YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2017

by Norman McBrien, co-founder and Head of Operations of GoConqr. The efficient management of a business requires a lot of sacrifice and perseverance, since to be a good leader you must get actively involved in the project you manage and have a close working relationship with your workforce. The small details in the day to day are the ones that make the difference between a great boss and a mediocre one, so it’s advisable to be surrounded by the best resources and to absorb all the advice you can

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The Next Web

MAY 19, 2017

Growth Story is a new 4-question format we’re doing about startups finding and influencing a defining metric that helped to really grow their company. This week, the CEO and co-founder of MisterFly, Nicolas Brumelot, shares some valuable insights into taking over an established market as travel bookings. MisterFly is a young French travel startup, founded in 2015, that makes booking flights and/or hotels so easy it’s rapidly taking over the market.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2017

As a business owner, you’re always keeping a wary eye on your expenses. Each dollar you spend takes away from your profit, so it’s important to spend wisely. However, one of the hardest lessons to learn as an entrepreneur is that there’s a huge difference between cutting costs and cutting corners. In today’s “outsourced” economy, finding cheap work is as easy as 1-2-3.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 19, 2017

Are you ready to grow your brand on Instagram? After testing many techniques, we built our Instagram following with these 10 laser-focused strategies.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2017

One of the biggest – and most common – mistakes that Larry Weltman sees realtors making when they get into the real estate business is thinking it’s an easy way to score big commissions. The fact is, when realtors or entrepreneurs enter the real estate market with this frame of mind, it makes it that much more difficult for them to succeed over the long term.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 19, 2017

Considering using Facebook Live for your brand? Here are 6 best practices to help you get started and engage your audience.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 19, 2017

In March, YPO and Techstars launched a partnership to support high-growth entrepreneurship and innovation. As a kickoff to that, Techstars co-sponsored YPO Innovation Week. I did a one hour interview with Kate Rogers from CNBC last Friday. It was a fun interview for me and I felt like we covered a lot of good stuff. Steve Case kicked off YPO Innovation Week with an interview, also with Kate Rogers.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2017

If you own a business, whether it’s a small start up or a big corporation, it’s your job to ensure you do what is necessary to protect your business. This includes your business as a financial entity, your physical property, your intellectual property, and your employees. To do that, you’re going to have to take some precautions. Use these tips to help you protect your business: Protect client privacy.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 19, 2017 With the regular session of the 85th session of Texas Legislature just over a week away from ending, its appalling that various Bathroom Bills are still on the agenda. Equally appalling is that measures that would sanction state-sponsored discrimination are even up for discussion in 2017. Discrimination of any kind is absolutely wrong and absolutely unacceptable.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2017

Are you thinking about kicking your video marketing efforts up a notch and want to come up with some creative ideas that you can utilize? As you’ll find that is often easier said than done, and if you may even find yourself drawing a blank. While it is difficult to force creativity, there are several ways that you can start to come up with creative ideas.

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David Teten

MAY 19, 2017

Historically VC has been an apprenticeship business. That said, I’ve identified quite a few microcredentials, conferences, and other learning opportunities which will help train you to be a better investor. I’ve also published research here on private equity , venture capital , hedge funds and mutual funds , and angel investing , as well as on fund management : origination , due diligence , investment research , and portfolio acceleration.

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SiliconHills

MAY 19, 2017

Austin is known for innovative startups. And the Austin Chamber of Commerce shines a spotlight on the best and brightest ever year at its annual A-List Of Hottest Startups Awards. The event, which takes place next Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at ACL Live at the Moody Theater, is one of the city’s […] The post Austin Chamber to Host the 2017 A-List Hottest Startup Awards appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2017

Benefits of smart kiosks— and why Austin isn’t there yet Austin is growing into its own as a smart city. City Council will soon learn about the results of the Smart City Strategic Roadmap it tasked staff with creating last November. Austin recently won a Smart Cities Readiness Challenge grant from Smart Cities Council , the world’s largest smart cities network.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2017

How can Visual Search Change SEO for E-Commerce? written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The visuals of a website attract more users than a mere text. A web page that is facilitated with images, videos and infographic earn 94% more views than the one having a bulk of the textual content. The more the people are engaged in your eCommerce business, the more they place orders, and the more you earn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2017

As an angel investor, I sometimes worry that all the viable unique ideas must already be taken. Entrepreneurs keep talking to me about the Internet of Things (IOT), autonomous vehicles, inter-planetary travel, and other exciting opportunities, but the majority of real plans I get seem to be “me too” variations of several common themes that have already been done too many times.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2017

One of the biggest issues facing startups is a lack of capital. Not only do they have to deal with the possible debt they incurred during product development, but they are under pressure to have sufficient sales to keep the business afloat. Fortunately, there are many low-cost marketing methods any startup can use to gain traction. Here are just a few of them: Go Beyond Selling – Engage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2017

Transcript of Is Your Comfort Zone Holding You Back written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Transcript provided by Verbatim Transcription Services. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John: Sure, your comfort zone sounds like a nice, warm cozy place, doesn’t it? But is it holding you back? We’re going to talk to Andy Molinsky, author of Reach on this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast.

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