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4 Ways Start-Ups Can Make Their Virtual Meetings More Productive

YoungUpstarts

by Brian Zeng, owner of Ponbee.com. “We spend as much as half our days in meetings.” – ‘ State of Modern Meeting ’ by Blue Jeans Network. It is therefore essential for business owners to think of ways to make meetings more productive and reduce the time spent in the conference rooms. This will not only ensure higher productivity and better efficiency within the organization, but the employees will be better engaged.

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Here’s A Painful Problem For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

With the Identity Theft Resource Center® reporting a 40 percent increase in data breaches in 2016, there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. Why is everyone so paranoid these days? My plea to entrepreneurs is to recognize these concerns as an opportunity, to make people’s life better, rather than stoke the fires.

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What we learned from the first week of Uber & Lyft returning to Austin

Austin Startup

by Andy Tryba & Marisa Goldenberg Ridesharing in Austin got even more interesting on Memorial Day as Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a statewide regulation framework overruling local Austin rules. After investing in 36 lobbyists to win this bill — Uber and Lyft got basically everything they wanted and both Silicon Valley giants turned their apps back on in Austin a few hours later.

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Personalization: How to Build a Revenue Boosting Program from Scratch

ConversionXL

Did you know that Netflix has only 90 seconds to find a show that suits a user before she gets frustrated and quits? According to a recent academic study, “a typical Netflix member loses interest after perhaps 60 to 90 seconds of choosing, having reviewed 10 to 20 titles (perhaps 3 in detail) on one or two screens.” How does Netflix manage to find the right show for the right user so quickly?

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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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Danger From Above: Be Aware Of Cloud Security Threats

YoungUpstarts

Cloud computing has many advantages, so it’s no wonder that uptake and growth continue to increase at a formidable pace. Many companies, not just the major players, are moving their data and applications over to the cloud. As with all technologies, new and old, there are strengths and weaknesses. One of the major concerns about cloud computing is security.

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Are You And Your New Venture Positioned For Success?

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the most diligent investors are often surprised by apparently solid business startups that fail, while others succeed, despite the odds. In my own experience as an investor, I have concluded that success is more about the people than the product. The best founders operate with a key set of internal principles that allow them to break through all but the toughest business obstacles.

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5 Keys to Launching New Initiatives

Growthink Blog

The world’s best run businesses efficiently and effectively decide upon, launch, manage and optimize new business projects and initiatives. In contrast, poorly run businesses struggle mightily to do so on all fronts. They struggle deciding where to invest scarce project time and resources. Once they do decide, they then struggle to get those new projects launched.

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How To Plan Your First Business Trip As An Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

Are you new to the wonderful world of entrepreneurship? Are you ready to take on everything that comes your way? Are you looking forward to your first business trip? As your business grows and you continue to travel, you’ll find that this can be an enjoyable experience. Planning your first business trip as an entrepreneur can be a challenge. There is something about being in charge of every aspect of your trip that can slow you down.

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$38,000 now officially up for grabs

Austin Startup

Enter the City of Austin’s GigaTECHs App Competition Registration is now open for the GigaTECHs App Competition — the City of Austin and U.S. Ignite’s $38,000 challenge for civic-minded developers interested in building gigabit speed apps. Submissions are due July 9 and must address one of five targeted issue areas via an app that utilizes gigabit speed internet.

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Why the Majority of Websites Fail

Duct Tape Marketing

Why the Majority of Websites Fail written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Gone are the days where businesses can rely solely on “pretty” websites. In today’s digital marketing landscape, a website must be an optimized, revenue-generating platform. I’ll just get right to it: The reason so many websites fail is because businesses take a design-driven approach from the beginning as opposed to developing a website from the ground up with SEO in mind.

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Does the enterprise matter?

deal architect

I love Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report. This year though it struck me that over 95% of her 355 slides focused on consumer world – digital advertising, ecommerce, ride-sharing, gaming. wearables and digital healthcare etc. The “vertical” growth in.

