May, 2021

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These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation

Steve Blank

As Director of the U.S. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force Pete Newell delivered innovation at speed and scale in the Department of Defense. Pete is now CEO of BMNT, a company that delivers innovation solutions and processes for governments. Here are Pete’s 5 principles that will accelerate innovation. To help a large Defense organization wrestle with how to increase the velocity of innovation in their ranks Steve Blank and I spent the better part of last week with our heads together re

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7 Leadership Failures To Abolish In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Many professionals in business, from startups to multi-nationals, assume that team leader or executive is an appointed position, and the skills come with the title. In reality, leadership is best demonstrated while not in a position of authority, and is a skill that must be sharpened every day of your life. Most experts agree that leadership, as perceived by people around you, is more about behavior than it is about specific skills or knowledge.

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5 Principal Goals Of The Best Software Development Teams

YoungUpstarts

Leading a software development team? Here are the seven most important principal goals of a successful software development team. The post 5 Principal Goals Of The Best Software Development Teams appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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What to Expect When Developing an App in 2021

Up and Running

The mobile app development market is evolving at a rapid speed. With the spread of the pandemic of 2020, certain apps have become extremely popular like video conferencing apps, on-demand service apps, etc. . To compete in the market, you need to keep up with trends. In this article, we will talk about the trends and the cost of mobile app development with a forecast for 2021.

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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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10 Important Hiring Tips for Startups in Post COVID Era

ReadWriteStart

One major reason is that unless you don’t put effort into hiring the right talent, the operational functions suffer. Eventually, that impacts the organization’s performance. However, it is important to plan your hiring campaigns with a specific purpose when the economy is down amid the pandemic. Right from the costs, several openings to creating an experience to retain your best employees, everything is important.

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How to Keep Your WordPress Financial Site Safe

The Startup Magazine

There is no denying that website security is the most fundamental aspect of doing business, especially in the financial sector. It is absolutely essential for maintaining consumer trust. This is why, you need to take security seriously when you operate a financial planning software, investment dashboard, online banking portal, or handle user data in a private manner.

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5 Ways To Make It Easier To Do What Matters At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

During all my years in business, I’ve noticed that some people seem to make their job look effortless , while others are always in a struggle, no matter how simple you thought the task should be. I’ve always wondered if some people are just that much smarter, or what some do that the rest of us can emulate, in order that we too get the best results without working so hard.

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WordPress vs Webflow

ConversionXL

Whether you’re running a consultant agency or building a startup, your content and brand need a home for everything you produce. From sales pages to your products, or even your About page, the content management system you choose can make a big difference in growing your business and driving sales. While WordPress may be the most well known CMS in the world, Webflow continues to establish itself as a powerful alternative for established and upcoming brands.

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Top 5 Trends for Productive Human Resource Management

Up and Running

Ensuring that your company runs effectively and remains productive is just as important as generating revenue. In fact, providing the tools necessary for you and your team to stay productive can directly influence how well your business performs and grows. . While you may jump to providing better equipment or introducing time management systems, one area that is often overlooked is your human resources department.

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IPA: a Quiet $10B Market (Automation is En Fuego part 2)

Austin Startup

In the last post , we started with this chart, and we focused on RPA (the bright blue at the bottom of the bar chart), the most explosively growing enterprise software category I’ve ever seen. In this post, we’ll focus on Intelligent Process Automation?—?that middle dark blue series of data in the bar chart. I’m going to talk about the market dynamics for Intelligent Process Automation, but first let’s take a moment to understand why this software is valuable for the companies that buy them. the

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How Google’s Page Experience Update will Change SEO in 2021?

The Startup Magazine

“The customer is always right!” We have heard this phrase countless times and even experienced it first-hand, but only specific to retail outlets. What if I told you that Google will implement this strategy to change the way websites rank in the SERPs? In May 2020, almost a year back, Google announced that it will introduce new ranking criteria based on user experience known as the Google Page Experience update.

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7 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Employees

Women Entrepreneurs Can

As a business manager or owner, one of your key duties is to oversee employees. You want to ensure their performance rises to their potential. A good employee will have much more to offer your company. It could be their perceptions, strengths, skills, ideas, or even unique gifts. Your ultimate goal is to get the best out of your employees for maximum performance and benefit to the company.

