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Harnessing the power of strategic partnerships

The Startup Magazine

Just as with humans, isolation puts businesses at risk. Therefore, fostering relationships with other persons or companies can be viewed both as a lifeline and a sure route to success. Strategic partnerships, paired with a purpose and an expert team to execute, also equips both parties to weather challenging times. However, while these same partnerships can act as a silver bullet in a particular situation, when done haphazardly, they can be the poison that kills business.

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Not Just A Buzz Phrase: How Disney’s Mission Drives Its Continuing Success

YoungUpstarts

by Michael G. Goldsby and Rob Mathews, authors of “ Entrepreneurship the Disney Way “ Have you ever found yourself thinking that a mission is just a buzzword, and a mission statement is nothing more than corporate fluff? If so, you are not alone. But the sad reason behind this hasty judgment may be that for most companies, it’s true. Too many organizations lack a core mission that’s been well defined by a good mission statement.

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7 Strategies To Accelerate Creativity In Your Company

Startup Professionals Musings

Within the startup realm, there is a big difference between having an innovative product versus an innovative business. Some startups have a new technology, but stick to a tried-and-true business model. Others take an existing product, and give it new life with a creative business model. The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time.

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Who Should be on Your Startup Board?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the things that founders have the most angst about is whom they should have on their board and at what stage of the business. This is smart because amazing board members can be transformative with important advice and access and can also help attract other great board members (and team members). Bad board members can make business very unpleasant.

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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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Next-gen Enterprise Apps

deal architect

I am reviewing the latest typeset draft of my next book. While much of the content is focused on SAP, its customers and its competitors, sprinkled throughout the book are glimpses of a rapidly changing enterprise apps market. Anshu Sharma.

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E-Learning – The New Generation School

YoungUpstarts

Developing e-careers and courses is becoming more popular and is highly on the rise, so there is a new and ever growing pool of businesses and providers helping those with their courses. Popular courses for e-careers include business management, accounting, software, and to a lesser extent, childcare. The aim of some of these leaders is to help connect people and offer a new and innovative educational experience.

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Lessons from a Diverse Venture Capital Portfolio

This is going to be BIG.

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Fifteen had co-founders over 40. Five have LGBTQ+ founders. Three teams have African-American founders. Three of the founding teams are married couples. All were backed based on the sole criteria that they had the potential to make my limited partners a lot of money.

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5 Side Hustles that Become Potential Careers

The Startup Magazine

If you have ever been broke or tired of working a routine 9-5 job you may have turned to making money through gigs or side hustles. These jobs let you have a taste of what it’s like earning money by doing what it is that you are passionate about. Did you know that any side hustles have the potential to help you build a career and earn a steady income?

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How To Start A Consulting Business

YoungUpstarts

by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. Navigating the transition between a salaried employee and running your own consulting business can be tricky. If you’re ready to take the leap, we’re here to share 4 of the 10 steps you’ll need to know to get started. And if you like what you read here, be sure to read the complete 10 step guide on how to start a consulting business. 1.

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10 Ways To Highlight The Credibility Of Your Website

Startup Professionals Musings

Smart people only visit and buy from credible and memorable websites. In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. In today’s world, a website is necessary but not sufficient for credibility. Dreamers and gamblers have found out that if the website isn’t validated as credible, it’s probably a scam, and everyone loses.

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Learn from People, Not Classes

Reid Hoffman

CAMBRIDGE I / ALEJANDRO GUIJARRO. Over the past two decades the internet has reshaped our daily lives and the world of business—so it’s not surprising that it’s transforming how companies develop talent. The emergence of a “personal learning cloud” makes it convenient and affordable for people to access new ways to learn. And that’s a necessity: To keep pace with change and avoid disruption, business leaders must become what we call infinite learners—those who not only enjoy learning but feel a

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Investor Perspective: How to Write a Killer Business Plan

The Startup Magazine

Startups with a solid business plan and great pitch deck have a far greater chance of gaining investment. In this essay by one of Mercia’s Fund Principals, Ian Wilson, Ian talks about the sorts of things he and the team are looking for when plans come to them for review. Republished with permission. The best business plans help investors understand the opportunity, the risk, and of course the potential return.

