Wed.Sep 06, 2017

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The Truth About Achieving Laser-like Focus

YoungUpstarts

by Lauren Ruef, Research Analyst for Nvoicepay . Flow state, the brainchild of Hungarian psychologist and positive psychology researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, is a laser-like state of focus achieved by those at the peak of their ability. A runner hitting his stride on a forest trail, body and breath in rhythmic unison, is in flow state. An artist uninterrupted in her studio, scattering paint on a canvas and creating dimension with backhand sweeps of vibrant color is in flow state.

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ATA Action Alert: affordable housing

Austin Startup

Opportunity for City Council to support tech-forward means of addressing affordability challenges On Thursday, September 7, Austin City Council will meet to discuss potential amendments to the city’s proposed budget. Two proposed amendments would provide funding for the City of Austin to help develop the Affordable Housing Solutions App: an Austin-born application with the goal of allowing residents to search for available affordable housing units based on their family’s needs, including proximi

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7 Ways To Be The New Venture Leader Investors Seek

Startup Professionals Musings

In the beginning all businesses are just people playing out an idea. It’s never the other way around – there is no idea so big that it doesn’t need people to make it succeed. Investors know this, hence the saying “Bet on the jockey (founder), not the horse (idea).” A great jockey is a great role model. Like it or not, everyone looks to the entrepreneur as the jockey role model in a new business.

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7 Practical Tips On How To Jumpstart Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Lewis Robinson. Starting a business during these hard economic times might have been difficult, but it isn’t entirely impossible. However, if you are to launch and gain traction with your startup successfully, you will need more than a fancy business plan; you will need actionable ideas on how to handle important aspects of your business such as production, marketing, and distribution.

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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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Four years at Version One & some thoughts on “Moneyball for VC”

Version One Ventures

This week marks my fourth year at Version One. And to celebrate, I want to share the story of my interviews with Boris, my first endeavour to build a sourcing model, and his incredible leap of faith. In the summer of 2013, I was introduced to Boris by a fellow Canadian, Brendan Baker. I had met Brendan that past Spring when I had just left Insight Data Science and he was at Greylock Partners.

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How to Create an Elevator Speech (With Examples)

Up and Running

An elevator speech is a 30- to 60-second answer to the question, “So, what do you do?” It’s a quick summary of your business and its value proposition. A great elevator speech will spark interest in your business and hopefully lead to a deeper conversation. Elevator speeches are a great opportunity for entrepreneurs. Whether you’re at a party, at a networking event for startups, giving a quick overview to a potential investor, or just meeting new people, a solid elevator speech is your chance to

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My Early Entrepreneurial Heroes

Feld Thoughts

I woke up from a dream about being in my early 20’s. It was a complicated one that included struggling to finish my graduate degree (yup – that’s clearly an anxiety dream) along with meeting with Bill Gates and trying to sell him my company (something that never happened but clearly has some fantasy element to it.). As I was brushing my teeth, parts of the dream stuck with me, as some do.

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LiveOak VP and Telestax Discuss Early Stage Technology Investing in Austin on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast

SiliconHills

In 2010, LiveOak Venture Partners saw a vast opportunity in the Austin and Texas market for early stage technology entrepreneurs. “But there was not as much capital available as many of the local entrepreneurs would attest to,” said Krishna Srinivasan, general partner with LiveOak VP. So, in 2013 to 2014, Srinivasan and his partners raised […].

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Grow Your Business With This Excellent Advice from 7 Exceptional Small Business Coaches

crowdSPRING Blog

No matter how successful you are or how good you are at what you do, there’s always room for improvement. Sometimes an outside perspective is exactly what you need. Businesses coaches offer precious experience and tested strategies to help take your skills – and your business – to the next level. There are a number of reasons why you may want to seek out a business coach.

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Is More Software the Answer? Or the Problem?

Growthink Blog

Like most companies, every month my company pays for a lot of business software. Here is a partial list: IbisWorld , Capital IQ , and D&B for market research and analytics. Infusionsoft , Wufoo , and Calendly for management of client and prospective client data. Slack , Basecamp and Box for “virtual” collaboration and communication. QuickBooks and Recurly , for customer payments, financial accounting and bookkeeping.

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Grow Your Business With This Excellent Advice from 7 Exceptional Small Business Coaches

crowdSPRING Blog

No matter how successful you are or how good you are at what you do, there’s always room for improvement. Sometimes an outside perspective is exactly what you need. Businesses coaches offer precious experience and tested strategies to help take your skills – and your business – to the next level. There are a number of reasons why you may want to seek out a business coach.

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Sonic Branding and the New Rules of Marketing and PR

Duct Tape Marketing

Sonic Branding and the New Rules of Marketing and PR written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with David Meerman Scott. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is David Meerman Scott, one of the pioneers of inbound marketing and author of many books including the 6th edition of The New Rules of Marketing & PR.

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Grow Your Business With This Excellent Advice from 7 Exceptional Small Business Coaches

crowdSPRING Blog

No matter how successful you are or how good you are at what you do, there’s always room for improvement. Sometimes an outside perspective is exactly what you need. Businesses coaches offer precious experience and tested strategies to help take your skills – and your business – to the next level. There are a number of reasons why you may want to seek out a business coach.

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Proofreading Your Translation 101

The Startup Magazine

What is proofreading ? Proofreading and cross-checking are two terms used in the translation industry that are sometimes used interchangeably. In simple terms, proofreading means checking a text for grammar and punctuation errors, whilst cross-checking involves comparing a translation (target text) to the original (source text). But when I am asked to ‘proofread’ a translation, I am provided with the source text and automatically have to include the process of cross-checking.

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Thinking of Home: Dickinson, Texas

abovethecrowd.com

For those of you who have moved away from the town where you grew up, the few times that you see your hometown in the national news creates an enormous sense of pride. Over the past few weeks, the town I grew up in, Dickinson, Texas, has been front and center in the national news, but for all the wrong reasons. Dickinson, a small town southeast of Houston on Galveston Bay, has been one of the hardest hit communities by Hurricane Harvey.

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Why International Startups Love NY, and NY VCs Love International Startups

David Teten

New York is now the second-most-active tech ecosystem in the US on all key metrics, after the Bay Area. One of the drivers for that growth is that for European, Israeli, Latin American, and Eastern Canada-linked companies, the East Coast is much closer than California. New York venture capitalists like HOF Capital recognize this trend, and more and more of us are opening our doors to invest in startups with international roots.

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I wish everyone I know would read these two books back-to-back

Jeff Hilimire

I am so glad I read these two books, one after the other. I started with Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. This book tells the story of a poor white family in a Rust Belt town, primarily in the Appalachia region of the South. I was so unaware of this world that exists not far from me, and it has opened my eyes to a new breed of hardship and struggle. I then read Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms.

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Transcript of Sonic Branding and the New Rules of Marketing and PR

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Sonic Branding and the New Rules of Marketing and PR written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: One of the pioneers of inbound marketing, of the new rules of marketing and P&R, David Meerman Scott, joins me for this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. David and I have been friends, colleagues, for over a decade writing about all of this crazy world of marketing.

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