Fri.Mar 16, 2018

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Each business has a story. No matter if the business is a Goliath like Wal-Mart, or a local business owned by a couple or family, the business has roots in an idea. For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each and brand.

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Be the architect of your own schedule

Jeff Hilimire

Oh man, my schedule right now is nuts! I’ve always been somewhat maniacal about how I manage my schedule (proof: check out this post from 2014 called I use email and my calendar to manage my life.) But right now, my cup definitely over-floweth. It’s probably because Dragon Army has grown 3x over the last year. Or maybe its because I have five children and they have a seemingly endless number of activities these days.

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Lean Impact : Innovating for Social Good

Startup Lessons Learned

Ann Mei Chang is the Executive Director of Lean Impact, the social good division of the Lean Startup Company. This fall, her book based her own experiences using lean approaches to innovate in the social sector, including during her time at USAID, as well as stories from nonprofits, social enterprises, companies, government agencies, foundations, and philanthropists all over the world, will be published.

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How to Start Your First Business: Your 5-Step Plan

The Startup Magazine

If you are tired of the mundane 9 to 5 and want to take your life into your own hands, the key to a happier future could be to launch your own company. However, starting your own business is no easy feat. Not only do you need to find funding, but you also have the whole world to compete with. If you think you have what it takes, though, here is how to start your first business in 2018.

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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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Book: Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley

Feld Thoughts

I read Emily Chang’s book Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley the day it came out. Yes – I stayed up until after midnight (way past my bedtime) reading it. It’s powerful. I bought a bunch of copies for different people and I recommend every investor and entrepreneur in the US read it. While there are a handful of salacious stories (some of which were covered in excerpts that were pre-released), the overall arc of the book is extremely strong, well wri

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At SXSW, Norway’s Crown Prince Focuses on Tech for Sustainable Development

SiliconHills

By Susan Lahey Reporter with Silicon Hills News It is always ironic when the tech doesn’t work at SXSW, which happened to Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon, speaking at SXSW on Tuesday about creating innovation that solves problems. Starting his presentation with a video about the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals he ran into technical […].

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Samsa Wins Capital Factory’s 100K Blockchain Challenge at SXSW

SiliconHills

By Laura Lorek Publisher with Silicon Hills News Capital Factory awarded Samsa, a startup that runs a cryptocurrency index platform, $100,000 in its Blockchain Investment Challenge on Thursday at South by Southwest. Judges selected two other runners-up: Topl, which is building a platform for international investment on blockchain technology and Vertalo, a blockchain-backed platform to […].

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Twitter Link Roundup #329 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic? We’re sure you can recite at least a few of Snow White’s Seven Dwarves. Bet you didn’t know that Disney originally considered naming them Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy, and Awful. We are astounded and a little horrified to report that the annual number of worldwide shark bites is 10 times less than the number of people bitten by other people in New York.

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Forerunner Ventures Touts Diversity as the Best Way to Make Investment Decisions

SiliconHills

By Laura Lorek Publisher with Silicon Hills News In 2010, Kirsten Green founded Forerunner Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm, based in San Francisco. She had spent her early career as a retail analyst with Banc of America Securities and others and she spent a lot of time studying retailers. She even went to […]. The post Forerunner Ventures Touts Diversity as the Best Way to Make Investment Decisions appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Hear This From SXSW: Building Inclusion

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 16, 2018 Diversity is a superpower?—?even if we can’t live in Wakanda. SXSW 2018 explored myriad ways companies can become more inclusive and diverse. If you missed some of the sessions at March Magic, catch full-length audio replays of this compelling content. Inclusion + Tech: How to Get it Right. Research shows that a diverse and inclusive workplace can be a competitive advantage for companies.

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Zscaler: Innovation and audacity win the race

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The post Zscaler: Innovation and audacity win the race appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Hear This From SXSW: The Future of Work

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 16, 2018 Will your co-worker be a robot? Will you be hired by a robot? Will you even meet your co-workers IRL? Technology is impacting ever more aspects of the workplace. If you missed any of these sessions in person at SXSW 2018, listen and learn from experts on the front lines of future careers. Virtual Culture: The Way We Work Doesn’t Work Anymore.

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When it is Time to Fire a Customer

The Entrepreneurial Mind

During start-up, entrepreneurs are desperate to make a sale. Revenues are needed to generate cash flow and affirm that the new company’s business model actually meets a need in the market. Entrepreneurs will take just about any customer willing to do business with their new company, including those who really don’t fit with their business […].

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Its all about the relationships….

ithacaVC

Howard Morgan (co-founder of First Round Capital and currently chairman of B Capital) spoke at Cornell this past Wednesday. Howard received his PhD from Cornell in operations research in 1968 (I was 3 years old!). He has a wonderful experience set ( see this Cornell article ). I have seen Howard speak a bunch of times, and I enjoyed this recent one the best.