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Investors, your board, and you: Who controls strategy?

Berkonomics

You’re building a company from your vision and a passion, and lots of people are going to tell you that you have this or that wrong, and that it just won’t work. Business plans rarely survive market contact. The truth is that very, very few early business plans survive in a form completely recognizable when looking back a few years. But even with massive changes, the vision and passion usually don’t diminish in the process of morphing a business plan into a profitable business.

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Is Your Company A Courage Brand?

YoungUpstarts

by Ryan Berman, author of “ Return on Courage : A Business Playbook for Courageous Change ” and founder of Courageous. Captain obvious alert: Courage is something we take quite seriously at Courageous. According to Aristotle, courage was considered the very first virtue because it made all other virtues possible. Peter Thiel has stated, “Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.”.

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Infinitum Electic Gets $1.8 Million in Funding to Improve the Electric Motor

SiliconHills

Infinitum Electric has reinvented the electric motor. And the Austin-based startup announced Thursday that it has closed a $1.8 million Series A round of financing, led by Cottonwood Technology Fund, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since launching three years ago, Infinitum Electric has raised a total of $2.7 million in funding. The company plans […].

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The First 5 Steps To Starting Your Own Business

YoungUpstarts

by Dustin Ray of Incfile. “The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.” – Brian Tracy, motivational speaker and author of “ Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want “ Tracy has a point there. Think about it: You’re considering going for a run.

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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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How to Get into Tech Without a Tech Background

ReadWriteStart

If you look at the greatest recent tech companies there are plenty of newcomers that aren’t even considered tech, let alone, high tech. Uber and Airbnb, are less about tech and more about their concept. You can run a tech company without a tech background but find the best tech you can when needed. Knowing […]. The post How to Get into Tech Without a Tech Background appeared first on ReadWrite.

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A Startup’s Guide To Making An SEO-Friendly Website

YoungUpstarts

Search engine optimization became an integral part of digital marketing. Companies use SEO strategies when creating their ecommerce website design and it enables them to up their ranking in search engine results pages. It’s even more cost-effective because it’s free compared to paying to be advertised in SERPs. As a startup, you have to compete with lots of similar businesses.

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3 Ways To Get Free Press Coverage For Your Business

YFS Magazine

Invest some time in these free PR tools and you’ll realize you don’t have to shell out thousands of dollars each month in PR agency retainers.

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11 Eye-Catching Packaging Design Trends for 2019

crowdSPRING Blog

by brainstorm666 on crowdspring. Packaging design (the packaging for your product) and package graphics design (the graphics/content on the product packaging) play an important role in your company’s brand identity. It’s what consumers see, pick up, hold, and take home with them – it’s a literal and figurative touchpoint between your brand and your customers.

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2018: Thank you for an amazing journey

Where to Play

The post 2018: Thank you for an amazing journey appeared first on Where to Play. 2018 had been a really exciting year for us: We have launched the Market Opportunity Navigator- a framework to help founders and managers choose a promising strategic focus, and the accompanying book ‘Where to Play’ It was a year packed with excitements, creations and achievements.

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The Real Reason Why People Don’t Buy Your Coaching Services

YFS Magazine

Before you start blindly selling to the wrong people (and end up miserable and broke), take a moment and embark on this customer journey.

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Investors, your board, and you: Who controls strategy?

Berkonomics

You’re building a company from your vision and a passion, and lots of people are going to tell you that you have this or that wrong, and that it just won’t work. Business plans rarely survive market contact. The truth is that very, very few early business plans survive in a form completely recognizable when looking back a few years. But even with massive changes, the vision and passion usually don’t diminish in the process of morphing a business plan into a profitable business.

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Will Cities Be Ready for 5G?

Austin Startup

Journalist Scott Fulton III describes fifth-generation wireless, or 5G, as “ a capital improvement project the size of the entire planet. ” He’s not wrong. And it’s coming fast. What is 5G? 5G is the latest iteration of cellular technology, engineered to exponentially increase the speed (up to 100 times current levels ) and responsiveness of wireless networks.