Fri.Apr 12, 2019

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5 Startup Cost Realities Most Founders Underestimate

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Flickr by Phil Gyford Starting a new venture still costs real money, even though the entry price has come down dramatically in last few decades. For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product. Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.

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How To Determine The Value Of A Small Business 

YoungUpstarts

Property division is often a problematic issue of a divorce process. Along with child custody and alimony, this part of divorce determines important terms which influence a whole further life of the former spouses. The emotional side of the distribution of the property raises issues like confidence in the future, desire to defend personal interests, the clash of different points of view on what justice is, and so on.

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How to Conduct a Board Meeting for a Nonprofit

Board Effect

As the first board members arrive at the board meeting, the tone for the meeting is already being set. When all board directors are in their seats before the meeting starts and each of them has fulfilled their commitment to preparing well for the meeting, it sets the tone for how to conduct a board meeting for a nonprofit that’s efficient and productive.

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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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Do You Believe In My Words?

YoungUpstarts

by Dannie De Novo, author of “ Get in a Good Mood & Stay There “ As a coach on the principles of success and personal awareness, I am often asked what the secret to success really is. Is it hard work? Is it persistence? Is it talent? Well, yes… and no. All of those things are part of the success recipe, but the most important ingredient, the part that makes or breaks your success in any area of your life, is faith.

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There Are Two Types Of Entrepreneurs – Both Can Benefit From An Aligned Hustle

YFS Magazine

There are two types of entrepreneurs and both can grow their businesses in an intentional way. Here are three tips to living richly for both camps.

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Formlabs Form 3, 3L, and Digital Factory

Feld Thoughts

Formlabs Digital Factory is happening on May 7th, 2019. If you are into 3D printers, this is shaping up to be a key event of 2019. The speaker list is epic and one you don’t want to miss. Yeah – there’s more … Formlabs also recently released two new printers – the Form 3 and the Form 3L. The Form 3 is impressive on its own, but the Form 3L is five times the build platform and double the laser power.

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6 Important Things You Need To Know About Stock Investment

YoungUpstarts

Investing in stocks is an old phenomenon. Stocks are one of the oldest types of investment and stocks make up a certain portion of every investor’s portfolio. While it may seem easy to invest in stocks, it really isn’t, especially if you are a beginner. If you are looking to invest in stocks, here are 6 things you need to know. 1. Stocks Aren’t Paper.

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Planning to Buy Equipment for Your Small Business? Don’t Proceed Without Reading These 4 Essential Tips

Our Own Start-up

If you need equipment for your business, you’ve come to the right place.

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Don’t Forget These Small Business Tax Deductions

YoungUpstarts

by Eric Tyson, author of “ Small Business Taxes For Dummies “ April 15 th is just around the corner. If you haven’t already filed your taxes for 2018 (or will take an extension), it’s still not too late to get the maximum deduction amount for your business. Small business owners sometimes overlook great tax reduction opportunities.