Tue.Sep 25, 2018

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We’re Overthinking Seed Round Signaling Effects

For Entrepreneurs

There is much hand wringing in the startup ecosystem about various forms of signaling between the seed and A rounds. Conventional wisdom, and advice, abounds: entrepreneurs should never include a venture firm in their seed round because it’ll scare other VCs off from pursuing the A. After all, the “insider” VC has more information and.

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Scaling from maker to manager

Version One Ventures

A few weeks ago I shared some important leadership lessons from Stewart Butterfield , including investing in your own growth to make sure that the founder scales as fast as the company. Growing with your start-up can be a very tough undertaking for a founder. It requires reinventing yourself dramatically in very little time. When you start your company, you will be a “maker” for most of your days, wearing a thousand hats and tackling whatever needs to be tackled.

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Sales Training Options to Help Your Small Business Succeed

Duct Tape Marketing

Sales Training Options to Help Your Small Business Succeed written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Having an effective and engaged sales team is one of the keys to guaranteeing your business’s success. Some people are natural sales men or women—they have the gift of gab, the ability to easily connect with others and win their trust, and are adept at juggling leads and following up with prospects and existing customers alike.

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The Best Cold-Emailing Tools For Startups

YoungUpstarts

Cold emailing is a challenge, and anyone’s who’s tried email outreach as part of their marketing strategy knows this well. You don’t have any relationship with the person you’re emailing at all, and unlike an interaction where you’re face-to-face, you’re not getting that feedback and those cues that could lead you to change your approach. With that being said, cold emailing can be effective.

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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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SaaS Data Planning: A Start-to-Finish Guide to Implementation

ConversionXL

Data is the life blood of any SaaS company. Data will empower you to make better decisions and help you grow faster. However, few companies make the most of their existing data or get access to the data they need. This guide is meant to help you go from zero to analytics proficient as quickly as possible. It doesn’t matter if you’re starting from scratch or if you’re simply trying to level up your existing data strategy.

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Secrets To Success: What This Maverick Turnaround Expert Learned From An Extraordinary Six-Year-Old

YoungUpstarts

by Rick Miller, author of “ Be Chief: It’s a Choice, Not a Title “ Years ago, I volunteered at a rehabilitation facility in Morristown, New Jersey, working with a gifted physical therapist in a 100-degree heated pool. I assisted as the therapist used the warm water to stretch the muscles of children challenged with cerebral palsy and other muscular disorders.

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Design An Office That Inspires Creativity

YoungUpstarts

Where you work matters. Not particularly the geographical location of where your office is, but the space in general. Whether you work in a spare room in your house, on the top floor of a warehouse, or in a two-story commercial property, your office should inspire productivity and creativity. If you walk into an office that’s dull, disorganized, and uncomfortable, doing work, drumming up ideas, and being productive isn’t as easily accomplished.

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Blockchain Technology Is Building A Traceable Revolution

YFS Magazine

Cryptocurrencies and blockchain represent a new gold rush. As new blockchain startups push for recognition it’s possible to get a bit lost.

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We’re Overthinking Seed Round Signaling Effects

For Entrepreneurs

There is much hand wringing in the startup ecosystem about various forms of signaling between the seed and A rounds. Conventional wisdom, and advice, abounds: entrepreneurs should never include a venture firm in their seed round because it’ll scare other … The post We’re Overthinking Seed Round Signaling Effects appeared first on For Entrepreneurs.

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Raising Capital For an E-Commerce Startup

The Startup Magazine

In 2015, the e-commerce industry was estimated at $1.6 trillion, making the startup dream a profitable reality. Getting into e-commerce is a great way to start your own brand , especially with many ways to do business online. You can create an affiliate site, sell your own products, drop ship for a merchant, and more. However, one element remains, how do you raise capital for your e-commerce startup?

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Cimpress, a Dutch Company, Buys BuildASign for $280 Million

SiliconHills

BuildASign sold Tuesday to the parent company of Vistaprint. Cimpress, based in the Netherlands, bought BuildASign for $280 million. “We are excited to welcome BuildASign to Cimpress. They bring strong talent, a customer-centric culture, low-cost production operations and strong e-commerce capabilities that work seamlessly together to serve customers with market-leading prices, fast delivery and great […].

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How to deal with negative employees in the workplace

The Startup Magazine

Running a business is hard work. You’re constantly looking for a balance between productivity and happiness for your employees; even though the two are often linked. Unfortunately no matter how hard you try there is often one employee that has a negative approach. Source: Pixabay. Discovering how to deal with this employee will make your life much easier.

