YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 29, 2017

by Sharon Schweitzer, author of “ Access to Asia: Your Multicultural Guide to Building Trust, Inspiring Respect, and Creating Long-Lasting Business Relationships “. Once integrated into the professional business world, email becomes second nature. Communications are synthesized through these messages and it can be quite repetitive. The constant emailing causes some to become less formal in their communications, and it is easy to commit electronic etiquette snafus.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

Climb the Value Pyramid. You can’t ignore the Value Pyramid. Photo by Stacy Wyss on Unsplash. The title isn’t clickbait: a study of hundreds of companies concluded that you can improve profits by more than 11% through a 1% improvement in pricing. (Yes. Pricing.) We’ll get to the data in a second, but first we need to get something straight: pricing is the biggest problem you’re currently ignoring.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 29, 2017

by Terri R. Kurtzberg and Jennifer L. Gibbs, co-authors of “ Distracted: Staying Connected without Losing Focus “ As an entrepreneur, you will likely end up with two completely different jobs. One is to produce or offer something that the world values and thus create a line of revenue. But in addition, you also hope to end up in the position of having to manage other people, and thus will need to set the tone for a company as it grows and thrives, to decide what rules and behaviors w

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 29, 2017

Top workplace complaints: 1) The way things are 2) Change. — Andrew Annett (@akannett) June 1, 2015. This plays out in many important ways: Customers demand an improved UX , but they don’t want to learn a new UX. Team members want consistency but don’t want policies. Developers want to be more efficient but don’t want to change how they work.

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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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YFS Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2017

The struggle to maintain an entrepreneurial spirit is something every founder struggles with throughout the lifetime of their business.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 29, 2017

With Amazon Web Services Technical Certification Training ($39, 86 percent off from TNW Deals), you’ll have the skills to go from newbie to pro on every facet of using the AWS platform.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 29, 2017

The Audible version of Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job, 2nd Edition is available for pre-order and will be on out on 9/19. My co-author, Sean Wise , read it using his deliciously dulcet voice. Jason and I also finished the Audible recording of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist, 3rd Edition and expect to see it up on Audible in 60 days.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

The funny thing about diversity in tech is that it’s not hard to find—as long as you’re looking for it. I’ve written before about the way folks explain why they can’t find diverse candidates in tech, and here I wanted to offer some tips that you could literally do TOMORROW to immediately make your workplace a better place for those “non-traditional” tech candidates you’re looking for. 1.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 29, 2017

“What you’ve accomplished is really great and we’re excited to introduce ourselves and chat a bit more. Would you be willing to share your application to [incubator/accelerator] with us so that we can use it as a way to collaboratively discuss what you’ve learned since then?” For many accelerators and incubators, demo days kick off a fundraising process for a full round or additional capital based on inbound demand.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

Allen Tsai, co-founder of Tastebud, had about 5 minutes notice for his 5 minute demo with Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. Allen Tsai , co-founder of Tastebud , didn’t know who was coming to Capital Factory on Friday, but he still arrived around 7 am to make sure he was first in line to find out. Showing up early on a Friday morning — and having his elevator pitch and demo down pat — put him in the perfect position to take advantage of 5 extra minutes in the schedule with Tim Cook, CEO of Apple.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2017

How to Develop Content for Every Stage of the Customer Journey written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. For marketers, it’s nearly impossible to get through a day without hearing about or discussing content in one way or another. As the core of your strategy, you can not view content as a bunch of one-off projects. The creation of it needs to come out of one comprehensive strategy.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 29, 2017

The Dragon Army team hanging out recently. Let’s actually talk about company culture…this Thursday night! I’m so excited to be speaking at the event, Championing Culture in the Modern Workplace , at General Assembly (Ponce City Market) this Thursday. I spend a lot of my time thinking about (and working on) our culture at Dragon Army.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2017

Cold Beer, Strollers, and Craft Draft Hipsters – What’s not to love? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Today I’m thrilled to share the story of my long-time friend and Kansas Citian John Couture who is the founder of the Bier Station , as a part of the “Amex Welcomed” program with @americanexpress , which is showcasing the people behind our favorite local businesses that welcome Amex.

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Transformify

AUGUST 29, 2017

In just about every industry imaginable, companies are exploring more data-backed ways of doing things. But there’s one field that remains stubbornly unscientific: recruitment and hiring. That’s not to say there aren’t procedures in place when it comes to résumé screening. For all but the newest startups, which have basically no precedents to abide at all, there’s usually some sort of protocol in place.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 29, 2017

Initial coin offerings are a phenomenally successful way of raising money. Through ICOs, startups have raised a record $1.27 billion in the first half of 2017. When I wrote the post “ Will Initial Coin Offerings Fund the Future? ” back in May, the total tally was around $100m. In the few months since then since then we’ve seen single projects like Tezos raise over $200m.

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