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10 Ways Your Startup Co-Founder Is Like A Good Spouse

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk.

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Can You Trust Google Reviews? Here’s How To Spot (And Deal With) Fake Google Reviews

YoungUpstarts

by Jessi Duffin, Director of Creative Operations for Big Leap. Whether your business is online or has a brick and mortar location, there’s no escaping the power of online reviews. Customers are turning to the internet to get advice on where to eat, where to shop, where to get their hair done, and even where to go to the doctor. Companies who have the strongest and most positive online presence will usually beat out the competition by a long shot.

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Get 10 years of experience in 3 years running the most active venture fund in Texas

Austin Startup

You will coordinate and administer the most active venture capital fund in Texas and see an insane amount of dealflow. You’ll know the inside details about almost every deal that goes down. You’ll interact with every VC in Texas and those from Silicon Valley who are investing in Texas and every startup CEO who gets funded. Job opening: Fund Administrator at Capital Factory In two or three years you’ll gain a decade worth of experience and dealflow.

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New Developments In Forex Trading You Can’t Ignore 

YoungUpstarts

Forex trading is happening at a faster pace than ever before, and for traders, the internet is at the heart of high-speed trading decisions. Just recently, forex traders were anticipating a weaker dollar, as it seemed that the Fed was going to cut rates by at least half a basis point. Due to a rallying economy, however, unemployment rates are at an all-time low, which gives the Fed less reason to cut the rates.

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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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Get Ready To Announce Your New Product Launch

Rembrandt Communications

Tips For a Successful Product Launch. As a Chief Product Officer for a B2B, promotion may not be top-of-mind when you are in the conception and development stage. But, this is a good time to talk to your public relations’ (PR) team members. Sure, they will take your product and promote it once it’s ready to launch, but it’s important to share data with them from the beginning.

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Finding Flow

YoungUpstarts

by Rajshree Patel, author of “ The Power of Vital Force: Fuel Your Energy, Purpose, and Performance with Ancient Secrets of Breath and Meditation “ Being connected to vital force also fuels success on a practical, everyday level by fueling productivity and high performance, as I experienced so powerfully after my first workshop. If you look at monks and serious meditation practitioners, they’re often eating and sleeping much less than the average person.

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How To Enhance Your Social Strategy In 2019

YoungUpstarts

Your social media accounts may already be a hive of activity, but these platforms are challenging because it is so very easy to be ‘Insta-famous’ one day and then completely forgotten the next. You can’t rest on your laurels when it comes to digital media, because your followers will grow tired of an account that keeps publishing similar, boring content.

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How To Become The CEO Of Your Business (And Work Yourself Out Of A Job)

YFS Magazine

It’s possible for you to become the CEO of your business, where your business can make money and survive, even when you aren’t there. Here's how!

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5 Ways To Start A Business Even If You Are In Debt

YoungUpstarts

by Uday Tank. Being in debt might be burdensome, especially when the sum you owe is hefty. The thoughts of when and how you would clear your financial obligations are always going to keep flooding your mind. And if you don’t cut yourself some slack, you may never be able to concentrate on some other relevant aspects of your life. It is true that many lenders consider the creditworthiness of a business as being synonymous with the personal credit history of its owner.

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How to Expand Your Cannabis Business Across State Lines

Up and Running

One of the most valuable things you can do for your company in the cannabis industry is expanding into additional states. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most expensive. At MKSI Investments, we have had to learn the hard way. . Despite regulatory complications and federal illegality, becoming a multi-state operator, or MSO, is still one of the most valuable things you can do for your company in the cannabis industry.

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Start Being More Efficient Now With Enterprise Architecture

YoungUpstarts

Business operations often involve numerous ICT applications, which can result in an information hodge podge. Using an excessive number of different applications – and therefore, information flows – leads to unnecessary direct costs for the application and inefficiency. Additionally, if processes are cumbersome, illogical and/or confusing employees might get the impression that their activities are inefficient or that they do not have a proper oversight over their activities.

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Watch out for unfair indemnity during acquisitions

David Cohen

Unfair by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images?. Recently, at Techstars , we’re noticing more and more that we are being asked to sign up for joint unlimited liability for fraud in the context of M&A with one of our portfolio companies. In other words, we are being asked to guarantee that our portfolio companies, and sometimes even that other shareholders of these companies, have not committed fraud.

