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Strategic Jujitsu: New Business Models for Early Stage Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

Jujitsu is the martial art whereby you use your opponent’s strengths or your own (oft-perceived) weakness to your advantage. Hmmm. Sounds like a technique entrepreneurs might want to apply to know where and how to carve out a specific market niche. Many would use it to figure out specific points of friction where your larger competitors struggle, and focus there to compete with them.

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A bridge (round) to somewhere

David Cohen

We’re living at a time when valuations are very high, as Fred Wilson and Ari Newman have both recently pointed out. When valuations rise, so do the caps on notes, which are upper limits on valuation at conversion. In many cases the caps are very high because the entrepreneurs are telling the investors that they’re super confident they’re about to raise a larger round and they just need to “bridge” the company to that larger round.

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4 Great Jobs That Don’t Require Experience

YoungUpstarts

Congratulations, as a college graduate, it’s time to take that degree and put it to use in a lucrative job, right? College graduates spend hours applying for jobs only to be told they don’t have enough experience. This is a reality many college students face when making the transition from college to the workforce. How can recent graduates gain experience if no one is willing to take a chance?

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8 Challenging Employee Styles Test Every New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Cash isn’t always the scarcest resource startups have to invest – more often it’s the leadership capital of under-experienced and over-stretched entrepreneurs and co-founders.

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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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An Austin Primer for Female Entrepreneurs— Follow These Leaders & Join These Groups

Austin Startup

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a chunk of time that has both whizzed by and felt like I’ve been doing this my whole life. In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. It’s like that warm belly feeling after a full bowl of ramen. But with a couple sleepless nights and many, many Trello boards.

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How Cloud-Based Accounting Software Can Benefit Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

How Cloud-Based Accounting Software Can Benefit Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As a business owner, you are all too aware of the many moving pieces it takes for a business to run smoothly. One area that business owners know is important is accounting and bookkeeping, although it’s often the last area they want to spend time on.

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How to invest in technology

Start Up Blog

One of the most common questions I get asked is, ‘What technology or companies should I invest in? You study technology everyday and spend time large companies, so you must have an opinion’ And you guessed it – I sure do. While I’m not an investment advisor, there are some interesting things which we can be sure of when it comes to investing and technology.

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Angel Investors want to fall in love

Austin Startup

Raising funding from Angel Investors can feel like a catch-22. It’s easy to figure out who the active angel investors are but it’s hard to find the right time to pitch them. Most of them don’t seem like they want to to be “pitched” at all! How do you convince them to invest without pitching them? You need to get them to fall in love first. Not all investors are the same.

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ICE Heats up the Sector

thebarefootvc

The big news this morning is that Intercontinental Exchange, parent of the New York Stock Exchange, announced the formation of a new company, Bakkt, a global platform to allow consumers and institutions to buy, hold and store digital assets. Its first use cases will be for trading and conversion of Bitcoin versus fiat currencies. Partners include Microsoft, Starbucks and BCG: “ ‘In bringing regulated, connected infrastructure together with institutional and consumer applications for digital asse

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Virtually Limitless – The Untapped Potential Of Collaborative Software

YoungUpstarts

American business has been at forefront of establishing creative new technologies and innovations that streamline productivity and make work more effective and efficient. Every American city embodies this concept of newer, faster, and better, and this is very apparent in the leaps that the American office space has made in the last few years. As the progenitor of the coworking space movement, Americans have also taken on remote working and fined tuned it for the American business palate.

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Digital with Impact

deal architect

This is the third in my midsummer updates around cloud computing, renewables and digital transformations. Over the last few months, I have been collaborating with my colleague, Brian Sommer as he works on a book titled “Digital with Impact”. Both.

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7 Citizen Engagement Tips to Help Build Sustainable and Inclusive Smart Cities

Austin Startup

Image Description: Background image includes blue and green squares of varying sizes. The word “SOLUTIONS” is in the foreground in white capital letters. How to foster dynamic civic participation, ignite citizen co-creation, and leverage human-centered urban design Lessons learned in the 20-year history of Smart Cities are testaments to the truth that successful and sustainable Smart Cities cannot be built solely upon the technology mainframe.

