Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2018

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that spends resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Pro

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2018

Running a business is just as much a psychological endeavor as it is a business undertaking. As a business owner or CEO, you have to possess the mindset that you can handle anything that comes at you and overcome any obstacle. When you’ve been in business for a while, such bumps in the road become commonplace and you’re likely able to handle them in a much more reasonable fashion.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 8, 2018

I've rewritten a lot of pitch decks over time and a lot of them are really bad--mostly because founders have been told what should go in them without a lot of consideration as to why. Somewhere along the line, someone came up with things that are supposed to go in a pitch without ever asking investors how they take in a story. Here what I want to see in the video below.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2018

Business is always important to us if we are having some business which is very popular with the world so that turning some business scopes are really good if we successful business. Now we do lots o the things for our business easily what we usually did not do some periods before. So as rating the life honestly on a particular scale of the through the hundred that being the best possible life to set a work is essential for us.

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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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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the biggest levers that a business can use within their acquisition strategy as part of their Growth goals. You’re likely familiar with the different Growth frameworks like AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue). It all start with Acquisition. Getting users familiar with your product by visiting them on your site or in app.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2018

by Gavin Aubrey, founding Director of Think… Training & Development Ltd and author of “ A Guide to Motivation, Happiness, Success & Resilience “ Hello, my name is Gavin. You may know me if you have attended one of my courses, been coached by me or listened to my podcasts on iTunes. For those of you who haven’t; nice to meet you.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2018

When beginning a side hustle from home, what you need is investment capital. Unless you have a proven track record, the chance of getting money from Shark Tank or a venture capitalist is virtually nil. Even if you manage to become moderately successful, raising any kind of business finance is tough. This is why, if you asked most successful millionaires, they’d tell you that they got the money for their first business venture from a signature loan.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2018

Perhaps you perceive the business world in a way that is giving away your power? It’s never too late to take it back!

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2018

As the home market has recovered significantly compared to the situation just a decade ago, and commercial real estate is also on the rise, many property owners are utilizing the 1031 exchange program to save on the cost of switching from one property to another of “like kind.” The IRS provides this tax deferral program to investors to help the mitigate the cost of getting out of a bad investment or moving to another area.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2018

By encouraging failure and all of the benefits that come from making mistakes, your company can officially become a place of higher learning.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2018

I love the idea of A User Manual To Working With Me. A number of the CEOs we work with have written them and Seth sends out a letter to all new founders about working with us. While I occasionally think about writing an @bfeld User Manual, I never manage to get around to it. On our Q4 vacation, Amy and I talked a lot about dinners out, especially my own struggle with dinners with large groups of people, which caused me to reflect on how I approach dinners out in general.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 8, 2018

The thought of cheese is often associated with pizza and sandwiches. But, have you ever thought of the fancy cheese tea? Well, for Jenny Zheng, she pairs cheese and tea to come up with the delicious tea in Los Angeles. Her Little Fluffy Head Cafe is a boba shop specializing in high-quality cheese tea drinks. She has also her menu to include flavors like new winter brew, Hot Rose Milk Tea.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2018

In this post I round up various AI predictions, not so much the ‘eye rolling’ apocalyptic ones, but the more practical view on how will AI progress next year. No need to mention that forecasting is. 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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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

I’ve been a technologist since I first played with an Apple ][+ with a lower case chip. In the mid 1990s I knew that the internet was a game-changing technology. In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. Today the company still uses the logo that my college roommate created, employs thousands of people globally, and has a market cap well over half a billion dollars.

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Transformify

JANUARY 8, 2018

Whether you’re working in a traditional office or from home, office design is still important. A large part of how your workday goes depends on the environment you’re in. It impacts how well you can focus on the tasks at hand and how productive you've been at the end of the day. Implement these tips to create the most conducive environment possible for productivity.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 8, 2018

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. Even though this video is for the end of 2017. Here’s some of the gems from the video: Fear is holding you back. Add one new winner friend. Cut a loser friend. Try to taste everything. A lot of people are crippled from going on the offense.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 8, 2018

“I will never run a business again without a version of the Great Game of Business.” I say that a lot these days. The Great Game of Business is a concept that allows you to run your company the way that a sports team is run – where everyone knows the big goal, is aware of the score, understands how they can contribute to winning, and they are all rewarded together.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 8, 2018

Like me, I'm sure you are working on complex challenges when it comes to data. Multi-petabyte data warehouses. Multi-touch, cross-channel attribution analysis. Media mix modeling. Predictive analytics. Human-centric analysis. Oh, and let's not forget the application of machine learning to every facet of your work. It is genuinely fun to work on these opportunities.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2018

by Pratik Dholakiya , Co-Founder of E2M and MoveoApps. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford. While there are no guarantees throughout the road to success, one thing you can be sure of is that you will hit some bumps along the way. Failure is a part of entrepreneurship. It does not have to be the kiss of death.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

Happy New Year’s, everyone! I wish you much prosperity and love in 2018. As you may have seen me tweet last week, my New Year’s Resolution is to write more. I truly love writing?—?to write is to serve, to write is to learn, to write is to meditate. I’m going to take a different tact this year, though?—?I’m going to write more frequently and hopefully much shorter.

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