View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

Today we’re thrilled to re-launch our most popular resource ever: board deck templates for seed-stage startups. Last year, we released two different variations of the deck , both contained in the same resource. Since then, they’ve been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times. Based on that reaction, we wanted to continue improving the product through both additional revs/design and continuing to evolve how we think about board meetings in the first place.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2016

by Jock Purtle , owner of M&A Consulting Firm and Digital Exits. Nowadays increasingly more of our business is happening online. Men and women throughout the business world have been capitalizing on this emerging e-commerce and creating new patterns of buying and selling a small business in the process. Now that these patterns have become more ingrained and reliable, we can take a look at what to do and what not to do in order to sell your e-commerce business for the highest possible price:

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 7, 2016

If you are the CEO of a VC or angel backed company, will need to raise more money in the future, are doing more than $100,000 of revenue a month, and are growing more than 25% a year, then this post if for you. In January, you finalized your budget. Unless something went horribly wrong, you made your plan in January, especially if the plan was finalized in February.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2016

As a business owner, finance and profit is of course one of your main concerns, so how can you make sure you are taking the best action to increase your profit, and make your business more attractive for shareholders? Your best bet is to look into getting a solicitor to advise and look over all of your corporate finance concerns. A corporate finance solicitor will be able to provide you with advice on any aspect of the buying or selling of business assets, or a whole business if necessary, so ha

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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

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 7, 2016

It’s typically a binary outcome for marketplace start-ups at the beginning: either you figure out the chicken-and-egg problem or you don’t. But, marketplaces can face a binary outcome at the other end too: either you scale your marketplace into a large, stand-alone company that can go public, or you find yourself with few other exit options. This reality is quite different than the exit opportunities for SaaS companies.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2016

by Jacob Shriar, Director of Content, Officevibe . Cultivating and maintaining a flourishing company culture boils down to one thing, employee engagement. You must take a look at your business and answer a challenging question – are your staff members committed to the company and their work? 1. Know Who You Are and Why You Exist. If you haven’t already, determine your company’s mission, vision statement and business values.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

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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YFS Magazine

JUNE 7, 2016

As a solopreneur you have a permanent, unassailable, and easily accessible advantage relative to your larger competitors.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

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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Caching DC Social Media Finance 62

YFS Magazine

JUNE 7, 2016

Millennials have a more updated career vision, and have largely thrown out the 9 to 5 playbook.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 7, 2016

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this clothing project. Let us start the slow clap for rudyy. Check out more great work on rudyy’s profile page. Nicely done, rudyy, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: coyotejack. Fresh from the SPRING: DavidStHubbins.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 7, 2016

Messaging and chatbots are all the rage right now. I’ve been thinking about this problem for over twenty years — almost as long as the web… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2016

Think of marketing as getting people to know, like, and trust you. Think of sales as helping them configure, choose, and pay for what you offer that they want or need. You have to be flexible about a business plan, so take what you can from what we say here and make sure it applies to your business. After all, f orm follows function. In general, a standard business plan includes three parts of the sales and marketing section.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 7, 2016

June 12, 2016: This essay is a sequel to last week’s war stories and advice on firing people. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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