Tue.Dec 12, 2017

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Aim For Elegance: How Entrepreneurs Can Avoid Web Design Flaws

YoungUpstarts

It’s amazing what you can tell about a business based on just a quick look at their website. From size and financial status to how long they’ve been in business, website aesthetics act as a cipher. As a burgeoning entrepreneur, though, this can put your company at a serious disadvantage. So how do you make a new business look established? It’s all about making smart web design choices.

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The other technical debt

deal architect

The CEO of a manufacturing company expresses frustration his plant employees have to key entries into the shop floor system. Why not a voice interface? And anticipating the objection, says don’t tell me they cannot use noise canceling technology to.

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[ADV] Day Rates For Carpenters In UK

YoungUpstarts

The day rates for carpenters in UK vary between £120 to £150, based on the nature of the job and level of skill. Carpenters in UK are in great demand, and skilled professionals make a good living in the second half of the career. Apart from the core skills, the carpenters need to master other allied skills to make themselves compatible with the changing interests of the market.

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How to Build a Website for a New Product (and 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. After you’re finished reading this article, make sure to also check out the first , second , third , and fourth installments in this series as well.

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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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3 Tips For Growing An e-Commerce Business Fast 

YoungUpstarts

Running an e-commerce business can be a challenging thing to do, but not really impossible. If you are selling products online, it is necessary to develop a platform that enables you to sell on retail basis. This means that you must maintain a stock of products you are selling in a public storage facility that you can access easily whenever you have an order.

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Sputnik ATX Meets with Local Entrepreneurs as Deadlines Looms for its First Accelerator Class

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News At Sputnik ATX’s downtown office, a group of entrepreneurs gathered to talk about e-commerce startups and eat barbeque Monday afternoon. “We’ve learned a lot about the startup scene in Austin hosting these events,” said Oksana Malysheva, President, and CEO of Linden Education Partners and CEO of Sputnik […].

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The pessimist in the room

David Cohen

In my startup investing, inside portfolio companies at the highest leadership and board levels, I always want to make sure that a pessimist has a seat at the table. I want a table full of optimists, but I also want at least one respected pessimist sitting there. That pessimist should carry a general lack of confidence in humans to behave logically or ethically.

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Slingshot Aerospace Lands $3.25 Million in Seed Funding

SiliconHills

Austin-based Slingshot Aerospace announced Tuesday that it has received $3.25 million in seed stage funding, led by ATX Seed Ventures. Slingshot Aerospace is using artificial intelligence to provide detailed reports about the earth to industries such as Defense, insurance, and energy. Other investors in the seed round included Okapi Venture Capital and Sway Ventures along […].

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AdWords for Local Businesses

Duct Tape Marketing

AdWords for Local Businesses written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. We all want to grow our business, and no matter what industry you’re in, the truth of the matter is that digital space matters. This isn’t to say you shouldn’t care about providing an excellent experience in the real world. Obviously, that should be at the core of everything you do because that’s what’s going to turn a one-time customer into a long-term champion.

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Perot Jain steps up to support Dallas entrepreneurs

Austin Startup

Ross Perot, Jr., Cindy Revol, Joe Beard and Anurag Jain from Perot Jain, LP We received a warm welcome from Trey Bowles when we first came to Dallas and there have been many others who have opened their arms to us since. Perot Jain , one of the most active early stage venture firms in Texas, is joining DivInc and The DEC to support our $100,000 Dallas Diversity & Inclusion Challenge and help us get the word out as far and wide as possible!

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3 tips to check that your salesforce is ready to scale

Cracking the Code

Earlier this fall, we co-organised with Salesforce Ventures the first edition of Cloud Europe , a ½ day event preceding SaaStock 2017 and gathering the founders of the top 100 European SaaS companies. We were lucky to have as a keynote Chris Ciauri, EVP Salesforce EMEA, and he shared a few tips to check that your sales organisation is ready to scale.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing

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How To Use Partnerships To Grow Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com . With a growing number of budding entrepreneurs and small business enterprises spreading across the globe, there is intense competition in every industry you can name. Smaller businesses particularly find themselves stifled due to the fierce competitive practices of large companies, which restricts their growth.

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Cutting costs on office equipment

The Startup Magazine

Starting a business takes a considerably amount of money. Not only do premises have to be leased, but an office needs equipment such as desks, chair, cabinets, computers, a copy machine, stationery, etc. Buying these items new might set you back thousands of dollars, but knowing how to cut costs on office equipment might save you a considerable amount. eBay.

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Four Factors You Need To Include In Your Business Plan

YoungUpstarts

A solid business plan will help you identify the goals you have for your business and make it easier to make decisions about which path to take when there are multiple options ahead of you. If you’re new to the concept, here are four essential areas you need to cover to help you take your first steps towards success. 1. Cover all the bases. The best plan covers a wide range of areas – not just those where your personal strengths lie.