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3 Simple Tips From A CPA For Managing Your Online Business’ Finances

YoungUpstarts

by Dustin Pfluger, Partner at BKM Sowan Horan, LLP. Developing profitable products and services constitutes a major part of starting a business. However, other aspects such as forecasting and accounting are equally as important in ensuring that a business continues to grow. These tasks may seem secondary and overwhelming when starting out but the output from these activities serve as key indicators of the health of the business.

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How to Pitch to Investors in 10 Minutes and Get Funded

Up and Running

Image via WOCinTechChat. I know what it’s like to pitch to investors—both angels and venture capitalists. I’ve raised close to $1 million from angel investors for my previous technology startups. Sometimes you only get 10 minutes to pitch your business opportunity to the investors (or less in some cases). Here’s how to get started. Create a presentation.

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Reduce Startup Costs with These Effective Ideas

The Startup Magazine

The goal of becoming a successful business owner isn’t as easy as it appears. In fact, statistically speaking, 90% of all startups will fail. Though the reason for their demise will vary greatly, one of the leading factors is finances. Unable to sustain enough capital to run their business efficiently leads to increased debt, dissatisfied customers, and the inability to sell your products or services.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Each business has a story. No matter if the business is a Goliath like Wal-Mart, or a local business owned by a couple or family, the business has roots in an idea. For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each and brand.

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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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Career Paths That Have A Clear Future

YoungUpstarts

If you’re just starting out in your career or you’re thinking of taking a new direction going forward, it’s definitely worth thinking about which jobs actually have a future right now. With automation and all the things that might bring in the years and decades ahead, you don’t want to be left on the scrap heap just because you chose the wrong career path.

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Framework Benchmarks Hardware Update

TechEmpower

We have retired the hardware environment provided by Server Central for our Web Framework Benchmarks project. We want to sincerely thank Server Central for having provided servers from their lab environment to our project. Their contribution allowed us to continue testing on physical hardware with 10-gigabit Ethernet. Ten-gigabit Ethernet gives the highest-performing frameworks opportunity to shine.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. But, we normally have a clear ceiling on how high we can grow AUM, before hitting practical limits to deploying capital within the traditional VC model. . My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building.

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How To Effectively Market Your Small Dental Business

YoungUpstarts

Dental practices can be found in almost every town; however you’ll often find that your local dentist is reasonably small and well-hidden. If you’ve recently started up a dental practice of your own, you’ll want to ensure your marketing efforts are effective in order to build a sufficient client base and begin earning some profits. There are hundreds, if not thousands of different marketing methods available today, however there are a select few that will work perfectly for small dental business

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Can You Replace Lawyers With Software?

The Startup Magazine

A business runs on diligence, passion, and creativity — but it also needs a whole lot of legal help. Regardless of your industry, your startup needs legal assistance to ensure its growth remains safe and secure. You need lawyers to help you with incorporation and IP creation. You also need lawyers to help you write contracts for clients and staff. However, what you don’t need is lawyers’ prohibitive fees, which can cost your startup hundreds of thousands of dollars — even millions — in just the

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What is TATE? A mega growth industry

Start Up Blog

After a keynote speech, I was asked again today what will happen to all the people who will lose their jobs due to Automation and Artificial Intelligence. The example cited was people who drive for a living. While I’ve written about this before, as well as the shift off farms to the cities in the. Continue reading → The post What is TATE?

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Giving Visionary Women Their Due

Hunter Walker

Even though I finished reading Emily Chang’s Brotopia last month, it’s lingered. One passage in particular — Jennifer Hyman , CEO of Rent the Runway, talking about how we call many men in tech “visionary” but fail to apply this characteristic as often (or at all) to women. Reflecting on Jennifer’s assertion, I thought of our experience with theSkimm , one of the most dynamic audience companies out there today and a startup we were fortunate to first back in 2

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Be the architect of your own schedule

Jeff Hilimire

Oh man, my schedule right now is nuts! I’ve always been somewhat maniacal about how I manage my schedule (proof: check out this post from 2014 called I use email and my calendar to manage my life.) But right now, my cup definitely over-floweth. It’s probably because Dragon Army has grown 3x over the last year. Or maybe its because I have five children and they have a seemingly endless number of activities these days.

