YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

by Pascal Finette from Singularity University. “May you live in interesting times.” ~ Chinese Proverb. This (somewhat liberally translated) Chinese proverb is something you hear often in Silicon Valley these days. Some say it is a curse. Regardless, nobody denies its truth when it comes to the change technology brings to our world. Driven by the exponentially accelerating rate of technological progress we now have (literally) supercomputers in our pockets, access to the world’s information at o

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 20, 2018

There are many reasons why moving your business operations – a part of it or the entire company – to another country. When you need to optimize your production line or are trying to get closer to customers, moving is an option worth considering. The same can be said for when you need a better business environment in general. Source: Pixabay. Despite the obvious benefits of moving to a business-friendly country, making the decision to move is still not easy.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

by Otto Scharmer, author of “ The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications “ This is a relentlessly turbulent time for business, with quicksilver shifts that can upset even the strongest organizations and throw firmly established plans far off course. It’s up to CEOs to find the most effective tools for meeting each wave of change — and it’s a responsibility has keeps many an executive up at night.

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deal architect

APRIL 20, 2018

Readers know my favorite vendor event format is the analyst summit. User conferences are fine, but I always feel we intrude there on customer time. In the past, SAP has done such summits in silos – focused on a products.

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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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

Many budding start-ups fail because of small mistakes that its founders commit in the nascent days. These are the five common mistakes every start-up should avoid to run smoothly. Choosing the wrong people. New entrepreneurs tend to trust people blindly and this is the biggest mistake one can make in a start-up. There have been many instances where co-founders have been ousted from an enterprise.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2018

I said some version of the following statement several times in the past few weeks. Assume aliens came down and one of your senior leaders was taken away to their home planet. Do they have a person reporting to them who could step into their role, even if it’s only temporary? If you are the CEO, this includes you. It’s remarkable to me, even in companies that are over 100 people, how the answer to this question is no.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 20, 2018

Do you want to get better at your work? Are you even trying? Putting in the work and meeting with mentors will get you far, but dedicated time for learning WEEKLY will increase your chances significantly. You have the time to learn! CXL Institute All-Access has everything from digital psychology to Google Analytics courses. All-Access is great for teams and individual learners.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

More and more people across America are taking the bold and potentially lucrative move of starting their own business, whether operating as a sole trader or at the head of a small enterprise. In this highly competitive corporate world, you’ll need an excellent product or service that stands out from the crowd, and you’ll also need to be able to attract customers who will pay for it.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 20, 2018

Renting out properties is a great source of income and can be a hugely profitable business in the long run if you develop it properly. At the same time, many people approach it with the wrong attitude, expecting it to be a relatively effortless venture that simply generates profit while they sit around doing nothing. The truth is that being a landlord can be demanding and exhausting.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

When most of us think about artificial intelligence, we probably think about robots that clean homes and work in factories. The general understanding related to how artificial intelligence works and is structured has largely been a construction of Hollywood Sci-Fi films. However, as technology progresses, a future wherein computers have the ability to teach themselves and learn from the processes themselves is not necessarily in the distant future.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 20, 2018

With marketers spending most of their time driving traffic to their blog pages and websites, it is hoped that their target audience will visit their page and sign up as a customer. However, if the landing page does not entice a customer, there will be no sales, which means you are wasting your time. Here are some ways to help make sure that your landing page stands out.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

APRIL 20, 2018

Recently during one of the live coaching webinars I run for my Laptop Lifestyle Academy members, an important topic surfaced, one that shows up again and again as a common excuse for someone to NOT start a business. In fact, it is so common I’ve already addressed it once before, The post What ‘Being An Expert’ Really Means Today Online appeared first on Yaro.blog.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 20, 2018

Like many in the venture community, especially us newer investors, I enjoy Fred Wilson’s “process” posts, where he shares a POV on the practice of our profession. Even more than his answers, it’s his questions I find so valuable, because those questions are universally applicable while his answers might differ from my answers, just as USV and Homebrew are different.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 20, 2018

As internet memes go, You Had One Job is a fun one. There are a few versions running around but the one I pay attention to is the Twitter handle @_youhadonejob1. Full of amusing pictures of things gone a little awry… Happy Friday!

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 20, 2018

In what is now one of my favorite business books, Great by Choice , Jim Collins introduces the concept of Return on Luck (ROL). He describes ROL as such: Our research showed that the great companies were not generally luckier than the comparisons—they did not get more good luck, less bad luck, bigger spikes of luck, or better timing of luck. Instead, they got a higher return on luck, making more of their luck than others.

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deal architect

APRIL 20, 2018

Readers know my favorite vendor event format is the analyst summit. User conferences are fine, but I always feel we intrude there on customer time. In the past, SAP has done such summits in silos – focused on a products.

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Reid Hoffman

APRIL 20, 2018

3 rules to build an online community the right way from Caterina Fake: Think about the community—not the tool—you want to build. Shape the conversation from day one… and continue to engage after that. Know who you are, who you’re for, and what you stand for. Read the full post on LinkedIn.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 20, 2018

If you want to become a more responsible with your finances, there are a number of ways to do so. The more financially responsible you are, the better prepared you will be in the future. Particularly if you run a startup business, it is important to start getting into the habit of this at an early age so that you don’t make serious mistakes that could potentially ruin your life.

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