Sat.Sep 23, 2017

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A Different Path To Startup Success: How To Avoid Taking Money And Losing Control

YoungUpstarts

Deciding whether to increase money or trade equity in the business for much needed assistance, could be a tough call. I raised money and traded equity, but with my venture, I had to make one of the toughest decisions, to build it with some assistance of co-founders. We all decided right away that we’d put in our own money and sweat as equity. There are some specific reasons for this option, and this explanation might help you determine how to approach the funding of your start-up.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. But we’re doing it slowly. VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google.

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The Actual Four Disruptive Technologies Behind the Growth of Fintech

Austin Startup

Wired in partnership with Goldman Sachs wrote an article called “The Four Disruptive Technologies Behind the Growth of Fintech” which I found to be generic fluffy clickbait content. The Wired/Goldman joint article listed the four “disruptive” technologies such as (1) AI Investing (2) Loan Modeling based on Augmented Data (3) blockchain technology which the Wired/Goldman Sachs article does not define blockchain correctly and (4) mobile technology which is just a generic cliché at best.

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4 CryptoCurrencies Besides Bitcoin You Need To Keep An Eye On

YoungUpstarts

Technology has changed almost everything in the modern world – and now it’s changing the concept of money too. More than 2000 years after the first coin was minted in ancient Asia Minor, the world of dollar bills, central banks and the traditional banking system is being disrupted by cryptocurrencies – and there’s way more to this new world than just Bitcoin.

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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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Weekend Favs September 23

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs September 23 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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6 Steps To Avoid Network Installation Delays

YoungUpstarts

No new business likes to have their plans taken out of their hands – but that’s exactly what happens every day when organisations come up against delays having new network circuits put into place. Delays most commonly happen when a network carrier doesn’t or can’t deliver on the planned circuit installation date. In the UK, these circuits are commonly installed by Openreach , a part of BT that provides and manages internet infrastructure throughout the country.

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Staying On Top Of Your Expenses With A Business Line Of Credit

YoungUpstarts

Whether you’ve hit a rough patch or have started a brand new company, you might be in the position of not having too much capital to work around with. While you are undoubtedly eager to start working on your dream projects and the reasons for which you have started your own company, a business cannot survive on passion alone. There are many different expenses and a part of staying afloat is to make sure that you find financial solutions for all of them.

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Book: Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape

Feld Thoughts

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” – Margaret Atwood. A few weeks ago, after reading the New York Times Sunday Review article The Book That Made Us Feminists , I asked Amy for several recommendations for books that were foundational to the feminist movement. I purchased all that she suggested and added them to my infinite list of books to read.