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How to Transform Your Company Into an Inbound Organization

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Transform Your Company Into an Inbound Organization written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Todd Hockenberry. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Todd Hockenberry. He is the founder of Top Line Results , a management consulting firm, and the co-author of the book Inbound Organization: How to Build and Strengthen Your Company’s Future Using Inbound Principles , which we discuss today.

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Going Beyond Facial Recognition – Why The Future Of Security And Possibilities Lie In Video Analytics

YoungUpstarts

by Abhijit Shanbag, CEO of Graymatics. The possibilities of facial recognition have placed it at the forefront as both a security measure as a means of biometric identification, as well as a reliable means of gathering data for analytical purposes. In a world with greater reliance and threats presented to our sensitive information and data, basing our security solely on a password isn’t enough.

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Growing our team: V1 is hiring an associate

Version One Ventures

VC is an apprenticeship industry. When I joined Version One five years ago, I would have never guessed that I would be where I am today. So much of who I am today has to do with the fact that Boris spent a ton of time teaching and mentoring me, despite our different locations. From Day 1, he was dedicated to my personal and professional development.

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7 Signals Of A Future Startup Founder From Corporate

Startup Professionals Musings

While spending years in a big company as an employee and an executive, I heard many people talking about jumping the corporate ship, dreaming of being an entrepreneur, and totally in charge of their own destiny. Fortunately for many of them it was all talk and no action, saving them from a world of grief, since some simply didn’t have the attributes and mindset to be an entrepreneur.

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Startup Interview: Embargo App Disrupting Hospitality

The Startup Magazine

The Startup Magazine caught up with Tsewang Wangkang and Frederick Szydlowski , co-founders of the Embargo App, an app that helps both venues and patrons enjoy their bar and restaurant experiences with an effective loyalty and customer engagement program. TV Presenter Naomi Isted Reviews Embargo App Features. TSM: Who are the founders of Embargo App?

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Arshad Madhani Shares Three Things Every Young Entrepreneur Should Know

YoungUpstarts

Arshad Madhani knew from a young age that his future was in marketing. As a kid, he used to create things and then try to convince friends and family to buy them. He didn’t realize that marketing was an actual job until he got older, but his heart was always in the field. Today, Madhani leverages over a decade of experience as a digital marketing expert to provide valuable consulting services to a variety of entrepreneurs.

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3 Free Banking Apps for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Financial institutions and entrepreneurs have a historically complicated relationship. Entrepreneurs need ways to fund their companies and keep business moving, meaning they lean on banks for everything from business loans to checking accounts. And banks need entrepreneurs, too — without small businesses fueling the economy, there isn’t much banks can do.

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7 Attributes Of Many Exceptional New Venture Founders

Startup Professionals Musings

In my years of working with entrepreneurs, I have heard many times the promise that their new idea will create the next Amazon or Apple, but I rarely hear the more important promise that the founder will practice all the good habits of winning entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs. You see, I’m convinced that the entrepreneur makes the company, not the other way around.

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Prime Day is bad for Amazon’s brand

The Next Web

Amazon introduced Prime Day in 2015 as a way to celebrate its 20th anniversary as a one-day sale with the aim of overshadowing Black Friday. The sale was available only to Prime members and over the years has become a premier shopping day that grabs media attention and drives competitive brands to launch side-by-side sales. This year, Prime Day had several added elements to drive buzz like a concert and extended hours.

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Top 3 Plagiarism Checkers For Essay Writers

YoungUpstarts

The word “plagiary” is familiar to any academician or a person who is engaged in creative activities. Hundreds of students are even afraid of hearing this word because they know how much they will pay for using the ideas or thoughts of others not mentioning the author’s name. The primary aim of this article is to hunt down the question of plagiarism, find out what it is and what software products to use in order to check the uniqueness of your research, review, article or blog

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Flight of the BAT: Chinese Tech Charging Ahead

VC Cafe

We seem to have hit an inflection point as more VC funding went to China than the US in Q2 2018. Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are investing billions in innovation and have a play in seemingly every. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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10 Commonly Held Myths That Limit Competitive Efforts

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur believes in their heart that their startup is more innovative and creative than their competitors. Yet none knows exactly where creativity comes from within, or how to pick and motivate the most creative people for the team. Most believe and follow one or more of the popular myths on business creativity, even though none of them have much scientific evidence.

