Mon.Aug 22, 2016

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Social Trends Podcast: A Vision For A Business Operating System

Brandanew

The Social Trends Show where we meet social experts, brand owners, bloggers and all sorts of creatives got a high degree of ultra cool recently. We spoke to a cartoonist and all round creative, Meera Sapra. Now Meera incidentally, also wears another hat of being the social media guru at Zoho. She recently shared Zoho’s vision for a business operating system, no less.

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How to Identify Your Strengths and Weaknesses

Up and Running

“Know Thyself”—an ancient Greek maxim inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. What are you good at? That’s a question we all want to know about ourselves, as well as the question that occasionally comes after it: What aren’t you good at? If you don’t know how to answer those questions about yourself, keep reading—I’ll help you come to a better knowledge of yourself.

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Small Business Security: 4 Ways To Prove Your Security-Smarts

YoungUpstarts

By Bindu Sundaresan, Strategic Security Solutions Lead at AT&T. Data security breaches suffered by big, high-profile companies earn the most attention, and rightfully so, but the reality is that even the smallest companies and vendors fall victim to cyber-attacks. Many hackers see smaller companies as weak links and the entry point to gain access to their larger clients, or an easy access point to get valuable credit card information, social security numbers, or other private information.

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It Pays To Maintain Trusted Relationships In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my years of experience in both startups and large companies, trusted relationships are more the key to success than a great business model, how smart you are, or how much money you have. Aspiring entrepreneurs who struggle in a corporate environment often can’t wait to start their own company, only to find that relationships are even more critical and volatile there.

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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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Most Startups Fail Due to Cofounder Conflict [NextView & Reboot Podcast Series Part 2]

View from Seed

On August 9, we released the first episode in a series together with Reboot , which helps educate and coach entrepreneurs on communication, leadership, and well-being. Today is Part 2, in which I play the role of skeptic and Reboot’s Chief Product Officer, Dan Putt, shares how to push through that mentality that “the soft stuff matters less.” After that, we address a couple more big challenges facing founders, all with one aim: debunk the myth that the “soft stuff”

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Protecting Your Business In 4 Easy Steps

YoungUpstarts

Building a successful business is never easy. So when you have reached a level of positivity, it’s imperative that you keep things that way. Therefore, taking care of your company and the crucial elements within it is vital. It might feel like an unimportant task, especially as it doesn’t directly boost revenue. In truth, failure to acknowledge the significance can have devastating impacts.

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Making The Platform Economy Big And Hard To Miss

YoungUpstarts

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. “Why did WePay wrap a train car?” I’ve been getting that question a lot lately. Actually we wrapped two Caltrain cars that shuttle daily between San Francisco and San Jose. Maybe you’ve seen one of them – they’re big and blue and bearing the logos of WePay and our customers. This is one element of a campaign to start a conversation about the rapidly emerging platform economy.

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The Version One website now has a bot, powered by Ada Support

Version One Ventures

A few weeks ago, we quietly launched a really cool bot on the Version One website. Its goal is to help you navigate our content in a more interactive, and hopefully, faster way. Look for and click the red help button in the bottom right corner and a chat panel pops out. What can you do with this bot? Ask it the best way to contact us, or what our investment thesis is, or what our portfolio looks like, or what we know about marketplaces.

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9 Neglected Marketing Tricks That Need To Be Known

YoungUpstarts

In this digital age where almost every advertising technique is web driven, it’s hard to attract and retain customers. Marketing is so much more than tweeting a discount code or trying to get an email list growing. Here are 9 neglected marketing tricks that need to be known. In-Person Networking. While most of us are used to interacting with others via email, video chats, and text messages, nothing beats a personal connection.

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Five Lessons Learned Getting to a Second Fund

This is going to be BIG.

Today, I'm happy to announce that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I founded and continue to run as the sole General Partner, has raised a second fund, totalling $15.1 million in commitments. Nearly all of our existing investors returned, and they were joined by a couple of new family offices and a prominent college endowment. What does this mean?

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Useful Financing Options For Your Next Project

YoungUpstarts

Getting new projects to work on is always exciting and there are plenty of new projects to go after in today’s growing economy. In fact, the market has been seeing a nice boom these past couple of years, with businesses bouncing back and more work for small and medium companies. However, even when you have a strong financial foundation to back your business, there are projects that are too expensive to finance yourself.

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Is telecommuting killing your startup?

The Next Web

What the folks in tech won’t tell you is that there are often trends that seem like a good idea on the surface level, but are detrimental when you dig deeper – especially when you place scientific support into the mix. One of these current trends is telecommuting and it’s picking up some major steam. It’s not without its merits – lowered costs for smaller offices, a cutback on transportation time, and employee happiness all being a credible example of its assets.

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4 Cost-Cutting Solutions Any Business Can Get Behind

YoungUpstarts

One of the most important aspects of running a business is staying on top of the finances. This is something that all business owners are aware of. Yet, surprisingly few manage to achieve it to any lasting degree. If you have a business to run, you are probably keen to learn as much as possible about staying on top of the finances. The truth is, this is one of those things which is a continual learning curve.

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5 Things Every First-Time Entrepreneur Should Know

YFS Magazine

While I’ve learned a lot, I wish I had been told to work on these five areas of my business when I first started out.

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Monday Motivation: Growth Mindset & Take Action [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

Share. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. When you’re absolutely certain, you’ll do it.

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4 Steps To Run Customer Service From Anywhere In The World

YFS Magazine

The one major reason that entrepreneurs today can travel the world while they work is simple: technology.

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Some Posts and a Podcast

Hunter Walker

Hi. I’ve been slow to write here recently but three other places you can find some quick hits: Interview I did with US Digital Service. Thoughts on Local for Estimote. Podcast on Product Management for Intercom.

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Episode 110: Going Bananas For Profit First With Jesse Cole

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Today we interview the owner of the Savannah Bananas, Jesse Cole! He shares fascinating insight on how he had leveraged Profit First to reduce his debt, and strike an extraordinary chord of innovation. Discover why the Savannah Bananas is the most innovative baseball team of our time, how they are radically changing an industry, and as a result, bringing tremendous amounts of profit to their business, and a tremendous amount of happiness to their fans!

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Some Posts and a Podcast

Hunter Walker

Hi. I’ve been slow to write here recently but three other places you can find some quick hits: Interview I did with US Digital Service. Thoughts on Local for Estimote. Podcast on Product Management for Intercom.