Sun.Dec 10, 2017

article thumbnail

7 Risks To Avoid In Your Business People Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “just in time” for the lowest cost, and managed as a disposable asset.

article thumbnail

What is the Most Popular Jurisdiction for an ICO?

Austin Startup

As lawyers will tell you, there is no perfect jurisdiction for everyone. In each case, a number of factors (tax considerations, applicable regulation, team location, reputation, etc.) need to be considered. For our survey, we have analyzed the top 100 coins (by market capitalization, as listed on [link] as of 1 November 2017). We started at the top and continued until we were able to match 50 coins to particular jurisdictions.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Four Tips For Singaporean Startups To Ensure Success Past The Five Year Mark

YoungUpstarts

by Alex Campbell, Managing Director, Asia, ‎ Xero. Global Entrepreneurship Week took place last month around the world, and it was a rather opportune time for me to examine the factors that have helped Singapore startups succeed. It should not really come as a surprise that this year, Singapore was ranked number one in the world for startup talent by Startup Genome, a US-based small business research and development firm.

Singapore 142
article thumbnail

How To Craft Content That Stands The Test Of Time (And Grows Your Email List On Autopilot)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

 [ Download MP3 | Transcript Coming Soon | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Have you ever heard the advice, spend 20% of your time creating content and 80% of your time marketing it? In recent years I’ve dished out this wisdom as well, but it’s actually dangerous. The post How To Craft Content That Stands The Test Of Time (And Grows Your Email List On Autopilot) appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

Email 89
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

2018 Web Design Trends: Your Guide To Navigating 9 Hot Trends

crowdSPRING Blog

Photo by William Iven on Unsplash. People are increasingly shopping online. In fact, last year more than half of all purchases were made online. This trend shows no signs of slowing, so if you don’t have a business website – or if your existing website looks dated – it’s time to invest in a design or a redesign. As we wrote in Grow Your Small Business With These 7 Website Design Best Practices , Today, it’s impossible to reach most customers without a website.

Design 67
article thumbnail

Welcome to the Longhorn Startup Lab 2018 Teams at UT Austin

Austin Startup

Twelve teams of students and professors have been selected for the 16th semester of the Longhorn Startup program at the University of Texas at Austin. Over the course of the semester, each team will be paired up with local CEO’s as mentors plus receive $1,000 cash grant, $8,000 in cloud hosting credits, free coworking memberships, and the chance to win a $25,000 investment at the end of the semester.

Austin 48

More Trending

article thumbnail

5 “Firsts” That Determine Whether A Customer Becomes a Relationship

Small Business Force

As technology continues to play an ever-increasing role in business today, building a customer relationship becomes harder and harder. The horror stories of bad customer experiences and insensitive customer service seem to be increasing at a faster rate. For entrepreneurs and small business owners, this can be fatal. Are you making it hard for customers to want to do business with you?

article thumbnail

Book: Why We Sleep

Feld Thoughts

As part of v52 of me , I’ve decided to commit to at least eight hours of sleep a night. I’m doing ok, but need to keep working at it. From my early 20s, until v47, I woke up at 5 am from Monday to Friday. I’d then binge sleep on the weekend, often sleeping 12+ hours on Saturday or Sunday (my record is just under 16 hours of sleep.) When I had a major depressive episode early in v47, I stopped waking up with an alarm clock.

article thumbnail

The General Contractor for Startups

Austin Startup

Are we teaching founders more than they need to know? Having over the last several years been involved in teaching undergraduate entrepreneurship, mentoring or judging countless business concepts for various competitions, and also deeply immersed in longer-term advisory roles, I have come to reflect on how much a founder should be expected to learn and do on his or her own.

Georgia 48
article thumbnail

28 Entrepreneurs Share What They’re Thankful For

Hearpreneur

In life, we have our big wins and share of losses. It’s important to celebrate and be thankful for the accomplishments and lessons that come our way as they shape us to be who we are today and in future. The things we’re grateful about can range from personal to business experiences. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners what they’re most thankful for. #1- My partner and son.