Fri.Jul 14, 2017

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Silicon Valley Will Suffer a Shameful Legacy for Introducing Inequality to the Great Equalizer

Austin Startup

Silicon Valley — another American racist/sexist shithole just like the Segregated South When the Internet first came around in the mid-1990s, it was herald as “The Great Equalizer” where anybody with a keyboard can start an e-commerce shop, publish their works and reach the world to millions who are also attached to the Internet. Today, Silicon Valley took the Great Equalizer and established a system of inequality where only white male faces are prominently displayed in “tech media”, VC firms ex

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Will Your Ego Be The Death Of Your Career? 

YoungUpstarts

by Edward D. Hess and Katherine Ludwig, coauthors of “ Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age “. This may be good news or bad news, depending on who you are: The day of the aggressive know-it-all who steamrolls over colleagues is drawing to a close. In the future, success will belong to those who can quiet their egos, collaborate, and empathize with others.

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6 Ways To Learn From Failure, And Beat Success Odds

Startup Professionals Musings

Aspiring entrepreneurs and new business owners often ask me for a secret formula for success, and they seem surprised when I tell them there isn’t one. In my experience, every new business is best handled as a series of experiments, from which smart founders learn a winning strategy, after some mistakes. In fact, that culture of learning as you go is my secret to business success.

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The Right Way To Raise Future Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

Parents wonder if their kids could be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Evan Spiegal. But who becomes a successful entrepreneur? Is it anything parents have control over as their kids grow up?

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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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Point of Sale Systems: Mobile vs Wireless Credit Card Reader

YoungUpstarts

Finding the right new credit card reader can be a bit of a dilemma. In many cases, the terminology about card reader types can be confusing, and even intimidating. Here is a bit more information about mobile and wireless credit card readers that can help you make your choice: Wireless Readers. The benefit of wireless readers is, you guessed it, the lack of wires.

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The growth equation

The Equity Kicker

This growth equation is brilliant in it’s simplicity. I love that it forces the focus on a magic moment and core product value. Both are essential. Read more about this in First Round Capital’s latest article.

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Millennial Entrepreneurs Leverage Appearance on Shark Tank to Grow Socially Conscious Franchise

Hearpreneur

Building a business can be tough and sometimes entrepreneurs need a strong mission and vision to get through the difficult times. The founders of College HUNKS Hauling Junk, Omar Soliman and Nick Friedman have built a socially conscious franchise that generates revenue but also improves lives. We had the opportunity to speak with Nick Friedman about his business, how it was being on Shark Tank and advice he would give to fellow millennial entrepreneurs.

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8 Online Tools to Improve Your Business Social Media Profile

Duct Tape Marketing

8 Online Tools to Improve Your Business Social Media Profile written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The truth is that it’s particularly important to maintain an appropriate social media profile in order to ensure that everything is handled as per the highest industry standards. Let’s be honest – each one of us has a social media page.

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Podcasts Are Awesome But Are They A Business? Hot Pod’s Nick Quah Tells Me Some Stuff.

Hunter Walker

I love podcasts. Not just as a consumer but from a societal perspective because there’s so much about the medium which reminds me of other formats (text, video, music) where technology has played a significant role in helping creators explore their talents, build audience and make money. Nick Quah is a smart dude when it comes to podcasts and his newsletter is one of the places I turn for conversation about “non music audio.” Here are Five Questions with Nick about podcast pres