Fri.Oct 18, 2019

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Business Success: When Is It Appropriate To Do Your Own Taxes?

YoungUpstarts

Do you think you can do your own taxes? Filing your taxes is a complicated process, but many people are capable of doing it on their own. Keep reading to learn more about if you can do your taxes, and helpful tips to make the process a little less disorganized and stressful. Can You Do Your Own Taxes? Anyone is capable of filing their taxes themselves, and there are a lot of benefits to doing the work yourself.

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The New Technologies Keeping Real Estate Agents Safe

ReadWriteStart

While it may not seem like a dangerous profession, the safety of real estate agents is often at risk. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) 2017 Member Safety Survey, 44% of female agents and one in four male agents have experienced a situation in the past year that made them fear for their safety or the safety of their personal information.

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Your Business Has 99 Problems – And Communication Is All Of Them

YoungUpstarts

by Bill Higgs, author of the upcoming book “Culture Code Champions: 7 Steps to Scale & Succeed in Your Business” Businesses face a multitude of vexing situations every day. Sometimes these are quickly remedied, such as a missed phone call that must be rescheduled, or an unhappy customer who needs to be soothed. At other times, there’s a total breakdown and turmoil erupts, as in the recent GM strike where 50,000 auto workers walked out, venting their anger over a number of decisio

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Top Difficulties Developers Encounter While Designing Hardware

The Startup Magazine

Hardware design is viewed as the most essential component in developing embedded IoT devices in order to allow for the ultimate success of the product. The hardware design and development process are faced with many challenges while ensuring that the embedded product meets the necessary functionality, is dependable and secure, and consumes less power. .

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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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Engage in the New Colorado Digital Service

Feld Thoughts

One of the many great things about the Governor of Colorado is that he’s an entrepreneur, having started multiple successful technology companies, including BlueMountainArts.com (acquired by Excite for $800m) and Provide Commerce (IPO, then acquired by Liberty Media for $500m). He’s also a co-founder of Techstars with me, David Cohen, and David Brown.

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Modern Governance: Secure Communications and Materials

Board Effect

Modern governance is a relatively new term that was introduced by Diligent Corporation to update the view of governance by today’s standards. This contemporary term reflects shifts in expectations around accountability and transparency, as well as changes in technology, that impact boards of organizations at all stages and sizes, across sectors and industries.

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6 New Organizational Lessons From Amazon and Alibaba

Startup Professionals Musings

In my current role as a business consultant, I still find that most companies, large and small, organize themselves wholly based on what goes on inside the company, rather than looking outside – at their networks, their partners, and the niche they wish to dominate. The result is a hierarchy and a static group of silos that doesn’t adapt to market changes and competitors.

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Friday Funism – “Assuming Success, Which I Always Do”

View from Seed

As our fundraising month focusing on the seed pitch deck recently wrapped up, we’re returning to our “ Friday Funisms ” series – fun & quirky sayings which one can repeatedly hear around the NextView offices that have become part of our culture over the years. This week’s phrase is often said when talking about the future. When the outcome of a process, an investment, or hypothesis is uncertain, we intentionally will say: “ Assuming success, which I always do… ” then followed by the most

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How To Keep Good Employees Happy And Reap The Business Benefits

YoungUpstarts

by Paul Trapp and Stephen Davis, coauthors of “ Prep for Success: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Achieving Your Dreams “ While many business owners say that the first rule of a successful company is keeping customers happy, studies show that also keeping employees happy is critical to the whole process. The better a business owner and upper management treat good employees, the more committed and engaged they will be to perform at a consistently high level and do their part to he

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MassChallenge Texas Awards $500,000 to Five Startups

SiliconHills

TRAXyL, a startup that installs high-speed Internet on roadways, received the top prize of $150,000 in cash from MassChallenge Texas in Austin on Thursday night. The company, based in Warrenton, Virginia installs high-speed fiber optic cable on roads, and parking lots. It coats the fiber optic cables in heavy-duty paint that can be glued on […].

