Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Invest in Your Innovation Capacity. In my various consulting engagements I have learned not to take much for granted. I thought by this year in history (2016) everyone in the business world would have a clue as to how to do ideation (aka brainstorming) properly. Wow, not even close. It’s a glaring missing ingredient in staying competitive. It’s a key to growth and it’s routinely done poorly.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Businesses of all sizes develop branding strategies to ultimately develop a distinction over competitive offerings in a customer’s mind. Your customers should be able to distill your brand’s essence in your stories, marketing activities and products. Needless to say, building brand differentiation and a narrative requires careful thought.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2016

by Chris Lennon, Vice President of Product Management at BirdDogHR. Smart employers know it’s as important to get feedback as it is to give it. Employees see things that managers don’t, and have an inside perspective on what is working and what is not. Without their feedback, your organization could be running into problems it doesn’t even know about.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 9, 2016

At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies. Three years ago, they launched Structure Sensor , which pioneered bringing dense 3D sensing to mobile devices (and it’s only just now that are we seeing some of the world’s biggest tech companies catching up by launching similar technology to consumers).

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2016

by Maxime Rieman, Director of Online Channel Product Marketing at CoverWallet. When you are in the process of launching a food startup, it is important to take insurance into consideration, as it can enable you to mitigate the plethora of risks involved in starting your business and working with customers. Preparing ahead of time for potentially difficult scenarios is a great way to ensure future success.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 9, 2016

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Austin and the U.S. overall still have a challenge with diversity in entrepreneurship. A low percentage of African American, Latino and women owned businesses have access to the resources they need to grow, said James Preston, co-founder of DivInc., a startup accelerator focused on diversity in Austin. […] The post DivInc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2016

5 Under Used Strategies to Make Your Customers Feel Valued written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. There’s a misconception that great customer service requires endless resources and personnel, complex software systems, and outsourced call centers. While those tools can certainly help large corporations feel more connected to their clients — perhaps increasingly so through automation and social media “bots” to jump on quick replies — there are still few substitutes for human inter

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

“If we build it, they will come.” I heard it again yesterday from a technical entrepreneur who should know better than to believe the old “ Field of Dreams ” sports fantasy movie theme in today’s Internet information overload environment. These days, building a new business is all about visibility and marketing, no matter how great or innovative a solution you bring to the table.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 9, 2016

As The Wall Street Journal pointed out, we are now living in a world where “Costco outsells Whole Foods in organics, Walmart is exceeding… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 9, 2016

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and video clips relating to startups, entrepreneurship and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bitly ) for the past 30 days. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. “There is a lesson here for others… get your affairs in order when you start a business, or you might pay.” [link]. “The warm referral is…the first test of the ability to network your way to the investor

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 9, 2016

If you know me personally then you definitely know that I’m building a new company because I’ve probably asked you for money at some point… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 9, 2016

All investors are allergic to certain things. One of those things for me (and many investors I know) is what I’ll describe as slippery-ness. When we make an investment, we enter into a long term relationship with founders. The business may change. Things may unfold in unexpected ways. But through the journey, you hope that you are working with people that you can trust and have an open dialog with at all times.

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