Fri.Jun 01, 2018

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The Entrepreneur’s Guide To 4 Categories Of Business Meetings

YoungUpstarts

by Dori Sella, author of “ Business Meetings that Work: 6 Steps to Increase Productivity “ Starting a business, whether it’s based on technology, a new marketing concept or a product is always exciting. Once you have gone past the initial stage of developing your idea and clarifying what your business is going to be, you will have many business meetings.

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The VC Twilight Zone

Haystack

Talk to any Bay Area VC in the last 24 hours, and the talk of the town among investors is universal : “ What do you think of the SV Angel news? ” Depending on your point of view, it is the perfect trigger for a conversation about the state of the Bay Area’s investment market. Let me be perfectly clear — I do not know anything about SV Angel’s inner workings, and in all of my own interactions with Kevin, Topher, Brian, and @pm (when he was there), SV Angel was extrem

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Essential Insurance For Startups

YoungUpstarts

When you launch a startup, getting the business off the ground is all-consuming. Insurance may not be top of mind. However, adequate business insurance is crucial, even in the early stages. A new business faces risks and things won’t always go as planned. If you’re not sure what insurance your startup needs, here are seven types of insurance every startup should consider. 1.

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Anatomy of our $5 million seed round

Austin Startup

Image via Flickr A version of this post was originally published on VentureBeat here. This week my company, Pingboard , announced a $5mm round of funding. More than 1,000 customers globally use Pingboard to power their live org chart, including companies like GoFundMe, Udemy, Sequoia Capital, Khan Academy, and the Linux Foundation. You probably hear about startups raising this type of funding all the time in the tech press, but under the surface, these rounds are not always what they seem.

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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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Twitter Link Roundup #335 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

Now that summer is (finally!) here, it’s time to think about your summer reading list. Bill Gates has assembled his summer reads, and they cover some fascinating questions: What inspires a genius? Why do bad things happen to good people? What are the roots of our humanity, and what direction are we headed in? If any of these pique your interest, check out Mr.

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An example of thinking positively and making the most of a situation

Jeff Hilimire

Today we were supposed to move into our new office space. Actually, almost six months ago we were supposed to move into our new office space… Essentially, Dragon Army is moving into new office space in Old Fourth Ward, right off the BeltLine, into a new, 4-story building. Because it is a new building, there have been more complications than I’m used to.

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10 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on The Art of Attraction

Hearpreneur

More often businesses are spending their time and resources in an effort to attract the right clients. Sadly, the anticipated results do not always happen. One of the reasons behind this is lack of mastery of the art of attraction. The current day customer/client is constantly looking at what’s in for them where a positive answer to this query is likely to attract them to your business.