Mon.Jul 31, 2017

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Natural Ways to Deal with Stress

The Startup Magazine

Stress seems to be one of those things we just cannot seem to avoid as adults. Whether it is a past due bill, an argument with the spouse, or a boss that simply will not cut you some slack, there seem to be stressful situations everywhere you turn. While it would be nice to say that the solution is to simply remove all of the things from your life that cause you any stress, that is not realistic.

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Should you invent a new UX?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Early in my career, I was indoctrinated with a Cardinal Rule of User Interface: A user interface should minimize surprise. Have you always hated tabs inside dialog boxes? Understandable, but users know how they work, so you have to use them. If you put a scrollbar instead, half your users will never realize that scrolling is possible. For example, this dialog is ridiculous but it’s still clear how to use it: Is the default system drop-down list not exactly right for your purposes?

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10 Ways To Prepare For Competitors You Don’t See Yet

Startup Professionals Musings

When you are starting a business with an exciting new idea, it’s easy to dismiss potential competitors as not being in the same space, or too fat, dumb, and happy to be concerned that you even exist. I hear it all the time as an angel investor, but I also see that same naïve or cavalier attitude come back to haunt entrepreneurs once they really get out in the marketplace.

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5 Hidden Costs Office Tenants Should Be Aware of

YoungUpstarts

by Jessica Thiefels, owner of Honest Body Fitness. If you own a small business and are looking to upgrade your workspace from the kitchen table to an actual office, it’s time to asses your budget and start looking at space. Not only is renting a large expense, but there are a wide variety of expenses that come along with a professional space, including maintenace and potential rent increases.

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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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A Bad Business Deal Cost Me Everything

YFS Magazine

Failing isn’t just an abstract possibility—it can really happen, and it’s painful. I wondered if I was I really cut out to run my own business.

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Book: The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries

Feld Thoughts

The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries was one of two books I read this weekend (the other was Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness ). It was outstanding. I made it the August book club book for my dad and my brother. And then, this morning, I woke up to the following headlines. Putin bans VPNs to stop Russians accessing prohibited websites.

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Going with the Flow

VC Cafe

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them—that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like“—Lao Tzu. I embarked on a 30 day blogging challenge to restore my childlike curiosity for writing (more about it here ). Please sign up to my newsletter to receive the latest updates.

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Interior Features Help Build Value in Real Estate Property

The Startup Magazine

The interior features in a house plays a great role when selling your house or renting out a store. It can either make it hard for you to get a potential buyer, lower or raise the total cost of your house or store. Therefore, you should be very considerate how the interior of your house looks like because what you like or prefer having may not work for someone else.

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Creating a movement

VC Cafe

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — Dr. Seuss, The Lorax. I’ve started a 30 day blogging challenge (more about it here and please sign up to receive the newsletter ). This is day Seven. Techbikers 2017 – finish line. Today let’s talk about movements. You must have seen Derek Sievers’ three minute TED talk, on how to create a movement.

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Monday Motivation: The Psychopathic Mindset of Michael Jordan [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

Part of being a great entrepreneur and business owner is to study greatness in different paths of life. One of the greatest basketball players, Michael Jordan, is a reminder of how to be great with our businesses.

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Why You Need More Than Just Open-Source

YoungUpstarts

by Kamal Brar, Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific at Hortonworks . In 2016, the Open Source Drives Digital Innovation study commissioned by Red-Hat and conducted by analyst house Forrester revealed that 52% of CIOs and senior IT decision makers in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are already tapping open source software in areas such as cloud, mobility, big data and DevOps.

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Former Prisoner Reinvents Himself & Builds a Million-Dollar Company

Hearpreneur

Entrepreneurship is not easy. It’s even hard when you are returning from prison and starting over. For Salvatore “Ronnie” Passariello, entrepreneurship was his only hope. Salvatore went to prison on a drug-conspiracy conviction, he lost everything. He had no idea how he was going to make it when he got out. He turned to entrepreneurship and built a million-dollar company called Hair Illusion.