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Essential Facts and Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

crowdSPRING Blog

Starting a business can be terrifying. Many startup myths threaten to hold back even the best-intentioned entrepreneurs. The statistics don’t do much for confidence: 20 percent of new companies fail in their first year, and only 50 percent survive through their fifth year. In spite of those sobering numbers, today, there are close to 400 million entrepreneurs worldwide.

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3 Ways To Promote Your Brand On LinkedIn Using Video

YoungUpstarts

by Jack Anzarouth, president of Digital Ink Marketing. It’s been well documented that LinkedIn was a bit late to the game when it comes to adopting video, but the largely B2B site has fully embraced it now. Scroll through your feed on the site these days and it will be full of videos vying for your attention. Now that LinkedIn and its 350 million registered users have joined the ranks of the social media platforms with moving pictures, the question becomes: how can you use video on the platform

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Essential Facts and Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

crowdSPRING Blog

Starting a business can be terrifying. Many startup myths threaten to hold back even the best-intentioned entrepreneurs. The statistics don’t do much for confidence: 20 percent of new companies fail in their first year, and only 50 percent survive through their fifth year. In spite of those sobering numbers, today, there are close to 400 million entrepreneurs worldwide.

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15 Incredible Women in Business to Watch in 2018 and Beyond

ReadWriteStart

Much has been written about the tech industry’s sexist undertones. In 2017, Silicon Valley faced a “reckoning” for its gender-driven decision-making and tolerance of sexual harassment. From marginalizing women’s ability to contribute to the field because of their biological makeup to holding them to higher standards in order to earn leadership roles, the business world […].

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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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Beating The Odds To Land A Startup Opportunity

YoungUpstarts

by Randy Komisar and Jantoon Reigersman, authors of “ Straight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds “ From the outside, the startup world appears flush with opportunities. New companies are formed daily, raising huge sums of venture capital to take on the incumbents and put your company out of business. The game is massive and dynamic.

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How to Make an Animated Explainer Video That Resonates With Your Audience

Up and Running

Animated explainer videos are engaging and can help you create strong connections with current and potential customers. In this article, we’ll cover what makes a great animated explainer video, and how to create one for your business. Why animated videos? Wait, aren’t all well-crafted explainer videos engaging? Well, yes, but with animation, you have some extra benefits that you may not have thought about: They are great for explaining complex products .

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Four Leadership Mistakes And How To Course-Correct

YFS Magazine

As a leader you'll eventually encounter mistakes that need to be addressed. How effectively you correct behavior directly impacts your business.

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Katie Haun

Ben's Blog

How many of them could’ve did it with finesse? Now everybody like, ‘she really is the best’. –Nicki Minaj, “ Chun-Li “ We first met Katie Haun when she joined the board of Coinbase, but her reputation preceded her.

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5 Simple Ways To Make A Good First Impression

YFS Magazine

You get one chance to make a first impression. In business, this adage is even more significant.

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Ten Tech Events to Attend in Austin This Week

SiliconHills

Today marks the start of the SXSW 2019 PanelPicker Speaking Applications process. Submit your ideas for a chance to present at Austin’s top tech conference. Despite it being summertime, it doesn’t look like the Austin tech community is taking a vacation. There are lots of Austin tech events to attend this week including one put […]. The post Ten Tech Events to Attend in Austin This Week appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Monday Motivation: Hold On To Your Dream

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Start with a vision. One step at a time. Keep moving, keep going. Your dream is possible.

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5 Tech Events to Attend in San Antonio This Week

SiliconHills

It’s summertime and the living is easy, despite temperatures almost hitting triple digits all week long. And the tech scene in San Antonio is also heating up. Lorenzo Gomez announced Monday morning the launch of a new venture, Geekdom Media and its first podcast, Brand Brothers. Check it out on iTunes. Also, there’s some cross-pollination […].

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The Art of Planning vs Doing

Jeff Hilimire

David Cummings wrote another great blog post, this time talking about the art of Planning vs Doing. In it he says: As an entrepreneur, I oscillate between planning and doing. Mentally, I know that working on the business is more important than working in the business, but I’m predisposed to getting stuff done — doing is my default. Of course, as the startup grows more time needs to be spent planning, and just as important, aligning the team and getting buy-in. and.

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NY Times Book Review of Eliot Peper’s Bandwidth

Feld Thoughts

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I adore Eliot Peper. We met randomly (he sent me an email), which turned into a long-distance relationship, culminating in FG Press (our now defunct publishing company) publishing Eliot’s first book titled Uncommon Stock (and being the first book that FG Press published). Eliot went on to publish several other books with FG Press.