Mon.Feb 26, 2018

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How To Build The Perfect Website For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

If you think you have a good business idea and want to sell your product or service online, you will need a website that is attractive and appealing to the eye. It also needs to be of interest to your target audience and this is where research is vitally important. Get To Know Your Audience. Before you start the actual building of your website, some preparation work can make the difference between it being successful or not.

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7 Steps For Counseling Employees Who Need To Change

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and new business owners, I’ve long observed that one of the toughest challenges is people change management in the team. It’s an area where you typically have little experience and training, and dealing with needed change is fraught with emotions on both sides. I have found that my years in a big company have paid huge dividends in this area.

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The One ICO Marketing Checklist You Need To Succeed

YoungUpstarts

Initial coin offerings or ICOs are one of the hottest opportunities in the world of blockchain and tech for companies and teams to get needed funding without sacrificing equity or long wait times. As such, every individual and group with an idea (and some without one) is trying to conduct their own ICO for one reason or another. Why ICOs Fail. Some succeed, and others fail for some reasons, but most often, its due to having a terrible marketing plan.

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Where to Sell Art, Crafts, and Designs Online

Up and Running

According to the Hiscox Online Art Trade Report of 2017 , the online art market rose 15 percent to $3.75 billion in 2016. When you consider that the global art market value is said to range anywhere from $12 billion to $56.6 billion , it’s safe to say that the online art business has plenty of room for growth. Studies show that by 2021, it could be worth about $9.14 billion.

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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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Why Emotional Intelligence Will Become A Key Leadership Skill At Work

YoungUpstarts

by Soulaima Gourani , founder and CEO of Tradeconductor. In the future, when information and knowledge become available to everyone and robots begin to replace humans at work, the question is – what will the future of workplace look like? Many believe that robots represent the future workforce and it is just a matter of time when technology will replace a lot of jobs.

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Startup Culture and Mental Wellness: I’m Not Depressed, You’re Depressed

YFS Magazine

Competition in the startup world can be brutal. If founding team members are constantly overwhelmed and not receiving support for mental or physical wellness, the company could crumble.

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Kris Jones Shares What Investors Look For In A Startup

YFS Magazine

Once you have exhausted all personal resources through bootstrapping, your business will likely need to raise capital.

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What Benefits Do Modular Buildings Bring To UK Businesses?

YoungUpstarts

Modular construction could be the building solution that domestic and commercial clients are looking for to establish and extend their homes and business premises. MTX Contracts take a closer look at the benefits of modular building for UK businesses. Modular building is fast becoming the construction method of choice. With remarkable examples of domestic homes and commercial premises, more and more people are looking to modular construction as a means of creating their ideal property, whether t

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Interviewing Jerry Colonna About Heart – His!

Feld Thoughts

If you are a regular listener of the Reboot Podcast , you’ve heard Jerry Colonna masterfully interview many people. And – if you aren’t a regular listener, go sign up and give it a try. In Episode 78: When Did You Start to Listen to Your Heart , I turned the tables on Jerry and interviewed him. We’ve been close friends for 22 years and I felt like it was time someone interviewed him on his podcast.

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Will Food-Focused eCommerce Create Waste?

YoungUpstarts

Many people are concerned about the impact of waste on the environment and the economy. Across the board, processes are just inherently inefficient — causing massive amounts of resources to go unused. Food is one of the worst cases of waste. And, the United States is one of the worst perpetrators. Every year, $165 billion worth of food is thrown away in the U.S.

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Monday Motivation: Kobe Bryant Work Ethic [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

This is the month for love and we are focusing on hard work and hustle aka Project Work Ethic. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs and startups to start their week off on the right foot.

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Tech Events to Attend in Austin This Week

SiliconHills

Social Media Week Austin kicks off today and runs through Wednesday at various locations throughout Austin. The three-day-long conference, put on by Best Practice Media, covers a wide range of topics from content creation to public relations to digital marketing. Tickets costs $200 and are sold out. Another big event kicking off this week is […].

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Austin Tech Alliance launches Paper Census insights campaign

Austin Startup

Starting today, Austin Tech Alliance is asking residents to provide their thoughts on how paper-driven city services can be made easier to use. This morning, ATA launched the public insights campaign for the Paper Census , a collaboration with the City of Austin to identify paper-based city processes and prototype digital solutions. The public insights campaign asks a simple question: “Paper processes are costly and inefficient.

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San Antonio Tech Events to Attend This Week

SiliconHills

The biggest event going on this week in San Antonio is the first Philanthropic Pitch event at the H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center. The proceeds from the ticket sales go to the winners of the pitch event. It’s another event that brings together the Austin and San Antonio tech and philanthropic communities. Notley […]. The post San Antonio Tech Events to Attend This Week appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Going Nuts

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

A quick note to those who follow this blog. Gregg Fraley is fine, in fact, better than ever. He’s also busier than a one-armed paper hanger. Training and ideation projects have him traveling and away from his desk. He will be sharing thoughts with you about MoshPit Innovation in the near future. That concept has evolved and is proving to be a winning new method for his customers.

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Consolidation

thebarefootvc

As I was about to hit “send” on the newsletter this morning, a piece of news came through: Circle, founded by serial entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire (with two successful IPOs under his belt), announced its acquisition of crypto exchange Poloniex for a reported $400M. This from Fortune’s magazine’s article on the acquisition : “ The acquisition will instantly make Circle a rising threat to Coinbase, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., as well as Bittrex and Kraken, the runner-ups.

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I’m excited to announce Dragon Army and Dagger’s support of GA State’s Minority Student Scholarship!

Jeff Hilimire

Photo: Me and Mike Popowski (Dagger CEO) at the announcement of our GA State partnership. One of Dragon Army’s core values is to “Celebrate Diversity” With that in mind, we’ve partnered with Dagger (one of Atlanta’s other fastest growing agencies) to each offer a full-time position to one of the GA State Marketing Minority Scholarship winners…for the next three years!

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Growth Hacking: How To Grow Your Small Business Faster

crowdSPRING Blog

Growth is vital if your business is going to survive. But sometimes you get so deep in the trenches and one day find yourself wondering how your business became stagnant – or worse – failed. Small business guru Michael Gerber offers business owners this piece of wisdom : Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.