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Useful Tips on Pitching Your Startup to a VC

The Startup Magazine

You’ve developed a great product. You’ve taken it to the market and have seen strong sales and rave reviews by customers. Yet, you do not have enough cash to scale it in order to reach its full potential. This is the point where a venture capitalist (VC) can make all the difference in realizing your dreams. Source: Pixabay. There are numerous startups chasing after a comparatively small number of VCs.

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Improving your emotional intelligence can earn you a raise — here’s how

The Next Web

“Would you rather be smart, or kind?” For most of us, this would be a difficult question to answer. Both characteristics are valued highly in our society. Which do you choose? If you’re leaning toward smart, you’re not alone. It’s easy to associate intelligence with wealth and success. Meanwhile, kindness and its cousin — empathy — is often associated with passivity and weakness, especially by self-proclaimed diehard business people.

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9 Killer Business Tips Every Entrepreneur Needs To Know

YoungUpstarts

by Diana Ennen, President of Virtual Word Publishing and author of “ Virtual Assistant, The Series: Become a Highly Successful, Sought After VA “. Having a successful business takes time and effort and a blueprint that works. It differs for all businesses, but many key factors remain the same. As an entrepreneur for 33 years (celebrating this month), I’ve seen what works and what doesn’t.

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6 reasons why Latin American valuations are lagging behind Silicon Valley

The Next Web

Latin American startups haven’t had the same valuations as Silicon Valley startups. This frustrates many Latin American entrepreneurs seeking investment, as they don’t understand why Latin American VCs aren’t doing deals at Silicon Valley valuations. There are important reasons why Latin American early-stage investment valuations are lower. For one, there are few acquisitions in Latin America, and when acquisitions do happen, they tend to be at lower valuations than their counterparts in other p

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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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So, You Want to Be a Startup Advisor? Do These 5 Things Now

The Startup Magazine

Sitting on a corporate advisory board is one of the best resume-builders an entrepreneur can ask for. Whether you have any executive role or not, the fact that at least one founder thinks highly enough of your experience and expertise to seek out your counsel is a big vote of confidence in your abilities as a leader. Source: Pixabay. Your First Board Position.

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Build teams for ‘radical innovation’ to save your company’s creativity

The Next Web

For most companies that have been around for a while, rigidity and corporate processes eventually creep into the system. They slowly start to see innovation as simply the next iteration of an existing product or service. Resulting in just iterative ‘innovation’ which isn’t a sustainable way for a business to stay ahead. The way I see it, if someone is working on something that could potentially disrupt your business, it better be you.

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Tech-star Helping Bankroll Young Entrepreneurial Dreams Through a Bank of Coworking

Hearpreneur

Picture yourself as a budding entrepreneur searching for the perfect space to let your creative sparks fly. Currently, individuals and companies in need of a coworking space are forced to pay a high deposit upon sign-up. For freelancers and startups, funds are tight and every dollar counts. Salaryo pays the full deposit amount on their behalf in advance and charges a small, affordable monthly fee starting at $10/month.

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Volunteering in Costa Rica

David Cohen

When each of my kids is 12, I take them volunteering on a dad/kid trip with Globe Aware. This spring break it was Delaney’s turn. We just returned from a week in the Orisi Valley of Costa Rica. Like when I did this in China in 2013 with Andrew , who is now 16, I wrote a daily email home and am just posting them all here chronologically with a few photos.

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How To Get Your Small Business On Its Feet Quickly

The Startup Magazine

Getting your startup or business up and running is an exciting time, but it’s not without some nerves and apprehension. You’re likely concerned as to whether you’ll be successful and if you will run into any setbacks along the way. However, go forward with your new venture with confidence once you’re sure you’ve got every element covered and you’re confident your business can make it.

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Almond-Adjusted Returns

Austin Startup

This is not wrong. If I want to double, triple, “ten-X” my money in the next 15 minutes?—?well, I’m going to have a difficult time. Probably would require a really creative debt provider, and far more luck than I’ve ever had, among other things. Additionally, I’d be competing with everyone in the world actively trading the public markets, whether it be a quantitative hedge fund or a bored office worker with a Schwab account.