Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
In my experience as an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs in business, one of the biggest failures I see is a lack of self-leadership. You can’t lead a business to success, if you can’t lead yourself. I define self-leadership as the capacity to set direction and make decisions, to positively drive your own performance. Leadership in business starts with making good personal choices.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
by Gaurav Gupta , Founder of Square Boat. Startups are all the rage these days with innovative minds coming up with novel ideas and transforming them into reality. But wanting to materialize a product or service and sustaining its operations are two different things. Although help comes in the form of diligent teams and reliable investors, in order to come at par with established names, a startup needs to rope in useful tools and resources which can standardize things.
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Start Up Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Customer service systems have improved so much in then past 20 years we take for granted how arduous some things used to be. I was reminded yesterday when I had to pick up a hire car that not every industry has embraced the possible. Why? To maximise profit while the barriers to entry are still high. It made me wonder if one car rental brand is called Hertz on purpose!
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
The greatest painters in the world stole from their predecessors. The finest writers of our generation are eternally indebted to those that have gone before them. In the wellspring of the arts, thieves are the kings of the future. So why shouldn’t the world of business hold the same principles? If you’re a budding young start-up hoping to hit upon a great business premise, then here’s our top tip – steal (ideas) from the best.
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
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Brands have worked with influencers to sell products through social media for a long time. But it’s been more difficult for them to engage with regular customers who might like their products. And that’s where LoudCrowd saw an opportunity. The Austin-based startup sells software directly to brands that allow them to reward customers who promote […].
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Looking for a free, downloadable hair and beauty salon sample business plan to help you create a business plan of your own? Bplans has you covered. . Keep in mind that you don’t need to find a sample business plan that exactly matches your business. Whether you’re launching an upscale, full-service salon in a bustling city or a neighborhood barbershop, the details will be different, but the bones of the plan will be the same. .
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VC Cafe
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
I love trying new products. I enjoy the process of trying new products like a kid opening a birthday present. Perhaps it’s the product manager in me that gets a kick out of figuring out how do they do onboarding? what features are available? How does the design make me feel? But open ProductHunt once a day and it gets overwhelming pretty quickly.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
If you build it, they will come, right? Not exactly. Wanting a customer isn’t enough. You must plan, strategize, and entice your prospective customers to want the products or services your business offers. Here are some common questions we hear when we talk with new entrepreneurs and small business owners: My business is brand new — where can I find customers?
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
An investor group including several Austin founders have joined together to buy Nautilus, a literary science magazine founded in 2013. The New York-based magazine has 10,000 paying subscribers and has an online reach of more than 10 million. Daily Dot co-founder and CEO Nicholas White is leading the investment group that is acquiring Nautilus. He […].
thebarefootvc
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
While company after company pulled out of Facebook’s Libra project, the US Congress grilled Mark Zuckerberg, the SEC halted Telegram’s token offering, and several US legislators called for a digital dollar, China had a few words for the world… In the first of a flurry of announcements over the past week, China’s President Xi Jinping made his first public statement on blockchain tech, calling for the country to “seize the opportunity” A few days later, China
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
November is jam-packed with lots of fun events to attend. Silicon Hills News is hosting its first SpaceATX event on Wednesday, Nov. 6th. We hope to see you all there. And Silicon Hills News is currently taking photos for our 2020 Austin Tech Calendar. There is only one spot left for a startup to be featured. […]. The post Austin Tech Events to Attend in November appeared first on SiliconHills.
Board Effect
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Every college and university should have a cybersecurity strategy, regardless of the size of the school. Cybersecurity is a sustainable program of processes and controls that are interdependent. To be effective, a cybersecurity strategy should include specific components. It’s helpful to have a template to use either as a starting point for building a strong program or to compare against for enhancing an existing cybersecurity strategy.
ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Thomas Edison wasn’t just known for his startup, the Edison Company. He was known as an inventor — and a prolific one at that. He contributed to innovations, including the phonograph, the light bulb, the motion picture camera, and others. In generating ideas and inventions that had a profound and lasting impact on the world, Edison became synonymous with invention.
VC Cafe
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Last week, I spoke to a group of students at London Business School about what makes Israel a unique startup ecosystem and our approach to venture at Remagine Ventures. The students had some great questions about venture capital, Israel and entrepreneurship, but one struck me in particular. It went something like this: I want to be an entrepreneur and start a company.
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