Tue.May 21, 2019

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Managing Your Startup Board?—?A Short Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

Managing Your Startup Board?—?A Short Presentation I was invited to do a keynote presentation at the Khosla Ventures CEO Summit this week in Sausalito. It was an amazing gathering of some of the most ambitious early-stage CEO’s looking to make a dent in fields related to healthcare, biology, AI and other transformative fields. It’s encouraging to know that there are still great VC firms like KV that are looking to make these short of big bets on shaping the future.

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The Secrets to Impactful Speaking

Duct Tape Marketing

The Secrets to Impactful Speaking written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Allison Shapira. Podcast Transcript. On today’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I speak with founder and CEO of Global Public Speaking, Allison Shapira. As a former opera singer, Shapira brings a unique perspective to public speaking.

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Want To Do Business With Baby Boomers? You’ll Find Them On Social Media

YoungUpstarts

by Jonathan Musgrave, owner and chief digital marketer of Steep Digital Marketing. Forget those jokes about Baby Boomers and their supposed struggles grasping today’s technology. They may have grown up in a black-and-white TV, rotary-phone era, but most Baby Boomers long ago adapted to the 21st-century digital world. And that includes social media, which they took to with almost as much delight as their children and grandchildren if recent studies on the subject are any indication.

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Why Blockchain and Remanufacturing are a Perfect Match

ReadWriteStart

In its purest form, remanufacturing is taking previously used products or their previously used parts, putting them all back together again. You then reselling them — generally at a cheaper price. Remanufacturing is common for such products as medical devices, wood, computers, machinery, vehicles, toner cartridges, and much more. Blockchain technology can ultimately revolutionize the […].

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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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3 Workplace Gadgets Which Can Increase Your Productivity

YoungUpstarts

Reduced productivity can have a significant negative impact on your business. However, thankfully there are ways to give it a boost. You’ll find lots of tools and gadgets out there designed to maximise productivity. However, with so much choice available it can be difficult to know which ones are worth investing in. To help, below you’ll discover 3 of the best workplace gadgets which can increase your productivity. 1.

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Hypergiant Aims to Dominate the AI Industry on Earth and in Space

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK, publisher of Silicon Hills News At Hypergiant’s Austin headquarters, Ben Lamm, CEO, and Co-founder takes to the conference room’s whiteboard to explain its structure and expansion plans. Hypergiant launched out of stealth mode in February of 2018 and has been growing steadily with 140 employees in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and Seattle.

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The Austin Technology Incubator Celebrates its 30th Anniversary

SiliconHills

When the Austin Technology Incubator launched in 1989, Austin was a much different city. Austin had one of the highest commercial vacancy rates in the country. Its economy struggled to recover after the Savings and Loan Crisis. The technology industry was in its infancy. Thanks to ATI, the longest running incubator in the country, Austin […]. The post The Austin Technology Incubator Celebrates its 30th Anniversary appeared first on SiliconHills.

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CSbyAll: An Interactive, Crowdsourced Timeline of the CS Education and Diversity in Tech Movement

Feld Thoughts

The modern computer science education movement, commonly referred to as Computer Science for All or #CSforALL , has been gaining momentum nationwide since 2004 and is poised to be the most significant upgrade to the US education system in history. History is recorded and codified through the journalism, social media, and public policy, and tends to emphasize the voices of those already in the public eye.

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Aberrant Geniuses (aka jerks)

Eric Friedman

In the book Trillion Dollar Coach about Bill Campbell, there is an important section on Aberrant Geniuses. I like this term because he is using it in place of divas (or a s). I have a low tolerance for this kind, but this shows them in a new light which I can appreciate. The book describes them as sometimes being enormously valuable when they are directed in the right way.

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Love In The Workplace: Your Role In The Next Evolution Of Work Culture

YoungUpstarts

by Kourtney Whitehead, author of “ Working Whole: How to Unite Your Spiritual Beliefs and Your Work to Live Fulfilled “ In recent years, ground breaking discoveries about the neuroplasticity of the brain have been game changers in how we think about ourselves, the mind-body-spirit connection, our potential to heal traumas and our ability to disrupt the thought patterns and instincts that are not leading us to our best life experience.

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Stop Apologizing: Widen Your Focus to Grow in Business and in Life

Up and Running

Life can be crazy and hectic sometimes. The thing is, finding the right ways to learn while developing your expertise (and yes, adulting and doing life and family) can feel mind-boggling. I’m beginning to realize that information and industry knowledge can feel so siloed. How do you know where to go to find the right solutions, answers, facts, and so on, to get from point A to point B?

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Transcript of The Secrets to Impactful Speaking

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of The Secrets to Impactful Speaking written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Choosing the right domain name is critical to ensuring the success of your small business, but it’s gotten a little harder. Now you can choose a.us domain to help your business stand out. Reserve your.us web address today.

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Marketplace Feedback and Pricing Systems

A Crowded Space

A number of people have asked to see the presentation I gave a couple months ago at the Marketplace Conference in San Francisco. Here are the slides: Marketplace pricing and feedback Enjoy. And let me know any feedback. PS – The Marketplace Conference is truly fantastic. Anybody in the startup marketplace world should attend. It’s the single best event for like-minded marketplace geeks.

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5 Unique Ways to Engage With Your Fans on Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Unique Ways to Engage With Your Fans on Social Media written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Social media provides you with a unique opportunity to engage with your fans and followers. For most businesses, the amount of face-to-face time you get with your customers in limited, and for some companies that operate entirely online, they never meet their customers in real life.