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How To DIY Your Home Office Security With These Gadgets

YoungUpstarts

Connected devices have made how we live in the 21 st century a whole lot more interesting. While we’re still a bit far from The Jetsons with their personal rocket ships, Back to the Future Part II wasn’t too far off predicting what life is like today with things like video chat and holograms. Nike was also gracious enough to make self-lacing shoes happen.

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Colorado Global EIR 2017 Applications

Feld Thoughts

The 2017 applications for the Colorado Global EIR are now open through April 15, 2017. The Colorado Global EIR program is a way for experienced international entrepreneurs to receive an H-1B visa, allowing them to work in Boulder. They must commit to working 20 hours per week at CU Boulder (supporting cross-campus entrepreneurial activities), and of course, will be paid for doing so.

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How to Build a High Performing Growth Team

ConversionXL

As technology continues to make data-driven marketing easier to implement and control, one thing remains constant: it’s all about the effectiveness of your team. As Paul Rouke says, we need to prioritize human intelligence in the face of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence, and building a high performing team is the most impactful thing you can do when it comes to growth.

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10 Ways To Get The Most Out Of Leadership Coaching

YoungUpstarts

by Gregg Thompson, author of “ The Master Coach: Leading with Character, Building Connections, and Engaging in Extraordinary Conversations “ When it comes to helping you perform at your best and accelerate your career, nothing compares to the power of being coached. But while working with a great coach is a highly effective way of accelerating your development as a leader, it also represents a significant investment of time and money.

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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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Is Social Media Hurting Your Business?

YFS Magazine

Does social media help our hurt your business? Here are five tips to make social media work for your business and not be the death of it.

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Learning This One Language Will Instantly Make You A Better Leader

YoungUpstarts

by Rafael Romis , founder of Weberous. No matter where in the world your company is based, the number one language in offices is always the same and no, I’m not talking about English. In fact, the language I’m talking about doesn’t even involve talking at all. It’s a little system of communication called body language and you should look into it. Why Learn It?

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How To Launch A Second Business, Successfully

YFS Magazine

You've launched your first company and delivered fast-track growth. Now what? Read this before you launch your second business.

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The Enlightenment, the lean startup and Steve Jobs

The Equity Kicker

As a keen observer of startups over the last 17 years, one of the most remarkable and welcome developments has been the application of scientific method to building startups. In 1999 when I started in venture capital there were no blogs and very few business books that were useful for entrepreneurs. All founders could do was accumulate wise advisors and rely on their wits and instinct.

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Growth Story: How Marley Spoon grew fast by focussing on slow growth

The Next Web

Hero Metric is a new four-question format we’re doing about startups finding and influencing a defining metric that helped to really grow their company. We met with Fabian Siegel, co-founder and CEO of Marley Spoon, to find out how using slow growth tactics – the turtle approach – can actually help you get ahead of the competition. In a saturated market, Siegel dares to be different and it’s paying off.

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Serial Entrepreneur and Next Coast Ventures Partner Zeynep Young Gives Tips on How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur

SiliconHills

Zeynep Young is a serial entrepreneur who just became a venture capital partner with Next Coast Ventures. In this Ideas to Invoices podcast, Young discusses what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur and what she looks for when making an investment. Previously, Young founded and served as CEO of Double Line Partners, an educational […] The post Serial Entrepreneur and Next Coast Ventures Partner Zeynep Young Gives Tips on How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur appeared first on SiliconHills.

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A Guide To Starting A Home-Based Recruitment Business

The Startup Magazine

Many professionals consider starting a home-based business. There are a number of advantages to working from home such as cost-saving, but you need to take the right steps to start your business correctly. Being a home-based recruiter is a trend that many employment professionals are looking into. This is due to the nature of the business and the minimal levels of contact required to recruit clients.

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Hulu to Open a $13 Million Center in San Antonio with 500 Jobs

SiliconHills

Hulu, the online video streaming platform, announced Thursday plans to open a new customer support center in San Antonio and invest $13 million in the project. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company plans to bring more than 300 jobs to San Antonio this year and plans to expand to more than 500 jobs in 2018, according […] The post Hulu to Open a $13 Million Center in San Antonio with 500 Jobs appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Branding for Start Ups – How SEO Services Can Help You Build Your Brand

The Startup Magazine

The power of business branding using SEO methods relinquishes some outstanding results that are priceless. The increasing significance of this web tool has grabbed people’s attention. To many, it may seem quite daunting to use SEO techniques to strengthen your company’s brand. This is why an extensive search for the best SEO service providers is crucial to the success of any SEO based premise.

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Austin-based ClearDATA Raises $12 Million in VC Funding

SiliconHills

Austin-based ClearDATA announced Thursday that it has raised $12 million in venture capital funding. The company plans to use the funds to expand its healthcare-exclusive, HIPAA-compliant cloud. Investors include Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Norwest Venture Partners, Excel Venture Management, Heritage Group, HLM Venture Partners, and Flare Capital Partners.

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Design Chica Spotlight: Cy Wise

Austin Startup

A ten-year games industry veteran, Cy Wise has worked on multiple virtual reality titles, including Owlchemy Labs’ Job Simulator: the 2050 Archives  — which takes place in a future where robots have replaced human jobs and allows players to experience what it was like to have a job — as well as award-winning games. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, she studied sociology with a specialization in video game communities and digital tribes.

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The Comprehensive Guide to Social Media Ad Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

The Comprehensive Guide to Social Media Ad Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As per the latest research , social media ad spend overwhelmingly surpassed television by the end of 2016- a result that wasn’t predicted. Initially, it was estimated that TV would be on top until 2017 but surprisingly social channels overtook the tv numbers very early this year.