Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2019

Image via Flickr by ivanpw Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. One would think that with all the sad stories and tools published over the past twenty years, this problem would be behind us. But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

Customers are the lifeblood of every business. But as a business grows, managing growth and organizing information becomes increasingly more difficult. What used to be easy when you had one employee and two customers is more difficult when you employ five people and have 25 customers. Not every business owner is prepared for their business to grow. But if you want your business to succeed, you must evolve the way you manage your business to match the growth of the business.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2019

If you’re a young entrepreneur, you probably have a few highly successful entrepreneurs that you follow to the T. After all, if we want to attain incredible success, it’s a good idea to follow in the footsteps of those who already have. I’ve found quite a bit of value in following successful Twitter profiles. The character count limit ensures that the message is received quickly.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

When I started out investing (via a fund — not my money), I was just investing based on a simple schedule: About once a month, invest $25K into one company I liked. Pretty easy. Over the years, that check size grew slowly to $50K, then a few $100Ks, and I followed-on into a few at the $250K level, with two outsized pile-ins at $400K and $600K total exposure, respectively.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2019

by Judith Nowlin, Chief Growth Officer with Babyscripts. “Early to bed, early to rise makes a [wo]man healthy, wealthy and wise.” – Ben Franklin. You’ve heard it said a million times before: the early bird catches the worm, and in the opinion of many highly successful people, the phrase is much more than a cliche. The benefits of an extremely early morning routine have been touted by so many self-made celebrities that the “4 AM Club” has become a part of the public vernacular.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 20, 2019

By LAURA LOREK, Publisher of Silicon Hills News Venture capital investments in Austin soared to $1.33 billion in 2018, the highest on record since the dot-com boom in 2000, according to the latest MoneyTree Report from PwC and CB Insights. Venture capital investments in Austin rose 70 percent in 2018, from $783.4 million in total […]. The post Austin’s 2018 VC Funding Hits Records Levels not Seen Since 2000 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2019

If you’re planning to build a business but don’t want the struggles of starting from zero, franchising is ideal for you. In becoming a franchisee, you get the chance to start small while gaining the benefits and support from a bigger network, which are the parent company and other franchise owners. Photo by Valeria Boltneva from Pexels. Franchisors will train you on how to manage your branch well, and they will also provide you with the supplies and equipment necessary for your store operations.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 20, 2019

Austin-based ScaleFactor, an intelligent finance, and automated accounting platform, announced recently it has closed on $30 million in funding. Bessemer Venture Partners led ScaleFactor’s Series B round of funding. ScaleFactor has raised $53 million to date, according to Crunchbase. Other investors in the latest round include Canaan, Broadhaven Ventures, Firebrand Ventures, and multiple prominent angel […].

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aweissman.com

JANUARY 20, 2019

People will tell you where they've gone They'll tell you where to go But till you get there yourself You never really know -Joni Mitchell Towards the end of his Broadway show, Bruce Springsteen describes how he’s realized that as parents, we have a choice to make: will we be ghosts or ancestors to our children. As ghosts, we haunt them with our mistakes and burdens; as ancestors, we free them from our flaws and walk alongside (or behind them) and help them find their own way.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2019

You spent the last several months putting together solid mission and vision statements, developing a business plan, and preparing to pitch a great idea to your bank. After all that work the day finally arrives for you to meet with the loan officer. A couple of hours after the meeting you find yourself sitting in a café, pondering the fact that your request for start-up loans has been rejected.

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