YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

by Edward D. Hess and Katherine Ludwig, coauthors of “ Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age “. If you think you’ve lived through a bad economy, you haven’t seen anything yet. On the horizon is a “technology tsunami” poised to destroy tens of millions of jobs due to automation. The best research to date from researchers at Oxford University predicts that 47 percent of all jobs in the United States have a high probability of being

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Chad Laurans is the CEO of SimpliSafe, a large and growing tech company located in the Boston area. Years ago, in the span of 30 days, three of Chad’s friends were robbed. The companies that should serve them well in those moments were anything but helpful, comforting, and simple to work with. That led to Chad’s thriving business today. Today, we discuss how Chad built an Internet of Things-like product before that phrase existed, before the hype helps your marketing or fundraising,

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Are there certain traits, factors or qualities that make someone a successful entrepreneur? This is a question that many young people who are considering starting their own businesses ask. The truth is, there is no one response that is perfect, or is a solution for everyone. In fact, older entrepreneurs have their own unique stories of how they became successful.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Making connections with other like-minded entrepreneurs is rewarding, but it can be a challenge. Here’s what you can stand to gain. This article 3 Reasons Why You Should Hangout With Like-Minded Entrepreneurs appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

by Kelly Barcelos , Jobsoid. They say ‘a company is only as good as its employees’. Every startup founder can relate to that more than anyone else as they’ve probably seen the difference a strong, enterprising team of employees can make to a business during its initial few years. When you are still building credibility, and finding your place in a competitive market, it is especially important to hire the right employees.

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Rembrandt Communications

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Provide quality content and watch sales soar! We all know that content is still king. After all, recent research on successful B2B marketers by the Content Marketing Institute™ states that, “91% of top performers are extremely or very committed to content marketing.” But if you’re not a trained writer, how do you create and use […]. The post Does Anyone Read Your Content?

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Have you figured out what you want to have, or to be, when you reach the end of your personal run in this business life? It is a fair question. Most of us work in our businesses, either as managers or owners, and rarely step outside to think about how this will end in a perfect world. Investors call this discussion “exit planning” and of course they include themselves in the.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Mailgun, an email startup, spins out of San Antonio-based Rackspace and announces it has raised $50 million. Mailgun, based in San Antonio has offices in Austin and San Francisco. Turn/River Capital led the investment round with participation from Scaleworks and Rackspace. The company plans to use the money to accelerate product development and expand customer […] The post Mailgun Raises $50 Million and Spins Out From Rackspace appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

I have given a lot of pitches and seen a lot of pitches and here is what I’ve learned. Watch my video and apply these 5 secrets. It works! Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

This past week, I had a pair of experiences that painted in inspirational relief the power of innovation to change the world for the better. The first was first reading the cover article of the most recent issue of BloombergBusinessWeek, featuring Tesla's and SpaceX's founder Elon Musk and his new "Boring Company, " and then traveling to SpaceX’s headquarters just a short drive from my Los Angeles office to see for myself what all of the hubbub was about The Boring Company is Musk's and fanciful

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Marc Andreessen , a brilliant entrepreneur and co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Sponsored: 64% off Code Black Drone with HD Camera. Our #1 Best-Selling Drone--Meet the Dark Night of the Sky!

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

by Stephen Hart, CEO of Cardswitcher . First things first, what is a chargeback? Simply put, a chargebacks is a disputed transaction between a customer and a business. If the chargeback is successful, the transaction is reversed and the customer has the money returned to his or her account. While chargebacks were originally created to protect consumers from fraudulent usage of their cards, they are increasingly used by people who simply do not want to pay for goods or services.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Use Design to Elevate Your Content Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. You have defined your audience personas, created an editorial calendar and spent hours researching and writing the perfect content for your customers. Now you’re ready to crush it with your content marketing, right? Not quite. Content marketing is getting increasingly competitive and noisy.

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