February, 2020

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10 Manageable Risks That An Entrepreneur Should Take

Startup Professionals Musings

There is an old saying that good lawyers run away from risk, while good businessmen run towards risk. Entrepreneurs see “no risk” as meaning “no reward.” In reality, all risks are not the same. Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure.

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Ways To Make Your Website More Secure

YoungUpstarts

Cybersecurity is of utmost importance to anyone who runs a website. With each passing day, we hear of new leaks of information over the internet, including IDs and passwords, top-secret classified government data, credit card information, personal nude photos, and much more. You might be wondering what all this has to do with your little website that contains nothing worth being hacked.

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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

This article is the third part of my extended series on boundaryless teams, remote -first companies, and the future of work. In my two previous installments, I talked about the changing dynamics in many tech-centric cities. I explained why authorities like Sam Altman of Y-Combinator , Angel List’s Naval Ravikant, Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, and Bill Gurley, GP at Benchmark Capital , believe boundaryless companies built by remote-distributed teams are the future of work.

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Today’s opportunities in enterprise SaaS

Version One Ventures

Enterprise SaaS has seen tremendous growth over the past decade and created many, many large stand-alone companies. Given the current public struggle of tech-enabled services, marketplaces, hardware and DTC companies, enterprise SaaS also feels like VC’s most favourite investment category right now. The amount of money that has poured into this space has made enterprise SaaS highly competitive.

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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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Who’s watching the algorithms? 3 Israeli startups predicting performance of AI models

VC Cafe

It’s the opposite of an “AI winter” it seems, as investment levels in Artificial Intelligence continue to break records globally. According to the State of European Tech 2019 report by Atomico, European AI companies raised $4.9 billion in 2019 alone. State of Euorpean Tech 2019, AI investments. When it comes to AI however, it’s mostly a black box.

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Here’s How a VPN Works and It’s Uses

The Startup Magazine

The VPN that stands for Virtual Private Network is used by a large number of people today, in order to access the internet. If you aren’t very much aware of all its working and uses, you’re most probably just aware of the three most major things that you avail with it. This includes more and better freedom to view anything you want, better security and a lot more privacy than that of what you get by browsing the internet normally.

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2 Marketing Trends That Have Staying Power

YoungUpstarts

The importance of marketing your business effectively cannot be ignored. Below, we assess two marketing trends that have not gone anywhere, and won’t be going anywhere. . QR (quick response) codes. QR (quick response) codes have taken the online marketing world by storm. They are really starting to flourish. The concept first came around in Japan. It operates as a machine-readable optical label.

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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

The Latin American startup scene is attracting more and more attention and investments. In 2018, venture capital investments in Latin America doubled for the second consecutive year, according to LAVCA’s Annual Review of Tech Investment in Latin America. Looking at the major markets in Latin America in 2018, most show increases in VC investment in keeping with the regional average.

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Neuromarketing Ethics: How Far Is Too Far?

ConversionXL

As the marketing industry developed, researchers dove deeper into buying behavior and buyers’ minds. One early researcher was Edward Bernays—Sigmund Freud’s nephew—who coined the term “public relations.”. Bernays believed that people could be influenced via crowd psychology and psychoanalysis. His “Torches of Freedom” campaign in the 1920s promoted smoking among women as a symbol of liberation, opening a new market to cigarette companies.

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For Startups, Software Team Extension Solves Product Development Challenges

YFS Magazine

If you need highly-skilled developers for your next software project, discover key benefits of leveraging a software team extension.

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Employee safety and productivity – 4 ways you can increase both in the workplace

The Startup Magazine

It may surprise you, but employee safety and employee productivity go hand in hand. It’s a known fact that if your employees feel safe and secure in their working environment then they’re more likely to work harder and not let their safety concerns get in the way of their day to day responsibilities. When an employer takes a little time to consider all aspects of safety within their business, it demonstrates their commitment to their business and their dedication to the wellbeing of their employ

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6 Ways To Make You An Entrepreneur Before The Product

Startup Professionals Musings

Many of the entrepreneurs I advise or invest with spend considerable time on the Internet, keeping up with technology, customers, and competitors, but very few feel the need for an early personal presence. In fact, some totally avoid it, assuming their product or solution will speak for itself later. They don’t realize that you need to build positives early, to offset any negatives later.