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MonkeyMedia’s Eric Bear Discusses BodyNav Tech to Eliminate VR Motion Sickness on Ideas to Invoices

SiliconHills

MonkeyMedia is focused on eliminating motion sickness for people using virtual reality applications. Today, the company released a developer toolkit for its patented BodyNav technology that allows people to try out the BodyNav technology on existing games and applications available for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Eric Bear, founder, and CEO of Austin’s MonkeyMedia, an […].

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Vaping Business Growth

The Startup Magazine

Vaping is quickly becoming big business, despite the negative media attention it has gotten in the last few years. That is because many people are switching to vaping (from cigarettes) and seeing the benefits of it for themselves. Allowing employees to vape also has long term productivity and costs benefits to employers. Source: Pixabay. One of those benefits for the businesses: saving consumers money.

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Your Travel Website Should Do These 3 Things Well – Do You Know What They Are?

crowdSPRING Blog

Imagine you’re on a Hawaiian beach… Or, maybe you’re strolling the streets of Paris with a fresh baguette in hand. Sounds delightful, right? A recent AARP study revealed that 47% of surveyed baby boomers planned to travel internationally in 2018. And they will each spend roughly $6,300 on travel this year. Millennials are even more likely to travel internationally (64%) and will each spend around $6,800 on travel in 2018.

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Indian Hotel-Booking Startup Oyo Raises $1 Billion to Fund Overseas Push

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The post Indian Hotel-Booking Startup Oyo Raises $1 Billion to Fund Overseas Push appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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UT Hosts University Track at Austin Startup Week

Austin Startup

Austin Startup Week kicks off next week on Oct. 1 and ends on Oct. 5. UT’s Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and Texas MSTC Program are leading a “University Track,” focused on building out student entrepreneur ecosystems and creating a bridge between universities and startup teams. This is the first year ASW will dedicate an entire day , Oct. 3, to programming for students and community interested in what Texas’ flagship university has to offer entrepreneurs.

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A possible reading plan for 2019

Jeff Hilimire

This year I have a goal of reading 52 books – a book a week on average. I’m ahead of schedule and expect I should be able to make it happen. I’m considering changing this up for 2019. The act of having a public goal this year has helped hold me accountable to read more than I normally would have. No thanks, new TV show, I have a book to read!

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Government Support – Congrats to EkoStinger!

ithacaVC

I am always very cautious when it comes to government grants and government supported competitions. Apart from SBIR/STIR grants (which often literally are used to start companies based on university research), my general view is that startups should NOT overly rely on the government for anything. As a strategy, it is just too risky and unpredictable.

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Why React Is Growing In Popularity

YoungUpstarts

React is a declarative and component-based JavaScript library that developers use to build user interfaces (UI). The library provides programmers with a set of advantages that make it an ideal choice for UI design, including the ease of use and extension. In today’s fast-changing world, front end components need to be portable and reusable while also providing users with interactivity.

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Home Office Essentials for Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

One of my favorite perks of entrepreneurship is the ability to set my own schedule and work from anywhere. I’m able to balance the need for quick “alone time” focused on my projects with the need to be around other entrepreneurs for high energy support. No matter where I’m working on any given day, my home office is my base of operations. From that consistent place of my own, it is easy to branch out to work from a coffee shop, customer office, co-working space or even my back porch.

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PR Blockchain Matters: Media Relations Services In Blockchain Have Never Been So Important

YoungUpstarts

Picture this. You and your blockchain startup staff come up with a brilliant plan to organize and hold a contest on Valentine’s Day. You want your followers, fans, and critics to share a campaign you recently launched with their loved ones. The reward they get is to have the loved ones pop into a draw to win a slice of about $10, 500 in cryptocurrency value.

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Do you have to bankrupt yourself to start a company? How all in is all in?

This is going to be BIG.

I started a company back in late 2007. We raised $550k in seed funding and, despite a lot of hard work, things didn’t work out. It turned out I wasn’t such a great product manager, the technical things we were doing were about two years too early—about to be made orders of magnitude easier by a lot of cloud and big data tools, and, oh, yeah, Lehman went under when I was pitching VCs for money in 2008.

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Leveraging Leadership Styles As An Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin Abdulrahman, author of “ The Book On Winning The Game Of Life “ There are a number of different leadership styles that entrepreneurs employ successfully, and by understanding some of the more useful styles, you can become a better leader and a better business person. However, there are certain styles that can be utilized to work better than others.