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6 Leadership Habits CEOs Need To Develop

YoungUpstarts

by Mark Green , author of “ Activators: A CEO’s Guide to Clearer Thinking and Getting Things Done “ Bad habits can be hard to break, and for business leaders who have them, they can be deal-breakers. In a survey by Leadership IQ, an online training firm, the primary reasons CEOs were fired – mismanaging change, ignoring customers, tolerating low performers, and not enough action – were often related to unproductive habits.

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The Benefits of Including Video on Your Website

Duct Tape Marketing

The Benefits of Including Video on Your Website written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on Including Video on Your Website. Video has become a foundational element in marketing. Why is video so important? It’s how people want to consume content. They want the ability to listen without reading, to be hands-free, and to just have the content coming at them.

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Reference Checks

Eric Friedman

An essential part of the hiring process for any company are reference checks. They are a great way to get some context on a potential employee and hear from people they have worked for, with, and around over an extended period of time. The typical process is to ask for 3 references that can speak on someones behalf they they supply that they have worked directly with.

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Don’t Just Look for a Mentor, Be One

The Startup Magazine

The value of mentors has been flaunted the world over and with excellent reason. They are the gateway to making it as a business as they share their experience and networks. Their wealth of knowledge is fundamental in the initial stages of a startup as they act as the winch that pulls out of murky waters that plague new businesses. However, even with their undeniable benefits, we forget that we too are tasked with passing on the help we gained and continue to learn.

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SXSW Startups: CargoX

Austin Startup

Stefan Kuman, CEO of CargoX The Forrest Four-Cast: February 19, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. A finalist in Transportation and Delivery , which will pitch at 9:30 am Saturday, March 9, CargoX is reshaping the future of global trade with the wo

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The One Thing That Great Leaders Understand

Both Sides of the Table

One Thing That Great Leaders Understand I was scanning Twitter this past week and I came across these great Tweets by Michael Seibel at Y Combinator. When I was young I thought management was about distribution/delegation of responsibilities. I now realize it is truly about the maintenance of morale and motivation. Morale and motivation are moving targets that require consistent and proactive effort to maintain.

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An Interview with crowdspring Designer, Dhian Kusuma

crowdSPRING Blog

It’s not easy to create unique, memorable logos. But, diligence and dedication to your craft can make all the difference. This is true for Dhian Kusuma, (who goes by the username otnielz on crowdspring), a competitive logo and graphic designer. We recently spoke with Dhian about his experiences working with crowdspring. Dhian is a former computer programmer, father of two, Instagram addict and coffee-lover.

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10 Clues That A New Business May Not Be Your Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

People who get stressed managing their own lives don’t make good entrepreneurs. Small businesses require multi-tasking, work prioritization, and decision-making, with no assistants or help from specialists. That’s why Fortune 500 executives usually don’t survive as startup CEOs. First you have to learn to accept total responsibility for things that happen to your business, just like you are responsible for everything in your personal life.

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March 11: SXSW Innovation Awards

Austin Startup

The German marching band Meute performing at the 2018 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards The Forrest Four-Cast: Feb 19, 2019 50 of the world’s top startups will be showcased at SXSW Pitch 2019. Read interviews with many of these young companies via this Medium page. Another great spot to find emerging talent is the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards presented by KPMG on the evening of Monday, March 11 at the Austin Convention Center.

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Should You Allow “Board Observers” on Your Startup Board?

Both Sides of the Table

Should You Allow Board Observers on Your Startup Board? Photo by Antenna on Unsplash A board observer is somebody who attends your board meeting but doesn’t have a voting right. There are also certain points in a board meeting where you can ask the board observers to step out of the room unless they’ve negotiated specific rights that preclude this.

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Forged by fire

deal architect

Dennis Howlett writes about the "current levels of public angst among independent industry analysts at the state of enterprise software". He cites Raven Intel, Josh Greenbaum, Upper Edge, Brian Sommer, Jarret Pazahanick and me pointing to different problem areas in.

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Have you done your annual entrepreneurial health check?

NZ Entrepreneur

Christmas is long gone and the short weeks caused by public holidays are behind us until April. Before you plan the rest of your year, it’s time to take stock and look at conducting this ever-important “annual health check” on your business. The current New Zealand economic climate is buoyant and businesses are well positioned for growth. This means it’s even more important that Boards and owner-operators conduct regular health checks on their business to ensure their operations have a solid fou

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SXSW Startups: Geospiza

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 21, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. A finalist in the Enterprise and Smart Data category, which will pitch at 12:30 pm Saturday, March 9, Geospiza uses big data analytics to save lives in disaster.

