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4 Major Challenges Of Being Your Own Boss (And How To Overcome Them)

YoungUpstarts

by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. Being your own boss is living “The Dream,” right? But, like anything truly worth doing, being your own boss comes with its own set of unique challenges. The proverbial “buck” stops with you. There is no manager to help you when things get tough. No kindly senior supervisor with years of experience and wisdom to guide you.

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10 Rules For Business Success That Haven’t Changed

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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Is The Quest For “Software Margins” To Blame For Twitter’s Trolls, Facebook’s Russians and YouTube’s Fake News?

Hunter Walker

Nothing gets an investor’s heart racing like the phrase “software margins.” It’s shorthand for the concept than businesses which are primarily bits (not atoms) have some very attractive characteristics: fixed development costs, economies of scale in deployment & servicing, and “winner take most” markets with pricing power.

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The Austinpreneur’s Guide to SXSW 2018 Panels & Parties

Austin Startup

It’s here! The biggest week of the year for tech and startups in Austin, Texas as South by Southwest (SXSW) descends upon the city from March 19–15. There are a zillion things to do, both official and unofficial?—?so here are some of my picks that might stand out from the crowd. Did I miss something? Leave it in the comments! Surrender to Serendipity My general rule of thumb is to make a big calendar with everything I could possibly want to do on it and then in the moment do whichever of the thi

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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 Big Ideas For Small Business Marketing

YoungUpstarts

by Brian Sutter, Director of Marketing, Wasp Barcode Technologies. What are your plans for 2018? It’s well underway by now – hopefully you’ve got a few of them implemented already. But if there’s still any room in your calendar, consider making some time for the ideas below. Some of these may not fully hit in 2018, but it’s not too soon to get started with them.

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5 Tips for Private Practice Optometrists to Grow Profits This Year

Mike Michalowicz

Profitability is the main key to business success. But maintaining that profitability is becoming more difficult for private practice optometrists. There is increasing competition from big box stores, mall kiosks, and the internet to overcome. Online refractions and other commoditized industry services make it hard for private practices to remain relevant in the marketplace.

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Tortoise vs. the Hare

Austin Startup

Most startup-lore is focused on lightning fast growth or striking out, but what about slow-growth businesses? The proverbial tortoise to the blitzscaling hares? Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?

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How To Create A Dedicated Software Development Team

YoungUpstarts

Making your development team can be difficult at first. There’s a myriad of deadlines, employees who don’t understand the scope of the project, and other issues that can lead to failure. But, as a project developer, it’s your responsibility to build a team that’s going to benefit you. With this guide. We’ll give you some tips on how to set up a good team so that you can get everyone onboard with your project.

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5 Ways Texting Can Grow Your Company in 2018

Transformify

If growth and improved communication are among your company's goals in 2018, then you may want to consider your HR strategies and methods. The HR department is responsible for much of the basic communication with employees from the very start of their professional journey with your company. From training to answering policy questions, HR needs to disseminate mundane information to employees in a fast and memorable way.

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How to Tap Into the Subscription Economy

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Tap Into the Subscription Economy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Anne Janzer. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Anne Janzer. She is an award-winning author and non-fiction writing coach who has written books like The Writers Process and The Workplace Writer’s Process.

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How Tech Leaders & Venture Capitalists Can Get Out of Our “Man Box”

Both Sides of the Table

If I had just one wish for VCs it would be that they would preview the Ted Bunch “Man Box” talk at the Upfront Summit at their Monday Partner Meetings. I would love it if startup leadership teams would preview it to their executive leadership. We need to learn from women and listen to them. We also need to start having a conversation amongst men about how men talk and behave and about the silence that leads to consent if we’re going to make necessary changes.

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How To Build The Perfect Website For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

If you think you have a good business idea and want to sell your product or service online, you will need a website that is attractive and appealing to the eye. It also needs to be of interest to your target audience and this is where research is vitally important. Get To Know Your Audience. Before you start the actual building of your website, some preparation work can make the difference between it being successful or not.

