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In 2017, GE Will Buy More Tech Startups Than Google

Hunter Walker

When the WSJ and the NYTimes write the same trend story you can assume it’s a narrative that is being pushed by people who want it to be true! And the narrative for 2017 is OLD ECONOMY COMPANIES WANT TO BUY YOUR STARTUP. So, is it true? Largely yes, but the pot of gold might be more modest than some of 2016’s notable transactions suggest (Jet, Cruise, Dollar Shave Club).

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Look what we did

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

“You must be so proud of what you created” — the reflexive conclusion delivered by visitors to our building at WP Engine, struck by a beautiful place teeming with energy and activity, coming upon the little office of the founder. “What we created,” I always respond. It’s not false humility. I didn’t create this.

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9 Steps To Increasing Your Street Smarts In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

People who are good at solving problems for other people make great entrepreneurs. That’s what a business gets paid to do. The challenge is not the same as inventing a new technology, or finding things that make you feel good, and assuming that everyone will want one. In business, the ability to solve problems is called “street smarts,” and it’s more valuable than “book smarts.

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The Buddhists Of Silicon Valley

YoungUpstarts

by Sarah Emory, Instaread.co. “I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.”. – Edna Mode, The Incredibles. When Lawrence Levy sat down to write “ To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History “, he was making a conscious choice to look back and reflect upon what he saw. Levy’s current spiritual path might lead one to believe that he can do so from a more enlightened “now,” undeterred by the past’s distractions.

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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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How To Create A Personal Brand For Your Home-Based Business

YFS Magazine

I've laid out a simple, yet extremely effective process for using a personal brand to grow your business in 2017.

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Heading to CES 2017

Feld Thoughts

I’ll be at CES from Wednesday to Friday. I went for many years, punted for the past few years, but decided to go again this year. Techstars runs a big program called the Startup Stage that has three days of programming. It also co-hosts Eureka Park , at the Sands, Level 1, Hall G which is a collection of around 600 startups. I’ll be hanging out there when I’m not walking to CES floor, which typically takes me a day.

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Talks at CES 2017 Startup Stage

Feld Thoughts

I’m giving two talks this year at CES as part of Startup Stage at the Sands, Level 1, Hall G. The first is on Thursday 1/5: 1 – 1:45: Fireside chat with Fitbit: From Inspiration to IPO. The second is on Friday 1/6: 1 – 1:45: Diversity in Tech. If you are around and interested, come listen and say hello. The post Talks at CES 2017 Startup Stage appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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The Truth About Reaching More Clients Online

YFS Magazine

Growing your online presence is about reaching new people. It’s not a simple task.

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Want to Kick 2017 Off Right? Attend These 5 Tech Events in Austin This Week

SiliconHills

TUESDAY – How to Meet Investors in Austin and Ask Me Anything with Joshua Baer at Capital Factory starting at 4:00 p.m. with a tour. The event begins at 4:30 p.m. and also features Amos Schwartzfarb, managing director of Techstars Austin and an active investor and Ryan Lund, CEO and Co-founder of Cerebri AI. Tickets […] The post Want to Kick 2017 Off Right?

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Reboot – The Fountainhead

OnlyOnce

Reboot – The Fountainhead. Happy New Year! Every few years or so, especially after a challenging stretch at work, I’ve needed to reboot myself. This is one of those times, and I will try to write a handful of blog posts on different aspects of that. The first one is about a great book. I just read Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead for (I think) the 5 th time.

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Tips on How to Overcome the Fear of Rejection From Jia Jiang

SiliconHills

Former Austinite Jia Jiang undertook a bold adventure a few years back that toughened him up and led him to accept rejection. For 100 days, around the Austin area, Jiang sought out rejection. He asked a stranger to borrow $100 and even asked Krispy Kreme to make him a special Olympic ring donut. Listen to […] The post Tips on How to Overcome the Fear of Rejection From Jia Jiang appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Monday Motivation – New Year. New Me.

Hearpreneur

Share. This motivational video is perfect for the beginning of 2017. It changes your focus from looking to have a resolution to making life hacks or small wins to become successful. It’s in the progress of step-by-step and day-by-day becoming better. The secret to real happiness is progress. When you have a resolution. It is to resolve something…this is the way it’s going to be.

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Yellow, aqua, or orange? The meaning of fiber optic color standard

Austin Startup

Fiber optic colors standards are crucial to anyone who works manipulating thousands of cables at day or doing a major installation. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Episode 129: Get Paid to Market your Business with Stanley Genadek

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. On this episode with Stanley Genadek and he argues that there is one marketing platform that actually pays you to market your business. The platform is YouTube. Stanley outlines the basics to building your YouTube platform for subscribers, for exposure and even to the level that you will make money while advertising for your business.

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7 Ways to Build a Culture That Embraces Employees, Customers and Suppliers and Drives Success.

Small Business Force

There is probably no subject I write or speak about more than business culture. Mostly because I constantly get reminded of its importance and how it is so frequently misunderstood. Recent issues with companies like Wells Fargo, where their then soon-to-be-ex-CEO noted that their culture was a success when it clearly was not, it was their employees who failed.