct Tape Marketing because so many marketers want to talk about tactics. When I talk about marketing strategy, the first thing I talk about is what it is not, before what it is.

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Launch An App Startup Without A Tech Background

YFS Magazine

Do you have a great idea for a mobile app? As the app market continues to grow, if you're missing a technical background, you’re not missing out.

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Could Facebook compete head on with Amazon?

Start Up Blog

I recently tweeted that I expect to see Facebook scramble and launch a physical device to capture verbal interactions in the home, as per Google, Apple and Amazon: And just today rumours started surfacing at CES one is on its way called Facebook Portal. I promise I had no insider knowledge! The tweet generated quite. Continue reading → The post Could Facebook compete head on with Amazon?

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Book #2: Ultramarathon Man

Jeff Hilimire

This year (2018) my goal is to read 52 books. Here is a list of all the books I’ve read in 2018. Each book is ranked on a 5-star scale (5 is best). Ultramarathon Man (Audible). This book was fine, but I think I’m just searching for another running book that can come close to the amazing book, Born to Run. That book almost made my top 5 books list , it was that good.

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