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5 Blogger Outreach Strategies To Generate Links & Responses

YoungUpstarts

Blogger outreach is a very simple method to amplify the reach of your brand. A majority of people trust what their favorite blogger says and if you can convince one to vouch for your brand then these people would believe you too. However, blogger outreach is not easy to execute. Any wrong choice can totally crash your marketing plan. Here we give you 5 strategies that would get you the right links and responses.

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What Modern Tool Drives Crown Agencies? Board Portal Software

The Startup Magazine

The board of directors at Crown agencies needs to know that their communication tools are powerful and modern, but also totally secure. It doesn’t matter how far apart directors may be — they need to remain connected at all times. Their mandate for better governance and transparency requires them to have the latest technology to make communication and collaboration easy.

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Small Business SEO Tips – How To Improve Your Bing Ranking

YFS Magazine

The value of an SEO strategy for Google or Baidu is well-known. However, these Bing SEO tips can also improve your rank and increase website traffic.

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Inexpensive CBD Oil Options in the UK

The Startup Magazine

CBD oil is rapidly growing into the leading health and wellness trend in the UK. According to the latest 2019 estimates, about six million Britons have tried CBD products. These non-psychoactive cannabis preparations are used to help with a wide variety of health issues ranging from anxiety to pain. Unfortunately, CBD oil cost remains the biggest barrier to most people interested in trying CBD oil.

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Naming Your New Business

Mike Michalowicz

Starting a new business comes with so many important decisions, and choosing what to name your business so it represents it, and you, is one of the big ones. That name will be your brand, your stamp and your identity in the world. The name of your new business has a significant impact on your success. It must connect with customers and convey a benefit while reinforcing what your company represents and can offer them.

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How To Choose The Best Legal Transcription Software

YFS Magazine

For entrepreneurs in the legal field, time and cost involved in documenting case and client information, contracts, and other legal materials is staggering.

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The Zebra Moves Into Chic New Eastside Headquarters

SiliconHills

The first time Silicon Hills News met The Zebra, the two founders showed up at Longhorn Startup Demo Day in 2013 to meet Billionaire Mark Cuban. They had sent a cold email to Cuban who invested in The Zebra despite never having met the founders. That night at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium at the […]. The post The Zebra Moves Into Chic New Eastside Headquarters appeared first on SiliconHills.

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What is Canvas Print? The Benefits of Canvas Printing

Our Own Start-up

While it is nice to keep your photos in digital or print form, canvas prints Canada can transform them into art pieces with benefits.

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Workday Rising: The peaceful, easy feeling

deal architect

OK, it could have been just me. I drove to Rising and parked for the duration. No airports or highways to worry about. Unusual week for me. I was certainly in a relaxed state of mind. However, I noticed it.

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What is Mineral Right? How to sell mineral rights in Texas

Our Own Start-up

If you wish to sell your mineral rights, there are a few things you have to know first.

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7 Not-So-Conventional Ideas To Attract Top Talent

YoungUpstarts

When you run a company, your success or failure depends on your workers. In a competitive market, finding the best talent is difficult. For managers and business owners, the hardest part is standing out in a saturated market. As more traditional hiring methods become obsolete, managers have to turn to less conventional methods to attract the most talented employees possible.

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Treat your guests right with a reliable business internet provider

Our Own Start-up

There is nothing more that customers love than a sign that says “free wifi.”.

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2019 Accel Euroscape – The Rise of Europe

Cracking the Code

The top 100 SaaS companies in Europe and Israel The European Software-as-a-Service world changed forever when Daniel Dines, the founder of UiPath, made the cover of Forbes as ‘Boss of the Bots’ last month. Who would have thought five years ago that a Romanian SaaS company would be valued at $7 billion and reach that valuation in record time? It is prime time for European SaaS companies and the third edition of the Accel Euroscape, the list of the top 100 SaaS companies from Europe and Israel, sh

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