Wed.Apr 10, 2019

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The Five Keys to Effective Board Meeting Agendas

Board Effect

If you’re going to take time out of your day to attend a meeting, whether it’s a formal meeting or an informal meeting, you’ll want it to be as productive as possible. Meetings that lack a solid structure can easily get off track and amount to a lot of talk with no action. Brainstorming sessions and active discussions are good things, but when that’s all they are, it feels like a waste of valuable time for many people.

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7 Whirlwind New Venture Partner Marriages To Avoid

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay Most entrepreneurs who start a company alone soon come to the conclusion that two heads are better than one – someone to share the workload, the hard decisions, and the costs. In a moment of crisis, you may be tempted to take on the first person expressing interest as a co-founder. This would be a mistake, and could easily cost you your startup.

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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Steve Blank

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. In doing so they may have removed one of the key incentives that made startups different from working in a large company. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. Here’s why.

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Why diverse teams make better business decisions

The Next Web

Probably one of the most well-known brand fails in the past few years was Pepsi’s 2017 ad featuring Kendall Jenner. Released in the midst of the Black Lives Matter and Women’s March movements, the ad features the supermodel leading a group of ambiguous protestors and ends with a Pepsi peace offering to a police officer. After receiving widespread criticism, the company quickly pulled the ad and issued a public apology.

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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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New, Small Business PR Academy Arrives!

Rembrandt Communications

News: Small Business PR Academy Opens for Pre-Registration. Entrepreneurs to get competitive edge via DIY public relations at www.rembrandtwrites.com. Entrepreneurs can now pre-register for the new, Small Business PR Academy from Rembrandt Communications at www.rembrandtwrites.com. Instead of wasting resources, anyone can now learn the skills necessary to take advantage of all the benefits small business public relations (PR) has to offer… at a fraction of the cost of hiring an agency.

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Zoho Plans to Go Big in Austin but Also Wants to Keep Things Weird

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK, Publisher of Silicon Hills News Zoho wants to keep things weird in Austin. The software company officially announced this week at its annual Zoholics conference that it is moving its headquarters from Pleasanton, Calif. to a 368-acre campus near the Austin airport. “I like Austin,” said Sridhar Vembu, Zoho’s founder and CEO, […].

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Luisa Zhou Teaches People How To Start Online Businesses And Quit Their Day Jobs

YFS Magazine

This founder figured out how to replace her income, quit her day job and now she's teaching other aspiring entrepreneurs how to do the same.

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How To Attain Complete Financial Freedom

The Startup Magazine

Financial freedom is basically taking full ownership of all your finances. It means having a dependable cash flow system that will allow you to live however you desire to live. When in this state you aren’t worrying and pondering over how you’ll be able to settle sudden expenses and pay bills. Not forgetting to mention that piles and piles of debt are a few things that won’t be burdening you upon reaching this stage either.

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How The 2017 Tax Reform Bill Impacts Your Small Business This Year (And Beyond)

YFS Magazine

Eric Tyson, MBA, and author of Small Business Taxes for Dummies, reveals how the recent tax reform bill will impact small businesses this year and beyond.

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4 Things To Know About Property Valuation In Real Estate

The Startup Magazine

Knowing the value of real estate is important as it helps determine several things, such as sales listings, financing, property insurance, and taxation. If you have an interest or property in real estate, then here are the 4 things that you need to know about property valuation: Photo by Kevin Wolf on Unsplash. Value Is Dependent On Different Factors.

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NASA Selects UTSA to be Part of an Institute to Create Smart Habitats for the Moon and Mars

SiliconHills

University of Texas at San Antonio Associate Professor Arturo Montoya is a civil engineer and an expert on how earthquakes and hurricanes impact bridges and buildings. It’s that expertise that attracted Purdue University principal investigator Shirley Dyke to ask him to collaborate on the Resilient Extra-Terrestrial Habitats Institute for NASA to explore building homes and […].

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Sam Mustafa’s Tips for Obtaining “Regulars” in the Restaurant Business

The Startup Magazine

The regular customer is the backbone of every restaurant’s business. Regulars fill seats and they are more likely to recommend their favorite restaurants to their friends and families. Experienced restaurateur Sam Mustafa from Charleston, South Carolina shares his tips and tricks for new restaurant owners who want to attract regular customers. Remember their Names.

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Austin’s VC Investment up 16 Percent in the First Quarter to $704 Million

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK, publisher of Silicon Hills News Austin’s venture capital investments rose to $704 million in the first quarter of 2019, up 16 percent from the same quarter a year ago, according to the PwC/CB Insights MoneyTree report. However, the number of deals in Austin dropped almost 8 percent to 37 in the first […]. The post Austin’s VC Investment up 16 Percent in the First Quarter to $704 Million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How to Start a Digital Marketing Agency Without Outside Funding

Up and Running

It’s easier to start a digital marketing agency without funding than people might think. In this post, I will cover starting your business on your own—with aspirations of becoming an agency. I will look at how to get your first clients and how to balance your time when finding them—when you start on your own, that is one of the toughest balancing acts.

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VC Adventure

Almost universally our best companies are constantly experimenting. This takes different forms in different parts of their businesses but the common theme is that every process, every page on your website, every communication to a customer is an opportunity to test and optimize. Sometimes this is chipping away at a mountain (small improvements that add up over time).

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The Pocket Guide To Creating A Spanish Language Business Strategy (In The US And Abroad)

YFS Magazine

Developing a Spanish language business strategy is a smart move used by brands across the globe. Here's an inside look at what you need to know.

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How Giving Back Can Create Business Success

Duct Tape Marketing

How Giving Back Can Create Business Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Sam Ashdown. Podcast Transcript. Today on the podcast I speak with real estate and marketing expert Sam Ashdown. Ashdown has built three successful real estate businesses: as a consultant to real estate agents ; a consultant to home sellers, called HomeTruths ; and a real estate agent, with her company AshdownJones.

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Luisa Zhou Teaches Women How Start Online Businesses And Quit Their Day Jobs

YFS Magazine

Entrepreneur Luisa Zhou figured out how to replace her income, quit her day job and now she's teaching other passionate women how to do the same.

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Form Analytics: What You Can Track and How to Track It

ConversionXL

You spend plenty of marketing dollars trying to get someone to your form. But how much goes to waste at that stage? According to data from Formisimo, roughly two-thirds of those who start filling out a form never complete it. Why? If you’re not tracking form analytics, you don’t know. The data between a pageview and a form completion (or abandonment) is missing.

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Book update: Interior pages complete!

Jeff Hilimire

This book process has taken so long! For someone that largely enjoys controlling my own destiny, I’ve had to practice a not-so-easy-for-me blend of patience as we move through the book editing process. My book is called The 5-Day Turnaround , but I’m considering changing it to the Over 2-Year Process ! #joking. The latest piece of the puzzle we recently completed was the design of the interior pages.

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6 PPC Tactics for Account-Based Marketing Campaigns

ConversionXL

PPC campaigns continue to become increasingly well-targeted. More and more companies are using tactics like single-keyword ad groups ( SKAGs ) and single-product ad groups ( SPAGs ). While those tactics may have differentiated your campaigns in the past, they no longer do (or won’t soon). One way to stand out is to go beyond keyword targeting and create PPC campaigns for specific targets—an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy.

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Transcript of How Giving Back Can Create Business Success

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How Giving Back Can Create Business Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. This is John Jantsch.

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