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Portfolio Management – Learning from experienced investors

NZ Entrepreneur

The Angel Association of New Zealand ( AANZ ) is co-hosting with New Zealand Growth Capital Partners ( NZGCP ) a series of workshops on early-stage investment. Andrew Chen shares his takeaways from the second instalment on Portfolio Management, held in Wellington on 13 May 2021. Participants heard about both the theory and reality of portfolio management from three different experiences: Marcel van den Assum provided the angel investor perspective, having invested in over 50 companies over 15 ye

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Demystifying the Various Tax Exemptions: 501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(4)

Board Effect

What is the difference between a 501(c)(3) and a 501(c)(4)? The answer to the question isn’t all that simple, even for nonprofit board members. Both designations fall under the umbrella of nonprofit organizations, and these classifications are only 2 of the 29 different types of nonprofits that fall under the U.S. IRS tax code. Something both classifications share in common is that they’re both exempt from federal income taxes.

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How Businesses Can Build, Monitor, and Repair Their Online Reputation

Up and Running

The online reputation of your business is important for finding new clients and keeping your existing ones. Poor customer service and frequently missed deadlines will reflect on how you are perceived on the internet. However, even if you do nothing wrong, your reputation can suffer from a multitude of negative content issues published by third parties.

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6 Steps To Personal Satisfaction As Well As Success

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s sad when the startup is “successful,” but the founder still feels totally unsatisfied. I see it happening all the time. The business is a winner, but the family or other relationships are broken by the stress. Or the entrepreneur started down this path to be their own boss and change the world, but find they are now answering to many more people, with nothing really changed.

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Why Defense Could Now Be a Market for Startups

Steve Blank

The U.S. Department of Defense is coming to grips with the idea that the technologies it needs to keep the country safe and secure are no longer exclusively owned by the military or its prime contractors. AI, machine learning, autonomy, cyber, quantum, access to space, semiconductors, biotech are all being driven by commercial companies. At the front-end of these innovations are startups – organizations the Department of Defense hasn’t previously dealt with at scale.

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Game On

Reid Hoffman

In discussions with founders and investors, as well as interviews , I describe the role that games have played in my career. It’s become a somewhat quirky facet of my public persona: Reid Hoffman, game geek. I love games, and I love talking about them. But none of these profiles has ever focused on the games themselves. They might (at best) mention one or two games and muse.

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The DOs And DON’Ts Of Moderate Entrepreneurship (AKA Side Hustling)

YoungUpstarts

by Carrie Bohlig and Craig Clickner, authors of “So You Want to Start a Side Hustle“ We were not going to create the life of our dreams by focusing exclusively on our 9-5 careers. While we enjoyed being a preschool teacher and commercial banker, respectively, we did not love the limitations these jobs came with. […]. The post The DOs And DON’Ts Of Moderate Entrepreneurship (AKA Side Hustling) appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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What to Do If Your Tax-Exempt Status Is Revoked

Board Effect

Once your organization receives its notice of 501(c)(3), it gains specific tax advantages. Having said that, your nonprofit doesn’t get to keep its tax-exempt status forever. Regardless of what services your nonprofit provides, it has to continually meet the guidelines and requirements of the 501(c)(3) IRS code. Various different things can cause your nonprofit to lose its tax-exempt status.

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How and Why to Develop a Mobile Healthcare App

Up and Running

The market for health apps is growing rapidly. There are thousands of healthcare applications for both consumers and healthcare professionals on the App Store and Google Play. Wonder if it’s worth creating a healthcare mobile app? The short answer is yes. Today, people use healthcare apps to schedule/cancel appointments, review prescriptions, access medical records, connect with doctors via video calls, track fitness goals, etc.

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7 Ways Academic Connections Can Assist A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

An underutilized, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your alma mater, including any local university. These resources are definitely not limited to students, since every university seeks out and needs the real world exposure and experience of entrepreneurs who already are active in the real world marketplace.

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Analyst Cam: Everybody wants to rule the world

deal architect

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ), as part of my Analyst Cam series. I know the title suggests it is about the Tears for Fears hit. Sorry, click.

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Techstars Accelerating Black ParentPreneurs

Feld Thoughts

I recently nominated James Oliver’s ParentPreneur Foundation for the new Techstars Accelerate Equity Program. Amy and I provided the lead gift of $100,000 through our Anchor Point Foundation. For a detailed look at what the ParentPreneur Foundation does, take a look at Techstars Foundation Empowers Black ParentPreneurs, So They Can Leave A Legacy For Their Children.

