Tue.Nov 14, 2017

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes.

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The Dawn of ConstrucTech

The Equity Kicker

You might have seen that the week before last Balfour Beatty ( here ) and Mace ( here ) weighed in on the future of construction. Both are quite radical in the breadth and depth of impact they predict, whilst the technologies they choose are perhaps unsurprising to anyone immersed in the startup ecosystem. The Balfour Beatty piece is more detailed and they predict humanless construction sites by 2050 (which is admittedly a long way off – broadband is less than twenty years old) saying that

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5 Principles To Inspire Workers In Organizational Meaning

YoungUpstarts

by Danny Gutknecht, author of “ Meaning at Work: And Its Hidden Language “ The enormous waste of human potential from workers who lack enthusiasm for their jobs reveals a tragic disconnect between employees and management. Even in today’s workplaces with open office spaces, staff retreats and flattening organizational hierarchies, industries across the board still grapple with how to engage employees to become more than clock punchers.

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How To Stay Ahead Of The Digital Marketing Curve

YFS Magazine

Here’s how my team both examined and experimented with digital media industry trends to yield better insights and innovation.

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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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Four Ways To Save Money When Starting A Business

YoungUpstarts

There’s a lot to be excited about when you start your own business. You get to be your own boss and make your own hours. You get to be passionate about what you’re doing, and you get to make your own schedule. But, not everything about starting a business is exciting. How much it costs is usually what ends up scaring would-be entrepreneurs away from their dreams.

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Startup Opportunities Available on Audible

Feld Thoughts

The audiobook version of Startup Opportunities: Know When To Quit Your Day Job is now available on Audible. Unlike the Audible version of Venture Deals , this one was read by Stephen Hoye. If you like audiobooks, grab a copy , give it a listen, and tell me what you think. The post Startup Opportunities Available on Audible appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Why Your Startup Website Will Always Be a Work In Progress

The Startup Magazine

One of the easiest ways for you to garner attention for your new startup business is by putting together a website for it. In these days of online shopping and constant smartphone usage by people of all ages, the website might be even more important to your business in terms of a destination for customers than if you were to have a storefront. One common mistake that owners of nascent businesses make is that they take a set it and forget it approach to building a website.

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Time Is All You Have, So Why Are You Late For Work?

YoungUpstarts

Tick tock, tick tock. That’s the sound of a clock as it prepares to wake you for work. But, sadly, no matter how hard it tries, it will never win. You see, alarm clocks around the world fight constant battles on a daily basis and lose. Don’t get it wrong – the morning people are up and out of bed before the clock strikes 7:30am. However, plenty of people just can’t shake themselves out of their pit in the morning.

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“Thoughts & Prayers” Won’t Change VC Diversity But Incentives Will. Supporting Female Founders Office Hours.

Hunter Walker

I hope some male VCs got scared yesterday, and if they didn’t, they should. Seeing Jess Lee of Sequoia bring together a group of amazing female investors as part of Female Founders Office Hours isn’t just about empowering women. It’s about keeping firms who don’t have female investing partners out of this dealflow. That’s not the stated intent of FFOH , which is about relationships and kicking off a “virtuous cycle of women helping women,” but hopefully

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4 Invaluable Mobile Apps for Business

The Startup Magazine

Are you looking to take your business to the next level by using your mobile device? There are a wide range of business-related mobile apps that can truly change the way you do business for the better. If you begin using these applications on a daily basis, your company will experience the amazing benefits and reap the ultimate rewards. With that in mind, let’s take a look at the best mobile business apps currently available in 2017.

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Why Live Video is a Must and How to Get Started

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Live Video is a Must and How to Get Started written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If your newsfeed looks like mine these days, then you’ve likely seen live videos showing up more and more. Live video is all the rage, and guess what, it’s here to stay. People love live video. You can almost guarantee views on this type of content no matter what it is that you’re recording.

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Want to work in animation? Here are the top things you need to know about the industry

The Startup Magazine

Working in animation can be an amazing adventure, with interesting projects and a fulfilling job description. However, getting there requires a lot of hard work, and even then you might not be completely thrilled about all the aspects of working as an animator, or in the animation industry in general. If you want to be fully prepared, to know what to expect and what to prepare for, check out our top tips on entering the business.

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Magic 7: The CMO’s Listening List

Austin Startup

We asked Antony McGregor Dey, entrepreneur and marketing expert, about his go-to sources for digital marketing. Here’s what he said. “I love podcasts as I can multitask — cooking dinner or cleaning the house while learning makes you feel hyper-productive,” said Dey. Here are 6 podcasts and one website Antony Dey visits religiously for all things digital marketing: Perpetual Traffic  —  [link] A very detailed, technically in-depth, and strategic podcast on digital marketing with a heavy focus on

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Struggling to Name Your Product? Here’s How We Did It

Up and Running

Editor’s note: We’re launching a new product, and we want to take you along for the ride. So, we’re pulling back the curtain to give an inside look at what really goes on behind the scenes of building and launching something new. Check out the first installment here. It’s hard to force creativity. As we’ve been working on our new product that helps teams manage shared email inboxes, we’ve had struggles coming up with a name.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries.