Mon.Apr 17, 2017

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How Future-Proof is Your Company (and Your Career)?

Startup Professionals Musings

When you are growing a business, it’s hard to find time to focus on anything but the crises of today. Yet if you don’t spend some resources preparing for the changes in the marketplace we already know about, there may be no tomorrow for your business. In my years of mentoring and advising business leaders, I find that real planning for the future always gets the short shrift.

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10 Ways To Build Smarter Landing Pages

YFS Magazine

Do your landing pages convert? Many business owners and digital marketers drive potential customers away due to poorly designed websites and landing pages.

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How to Set up Payroll As a New Employer

Up and Running

When you own a business, you are in charge of hiring employees. Top-notch employees can help you streamline business processes, add innovative ideas, and grow your business. Before you start worrying about a candidate sourcing strategy or hiring your first employee, you need to have a little understanding of payroll. Most business owners are experts in their industry, not payroll.

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

It’s getting warmer here in Austin and that can only mean one thing–summer is right around the corner, and with summer comes summer internships. Check out which Capital Factory startups are looking for you to join their team! Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks.

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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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Day 2 for enterprise technology?

deal architect

In his annual letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos writes “I’ve been reminding people that it’s Day 1 for a couple of decades.” “Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death….To be.

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Support Startups for Net Neutrality

Feld Thoughts

The new leader of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Chairman Ajit Pai, has said he wants to roll back existing net neutrality rules that prevent big cable companies from discriminating against online companies and services. Congress is lining up behind him. Engine Advocacy , Y Combinator , and Techstars are organizing a letter opposing these actions, signed by startups, investors, accelerators, incubators, and entrepreneurs.

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Time for automation PRAGMATISM

deal architect

All of last year as I was writing Silicon Collar, I saw two wildly different perspectives.

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How To Establish Proper Workplace Safety Protocols

YoungUpstarts

As a small business owner you know that you need to keep your employees safe for ethical and legal reasons. You don’t want to lose great employees because they feel unsafe in the workplace or get hurt on the job, but you also don’t want your business to be liable for an accident and get caught up in legal fees and court proceedings. Every business is different, so start by determining workplace risks in your industry and space.

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How I Turned My ‘Anti-Launch’ Into Six-Figure Success

YFS Magazine

When it comes to launches in business, most people prefer convention and tradition. It's safe. But safe didn't earn me six-figure success.

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Business Milestones That Deserve A Gift

YoungUpstarts

by Lea Schneider. Building a successful recognition program becomes a way to let employees know how they are doing. Everyone loves a pat on the back, and they shouldn’t need to wait until they flip over the calendar and see it’s Employee Appreciation Day to get one. If you need a push to set up a recognition program, keep in mind that Harvard Business Review reports 69 percent of employees say they would work harder if they felt their efforts were better recognized.

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Will You Be The Leader Of The Pack?

YFS Magazine

It never occurred to me before that the front runner in a cross country race has one added bit of responsibility, especially for the leader of the pack.

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Five Keys To Leading In The Age Of Analytics

YoungUpstarts

by Andrew Wells and Kathy Chiang, co-authors of “ Monetizing Your Data: A Guide to Turning Data into Profit-Driving Strategies and Solutions “ Data and analytics have redefined the way we compete. Data is a critical corporate asset that organizations are starting to monetize in new ways to get ahead of their competition. The bottom line?

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A Two Week Vacation is More Than Twice As Good As a One Week Vacation

OnlyOnce

I’ve said this for years, but as I sit on the train commuting into work after a week off relaxing with my family for my Dad’s 75th birthday (or as he prefers to call it, the 46th anniversary of his 29th birthday), I feel particularly inclined to write it up! I love my job, so I almost never mind going to work. But I also love being on vacation and traveling with my family and try to do as much of it as I can.

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Legal Impact Of Data Protection And Management In The Digital Age

YoungUpstarts

by Steve Tan, Deputy Head and key partner in Rajah & Tann Singapore ’s TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) practice group. With increasing access to mobile devices and the internet, the amount of data created annually worldwide is predicted to soar to 180 zettabytes (180 trillion gigabytes) in 2025, with approximately 80 billion devices connected to the Internet.

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Buying For The Long Term – Startup Guide

The Startup Magazine

One of the most time-honored traditions in entrepreneurship is that of making do with what’s available. Why spend $5 when $4 will do it? Why stay in a 5-star hotel when you sleep just as well in a 3-star? There is sound business sense in those decisions, and there will always be a place for economizing in your business. But there are also some places where you shouldn’t cut corners, because in time it will turn out to be a bad choice.

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Become a Challenge Sponsor

Austin Startup

How your expertise can help benefit the future of Austin A few weeks ago, we told you about the $145,000 grant that Austin City Council accepted to participate in US Ignite’s Smart Gigabit Communities Program  — a unique opportunity that can lead to Austin becoming a leader in next-generation applications that utilize the gigabit internet and benefit the community at large.

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Bootstrapping vs. Raising Money

Spencer Fry

I had a fabulous time at MicroConf last week. It’s a great conference with about 150 attendees for the “Starter Edition” -- lots of online course creators, info product folks, SaaS people, and others. It was my first time, but I’d heard great things from past attendees. Days before the conference started, I was asked (and felt honored) to lead two workshops on bootstrapping vs. raising money.

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Monday Motivation – Chasing Your Purpose [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

Share. This Monday Motivational video is for entrepreneurs and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. Remember to stay focused on the things that make your heart sing. We are all here for a specific purpose. Make sure to find what that is and maniacally focus on reaching that goal. Focus on your purpose. Focus on your why. Focus on the things that you’re willing to give your life for.

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Austin-Based LeanDNA Lands $4.5 Million in VC Funding

SiliconHills

Austin-based LeanDNA, a data and analytics platform for factories, on Monday announced it closed on a $4.5 million round of funding. Austin-based Next Coast Ventures led the Series A round. LeanDNA received a seed stage investment from Rony Kahan, co-founder of Indeed. LeanDNA, founded in 2011, plans to use the funding to expand sales, marketing, […] The post Austin-Based LeanDNA Lands $4.5 Million in VC Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Women Inventors Changing Women’s Health Technology

Austin Startup

The NY Times recently published an article about a great opportunity emerging in the field of health technology that could give women entrepreneurs and engineers an advantage, based on their gender. The market-place is female specific, and may cause some men to run in the opposite direction. What we’re talking about here is technology for periods. Harvard engineer Ridhi Tariyal and her partner Stephen Gire patented a process which utilizes menstrual blood for health screenings.