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7 Keys To Success With An Employee Ownership Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the lessons I have learned over the years as a business executive, and now as a mentor to entrepreneurs, is that if you really want employees who enthusiastically take ownership of their work, you have to start treating them like owners, not renters. Owners feel they have skin in the game, and benefit from improved effort and results, rather than just getting blamed for problems.

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For Satya Nadella, Business is Personal

deal architect

David Pogue stole the title of this post in this CBS News story on Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. During the analyst summit in Redmond a couple of weeks ago (see my write up here), I picked up a copy.

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Of course robots will do our cryptocurrency investing

The Next Web

There’s nothing that we as a society get more excited about and panicked by than technological progress. On one hand, we understand that innovations like artificial intelligence and Bitcoin are autonomous, powerful entities that many of us will never truly know — and what we don’t know, we don’t always trust. On the other hand, we recognize that these technological advancements were created to make our lives easier.

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5 Services You Haven’t Thought About Outsourcing

YoungUpstarts

Many business owners shy away from outsourcing because they believe it’s easier to control work done in-house, and because they really don’t want to outsource business services. However, it’s very hard to scale a startup with a small team and a small budget. If you insist on doing everything yourself, it’s likely your business will grow at a very slow pace, and might even hit a plateau of zero growth.

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5 Ways To Give Now For A Future Competitive Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors a few years ago to give away their battery patents, to infrastructure and competitive c

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For Satya Nadella, Business is Personal

deal architect

David Pogue stole the title of this post in this CBS News story on Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. During the analyst summit in Redmond a couple of weeks ago (see my write up here), I picked up a copy.

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Behind every successful Scandinavian startup is a jealous and unsupportive community

The Next Web

Scandinavia is annoyingly perfect from the outside. They’re the happiest people on earth, they have universal healthcare, free education and paid parental leave. And now they have one of the most successful startup ecosystems in the world. Things are certainly good up north. But every paradise has its snake. The weird thing about this success is that Scandinavian people, in fact, hate success – this is called the Jantelaw.

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The One ICO Marketing Checklist You Need To Succeed

YoungUpstarts

Initial coin offerings or ICOs are one of the hottest opportunities in the world of blockchain and tech for companies and teams to get needed funding without sacrificing equity or long wait times. As such, every individual and group with an idea (and some without one) is trying to conduct their own ICO for one reason or another. Why ICOs Fail. Some succeed, and others fail for some reasons, but most often, its due to having a terrible marketing plan.

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7 Steps For Counseling Employees Who Need To Change

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and new business owners, I’ve long observed that one of the toughest challenges is people change management in the team. It’s an area where you typically have little experience and training, and dealing with needed change is fraught with emotions on both sides. I have found that my years in a big company have paid huge dividends in this area.

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From Near-Death To Business Success: How I Built My Digital Dreams

YFS Magazine

At 28 I had a heart attack and nearly died. It was a wake-up call that required me to shift gears; so I ventured into the online space and started my coaching company.

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Pay Yourself…It’s Better for Your Business!

Mike Michalowicz

When I’m consulting with clients looking to invigorate and grow their businesses, one question I often ask is: “Who’s your most valuable employee?” They inevitably give me the wrong answer. They might wax poetic about their rockstar sales person or their dedicated assistant, but they’re missing an obvious point. Entrepreneurs don’t realize that they, themselves, are their most valuable employee, and that is a short-sighted position.

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4 Tips For Achieving Success Without Waiting Your Turn

YoungUpstarts

by Michelle A. Turman , author of “ Jumping the Queue: Achieving Great Things Before You’re Ready “ Forget the time-honored tradition that younger workers need to “pay their dues” before moving up the ladder of success. These days many young people see no need to wait their turn – and their refusal to patiently stand in line is the right idea.

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6 Tools To Drive You To Promote Yourself In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many people, young and older, let their career and their lifestyle happen to them, rather than proactively making things happen based on their personal passions, skills, and interests. Others make decisions based on someone else’s interests, such as the father who wants his son to take over the family business, or dreams openly of having a doctor in the family.

