Wed.May 23, 2018

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Why Do Startups Often Not Make A Profit?

YoungUpstarts

Most startups do not fail because they had a bad idea that could not find a market, but rather because the founders and startup teams got overwhelmed or were missing key ingredients to success. Finances are a huge part of startup success or failure, but while a lack of funds is a significant problem, it’s usually not the biggest problem. Often, there’s a disconnect between the decision-makers and what might be thought of as the dry, boring realities of successful management.

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10 Ways to Get Your Startup Moving

Up and Running

If you are just beginning your journey into the world of business, you face more competition than startups in previous generations. However, you also have more opportunity. Here are 10 ways to get your startup moving. 1. Get very comfortable making decisions without all the information at your fingertips. If you’re launching a startup, you are likely moving into territory that has not been completely cleared away just yet—there are a lot of unknowns.

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Can Business Save The Earth?

YoungUpstarts

by Michael Lenox and Ronnie Chatterji, co-authors of “ Can Business Save the Earth?: Innovating Our Way to Sustainability “ Can business save the earth? For many observers, the question is preposterous. Climate change and our broader sustainability challenge pose a critical threat to our ability to flourish on this planet. The private sector, with its voracious appetite for resources and development, is who is responsible for much of the predicament we face, so this line of thinking

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Small Business Branding: What Color Says About Your Business

crowdSPRING Blog

What’s your favorite color? Seems like an innocent question, right? You may be surprised to learn that your color preferences reveal a lot about you. Color has a deep and often subconscious effect on our behavior. Color is often used to persuade or influence us. According to a study examining the effect of color on sales, 92.6% of people surveyed by the CCI: Institute for Color Research said that color was the most important factor when purchasing products.

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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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Spend Your Time

Mike Michalowicz

Time and money. Both are scarce resources. Money depletes quickly. Time depletes, comparatively, more slowly. Before you spend your money, spend your time. Determine if your time is resulting in a loss or a gain. Then, when you discover where time is well spent, spend money on it, so that you don’t need to spend more time on it but other people or resources can.

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How To Increase E-Commerce Conversion Rates

YFS Magazine

If you're consistent with both your content and testing, you’ll see conversions go up, and you’ll become an authority in your niche along the way.

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LiveOak Venture Partners Adds Two More Investment Professionals

SiliconHills

LiveOak Venture Partners announced this week that it has expanded its staff. LiveOak, based in Austin, added Mike Marcantonio as principal and Mason Rathe as a senior associate. They will focus on new investments and support the firm’s portfolio of companies. Marcantonio previously worked at Blue Heron Capital and focused on venture and growth stage […].

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Are you an investment or an option?

Hippoland

Early stage fundraising is an interesting beast, because there are all kinds of reasons why VCs invest at this stage. Some background: There are essentially two camps of investors: A) those with a concentrated portfolio and B) those with a large, diverse portfolio. Diversified portfolios: Funds like YC, 500 Startups, and Techstars, etc all have diverse portfolio strategies.

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Getting Big Deals Done

Growthink Blog

Getting big deals done is almost always the key success factor that allows companies to achieve breakout growth. What kind of deals? Securing big new clients Joint ventures/strategic partnerships Raising capital Mergers & acquisitions etc. Sadly, most smaller company executives and business owners are lousy dealmakers.as evidenced by the undeniable fact that their companies remain small!

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Are you an investment or an option?

Hippoland

Early stage fundraising is an interesting beast, because there are all kinds of reasons why VCs invest at this stage. Some background: There are essentially two camps of investors: A) those with a concentrated portfolio and B) those with a large, diverse portfolio. Diversified portfolios: Funds like YC, 500 Startups, and Techstars, etc all have diverse portfolio strategies.

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Book #19: My Year of Running Dangerously

Jeff Hilimire

My goal in 2018 is to read 52 books. Here is a list of all the books I’ve read so far this year. Each book is ranked on a 5-star scale (5 is best). ** My Year of Running Dangerously. I had no expectations when I ordered this book on Audible, only that it was recommended based on a few other “running” books I have read in the past. In this book, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman decides to start running again when his 18-year old daughter asks him to run a marathon with her.

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5 Strategies For Managing A Fast Growing Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Shachar Shamir, COO of Ranky. Managing a startup is kind of like riding a roller coaster. Sure, it might start slow, but once you get over that first hill and start picking up speed, it can seem like you’re speeding out of control! Of course, managing a startup and riding a roller coaster are two different things. There’s a lot more at stake than losing your pocket change, after all.

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Inc. Magazine Names Ten Austin Companies to its 2018 Best Places to Work List

SiliconHills

Inc. Magazine Wednesday named ten Austin-based companies to its list of best places to work. The companies included Arrive Logistics, Embark, Munck Wilson Mandala, Opcity, Peddle, Praetorian, Salcora, Square Root, Student Loan Hero, and The Zebra. Out of thousands of applicants, Inc. singled out just under 300 winning companies nationally. Inc. recognized Square Root, creators […].

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