Mon.Feb 25, 2019

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High Functioning vs. Low Functioning Startup Boards

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve sat on many boards over the past 2 decades and seen my share of high-functioning boards and low-functioning boards. Here are some observations I have from this exposure: If a company moves from strength-to-strength with predictable outcomes, easy financings, low staff turn-over, limited competitive threats then the composition of the board probably doesn’t matter as much.

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Microsoft - a perennial "underachiever" in enterprise apps

deal architect

It's tough to argue with Microsoft - after all, it was at least briefly, the world's most valuable company late last year. CEO Satya Nadella is getting all kinds of kudos. "Whatever they're paying him, it's not enough," former Microsoft.

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If Your Passion Is Saving The Environment, Start Here

Startup Professionals Musings

Although I hear more and more about “global warming,” and the many ways we are destroying our environment, I still don’t see many global business winners in this space, comparable to Facebook and Amazon. Al Gore, by just talking about it, still seems to be leading the way in monetization, having amassed an estimated net worth reported recently as around $300 million.

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The New York Times still does not get it

deal architect

In 2006, I asked the question "Is the media biased?" I wrote "No this is not about being liberal or conservative. This is about how little MSM covers business technology as against consumer oriented technology. New York City is home.

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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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Top Outsourcing Destinations in Latin America for 2019

ReadWriteStart

The tech talent in Latin America is capturing the attention of global companies. Government pushes and investments in IT initiatives are paying off, with Amazon, Google, Alibaba, and many other global firms opening offices in the region and hiring local tech talent. There’s a new wave of excitement about Latin America’s potential to become a […].

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Stop Wasting Money On Random Acts Of Workplace Training

YoungUpstarts

by Juliana Stancampiano, author of “ Radical Outcomes: How to Create Extraordinary Teams that Get Tangible Results “ The people who need the most guidance on how to be successful in the workplace are often flooded with so much information, there’s no way for them to absorb it, let alone change what they do. In my new book “ Radical Outcomes: How to Create Extraordinary Teams that Get Tangible Results “, I show companies how to more effectively help their people do their j

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Four Key Principles To Delegate Effectively And Get More Done

YFS Magazine

Effective and consistent delegation might be the hardest task for a leader. However, it is also the most beneficial for everyone.

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ATX Seed Ventures Plans to Raise its Third Venture Fund

SiliconHills

In 2014, Chris Shonk and Brad Bentz founded ATX Seed Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in Texas. Shonk said they saw the demise of Austin Ventures, the largest local venture capital firm which sunset that year, as an opportunity. ATX Seed Ventures raised a $18 million fund in 2014, followed by a $32 […]. The post ATX Seed Ventures Plans to Raise its Third Venture Fund appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Meet The New Face Of Financial Services: 24-Year-Old Entrepreneur Issac Hwang

YFS Magazine

A new generation of individuals and small businesses no longer want the “Wolf of Wall Street” to handle their financial futures.

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SXSW Startups: Molecula

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 25, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. A finalist in the Enterprise and Smart Data category, which will pitch at 12:30 pm Saturday, March 9, Molecula is a continuous analysis platform based on Pilosa.

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How To Get Your Content Published In High Profile Publications

YFS Magazine

For thought leaders who want to raise their profile and that of their brands, few things are as effective as a well-crafted article in a top-tier publication.

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6 Top-Tips For Building Your Mobile-First Friendly Website

Women Entrepreneurs Can

It’s 2019, and while the desktop version of your website is awesome, it’s time to go mobile. It’s expected that there’ll be 2.7 billion smartphone users by the end of this year , and users are now spending 69% of their media time on their mobile device. With stats like these, there’s no time to waste. Your customers are browsing and buying products on their mobile devices, your competitors are optimizing their websites for the mobile experience – and now it’s time you did the same.

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Three Tangible Business Benefits Of Building A Personal Brand

YFS Magazine

If you want to build a personal brand that delivers business results, here’s a look at three objectives to focus on this year.

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SXSW Startups: My SideKick

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 25, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. A finalist in the Social and Culture category, which will pitch at 11 am Saturday, March 9, MySideKick is a complete web-based application that addresses all the issues of sexua

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Top 5 Recruiting Trends to Watch in 2019

Transformify

Each year brings change and new trends in the recruitment industry. Some are completely new, others emerging, and some are old but enhanced and applied to different use cases. To add complexity, HR experts worldwide have a different vision on which trends will have the most impact in 2019. From viewing diversity recruitment from a different angle, to adopting AI to avoid bias in recruiting, remote working arrangements and leveraging social media to attract Gen Z, increased focus on social impact

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Managed Marketing – How Automation Has Become A Powerful Marketing Tool

YoungUpstarts

Streamlining is not just for manufacturing and daily tasks in your organisation. Automation processes are a highly effective marketing tool. Managing your marketing activities through automated processes allows your organisation to deliver a consistent message and frees up staff time for in-person interactions and customer service. There are many ways in which marketing automation could be a powerful marketing tool for your business.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: January 6th – February 24th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and video clips relating to startups, entrepreneurship and legal issues. Below are my three most popular tweets for the past seven weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top Three Tweets: 1) Interesting discussion between Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel regarding how to hire in a startup (“in theory, experience is a plus; in practice, it is often a bit of a minus”) => [link] (at 2:11). 2) “The biggest dilution that comes

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Why Investor Titles are Important

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I generated a lot of buzz and feedback around my assertion that calling yourself an “angel investor” should require a little more than small syndicate investments: You are not an angel investor if all your investments are less than $10k, made through @AngelList syndicates, and the founder doesn't even know who you are because you've never met.

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