YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2020

There’s no other way to say it: David Mimran has an impressive CV. To the disinterested observer with no prior knowledge of Mimran’s activities, in fact, it might resemble two or three CVs strung together, minus the additional individuals. And, yet, Mimran persists. The serial entrepreneur and many-hat-wearing executive is nowhere near retirement age, and despite his considerable success, he shows no signs of slowing down.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2020

As a leader in the online trading education industry, Market Traders Institute spends countless hours demonstrating how investors should examine market trends. Smart investing is learning how to interpret the economic landscape. Knowing what to watch and where to find it is critical to developing trading experience. New Trends in Trading Information.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2020

by Alex Shultz of Sure Oak. To succeed in business, you have to market your business. But did you know that marketing doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive? In this digital age, you no longer need a team of experts and piles of cash to get your message out there. With the right mindset — and a little creativity — you can get more eyes on your company than ever.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 30, 2020

One of the often neglected parts of fundraising is the process of doing due diligence on potential investors. Raising money is super hard. But assuming success, a moment will come when a founder will have multiple funding options. Partnering with an investor and/or board member is very long term commitment, and I’m always surprised by how little diligence founders do prior to signing up for what could be a 10+ year collaboration.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2020

Understanding how to motivate your staff is an essential focus of any human resources manager. You may have worked hard to hire the best talent in the field, but now you are tasked with keeping them at the company and getting the most from them. Obviously, money and benefits packages are one of the ways to motivate staff. A survey of professionals ranked this highest of all other factors.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 30, 2020

I continue to be a strong supporter of legal immigration to the United States. A fundamental belief of mine is that entrepreneurs should be able to start their companies anywhere they want. A corollary to that is some of the historical success of the US as an entrepreneurial ecosystem has been being the place that entrepreneurs want to start a company.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 30, 2020

Nine Banded Whiskey Co-Founder Sean Foley seized an opportunity to create an Austin-based whiskey. In 2014, he founded the Nine Banded Whiskey company and launched its first bottles of whiskey a few years later. Today, Nine Banded Whiskey is in 12 states and last year the company inked a deal with the Los Angeles Rams […]. The post Nine Banded Whiskey is Making Austin Known for its Spirit appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2020

To become a successful seller on Amazon, you have to excel in different ecommerce business elements. You have to learn about the price, finance, selection of products, feedback, tax, shipping, sourcing, customer service, promotion and listings. For your assistance, numerous useful tools are available in the market. Photo by rupixen.com on Unsplash. What to Look For.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 30, 2020

South by Southwest Conference and Festivals announced Thursday nominees for its 23rd annual SXSW Innovation Awards. Sixty-five companies made the list including seven from Austin. Austin had two finalists in the AI and Machine Learning category including Cortex Certifai by CognitiveScale and Yonder Narrative by Yonder. Hypergiant Industries’ Eos Bioreactor is a finalist in the Climate, Culture & […].

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2020

Business owners are always looking for ways to revolutionise their product offering and with the help of new and emerging technologies , it’s now easier than ever to achieve this. So, how do these developing technologies help to transform product offering? Let’s take a closer look, below. Productivity. By introducing technology into a business, it can help to increase efficiency, decrease unnecessary costs, manual energy and improve productivity.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2020

The relationship between a founder and their startup is a unique one?—?we’re less rational and more emotional when we make decisions concerning our “baby”. We made it from nothing, built it up with sweat equity, do everything in our means to make this thing grow, and wait to see what happens. So when things aren’t going the way you need them to, you’ll do whatever you need to do to breathe life back into your creation.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 30, 2020

You have a lot of things you are going to need to think about when it comes to improving and protecting your company. There are a lot of elements that play a part in this, and it is essential to make sure you get it right. Think about the best ways of being able to look after the company this year, and then try to have some sort of action plan in place that will allow you to look after the best interests of the brand.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2020

[One Question] on Inspired Insider – The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch answers one question about his latest book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur , on the Inspired Insider podcast with host Dr. Jeremy Weisz. Weisz asks Jantsch to talk about a low point in his career and how it became a pivot point in his entrepreneurial journey.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 30, 2020

Every business has its own brand personality, and it’s imperative that you find yours. This personality will determine much of how your marketing material, social media outreach, and even team morale is dictated. Sometimes, it can go very wrong, and be very inappropriate. For instance, a fun, wacky, light-hearted and positive brand with amusing marketing and bright, funkadeliccolor schemes would hardly work well for a funeral directors.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 30, 2020

My annual review of the apps I love, and the ones that have fallen off…. Following up from my recent post, The Tools I Use to Manage My World , I thought I’d share what’s on my phone’s (Google Pixel 4 XL) home screen. Because as we know, the apps on your home screen are the ones you use over 90% of the time*. So let’s see, first we can start with the ever-present Google search bar at the bottom.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 30, 2020

As a growing business, a great and positive milestone in your journey is to attend a business convention, expo, or fair. Here you have the chance to network with other excellent business leaders and present the best of yourself to a captive, interested audience. This can inspire true creativity in your team, allow many to see what you have been working on behind the scenes, and also give you the chance to make your presence known.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2020

by Joseph McCormack, author of “ Noise: Living and Leading When Nobody Can Focus “ Remember when we thought “more” was better? In a more innocent time, leaders really believed the more information people had, the smarter they’d be, the better decisions they’d make, and the greater success they’d have. Now we know how wrong we were: Nonstop e-mails, endless meetings, and 24-7 connectedness are crippling employees’ ability to think, focus, solve prob

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 30, 2020

Looking at ways you can make your business more efficient is something that you need to focus on moving forward. Trying to achieve success as a business owner is really important, and this is something you are going to need to focus on as much as possible, and efficiency needs to be a major part of improving your business. So think about the best ways of helping the company move forward and grow.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 30, 2020

The processes you and your subordinates follow. It is not common for the CEO of a rapidly growing company to think of slowing down the furious pace enough to have each manager (including the CEO) document the job process managed, as well as see to the documentation for each process managed below. Examples of documentation by key employees. And it is even more of a challenge to consider documenting the tribal knowledge of a company’s key employees.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 30, 2020

Regardless of the type of business you are starting, if you are not knowledgeable about the industry you’re entering, you’ll be at a severe disadvantage that will be extremely difficult to overcome. Industry standards are something that are pushed forward by the largest and most successful brands. There’s always been a tug of war in the technology sector, and it’s clear to see why the standard has shifted so rapidly.

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