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Things To Consider When Developing A Website

YoungUpstarts

In our increasingly digital world, your business’s online presence is crucial to your success. How you appear to customers online can make or break you. If a potential client doesn’t like your company’s website they aren’t likely to interact with you. They’re even less likely to recommend you to a friend. Knowing how to create a website that can engage customers, be located by search engines and encourage conversions is no easy feat.

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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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The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer

Andrew Payne

One of my first jobs at DEC was writing “design verification tests” for the Alpha (née EVAX) processor. These tests were assembly language programs that tested for correct CPU operation, and management had budgeted 6-8 weeks to develop a particularly complex set of tests. I developed them in 3 days, by writing a C program to automatically generate the range of tests.

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What's Wrong With Tech Folks Who Attack The Tech Media. And What's Wrong With Tech Media Today.

Hunter Walker

[with a post like this, i’m not 100% sure i got it right in first publish – i don’t draft and i don’t circulate for feedback – so if anything is incomplete or unclear, i might update later without specifically calling out the edits]. Lots of mutual bad faith. Reporters I respect indulging themselves in screenshotting and quote dunking tech folks, performative for their tribe.

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Seven Important Product Packaging Tips to Consider

The Startup Magazine

Some companies don’t put enough thought into how they are packaging their products. If you want to help to sell your products to consumers, then thinking about the packaging is imperative. Having eye-catching custom packaging will help certain products to stand out from the competition. Take a look at the following seven important product packaging tips that you should be considering.

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10 Timeless First Principles Of A Prosperous Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In this world of constant change, new technologies, and a thousand cultures, it’s evident and somehow comforting to me that the basic rules for business prosperity really haven’t changed in the last hundred years. Business success is still more about the people than the technology or idea involved. As an angel investor and a mentor to entrepreneurs I still see this every day.

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Guidelines In Starting A New Business

YoungUpstarts

Running a business has many advantages. It will give you additional source of income and once successful, it can even become your main source of income. It will give you the opportunity to learn more things and most of all, it will allow you to showcase your talent. However, all of these would only be achievable if your business becomes successful. Thus, many people are afraid to start one.

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Core Steps for Effective Board Meeting Preparation

Board Effect

Preparing for board meetings used to be laborious and time-consuming. Technology gives boards the capability to streamline many of the routine pre-meeting planning and activities. With many of the routine matters out of the way, boards can more easily focus on strategy and oversight. A board portal system will cut down meeting preparation from several weeks to several days, or maybe even a few hours.

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Davos report - a conversation with Alan Alper of Cognizant

deal architect

Cognizant is a regular at the annual WEF event in Davos, Switzerland. I requested Alan Alper, VP Corporate Marketing, keep good notes on everything he observed during this year's event. Here's an excellent ground level report - you can feel.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Looxid Labs

Austin Startup

Looxid Labs promises to connect your mind to VR. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 13, 2020 Imagine VR/AR/MR systems that truly understand how users think and feel. One of the 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Looxid Labs is working on that, serving VR companies in gaming, healthcare, commerce, and education. Based in Seoul, South Korea, Looxid Labs aims to integrate biometrics into the VR/AR/MR platform.

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The Difference Between Translation and Interpretation

The Startup Magazine

Translation is a concept well-known to everyone. As children, we learn about the Rosetta Stone in school, and when we access the internet, we often run into texts in foreign languages, while foreign movies and TV shows with subtitles are also probably familiar to most. However, the same level of prominence does not apply to interpretation, despite this being an activity that hundreds of thousands of people engage in.

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7 Tips To Keep Your Team Ahead Of “Business As Usual”

Startup Professionals Musings

Most small businesses have now forgotten the last recession, and are back to “business as usual.” They don’t realize that business as usual is gone forever. With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Entrepreneurs that are not listening, not engaging, and not changing are destined to be left behind even in the best of times.

