Mon.Dec 11, 2017

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Tips for Finding Work and Doing Business In Singapore

The Startup Magazine

Singapore is recognized for its welcoming and warm climate, low costs of living, and low taxation. Singapore is also well-known as the main hub to Asia. Working as well as living in this country is something that many people dream about. Fortunately, the job markets in this Asian city is growing steadily. More industries have popped up along with a significant increase in local-founding startups and expats.

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4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Learn 4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018. Alignment, Team Diversity, Knowledge & MoshPits. The challenges facing innovation leaders, facing 2018 is — how do you integrate new digital capability? This is not innovation as we once knew it. This is not your Dad’s innovation. It’s not even Your Innovation of five years ago?

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Small Business Guide To Protecting Data From Disasters

YoungUpstarts

by David Zimmerman, CEO of LC Technology International. Entrepreneurs and small business owners are often coming to market with that “one great idea.” Their intellectual property that details their new product or service is exceedingly valuable and warrants the utmost in protection. Unfortunately, it’s much too easy to not properly plan for disasters and how to protect and recover data during such catastrophes.

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5 Keys To New Venture Financial Projections That Work

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor and business advisor on new ventures, I expect to see five-year financial projections from every entrepreneur. Yet I get more pushback on this request than almost any other issue. Founders point to the great number of financial unknowns in any new business, and are reluctant to “commit” to any numbers which may come back to haunt them later.

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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 Ways To Promote Your Company Website

YoungUpstarts

The internet is a crowded place with many companies fighting to get themselves noticed. If you want to attract more visitors to your website, here are just a few different tactics that you can use to stand out amongst other companies. Invest in SEO. Your website is more likely to get noticed if it lists highly on search engines. It’s possible to get to the top by strategically using keywords on your website, but your best bet is to use an SEO company such as SMR digital.

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Questions to Brand Leaders Creating Things That Matter

Brandanew

This is a great collection of questions for brand leaders who carry the weight or the privilege of making things that matter. Questions that Matter to Brand Leaders. Does what I do count? Does what I do make a difference to anybody? Why should I come here? Can I be somebody here? Is there for me any rhyme or reason here? Can I “own” this place? Do I have any rights?

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BREAK THE INTERNET TO SAVE NET NEUTRALITY

Feld Thoughts

We have just hours. The FCC is about to vote to end net neutrality—breaking the fundamental principle of the open Internet—and only an avalanche of calls to Congress can stop it. So we decided to help “Break the Internet” on our sites. You can also support on Twitter , Tumblr , Youtube or in whatever wild creative way you can to get your audience to contact Congress.

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6 Business Apps Every Entrepreneur Should Try

YFS Magazine

When you truly want to be organized, you will put your mind to work and leverage the right technology to accomplish more.

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Austin-based GenXComm Lands $7 Million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News GenXComm, a telecommunications startup spun out of the University of Texas at Austin, announced Tuesday it has raised $7 million in funding, led by Intel Capital. Other investors included Azure Capital Partners, Bandgap Ventures, Capital Factory, FAM Capital Partners, Lip-Bu Tan, UT Horizon Fund and WS Investment […].

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4 Types Of Online Businesses Website Brokers Can Easily Sell

YFS Magazine

These days you can build an online business that is scalable — and sellable. Here's a look at four popular business models to consider.

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All Platforms Need a Killer App – Cryptokitties is the one for blockchain

BeyondVC

I’ve always loved investing in companies that can become platforms but not investing in platforms. What does that mean? Well, to be succinct, it’s quite hard to sell a platform. You need to show users/customers how your platform can solve problems. Every platform needs a killer app to demonstrate the power of the platform – show don’t tell.

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Entrepreneurs Bring Propriety Software to Influencer Marketing

Hearpreneur

Influencer marketing is here and it’s not going anywhere soon. For many brands on a limited budgets, they have turned to leveraging industry influencers as a way to market their products and promote holiday deals. We had the opportunity to hear from Adam Rivietz of #paid , about their influencer marketing platform, the future of influencer marketing and advice they would give to brands hoping to facilitate those relationships.

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BREAK THE INTERNET TO SAVE NET NEUTRALITY

VC Adventure

We have just hours. The FCC is about to vote to end net neutrality—breaking the fundamental principle of the open Internet—and only an avalanche of calls to Congress can stop it. So we decided to help “Break the Internet” on our sites. You can also support on Twitter , Tumblr , Youtube or in whatever wild creative way you can to get your audience to contact Congress.

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Monday Motivation: I am CEO

Hearpreneur

I am CEO – Battlecry and Motto for CEOs, entrepreneurs, startups and business owners check out the #iamceo Podcast coming soon to @anchor.fm #battlecry. A post shared by CEO Blog Nation – cbnation.co (@ceoblognation) on Dec 7, 2017 at 7:26pm PST. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start the week off on the right foot.

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Free Money to Go International

Austin Startup

International expansion seems spooky and very expensive for a start-up or small business. It doesn’t have to be. Don’t get me wrong, if you’re a start-up you should totally focus on the low-hanging fruit at home before you look abroad. However, if you have good traction and are ready to add some sizzle to your B round, a good international growth channel can dramatically expand the size of your addressable market and be easier to execute than you think.

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7 Common Oversights That Make Your Life Suck & How to Overcome Them

Transformify

Though circumstances can sometimes make you miserable, happiness is mostly a state of mind. Unfortunately, people tend to wear an emotional mask when dealing with situations and people in their lives, leading to suffering and pain. You may not notice it, but these seemingly petty mistakes can eventually turn into habits that will certainly keep you from happiness.

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Tailoring Your Products And Services To Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

When it comes to succeeding in small business, you’ll soon grow to realise that you need to prioritize your customers’ wants and needs. Many of us quit our nine to five employed roles and enter the realm of self-employed business ownership in order to follow our own hopes and dreams. We want to work in an area that we’re interested in, creating products and offering services that we’d invest in ourselves.

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Finding Community in NYC Tech Again

This is going to be BIG.

There's a thread going on Twitter about doing a BarCamp in NYC again. I started with a tweet from Jeff Namnum about how he joined the tech community. Forever grateful to @tonybgoode @noneck @whitneyhess @ceonyc and others for making a Long Island guy feel welcome a hundred years ago at barcampNYC. Absolutely changed my trajectory. — Jeff Namnum (@namnum) December 8, 2017.

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Why Well-Intentioned Managers Are Drawn To The Dark Side

YoungUpstarts

by Samuel Culbert, author of “ Good People, Bad Managers: How Work Culture Corrupts Good Intentions “ Americans idealize “getting ahead,” and the work culture pushes this ideal to an extreme. In the hierarchical corporate world, for instance, it’s not the American way for managers to help their employees succeed if it gets in the way of their own upward trajectory.

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Why Should Small Business Owners Think About Ethics?

Up and Running

An investor approached retirement planner Josh Markowitz with an opportunity. The investor was not wearing business attire and had requested the late-morning meeting be held in a cigar bar. Markowitz felt obliged to ask for more details on the investment strategy. The investor told Markowitz that if he invested $250,000 for two years, he’d get a return of 15 percent each year.