Wed.Aug 10, 2016

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7 Ways That Startup Competitors Can Win By Partnering

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs seem to have blinders on when looking at competitors. Generally they are so focused on killing competitors that they fail to see the positive potential of a strategic partnership or some other type of collaborative relationship. Sometimes you have to put aside the emotion and the passion, and just look at what is best for your business.

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Hacking for Defense in 2 minutes

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense in 2 minutes. If you can’t see the video click here. Hacking for Defense class here. Hacking for Diplomacy class here Filed under: Hacking For Defense , Teaching.

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Tips On How To Enhance Your Reputation Online

YoungUpstarts

Reputation is important to all professional and nonprofessionals. Your reputation will reflect on your personal and business life in a negative or positive manner. Of course, everyone hopes that his or her reputation is positive, but this is not always the case. Today, people are forced to worry about their online and offline reputation , which makes the task even more difficult.

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Hacking for Defense in 2 minutes

Steve Blank

Hacking for Defense in 2 minutes. If you can’t see the video click here. Hacking for Defense class here. Hacking for Diplomacy class here Filed under: Hacking For Defense , Teaching.

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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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How to Create Remarkable Videos For Your Brand

Brandanew

Creating remarkable videos for your brand isn’t rocket science. In today’s new media landscape, it may just have become a need. I have exactly three reasons for sharing this with you today. Firstly, I recommended one of my clients to launch a series of “how-to” videos to make their product more accessible. We discussed about how this could potentially pan out.

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Business Rites-Of-Passage: Getting The Results You Want

YoungUpstarts

It is something which many business owners dream of doing at some point, and it is not too hard to see why. After all, it is a good sign when you are in the position where you can build your own office. It means, more likely than not, that your business is doing pretty well. After all, it takes some serious confidence in the enterprise to expand in this way.

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Low Risk Business Ideas You Can Get Started On Now

YoungUpstarts

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. If you are reading this blog, you are quite likely to either be running your own business or aspiring to own one. But starting your own business does not come easy. A lot of aspiring entrepreneurs fail to make the move to running their own business either due to lack of funds or time. Depending on what business you aspire to own, the capital costs can be anywhere between virtually nothing to as much as a million dollars or more.

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First in Gets The Respect

Mike Michalowicz

The first business in a new territory gains the respect. Take Uber for example. Uber was the first in the crowdsourced personal transportation space – the first alternative to taxis. Lyft was next in line and they didn’t inherently gain the respect and notoriety that Uber gained, due to the fact that Uber already made their mark within this territory.

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College Alumni Utilize Smartphones to Innovate Campus Safety

Austin Startup

The ubiquitous blue light emergency call box is a familiar sight for college students who find themselves walking their university grounds… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Why (and How) Optimizers Should Take Advantage of User State Models

ConversionXL

William A. Foster once said , “Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” Yet, we continue to see businesses pushing leads through doors, pushing customers through funnels… just hoping that they’ll create a high quality, engaged audience by accident.

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Entrepreneurship Stress Happens (But Here’s How To Reduce It)

YFS Magazine

These proactive steps should help you get a handle on stress before it overtakes your life and your business.

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Opportunities in Virtual Reality [Webinar Invitation]

Growthink Blog

Virtual Reality (VR) is one of the hottest market sectors in the world today, growing from a $90 million business in 2014, to $4.1 billion this year, and then more than doubling to $8.5 billion by 2018 (Goldman Sachs). Well beyond its “science fiction” roots, virtual reality hardware, software, and applications technologies are transforming industries as diverse as medicine, real estate, entertainment, gaming, and more.

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Explain Like I’m Five

Austin Startup

I’ve been working with a friend on an iOS app for the past three months and yesterday were discussing and laughing at our previous startup… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Alafair Biosciences of Austin Raises $2 Million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

Alafair Biosciences, an Austin-based medical device startup, announced Wednesday it has received $2 million in venture funding. ATP Fund led the Series A investment with participation form existing and new investors including the UT Horizon Fund. To date, the company, founded in 2011, has raised $5.9 million. The latest funds will help Alafair Biosciences expand […] The post Alafair Biosciences of Austin Raises $2 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Finishing the Start

Austin Startup

August 14, 2016: I often describe myself as an expert at “starting the start.” Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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‘A Girl Has A Name’: 12 Brand Lessons From ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 6

YFS Magazine

“A girl has a name” so go and make a name for yourself.

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Do You Need to Control a Majority of Your Stock?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Do You Need to Control a Majority of Your Stock? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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The Virtues of Team Leadership

Duct Tape Marketing

The Virtues of Team Leadership written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Howard Behar. Leadership is perhaps one of the most unnatural traits of a natural entrepreneur. In fact, I think that people problems sink more organizations that product problems. Innovators are doers and rarely take the time to develop, nurture and teach their people, but those who do see the benefits in culture, teamwork, and productivity.

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A Brand New You

YoungUpstarts

by Andrea Katz, founder and Chief Ideonista at Ideon. Branding is no longer just for brands. Anyone looking to carve out a promising career, and “future-proof” themselves professionally , will need to focus on treating their personal reputation as a distinct brand name. Until recently, the notion of branding individuals was reserved almost exclusively for Hollywood stars and Washington politicians.