Tue.Oct 17, 2017

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You can have two Big Things, but not three

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Forget work/life integration for a minute. How much time do you have, regardless of partitioning? From your 24-hour daily allotment, the 1950s-style break-down is 8 hours for work, 8 for home and commute, and 8 for sleep and ablutions. So, “work” and “home” are the two things in which you can spend 40+ hours per week. This is the amount of time it takes to tackle something huge.

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2017 Private SaaS Company Survey – Part 1

For Entrepreneurs

For the sixth year in a row, we’re proud to work with KBCM Technology Group (formerly Pacific Crest Securities) to share results from a survey of over 400 private SaaS companies. The survey represents deep benchmarking data and insights on growth and operations of private SaaS companies. Thank you to the readers of forEntrepreneurs who participated in.

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5 Ways to Boost Your Entrepreneurial Confidence

Up and Running

“You have two minutes to convince me why I should invest in your company,” my professor said. About seven years ago I delivered my first pitch. I was a sophomore in college back then. Never had I ever imagined I would spend three consecutive weeks practicing for a two-minute presentation. I was scared to death. My brain was so exclusively focused on this presentation that I didn’t even ask or think why I was experiencing that much worry for a class assignment that meant to simulate a Shark Tank

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3 Questions To Ask When Pricing Your Product

YFS Magazine

Is your price right? When you answer these three questions you can set the perfect price for the value you create for your customers.

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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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The Redistribution of Network Effects in Cryptocurrencies

Version One Ventures

Cryptocurrencies have strong network effects, built around the concept of mining. The more miners participate, the cheaper mining gets and the more quickly transactions are validated. In fact, network effects were deemed so strong that most people thought that Bitcoin would be the winner in a winner-takes-all market. But then, along came Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies.

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Top 5 Ways To Fund Your Business For Fast Growth

YFS Magazine

Whether you’ve got a mind to start a new business, or want to take your existing business to new heights, these tips are for you.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

“…it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. ”. The Red Queen Alice in Wonderland. Innovation, disruption, accelerators, have all become urgent buzzwords in the Department of Defense and Intelligence community. They are a reaction to the “red queen problem” but aren’t actually solving the problem. Here’s why. In the 20th century our nation faced a single adversary – the Soviet Union.

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Austin Game Maker Certain Affinity Lands $10 Million Investment from Hong Kong Firm

SiliconHills

Certain Affinity announced Monday Leyou Technologies Holdings Limited of Hong Kong has made a $10 million investment for a 20 percent stake in the Austin-based game development company. The international investment follows a $5 million investment in Certain Affinity by Capstar Partners, an Austin-based private investment firm. Under the agreement with Leyou Technologies, Certain Affinity […].

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$100,000 Dallas Diversity & Inclusion Investment Challenge in partnership with DivInc

Austin Startup

In August we released the Texas Startup Manifesto and announced our plans to expand our Accelerator program to include Dallas with a presence at The DEC. After an incredibly warm reception and successful launch we have added dozens of new Dallas mentors to the network, accepted 5 Dallas startups to our Accelerator, and hosted more than 80 office hours sessions.

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How to Become Known In Your Field

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Become Known In Your Field written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Now, let me start off by saying, when I say “known,” I don’t mean “famous.” This post is not about turning you into the next overnight YouTube sensation or getting your Instagram followers to one million. This post is about truly becoming known as an influencer in your field, and while Instagram and YouTube can certainly be a part of that process, there so much more to it.

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A speech from Bobby Kennedy that I wish could be given today

Jeff Hilimire

I finished the book, Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon , this past weekend. Learning about Bobby Kennedy’s story for the first time inspired me immensely. His Ripple of Hope speech in South Africa and his speech in Indiana after learning of MLK’s assassination (if you haven’t listened to this one, please do) are just incredible.

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Why the Best Job May Not Be the Right Job

Transformify

"I just want to find the best job I can." Have you ever said that? If so, you're not alone. Most people want to land a good job, if they don't already have one. But what is the best job for you? That question can be surprisingly difficult to answer. The Importance of Personality. In general, society regards just a handful of professions as the "best" jobs a person can have.

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When to Turn Down a Project

Hunter Walker

Four times when saying no to a project may be the right choice for your business.

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MassChallenge Joins the Texas Ecosystem

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: October 17, 2017 If you didn’t get a chance to be part of their launch event on Monday afternoon at the Bob Bullock Museum on Monday afternoon, then be sure to attend the Meet MassChallenge Texas Meet Up at 3:30 pm on Tuesday, March 17 at Capital Factory (701 Brazos Street in the Omni Hotel). What is MassChallenge , you ask? MassChallenge calls themselves the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet.

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