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Accelerate Your Startup With Help From An Incubator

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. According to the National Business Incubator Association ( NBIA ), there are over 7,000 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley.

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Digital Rookies

deal architect

I was fortunate to be invited by Karl-Heinz Streibich to interview 40 of the most sophisticated companies in the world for his book The Digital Enterprise. That was in 2013 and I by now these companies are miles ahead in.

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4 Risks Of Growing Too Quickly That Could Derail You

YoungUpstarts

by Andy Roe, General Manager of SurePayroll, Inc. Most business owners look forward to the day when they can expand. In their mind, this means things are going well and the company is on track to do bigger things in the future. But have you considered the risks associated with growing your business too quickly? Here’s the primary concern: fast growth could hinder your company’s ability to stay on course.

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Exemplary Workers + Smart Machines = Magic

deal architect

Silicon Collar tackles many policy issues around automation and impact on jobs, but the best part is the first half where I profile over 50 settings where man and machine are working as peers. Here are some I have been.

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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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Find A Way To Love Your Clients, Or Learn To Let Them Go

YoungUpstarts

by Dave Marinaccio, CCO and Co-Founder of LMO Agency, and author of “ All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek “ “It’s not personal, it’s just business.”. How many times have you heard someone say that and thought to yourself, “what a load of crap”? All business is personal because all business takes place between persons.

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2016 Pacific Crest SaaS Survey – Part 1

For Entrepreneurs

For the fifth year in a row, we’re proud to work with Pacific Crest Securities, a SaaS-focused investment banking firm, to share results from a survey of 336 SaaS companies. The survey represents deep benchmarking data and insights on growth and operation of SaaS companies. Many thanks to the readers of forEntrepreneurs who participated in the.

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Do Androids Get Songs Stuck in Their Heads? My investment in Amper Music.

This is going to be BIG.

This weekend, Heathens by Twenty One Pilots has been stuck in my head. It has such a great sound--and I wanted to figure out what else I could listen to that sounded like it. I don't mean bands that are liked by other people who like Twenty One Pilots. I literally mean songs that sound like it. or maybe just remixed versions of it. I wanted to engage with music, but I can't, because I don't have the ability to manipulate the "source code" of the song.

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Capital Idea! Unconventional Ways Of Getting Capital

YoungUpstarts

A lot of people think they know the right ways to get investments. They usually think of very formal, very rigid methods of getting the capital they need to pursue a project or start a business. But getting capital can often be achieved through some unconventional ways. As you’ve probably guessed, we’re going to take a look at some of the more unconventional ways in this article.

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My Talk at Kauffman Fellows Reunion VC Summit – Building the Next Great Ecosystem

Feld Thoughts

I’ll be doing a talk on Monday, October 24 – 12 noon PDT at the Kauffman Fellows Reunion VC Summit titled Building the Next Great Ecosystem that is being live streamed. Steve Case is doing a talk on Tuesday, October 25 – 7:30am PDT titled The Third Wave, the Impact on Society, Investors, and Entrepreneurs that is also being live streamed. Sign up for either (or both) of them here.

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What Every Entrepreneur Should Know About HR And Startup Culture

YFS Magazine



It is enough of a struggle to grow a company. The last thing you need is to manage HR functions by pen and paper and/or face stiff government penalties if you get it wrong.

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Monday Motivation: The Mentality of Legends [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

Share. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot.

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This Is How Startups Build An Irresistible Digital Brand

YFS Magazine

Welcome to the era of entertainment and digital branding. It's a brave new digital world.

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Why Your Company Should Be Investing in Podcast Advertising

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Shutterstock. It’s being called the “Golden Age of Podcasting.” For those who’ve been in love with the medium years, it’s about time. The concept was born in the 1980’s, truly getting its legs with the dawn of the internet. At that point, it was primarily just on demand talk radio. MP3 players changed the game by making content accessible on the go, and contributions from Tristan Louis, Dave Winer, and Adam Curry made the content consistently ava

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How entrepreneurship can redistribute the future

Austin Startup

“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” William Gibson Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Why Your Company Should Be Investing in Podcast Advertising

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Shutterstock. It’s being called the “Golden Age of Podcasting.” For those who’ve been in love with the medium years, it’s about time. The concept was born in the 1980’s, truly getting its legs with the dawn of the internet. At that point, it was primarily just on demand talk radio. MP3 players changed the game by making content accessible on the go, and contributions from Tristan Louis, Dave Winer, and Adam Curry made the content consistently ava

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Episode 118: The Youngin’ in an Old Mans Business World ft. Kieran Lynch

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. This week Kieran Lynch talks about his experience of working in the family business, the challenges he faces, the advantages his age in his company provides and everything in between. Welcome to Episode 118 of the Profit First Podcast! Our Guest. Kieran has over 10 years of experience in the construction industry and joined the electrical contracting family business, Lynch Contracting, part-time in 2004.