YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 29, 2016

From new clients and potential investors to press inquiries, your online hub is the best place to start impressing the world.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

by Rebecca Weible, founder of Yo Yoga! When you’re opening a business with very little money, you know logically that this will make an already hard thing even harder and require even more work. But you don’t actually know until you are in the thick of it. At some point you will think that you know nothing at all except that you are a total idiot for taking on this endeavor and you will curse money, anyone who has it and yourself for not just being satisfied by the good corporate job

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I’m not a predictor so you won’t find me participating in the “best/worst of 2016” and “predictions for 2017” lists. But there is a trend that feels inevitable to me: “Startups everywhere.” While Agent Smith was wrong, I don’t think I am. When the phrase “Startup Communities” started to become mainstream around 2012, I made the strong assertion that you could create a startup community in any city with at least 100,000 people.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Most people dread the day they hear their boss say, "Sorry, but we need to let you go." 

For me, it was a day of celebration.

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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

Startup

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

As we head into 2017, I have a steady stream of operating plans hitting my inbox. Since many of our investments are companies that are scaling, vs. companies that are just getting started, there are a lot of derivative metrics in these plans. Q1 is the easiest quarter to make your plan, so most of these companies are getting a free pass for the next three months after fighting the good fight of making or beating plan in Q3 and Q4.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Some types of businesses generate more and more recurring revenues over time, often growing to a size where recurring revenues pay all of the overhead of the company – an enviable position. There is a phenomenon I have observed time after time with mature companies receiving over 75% of their revenues from recurring sources. Management undertakes a simple exercise of calculating the increased profitability of shutting down all R&D, sales and subordinate operations, and universally notes wit

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The Forrest Four-Cast: December 28, 2016 Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Cybercriminals didn’t slow down in 2016. The past year brought dubious new cybersecurity records: Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Austin Startup Internet Security 59