The Next Web
JANUARY 21, 2018
When business professionals do well at their jobs, they get to negotiate for a higher salary at their next review. When we freelancers do well at our jobs, we usually don’t get that kind of adjustment option. Worse yet, many freelancers get sucked into working for free. Recent research from Approve.io found that 70 percent of freelancers were propositioned to work for free in 2016.
David Cohen
JANUARY 21, 2018
A friend of mine is putting on a really interesting event called One Last Talk in Boulder on March 3, 2018. It’s called One Last Talk. All profits go to the non-profit Believe in Youth. From the One Last Talk web site: “Imagine standing on a stage, and delivering your One Last Talk to the world in 15 mins. In these talks speakers have previously shared the core of their greatest triumphs, their greatest failures, and what are the building blocks of what has created the essence of the
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The Next Web
JANUARY 21, 2018
Four years ago, on Christmas Eve in my small hometown of Yakutsk, the temperature fell down to freezing -45°C and all the local taxi services simultaneously doubled their prices — leaving loads of people stranded in the Siberian winter. Angry and frustrated, a bunch of students formed a public group on VK.com, a popular Russian social network, where anyone could submit a request for a ride, and those who owned cars could accept their calls for help.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 21, 2018
Amy and I had another wonderful digital sabbath yesterday. It started Friday at sundown when I put my computer to sleep. I’m using Inbox When Ready and have locked my inbox from Friday at 6pm to Saturday at 11:59pm. I also put my phone in Do Not Disturb mode for this same time period. While I’m not committed to doing this every weekend in 2018, I’m going to do it most of the time.
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
Austin Startup
JANUARY 21, 2018
Still recovering from the 2017 #SCFemFounders Mission! 2017 was a big year of travel for me across Tokyo, Austin Texas, Hong Kong and London. These ramblings are about my week in London with 10 other women as part of the inaugural Startup Catalyst Female Founders London Mission where I was supported to attend by Advance Queensland. Female Founders Unite Some of us arrived the day before our official start and met up at the closest pub.
Scott Edward Walker
JANUARY 21, 2018
I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and video clips relating to startups, entrepreneurship and legal issues. Below are my three most popular tweets for the past six weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 3 Tweets. “Saving five grand in legal fees [early on] may cost you five hundred thousand.” – @jeff (at 1:09:45) bit.ly/2DCOeUt. “Investors never say no.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 21, 2018
The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made-up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it. Even still there are some people who study foreign words for the perfect meaning behind their chosen business.
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