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This is the Dumbest Op Ed I’ve Read in a While

Both Sides of the Table

I understand that Adam Grant is a fairly popular professor at Wharton and has a book that some people loved called “Originals” (for me it interesting but not mind blowing, and I have some first-hand knowledge of some of its inaccuracies). Having read his latest op-ed on email I know why I erred towards the side of of not loving his book as much as some did.

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Learn from People, Not Classes

Reid Hoffman

CAMBRIDGE I / ALEJANDRO GUIJARRO. Over the past two decades the internet has reshaped our daily lives and the world of business—so it’s not surprising that it’s transforming how companies develop talent. The emergence of a “personal learning cloud” makes it convenient and affordable for people to access new ways to learn. And that’s a necessity: To keep pace with change and avoid disruption, business leaders must become what we call infinite learners—those who not only enjoy learning but feel a

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5 Design Tips To Make Your Boxes Pop

YoungUpstarts

by Phil Bagdasarian, co-founder of Packwire. Attaining a competitive edge in today’s dog-eat-dog world can be a grueling experience. The e-commerce sector is notoriously competitive, requiring a lot more than a fantastic product. Converting proven tactics and strategies into sales is the first part of the battle. The second is all about delivery… literally!

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SXSW Startups: VOLO

Austin Startup

Volo co-founders Nicola Donadini, Melissa Mitchell and Lotis Bautista The Forrest Four-Cast: February 18, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin.

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Startup Boards

Both Sides of the Table

Startups that are backed by professional financial investors almost always have a Board of Directors that consists of some set of founders, investors and sometimes independent directors. While the management of a startup company deals with the day-to-day decision-making within the company (strategy, budgets, goals, tasks, compensation) ultimately the Board of Directors has the legal governing responsibilities for these things.

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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Poland

The Next Web

You may know Poland for its unpronounceable surnames and sour cabbage in absolutely every meal possible, however, this Central European nation is so much more than pickled vegetables and delicious comfort food. In recent years, Poland has been receiving more attention on the startup scene and in tech news. Not only because Poles are the 4th largest audience of the HBO series Silicon Valley, but because it’s proving to be one of the most innovative up-and-coming startup hubs of the CEE region.

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Simple Ways To Make Money Online

YoungUpstarts

If you dream of staring your own business where you can make a regular income online, you are in luck. Thanks to advanced technology, it has become far easier for people to earn an income on a part-time or full-time basis from the comfort of their own homes. Internet technology has improved our lives in many ways and earning money with greater ease is just one of the improvements we can look forward to.

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Three Questions with Bala Subramaniam

Version One Ventures

I recently caught up with my good friend Bala Subramaniam , who is the Head of Fulfillment at Instacart. You may remember Bala’s talk on supply-demand equilibrium at our data-driven marketplace meetup back in May 2017. Bala is a seasoned product, business, and technology leader. Before Instacart, he was at LinkedIn and Microsoft. I always learn a ton from him and this conversation was no exception.

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Should All of Management Attend Board Meetings?

Both Sides of the Table

Should All of Your Management Team Attend Board Meetings? The age old question for every startup is whom to involve in the board meeting. The reality is that there are some board meetings in which having a broad set of management present is a great idea and there are some meetings where in can be a hindrance. Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash The goal of the best run boards ought to be to balance information dissemination with using the brain trust of the company to guide critical decisions.

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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Finland

The Next Web

Although Finland has the lowest population in the EU, it’s responsible for 10 percent of global startup exits. We’ve also seen a number of international success stories, such as Nokia, Angry Birds, and Supercell, come out of Helsinki. How did a country with such a small population become such a hotspot for tech talent? Internally, the Finnish startup scene is extremely connected.

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Major Benefits Of Outsourcing To Commercial Cleaning Services

YoungUpstarts

If you have started a small business recently, then you might be struggling to keep your office or building as clean as possible. This is where you should consider commercial cleaning services as a solution to your problem. Of course, if you are an entrepreneur who has recently started a business for the very first time, you may be on a small budget.

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