Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“A remarkably useful playbook that every business, government, and nonprofit needs to ignite the spark of innovation and fuel the fire of change.” -Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals , Give and Take , and OPTION B with Sheryl Sandberg Since The Startup Way came out on October 17th, I’ve had a great time traveling with the book, speaking to audiences, and meeting amazing people creating change in all types of organizations.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For many years, veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces were successful at starting and growing small businesses. In fact, almost 50 percent of veterans owned a business after World War II. But today, veteran entrepreneurship is on the decline. The most recent Kauffman Foundation research found that veterans accounted for 12.6 percent of new entrepreneurs in 1996 and that by 2014, this number had fallen to just 5.6 percent.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Dreamforce always has a feel of a political convention. You almost expect to see signs directing crowds to the LGBT or Pacific Islander caucus room. This year, watching it streamed I have been navigating through sessions titled with words like.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

by Zakir Ahmed, General Manager of Asia at Oracle NetSuite. Started by a young entrepreneurial couple, Haresh and Dolly Balani, Treknology 3 set up its first small bicycle concept store in Singapore almost 30 years ago. The mission was clear: promoting a healthy lifestyle for customers and their families through the passion of cycling – while expanding access to its products supported by exceptional personalised customer service.

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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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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

What if you could free up more time, get more done, and create more–in less time? Would that make life and business easier? Of course, it would.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

by Jesse Wood, CEO of eFileCabinet. Whether it’s a hurricane, tornado, flood, or earthquake, natural disasters can strike at any time and with very little warning. Though many people worry about and prepare for the effect these events can have on their homes and personal lives, very few business owners put the necessary thought and preparation into dealing with the effects these disasters can have on their businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Customer trust is everything. Trust leads to sales, long-term clients and referrals. You need to earn trust, and this is a complicated process. An evolving customer experience is causing trust to be gained at different areas of the buyer cycle. There are dozens of channels businesses use to engage with customers. An omnichannel approach must be taken to ensure that customers have a seamless experience.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Search marketing, content marketing and SEO can seem like a minefield to someone who doesn’t really know their way around the digital marketing arena. They can seem like utterly confusing topics that you’d much rather prefer to brush under the carpet than begin to wrap your head around but they are actually instrumental in the success of any business marketing strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

If you’re looking for a great way to break into the food industry, starting your own food truck business is a great option. Food trucks offer all different types of cuisine, and there’s a huge market for food trucks in cities across the country. Of course, if you’re going to start your own food truck business, there’s a lot to learn. Here’s a look at seven things you must know about getting a food truck business off the ground. 1 – It’s All About Location.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Illustrations by Alexander James Wright for In-House International Build Magical Remote Teams No sorcery required Are you currently part of a team that just clicks ? If your answer is no, you’re not alone. Ask your friends, family members, people in line at the supermarket, and chances are they’ll have some horror story for you. ‘So-and-so who never shows up’, ‘the dude that doesn’t take notes and then forgets everything’, ‘Mr.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Have you heard about Broadcom’s takeover bid f or long-time competitor Qualcomm? Well, it’s happening now and it has dominated business news this week. Because, at an offer price of $105 billion , if completed, it would represent the largest technology industry deal ever. Now, big numbers like these can arise some intense emotions in any ambitious businessperson.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

There’s no denying the city of Austin has seen a massive growth over the years. Most of these transplants are young; in their 20’s & 30’s. I’m involved in many meetups and organizations in Austin and have had the opportunity to talk to numerous millennials about their living, and financial situations and I’ve started to see a pattern. Most of these transplants want to live close to the city and are paying $1,200+ in rent each month AND living with a roommate or even a couple roommates.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

I’ve known Peter Thiel since we were undergrads at Stanford, when the most common phrase either of us used in our conversations was “How can you possibly believe that?” Yet despite disagreeing on so many topics and in so many ways, we made a great team — whether I was helping Peter build PayPal, or investing in Facebook together. That’s because we agree on a small number of really big things.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The “Honest Ads Act” is, well, boring. As a bipartisan proposal to evolve the way Facebook and other online platforms treat political ads it checks a bunch of boxes. Publicly available records of ad spend and the viewing metrics associated with the campaigns would be an improvement on today’s black box, but would this fundamentally change discourse in American politics?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally desig

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Transcript of An Introvert’s Guide to Putting Yourself Out There written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Let me ask you this. Do you ever go to an event and then find that maybe you’ll just go and hide out in the bathroom because you’re just not that comfortable networking or working around people in general?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

An Introvert’s Guide to Putting Yourself Out There written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Morra Aarons-Mele. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Morra Aarons-Mele, founder of Women Online and the mission list. She is also the author of Hiding in the Bathroom: An Introvert’s Roadmap to Getting Out There (When You’d Rather Stay Home) , and host of a podcast of the same way.

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