Fri.Jun 10, 2016

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Are You Selling Solutions Through The Right Channel?

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the best products and solutions won’t go anywhere unless you sell them through the right channels. For example, if you watch the TV show “Shark Tank,” you will remember several entrepreneurs with specialty products doing well online who want money to move into big box retail. They usually get chastised and declined for ignoring the realities of the retail channel.

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“Why give up that much equity for an amount we could raise other ways?:” SMB Tech Talk from ArtJamz

Hunter Walker

This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). LocalBiz stories are really fun for me since my first high school job was working in an independent bookstore. These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company.

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Crowd Marketing: How to Get Safe Links Through Writing

Duct Tape Marketing

Crowd Marketing: How to Get Safe Links Through Writing written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Twitter. Okay, let’s face it: We live in the era of amorphous attitude toward link building. Some marketers consider it the worst and unsafest method of promotion while others can’t see anything bad or wrong about links.

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“Why give up that much equity for an amount we could raise other ways?:” SMB Tech Talk from ArtJamz

Hunter Walker

This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). LocalBiz stories are really fun for me since my first high school job was working in an independent bookstore. These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company.

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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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Big Brains focused on Big Things

deal architect

Five years ago, I heard Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE use the term Industrial Internet of locomotives, wind turbines, aircraft engine and MRI scanners to differentiate from the Consumer Web that Apple. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and others have made part.

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10 Tips For Achieving Success As An Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

by Anthony Amos , founder of HydroDog and author of “ How to Catch a Shark “ The first steps of the path to becoming an entrepreneur might seem bewildering and intimidating for many people. Before you gain experience and you feel steady and sure on your feet, there is a period of time when you pay your dues and learn a few things the hard way.

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Common Hiring Mistakes That You Want To Avoid

YoungUpstarts

Hiring the right person for the job is an essential part of running a successful business. Without the right employees, you can’t fulfil your mission statement. But, you can’t hire any person without making sure they are the perfect candidate for the job. The wrong person is as dangerous as not hiring anyone at all. Bearing that in mind, it is important that you don’t mistakes. .

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How much does it cost to start a software company?

The Next Web

How much money do you think it takes to start a software company? $10,000? $100,000? One million dollars? A lot of startups talk about revenue, but not many talk about costs — operating or starting up. Note: Assume everything I ever write relating to software is about bootstrapping/not involving VCs. I’ve worked with startups who raised capital and it’s not better or worse than bootstrapping, but it is a different mindset when you’re spending someone else’s money.

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10 Ways To Set Big Goals (And Actually Achieve Them)

YFS Magazine

How are your goals for this year coming along? Have you met a majority of them? My guess is no and here's how I know this is the case.

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AI Screenplay Writing Has a Long Way to Go

Feld Thoughts

Sunspring , the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it’s worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce. Watch this on The Scene. It is intense as ArsTechnica states, but that’s not because of the screenplay.

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Be Honest on VC Reference Calls

This is going to be BIG.

A friend of mine running a very successful company found himself conflicted over an upcoming reference call. It was from a top college endowment that was taking a look at the next fund of a widely known VC who had backed him. The truth of the matter is that their experience with this VC hadn't lived up to the hype. The VC firm was growing quickly, having raised two funds in just a few years, each quite larger than the previous one.

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Ready To Expand Your Business? 3 Things To Ask Your Lawyer First

YFS Magazine

With the proper team, planning and strategic advice (business and legal) you can minimize risks and create an environment more conducive to success and expansion.
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ePatientFinder Lands $8.3 Million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

ePatientFinder, a matchmaking platform for physicians, patients and clinical trials, announced this week it has received $8.2 million in venture capital. The Austin-based startup has raised a total of $11 million since its founding in 2013. Tom Dorsett, Tushar Jain, Greg Sweatt and Dillon Krug co-founded the company. Silicon Hills News did this profile on […] The post ePatientFinder Lands $8.3 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Things You Can Easily Overlook Your First Year In Business

YFS Magazine

Starting a business is one of life’s most thrilling experiences; the sense of anticipation, fear, and hope.

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Things I Found on a 35-City, 40-Day Roadtrip

Austin Startup

If you’ve followed Localeur’s blog, Instagram, or follow me on here, you know that in late April, I embarked upon a 35-city roadtrip over… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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If you have to institute a No A$$hole Policy at your company, it’s probably too late

Jeff Hilimire

I love the No A$$hole Policy at a company. We don’t have one of those at Dragon Army. We just simply don’t hire a$$holes, so there’s no reason to have the policy. Our values – Team First, Think Positively, Have Fun – guide us in ensuring we hire the right people and maintain the right culture. There was a point at Engauge where we had to institute the No A$$hole Policy.

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