Thu.Nov 01, 2018

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Why not share your liquidity success with those who got you there?

Berkonomics

So, you are close to selling your company, and counting the profits a bit early. Well, that’s human nature. Here’s a thought for you to recall later when and if the event happens. Remember those who got you there. And for tax reasons, remember them before the closing of the deal, so that you can do so by sharing a bit of your proceeds without paying personal income tax upon those amounts.

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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – The Board Meeting

VC Adventure

This is the 4th post in my Designing the Ideal Board Meetin g series. I hope this series so far has helped you think a bit differently about how you approach the lead-up to your board meetings. By the time you walk into the meeting you should have a clear agenda that everyone has agreed to, one or two areas of the business that you plan to dive more deeply into, prepared materials that are of a style, length, detail and consistency that efficiently and effectively brings your board up to speed o

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Techpreneur and Developer Behind World’s First AI-Powered Design Tool for Presentations

Hearpreneur

Artificial intelligence is a game changer and will continue to influence how we do things. San Francisco-based Beautiful.AI , a first-of-its-kind tool that applies artificial intelligence to automate the design process, has just released new product features to help SMBs create modern, clean and professionally designed slides in minutes. New features include: animation, audio, auto-advance, Easy come, easy go (back) and Revision History.

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The 5 Most Important Things A Business Leader Should Know

YoungUpstarts

by Roe Patterson, CEO of Basic Energy Services and author of “ Crude Blessings ” I regularly get asked how I have accomplished so much at a young age. I don’t feel that young. I’m 44 and feel like I’m 75 in CEO years. But I see their point. I have run multiple businesses, created startups, sold companies and have been a public company CEO for 5 years.

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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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October in Africa: Egypt stifles tech innovation, Google gets busy

The Next Web

The Egyptian government has had a busy time of late, shutting down taxi app mergers, taxing e-commerce platforms, and enforcing digital media regulation laws. Rumors have been swirling that Uber and regional equivalent Careem might be set to merge in Egypt, but it’s not going to happen. That’s because regulators have insisted they would fine each of the parties involved $28 million USD if it went ahead.

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The Art Of The Tricky Work-Health Balance For Swamped Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

by Mike Kappel, founder and CEO of Patriot Software. When you own a small business, you might feel like you barely have time to do anything except work. Although that might be true, you’re going to dig yourself (and your business) into a rut if you don’t make time for your health. Work-health balance is a lot like work-life balance, but the priority is on balancing work and self-care.

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Setting Up Your First Bank Account

YoungUpstarts

When we’re very young, our parents look out for our finances for us — to the extent, of course, that we even have our own finances at all. But we reach a time in our lives when we need to take the first steps toward a strong and independent financial future. For some of us, our first bank account will be one that our parents help us open as children.

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The Zebra’s Founder Adam Lyons Plans to Launch his Next Venture in Austin

SiliconHills

Adam Lyons, the founder of The Zebra, an auto insurance marketplace, grew up in Pittsburgh and his father still lives three blocks from the Tree of Life Synagogue. Hugh Forrest, Chief of Programming at South by Southwest, interviewed Lyons Tuesday evening at WeWork Barton Springs at a PowerUp Austin event put on by the Greater […]. The post The Zebra’s Founder Adam Lyons Plans to Launch his Next Venture in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Why reaction videos matter

Start Up Blog

Reaction videos are hot, reaction videos are now and reaction videos tell us so much about what will matter in the future. But before we get into the why, let’s cover off the what. Reaction Videos: People filming themselves react to seeing something for the first time. In the bottom corner they’ll play what the are watching, while the major part of the screen is their reaction.

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The Zebra’s Co-Founder Adam Lyons Plans to Launch his Next Venture in Austin

SiliconHills

Adam Lyons, the co-founder of The Zebra, an auto insurance marketplace, grew up in Pittsburgh and his father still lives three blocks from the Tree of Life Synagogue. Hugh Forrest, Chief of Programming at South by Southwest, interviewed Lyons Tuesday evening at WeWork Barton Springs at a PowerUp Austin event put on by the Greater […]. The post The Zebra’s Co-Founder Adam Lyons Plans to Launch his Next Venture in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Types Of Mobile Apps

YoungUpstarts

In US alone, there are roughly 200 million Americans with smartphones and about half of them stating it’s indispensable to them. The revenue from mobile apps stores reached the astronomical sum of $76 billions in 2017. This justifies the undergoing active development of the tens of thousands of applications for each platform involved. Thus, in March 2018, the number of apps in Google Play alone reached 2.6 million!

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I Was That Kid. Were You? #MakingChangemakers

Feld Thoughts

Watch the following one minute video and ponder whether or not you were that kid (or have one of those kids.). I was totally that kid. But, most of it was in my mind, which I why I ended up being a software version of that kid. About the only machine I played with was my Apple ][ because it was a computer. I hated the lawnmower, never worked on cars, was afraid of the Cuisinart we had (and all the sharp blades), ignored power tools, and stayed away from anything that plugged into an electrical s

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4 Ways You Can Modernize Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

Small businesses are often the last to adopt new technologies and processes. This typically has more to do with access to resources than anything else. But it doesn’t have to be this way. By keeping your fingers on the pulse of innovation, you can stay ahead of the curve and put your small business in a place to be successful for years to come. Help Your Business Evolve Through Modernization.

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9 Proven Strategies Your Small Business Can Use to Increase Engagement and Conversion Rates

crowdSPRING Blog

If you run an e-commerce business or depend on leads to generate revenue from your website, the forms on your site will make or break your business. A SalesForce study concluded that “companies that excel at lead nurturing generate 50 percent more sales-ready leads.”. If your lead generation forms are poorly designed, they become a roadblock and quickly turn customers away from your site.