Fri.Jan 12, 2018

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10 Startup Strategies To Minimize Cash Flow Disasters

Startup Professionals Musings

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. I often get asked about the real alternatives to bridge this valley, and there are some good ones I will outline here.

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Recruit Your Boss To Help Build Your Career

YoungUpstarts

by Lisa Prior, author of “ Take Charge of Your VIEW: Career Advice You Won’t Get From Your Boss “ Is your boss taking time to help you nurture your professional dreams? If the answer is yes, you’re one of the lucky ones. If the answer is no, that can change. And you can be the person who makes it happen. The truth is, your boss is likely the top resource you have at your fingertips to boost your career and get closer to your vision of success.

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Why Should Small Businesses Care About Blockchain Technology?

YFS Magazine

"When it comes to digital assets and transactions, you can put absolutely anything on a blockchain." It's the invisible technology that's changing the world, according to PC Magazine.

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Worst of Times

Feld Thoughts

If you enjoyed I’m a VC , take another walk down memory lane with me back to 2015 and watch our second video, Worst of Times. More soon. Hint, hint … The post Worst of Times appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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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 Raise Money For Your Mobile App Startup

YFS Magazine

A great mobile app idea alone doesn’t cut it. You need a viable prototype, some public interest, traction and more. When you're ready here's a look at 8 ways to raise funds.

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5 Common Website Mistakes Small Business Owners Make

The Startup Magazine

Most of today’s small business owners understand that they’ll need a website to capitalize on customers. However, these business owners usually have a rigid budget and attempt to create everything in-house or outsource to someone who doesn’t fully understand the company’s vision. It may seem easy to pick a premade theme or a plug-and-play site editor merely for the sake of throwing a website up.

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Quick Alternative Funding for Business Growth – iAdvance Now

The Startup Magazine

At the heart of a business enterprise is capital. Business capital is what fuels a company’s growth and progress. Without the necessary funding a business needs, growth becomes increasingly difficult. With traditional banks and lenders making it even more difficult for a new company to secure the loans they need to fund their business growth , companies such as iAdvance Now saw a need and are filling it with alternative funding options.

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Twitter Link Roundup #320 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

2017 was a strange year. At times, the world seemed to feel like it was collapsing in on itself like a sad flan in a cupboard. That feeling, thankfully, is not revealing of the entire picture of a year which had its share of ingenuity and promise intermixed with the sometimes painful turn of events. Now that we’ve moved squarely into 2018, we can take a retrospective look at the best, most inspirational events of 2017 and allow them to motivate us to do great work in the year ahead.

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MLK as a Role Model for Business

Jeff Hilimire

I am very proud that Dragon Army is a sponsor of the 50th anniversary of MLK Day with Hands on Atlanta. Please find a way to get involved ! As a sponsor, Hands on Atlanta asked me to write a post on their website to share why it was important for us to be a part of this historical moment. In the post, MLK as a Role Model for Business , I wrote: At Dragon Army, we stand for the ideals that Dr.

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Road Ahead for America’s Colleges and Universities

Campus Entrepreneurship

Two economists from William & Mary offer their insights into the challenges and opportunities ahead for higher education in the United States. A question and answer session from Inside Higher Education with Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman, authors of, The Road Ahead for America’s Colleges and Universities. Archibald and Feldman’s predictions aren’t as sweeping or attention grabbing as Harvard professor Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation.

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Ellison Eyewear the Multi-Billion $ Sunglass Industry

Hearpreneur

High-end sunglass distributors have built a multi-billion dollar business model on one very simple life truth: you will lose your sunglasses. It’s not a matter of if but when. Thanks to a new company helmed by Greek-American entrepreneur Aristotle Loumis of WearEllison.com , that worry will be a thing of the past, and everyday consumers can get in on his innovation via his outside-the-box crowdfunding campaign on Republic.co.

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