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How To Outsmart Facebook’s Algorithm And Remain Visible

YFS Magazine

Facebook is constantly updating its algorithm. Stay up to date by checking Facebook Business News often, watch Page analytics closely, and use these tips to build an algorithm-approved Facebook strategy.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Motivation for Running a Business

Hearpreneur

Being an entrepreneur or business owner has its share of ups and downs. While the downs can be pretty low the ups always seem to triumph for a true entrepreneur at heart. Milestones are what entrepreneurs and business owners work towards. Once you finally reach a certain point then reflection can truly begin. Finding the motivation in running your business keeps it from becoming stale in the long run.

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Why Emotional Intelligence Will Become A Key Leadership Skill At Work

YoungUpstarts

by Soulaima Gourani , founder and CEO of Tradeconductor. In the future, when information and knowledge become available to everyone and robots begin to replace humans at work, the question is – what will the future of workplace look like? Many believe that robots represent the future workforce and it is just a matter of time when technology will replace a lot of jobs.

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Why Biohacking and Bodyhacking Are The Wrong Words

Feld Thoughts

We (the tech industry) like to label everything. I attribute the source of this desire and need to Regis McKenna although he may have just been the genius that amplified it. The labels I dealt with early in my professional career (the 1980s) included micro computers, mini-computers, artificial intelligence, expert systems, neural networks, middleware, super computers, parallel computing, and killer app.

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Confessions Of A Female Immigrant Entrepreneur In Silicon Valley

YFS Magazine

Being a minority — a young, female Indian tech entrepreneur — I relentlessly spent the first three years building my first startup and knocking on the doors of almost every venture capital firm in the valley, until I raised my first round of venture financing.

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Where to Sell Art, Crafts, and Designs Online

Up and Running

According to the Hiscox Online Art Trade Report of 2017 , the online art market rose 15 percent to $3.75 billion in 2016. When you consider that the global art market value is said to range anywhere from $12 billion to $56.6 billion , it’s safe to say that the online art business has plenty of room for growth. Studies show that by 2021, it could be worth about $9.14 billion.

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[ADV] Health Insurance For Expatriates In Germany

YoungUpstarts

There is nothing as important as health. You cannot put a price on the security of and well-being of you or your loved ones. Unfortunately, health is unpredictable and the slightest injury or illness can be a huge financial burden. In order to avoid the financial dents and insufficient medical attention that arise in the event of an illness, you must have a health insurance cover.

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Venture Summit: Connecting with Silicon Valley Venture Capital

The Startup Magazine

Venture Summit | West , presented by youngStartup Ventures, is one of many upcoming events helping both startups seeking capital and exposure, and investors seeking new deals. In its effort to advocate and be a resource for the startup community, The Startup Magazine is sponsoring this leading venture capital gathering in the heart of tech hub Silicon Valley.

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Blindsided: Where Business Acquisitions Go Wrong

YFS Magazine

It's easy to be blindsided by the future if you're always looking to the past for information. By the time a customer leaves, you've had months of failures but didn't realize it. Look forward instead.

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DivInc Selects 11 Startups to Join its Accelerator

SiliconHills

DivInc, the Austin-based accelerator focused on helping minority and women entrepreneurs, announced Wednesday its latest cohort with 11 startups. The program is set to launch April 2nd and will be based at Capital Factory. It is the fourth class of entrepreneurs that DivInc has coached and mentored. In 2016, Preston James, Ashley Jennings, and Dana […].

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5 Young People Making Waves In Cryptocurrency

YoungUpstarts

Cryptocurrencies threaten to upend the financial paradigm we’ve known since birth, and for many entrepreneurs, investors, and believers, the likes of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and other digital currencies have become gateways to vast swathes of wealth and influence. It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that new generations of young, tech-savvy investors and dreamers have taken to heart the potential of blockchain technology – and at times have made both significant academic and financial d

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