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7 Attributes of An Entrepreneur's Startup Dream Team

Startup Professionals Musings

There is a common belief in the angel and venture capital community that you put your money on the best team, rather than the best idea. Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. Solo entrepreneurs rarely find an investor.

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Understanding Virtual Data Rooms And Their Significance Today

YoungUpstarts

by Gabriel Cabot, digital marketing strategist at Firmex, Inc. Before the advent of cloud technology and the Internet, company files had to be stored away in physical data rooms (PDRs). This required high operational costs like round the clock staff, abundant paper supplies and couriers. In addition, access to information stored in these sites was inconvenient because one had to travel to the PDR site.

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What Do You Do When Your Customers Are Afraid To Shop Online?

ConversionXL

You and I may have a hard time believing it, but many people are afraid to shop online. Now, as someone who regularly makes ridiculous impulse purchases, I never second guess entering my credit card information online. In fact, I just bought a Led Zeppelin coffee mug in the time between writing and editing this article. You, too, probably regularly buy books, movies, clothes, and software online.

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Life Audit: 4 Ways To Reprogram Your Life

YoungUpstarts

by David Osborn , an entrepreneur, public speaker, and author. At some point, you were asked what you wanted to be when you grew up. Your answers varied as a child, but they were genuine and untainted by outside factors. But you matured, succumbed to those outside pressures, and now find yourself in a career you just like — or maybe even hate. Many of us live a programmed life dictated by others rather than one that’s true to ourselves and our dreams.

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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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The Parentpreneur’s Guide To Taking A Guilt-Free Vacation

YFS Magazine

Learn what need to get done, make time to do it, and figure out how you will continue to create revenue while you are disconnected.

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Obsession Is A Way Of Life For Most Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

You could literally spend all day online just reading through tips for entrepreneurs until you have business knowledge spewing out of every orifice. This happens to a lot of people, and they wind up spending most of their time dreaming about taking action, reading about someone else taking action, and discovering new ways to take action, rather than actually taking action.

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Leadership and Mental Health

Feld Thoughts

Jerry Colonna and I are having a fireside chat and Q&A about leadership and mental health on Tuesday, June 28th at 3pm at The Josef Korbel School for International Studies. It is being co-hosted by Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network and DU’s Project X-ite. Please register and join us. The post Leadership and Mental Health appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Do Your Business A Favor: Take A Page From Google’s Playbook

YFS Magazine

There are lessons to learn from every innovative and successful company. Google is one of the best small business teachers on the planet - we just have to listen.

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Monday Morning Motivation – Cleveland Cavaliers Edition [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

Share This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owner to start their week of on the right foot. Congratulations to the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James and Kyrie Irving!

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Founder CEOs: Monthly Investor Updates Are Your Critical Lifeline

Austin Startup

(I originally posted this to the Austin Startups Facebook group, but it’s relevant to founders everywhere) Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Announcing a New General Partner at Flybridge

Seeing Both Sides

I am thrilled to welcome Jesse Middleton to the Flybridge family. Jesse is joining us as a General Partner to help lead our NYC office. This hire is a big deal for us. Jesse is the first General Partner we’ve hired in over a decade. Jesse is a tremendous entrepreneur and executive, having for over the last five years been a part of the creation of one of the most successful start ups in history – WeWork – and serving as an active angel investor in NYC.

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America is Already Great, Here is the Evidence

Austin Startup

The phrase, “Make America Great Again” is complete b t. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Announcing a New General Partner at Flybridge

Seeing Both Sides

I am thrilled to welcome Jesse Middleton to the Flybridge family. Jesse is joining us as a General Partner to help lead our NYC office. This hire is a big deal for us. Jesse is the first General Partner we’ve hired in over a decade. Jesse is a tremendous entrepreneur and executive, having for over the last five years been a part of the creation of one of the most successful start ups in history – WeWork – and serving as an active angel investor in NYC.

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Open Letter to Austin City Council re: 2016 Mobility Bond Program

Austin Startup

21 June 2016 Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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7 Signs That You’re Actually Good At Content Marketing

Brandanew

Monday morning needs some motivation. If you’re beginning the week thinking about how you can improve your content marketing efforts , it’s also a good time to reflect a little more. What does success mean? Are you any good at content marketing as a brand? Contrary to what you may want to hear, going viral doesn’t have much to do with it.

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How and Why to Develop a Competitive Matrix for Your Plan or Pitch

Up and Running

The competitive matrix is important in a business plan for several reasons. First, it’s a great input for strategy and looking ahead. Second, it can develop and explain positioning. Third, it is one of the most obvious, strategic visuals that business plan readers expect. It is a mainstay in pitch presentations, business plans, product development, strategy, and in-marketing messaging too (think advertising).

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Episode 97: Profitability for the Specialists with Kaman Cheung

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Kaman owns an amazon seller business where he sells different products from golf items to toys. His business is implementing Profit First and Mike Michalowicz gives Kaman a few strategies to increase profitability, also explaining that cutting costs can only get you so far; there’s only a little bit of cost cutting that can be done effectively before it hurts the business… but there’s an opportunity in Kaman’s case to become specialist.

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Technology Advocate Alan Weinkrantz Dies in Tragic Car Accident

SiliconHills

Alan Weinkrantz, a longtime public relations professional and advocate for the tech industry in San Antonio and Israel died Saturday in Israel after being hit by a car in an outdoor café, according to the Times of Israel. Alan’s sudden death has shocked everyone and leaves a huge void in so many lives. I’ve known […] The post Technology Advocate Alan Weinkrantz Dies in Tragic Car Accident appeared first on SiliconHills.