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A Feeling Of Belonging – It’s Priceless In The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

by Shawn Murphy , author of “ Work Tribes: The Surprising Secret to Breakthrough Performance, Astonishing Results, and Keeping Teams Together “ Companies are offering everything from craft beer in the break room to free onsite gyms in an effort to attract and retain workers. However, they may be missing the one thing that will deliver happier, more loyal and more productive employees: a sense of belonging.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.

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Fred Schebesta: Finder.com Co-Founder With $193 Million Fortune Reveals How A Niche Credit Card Review Site Turned Into One Of Australia’s Biggest Tech Success Stories

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Spotify | Raw RSS ] In late 2019 on my LinkedIn news feed, an article popped up with the following title – Finder co-founder Fred Schebesta has debuted on the Young Rich List with a $193 million fortune I immediately thought — I know this guy! […]. The post Fred Schebesta: Finder.com Co-Founder With $193 Million Fortune Reveals How A Niche Credit Card Review Site Turned Into One Of Australia’s Bigg

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Creating Online Courses That Work for Your Students and Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Creating Online Courses That Work for Your Students and Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Justin Ferriman. Podcast Transcript. Today on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I sit down with Justin Ferriman, co-founder and CEO of the learning management system LearnDash. Ferriman became interested in learning management systems (LMS) when he was doing some research for a consulting engagement that he had, and he discovered that there wasn

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3 Key Factors Lenders Look For When Assessing Business Loans

The Startup Magazine

Getting a business loan may be what separates your fledgling commercial idea that only exist in your head from a full-blown business empire that exist in the material world. Despite the importance of securing such a loan, however, most entrepreneurs struggle when trying to prove to lenders that hey have what it takes to make it in a cut-throat marketplace.

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5 Priorities For New Business Leader Self-Development

Startup Professionals Musings

In my business of mentoring new entrepreneurs and advising small company owners, I recognize that most don’t start as experienced leaders, and most don’t realize that people leadership is a primary key to their future success. Building a business is not a one-person job, and leading by edict rarely works today. You need to pick the right people , and learn as you go to lead the team.

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5 Ways Keeping A Journal Has Made Me A Better Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

by Paul Mayne, founder and CEO of Day One Journal. It’s been nearly 10 years since I started my company. Like every entrepreneur, growing a company was no small feat, with sleepless nights, unexpected challenges and looming deadlines. It’s also been 10 years since I committed to keeping a daily journal. While the stress that comes with owning and running my own company will never go away, I’ve found the simple act of journaling has made me a better entrepreneur.

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Plex flexes its shop floor muscle

deal architect

When I joined Gartner in 1995, I was part of the AAS (for Administrative Application Systems) service which largely covered accounting, financial planning and hcm applications. We gradually expanded the AAS scope to also cover procurement, order management and other.

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Four Tricky VC Questions and How To Handle Them

View from Seed

During the course of a fundraise, founders are likely to encounter a few questions from VC’s that seem awkward or even a bit unfair. These are questions that usually don’t have anything to do with the business itself, but center around the dynamics of the round or maybe the motivations of the founders. Below are the most common flavors of these questions.

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Finding Happiness at Work

Duct Tape Marketing

Finding Happiness at Work written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Bruce Daisley. Podcast Transcript. Today’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is author and podcaster Bruce Daisley. After a career as a senior executive at Twitter and Google, Daisley changed his trajectory. He left the corporate world to begin a podcast called Eat Sleep Work Repeat.

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The Entrepreneur: All You Need to Know About Filing a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

The Startup Magazine

Are you the owner of a new start-up? And, have you recently fallen ill and been unsuccessfully treated by a medical specialist? Consequently, do you suspect that you are a victim of medical malpractice? And, if so, what steps do you follow to file a medical malpractice suit? How do you protect your business’s viability if you are not able to work?

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7 Startup Risks That Come With Other People’s Money

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the myths I often hear as an advisor to many entrepreneurs is that their lifestyle would somehow be better if they could more easily find other people’s money to build their startup. They don’t realize that according to many experts , more than 90 percent of satisfied entrepreneurs use bootstrapping, since other people’s money always comes with strings, most of them negative.