YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

by Keiichiro Nozaki, Regional Marketing Architect/Evangelist of Asia Pacific, China, and Japan for F5 Networks. A century ago, we had the industrial revolution. It transformed how we manufactured, well, everything. Fast-forward to the present day. We are now in the midst of the Fourth, characterized by the fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between physical, digital, and biological worlds.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 16, 2018

Picture Credit: Randy Lyhus for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Image Description: An artist installation of a super-large metallic wheelchair with black wheels and multi-colored spokes displayed in an open-air green, grass field with buildings shown in the background. Fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion benefits everyone. While companies increasingly recognize the benefits of building and retaining a diverse workforce, they inadvertently neglect “Disability” in their diversity and

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

b y Lisa Henken, Chief Customer Officer at Netspend. Tax time is stressful for everyone. But for small business owners who are looking through receipts, trying to determine which expenses were business-related and which were not, ensuring they are recording the correct income for their business, trying to find the right forms and so much more, it can be even more stressful and overwhelming.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 16, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: April 16, 2018 Central Texas founders have just a few more days to apply to be considered for the 2018 Austin A-List of the Hottest Startups , as the entry deadline for this competition is the end of the day on Friday, April 20. The Austin A-List serve to increase the visibility for the city’s most innovative startups and the strength of the region’s overall entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

Sales and marketing is the most important and most powerful department of any corporate or business. The whole business and revenue depends on the sales, marketing and promotion techniques adopted by the companies. It is equally significant for the startups, small businesses and large scale organizations. The soar and effective marketing efforts can boost your business and take it to the heights.

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YFS Magazine

APRIL 16, 2018

These five steps suggest that prevention is better than a cure. With a proper foundation and legal guidance you can minimize potential problems before they have a chance to crop up to cause havoc in your business.

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YFS Magazine

APRIL 16, 2018

As the eighth most popular social media channel in the world, Instagram has been instrumental in helping brands reach their target market.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2018

While I’ve been writing my entire adult life, I started writing consistently on May 4, 2004, when I began this blog with my first post To Blog or Not to Blog. I ended that first post with the sentence: “I’m still not sure if the world needs my musings, but because you have complete control over whether or not you decide to read this, here goes.” WordPress tells me that since then I’ve written 4,890 posts.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 16, 2018

"I'm not raising right now." When said to a VC, this is one of the biggest BS lines out there. You're literally talking to an investor, and if they offered you a big check at a great deal, you'd take it, no? So, how could you say you aren't fundraising? On the other hand, some founders *literally* aren't fundraising. They won't share any info on what's going on with their company, even with investors that are really excited about their concept.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2018

Last year I wrote a few posts ( here and here ) that talked about how skewed venture returns were. The key take-away graphic from that post is below – outsized returns on venture investments are rare. Much rarer than most people realize. A key question my post didn’t consider was what the ideal venture portfolio might look like in the face of these data. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 16, 2018

Every business has some angry, emotional or difficult customers. Even if most of your customers are happy, there will always be outliers. While talking down an angry, frustrated customer will never be easy, there are proven techniques that make the process more effective, and less frustrating. The most effective of these techniques are grounded in psychology.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2018

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. I feel fear quite strongly. It’s not as though I have the absence of fear. There are just times when something is important enough that you do it in spite of the fear.

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Transformify

APRIL 16, 2018

As the digital age has matured over the years, the geographic location of the workplace has gained elasticity and much of the global workforce has merged together, resulting in worldwide collaboration. Many working people long for ‘location independence’ allowing them to expand their business opportunities, choose where to live or even lead a nomadic lifestyle.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 16, 2018

In the book, Do the KIND Thing , the founder of KIND, Daniel Lubetsky, talks about the the power of optimism for entrepreneurs. But he positions his form of ptimism as something he calls, Actionism. I looked this term up and here’s what I found: ACTIONIST: a person that does not accept things as they are and commits to change them . Yes, yes, and more yes!

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 16, 2018

In case you haven’t heard, civil war broke out in San Francisco last month, and it’s over dockless scooters. Battery-powered single-rider scooters which can be signed out using a mobile app and then left wherever the rider disembarks. The economics only work when you’ve got a density of riders so multiple companies descended on San Francisco, each hoping to beat the other in a landgrab.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

by Danielle Herman , consultant at The GAP Partnership. I was really bad at negotiating my salary. In fact, I get really nervous when I have to negotiate anything. I have attended 7 interviews in my life. Except my first interview out of college, I have read up on salary negotiation every single time. But somehow nothing I read offered me any confidence to actually do the negotiation.

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