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Cognizant Community: Applied Digital

deal architect

Most industry events follow a formula: lots of product announcements, rock bands which feed on audience nostalgia, partner pavilions, often annoying MCs. Cognizant Community is a complete outlier. Client executives convene for 3 days in a relaxed setting over TED.

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The State of Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

Co-founder magazine just interviewed me about the current state of entrepreneurship – in startups and large companies – and how we got here. I thought they did a good job of capturing my thoughts. Take a read here. click here to read the rest of the article.

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Principles For Low-Budget Marketing Strategies Every Startup Should Know

YoungUpstarts

by Dishan Jayasinha, founder, CEO and creative head of DG Studio. Like every art, discipline, or professional project, marketing also requires a set of systematic principles. Beyond the diversity of brands, corporate cultures and successful strategies that have been created in the business history, all the valuable products or services have something in common: the satisfaction of a social desire or necessity.

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5 Motivations That Bode Well For New Venture Success

Startup Professionals Musings

As a startup advisor, I see many aspiring entrepreneurs whose primary motivation seems to be to work part time, or get rich quick, or avoid anyone else telling them what to do. Let me assure you, from personal experience, and from helping many successful as well as struggling entrepreneurs, that starting a business is hard work, and doesn’t come with any of the benefits mentioned.

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Anaplan: The verticalization of analytics

deal architect

I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage.

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Will remote work ever become mainstream?

The Next Web

For the past five years of my professional career, I’ve been blessed to work remotely from my home. First, as an SEO freelancer, then as an employee, and currently, as a content marketing consultant. Working remotely has meant I’ve been able to work from the comfort of my home (or a coffee shop, whenever I’m tired of seeing the same wall every day) without having to suffer the problems of commuting.

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Female Leadership When Women Mentor Other Women

Brandanew

It used to be a running joke many moons ago when I was a young employee right out of school that if you had a female boss, you were ruined. This was supposed to be especially true for women employees. For the longest time I believed this to be true only of India. Not only was this view an open-secret in all countries I’ve lived in, it felt true at times.

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7 Modern Business Values Lead To Sustainable Profits

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to set the culture you need for a thriving business, as well as thriving employees, customers, partners, and vendors. In fact, in my experience, cultures are very hard to change, so if you don’t get it right the first time, the road ahead will forever be difficult. “The Art of War” culture as an analogy for business doesn’t always work anymore.

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Influence v. Intelligence

deal architect

I am writing this on a flight home. Been gone 12 days in 4 hotels, 7 flights, 20 Uber rides. Have not checked two bags in a long, long while. A friend asked me if I was ok since I.

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Why We’re Market-First, Not Technology-First, Investors

View from Seed

My partners and I have been very public and transparent over the past six months about our thematic investing approach — what we call the Everyday Economy. Our philosophy is about backing technology-enabled startups that have the potential to touch millions of end-users, become ingrained in users’ daily lives, or some combination of the two. Often, these startups tend to fall in areas like home , food , apparel , transportation — but fitting squarely within a specific vertical isn

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Why Startup Businesses Should Invest In Lead Response Time To Increase Sales Conversion

YoungUpstarts

Conversion optimization is a vital aspect of a business that business owners must understand. But did you know that a simple client response can improve your conversion? A website is not a mere tool to let the world know about your business. It must go hand in hand with your offline operations such as customer support and marketing initiatives. How?

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Millennials Own The Future: This Is How Smart Brands Will Reach Them

YFS Magazine

Millennials love to optimize their lifestyle and engage in powerful experiences–they live for it. Any brand that can embrace their way of being, become a part of it, and help them enhance it, will firmly set itself up for success.

