View from Seed

APRIL 11, 2016

Editor’s note: The NextView team periodically holds internal “shootarounds,” where we discuss a startup topic or trend and try to make sense of it for everyone involved: entrepreneurs, investors, and consumers. Below is a lightly edited transcript of our latest shootaround on voice technology. ROB GO: Okay, so as you know, I’m passionate about this space, and I think there are three main things to think about around voice.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2016

by Will Bridges, HR Consultant at Unum. While poor management has a financial cost, it also has a wider detrimental cost to a business, as well as individuals. Bad leadership can be the result of insufficient training, an inadequate understanding of the business, and weak management skills. So, what exactly is bad leadership costing your business and what can be done to safeguard against it?

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

If you’re reading this article, there’s a good chance you love talking to others, building connections, and helping out—you’re a people person. If this is the case, the real estate industry is a perfect career choice because it relies on you having excellent people skills in order to be successful. And, if on top of being personable, you’re also organized, ambitious, goal-oriented, and up for a challenge, you’ve hit the metaphorical jackpot.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 11, 2016

Profit in your Yoga or Pilates studio is critical to your success. It takes more than setting up a brick and mortar studio to stay in business and be profitable. In some areas, there is a lot of competition – with as many as three to four studios on the same block. It’s important to focus on how your studio differentiates itself from the one down the street.

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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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deal architect

APRIL 11, 2016

I have written before about well done analyst summits here and here. Last week I had the opportunity to be part of a very well done mini-summit – a little over 4 hours – just before the start of Oracle.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2016

Like many immigrant families and many Jewish families I grew up around a kitchen table, often outside my house and experiencing food… Continue reading on Medium »

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 11, 2016

Last Tuesday Jeff Bezos wrote his annual letter to shareholders. From time to time I write about my admiration for Bezos and reading the letter I was reminded why. First there is his success, in 2015 Amazon became the fastest ever company to reach $100bn in annual sales and AWS is now reaching $10bn in annual sales, but more important is the way he goes about it.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2016

by Ron Carson, CEO of Carson Wealth Management Group and author of “ The Sustainable Edge: 15 Minutes a Week to a Richer Entrepreneurial Life “ I often speak to entrepreneurs who cannot understand why their firms are not growing faster. I like to start my presentation by asking “Who in this room has a high I.Q.?” Invariably, every hand in the room will shoot up.

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YFS Magazine

APRIL 11, 2016

While looking for your next hire, yes — you’re committing to “The One.” But it’s also not the end of the world if things don’t work out long term, so remove the pressure of looking for your forever match.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2016

It is super interesting how the changing inputs of one industry, can have a disruptive effect on another industry. Mobile phones and laptops created the need for smaller more efficient batteries. We moved from Nickel in the 1980’s and 1990’s, then to Lithium Ion in the smart phone era. The batteries eventually became good enough to use on electric cars.

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YFS Magazine

APRIL 11, 2016

The Internet is so deeply entrenched with our daily lives that sometimes we completely ignore the dark side of it. For instance, online privacy.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2016

I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of George Orwell, but have you heard of Roy Amara? Amara was a scientist and futurist who made an interesting observation regarding technology. Amara’s law : “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” Turns out George was right , but the information kept on us is almost infinite and more extreme than he had imagined.

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YFS Magazine

APRIL 11, 2016

If you're still doing cold calls like it's 1999, you might as well not do it at all. Too much has changed.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 11, 2016

Share. This post is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. Be a No Limit Person. No Limit people are people who always have enough. There are people who can handle anything. Be a no limit person. Sneak peak to our Monday Motivation post tomorrow on hearpeneur.com #entrepreneur. A photo posted by CEO Blog Nation – cbnation.co (@ceoblognation) on Apr 10, 2016 at 8:33am PDT.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 11, 2016

It’s been a while since I’ve written a #blindpost , so I was excited when Joe sent me the article, The Two Traits Every Entrepreneur Needs. In the spirit of the #blindpost rules, I did not read the article but instead took the title and wrote my interpretation of it. The Two Traits Every Enterpreneur Needs. I decided to take this from a global standpoint rather than thinking of it from the lens of someone starting a brand new company, or someone further down the road running a succes

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2016

The Panama Papers and WordPress Security written by Alex Boyer read more at Duct Tape Marketing. WordPress is without a doubt the best, most flexible platform for a small business website. We suggest it for every business we work with, and half of the tools we recommend are WordPress plugins or add-ons. Simply put, if you aren’t using WordPress for your website, you are missing out on tons of functionality.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 11, 2016

You often read that most people prefer to watch a video than read text. How true is that statement, really ? You’ve been hearing about video for years now, but it’s still relatively uncharted. Big brands are spending tens of thousands on videos that fall flat while a lucky few are going viral. But even they struggle to repeat their original success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2016

I’m a practical guy, so I recognize that expecting the real world to be fair is a dream that every entrepreneur needs to put aside as they reach the age of majority. As a business advisor, I see entrepreneur passion often so focused on an innovation that is certain to change the world yet ignores the potential impact of one of the many business inhibitors that kill too many startups.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 11, 2016

In completing my research on high growth ventures created by students the case of Kevin Plank (Under Armour) and the University of Maryland was part of my data collection and highlights many of the ideas uncovered. Cupid’s Cup , the annual business competition sponsored by Plank and Under Armour, completed its final round Thursday April 7 on the campus of the University of Maryland.

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Reid Hoffman

APRIL 11, 2016

Never enough time? Read my latest post on LinkedIn to learn a framework that I use to manage my time well and be a strong collaborator.

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Brandanew

APRIL 11, 2016

Let’s start with statistics. Over 2 million blogs will be posted today. Yes, no less. Can you imagine what you’re competing against? It’s not just your competitor’s advert on television or radio, it’s competition from every single blogger from age 13 to 80. We’re creating more content than ever before and I’m here to tell you, to succeed , an editorial calendar for your blog is ESSENTIAL.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 11, 2016

Also Available On. Show Summary. Today Mike Michalowicz, Chris Curran and Kristina Bolduc visit with Nikki Begg from Bermuda who is building two companies (Bermuda Bride, Petals). She ran a profit first analysis of Petals and finds that she is bleeding money – and now is at the precipice of a decision… does she sell the business, tank the business, or do something else?

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A Crowded Space

APRIL 11, 2016

For marketplaces companies, GMV (gross merchandise value) is the number 1 metric that most focus on. It’s the most commonly quoted stat when talking with press and investors. People use it as a barometer to understand the health and growth of the business. However, just like revenue, all GMV is not created equal. Some GMV builds enduring value, and some is very fleeting.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2016

Over the weekend, Rent the Runway held an event for its Project Entrepreneur initiative, which brought together over 100 female entrepreneurs looking to get education and advice on how to take their businesses to the next step. Unfortunately, one of the panelists, Skinny Girl vodka's Bethenny Frankel, told an African American founder in the audience that if she wanted to raise funding, that she should go out and hire a white guy to be the face of her business.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2016

Like many immigrant families and many Jewish families I grew up around a kitchen table, often outside my house and experiencing food, culture, life and other people through meals. I remember fondly my dad (from Colombia) wanting to eat out of the house and experience the best multi-cultural foods one could actually find in middle-class, suburban Sacramento in the 70s & 80s.

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