Wed.Jun 13, 2018

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How to Manage the Stress of Starting and Running Your Own Business

Up and Running

Getting your business off the ground and keeping it going comes with many challenges. You’re balancing everything from coming up with the right business name, developing your marketing plans, and figuring out how to maintain customer satisfaction. But throughout your career as an entrepreneur, you’re going to need to prioritize healthy stress management.

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Epic Impact: Leading the Leaders

The Startup Magazine

Founded in 2014, Epic Impact has been tinkering with the best ways to develop and up-level the most abundant leaders on the planet. It all started when Jake Merriman, Ben Schemper and Zach Wagner came together to realize that they were looking for a solution that didn’t exist. They were looking for a community with a deep bond and shared values that could also serve them in their growth as leaders.

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What Should You Send a VC Before Your Meeting?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the hardest things to know when you’re new to fund raising is what you’re supposed to send to an investor, when and will they keep your information confidential. As a VC and former entrepreneur let me offer you some advice. (This is part of a series on how to improve your fund raising game. The first post & the full outline if you click the link.

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SapphireNow: Event Scorecard

deal architect

Readers know I prefer going to vendor analyst summits compared to user conferences. I feel like I am intruding on customer time and access to vendor execs at the latter. But in many ways, SapphireNow last week managed to bend.

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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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4 Tips For Small Business Bloggers

YoungUpstarts

Blogging has become a valuable marketing tool for many small business owners, despite that others remain skeptical about its importance. While many entrepreneurs claim they don’t have the time to blog, they may well think differently if they knew just how much it could impact their small businesses. The benefits of blogging for business include higher ranking in search engines, enhanced social media presence, and improved conversion rates, all of which leads to better sales.

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SAP and Outsourcers: Fool me twice, shame on me

deal architect

I am often asked why I was tough on SAP in SAP Nation. I usually correct them and say I was tough on SAP’s partners and how SAP did a poor job monitoring and managing them. I must say I.

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Will SAP lead the next generation of enterprise applications?

deal architect

Franck Cohen, President SAP Digital Core & Industry Solutions, presented the slide below at SapphireNow last week. He did not spend much time on it and I would likely have not thought much of it if he had not shown.

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[ADV] How Poster Advertisements Can Be Beneficial For Businesses

YoungUpstarts

Marketing plays an essential role for all kinds of businesses and this is where poster advertisements come into play. Businesses that tend to overlook this crucial aspect falls several notches lower in the spectrum of competition. On the other hand, businesses leveraging conventional as well as digital means of marketing obtain a competitive edge. This common print technique is ideal for businesses to posit a visual impact on their existing and potential target audience.

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Will SAP lead the next generation of enterprise applications?

deal architect

Franck Cohen, President SAP Digital Core & Industry Solutions, presented the slide below at SapphireNow last week. He did not spend much time on it and I would likely have not thought much of it if he had not shown.

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[ADV] Why You Should Use A Housing Attorney In Your Real Estate Business

YoungUpstarts

Real estate is one of the most complex and complicated fields. In fact, property law is considered a highly technical area where variety of rights are concerned. This makes it difficult to carry out real estate transactions. Real estate experts are ready to help customers in all the relevant processes associated with property transactions such as document formation and negotiating contracts.

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SapphireNow: Event Scorecard

deal architect

Readers know I prefer going to vendor analyst summits compared to user conferences. I feel like I am intruding on customer time and access to vendor execs at the latter. But in many ways, SapphireNow last week managed to bend.

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4 Simple Steps To Mental Toughness From A Navy SEAL Commander

YoungUpstarts

by Mark Divine, retired U.S. Navy SEAL commander and NYT bestselling author of “ The Way of the SEAL: Think Like An Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed “ Are you the person who says, “I’m stressed,” or “Thank God, it’s Friday.” When life gets hard, do you struggle to remain calm and focused? Perhaps you lack consistency and miss deadlines.

