Tue.Oct 03, 2017

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How Focusing On Only One Customer Can Change Any Business

YoungUpstarts

by Arjun Sen, president and founder of ZenMango and author of “ Customer Karma “ “Do good Karma and good Karma will come to you” was my grandma’s advice as I grew up in India. Hidden in that advice was the mantra for building lifetime relationship with customers. The key word is relationship, as there are similarities between personal and customer connections.

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My Boulder City Council Endorsements

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I have always believed in this value and importance of voting. If there was any doubt about how this can impact our society, that doubt was obliterated in the 2016 election. Boulder has an odd-year election cycle so our local elections are happening between October 16, 2017 (ballots get mailed) and November 7, 2017 (the last day to vote). Historically, less than half of the registered voters in town have voted in our local elections.

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Q3 2017 Round-Up: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

Another quarter has come and gone…. We continue to invest in blockchain companies and funds such as Coinbase and Metastable Capital , which join our existing crypto portfolio ( Blockstack , Citizen Hex and Polychain Capital ). Here’s a quick recap of our other funding announcements, portfolio news, and product updates (the things we can announce publicly): Funding announcements.

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Lessons To Help Entrepreneurs Cope With Tragedy And Disaster

YFS Magazine

Disaster waits for no one. In the wake of tragedy, there are lessons entrepreneurs can learn and apply for the benefit of themselves and others.

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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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Israel’s Top Deep Learning Startups

VC Cafe

This guest post by Chris Rowen of Cognite Ventures answers the question "Where are all the Israeli deep learning startups?” Several large clusters are particularly noticeable: * Chat-bots for. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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My Least Favorite Part of Venture Capital

This is going to be BIG.

I'm a lead investor. That means I'm usually the first person to put down a price on what your company is worth--a dollar value on months, if not years, worth of your work, blood, sweat, tears, stress, etc. "Here's a piece of paper that says how much I think your dreams are worth." The reality is, any price that I put down at the stage that I invest isn't going to feel like enough--and if it doesn't feel like enough, I'm probably grossly overpaying.

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Life is too short not to love your work!

Jeff Hilimire

You’re probably not an entrepreneur – most people aren’t, obviously – but you likely want to achieve greatness just the same. You want your work to have some meaning. And it should! The one thing all entrepreneurs share, no matter what type of business they’re building, is the love for what they do. Yes, building a company can be stressful.

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A Standard Business Plan Outline [Updated for 2017]

Up and Running

This article is part of our “Business Planning Guide” —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Editor’s note: We’ve updated this article for 2017. Start from the very beginning understanding that your business plan ought to be specific to your business needs and objectives. Every business ought to have a plan, but not every business needs a full formal plan with carefully crafted summaries and descriptions.

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Customer Satisfaction Surveys Tips For Small Businesses

YoungUpstarts

If you own a small business, conducting a customer satisfaction survey is an important part of running the business. It measures the degree of your customer’s satisfaction or dissatisfaction with your products and services. It also identifies crucial needs that need to be met as per the view of your customer and builds effective communication and personal relationships with your them.

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How To Quickly Create A Great Business Plan

YoungUpstarts

by Dave Lavinsky, founder of Growthink and BusinessPlanTemplate.com. You know you need a business plan if you want funding. And you know you should have and follow a plan to grow your business. But oftentimes creating a business plan takes too long. Below are some tips to help you complete a great business plan faster: 1. Start at the End. Before you write a single word of your business plan, think about where you’d like your business to be in 5 or more years.