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8 Tips For Online Startups To Improve Customer Experience

YoungUpstarts

In a physical environment like a cafe or a restaurant, people recognise that there are external factors that affect their experiences and that these factors are out of a business control. Hence they naturally have a lower standard for what is deemed a satisfactory experience. They don’t mind queuing a few minutes to get into a restaurant or to make a payment.

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How to Ditch the False Silver Bullets and Run a Growth Hacking Process

View from Seed

Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown are entrepreneurs, growth experts, and co-authors of the book Hacking Growth. Today, we talk about this notion of growth hacking and debunk some myths, then walk through a smart process you can use to start running a growth engine strategically, instead of seeking false silver bullets. Find their book, Hacking Growth , on Amazon.

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5 Reasons Entrepreneurs Need To Highlight Small Wins

Startup Professionals Musings

Managing and motivating a team in a startup is more than just using the right interpersonal skills. It’s more than providing recognition, tangible incentives, and clear work goals. A key influencer of satisfaction and motivation, top-ranked by employees, is positive progress and the completion of meaningful work. Sometimes you have to manage progress, not people.

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More Slow-Motion Automation

deal architect

In this Strategy+Business article I summarized a century of automation from Silicon Collar like UPC scanners in groceries and ATM machines in banking and related impact of jobs. The summary: History shows that new technologies evolve faster than society adopts.

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9 Pointers For Buying Better Industrial Equipment

YoungUpstarts

With the right equipment, a company can withstand all sorts of economic conditions, while the wrong equipment can neutralize your competitive edge. This is why it is always a good idea to take account of the advantages and disadvantages of every purchase to ensure the greatest user experience. Sometimes purchasing a whole new set of equipment may not be as economical or feasible as renting or leasing the equipment and avoiding the costs of owning the equipment.

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Stop making minimum viable products

The Next Web

If a week is a long time in politics, it’s an epoch in the world of startups. Things change on the toss of a coin, unicorns are made and businesses broken with just one unfortunate decision. With an industry reaching global levels of saturation, certain things have changed irrevocably. One of those is our now outdated concept of Minimal Viable Product.

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4 Key Business Culture Drivers You Have To Get Right

Startup Professionals Musings

Startup work environments are always chaos, but they can still be great environments to work in, or they can be terrible. Whether yours is terrible or great, that same tone flows out to your customers, and regulates your productivity inside. You as the founder are the starting point and definer, so you need to get it right. What does it take to create a positive workplace culture?

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Theres gold in them thar piles of contracts

deal architect

The category of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) software has been rapidly evolving from its document management and audit roots to automation of complex legal language and sophisticated measurement of exposure to risk. That came out loud and clear when I.

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Growth Strategy: 6 Ways To Scale Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

No matter how old you are or how much experience you’ve got – starting a small business is always an equally stressful and risky endeavor. Building something from the ground up is extremely demanding and tends to leave people drained and devoid of focus. The endless amount of repetitive daily tasks that have to be completed, along with the almost debilitating uncertainty that comes with each new day, is overwhelming and destroys every chance of growth.

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Learn To Do Everything Lightly

Feld Thoughts

An hour into dinner last night with Alex Rigopulos, he picked up his phone, tapped away at it for a few seconds, and slid it across the table to me. I then read the following: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.

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7 Tips From The Trenches On What It Takes To Succeed

Startup Professionals Musings

When you have been on the startup firing line, you quickly learn that any insight from experts and entrepreneurs who have been there before you can make the difference between failure and success. Yet, many new entrepreneurs brazenly assume they are bulletproof, and march blindly into the fray. The result is that half or more of startups fail in the first two years.

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Rimini Street: 50 shades of grey

deal architect

Rimini Street has announced general availability of support for a wide range of database platforms, including IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, the SAP Sybase family. They have previously supported Oracle and SAP HANA databases and a wide range of applications.

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5 Reasons You Should Be Using Coworking Spaces In New York City

YoungUpstarts

There’s no getting around the fact that New York City is one of the most expensive places in the world to rent an office. Yet, there’s good reason for this. It is also one of the most desirable and, if you make the right moves, it can be hugely profitable too. The bad news is that it can be very difficult for small businesses, with tight budgets, to get their start here.

