Fri.Jul 21, 2017

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Why You Need To Jump On The Computer Checks Bandwagon

YoungUpstarts

It’s fair to say computer checks have been around for some time. In fact, your standard large corporation has long utilized the method of printing computerized checks for their benefit. Yet, in recent years, and thanks to the improvement of modern technology and the lower cost of equipment/software, this advantage has become increasingly accessible to small businesses.

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6 Steps To Saying No At Work To Your Boss And Peers

Startup Professionals Musings

Every dedicated business professional I know can’t find enough hours in a day to do their best work, and yet they often find themselves saying yes to new requests from the people around them. In some cases it may be fear of retribution by the boss, but more often they just hate to disappoint others, and end up instead with high stress and low credibility in the crisis to deliver.

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[Interview] Bradley Fauteux Talks Social Entrepreneurship And Being An Agent For Environmental Change

YoungUpstarts

Bradley Fauteux has spent the majority of his career finding ways to champion the environment and enlisting others in support of sustainability initiatives and the preservation of our natural resources. To a significant extent, that’s given him an inside/out perspective. Brad Fauteux, who today is an environmental consultant , has worked for years within the system as a leader of government agencies charged with protecting and promoting public lands in Canada.

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Lean Startup Week Call for Proposals is Open Until July 31

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. Some exciting news about this year’s Lean Startup Week (Oct. 30-Nov. 5) for all you potential speakers out there: we’re shaking things up in 2017. The flagship conference is directly tied to Eric Ries’s upcoming book, The Startup Way , and we’re hosting the event at two locations in downtown San Francisco (The Warfield and The Village).

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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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3 Ways The Best Leaders Set Themselves Apart

YoungUpstarts

by Mayur Ramgir , author of “ Evolve like a Butterfly: A Metamorphic Approach to Leadership “ Great leaders are in great demand, whether a coach for a football team, a CEO for a corporation or a general for the Army. But in many cases people are mistaken about what makes a good leader. Often, leadership is viewed as being able to establish resources and priorities to acquire worthwhile goals.

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4 Ways To Resolve Co-Founder Conflict

YFS Magazine

Startup co-founder disputes are universal. It’s just like any other close relationship–there are good moments, and there are times when you will disagree.

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Vast’s John Price Talks About the Evolution of Austin’s Technology Industry on Ideas to Invoices

SiliconHills

John Price went to the University of Texas in the early 1980s before there was a tech scene in Austin. He left for a job at Shell and ended up in Silicon Valley. But he always wanted to return. Price spoke about the evolution of Austin’s technology industry with Silicon Hills News for its Ideas […]. The post Vast’s John Price Talks About the Evolution of Austin’s Technology Industry on Ideas to Invoices appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Sorry Idaho, Employee Noncompetes Are a Scourge

Hunter Walker

“This is about companies protecting their assets in a competitive marketplace,” says the industry representative for the incumbents. NYTimes Conor Dougherty covers the use of employee noncompetes in Idaho as a weapon in the conflict between local existing companies and startups. Residing in a state (California) where noncompetes are toothless, I was surprised to read that research suggests 1 in 5 American workers are subject to a noncompete.

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Best Austin coffee shops for startups

Austin Startup

Startup life means being flexible and having the ability to work wherever, whenever. But all entrepreneurs know that finding the spot where you’re going to be the most productive, while also be surrounded by like-minded people who inspire you, requires some researching. While co-working spaces, accelerators or even your living room are viable options for startups, there’s nothing quite like a coffee shop.

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An Uber Lesson for ICOs

thebarefootvc

I woke up this morning to the news that Uber’s board asked CEO Travis Kalanick to resign. After a year of allegations of sexual harassment, questionable competitive tactics and employee turnover, this isn’t much of a surprise. For those of us who have been hearing some of these stories for years while watching the company’s valuation soar to $70B, we wondered why it took the board so long.

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George Mason Bees / Social Entrepreneurship

Campus Entrepreneurship

As part of my job I work with innovators from across society and the economy. People working on solving problems big and small. I’ve been fortunate to work with the Mason Honey Bee Initiative (HBI) for a few years (helping them complete a crowdfunding campaign in 2013) and six months ago the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the George Mason School of Business, partnered with the College of Science and took over the Mason Honey Bee Initiative.

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10 Must Have Tools to Monitor, Analyze and Respond to Brand Mention

Duct Tape Marketing

10 Must Have Tools to Monitor, Analyze and Respond to Brand Mention written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. What are people saying about your brand? I am not speaking about those paid advertisements or reviews on popular blogs that you have been orchestrating. I mean real, organic brand mentions from your user base. Chances are you have no idea, not unless it has been a major complaint that has come directly through your customer service office.

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Learning & Development – What You Can Do To Help Workers Improve

YoungUpstarts

Every startup has one vital resource, its employees. Your company will live or die by the strength of the people you have on board, which is why you need to invest in them, not just as someone to fulfill a particular role, but someone that will keep improving your company and be the fundamental reason your business gets better. So how can we invest in our employees to help them develop their skills further?

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Twitter Link Roundup #302 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

Einstein. Leonardo. Curie. The earth is occasionally graced with a mind so brilliant, all the rest of us can do is appreciate their unparalleled gifts to the world. Science offers us clues as to how a genius is born, but the truth is, we still don’t completely understand how those extraordinary brains were created. National Geographic explores how those trailblazers came to be in a fascinating look into the brightest minds the world has ever known.