YoungUpstarts
JUNE 14, 2019
by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. A business’s ability to evolve depends on its leader’s ability to let go of their death grip on… everything… and learn to delegate without micromanaging. Let’s take a look at some of the reasons why delegating is so crucial to the good health of your business, and what you can do today to start growing your business by delegating effectively.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 14, 2019
Bootstrapping going by the author of the Ulysses, James Joyce implies forcing your way to the top from the lowest of ranks by the aid of your bootstraps. Today more and more people are creating ventures and funding them as well from their own resources and efforts. Bootstrapping is a common way to fund a prospect. It is estimated that at least 80% of all startups rely on personal funds from their founders for operations, albeit in their formative stages.
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YoungUpstarts
JUNE 14, 2019
Little more than twenty years ago the global phenom that is Google was being born. Mobile phones were becoming common, but they certainly weren’t ubiquitous, and video shops still operated with impunity – at least one in almost every mall. The advancement of the digital era has been swift, bringing with it, wholesale changes in the way that we conduct business and in the types of jobs and careers that have suddenly become possibilities.
Board Effect
JUNE 14, 2019
Hackers strike once again, this time causing a data breach at a prominent New York nonprofit social services agency. The incident sends up a red flag that highlights the cybersecurity issues that nonprofits across the globe should be concerned with. The breach caused sensitive medical information belonging to the current and former clients of People Inc. in western New York to be compromised.
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
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 14, 2019
I recently met Renata George through a referral from Katie Rae (MIT Engine CEO, previously Techstars Boston MD). Renata told me about a book she was working on called Women Who Venture and asked me if I’d write the foreword. I was honored to be asked to do this. The foreword I wrote follows. The book is out and available now in hardcover and on the Kindle.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 14, 2019
Whether you decide to buy or lease a forklift, it all comes down to the particulars of its application and the preferences of your business. Let’s be honest, forklifts are expensive. Right next to your employees, forklifts will probably be your largest expense, even if you are using used forklifts in Sydney. As a new business owner, the core part of your job is to look at ways to measure the costs and try your best to reduce them.
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YoungUpstarts
JUNE 14, 2019
For a young company, success at a trade show can make or break your entire operation. A trade show provides the opportunity to put your product before a wide range of potential clients and you have the potential to leave the show with a greatly expanded list of customers. If you don’t know what to expect or how to prepare for your first show it can be stressful, however, with the right preparation you maximize your chances for success to ensure that you make the best possible showing befor
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 14, 2019
Are you interested in starting a mortgage brokerage business? As a entrepreneurial business, the job is a rewarding one. You help business owners, families, and renters close deals on spaces and homes. A mortgage broker is a middleman that negotiates with the lender so the buyer doesn’t have to. The pay can be great, too. The average mortgage broker makes $56,000 a year, and those who generate a lot of business can make up to $122,000 a year.
Ben's Blog
JUNE 14, 2019
Stanford research shows those venture capital-backed companies founded since 1979 account for 43% of all US public companies, 57% of public company market capitalization, and 82% of the country’s total R&D budget. The world needs this risk-seeking asset class.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 14, 2019
Omar L. Harris is passionate about leading teams, high- performance coaching, and inspiring more people to adopt the servant leader mindset. A 20-year veteran of the global pharmaceutical industry, he now resides in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he is General Manager of Allergan PLC. He’s also a bestselling novelist and author: his newest book is Leader Board: The DNA of High Performance Teams.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 14, 2019
If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. Or does it? Actually numbers and locations are just the beginning. The challenge is to find the right angel for you, and for your situation. Here are some basic principles: Angels invest in people, more often than they invest in ideas.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 14, 2019
I’m getting married today. At least, if she says yes. But, assuming that all goes according to plan, I have a few thoughts on how I got here—given that dating and relationships seem to vex a lot of people. I would say that the most important factor that went into both of us finding someone to marry was that neither one of us felt like we had to find someone to marry to be content.
ConversionXL
JUNE 14, 2019
A few months ago, I took my family to Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. We saw some pretty cool fossilized dinosaur bones as well as ancient petroglyphs and pictographs. There was, however, one stop that disappointed us. A trail we were following had a clearly worn path through an open field, but we couldn’t find any trail markers beyond it. We wandered around for a while but eventually turned back without finding what we had come to see.
Cracking the Code
JUNE 14, 2019
Micha Kaufman, Fiverr's founder and CEO What a great achievement for Micha Kaufman and the whole team at Fiverr, which made its debut on the NYSE today. They have built a company that is changing how the world works together, and which facilitate millions of transactions between buyers and sellers across over 200 categories. We first invested in Fiverr and its team of 40 in May 2012.
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