Wed.Sep 28, 2016

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Introducing the Hitchhiker’s Guide to New York City Tech

View from Seed

New York City is a dream but can also be a navigational nightmare, equal parts crammed circus and rat race mixed at warp speed. This holds for the city’s tech sector. NYC Tech is bursting at the seams with nightly networking events at floors and floors of co-working spaces. We do not suffer a lack of tech activities. At the same time, the perception of our ecosystem as an insider’s game can often be self-fulfilling and self-perpetuating – creating a walled garden that can’t be breached.

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Thinking About Starting A Creative Agency? Here’s What You Need To Know.

YoungUpstarts

by Claudia Elliott, head of content creation at internet marketing consulting agency Deep End. The life of a creative freelancer is challenging. You have no choice but to do everything yourself. And unfortunately, this can often have a negative impact on your business. When you are a one-man show, you are responsible for doing administrative work, sales, design, development and so much more.

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In Hardware, You're Only as Good as Your Next Product: See goTenna

This is going to be BIG.

When hardware maker Quirky went out of business, Ben Einstein at Bolt had this to say : "A good company builds one product, learns from its customers, and iterates to make that product exceptional. Each step in the process is designed to refine a product and find the often elusive “product/market fit” that is the basis for all successful startups. Imagine if Apple built the first app-free iPhone and then moved on to the Apple Watch, or GoPro only sold one version of its camera and then decided t

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Creative Destruction Lab West: Helping create the next generation of entrepreneurs

Version One Ventures

Very often, start-ups fail at the earliest stages. They might get the wrong advice at a critical point, or they can’t raise the first hundreds of thousands of dollars required to move from prototype to initial product. This problem is relatively minor in large, vibrant ecosystems like Silicon Valley, but can be more pervasive in smaller locations that lack the depth and breadth of experienced start-up advisors and angel investors.

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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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Intrinsic Motivation Models Lead To Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience mentoring new entrepreneurs and aspiring business leaders, I see far too many who seem to be driven by all the wrong reasons. Everyone seems to espouse extrinsic motivations, such as getting rich, having power, and fulfilling parent dreams, when in fact a focus on satisfying internal interests and desires will likely lead to more success, as well as satisfaction.

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Financial Management Guide For The Self-Employed

YoungUpstarts

You may love what you do and be filled with passion for every customer you serve as a self-employed business owner, but enthusiasm does not pay the bills. For that, you need a great product and good financial management. There is very little difference between a salary and profit when you run your own business. The net income of your business is also your savings, your down payment on a home and your retirement plan for the future.

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Top Money Making Investmets You Should Make While You’re Young

YoungUpstarts

Many experts will say that your twenties are the best time to start investing. It’s a good age as you’ve had time to build up your finances, and, you have plenty of life ahead of you for investments to grow. If you’re looking to make some extra money, check out these three investment options: Gold & Silver. It may seem like a strange thing to invest in, but, gold & silver can make you a lot of money.

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Should Entrepreneurs Avoid Coworking Spaces?

YFS Magazine

Here are just a few reasons why entrepreneurs may opt to avoid coworking spaces.

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Inventory Management 101

YoungUpstarts

By Lea Schneider. When it all begins at the kitchen table, it seems so simple. Fast forward just a bit and your home-based business or startup doesn’t quite contain itself to one tabletop. There are products, samples and parts everywhere. Even if you want to keep your business at home, you’ll need to find a way to organize inventory and supplies. As a professional organizer, it is a fun and exciting task to step into a new company that finds itself so busy that they are challenged by disorganiza

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Arnie and Vin: May We See the Likes of Them Again

Growthink Blog

The passing this week of Arnold Palmer at 87, and the retirement from broadcasting of Vin Scully at 88, is a moment to reflect on the time, world, and value system these men represented, and on the wisdoms from their careers that can be applied to our modern life and business journeys. Arnold Palmer and Vin Scully - their names are synonymous with “old school” character and decency.

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How to Think About Hustle

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Think About Hustle written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Neil Patel. The word Hustle sometimes gets a bad wrap. In days of old, it conjured up thoughts of Getting Hustled as in a scam. Even today its meaning can get lost in a work all day and night Gary V kind of hustle. But I think there’s a middle ground – more like Charley Hustle – the player that prepares, works hard, and wins and loses with grace.

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Frankly, My Dear, I Don’t Give a Damn or a Mark Manson F*ck

entrepreMusings

It’s an unconventional title: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (amazon link), but it’s an insightful, irreverent, and hilarious book that’s not too trite, sappy, or “duh, who doesn’t already know that!” kind of read. It seems to be about how so many of us get hung up on the wrong things and make ourselves and potentially others in our social solar system miserable.

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Words of Wisdom from Reid Hoffman

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a brief video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Reid Hoffman , co-founder and Executive Chairman of LinkedIn , a partner at Greylock Partners , and a brilliant entrepreneur and investor.

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How Not to Suck as a Leader

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: American Salon. You are not alone, although it often feels that you are. According to the Small Business Administration , 78.5 percent of the nearly 28 million small businesses in the U.S. are individually owned and run by the owner, without any employees. Many of you are already leading teams or have employees working for you. Even if you aren’t doing so now, the odds are pretty good that you’ll need to start building your team as your business grows and you find yours

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Does “Going Viral” Actually Result in More Conversions?

ConversionXL

Right now there is almost certainly an enterprise exec in a boardroom somewhere saying, “We need it to go viral.” Kittens and memes and babies kissing puppies… viral. When most people think about going viral, they think about raising a lot of awareness for their product or company. But what about money in the bank, what does going viral mean for your bottom line?

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How Not to Suck as a Leader

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: American Salon. You are not alone, although it often feels that you are. According to the Small Business Administration , 78.5 percent of the nearly 28 million small businesses in the U.S. are individually owned and run by the owner, without any employees. Many of you are already leading teams or have employees working for you. Even if you aren’t doing so now, the odds are pretty good that you’ll need to start building your team as your business grows and you find yours

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How Not to Suck as a Leader

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: American Salon. You are not alone, although it often feels that you are. According to the Small Business Administration , 78.5 percent of the nearly 28 million small businesses in the U.S. are individually owned and run by the owner, without any employees. Many of you are already leading teams or have employees working for you. Even if you aren’t doing so now, the odds are pretty good that you’ll need to start building your team as your business grows and you find yours

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Dancing the Political Brand Equity Tango on Social Media

crowdSPRING Blog

This year’s American presidential race has been one of the most contentious in modern history. The level of polarization in the electorate is astounding, and the polls have left her citizens and international spectators alike in a semi-terrified trance of sorts, in disbelief over how close the contest actually is. And in the middle of the mudslinging and grandstanding are some very, very uncomfortable brands.

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Dancing the Political Brand Equity Tango on Social Media

crowdSPRING Blog

This year’s American presidential race has been one of the most contentious in modern history. The level of polarization in the electorate is astounding, and the polls have left her citizens and international spectators alike in a semi-terrified trance of sorts, in disbelief over how close the contest actually is. And in the middle of the mudslinging and grandstanding are some very, very uncomfortable brands.

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Dancing the Political Brand Equity Tango on Social Media

crowdSPRING Blog

This year’s American presidential race has been one of the most contentious in modern history. The level of polarization in the electorate is astounding, and the polls have left her citizens and international spectators alike in a semi-terrified trance of sorts, in disbelief over how close the contest actually is. And in the middle of the mudslinging and grandstanding are some very, very uncomfortable brands.