Thu.Oct 18, 2018

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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – Before the Meeting

VC Adventure

All good board meetings start well before the meeting itself, so let’s start there for this series on board meetings. Timing – how frequently should you meet? Most boards plan meetings a year at a time. That makes sense given busy schedules, but leads to the question of when and how often should a board meet. As a good rule of thumb, most startup boards meet quarterly (in fact, most boards of any kind meet about this frequently).

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How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

ConversionXL

When I last checked, there were 987,119 “thought leaders” on LinkedIn. Soon, there’ll be more than a million. How many of those do you trust? “False expertise” is misidentified competence: We perceive expertise where there is none or evaluate expertise based on irrelevant factors. False experts include legions of self-appointed “gurus” and “visionaries” who saturate social media with bad advice.

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Take advantage of the good times to build stakeholder loyalty.

Berkonomics

Loyalty is a hard-earned commodity. There are several times when stakeholder loyalty is tested to the limit. For employees, a late or missed payroll is the ultimate test of corporate loyalty, divorced even from an employee’s ability to make do without a paycheck. For investors, a subsequent down round at a lower valuation than the last, or an exit opportunity at a loss are all opportunities for the affected stakeholder to show a side that can sometimes shock an entrepreneur or CEO.

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3 Things To Consider To Deal With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome In Your Business

YoungUpstarts

According to a report by the Orthopedic Center of Arlington, more than eight million individuals suffer from varying degrees of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) on a yearly basis. Carpal tunnel syndrome occurs when the tendons and ligaments surrounding the median nerve are inflamed. This inflammation creates swelling in the area, and the median nerve gets pinched, leading to a “pins and needles” sensation in the fingers, wrists and even the whole arm.

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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 Your Law Firm Should Market To Millennials

The Startup Magazine

Millennials are now the largest living generation in the history. These savvy consumers that are now in their ages 16 to 36 are determined to define the economy as we all know it. Law firms are quite alarmed about the changes happening and how to catch up and market to this often misunderstood population. Source: Pixabay. There are two things that are certain.

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Best Big Data Tools And How To Use Them

YoungUpstarts

In this competitive world, it is important to have robust tools which can effectively analyze the organization’s data. When these tools are used, it will reduce the burden over the employees who are working over there. This will help them to focus over the jobs which are more important and requires serious attention. If you need help in this area, then contact a big data consulting company.

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Reinforce Professional Relationships During The Holidays

YoungUpstarts

The yuletide season isn’t just for bumping “Jingle Bells” at maximum volume for a full two months. It’s also a time to connect with contacts by sending a photo Christmas Card. It seems simple enough: make a list, send the card, and wait until next year. But there are a few common foibles entrepreneurs and businesses make when saying, “Happy Holidays.” A simple oversight could cost you an important relationship that affects your bottom line the whole year throu

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Should you raise money or bootstrap?

Hippoland

Should you raise money or bootstrap? (By bootstrap, I actually mean raise < $250k from individuals / angels). Having run a startup that raised money and now in running a VC, ironically, if I were starting a product company today, I would start out with the mentality of bootstrapping for as long as I could. And, maybe, just maybe, I might consider raising more money under a few limited circumstances.

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But what will the robots want?

Start Up Blog

The exponential improvement of robotics is astounding. This dancing robot from Boston Dynamics is making me wonder if they should be called CyberDyne Systems ! But, what if the robots do get as ‘human’ as many technologists are predicting? What if the robots move far beyond computation, dexterity and into the realms of emotion, intuition, creativity and other human characteristics?

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Should you raise money or bootstrap?

Hippoland

Should you raise money or bootstrap? (By bootstrap, I actually mean raise < $250k from individuals / angels). Having run a startup that raised money and now in running a VC, ironically, if I were starting a product company today, I would start out with the mentality of bootstrapping for as long as I could. And, maybe, just maybe, I might consider raising more money under a few limited circumstances.

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How Not to be Your Own Worst Enemy In Business

YoungUpstarts

Running a business is hard enough in itself, but if you’re going to have any chance of succeeding, you need to at least stop causing problems for yourself. That might not sound like much to ask for, but there are plenty of business owners who make things more difficult than they have to be for themselves on a pretty much daily basis. Here’s how not to be your own worst enemy in business.

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Your Swag is an Extension of Your Brand, So Don’t Neglect It

ReadWriteStart

The true origins of the word swag are unknown. Swag means a few different things, but in the corporate world it typically refers to promotional products. You know, that stuff you get handed when you walk around the expo hall at conferences. All those pens, flash drives, stickers, and cheap sunglasses are used as giveaways […]. The post Your Swag is an Extension of Your Brand, So Don’t Neglect It appeared first on ReadWrite.

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4 Secrets Your Sales Team Can Learn From The Competitive Sports Arena

YoungUpstarts

by Lance Tyson, President and CEO of Tyson Group and author of “ Selling Is An Away Game: Close Business And Compete In A Complex World “. Some popular products seem to sell themselves, but the reality is the success began with a process. The same is true in the business of professional sports, a $60 billion-a-year industry where some franchises grow into monster brands.

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Refreshing Websites

Feld Thoughts

Every year or two I refresh the formatting on this website along with a few others that I help manage and generate content for. I work with a great firm called Valet that I really like and everything is hosted on Pantheon , so the process works smoothly for me. In addition to the refresh on Feld Thoughts, I also just refreshed Venture Deals (which used to be Ask the VC) and Startup Revolution.

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