Mon.Jun 19, 2017

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Best Budget-Friendly Tech Gifts

The Startup Magazine

Buying the latest in trendy tech gifts can seem impossible. Skyrocketing prices can make buying gifts difficult, but with a little research, there’s a treasure trove of gadgets just waiting to be snatched up. Below is a simple list of budget-friendly tech gifts you or a loved one will love. 1. Amazon Fire TV. Amazon Fire TV offers the best of Netflix, Hulu, HBO NOW , YouTube, Amazon Video, and so much more.

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Kara Swisher interviews Mark Hurd

deal architect

As part of Recode Decode webinar series, Kara Swisher interviewed Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle on their Media Day in May. It’s always interesting to hear a consumer tech journalist interview an executive in enterprise tech. Kara did a nice.

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Tips for Starting Your Own Real Estate Business

The Startup Magazine

Are you taking the leap into the real estate business? As a real estate agent, your income depends on the commission you earn from every sale. This is why you are constantly looking for properties that can give you a good deal. The moment you decide to take a break, your income stops as well. No deals closed means no earnings. Having your own real estate business frees you up from all these limitations.

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What is the Right Burn Rate for your Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs make when they start a company and raise outside capital is figuring out what an acceptable “burn rate” is. That is, how much should your company be willing to lose in cash every month as you make investments in staff and equipment that funds technology, sales, marketing and management. Of course there is no right answer but it’s a function of how much capital you have raised, your prospects for raising more capital in the future, your growth rate and y

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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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Son of SMAC

deal architect

Cognizant popularized the acronym SMAC for the stack of Social, Mobile, Analytic and Cloud technologies where most innovation IT dollars are going. Indeed Malcolm Frank, EVP Strategy and Marketing was talking about it as far back as November of 2012.

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Is Your Leadership Style Motivating or Demoralizing?

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business leader realizes their primary objective is to motivate people to do what is required, yet all of us with any experience in business tend to remember most those times when we felt highly demotivated by our leaders. Since I can’t imagine any leader demoralizing their team intentionally, I’ve concluded that the challenge must be how to see your own faults and fix them.

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Five Reasons Why Customer Service Is So Important In Startups

YoungUpstarts

It is no secret that the customer should always come first. Startup businesses are no exception to this rule. In fact, customer service is even more important for newly established companies. Make sure that all your employees are familiar with how to give high quality service by attending a customer service course. Read on to find out why it’s so important to deliver the best service you can: Create Loyal Customers.

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5 Small Business Marketing Ideas for Every Holiday

Up and Running

If your business just launched recently, you’re probably thinking about ways to attract customers and raise awareness about your brand. Holidays are an important time to increase your marketing efforts, whether it’s Independence Day or Black Friday. People are already planning to shop and scouting sales, so your task is to stand out and give them a better reason to shop with you than your competitors.

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Payment Challenges And Fixes For Today’s Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

By Tina Hsiao, Vice President of Risk & Chargeback Operations at WePay. You’ve delivered that big new client project. Yet before you can call it truly done, you need to get paid. And the client that had been operating with great urgency is now saying the invoice needs to works its way through Accounting. The approver is on vacation but she’ll be back next week.

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In Business, Progress Is Better Than Perfection

YFS Magazine

Sure, aiming for perfection is admirable — but at what cost? Before I am accused of endorsing mediocrity, let me make the case for progress over perfection.

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[Sponsored] Make Your Education Successful With Knowledge First Financial

YoungUpstarts

by Helen Anderson of AYC Web Solutions. Knowledge First Financial is an organization that clearly understands that education can be deemed as an expense. It apparently has a free ride to higher education and all that is required is one to be on board. Did you know you no longer should worry about the post-secondary school fee anymore? All you need is to make savings that will mature overtime and by the time it is the moment to attend the school nothing will be hindered, life will just get easie

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Monday Motivation – Golden State Warriors

Hearpreneur

These motivational videos are for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. The Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers to become NBA Champions this year. However, it never happens overnight. There was some luck but also some hard work, dedication and putting together of the right pieces that helped the franchise to be successful.

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Four Of The Most Common IT Problems Experienced Today

YoungUpstarts

Laptops, smartphones, tablets and other similar electronics can be truly amazing devices — as long as they are working properly. But as any IT department or individual who loves technology knows quite well, there are myriad issues that can pop up that may cause the device to have issues. Check out some of these common IT issues that are businesses and technophiles often encounter: 1.

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Why You Must Refocus Your Message On Problems Not Solutions

Duct Tape Marketing

Why You Must Refocus Your Message On Problems Not Solutions written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this post – 5 Steps to Restart, Recharge and Revive Your Marketing Right Now! – I introduced an aggressive initiative to help any business owner struggling to stay on plan with their marketing for the year. The idea is to take the mid-point of the year and get a fresh restart.

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The Austin Startup Digest in a Nutshell

Austin Startup

Week of June 19, 2017 Featured Events NewCo Austin : Austin’s most inspiring companies invite you inside their headquarters. Get your tickets to NewCo , where over 60 presenters from dozens of Austin companies will share their knowledge from the inside. It’s a great line up and you’ll be sure to gain valuable insights as you build and scale your startup.

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Where Have All the IPOs Gone?

Ben's Blog

Where has the initial public offering (IPO) gone? That’s a question the capital markets have been asking for some time, and is a leading concern of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), too.

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Flippable: One of the New Progressive Organizations You Should Know

Hunter Walker

November 9th was a tough day. I’d blocked off the morning for “recovery,” but my anticipation was that meant hangover, not despondence. In NYC for Homebrew, I found a local barber shop and shaved off my facial hair (the rally beard) for a fresh start. While I’m still alternately confused, angry and sad about the state of politics in our country, we can’t just retreat from the arena.