Tue.Apr 19, 2016

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Turn Your Web Design Talent Into Freelance Success

YoungUpstarts

By Dan Bochichio, co-founder of Bocain Designs. It’s 2016, and just about everyone either does business online or uses the internet as a tool to discover, rate and engage with businesses they rely upon. With so much demand and opportunity, now seems like a great time to tap into the market for quality freelance web designers, but what can you expect?

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Q1 Round-up: Portfolio companies in the news

Version One Ventures

In the past, we typically wait until the end of the year to recap what’s happened here at V1. But with a group of incredible startups doing great things, we’re determined to provide more frequent updates. If you’re not already familiar with the startups and founders making up the V1 portfolio, here’s a summary of some of this quarter’s news clippings.

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Introducing the NYC Tech Podcast from NextView [Ep. 1: Melting Pot Problems]

View from Seed

We’re thrilled today to roll out a bit of an experiment, but one we feel has staying power – an NYC Tech podcast. This show will be exclusively about, for, and even by New York City tech. Although we’ve written about NYC tech before and are active seed investors here, we’re hoping this podcast can fill a much-needed void, help strengthen the community, and shine a spotlight on an ecosystem that deserves more cheerleaders and local attention.

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Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 3

Steve Blank

We just held our third week of the Hacking for Defense class. This week the 8 teams spoke to 108 beneficiaries (users, program mangers, etc.), we held a Customer Discovery workshop, we started streaming the class live to DOD/IC sponsors and other educators, our advanced lecture was on Product/Market fit for the DOD/IC and we watched as the students solved their customer discovery obstacles and started getting closer to their customers.

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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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Psychological Backfiring: What No One Tells You About Neuromarketing

ConversionXL

You’ve read about color psychology, system one and two, emotional persuasion, etc. I know you have because it’s everywhere. It’s on KISSmetrics, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc., Help Scout, HubSpot… you name it. Hell, we’ve covered some of these topics ourselves. Why? Well, because many psychological triggers do, in fact work.

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Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 3

Steve Blank

We just held our third week of the Hacking for Defense class. This week the 8 teams spoke to 108 beneficiaries (users, program mangers, etc.), we held a Customer Discovery workshop, we started streaming the class live to DOD/IC sponsors and other educators, our advanced lecture was on Product/Market fit for the DOD/IC and we watched as the students solved their customer discovery obstacles and started getting closer to their customers.

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How to Get Buy-In for Your Brand

Up and Running

We know that branding done right can be a powerful catalyst for growth. But when it comes to branding or rebranding, there’s one thing that can kill the whole process faster than you can say “brand”: Buy-in. If you don’t have buy-in from your partners, your employees, and your customers, you just went through a whole lot of something for a whole lot of nothing.

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A Cap is not a Valuation

Bryce Dot VC

When we raised our last fund, our largest to date, we told our investors that we wanted to run two experiments. The first was what became Indie.vc, the second was to test the waters around, what was then termed, the Series A gap. Our hypothesis then was that with the huge surge in the number of seed funds getting raised and deployed, the number of Series A focused firms had stayed relatively constant.

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Top 5 Ways Great Business Leaders Inspire Others

YFS Magazine

The most effective way to level-up your team’s performance is by becoming a truly inspiring leader — which is as simple as putting a few techniques into practice and following the guidance of some key experts.

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Heraclitus & startups

Start Up Blog

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”. These words were spoken by Greek Philosopher Heraclitus. I think we can all agree that what he has said can only be true. Therefore: No person can visit the same city twice. No person can have the same idea twice. No business can fail twice.

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Did You Overlook These 5 Deductibles On Your Business Tax Return?

YFS Magazine

If you earn enough to be paying income tax, then you should be taking advantage of deductibles, as it can greatly reduce the amount you owe the taxman.

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EverlyWell Raises $2.5 Million for Diagnostics Testing at Home

SiliconHills

EverlyWell announced Tuesday that is has raised $2.5 million in seed funding and launched a beta test of its at-home healthcare diagnostics tests. The Austin-based company is led by CEO Julia Cheek, who recently moved to Austin from Dallas. The startup has six employees and its headquarters is at West 6th Street and Guadalupe. “We […] The post EverlyWell Raises $2.5 Million for Diagnostics Testing at Home appeared first on SiliconHills.

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide To Recruiting Top Startup Talent

YFS Magazine

Once you’ve implemented these strategies, it’s also important to develop a system for tracking and analyzing your hiring practices.

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ProductHunt LIVE Chat – Join the Conversation 4/29, 11am PT

For Entrepreneurs

I’m excited to announce I’ll be participating in a ProductHunt LIVE Chat on Friday 4/29 at 11am PT.

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Innovation Facilitator Tool Kit

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

I am sometimes asked what a Facilitator should have in their kit bag. Here’s my answer — the Innovation Facilitator Tool Kit list. The items are below in bold. Many have links to where you can source the materials. I’m assuming the facilitator is a hands-on project leader who facilitates meetings, such as idea generation or strategy sessions.

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Austin-based TripChamp Lands $2 Million for Corporate Travel Platform

SiliconHills

Tripchamp, a corporate booking platform for travel, announced Tuesday that it has raised $2 million in funding from The Bird Group, owners of Amadeus India, a global platform for the Indian travel industry. The Austin-based startup plans to use the funding to boost its customer service channel and for corporate growth, according to a news […] The post Austin-based TripChamp Lands $2 Million for Corporate Travel Platform appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Pop-Up Shops Are In High Demand To Launch Brands

YFS Magazine

How do you build awareness and affinity for your brand when no one is paying any attention?

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Hearpreneur

Share Y ears ago when I started this blog it was because I loved to be around entrepreneurs and business owners. It meant to talk with them, interview them and be in that environment. I was just motivated by not only talking to entrepreneurs but telling their unique stories. The stories were the foundation for Hearpreneur –the first CEO Blog Nation Blog before the idea of CEO Blog Nation was conceived.

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Takipi – Real-time Event Intelligence for Modern Applications

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Over the past few years, there has been an incredible revolution in the way that software applications are built and run. The Cloud has simplified and accelerated time to development, Big Data has made applications smarter and more predictive, and Microservices are changing the way we think about our application architecture. Needless to say, it’s a fun time to be a software developer.

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The 9 Ways to Grow Profits in Landscape and Lawn Care Businesses

Mike Michalowicz

Profit in your landscape or lawn care business is critical to your success. Planning for it is the key, but so many just wing it. If you want to take control of your profitability, begin by choosing two or three of these tips from Green Industry experts to get started on the path to a more profitable business! 1. ”Speed up cash flow!” The #1 thing to do in your business today is to stop billing customers with 30 day terms, which often gets extended to 60 days.

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