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There is Nothing Magical About 95% Statistical Significance

ConversionXL

You are probably ending your A/B tests either too early or too late. The standard best practice in the conversion optimization industry is to wait until two conditions have been met before ending an A/B test. First, that a representative sample is obtained. Second, that the winner of the test can be declared with 95% certainty or greater. You can see the latter standard touted here and here and here.

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Global Content Marketing: Expand With An International Strategy

YoungUpstarts

by Tim John, Director of Business Development at Intrawelt. Creating the right strategy is one of the main ways to expand your customer base. Your strategy is an explanation of why you are creating content for your audience and how you can make a difference above every other company out there. It’s about building up your audience to get your desired outcome and a great return on investment.

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Israeli Technologies for the Elderly

VC Cafe

We live longer lives - the number of Americans over 65 will double by 2060, according to a report by the Population Research Bureau. But statistically, we will suffer from health issues, loss of. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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This is how you can personalize marketing campaigns — without violating GDPR

The Next Web

GDPR — no other four letters are giving tech companies a bigger headache this year. So many articles have been written about it, you might wonder why you should read this one. It’s simple, really, you shouldn’t unless you are one of the 92 percent of marketers who according to a recent study by Evergage Inc use digital personalization. Instead of boring you with yet another generic explanation of what the GDPR is, I’d like to address the new regulations through the looking-glass of personalizati

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Can you defend your pricing niche against your competition?

Berkonomics

This week, we continue our series on marketing and positioning. There can be nothing more important in your business planning that selecting the proper pricing niche, making your story clear using that niche, and the defending your position against the competition. So, here comes the lesson and your challenge…. The five major niches. There are five major classes or niches a company should examine and make its own in calculating positioning in the marketplace.

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Grammer Checker – Free Grammar Check Online Software

YoungUpstarts

Everyone knows learning grammar rules and then implementing them is way too hard. Along with just being hard, it takes a lot of time to learn them and then use them to write perfect, error-free text. Even after these efforts you still have the chance to make errors such as grammar mistakes, spelling mistakes, etc. The IT experts have come up with an application that can ease this problem; it is the grammar checker.

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How To Incorporate Core Values Into Your Marketing Strategy

YFS Magazine

We will continue to see a shift in how businesses utilize their core values as a way to drive their digital marketing strategy. Here’s how.

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Ten leadership lessons from Alibaba’s founder

VC Cafe

I finished the book “Alibaba, The House that Jack Ma Built” by Duncan Clark. I recommend it. Its hard not to get drawn to Jack’s Cinderella story. Coming from a very humble background, his. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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3 Types of Videos That Startups Can Use For Marketing

The Startup Magazine

For startups nowadays videos can be a tricky proposition. On one hand no startup can afford to ignore videos due its sheer effectiveness, but on the other hand the budget constraints most startups are saddled with makes creating videos for funnel marketing a painful affair. Because of that it is important that startups focus on the right types of videos.

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Being a Children’s Education Funds Inc. (CEFI) Dealing Representative: How It Can Satisfy Your Inner Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

Merriam-Webster defines entrepreneur as: “one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.” It’s come to mean someone who’s a go-getter, a visionary, independent and creative, an innovator. All of these characteristics and qualities can have their appeal. Individually, maybe. But many would-be entrepreneurs get lost at “innovate.

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The Value of Both Optimists and Pessimists in the Room

Feld Thoughts

I spend a lot of time thinking about and working on team dynamics. For a sense of how we think about them at Foundry Group, read Lindel’s great recent post Working at Threshold. During a recent board call, there was a particularly challenging segment of the discussion. Afterward, I was frustrated because I felt like I was having an argument with another board member about something, but operating with different data.

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5 Things to Consider When Opening a Car Dealership

Up and Running

Opening a car dealership requires careful planning. Aspiring dealers must take into account the specific legal requirements they will need to comply with to open a dealership in their state. You must also consider other aspects such as your local market, whether to offer new and/or used cars, what startup expenses you will be facing, and how to develop a solid business plan.