Wed.Aug 15, 2018

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4 Ways To Design A Website That Attracts Your Ideal Customers

YFS Magazine

No matter the aim of your small business, a crucial component to attracting your ideal customer is to help them find your brand via your company website.

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4 Ways to Urge Your Startup Toward Rapid Growth

Up and Running

The startup stage of a business is grueling. Chances are, you are overworked, understaffed, and functioning on a shoestring budget. Taking into account the statistic that only half of businesses survive the first five years, even the downtime can get stressful. Achieving rapid growth after a few tough years in the startup stage can be one of the most exciting (and relieving) times in the life of an entrepreneur.

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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?

VC Adventure

Quick note: I’m not your lawyer. I’m not giving legal advice in this post. Back in the olden days of venture capital, company boards had wide discretion in pricing company options. As is true today, there was a requirement that options be priced at or above the “fair market value” of the underlying stock (otherwise there would be tax consequences to the optionee and sometimes to the company as well).

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Next-gen software executives

deal architect

I was pleased to see Salesforce has appointed Parker Harris to its Board and promoted Keith Block to co-CEO. I have long been a fan of Parker – just brilliant and a nice guy to boot. I think the enterprise.

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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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7 Excuses For Giving Up Instead Of Persevering To Win

Startup Professionals Musings

When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Rather than quitting, there are always alternatives, like pivoting the business model or merging with new partners for support. Either could improve the statistic that half of startups fail within the first five years.

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10 Startup Myths Busted

YoungUpstarts

by Caroline Revell. You don’t have to look far for ‘Start-Up Business Advice’ but some of them seem to be fake news. To help you ignore the fiction, here are our top 10 myths busted: 1. You Need A College Degree. This is one of the main reasons which stops entrepreneurs starting a business, thinking that they are under qualified or need a degree. Mark Zuckerberg is worth an estimated $34.8billion and had no degree before starting Facebook.

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Startup Failure: How To Bounce Back After A Rough Patch

YoungUpstarts

The idea of starting a business with nothing but a few bucks in the bank has become so illuminating that everyone is anxious to try their hands at it. As great as an accomplishment like this could be, most entrepreneurial hopefuls get blinded by “overnight success” stories or the idea of becoming rich quick. They, in turn, launch their business without having a full knowledge of how to get started or what it will require to become a success.

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The Pros And Cons Of Office Politics

YFS Magazine

Ask most people about office politics and they'll say they'd prefer to avoid it. Yet, most also know that like most things there are pros and cons.

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5 Indian cricketers who are giving entrepreneurship goals

Our Own Start-up

Players these days also keep themselves updated with whats happening in the corporate world and some are doing well with their own entities.

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Startups: If You’re not Blogging, You’re Making a Mistake

Austin Startup

Communication is everything in a startup. If you’re a startup, you need to be blogging for your own team. I know everyone says blogging is dead in the age of Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn. But blogging is your best competitive edge over larger firms: how fast you can learn and how fast those learnings permeate the organization determines how fast you can evolve?

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Global Blockchain Expert Lilia Stoyanov Joins Advisers Team of Foresting HQ

Transformify

via Business Insider. - Blockchain Meets Social Media. SEOUL, South Korea , July 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Lilia Stoyanov , Chief Executive Officer at Transformify, has joined Foresting HQ as an advisor. Transformify is one of the UK's top 10 fintech innovators and a member of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition of the European Commission. The company provides HR-tech, fintech and artificial intelligence-based recruiting services.

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Separating the Business “Haves” from the “Have Nots”

Growthink Blog

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Blockchain-based Social Media Platform Foresting HQ Builds a Bridge to Advance into the Asian Market

Transformify

"Investment MoU with the global exchange BitForex" BitForex , the cryptocurrency exchange, announced that the company signed a strategic business agreement on investment with Foresting HQ on August 7, 2018. BitForex is a global exchange trading with 84 cryptocurrencies surpassing Binance, Bitmax and other competing exchanges. BitForex is the number one trading platform based on the record of trading volume within 24 hours (updated on August 7, 2018 Coin Market Cap).

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Brand Identity – 5 Basic Steps You Need To Cover

YoungUpstarts

You should think of your brand identity as the foundation of your entire business. Without it, you have nowhere to start building your relationships with customers. Let’s face it: there’s a lot of competition today. Small businesses are up against some big-name brands, and they need to find new ways to reach their audience without wasting their marketing budget.

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RSS: The Persistent Protocol

Feld Thoughts

One of our themes is Protocol. We’ve been investing in companies built around technology protocols since 1994. One of my first investments, when I moved to Boulder in 1995, was in a company called Email Publishing, which was the very first email service provider. SMTP has been very good to me. We made some of the early investments in companies built around RSS, including FeedBurner and NewsGator.

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