Mon.Jan 22, 2018

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10 Outsourcing Myths Jeopardize Too Many New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure.

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Why technology financial reporting needs to evolve

deal architect

I started my career at PwC as an accountant. I kept renewing my CPA certificate for a decade after I had moved to the technology consulting practice. These days, I listen to (some) quarterly earnings calls of vendors I analyze.

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What All New Small Business Owners Need To Know

YoungUpstarts

Becoming a business owner is quite the accomplishment. You should be proud of yourself and how far you’ve come. It means you have the skills and knowledge to succeed, if you continue to make the right moves and dedicate yourself to achieving success. Being new means you likely have to adjust to a competitive market and being a proactive force within it.

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Davosa down year?

deal architect

Every year the mix of events I attend changes and I sit back and ask – should I have gone to this one? Should I have made a greater effort to go an event I missed? My event choices are.

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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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6 signs you’re ready to take your startup to the US

The Next Web

If you’re running a startup outside of the United States, introducing your product or service to the US market can be a key opportunity to dramatically increase your customer base, get in front of investors, and even boost your credibility. However, launching in the US requires a significant amount of research and a careful execution plan. Despite the overabundance of information available, many startups outside of the US still find the idea of launching in the US incredibly daunting.

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Got A Million Dollar Idea?

YoungUpstarts

by Paul Szyarto. Making a million dollars in today’s economy is more difficult than ever. Years ago, you create a product, service or solution, propose it to the market and become a millionaire. With some hard work and moxie, the American Dream was within reach. Since the Great Recession, however, the new reality is slow growth – if there is growth at all.

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Top 3 Ways To Make A Good Impression At Work

YoungUpstarts

Whether you are just starting a new job or are looking to advance further in your role in your current job, making a good impression is always important. We need to show that we are competent, capable, trustworthy and willing to go the extra mile for the job at hand. No matter what industry you are working in, making the right impression is never a bad thing.

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How To Move Abroad And Start Your Business Overseas

YFS Magazine

The choice to move to a new country and set up shop is a daunting one. But with thorough research and planning, it can be the most rewarding decision you’ll ever make.

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How VC Fundraising Favors White Men

This is going to be BIG.

Last week, on Martin Luther King Day, I decided that instead of saying something in my weekly newsletter , I would do the opposite--I would listen. I asked, "What is your experience of being be black in tech today and what can allies do to improve it?" The responses I got came at a time when I've been having a lot of conversations with female founders as well about their fundraising experiences.

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C2Legacy: Pass Your Cryptocurrency Legacy On

The Startup Magazine

C2Legacy is a startup with the world’s first succession platform to be digitized and on a blockchain. It is designed to accurately and securely validate the death of a legacy holder using decentralized and/or digital death certificates. The goal is to make sure cryptocurrency ends up in the hands of the heirs it was intended for. It is also meant to provide peace of mind to those legacy holders who want to be sure that the people they leave their assets to will receive them.

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Green Franchise Taking The Industry A Notch Higher

Hearpreneur

Businesses that take care of the environment are almost always bound to be successful. OXXO is an environmentally-responsible dry cleaning franchise in the United States with fifty stores throughout the U.S. It’s consistently ranked among top U.S. franchises in Entrepreneur Magazine! At OXXO® , customers experience the ultimate in garment care with the use of environmentally safe GreenEarth solvents (no use of Perc (Perclorethelyne) chemicals common at other dry cleaners) and now TOP Terra

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Important Mobile App Design Trends for 2018

crowdSPRING Blog

Apple launched the iPhone a little over 10 years ago and dramatically changed the world. At the end of 2007 , a mere 6% of Americans owned a smartphone. As of 2016, that number was over 80%. People have embraced mobile apps in ways that few industry insiders anticipated. Need proof? Over 57% of all digital media usage is through apps. There are tons of mobile apps that can help increase your productivity.

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Monday Motivation: Be a Wolf [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. The only thing that stops you from getting what you want in life is the b t story you tell yourself of why you can’t have it. All people care about is how much heart you have. Sometimes you have to look foolish in the name of progress.

