Tue.Jun 12, 2018

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How Startups Can Prepare For Their First Tax Audit

YoungUpstarts

by Chris S. Millias and Warren Chung of OUM & Co. LLP. Successful entrepreneurs start with a vision. They spend a lot of time, effort and resources on developing a business plan, and even more time and effort on raising capital, finding the right people and developing strategic partners. They work with attorneys to form corporate structures and help with financing agreements.

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Turns out venture capital is a people business, or is it?

VC Cafe

Is Venture capital a people business or an antiquated model that is ripe for disruption? I share arguments for and against from two interesting posts I read this week. Continue Reading → This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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The Role Of The Printer In The 2018 Workplace

YoungUpstarts

The printer was once considered one of the most important pieces of equipment in any office. Today, printing needs have changed, but they have certainly not disappeared. Step into even the most digitally advanced office in the world and you will still see plenty of paper around, and printers busily working away. That’s not to say, however, that the printer is not having to evolve with the times.

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The 4 Corners of a Storm-Proof Startup Strategy

Up and Running

No one wants to pursue their dream of starting a business only to see it fold within 5 years. But according to conservative estimates, more than 60 percent of new businesses do just that. But, there’s good news on the horizon. Venture capital is on pace for a record-breaking year. And it’s good weather for startups if you consider Bloomberg’s “ Startup Barometer ,” which reported that the startup climate is 112.99 percent healthier than in April of 2017.

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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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Practical Ways To Reduce Fleet Costs

YoungUpstarts

If your business is reliant on having a fleet of vehicles, you will appreciate how expensive this can be. There are fuel costs for starters, as well as insurance for each vehicle, road tax, and general maintenance costs, especially for vehicles that have been on the road for a long time. The costs can add up, but there are ways you can reduce spending.

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Colorado Health & Wellness Interview On Depression

Feld Thoughts

Since I wrote about depression yesterday, I figured I’d highlight a long interview with Colorado Health & Wellness magazine on my history dynamics with depression titled Brad Feld’s Village. I was interviewed by Sarah Protzman Howlett , who did a lot of research before the interview, and then spoke with a number of people close to me after we talked.

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Backing Radformation: How Many Physicists Does it Take to Build a SaaS Company?

This is going to be BIG.

Long gone are the days when NYC was just a place to build a fintech company or an ad platform. In the first half of 2018, we saw Flatiron Health’s $1.9 Billion acquisition, Quentis Therapeutics picking up $48 million in financing, and Paige.ai raising $25 Million--all to fight cancer. Making cancer treatment easier to plan for clinicians was the goal of a founding team of three physicists who cold e-mailed me around New Years.

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BuildGroup Raises $330 Million Fund Aimed at Investing in Software Companies

SiliconHills

BuildGroup, a Venture Capital firm founded in 2015, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $330 million aimed at investing in emerging software companies. The Austin-based firm’s investors include “successful entrepreneurs and business leaders from Texas and the Rocky Mountains, with the founders contributing a significant portion of the overall funds,” according to a news […].

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Perfecting Your Lead Generation Efforts: A Guide for Service Professionals

Duct Tape Marketing

Perfecting Your Lead Generation Efforts: A Guide for Service Professionals written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you own a professional services business, odds are you’re trying to get leads in the door. What I often see is that these types of businesses develop automated lead funnels, because that’s what they’re told to do, and spend a lot of time vetting these leads, but let’s face it, they probably don’t have a ton of time to do that!

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How To Build A Successful New Team From Day One

YFS Magazine

As you build a team, the on-boarding plans and support you give them as they embark on early projects are essential to their success.

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5 basic ways to increase website traffic

NZ Entrepreneur

I go to a business networking group every fortnight. One of the most common things said – the one thing that every business owner finds difficult – is that they want to increase website traffic. The reason this is happening is because most people do not understand that just having a fabulous website (although important) will not guarantee you get traffic.

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What It Truly Means To Manage Your Cash Flow

YFS Magazine

Manage your cash flow or else! I’m sure you’ve heard this before in podcasts or read it in business books, but what does it truly mean and entail?

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Day One at Dragon Army’s new HQ!

Jeff Hilimire

The post Day One at Dragon Army’s new HQ! appeared first on Begin the Begin.

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How To Get Started With Investments

YoungUpstarts

Entrepreneurs tend to be risk-takers who enjoy diving into new fields. They’re also often in the position of scrambling for ever better and more efficient ways of raising funds. If you’re considering investing for the first time, then keep in mind that most strong earnings are attained over a longer period of time. However, there are some ways that you can increase your chances of earning faster and more reliably.

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I Hate Networking

Austin Startup

An easy way to build real relationships and powerful partnerships Terri multitasks while Heidi does her hair at Blo Domain Something I get asked a lot is how to network. But first, I have a confession: I hate that word. It makes me cringe because it’s so impersonal and cold, as though the goal is simply to add names to the list of people you know professionally, just the same way you drop coins into a coin jar.