YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

by Trevor Foster , vice president of finance and innovation at Innovative Employee Solutions. Part of leading a small business is doing more with less, and labor costs are no exception. To compete with larger peers, most small businesses simply can’t afford to offer full-time positions with benefits. Technology is shrinking the world every day, creating a marketplace where businesses find themselves competing with companies around the world for workers and consumers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Every entrepreneur can learn from a mentor, no matter how confident or successful they have been to date. Most people don’t know that billionaire Mark Zuckerberg , for example, gives real credit to the inspiring mentorship of Steve Jobs for Mark’s Facebook success. Yet most entrepreneurs simply don’t know how to work with a mentor. It is not as simple as one person giving the other all the right answers.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

by Katie Lunden of crowdspring. Everyone has their own take on what makes a logo perfect. New trends (and fads) in logo design appear every year. Be careful not to fall into the trap of following every new fad. Today, small businesses and startups have to compete in an increasingly noisy world, against larger, more established businesses. To do so, they need to get noticed.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Are you writing a mission statement for your business? Sometimes it helps to look at samples of other companies’ mission statements to get a better idea of how to write your own. In 30 seconds or less, a good mission statement should define: What the company does for its customers. What the company does for its employees. What the company does for its owners.

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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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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

There’s a magnificent exercise that I like to do for myself on a periodic basis. I’m sure it has a more formal name but I call it “Good Bad Like Dislike.” I create a two by two matrix that looks like this: I then go through my calendar for the next few months as a starting point to stimulate things to put in each box. I’m careful not to put specific items in the box, but concepts.

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

My husband and I started our business nine years ago. That.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start the week off on the right foot. We become what we think about. What will be the best habits to have? Say thank you for what’s already yours. To achieve your goals, you must apply discipline and consistency every day. Working really hard is what successful people do.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

When you are doing or starting a business, you are often faced with situations where you need a large sum of money but are not able to get it through any means. There is always the financing option of getting a loan from a bank or other such related institutions. However, these options are not always the best since they come with a lot of requirements.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The workshops I went to and my takeaways (may be a little bit of a ramble) Service Design: Lincoln Neiger Snippets from his the worksheet we went through Service Package: What​ ​it​ ​is: The Service Package helps create a shared understanding of a business’s service offerings and touchpoints with its customers. It breaks a business’s suite of service offerings into four interdependent categories to help bring context to strategic business and design decisions.

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Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

I'm always been a bit torn about marketing. I've been pretty adamant with startups in the past to not focus too much initially on marketing but asked them to be very aware of needing it down the road. 7 or 8 years ago there was a lot of back and forth on just how much marketing is necessary for startups and when. Brad Feld and Fred Wilson both wrote about it and started an interesting discourse (I just linked to a couple of their posts.Google if you want all of them).

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

image source: [link] If you are a startup co-founder in Central and Eastern Europe, when you hear about about US entrepreneurial communities, you usually hear of course Silicon Valley, but more and more often now east coast as well. When I heard that I was selected as a fellow of Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative , a program organized by The German Marshall Fund of the United States I was really happy, but when I heard that I will be deployed in Austin, Texas for 2 weeks I had mi

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Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

I'm always been a bit torn about marketing. I've been pretty adamant with startups in the past to not focus too much initially on marketing but asked them to be very aware of needing it down the road. 7 or 8 years ago there was a lot of back and forth on just how much marketing is necessary for startups and when. Brad Feld and Fred Wilson both wrote about it and started an interesting discourse (I just linked to a couple of their posts.Google if you want all of them).

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