Fri.Oct 13, 2017

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Profiles on 2017 Boulder City Council Candidates

Feld Thoughts

On October 19th, Engage Boulder is hosting a breakfast with me from 7:30am to 9:30am to discuss the past, present, and future of Boulder. I’ve lived and worked here since 1995 so I’ve seen, and be involved in, a lot of the evolution of our city over this period of time. I’m hoping to have a thoughtful and open conversation about a lot of the issues that are coming up around our local election.

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Why English Isn't Enough

Babbling VC

As I've had to answer this question so many times at this point, I thought I'd just save myself the time in the future and make a blogpost out of it. If you are going to apply to work for us at Liquid Labs, you have to speak German. No, it doesn't have to be perfect but it has to at least be conversational. No one expects you to sound local.I being the best example of sounding like Schwarzenegger, just in reverse.

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10 Tips To Be A Better Public Speaker

YoungUpstarts

by Topher Morrison, author of “ The Book on Public Speaking “ If you’re a small business owner or entrepreneur, chances are you have had to face the microphone and give a speech at one time or another. Maybe it was a keynote, or perhaps a more formal lecture. Chances are if you haven’t been in this position yet, your time will come eventually.

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Why English Isn't Enough

Babbling VC

As I've had to answer this question so many times at this point, I thought I'd just save myself the time in the future and make a blogpost out of it. If you are going to apply to work for us at Liquid Labs, you have to speak German. No, it doesn't have to be perfect but it has to at least be conversational. No one expects you to sound local.I being the best example of sounding like Schwarzenegger, just in reverse.

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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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7 New Initiatives To Fearlessly Grow Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Growth has always been fundamental to business success, but it’s never been more critical than it is now, nor more difficult. Every opportunity is global, but so is the competition. Evolving customer expectations and technology are the norm, forcing every company, from startups to large enterprises, to innovate quickly, despite their fear of change, uncertainty, and doubt.

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Twitter Needs a Public Police Blotter

Hunter Walker

Twitter’s general policy is to not comment on the actions taken against a specific account deemed to be in violation of its Terms of Service. Occasionally in high profile or controversial cases they’re forced to present clarifications, such as yesterday’s tweets from @Safety regarding Rose McGowan’s suspension. Today there exists a trust gap between Twitter’s professed interest in decreasing abuse on the platform and the community’s experience day-to-day using

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Twitter Link Roundup #310 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

I have some unfortunate news for everyone. Coffee is about to cost a latte more. Studies forecast that due to higher temperatures and shifting rainfall, over 90% of bean-growing land will be rendered unsuitable for farming by 2050. This means bean prices may rise from $1.28/lb to over the record high $3.39/lb in a few years. This is bad news for the globally caffeinated: people consumed 151m 60kg bags of coffee last year, and don’t even get started on China – their coffee habits hav

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10 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Questions They Would Ask Their Business Idol

Hearpreneur

Business idols inspire us to achieve more and look beyond our limits. How most of these idols achieve their success may at times prompt us to ask questions to help us learn from their experience. Given a chance, there is a top priority question you would love to ask your business idol. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners the questions they would ask their business idol. #1- Elon Musk- What keeps you going in the difficult times?

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Is Your Small Business Committing These 7 Deadly Logo Design Sins?

crowdSPRING Blog

The logos of successful companies are instantly recognizable, memorable, and timeless. These are important qualities because successful companies have built strong brand identities. A strong logo is an important part of a company’s brand identity. As we wrote in our post, “Why You Should Avoid Making This Stupid Branding Mistake WIth Your Logo” : A great logo design can be the difference between blending in and standing out from the competition.

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Top 5 Product Development Faux Pas in Startups

Austin Startup

A poem from our very own CF-Poe at Sputnik ATX on the Austin Startup Crawl Startups are everywhere and that isn’t changing soon: 99.7% of the 25 million businesses in the US are small businesses plus 850,000 small businesses are created each year. Lots of competition, but hey 50% of new ventures fail after only four years. Wait, is that not helping?

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Book update – I have an agent!

Jeff Hilimire

Wow, its been over a year since I’ve given an update on the book I’m writing! In that post (where I shared that I decided not to self-publish but rather find a book publisher to represent the book) I shared the process I’m following. It goes something like this: Find an editor/writing partner ✔. Create a proposal for the book ✔. Write a sample (in my case, the first 25 pages) ✔.

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Future of the Electric Grid at Austin Forum

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: October 13, 2017 On Tuesday, October 17 hear Karl Popham (pictured above to the left of Mayor Steve Adler at a ribbon-cutting ceremony) at the Austin Forum. Popham leads Austin Energy’s Emerging Technologies and Electric Vehicle teams and is a co-author of the book “Smart Cities: Applications, Technologies, Standards, and Driving Factors.

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10 Brilliant Offline Marketing Ideas to Boost Your Website Traffic

Duct Tape Marketing

10 Brilliant Offline Marketing Ideas to Boost Your Website Traffic written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. What’s the first thing you think of when it comes to boosting the website traffic? Social media marketing , for sure. SEO, too. Whenever you’re trying to make your website more popular, online marketing is the natural response. Is it the only available alternative?

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Examining Trump’s Effect on Immigration in Silicon Valley Recap

Early Growth Financial Services

The post Examining Trump’s Effect on Immigration in Silicon Valley Recap appeared first on Early Growth Financial Services.

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Five of the Most Dangerous Blue-Collar Jobs Today

Transformify

There were 4,836 casualties of work-related deaths reported in the U.S. in 2015, which averages more than 13 deaths every single day. The largest percentage of these are from what are considered blue collar jobs, and 21.4% of those were in construction alone. Not including highway collisions, the principal causes were falls, being struck by an object, electrocution, and caught-in/between accidents.

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Examining Trump’s Effect on Immigration in Silicon Valley Recap

Early Growth Financial Services

The post Examining Trump’s Effect on Immigration in Silicon Valley Recap appeared first on Early Growth Financial Services.