Tue.Aug 09, 2016

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It’s Time To Take The ‘Sitting Is The New Smoking’ Claims Seriously

YoungUpstarts

by Chloe Hashemi. Recent research shows that sitting down all day causes damage that exercise can’t fix. The average office worker spends about 16 hours a week in meetings – a figure that multiplies out to equal 4 years over a career – perhaps we need to start thinking about some more creative ideas for exactly how these hours are used. Richard Branson , suggests that stepping away from a weekly routine and set formula can help to inspire creativity and productivity.

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What Is a Merchant Cash Advance, and Should You Get One?

Up and Running

Running a business is expensive, and sometimes you need a little financial help. Whether you need money for new equipment or to bulk up your inventory, the old saying “you have to spend money to make money” applies. For businesses looking for capital, there are many options, ranging from traditional small business loans to increasingly popular merchant cash advances.

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Ian Telfer, Canadian Mining Hall Of Famer, Gives His Two Cents To Today’s Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Canada is rich with entrepreneurial spirit, as evidenced by the breakthrough tech startups in Waterloo and Ottawa, the Mom and Pop shops on the prairies and the local fisheries and artisan businesses on both Canadian coasts. According to the latest data from Statistics Canada, small businesses account for 97.9 percent of the country’s 1.17 million businesses and indeed truly serve as the lifeblood of the Canadian economy.

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Announcing NextView & Reboot’s Founder Communication & Leadership Series

View from Seed

I’m excited to officially roll out the first of several Traction podcast episodes in partnership with Reboot. Theirs is a tremendous organization coaching and counseling entrepreneurs through the ups and downs of building a startup. They’ve recently expanded to working with investors too, as our own Rob Go joined Reboot founder Jerry Colonna, fellow VC Brad Feld, and several others at their very first VC Summit. ( His thoughts are here. ).

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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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Invoicing For Dummies: Basic Tips For Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

As an entrepreneur, you’ll surely come into contact with invoices sooner rather than later. And, while invoicing might seem easy on the surface, it isn’t as simple as you might think. It’s important to ensure that invoices are generated properly in order to obtain those all-important funds. So, let us provide you with a few basic tips to help you get started: 1.

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12 sci-fi technologies already changing the way we live

The Next Web

Technology is advancing at a rapid rate, with many new developments, from drones to brain scanning headbands, resembling devices from a science fiction movie. So what cutting-edge technology can we expect to experience in our lives in the near future, and what will be developed next? To find out, I asked a group of entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: What’s the most futuristic technology we already have access to, and where do you think it will head

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10 Ways to Make Sure You Get Work Done in Your Home Office

Up and Running

If you’ve ever worked from home, you’ll know how easy it is to get distracted, step away from whatever you were supposed to be doing, and lose hours doing something totally unnecessary—like reorganizing the fridge. Of course, you’ll also know how much easier it can be to focus when there’s no one around to distract you, and how much nicer it can be to work when and where you want.

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3 Tips for Decorating Your New Business

YoungUpstarts

Congratulations – you’ve finally purchased your company’s new premises! After months of negotiations and countless late nights burning the midnight oil, you’re happy to announce to friends, family and future customers that opening night is just around the corner. Of course, you’re understandably eager to let the celebrations commence and get the till ringing as quickly as possible.

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Do you need a lead investor in your seed round?

Hippoland

One question that seed investors love to ask is if you have a lead investor in your seed round. I’ve written before about what every entrepreneur needs to clarify when answering this question. But once you figure out why an investor is asking, tactically speaking, what do you do? Let’s say that you find out that an investor is asking because he/she does not invest without a lead investor in place.

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Hiring Prematurely vs. Hiring Too Fast

Mike Michalowicz

You probably are already familiar with the old entrepreneurial adage, “Hire slowly. Fire quickly.” Yet, entrepreneurs have the propensity to hire too quickly. They hire the first prospect they feel good about and bring them onboard, only to find out that initial wonderment is replaced by disappointment in the new hire. The cycle of bringing someone in, and then losing them (and having to go through this cycle again and again) can be devastating to a business.

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

Occam's Razor

Being book smart is good. The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. Hence, I have been obsessed with encouraging you to get actual data to learn from. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career Advice: Play In The Real World! Or a subsequent post about how to build a successful career: Web Analytics Career Guide: From Zero To Hero In Five Steps.

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In Defense of the Renegade Marketers

crowdSPRING Blog

With the dawn of social media and explosion of internet access across the globe came a revolution in marketing. New channels were available with larger audiences, more segmentation opportunities, and a myriad of engagement opportunities. The possibilities were endless. Indeed, we’re still exploring them. But with these possibilities came no small amount of chaos.

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7 Powerful Ways To Get More Done

YFS Magazine

Check out these 7 easy tips that will help you finally focus and get your work done.

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Seizing That Moment of Zen: Success through Peace of Mind

Hearpreneur

Share For all the talk about entrepreneurs, perhaps the greatest thing a CEO can do is achieve omission by an act of commission. Meaning: If you can create a product or service that prevents someone from doing something, you may very well enable that individual to accomplish something else of infinitely greater value – the chance to free himself from the tyranny of smartphones and tablets and the entanglement of the Web, which imprisons more than it inspires; which captures more than it captivat

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4 Smart Mompreneur Tips To Organize Your Family And Business

YFS Magazine

These four tips will help you prioritize family life with growing a home-based business.

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Doing References on Potential Investors

Rob Go

Raising money is often challenging, and a lot has been written about how to optimize the process to get the most attractive deal with the right investors. But relatively little has been written about actually selecting the “right” investor. When VC’s evaluate a founder or team, they rely heavily on references in their due diligence.

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Is it better to lease or buy equipment?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Is it better to lease or buy equipment? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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What I Read On My Summer Vacation

Duct Tape Marketing

What I Read On My Summer Vacation written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I read a lot. I interview authors for my weekly podcast so over the last decade or so I’ve probably read some portion of over 1,000 books. Just as every High School Language or Literature teacher, I believe that reading is the key to better writing. As an entrepreneur I believe it’s is the key to better ideas, better presenting, better selling, better leadership, and perhaps even most innovati

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The art of responding with a gif

Jeff Hilimire

I love sending memes and gifs as message responses to people. A meme can invoke just the right sentiment while also delivering a laugh. And it requires less writing, and therefore, less reading, which I think we can all agree is for the best. Some examples (with what I mean when I send it): “Oh yeah, that’s awesome!” “Oh that’s funny…but also kinda makes me look bad.

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