Sat.Jul 08, 2017

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Health Tech Entrepreneur Builds a Business Focusing on Improving The Lives of Tens of Thousands

Hearpreneur

Health is your greatest wealth. This is a realization for many people who have a healthy lifestyle and make it a priority to eat well and live an active lifestyle. Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him.

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Lies About Startup Legal Fees

Austin Startup

It usually takes experience in the market for business people to truly understand the realities of hiring and working with lawyers. I can’t tell you how many times I run into first-time founders who’ve been fed absolute nonsense from ‘advisors’ ‘mentors’ or similarly named people about their ‘secrets’ for managing legal spend. The truth is that unless you’ve taken a company from seed to Series A, Series B, Series C, to an exit in which a serious party on the other side actually diligenced the le

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7 Leadership Principles To Get You From Smart To Wise

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of the entrepreneurs I have met are smart, but many are not always wise. That means they may show great insights into a new technology that has marginal business value, their passion may motivate team members more than customers, or they may allow themselves to be pulled over the ethical line in their success drive. Wise leaders are authentic, timeless, and enduring.

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6 lessons every business leader should learn from Uber’s uphill culture battle

The Next Web

Given the recent news headlines, it’s clear Uber — among other companies — must reevaluate its company culture. Earlier this week, when news hit that Uber’s board of directors approved a set of 47 recommendations prepared by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, I was surprised how well I could relate to most of the suggestions. I’m sure I’m not alone.

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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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Atlantans supporting Atlantans…

Jeff Hilimire

My good friend Chad started this Indiegogo to help support Atlanta nonprofits. In doing so, you get a awesome puzzle (and piece of art if you donate enough) and you support four Atlanta nonprofits, including mine, 48in48 ! I signed up for the Canvas & Puzzle package, hope you do the same :). Here’s a short video Chad made explaining this campaign: Support this awesome campaign!

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6 lessons every business leader should learn from Uber’s uphill culture battle

The Next Web

Given the recent news headlines, it’s clear Uber — among other companies — must reevaluate its company culture. Earlier this week, when news hit that Uber’s board of directors approved a set of 47 recommendations prepared by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, I was surprised how well I could relate to most of the suggestions. I’m sure I’m not alone.

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On Career Moves and Business Leadership

Ben's Blog

watch time: 1 hour.