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SAP and Outsourcers: Fool me twice, shame on me

deal architect

I am often asked why I was tough on SAP in SAP Nation. I usually correct them and say I was tough on SAP’s partners and how SAP did a poor job monitoring and managing them. I must say I.

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Advice on Getting an Online Business Loan for Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

Do you own a business? Or would you want to start a business? Are finances a big problem to the expansion of your business? There are many institutions that are willing to lend you money to improve your business. You can also borrow a loan online and get your business up and successful. There are many Easy Business Loans that you can apply for and have the these disbursed online.

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Capital Should Follow Talent

Feld Thoughts

I love today’s post from Fred Wilson titled The Valuation Obsession. It has some good hints in it about valuation vs. ownership dynamics for founders, employees, and investors. It also calls out the silliness about focusing on the wrong things. Go read it. I’m even a bigger fan of a statement Fred makes in the post that William Mougayar calls out in the comments. “I like to invest in companies that smart people are joining.

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6 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Online Banking

YFS Magazine

Here are a few pervasive myths about online banks and the truth about why you should trust an online bank with your business’s money.

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5 Scientifically Proven Ways to Reclaim Your Personal Life and Improve Your Work Productivity

crowdSPRING Blog

Striking the right balance between your personal life and work is hard. But, getting your work-life balance right is vital for your health, happiness, and quality of life. No one wants to look back at the end of their life and regret that they spent too many hours at the office. But, you do want to be productive and successful. So how do you walk that line?

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Thinking About An App? Remember These 6 Lessons

YFS Magazine

These days it seems like everywhere you go, you are asked to download an app. How many of those apps live up to the hype, though?

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5 Scientifically Proven Ways to Reclaim Your Personal Life and Improve Your Work Productivity

crowdSPRING Blog

Striking the right balance between your personal life and work is hard. But, getting your work-life balance right is vital for your health, happiness, and quality of life. No one wants to look back at the end of their life and regret that they spent too many hours at the office. But, you do want to be productive and successful. So how do you walk that line?

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Entrepreneurs: Here?s What You Need to Know About Chargebacks

YFS Magazine

With more and more people shopping online, the problem of fraudulent payments is bigger than ever for small business owners.

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NEW CEO ALERT

Austin Startup

My adventure as an entrepreneur has provided me epic opportunities to explore the exciting world of startup business. Through the ups and downs, I’ve navigated valuable learnings and networked with an amazing variety of inspiring people along the way. I’m excited to announce that I’ll be applying my years of experience and learnings to a new role as CEO.

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What Business Owners Need To Know About Ransomware

YFS Magazine

Ransomware cybercriminal activity is said to have increased almost 10-fold in 2017, and unfortunately is still something entrepreneurs need to worry about.

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How Nostalgia Can Help Your Business

Growthink Blog

Last week, I traveled from my home in Los Angeles back to Worcester, MA, where I was born and raised. And while nostalgia can be a guilty pleasure, on this particular trip it gave me many “aha moments” on how to get more enjoyment and results from my business. For me, nostalgia usually starts with travel itself. The ride to the airport, the journey to the gate, onto the plane and into my seat - all of it is pretty much the same as when I first flew between the coasts 30 years ago.

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Becoming Un-Tethered

thebarefootvc

I just wrapped up 2 days of speaking at MoneyConf in Dublin, an annual conference dedicated to all things fintech. In contrast to previous years, at least 50% of the programming involved blockchain technology. I shared the stage with two early FPV portfolio companies, Blockchain and Bitpesa, and connected with a number of old friends in the sector, including Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, academic and entrepreneur Emin Gun Sirer, and Circle founder Jeremy Allaire.

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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: ?If You?re not an Ass?-, this Company Dies?

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur or founder — and whether you’re launching your startup, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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Are You Hiring Candidates With High Integrity?

YoungUpstarts

by Nick Murphy, career expert and founder of The Job Lab Podcast. What should you look for if you want to hire people with high integrity? We could probably all do with taking a little business advice from Warren Buffett. After all, the successful business magnate and investor is the second-wealthiest person in the United States with a net worth of more than $73 billion as of May 2017.

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