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5 Best Ways To Invest Money From Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Business owners and entrepreneurs are unique positions for an investor’s point of view because they don’t have the security of a large salary from a big company from which they can slowly build up an extensive portfolio of investments over their career. Thus, business owners and entrepreneurs must be even more diligent when choosing investments.

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Our areas of interest in healthcare

Version One Ventures

Over the past two weeks, Boris and Max have shared their investment themes and interests. Boris wrote about the latest opportunities in enterprise SaaS , while Max outlined some of his current investment themes , from the Open Internet to climate change. I’m going to continue the trend by highlighting some of the key areas in healthcare that I’m most excited about right now.

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How You Can Start Your Own Turnkey Business

YoungUpstarts

For most people, to be able to put up their own business is the dream. Quitting their nine-to-five jobs and devoting themselves to an enterprise of their own is their primary, most important life goal. However, building a business can be tedious and risky. If you don’t know a lot about business, you will be facing a lot of challenges along the way, thus you have to do a lot of research.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Votem

Austin Startup

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! Votem promises to make voting more accessible, to restore trust in elections, and to serve election management bodies and their constituents. One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Votem is a revolutionary election management company that aims to give democracy back to the people.

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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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Can Multiple Credit Card Processors Increase Your Bottom Line?

YoungUpstarts

Most people today prefer to use credit cards rather than carry cash. Besides eliminating the bulkiness of cash, it lets buyers buy more expensive items. When you are in business, the type of credit card processors you use can increase or decrease your sales. Being able to accept credit or debit cards, as well as checks, will increase the volume of sales you can make each day.

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Backing Fatma Collins and Julie Rogers at Ten Little--the 8th Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Company Founded by Moms

This is going to be BIG.

As a founder, your most valuable asset is your time—and there is probably no group of founders who are more efficient about getting the most out of their time than moms. Moms also have a unique and personal insight into what’s important to other moms when they buy things for their kids. They’re looking for products that save time, provide good value, are good for their kids and have values they believe in.

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Entrepreneurial Journey Takes Melvin Brewing To Denver’s Heights and Beyond

The Startup Magazine

Jeremy Tofte’s family background in the beer business shows through in his work with Melvin Brewing. As an entrepreneur in the crowded craft brewing business, his company’s dedication to quality has fostered its popularity among the beer-drinking public. Jeremy’s entrepreneurial journey has led Melvin Brewing to recently be named the Brewmaster and Brewery Group of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival.

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Branding for Food Trucks: The Definitive Guide

crowdSPRING Blog

Image courtesy of Mobile Cuisine. Deciding how to brand your food truck may be the most important decision you’ll face as a food-on-the-go entrepreneur. A well-branded truck can draw attention to your business all day, every day, everywhere it goes. Follow our food truck branding guide and your truck will race ahead of your competition. Here is….

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How Proptech Is Helping When Real Estate Agents Pass on Their Costs to You

The Startup Magazine

In the U.S., the average commuter wastes 54 hours a year waiting in traffic. And in Southeast Asia, commuters lose an average of 54 minutes to traffic congestion every day. “But what does this have to do with real estate?” You ask. Believe it or not, it matters a great deal – and here’s why. Traditional Real Estate Models Are Inefficient – and You’re Paying the Price.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Quantstamp

Austin Startup

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Quantstamp is a Y Combinator-backed company building the standard in blockchain cybersecurity. With offices in San Francisco, Toronto, Taipei, and Tokyo, and a team of security experts dedicated to securing decentralized systems, the company is enabling a future

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Storytelling Around Disruption and Innovation

Duct Tape Marketing

Storytelling Around Disruption and Innovation written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Michael Margolis. Podcast Transcript. Today on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I sit down with Michael Margolis, CEO and founder of Storied. Storytelling has become a business buzzword of late, but there’s a lot of complexity behind the term.

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SXSW Pitch: NeelAgil Technologies

Austin Startup

Neelam Dwivedi of NeelAgil Technologies Private Ltd aims to help millions of people treat their diabetes The Forrest Four-Cast: February 19, 2020 The next time you’re out in a crowd, look around. Imagine one out of every 10 people you see has a debilitating and often fatal disease. In the United States, in 2018, a stunning 10.5 percent of the population had diabetes, 34.2 million Americans.

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How about personal guarantees for company debt?

Berkonomics

Is the guarantee still required today? More than ever, the banks and lenders today require personal guarantees from entrepreneurs, and even from CEO’s of angel or some VC funded businesses. Starting and running a small or growing business can be a challenge to the most confident and optimistic entrepreneur. And the process of borrowing money or financing asset purchases can be an eye-opener for those who are not used to today’s lender and seller aversion to grant easy credit.

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Building Bridges for the Texas Innovation Ecosystem: Two programs, One State, One Summer

Austin Startup

MassChallenge Texas’ first two years were big. During that time, we successfully ran three accelerators in two cities and convened more than five hundred resources, experts, partners, business leaders, and investors to support 181 startups from all corners of the world. This year, we’re looking to turn the startup support industry on its ear. This year is going to be huge.

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Is It Time to Expand and Grow Your Business?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Starting your own business was most likely an ambition that you may have had for some time, and so you might be finding that you are now looking at ways that you can increase that business potential. You may think that you are making the right motives each day, but often a little out of the box thinking and a fresh approach can make all of the difference.

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3 Daily Habits That Will Help You Be More Productive

YoungUpstarts

Productivity is not always properly understood, as we often mistake working long hours as being the same as working productively. While they may sound related, that’s not exactly how it works. Productivity isn’t directly related to work either, although that is often the chief focus when we talk about it. If we were to define human productivity, it would have to be our ability to produce the required/expected work, within the shortest possible time.

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How to Make Your Small Family Business Successful

Women Entrepreneurs Can

If you run a family business, you will be faced with a unique set of challenges. While it can be nice to keep things in the family, you do need to maintain the right balance and ensure you consider non-family members too. Below, we will take a look at how to make your small business successful when family are involved. You have probably heard the saying “it is not personal, it is business” – you need to have this mantra if you are to grow your business.

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“Is the Customer Always Right?” Timothy Drabic Answers the Age-Old Question

The Startup Magazine

Working with clients isn’t always easy. Whether you work in retail, customer service, or any other field that requires you to interact with customers, you probably know how draining, and sometimes frustrating, it can get. But then you remember in your training you were taught that the customer is always right. And you ask, ‘are they, though?’. group of angry businesspeople having argument with airport receptionist.

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Transcript of Storytelling Around Disruption and Innovation

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Storytelling Around Disruption and Innovation written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: This episode of The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Klaviyo. Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing.

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February Accelerator All Access: Home Care On-Demand, Game Development, Early Cancer Detection &…

Austin Startup

February Accelerator All Access: Home Care On-Demand, Game Development, Early Cancer Detection & More Capital Factory’s VIP Accelerator accepts new tech startups from across industries every month. Once accepted, we help these startups meet their next investor, employee, and customer with the support of our Investor Relations and VIP teams as well as our exclusive Mentor network of the top entrepreneurs and investors in Texas.

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