The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 6, 2017

I’ve felt financially secure ever since my first company failed. While I suppose that could be a sign of ambitious embezzlement, in this case it’s thanks to the byproducts of working on a startup: skills, network, insight. One benefit is that a couple years plodding away on a startup transforms you into an incredible freelancer[1]. While freelancing isn’t the goal for most founders, it’s a safety net that allows for big risks with small stress[2].

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View from Seed

JANUARY 6, 2017

Mike Russell is the CEO and co-founder of Paintzen , a NextView-backed company based in New York. Over the last couple years, they’ve experienced strong growth for their marketplace business, and today, we dive deep into the weeds of how Mike and team grew the business. More specifically, we learn about the approach and tactics used to grow the supply side of the Paintzen marketplace.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2017

Entrepeneurs Lee Hnetinka and Wilson Lee have started a new venture together, Darkstore. The pair have set their sights on improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of delivering goods for e-commerce sites. Currently, many e-commerce sites struggle to streamline their delivery processes as they have no brick-and-mortar locations. Darkstore partners with these e-commerce sites and a range of storage and delivery firms to ensure same-day and two-day delivery services for customers purchasing

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2017

Pro Tip: If you are at CES today and want to connect, I’ll be hanging out at Eureka Park from 11am this morning (Friday) when I’m on a panel about diversity until I leave the premises at 2:30. My dad and I left the Venetian yesterday at 8:30am to head over to the Las Vegas Convention Center. When I arrived back at the room at 10pm, I was done / baked / toasted / wiped.

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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 6, 2017

by Julie Benezet, author of “ The Journey of Not Knowing: How 21st Century Leaders Can Chart a Course Where There Is None “ Entering the unknown releases the world of possibilities. It allows us to lead others to make the future happen. Being comfortable with the discomfort of not knowing is not easy. It calls on us to find our inner compass and see the world without varnish.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2017

Simon Sinek suggests to Millennials: "too many companies you will work for are not built to take care of you. Until that changes, please take care of each other.".

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2017

Many of these problems can be dealt with beforehand. Mainly, they require you to keep your finger on the pulse of what’s going on in your company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2017

Getting Found Online Depends on You Doing These Five Things written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Serious entrepreneurs know that the key to scaling a company is having a strong online presence. But the thought of competing for attention online sounds about as easy as getting the attention of your friend across the room at a Justin Bieber concert.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2017

History is rife with nightmarish stories of stolen ideas that keep entrepreneurs up at night.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 6, 2017

At Dragon Army , we get to work on some really cool projects. The app we’ve been working on with Turner Sports, Catch Sports , for over a year has just been officially launched at CES! On top of being a great iOS and Android experience, it also works with Amazon Echo. Sports fans, check it out!

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 6, 2017

LinkedIn is not just any other “social network” Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2017

Most companies don't get to do more than a handful of hires during their seed round--so the idea of a "recruiting process" might seem a little bit heavy handed. However, these early employees will not only have a lasting impact on the DNA of the company, but hopefully they'll be some of the most important hires you'll ever make. (If they turn out not to be, you probably hired poorly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2017

Don’t you wish you could be as lucky as Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk, who always seem to be in the right place at the right time for their business ideas to thrive? After many years of working in large companies as well as small, and watching the people that succeed, I’m convinced that luck has very little to do with it. I see instead a common set of principles that all these people live by.

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