Fri.Jan 31, 2020

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What Is a Governance Model and Why Does it Matter?

Board Effect

The concept of governance is difficult to define in a sentence or two because it’s an intangible thing. It’s not something that we can see or touch. It’s a system that has a basic structure that serves as the foundation and support for all of its many parts. A governance model serves as a representation of the many possible ways that a governance system could work if you were to change one or more of its parts.

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Stoplight Raises $6 Million in Additional Funding

SiliconHills

Stoplight, which manages application development software for companies, announced this week that it has raised $6 million in additional funding. The Austin-based startup closed its Series A round of funding co-led by Next Coast Ventures and Bill Wood Ventures. To date, Stoplight has raised $10 million. The company plans to use the funding for engineering, […].

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Why Successful Startups Often Have A Pair Of Founders

Startup Professionals Musings

In my work with new startups, I often find people who believe that the terms “ entrepreneur ” and “ inventor ” are interchangeable. Yet I find a big difference between “starting a new business” and “creating a new product.” In my experience, most successful entrepreneurs have indeed created a new product, but most people who claim to be inventors have a hard time starting a business.

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Vinnie, Verticals, Vici

deal architect

Apologies to Julius Caesar for mangling his famous quote but a few years ago my colleagues used to call me Vinnie Maintenance for my frequent pointers of low value from software maintenance. Nowadays, some of them call me Vinnie Vertical.

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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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Understanding The RFP Process Step By Step

YoungUpstarts

When companies and government organizations discover that they have a need for services, they know that they’ll be inundated with responses. To make sense of those responses, they will use an RFP (request for proposal). An RFP details how a service provider will approach the project, the timeline for completion, and the cost to complete the project.

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Learning Spanish and Liking Horses

Feld Thoughts

We create narratives about ourselves that become deeply entrenched in our minds and ways of being. Many of them are useless and counterproductive. One of mine is that I am bad at learning languages. This is an artifact from junior high school. I took two years of French and, while I did ok, I didn’t love it. I hated my French III teacher, fought with her, called her an inappropriate name one day, and got kicked out of class.

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Business Masters vs MBA, What’s the Difference

The Startup Magazine

Thinking about going for higher education in business, no doubt you’ve come across two different routes in your research, a Business Masters and a Business MBA. For either, enhancing your entrepreneurship skills will improve your chances of your startup’s success. In this post, we will talk about the difference between these two business education paths and help you decide which to choose.

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The 8 Biggest Web Design Trends of 2020

crowdSPRING Blog

Web design is like a shark – for better or worse, it never stops moving. And, that constant movement leads to evolution, innovation… and occasionally some regrettable web design trends. Still, it’s good to keep an eye on trends. They often lay the foundation for new best practices. There are a few recent trends that have already become web design….

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Cyrus Baseghi Discusses Why Buying a Working Business Is Profitable

The Startup Magazine

Investors should be aware of the benefits that can come from buying a working company. The ready-made revenue stream and pool of existing customers can create a favorable climate for investment. When buying an existing company, there are several factors that an investor should be aware of. Cyrus Baseghi , an experienced investor, explains how buying an existing company can be a solid decision and warns readers about some pitfalls that could occur during the purchase process.

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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal What They Hate About Being an Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Entrepreneurship comes with freedom, but the freedom is not always free as it comes with the bad side of robbing of your work-life balance and other ugly things that make you dread the whole idea of entrepreneurship. It can also be stressful when you have to be the think-tank of the team and the burden of decision making falls on you. You’ll get to a point where you’re not sure of the outcome of the decision, but you have to make it anyway.

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Increase Property Value With A Reserve Study

The Startup Magazine

It has been said that the best investment any person, group or organization could have is in real estate. This is true at best since real estate is the only property that appreciates in value over the years, a piece of land may double or triple in property value in a couple of years. This also applies to homes, apartments, buildings and any other structure that is standing on a piece of prime land.