Mon.May 29, 2017

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7 Key Risk Areas During Optimization Of ERP Implementation

YoungUpstarts

Businesses that use Enterprise Resource Planning, or ERP, are usually in a better position to manage all their critical operations under one platform. Often, the businesses will require optimizing the ERP if they have to make an impact on the operations. However, this optimization effort may draw other risks which limit the productivity of the business.

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Do You Have What it Takes To Be a Business Leader?

Startup Professionals Musings

Running a business is not rocket science. As a long-time business advisor, and occasional investor, I have seen many successful businesses lead by college dropouts and people with average intelligence. Investors don’t look at CEOs for advanced degrees, but they do look for experience and emotional intelligence, often before they even evaluate the business plan.

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A Primer On Google Primer

YoungUpstarts

by Rhonda Adams, president and founder of PlanningShop and author of “ Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies “ Small business owners never seem to have enough hours in the day to complete all the tasks on our to-do lists — developing new products, searching for new customers, training employees, closing the sale. As busy as we are, we also need to keep up with small business and marketing trends — trends that change quickly.

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Work Smart And Play Even Harder With These 6 Apps

YFS Magazine

With so much of our lives spent working, it’s easy to forget to interact with others. Here are 6 apps that help me connect with like-minded people.

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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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Start-Ups Of 2017 That Are Creating A New World Order

YoungUpstarts

2017 started on a high note, with expectations from several industries that were buoyed by the technological inventions. It seems clearer every month of this year that anything is possible with enough resources and determination. Tech lovers have started blogs and based them on cryptocurrency, Bitcoin leading in this area, but several other developments that may not have received such massive airtime.

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4 Ways To Best Manage Outsourced Projects

YFS Magazine

Outsourcing projects comes with its own unique challenges. Here are four things I’ve learned about maximizing outsourced relationships.

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Startups – Integrating Security Mindset and Processes Early

YoungUpstarts

by Quan Heng Lim, Cyber-Operations Consultant at Horangi. “The Lean Startup.”. “Fail Fast, Pivot.”. “Agile Methodology.”. The trend today is for teams and projects to be flexible, adaptable, continuously reassessed and developed to ensure that products and/or companies fit market demand. In the chase to produce the best minimum viable product or to push out the next killer feature, security is often given the backseat.

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Keeping Ahead of Workplace Accidents

The Startup Magazine

Let’s do a brief thought experiment. You are a new entrepreneur, you have just opened an innovative retail store to sell your shiny widgets and the world is at your feet. Your dream of success, burnished by years of arduous work, has you at the top of the world, and without having had any workplace accidents. Then, a customer falls in your new store.

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Token Thoughts on the Blockchain Boom

thebarefootvc

The past 10 days have been heady for anyone in the cryptocurrency space. The market cap of digital currencies increased to over $90 billion last week (a 50% increase in 7 days). Bloomberg put together the chart below to show relative value increases in major cryptocurrencies. There is also a lot of buzz about ICO’s, or initial coin offerings, a new asset class of cryptocurrencies being issued in crowdsales to fund development of projects on top of Bitcoin or Ethereum (or in some cases, e

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Women-led Startups: Seek Women Investors

Austin Startup

Intrinsically valuable women-led startups are not making it to market because of the large growing gap in access to venture capital (VC) financing, research shows. The root of this cycle can be traced to the astonishingly low rate of women General Partners (GPs) in VC today making investment decisions —  one percent. The question is: why would this directly affect the rate of funding for female-led startups — which currently sits at a mere 2.7 percent.

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Gov. Abbott Signs Law Governing Uber, Lyft and Other Ride Hailing Companies in Texas

SiliconHills

Governor Greg Abbott on Monday signed House Bill 100 which provides statewide regulation of popular ride-hailing companies. And Lyft and Uber both began providing rides in Austin once again. The law is effective immediately. It overrides local laws passed by cities like Austin to govern ride hailing companies. “Texas has longtime been the home for […] The post Gov.

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The Austin Startup Digest in a Nutshell

Austin Startup

Week of May 29, 2017 Startup Digest Calendar: [link] Featured Event The second annual NLP Day Austin 2017 will be on Saturday, June 3rd. There are a lot of good talks lined up with topics ranging from chatbots, to NLP in healthcare, to Using Text Analytics to improve Net Promoter Scores. Can’t miss meet-up If you’re an AI Entrepreneur gearing up for fund raising, the Capital Factory has announced it’s $100k AI Challenge which provides the best team pitching at Funding Day, July 28, 2017: $100,00

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Monday Motivation – Be Your Own Hero

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. With it being Memorial Day, I wanted to post a motivational video to remember all those men and women that gave their lives.

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