Fri.Jul 28, 2017

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No more Bathroom Bills!

Austin Startup

38 CEO’s across Texas and across industries are speaking up about how the so called “Bathroom Bills” currently going through the legislature are bad for business and bad for Texas. Dear Gov. Abbott, Speaker Straus, Lt. Gov. Patrick, and Members of the Texas Legislature: As leaders of Texas’ successful and growing tech and startup community, we write in opposition to the proposed “bathroom bills” currently being considered in the Texas Legislature.

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10 Entrepreneur Shortcuts To Be Avoided At All Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

Starting a new business is a long, hard process, and I can’t blame any founder for looking for shortcuts. I’ve taken a few myself, and I know how much work they can save, as well as how painful some can be in retrospect. When you are trying new things, there are plenty of new problems to go around, so why would you want to re-experience the pain of others?

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5 Tech Start Up Execs Share Their Secret To Success

YoungUpstarts

We’re currently living in the age of the startup. Some are more successful than others, but the advice of some of the leaders at the top can always help new and aspiring entrepreneurs to figure out their next steps. Learning from someone who has already been there and worked through the challenges can be extremely beneficial. Some startups rise to the top immediately and others fold, but learning from the first set could help you avoid some catastrophic mistakes.

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Google’s 5 Traits of Great Teams

The Equity Kicker

As you may know Google has done an almost obsessive amount of research into what makes a high performing team. This post from Michael Schneider summarises what they found, into five traits that are easy to understand and easy to identify. Very powerful. 1. Dependability. Team members get things done on time and meet expectations. 2. Structure and clarity.

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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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Creating A Business Pitch That Gets You Funded

YoungUpstarts

For new businesses, devising an effective business pitch is harder than it sounds. Most entrepreneurs aren’t public speakers, or salesmen. They are courageous inventors and businesspersons, many of whom are not accustomed to that combination of charisma and content that results in investor dollars. Despite the fact that the average entrepreneur doesn’t even like making such pitches, this is the only way to get the money you need to start your business, or to take it to the next level.

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4 Culture Hacks To Become A More Empathetic Leader

YFS Magazine

How can you truly walk in your employees’ shoes? These 4 hacks will remove assumptions and help you become a more empathy-driven leader.

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How Digital-First Brands Go Brick And Mortar (On A Budget)

YFS Magazine

Consider these tips when you decide to move from online-only to a physical retail store. You may discover it's the best of both worlds.

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Total Failure at Summer Maker Mode

Feld Thoughts

On May 24th, I wrote a post titled Shifting To Maker Mode For The Summer. I had full intentions of making this shift around Memorial Day and sustaining it until Labor Day. I have completely failed at this. While I’m managed to stay off social media and read a lot more than watch TV, I massively underestimated the amount of transactional activity I’d have this summer.

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True Wealth Ventures’ Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp Seek to Change the Landscape of Venture Capital Investing

SiliconHills

The general partners of True Wealth Ventures want to see more female led companies get venture capital investment. And they want to see more female venture capitalists making investments in the industry. The $20 million True Wealth Ventures fund invests in women led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health industries. Sara Brand and […].

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9 Smart Apps to Stay Connected with Your Team and Coworkers

Duct Tape Marketing

9 Smart Apps to Stay Connected with Your Team and Coworkers written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Do you want to make communication among your team members easier and better? If you want to work together with your team successfully, you need to communicate effectively. “Alone we c an do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller.

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Twitter Link Roundup #303 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

Growing up, my parents always taught me that showing initiative is one of the best ways to achieve success – at work, or in any area of your life. Understanding that you have to take a risk – ask questions, make a recommendation, pitch an idea – is the first step in becoming someone that influences their surroundings, and doesn’t simply sit back in the safe zone watching things happen.

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How to Improve your People’s Engagement in 4 Simple Steps

Austin Startup

All credits to bigstock Many companies focus on creating these external motivators with the intention to keep people wanting to come back to work and rock performance out, but, just like a new car, after a few miles and days or driving it, excitement does die out. The reality is that the reason why each one of your employees are not engaged may vary.

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Please help support #votelocal, we need it now more than ever!

Jeff Hilimire

I love the Center for Civic Innovation (CCI) so much. Everything they do is focused on building a better community, and we’re so blessed that Rohit ( watch his incredible TED talk ) created this organization in our great city. They just rolled out a fantastic initiative called #votelocal , which is so incredibly needed right now. Here is what they say about the site: This site is a one-stop-shop about the 2017 Atlanta elections.

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Peak performance and Flow

VC Cafe

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse”?—?Jim Rohn. I’ve started a 30 day blogging challenge (more about it here and please sign up to receive the newsletter ). This is day five. TL;DR recent discoveries in psychology found the conditions necessary to achieve flow, a mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.

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Is Small Biz the Future?

Campus Entrepreneurship

In some discussions with an esteemed entrepreneurship researcher, I wondered what we are missing as analysts, researchers, educators, citizens, economic beings in today’s US? After some reflection, we began to discuss whether the drive to find, support and exploit innovation (the Schumpterian type) we had overlooked/missed the importance of small business?