Wed.May 03, 2017

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3 Tech Solutions That Make An Entrepreneur’s Day More Manageable

YoungUpstarts

by Bob La Loggia, founder and CEO of AppointmentPlus. When you’re starting a business, focus is the name of the game. Every entrepreneur knows this — at least in theory. Most are keenly aware of the need to invest their precious time in activities that generate the highest ROI. Whether they follow through on that knowledge, however, is a different story.

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10 Tips For Remodelers To Become More Profitable In 2017 by Mike Bruno

Mike Michalowicz

Running a successful remodeling business is more about numbers than it is about bricks and sticks. Of course, producing quality work is important; but I can assure you – there are companies out there that produce quality work but go bankrupt because they are not focused on profitability. By definition, profitability is “the degree to which a business or activity yields profit or financial gain.

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One Piece Of Advice Startups Might Not Hear – Direct Marketing Is Not Dead

YoungUpstarts

There are so many ways to use the internet to get word out that you have a new company that it is easy to forget that there are other approaches to marketing that are becoming largely untapped. One of the best ways to grow both your market and your own personal network within that market is direct marketing, especially in print. Regardless of what you might hear and all the press being given to online marketing, direct marketing is NOT dead and this is something all startups should understand, e

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When To Enlist A Board Of Directors Or Advisory Board

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs I know are confused by definition and need for an Advisory Board versus a Board of Directors. Some view both of these as a waste of time and burden on the CEO, while other founders surround themselves with insiders and cronies in an attempt to expedite and add credibility to their own interests. I suggest a few simple considerations will clarify the alternatives.

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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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7 Easy and Effective Customer Segments to Target in Facebook Ads

ConversionXL

Facebook ads, when utilized properly, are among the most effective targeted marketing efforts in the industry. However, it’s often the case that companies are leaving money on the table when it comes to Facebook ads. Often, there are simple customer segments (that you already have access to) that you can target with Facebook Ads very effectively.

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How I Overcome The Anxiety Of Entrepreneurship

YFS Magazine

It's time to take a deeper look into the toll that anxiety can take in business. Here's how to move forward to attain the success you deserve.

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Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur?

YFS Magazine

Thinking of starting a business? You just might have what it takes to be an entrepreneur if you can identify with these 10 traits.

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FullContact Connect – The Future of Customer Intelligence

Feld Thoughts

FullContact is one of our silent killers. Unless you are a customer or partner, you don’t hear much about a silent killer until it’s suddenly everywhere, leading the market it is in, and functioning extremely well at scale. One of the hints of these silent killers is their inaugural user or partner conference. An example of this from our past was the 2013 Big Boulder Conference that Gnip (now part of Twitter) put on.

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EverlyWell Lands $2 Million More in VC Funding

SiliconHills

EverlyWell, the Austin-based healthcare testing platform, announced Wednesday that it has received $2 million more in venture capital funding. The company, founded two years ago by Julia Cheek, the company’s CEO, has received $5 million in total funding. NextGen Venture Partners led the round with participation from Jack Novak, SoGal Ventures, Full Tilt Capital and […] The post EverlyWell Lands $2 Million More in VC Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Economy is Growing at 4.3%. How About Your Business?

Growthink Blog

Did you hear Monday's exciting news? That the US GDP is forecast to grow 4.3% this quarter. Unfortunately, most businesses won’t realize this fast growth in Q2. Why? Because for too many companies their daily realities are just a series of squeezes: Pricing squeezes driven by aggressive competition and ever-higher customer demands Margin squeezes driven by shrinking gaps between employee profitability potential and their pay expectations and perhaps most vexing, ideas and innovation squeezes bet

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IT Security Company Lepide Selects Austin for its Global Headquarters

SiliconHills

Lepide announced Wednesday that it has selected Austin for the site of its new global headquarters. The company, founded in 2005, also has offices in London and New Delhi and employs 236 people worldwide. It expects to have more than 50 people in its Austin office located at 600 Congress Avenue within the next 18 […] The post IT Security Company Lepide Selects Austin for its Global Headquarters appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses

Jeff Hilimire

A friend was talking to me recently about an offsite she had with her team. She used the Strengths Finder method to help them understand themselves, and each other, better. The main point, as she described it, is to focus on your strengths in order to be the most productive member of the team you can be. The thinking goes, if you focus on your weaknesses, then you’re really just trying to minimize the mistakes you will make.

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The Most Efficient Forex Indicators That Can Boost Your Profits

YoungUpstarts

The popularity of Forex trading – in Jacksonville and all over Florida, as is with the rest of the world – is growing. It seems that many people have acknowledged the benefits that this specific type of trading brings and they want to get involved. In case you are a beginner in this field and you want to trade foreign currencies with one goal – to make a profit, you must learn more about the most efficient Forex indicators that belong to different categories and how they are used.

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The Longhorn Startup

Austin Startup

The University of Texas at Austin’s Longhorn Startup Demo Day AND Texas Venture Labs are underway and given the incredible and increasing impact Texas is having on entrepreneurship and innovation, I thought we should talk about cattle. Let me first be clear that though I’ll be making some incredibly obvious references to the University of Texas and the great Longhorn Startup program, this is not about the University of Texas nor the Longhorn Startup program.

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Which One Single Quality Helped Me To Become A Better Leader

YoungUpstarts

by Danny Donchev, marketing manager of AdaptRM and founder of FortuneLords. Since I manage people, I have always wondered how to become a better leader. I have since read various books on leadership, and the very qualities which I tried developing are highlighted therein. These include: Integrity. Transparency. Focus. Confidence. Positive attitude.

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