YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

by Xavier Musy, Chief Architect of Swiftpage. CRM platforms are already firmly ensconced within the sales technology and strategies of most small and midsized businesses. Sales teams have been using their CRMs for basic, day-to-day-functions — such as managing customer information and tracking purchase history — for decades. In that time, CRMs have faithfully served as a place to store data, log notes, and manage contacts.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

By: Tom Hadfiled, CEO @ M.io SXSW 2019 may still be many months away, but the time to vote for panels is now! Support the ATX Startup Community by voting for this selection of panels featuring Austinites. If you’re unfamiliar with PanelPicker?—?it is a time for brands, influencers and professionals to submit their ideas for presentations and discussions to be held on one of the many stages at next year’s SXSW.

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Austin Technical Review Cofounder Texas 48

deal architect

AUGUST 13, 2018

Oracle, SAP and Workday have all been hit with lawsuits in the last few weeks for very different reasons as I describe below. But first a preface – lawsuits draw a lot of attention but it’s usually wrong to extrapolate.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

With more than 12 million ecommerce businesses on the web, it is a bit daunting for new ones to make a mark quickly, especially when businesses as big as Amazon and Spotify are at the top. However, this does not mean that you have no chance to succeed. If you work hard, you can leave a mark as well. Amazon itself was a small company when it started and today it is a giant because of creativity and hard work of its team.

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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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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 13, 2018

Several years ago, I wrote a post titled Why VCs Should Recycle Their Management Fees. From the start of Foundry Group in 2007, we have felt strongly about this. We feel that if an LP gives us a $1 to invest, we should invest at least that $1, not $0.85 (the average fee load over a decade for a typical VC fund is 15%.) Our goal for each fund is actually to invest closer to 110%, which means if an LP gives us a $1 to invest, we are actually investing $1.10.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

by Leo Bottary, author of “ What Anyone Can Do: How Surrounding Yourself with the Right People Will Drive Change, Opportunity, and Personal Growth “ . A person’s success typically isn’t the result of superhuman feats. It’s the outcome of doing the things anyone can do – though most of us just don’t. As a point in fact, 92 percent of people who set New Year’s goals don’t achieve them.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

Depending on the type of business you’re starting, you might require a company car. It would be necessary for making house calls, delivering product, driving between service points, and performing other long-distance business needs. Vehicles are not difficult to fund, whether you use a business loan or a car loan. Even if you have poor credit, there are options for getting a car loan, so it can be a tempting move for a new business owner.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 13, 2018

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Have a plan for the next day as you go to sleep. Work the plan and it doesn’t work, change it. The shortcut is a lie and the hack doesn’t get you there. Discipline defeats excuses. Live in beast mode, don’t stop until you get it.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

You’ve got a brilliant idea, come up with a catchy name and are planning to start your business in your very own home. There is, however, one small detail holding you back and that’s the financing of your new enterprise. Millions of other small businesses find themselves in a similar situation and many turn to banks, credit card companies and other lines of credit to fund their start-up.

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Finance Government Social Media Matching 104

Up and Running

AUGUST 13, 2018

While there are many advantages to running a seasonal business, one of the primary challenges is managing cash flow—having enough money on hand to get ready for the busy season, making the most of the revenue generated in season, and having enough money on hand to pay bills in the off-season. With these tips, small business owners with seasonal businesses can learn to better manage cash flow to optimize opportunities before and during the busy season, while also learning ways to save for and get

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

Entrepreneurs interested in starting a fintech or digital currency business or looking for related funding resources, would be well advised to get to know Vancouver’s Michael Patryn. Since 2015, Michael Patryn’s expertise in finance, compliance and strategic growth initiatives has helped a range of companies successfully position themselves to go public on the CSE and TSX-V.

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Angel Investor Entrepreneur Venture Capital Canada 100

YFS Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2018

Sales reps must remain relevant in a competitive landscape. Embracing the latest features of your business’s CRM software is a great way to do just that.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

As an entrepreneur, there are different ways in which you can invest your finances. You can either choose to start your own enterprise or buy an already established business. The common belief among many entrepreneurs is that business owners only sell their businesses because they’re failing. While that may be true sometimes, it’s not always the case, and there’s many other reasons why someone may choose to sell their business.

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Sales Michigan Advertising Search 100

SiliconHills

AUGUST 13, 2018

IBM has always been at the forefront of cybersecurity since the earliest days of the Internet. At the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, I interviewed Nick Simicich, an ethical hacker on the IBM staff, whose day job consisted of breaking into company computer systems to expose the vulnerabilities. That was in 1999. Since then, cybersecurity has grown […].

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Austin Florida Internet 48

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

As a new business owner, you’re likely excited to start hiring people; not only is it a symbolic action that proves your business is really developing, it will also arm you with the staff members you need to carry out projects in pursuit of your goals. But before you start interviewing candidates, or even asking around for recommendations, there are some fundamental legal and business structures you’ll need to have in place.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 13, 2018

The promise of flying cars may become a reality a soon. The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering has teamed up with the U.S. Army Research Labs and Uber Elevate to develop the technology behind Uber’s new rideshare venture: UberAIR. By 2020, Uber plans to demonstrate the first flying rideshare vehicles in […].

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Texas Austin Engineer Technology 48

Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 13, 2018

Your network is one of the only true competitive advantages you can have. I believe your network just might be the deciding factor in whether or not you accomplish your goals and dreams. I’ve written many times about the importance of a strong network and how to build it , but I’ve never written about the connect that geography makes on your network.

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Networking Cost Developer Marketing 50

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2018

Financial headlines over the past week focused on Turkey’s rapidly depreciating lira. Meanwhile many citizens there, ignoring President Erdogan’s calls to exchange gold and foreign currencies to local currency, tapped into the crypto market: “ Bunyamin Yavuz, a cardiologist in Ankara, said he no longer trusts local banks and now buys XRP, monero, lumens, among other cryptocurrencies as part of his investment portfolio.

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Venezuela Turkey India Portfolio 40

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 13, 2018

“…it looks cold in there…” A prospective customer looks to your business to provide something they need or want. This is the beginning of a very important story for your business. And, starting with your very first interaction, this story can develop in one of three ways: You fail to meet their expectations. You meet their expectations.

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Customer Management Reputation Software Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2018

According to the entrepreneurs I advise, the biggest challenge they typically face in starting a new business is funding. It consistently takes a huge amount of time and effort to find an investor you can trust, and that constrains your efforts in developing the solution you envision. People always expect that it should be easy to find investors, given their passion and excitement for the solution.

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Due Diligence Equity Angel Investor Matching 140