Fri.Apr 27, 2018

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Understanding E-Commerce Website Development Cost: A Guide

YoungUpstarts

There are a lot of options to consider when building your first e-commerce site. Sometimes, it can get confusing. Some websites perform like Ferrari, while others perform like Honda. One option or another, if you’re a start-up trying to create a website the cost will range from $20,000 to $500,000. This cost will depend on how you want your website to perform and the company you choose to assist you in developing it.

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The Series A Round: “Could A Round By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?”

Haystack

Too many investors subscribe to the Patek Phillipe school of investing “you don’t own the companies’ problems, you merely hold onto them [until you] can get the company to the next round of investors. ” — Micah Rosenbloom of Founder Collective, April 2018. If you’ve followed me on Twitter or this blog, you’ve likely seen me ( too often ) talk about this term — The Series A — again and again.

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The Seven Elements Of Business Development

YoungUpstarts

by Tom McMakin, author of “ How Clients Buy: A Practical Guide to Business Development for Consulting and Professional Services “. Clients aren’t sold services. They buy on reputation, relationships and referral. Along the journey from not knowing you to engagement, they ask seven questions. How do your answers to their questions rate? 1. Awareness — Who are you?

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Twitter Link Roundup #332 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

The next time you are tempted to call someone a lizard brain, reconsider what you’re saying. 65 million years ago, reptiles held dominion over the earth. Mammals, on the other hand, did not gain dominance until after the big meteor smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula, shifting the entire hierarchy on the planet. As a result of the change in ruling order, mammals and reptiles naturally developed different brains.

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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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Pathways To Lateral Thought

YoungUpstarts

The best business ideas are the “out there” ones. If we all think along the same lines, then, by definition, we aren’t going to out-perform the rest. This kind of performance may be acceptable in making a living; there’s nothing wrong with a job done well. But, if you’re really looking to do something different in any sphere of life, including business, then you’re going to have to be a little outré.

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Meet the Committee: Venus Piñeryro De Hoyos

Austin Startup

Venus Piñeyro De Hoyos is an experienced IT development leader who has worked with Fortune 50 and high-tech companies. Over the past 13 years, she has immersed herself in managing tech solution teams for companies such as Dell and Bearing Point. Currently, Venus is the Senior Business Intelligence Manager for General Motors, where she devotes her time to leading a team of skilled professionals who aim to improve the GM customer experience.

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Signed, sealed, delivered: DocuSign hits the Nasdaq

Cracking the Code

Congratulations to the past and present DocuSign team for their incredible achievements, as the company makes its public market debut. What a journey it has been since the genesis of the company in 2003, when it’s visionary team set out to automate the agreement process and solve many pain points from speed to cost and accuracy. In 15 years, DocuSign’s cloud-based platform has made it possible for more than 370,000 companies and hundreds of millions of users to make nearly every agreement, appro

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Forex Scalping 101 – What You Need To Know

YoungUpstarts

It’s no secret that currency exchange has been going on ever since ancient times. Because the craft has such a long history, change is inevitable. Thus, old techniques are phased out by innovation all the time. One strategy that used to be extremely popular in the golden days of trading is that of scalping. Unfortunately, many people steer clear of it nowadays.

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We are #foundersforchange

Jeff Hilimire

At Dragon Army , we work hard to be a business that’s a force for good. Our Purpose is to Inspire Happiness , and two of our values – Celebrate Diversity and Do Good – speak directly to being a positive force in the world. To that end, when I saw the trending hashtag #foundersforchange , I knew instinctively that it was something that Ryan (Dragon Army co-founder) and I would support.

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11 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Innovative Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

Hearpreneur

Innovation is a driver of many businesses globally. In the competitive business world, you have to innovative ideas on how your business should run. Different entrepreneurs take on diverse approaches to implement innovative ideas in their businesses where some emerge to be successful. This makes them gain recognition as innovative and inspire other entrepreneurs to be innovative as well.