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6 Tips To Improve Time Management

YoungUpstarts

by David Karandish, founder and CEO of Capacity Today’s workplace is full of distractions. The typical knowledge worker is interrupted every three minutes and takes nearly 25 minutes to get back to where they left off after just one distraction. These frequent interruptions account for 28 billion wasted hours a year, and a loss of almost $1 […].

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The “Lovemaking Model” for Happiness

VC Cafe

Tal Ben Shahar, Happier. This is a slightly different post than normal, inspired by a book i’m reading, called Happier. The book is writted by Tal Ben Shahar, a Professor at Harvard University teaching the school’s most popular class on positive psychology after dedicating much of his adult life to studying everything he could about Happiness.

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How to Measure Small Business Website Performance

Up and Running

How do you know that your business is growing and that everything is working as it should? To answer this question, you need to have a set of metrics that give you a clear picture of what’s going on in your business. Likewise, your website , the digital representation of your business, and the means through which people find you and connect with you, also needs to have metrics in place to know how it’s doing.

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6 Ways To Extend Creativity To All Areas Of Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe their initial idea and inspiration requires the most important creative thinking. Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. There is a tough balance here to achieve, since a large portion of starting and running a business requires analytical, logical thinking.

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Burning Platform: More work anywhere

deal architect

In the 46th episode of the series we have Monty Hamilton of Rural Sourcing. While the COVID-19 pandemic and related WFH protocols have turned many of us into recluses, the big realization is you can WFA - as in Anywhere.

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Google Enters Hologramland

Feld Thoughts

Six months ago I wrote When The Big Companies Show Up about Sony releasing their first holographic display and what I thought about that development, given my role as an investor via Foundry and board member in the 40-person purveyor of fine holographic interfaces in Brooklyn called Looking Glass. In that post, I wrote: “When I ponder my life in 2040, I am confident that I will not be spending 12 hours a day in videoconferences on a 2D display.

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5 Fun Ways To Reward Your Employees

YoungUpstarts

There are many inexpensive ways to reward your employees. Creativity is key to getting the desired result. The post 5 Fun Ways To Reward Your Employees appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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How to Create an App Like UberEats

ReadWriteStart

If you are thirsty enough to set up your food delivery business, this blog will quench your thirst with essential insights. Firstly, you must understand the need to enter the food delivery industry. Though many business ideas are on par with the food delivery business, the scope and profit involved in food delivery services are unmatchable. Create an App Like UberEats.

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How To Start and Grow Your SEO Business — 2021 Guide

Up and Running

There’s never been a better time to start an SEO business. In this day and age, SEO is all but essential to businesses. It’s crucial for helping brands get seen by the right customers at the right time. Consequently, starting an SEO business can be a lucrative venture. But with so much competition, it takes time and effort to successfully grow an SEO agency that stands out against your competitors.

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10 Tips For Entering The Startup Community This Year

Startup Professionals Musings

These days I see a surge of new startups as businesses seem to be recovering from the pandemic. If you are not starting one yourself, the next best thing is joining one as a partner, or as an early employee. It takes much the same preparation to make you the best entrepreneur, or the best job candidate. Of course experience is the best teacher, but you need to get the job to get the experience.

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Announcing our seed investment into Defined, a programable data platform for DeFi

Version One Ventures

We are very happy to announce our seed investment into Defined , a programmable data platform for decentralized finance (DeFi). We led the $2.5m round with participation from Mark Cuban, Balaji Srinivasan, Tiny Capital, Compound, Inflection, Portico Ventures, Capital 6, Rasool Rayani, and Kamunting Street Capital. We have been active investors in DeFi for almost three years now, with investments in Uniswap , Opyn and Nexus Mutual , and are thrilled to be adding Defined to our portfolio. .

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Techstars Sustainability Accelerator / The Nature Conservancy – 2021 Applications Open

Feld Thoughts

In 2017 I helped get the Techstars Sustainability Accelerator off the ground in partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC). Amy and I have been supporters of TNC for over 30 years and Amy serves on their global board of directors. The program has been running in Colorado supporting pre-seed to post-seed stage startups at the intersection of conservation and technology since 2018.