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How to succeed as a millennial woman entrepreneur

The Next Web

Female entrepreneurs have now become a powerful force in today’s competitive business world. The number of businesses owned by women is rapidly increasing day by day. Women are running 30% of the U.S. businesses and employ approximately eight million workers. Women-owned firms provide one in seven employment opportunities in privately-owned businesses, Womenable.com reports.

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The UrbanTech Movement is Transforming Cities

Gust

Urbanization is a defining process of modern life. More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and the number of urban citizens around the world is projected to rise to 66% by 2050. In the US, over 80% of the population lives in urban areas with 1 in 7 Americans living in New York, Los. Read more >. The post The UrbanTech Movement is Transforming Cities appeared first on The Gust Blog.

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New Foundry Group Company Jobs Page

Feld Thoughts

We very rarely hire anyone at Foundry Group (although we are hiring an Executive Assistant ). However, many of the companies we invest in are often hiring. Over the years we’ve had a Foundry Group Jobs Page but we’ve never found software that was painless for us to use to keep it current. As a result, it would often get out of date and have to be updated manually.

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Seven Leadership Tips That Make People Feel Great And Achieve Incredible Results

YoungUpstarts

by Jon Gordon, author of “ The Power of Positive Leadership: How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World “ Any business leader will tell you that running a world-class organization is no easy feat. It’s challenging to work toward a vision and create a positive future for you and your team, especially since you are guaranteed to face all kinds of challenges, adversity, negativity, and tests along the way.

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5 Lessons Public Speakers Can Learn From Stand-up Comedians

YFS Magazine



For an aspiring public speaker, stand-up comedy can do more than crack you up. Here are 5 lessons to improve your next keynote.

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Does your business need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). For you who fit that description, nice work.

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How to Use Your Company Website to Hire Better

Up and Running

It seems that every day I hear more examples from employers about how difficult it is to hire right now. We have the lowest unemployment in 10 years, more jobs going unfilled than ever, and a record high on the amount of time it takes to hire—nearly 30 days. Employers are constantly looking for ways to get an edge, but I don’t see many of them using the techniques I use every day as an online content marketer.

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Seven Reasons Why Workplace Diversity Will Help Your Business Win

YoungUpstarts

For businesses that intend to compete on a global playing field, a workplace – and workforce – that reflects a diversity of generations, cultures, values and thinking is a prerequisite to success. In fact, any business, whether it has a local, regional, national or global footprint, will be better off with a diverse base. Studies back this up. Every 1 percent increase in ethnocultural diversity by Canadian companies correlates to a 2.4 percent gain in revenue and a 0.5 percent increase in produc

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3 Ways To Sell Your Expertise And Become An Industry Leader

YFS Magazine

Ready to become an industry leader? It's no longer a question of "if" you should sell your expertise and skills online, it's simply a matter of "how".

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How Ottawa is Attracting Tech Talent

The Startup Magazine

Recent reports show Ottawa as the most attractive tech hub in Canada with the best cost of living and second best average salary. Located in the same timezone as New York and Boston, it is increasingly becoming a promising city for job-seeking tech talent looking north. Alongside its affordable living conditions, both local agencies and the government play a key role in the growth of its tech scene.

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Join the Startup Opportunities Launch Team

Feld Thoughts

We are getting ready to launch the 2nd Edition of Startup Opportunities. Sean and I are working with Jesse Tevelow, a founder from the very first Techstars Boulder program, on this launch. If you are interested in helping out, join our Startup Opportunities Launch Team. You can also join the Facebook Launch Team Group. There is a lot more coming soon.

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Is Outsourcing The Key to Better Productivity?

YoungUpstarts

Mention the word “outsourcing” and some people immediately curl up into a defensive posture. Doesn’t that mean laying off half the workforce and sending all your core activities to manufacturing sweat shops in Vietnam and telephone call centres in New Delhi? There is a cynical proverb, apocryphally credited to the media, which is “never let the truth get in the way of a good story,” of which the above is a perfect example.

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