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How Predictive Analytics Can Boost Your Marketing Strategy

YoungUpstarts

In all of human history, people have worked ardently to predict the future. Weather forecasts, revenue forecasts, fashion forecasts, and whatnot. All in the hope of achieving better results and being prepared for adversities. And, in all honesty, it has worked quite well. . With the ample amounts of data being produced every day, virtually anything can be predicted and the most logical course of action is to take advantage of that data for our benefit.

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How To Create High-Quality Content That Drives Traffic To Your Website

YFS Magazine

How do you create exceptional content that drives traffic to your website? Here are six proven and powerful ways to create content that delivers results.

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The Truth About Electric Shock Hazards In The Workplace 

YoungUpstarts

Accidents are bound to happen no matter how careful you are. You can try to prevent them, but even the most comprehensive safety policies and procedures won’t prevent every incident. . You might think electric shock injuries are unlikely to happen in your business. Maybe you have a simple office with a handful of employees who sit at a desk all day.

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Monday Motivation: FIGHT ON – Motivational Video

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Become your own light. Darkness cannot extinguish your light. Remember the power of you. Step forward and face your fears. Only surrender is defeat. The post Monday Motivation: FIGHT ON – Motivational Video appeared first on Hearpreneur.

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How To Sell Yourself Without Being “Salesy”

YoungUpstarts

We all know how it feels to be on the other end of a tacky sales pitch, one that is sold in a sleazy, forthcoming and pushy tone — it can be a very unpleasant experience! But when your job, position, and expectations are to sell, you know that there is a fine line between authentic and inauthentic interactions. We teamed up with author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Dallas Dance, to go over everything you need to know about how to make an authentic sales pitch about yourself.

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How to Improve the Composition of the Board of Directors

Board Effect

All over the world, the performance of board directors is being proactively evaluated by shareholders, regulators, and others. There’s a direct correlation between the composition of the board of directors and its performance. It’s a well-known fact that boards should be working on improving diversity on their boards, but that’s not the only issue at stake in improving the composition of the board of directors.

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Next Week: An Evening Music & Entertainment Tech Founders Won’t Want to Miss

Austin Startup

On July 24th, Sputnik ATX & Backtracks present Wave Makers, a music and entertainment tech event celebrating Austin’s best startups making waves in the industry. Our special guest for the evening will be Jillionaire, who is an angel investor in the space. Chris Leacock (Left), also known as Jillionaire, in Major Lazer’s hit music video, Lean On Join us for an evening in East Austin amongst Austin’s hottest music and entertainment tech startups with bites, drinks and a bumpin’ live DJ set.

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Big Mistakes Businesses Make With Big Data

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Information has never been as influential in the world of business as it is today. With simple data, such as names, addresses and phone numbers, you can map out a journey that pulls in customers and helps you to make more conversions. Big data is changing the way companies operate, which is why it’s easy to see it as a beacon of light at the end of a tunnel.

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Five Companies That Are Truly Living Their Brand

YoungUpstarts

by Lindsay Pedersen, author of “ Forging An Ironclad Brand: A Leader’s Guide “ Too many companies think brand-building belongs to the marketing department. But actually, it’s everyone’s business. Anyone whose work touches customers should know and feel your brand. This is a bottom-up, side-to-side, top-down, all-encompassing notion.

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Undressing Your Unsuccessful Uniform Policy

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Workplace uniforms can seem like a fantastic idea. For one, branded clothing can go a long way towards expanding marketing. That’s before you consider that uniforms can help eliminate issues like discrimination by keeping everyone on equal footing. Yet, many managers find their uniform policies fail to reach these highs. For the most part, this happens when attempts to implement uniform are approached in the wrong ways.

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Why It’s So Important To Cross-Train Your Employees

YoungUpstarts

Too many companies focus exclusively on training employees for their primary role. They’re willing to invest whatever time and resources are necessary to help them succeed in a single department, but never go beyond those confines. As a result, their company ends up with silos , and employees struggle or find it impossible to take on someone else’s role. .

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Increase Productivity Like A Pro

Women Entrepreneurs Can

As an entrepreneur, the most important aspect of your business is making sure productivity levels are high. Whether you are a freelancer or an importer, you need to ensure that every aspect of your startup is running efficiently. By doing this you can be certain of the most exceptional levels of productivity as well as a high quality output at the end.

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Unconscious Bias: Denise Leaser on how resumes may lead to unconscious bias

Transformify

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Our guest today is Denise Leaser, President, GreatBizTools. Denise, what does diversity hiring mean to you? A lot is said about diversity ratios and making sure that all groups are represented.

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