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Influence v. Intelligence

deal architect

I am writing this on a flight home. Been gone 12 days in 4 hotels, 7 flights, 20 Uber rides. Have not checked two bags in a long, long while. A friend asked me if I was ok since I.

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Why prioritization and focus are the key skills for success

The Next Web

Everyone I know is working hard, yet only a handful are crushing it. Why is that? I think I have the answer and it comes down to our skills in two areas; prioritization and focus. I first noticed this phenomenon when working as a strategy consultant. As I became increasingly disillusioned with the incredibly long hours and seemingly low impact our work was having, I started assessing my future.

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When Bitcoin Investment Adviser Relationships Sour

YoungUpstarts

by Robert Long and Ross A. Williams, partners at Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP. As cryptocurrency goes mainstream, cryptocurrency investment advisers have started to spring up. These may be highly-sophisticated businesspeople who have developed an expertise in cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency investment aces who have developed a financial services business (perhaps by starting a cottage industry advising friends and family), or anything in between.

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Lean Impact : Innovating for Social Good

Startup Lessons Learned

Ann Mei Chang is the Executive Director of Lean Impact, the social good division of the Lean Startup Company. This fall, her book based her own experiences using lean approaches to innovate in the social sector, including during her time at USAID, as well as stories from nonprofits, social enterprises, companies, government agencies, foundations, and philanthropists all over the world, will be published.

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Cognizant Community: Applied Digital

deal architect

Most industry events follow a formula: lots of product announcements, rock bands which feed on audience nostalgia, partner pavilions, often annoying MCs. Cognizant Community is a complete outlier. Client executives convene for 3 days in a relaxed setting over TED.

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Pros And Cons Of Being An Entrepreneur Vs. An Employee

YFS Magazine

Before even thinking about forming a new company, you need to understand that entrepreneurship offers a lifestyle characterized by risk and reward on one hand. On the other hand, being an employee promises a level of security, little risk as well as little reward.

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How To Handle Burnout When Building A Startup

YoungUpstarts

You don’t need an oracle to tell you that starting a new business is difficult and nerve-racking, particularly if you new to entrepreneurship. You have to consider a number of things such as how to raise the startup money to finance the business, think about spending plenty of time mapping out strategies on how to move the business forward and lots more.

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5 Ways Creative Entrepreneurs Can Keep Motivated

Up and Running

As a graphic and website designer who has grown a business, I fit into the typical definition of “creative entrepreneur.”. So do photographers, interior designers, furniture designers, illustrators, and anyone else who makes money from these “artistic” endeavors that fit neatly into the “right-brained” mold (which is actually a myth ). In fact, I believe that lots of different entrepreneurs can identify as creative—even logistics analysts and financial consultants.

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Anaplan: The verticalization of analytics

deal architect

I spent a few hours at Anaplan’s annual Hub conference in Vegas. It is my first time at an Anaplan event and I sensed the buzz of a vendor going through a phase of rapid growth and having to manage.

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Selling Your Company? When To Say ‘No’ To An Acquisition

YFS Magazine

We knew if we could continue to double our sales, we could hold off, keep scaling the business, and in the end be in a much better place to sell. And we did just that.

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Stretch Your Startup Budget Further: 5 Strategies For Frugal Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Not every entrepreneur is blessed with deep pockets or generous family members. For many, “bootstrapping” involves lots of ramen noodle dinners, working weekends, and foregone hobbies. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. But when it’s imperative that you watch every penny, you need to have a plan in place to stave off lifestyle inflation and keep the lion’s share of your cash flow directed where it matters most: your business’s balance sheet.

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How to Start Your First Business: Your 5-Step Plan

The Startup Magazine

If you are tired of the mundane 9 to 5 and want to take your life into your own hands, the key to a happier future could be to launch your own company. However, starting your own business is no easy feat. Not only do you need to find funding, but you also have the whole world to compete with. If you think you have what it takes, though, here is how to start your first business in 2018.