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Entering the Startup Game? Here Are 6 Things to Know About Planning Your Supply Chain

Our Own Start-up

We have put together 6 essential things to know about planning your supply chain.

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8 Keys to Value-Based SaaS Pricing Pages

ConversionXL

As a SaaS company, both your product and service are unique solutions, and your pricing page should reflect that. It’s tempting to model your pricing strategy on successful companies. But by simply copying what your competitors are doing, you do your product and customers a disservice. You are falling in line with other options instead of communicating what sets you apart.

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The Investment Committee Rejected You; What Does That Actually Mean?

David Teten

One of the most common ways a venture capitalist rejects you is a variation of, “I love you, I love your company. I brought it up to the investment committee (“IC”)… but they turned it down.” What does that actually mean? Is this the business equivalent of telling a flame, “ It’s not you, it’s me ”? A few years ago I published a research paper on how private equity and venture capital firms originate investments.

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10 Higher Education Trends To Watch For In 2019

YoungUpstarts

by Danny Iny, author of “ Leveraged Learning: How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners, and Experts with Something to Teach “ The way America prepares its young people for the workforce is shifting. And it’s not just a small shift; it’s a huge, culture-shaking one. If you doubt it, just keep your eyes open. There are trends to watch for in 2019 and over the next few years that signal a recalibration of everything we thought we knew.

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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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5 Phases of Leadership Growth Lead To Company Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of you aspiring entrepreneurs have no idea how dramatically your own role has to evolve as you develop a solution, start a business, and expect it to scale into a successful self-managed company. You may have a strong product development background, but typically have minimal experience in hiring and leading team members and groups, or managing financials.

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Transcript of The Secrets to Leading Creative People

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of The Secrets to Leading Creative People written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: Leading or managing people in an organization is a tough job. It gets just that much tougher when the folks that you are choosing to lead are highly creative.

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How Google’s Machine Learning Is Impacting Local Store Traffic

YoungUpstarts

by Ronald Dod, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-founder of Visiture. Machine learning is predicted to change the world at a similar scale or greater than the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century. While still in its early stages, machine learning has already had a significant impact on different aspects of everyday life. Chances are you’ve already interacted or heard of how machine learning is being used today: Google is using machine learning to train driverless cars, which will change

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Our Top Posts from 2018

Version One Ventures

Happy new year! Each week we like share our thoughts on a range of topics from vertical markets to general startup advice and our reflections on investing. We’re proud to say that we wrote a blog post every week in 2018 – and we’ve done that now for the past three years. In case you didn’t catch each and every post, here’s a look back at some of our favourite and most read pieces from 2018.

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5 Things Successful Leaders Must Leave Behind To Move Forward

YFS Magazine

If you're unsure what to leave behind in order to take your leadership skills to the next level here' a look at five areas to consider.

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What’s Your Frame of Reference for a Downturn?

Feld Thoughts

A lot of people are predicting that 2018 was the peak and the beginning of a downturn / recession / whatever-you-want-to-call-it. I’m not a predictor so I have no idea. I try not to pay attention to the macro (as I’ve said many times), but I do think it is important to have a frame of reference about it. My frame of reference has a few components.

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Reading List: 5 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read In 2019

YFS Magazine

Every year I revisit the classics and add a few noteworthy books to my list. Here's a look at five books I'll be reading this year.

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3 Days 3 Times – make scheduling via email easier

Eric Friedman

Scheduling a meeting with someone can be difficult. People are busy, its hard to find time, and its usually a volley of back and forth emails to get something setup. My strong recommendation is to always use a simple formula that has served me well for over a decade; always put forth 3 days and 3 times in your initial email. This means writing out, specifically, 3 open days and 3 open time slots that work for you.

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Turns Out, Sometimes You Need A Swift Kick To Pursue Your Dreams

YFS Magazine

History is replete with setbacks, comebacks and people who started at the bottom only to claw their way to the top of their respective fields.

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The Secrets to Leading Creative People

Duct Tape Marketing

The Secrets to Leading Creative People written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Todd Henry. Podcast Transcript. This week on the Duct Tape Marketing podcast, I speak with Todd Henry. Henry is a writer and speaker who travels extensively to talk about creativity, leadership, and productivity. He gives keynotes and leads workshops on the topics and has helped teams and audiences around the globe.

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Doubling down on your strengths

Spencer Fry

As I do every year between Christmas and New Years, I spend quiet time reflecting on the past year of Podia while planning the coming year. It’s really the only time when I can do some really deep thinking. As I sat down with my notepad this year, and after lots of internal thinking, note taking and writing, I kept coming back to this idea of "doubling down on your strengths" and when it’s time to do that.

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CEO’s Journey to Creating the Most Powerful Solution for Sports

Hearpreneur

As a Little League coach, Upper Hand CEO & Founder Kevin MacCauley us the brain behind the world’s most powerful, cloud-based mobile platform that helps sports professionals manage their business. Kevin became empowered to develop a solution that allowed sport organizations to escape the administrative vortex and focus more on developing athletes.

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The 10 Best Performing Companies of 2018

Growthink Blog

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2019 is Not Going to be “Your Year” if You Don’t Make Content for your Business

Austin Startup

Hey, it’s the podcast guy (the big face above) from the Fire Show , where I interview entrepreneurs, founders, and creators in Austin. Previous guests have included Mayor Adler, Director SXSW, MD of Capital Factory, and more. I’m here to tell you that something I’ve had to learn through not doing it this past year. If you don’t have a repeatable way to get attention from new customers in a target market on social platform, it’s going to be hard to make 2019 “your year”.

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