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7 Genius Ways To Fund Your Startup With A Personal Loan

YoungUpstarts

Starting your own business isn’t easy, especially if you don’t have the funds for it. While your idea may be amazing, getting investors or even a business loan can be difficult in the initial stages. This is when you have to think outside the box and find other ways to finance your startup. So, what could you possibly do to get kick off this idea? The solution to your financial problem could be a personal loan.

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Draw a bigger circle

deal architect

We are approaching the two-year anniversary of Silicon Collar (released on September 2, 2016). Many readers tell me their favorite book I authored is still The New Polymath. Amazon tells me SAP Nation sold the most. Many disagreed with the.

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7 Reasons To Reconsider A Planned IPO Exit Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

Despite the fact that the number of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) for startups have continued to stay low, I still hear it touted often as the preferred exit strategy. I suspect the exuberance for an IPO is still being driven by the highly visible successes of a few companies several years ago, including Facebook, Yelp, and Twitter. Everyone dreams of becoming a billionaire overnight.

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Business Succession – How To Create A Nest Egg For Your Successor

YoungUpstarts

For a small and medium-size business, the major concern always is to maintain positive cash flows and have a decent bottom line. Sustainability is at the top of the mind of the business owner, and it is sometimes so predominant that it gives a blinkered outlook. Thinking about and formulating a business succession plan seems to be the last agenda on the list, which in hindsight proves to be a fallacy.

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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 Paralyzing Fear of Getting Started

Austin Startup

I haven’t been straight with you. Like most entrepreneurs… I haven’t told you everything. I told you why I decided to found data.world in this Lucky7 post. I told you the good part. What I didn’t tell you is that I was living in fear during those first few months of getting started… being back in an office and back in the arena once again. But why? I had started successful companies before, such as Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics. data.world was my sixth!

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Why This Latest Facebook Feature Is Likely About Civility, Not Virality

Hunter Walker

It’s hostage-movie gospel that you must get kidnappers to use your name, look at pictures of your family, learn about your life, anything that humanizes you and makes it more difficult for them to cause you harm. Maybe it’s just because I’ve seen too many of these flicks, (Taken 4 anyone?), but similar motivation came to mind when reading about Facebook’s new “Things in Common.” CNET’s Richard Nieva reported on a Facebook feature which displays what you

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