Mon.Feb 04, 2019

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The Potential for Fraud Caused by the Unnecessary Mystery of the Family Office World

This is going to be BIG.

About a year ago, I received a LinkedIn connection from Richard Briggs—a Brooklyn Law Grad who spend 25 successful years at Lehman and was operating his own family office. He knew a bunch of other VCs in NYC and seemed like a great potential Limited Partner connection. There was only one problem. Richard Briggs didn’t exist. No Richard Briggs ever attended Brooklyn Law and none of our mutual connections had ever met him or interacted with him.

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What Is AWS And Why Is It Brilliant For Startups

YoungUpstarts

AWS or Amazon Web Services is a revolutionary, ultra-secure, cloud services platform. AWS officially launched in 2006 and provides scalable compute power, content delivery, database storage and more to businesses of all sizes all across the globe. With dozens of physical data centers across the world, AWS customers enjoy unheard of reliability that is resilient and not prone to failures often experienced by individual servers or data centers.

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7 Top Reasons Why Your Startup Should Offer Online Payment

YoungUpstarts

Only few people are venturing in startups. They don’t follow traditional business models; instead, they try new and innovative ways to offer solutions to a problem they aren’t even sure anyone would want. As a startup owner, the ability to provide customers the convenience of paying for your goods and services online has a lot of advantages. You can never go wrong when investing in a well-thought out website for your startup.

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SXSW Startups: EnrichHER

Austin Startup

L to R: Tiara Zolniez (Co-Founder & Sales), Dr. Roshawnna Novellus (Co-Founder & CEO), Alisha Griffey (COO) The Forrest Four-Cast: February 4, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin.

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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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5 Unique Elements Make A Winning Selling Proposition

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are looking for funding and customers for your new business, you need to identify your “unique selling proposition” (USP) right up front, in 30 seconds or less, to differentiate yourself in today’s information overload. That may sound obvious, but as a new venture investor, I rarely see it happening. Investor and customer attention spans are short, and both will write you off quickly.

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Paradromics Moved from Silicon Valley to Austin and is Creating a Brain Modem

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREKPublisher of Silicon Hills News Imagine a nickel-sized device implanted in the brain to help treat chronic and severe mental disorders like schizophrenia, which affect how a person thinks, feels and behaves. It’s not science fiction but a real device that is being developed in Austin. The medical device is the brainchild of […]. The post Paradromics Moved from Silicon Valley to Austin and is Creating a Brain Modem appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Small Business Vs Large Business: What Makes Large Business Different From Small Ones

YoungUpstarts

Usually, we think what differentiates small business vs. large business are their sales figures and number of employees. This is right to some extent but there are a few other things that differentiate them. In this post, we are going to talk about them. 1. Investment in Technology. Usually, we see big firms do not flinch from investing in state-of-the-art technology.

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How To Use Data To Build Powerful Marketing Campaigns

YFS Magazine

It’s a data-driven world. Analytics will continue to play a pivotal role for marketers. Here's a look at three ways you can work smarter with data.

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Why More Isn’t Always Better For Small Businesses

YoungUpstarts

by Jeff O’Hara , author of “ Have Fun, Fight Back, and Keep the Party Going: Lessons from a New Orleans Entrepreneur’s Journey to the Inc. 5000 “ When we first started our corporate events business, we jumped at every new lead that came in the door, hungry for revenue and resume building opportunities. This was great in the short term, because we didn’t have anything else competing for our time.

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What To Know Before Pursuing A Career In Finance

The Startup Magazine

It’s a good idea to educate yourself about what you need to know before you move forward and pursue a career in finance. You can work in areas such as commercial banking, investment banking, financial planning , money managing, and even insurance and real estate. With so much choice, though, what is the best option for you? It is important to decide this before heading into a sector that does not interest you.

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20 Most Influential Graphic Design Companies From Around the World

crowdSPRING Blog

Graphic design is a notoriously competitive field and it can be tough for companies to stand out. But, at least twenty graphic design firms from around the world have proven to be the best in their field, with gorgeous portfolios filled with impressive clients and prominent design campaigns. These are the design firms that clients with virtually unlimited budgets turn to when they need a brand identity , packaging design , or help with other types of design.

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Are Mental Shortcuts And Old Rules Sabotaging Your Business?

YFS Magazine

It did leave me wondering, though: Why did it take me so long to notice, let alone do anything about, such a loud and unusual noise?

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How K-12 Education Will Improve and What to Do in the Meantime

David Teten

Public K-12 education is, on the average, abysmal. Higher education is becoming hugely expensive without a corresponding improvement in services. While the best US universities continue to dominate international rankings, the rest of our education system is losing ground. Across the board, dramatic spending increases have done nothing to improve performance.

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Monday Motivation: The Clock Never Stops

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Declare that you won’t miss another opportunity There’s work connected to your opportunity Control your day to win it Develop a habit of winning Make a plan to execute the plan.

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Resilience: The Antidote to Burnout for Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

You finally started your own business. Don’t let burnout snatch it away from you! Passion will get you far , but it does not prevent burnout. Burnout is estimated to cost the U.S. economy $300 billion annually, and entrepreneurs and small business owners contribute their fair share. I have been an entrepreneur for more than 25 years and I clearly remember the unexpected stressors I had to deal with that I never expected when I first began my business.