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AI: The new “magic”

Austin Startup

What does the word intelligence really mean in Artificial Intelligence? In the same way as with living beings, intelligence varies considerably. From ants to humans and everything in between, there is some form of intelligence guiding our actions. In its most distilled essence, intelligence is: A means of receiving information from the world. Processing it to learn and make assumptions.

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Important Mobile App Design Trends for 2018

crowdSPRING Blog

Apple launched the iPhone a little over 10 years ago and dramatically changed the world. At the end of 2007 , a mere 6% of Americans owned a smartphone. As of 2016, that number was over 80%. People have embraced mobile apps in ways that few industry insiders anticipated. Need proof? Over 57% of all digital media usage is through apps. There are tons of mobile apps that can help increase your productivity.

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Thoughts from an Austin VC #2

Austin Startup

On the future of Austin Real Estate I’ve been thinking about how autonomous vehicles will change the residential real estate market in Austin. We recently bought a house in Tarrytown with the primary reason being the short commute to downtown Austin. I can take local roads to work without hitting any congestion. A significant convenience premium was reflected in the price of the home since a majority of residents will agree on the value of a short commute in Austin.

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Networking is only BS if you’re BS

Jeff Hilimire

I got this nugget from the book, Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years , and I just love it. When I talk to people about networking, most of the time the reaction is that its a fake, BS’y way to be successful. And I’m always kind of confused by this, because to me, networking is a great way to build friendships and relationships based on mutual interests.

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Crypto Markets Correct

thebarefootvc

Last week saw a significant correction in the bitcoin and broader cryptocurrency market, with the top 100 coins declining anywhere from 15–30% over a 2 day period, and the overall cryptocurrency market losing $200B of market value before making up some of that loss. On Wednesday, when the crypto market plummeted, CNBC aired a clip of recent interviews I’ve done with the network where I warned of the overheated market, linked below.

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Choosing Colors For Small Spaces

Transformify

Many home owners believe in the myth that only light colors work for small rooms. They’re worried that going with their favorite shade will give the room the appearance of looking smaller. While this can happen, there are many factors that influence the final outcome of a room’s look. Going with a saturated color will not make the room look smaller if it is plastered on the wall’s of a room that has the factors listed below.

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Book #3: The Long Walk

Jeff Hilimire

My goal in 2018 is to read 52 books. Here is a list of all the books I’ve read so far this year. Each book is ranked on a 5-star scale (5 is best). * The Long Walk (Audible). I’ve read many Stephen King books over the last few years. Some of my favorites include The Stand , 11/23/63 , and On Writing. I prefer his books that have no (or very little) super-natural elements to them.

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Forex Trading: How To Predict The Unpredictable

YoungUpstarts

If you’ve traveled to another country before and exchanged your national currency for the one used there, then you’ve engaged in small-scale forex. After returning from the trip, the reverse transaction either gained you a profit or garnered you a loss. Now think of the bigger picture. Do you see why this market is so intricate? There are always tremendous sums at stake.

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Techstars Mentor Manifesto In Detail

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been working on my next book, #GiveFirst , again. There’s a lot in it about the Techstars Mentor Manifesto and how to be an effective mentor. Yesterday, I got a note from Jay Batson, longtime Techstars Boston mentor and now the Mentor-in-Residence for the program, asking if I had ever compiled the lists I posts I wrote about the Techstars Mentor Manifesto.

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Five Secrets A 25-Year Headhunter Wants You To Know

YoungUpstarts

by Jeff Hyman, bestselling author of “ Recruit Rockstars: The 10 Step Playbook to Find the Winners and Ignite Your Business “ When a McKinsey & Company consultant coined the term “The War for Talent” 21 years ago to describe the growing competition to recruit talented people, he actually underestimated the intensity of the battle. As a long-time headhunter, I’ve been on the front lines helping companies to find & attract the best people to move their businesses forward.