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Do You Have What It Takes To Start A PCB Design Firm?

YoungUpstarts

PCBs, also known as printed circuit boards, are very important components that are found in various electronic devices. Medical devices , smartphones, calculators and weapons systems all contain PCBs. These designs have become integral in many industries, and this industry has shifted globally to areas such as China and India. One segment of this market includes application and manufacturing, while the other segment focuses on innovation.

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The Growth Marketing Process: How to Shake Your Growth Hack Addiction

ConversionXL

Sean Ellis coined the term “growth hacking” way back in 2010. Since then, the term has taken on a life of its own. It’s the focus of dozens of books, new roles, new departments and teams, new methods of thinking, hundreds of articles, hundreds of guides, hundreds of webinars… you get the idea. Yet, it still feels very elusive.

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Can Document Management Restore Consumers’ Trust In Enterprises?

YoungUpstarts

By Jesse Wood, CEO of eFileCabinet. Have you ever looked at a work project gone wrong and wondered, how did this happen, who made this change, or how did this slip through the cracks? If you’re like most knowledge workers, the answer is a resounding “yes.”. These glaring questions have become so prevalent in organizations that headlines now pose them not only to businesses under fire, but also to consumers, who today — as never before — question whether organizations can be trusted with their in

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Why Your Business Needs A Web Design Style Guide

YFS Magazine

If you rely on your brand image and reputation, there is nothing more important than having a web design style guide in place to protect that image online.

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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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8 Ways to Unleash A Team’s Maximum Productive Power

Startup Professionals Musings

Most business leaders today realize that smart management of scarce resources is the key to competitive success. That’s why they manage money so carefully. Yet the truth is that a more scarce resource is really the time, talent, and energy of your team. Leaders who are able to optimize these find multipliers of 20 percent up to nine times the average productivity.

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Don’t even think of naming your business until you read this

The Next Web

I’ve learned a lot from the development of NameLayer, and I’m ready to divulge every trick in my arsenal. In this guide, I provide realistic solutions to the frustrations encountered when naming a company. Plus, I’ll have some fun analyzing both good and bad company names. This guide is divided into three, independent sections: Why Bad Company Names Hurt You, Coming Up With Company Names, and Examples of Strong and Weak Company Names.

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Top 5 Challenges Female Entrepreneurs Must Overcome

YFS Magazine

Female entrepreneurs are launching businesses at an astonishing rate. Here’s a look at five challenges we need to overcome in order to thrive.

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How To Launch A Photography Marketplace

YoungUpstarts

by Petru Iacob, founder of WebsiteCountdown.com and SendTornado.com. Photography is huge business. Revenue from the sale of photography in the United States has been pegged at around $10 billion. A large chunk of these sales are for the purpose of marketing and advertising. Although companies like Shutterstock, Fotolia and Getty Images have cornered the stock photos market, the industry is still extremely open for startup businesses to grow and thrive.

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Funding All Projects on DonorsChoose in Alaska

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I just funded all of the unfunded DonorsChoose projects in Alaska as part of the annual DonorsChoose #BestSchoolDay event. As part of the #BestSchoolDay program, your donation is matched. In all of the Alaska projects, Aspect Ventures matched our donation. Huge thanks to Jennifer Fonstad, Theresia Gouw, and team! Amy grew up in Alaska and we have a house in Homer, which is what motivated us to support Alaska this year on #BestSchoolDay.

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Why I love and fear AWS

BeyondVC

The AWS launch of Amazon Connect ( see techcrunch article ) got me thinking about the current state of play in SaaS. Amazon Connect is a call center in a box, the same tech it uses in-house for their current platform. With that release, companies like Talkdesk and others have much to fear. While I see partnerships with companies like zendesk, salesforce and freshdesk to integrate voice with chat and email, I also firmly believe that it is just a matter of time before AWS continues to extend outw

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Good Morale Means Profitability

Mike Michalowicz

The morale can go up and down like the DOW Jones. Some of it is a natural result of outside influences, such as a struggling economy. Most of it is under your direct control. Short of putting antidepressants in the water supply many experts argue there’s no sure-fire way to boost employee morale. I disagree. Morale is the result of the stories going on in your employees’ heads.

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Zeynep Young Joins Next Coast Ventures

SiliconHills

Zeynep Young, an Austin entrepreneur and former foundation director, has joined Next Coast Ventures, an Austin-based venture capital firm as Venture Partner. Young previously founded and ran Double Line Partners, an education technology startup in Austin, which sold to a private equity firm a few years ago. She also previously served as portfolio director at […] The post Zeynep Young Joins Next Coast Ventures appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Design Chica Spotlight: Danielle Bardgette

Austin Startup

Danielle Bardgette is a UX/UI Designer at Tahiti Blue Interactive , an Austin-based design agency that specializes in helping startups. Danielle has played an invaluable role in Latinitas’ 2017 Design Chica Conference as the co-chair of the UX design workshop committee and a volunteer co-coordinator. Not only did she help design the UX curriculum, but she also assisted with volunteer recruitment and donation gathering.

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How to Negotiate As If Your Life Depended On It

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Negotiate As If Your Life Depended On It written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Chris Voss. Podcast Transcript. The idea that you might negotiate deals and jobs and even pay raises like a hostage negotiator might seem a little crazy, but when it comes down to it, understanding and dealing with human emotions in slightly charged environments is something most of us address daily.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] How Prepared Are You For a Crisis?

Austin Startup

I was recently reading an article in the Austin Business Journal about WP Engine, Inc., and how they were faced with an unexpected power outage earlier this year that lasted two days. What was most impressive was the disaster playbook they already had in place for times like these. They were prepared and were able to keep the continuity in place for their some 60,000 customers across 130 countries without skipping a beat.

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How To Boost Productivity with Online Forms

YoungUpstarts

by Ashley Walsh, VP of Marketing for Formstack. Guess what? None of us are as productive at work as we think we are. In fact, when we think we are being the most productive by multitasking, we’re actually making it worse. A recent study showed that multitasking increases the time it takes to complete a single task by 25%. Along with other productivity drains like email and office tasks, it’s tough to actually increase efficiency and productivity.

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Bringing Transparency to Startup Data: Our Data Repository Project

Version One Ventures

Two months ago, I first introduced my vision to create a startup data repository. Since then, I’ve chatted with many of you who share the desire to democratize access to information on startups and bring transparency to what’s been a traditionally private ecosystem. I’ve been blown away by the response and appreciate every like, share, tweet, retweet, email, call, and coffee meeting.

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How I Pitched My Business and Raised $2.3 Million in VC Funding

Up and Running

I grew up in a family where excellence was expected; my parents wanted us to be the best at whatever we wanted to be. If you were going to go to the trouble of learning to play the piano, why not be the best piano player you can? Since I came out already a bit of a perfectionist, it’s hard to say which way the causality flowed on following the family mantra.

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Is Your Business One of the Chosen Few?

Growthink Blog

Is your business healthy and interesting enough to attract an investor and / or buyer to take a “leap of faith" on it? As in funding / buying it at a price well beyond what its historic “proof” - customers, revenues, cash flows - might reasonably justify? The hard reality, for most businesses, is that this is just never going to happen. The equally hard reality is that, again for most businesses, that this is an unfixable problem.

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The EPA, Climate Change and our Economy

Austin Startup

After watching President Trump abandon his promise to improve, “repeal and replace” the Congress-approved Affordable Care Act after just 17 legislative days, I joined America in disbelief in the gap between rhetoric and results leveraged by the highest office in the land and the Republican-led Congress. I am now more concerned than ever with the possible failures yet to come.

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