Hearpreneur

JULY 21, 2019

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright and the number of entrepreneurs will increase but others argue these changes are meant to work against budding or would-be entrepreneurs. Growing empowerment and embracing of individuality is motivating more people to begin their entrepreneurship journey.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 24, 2019

Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on To Niche, or Not to Niche in Your Business? There’s a big movement today of people selling advice, programs, and courses about how to build your business that all sound like this: “Find a niche, run Facebook ads to this niche. Then become specialized, and get rich.” While I won’t go as far as to call this a marketing scam, I will say that I think it’s bad advice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

The good news is that the latest Kauffman Early-Stage Entrepreneurship (KESE) Index shows the highest level of new business activity recorded in the last two decades, and the cost of entry at an all-time low. The bad news is that it’s still a jungle fight for survival for entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics, with over 80 percent not having access to bank loans or venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

Small businesses and young entrepreneurs are in a difficult position in the market. They have to make their little voice stand out in an already loud area. And they have to do it fast or else – they’ll run out of money. Around half of all startups fail by their fifth year. Of those, 29% running out of cash as their reason for failure. This explains why saving money as much as you can is important – not only because you have limited capital, but also because you risk losing money the longer you s

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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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Version One Ventures

JULY 24, 2019

A year ago, we set out to add to our team. You may recall that we opened a search for an associate last summer. We appreciated spending time with many candidates, as well as the many intros and referrals from our friends. Unfortunately, we didn’t find someone who was the right fit for us – and decided to take a short break from the search. We’re beginning to restart the process of finding our third team member.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2019

Bitcoin is what is known as a cryptocurrency. It can be used online to make payments if the person receiving the payment will accept the currency.There are currently a number of merchants who are prepared to make trades using Bitcoin and as the advantages of the currency become clear, more and more merchants are coming on board. For startups, the opportunity is twofold.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

by Rick Mac Gillis , founder and CEO of Dragon Cloud , author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “ Startups, more than any other type of business, are sensitive to change. Macro and micro influences which others survive can often be fatal to that of the startup. Why? Because startups are fragile and fledgling. They are trying to find their place in the world and carve out a niche – all the while making every dollar go further.

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Transformify

JULY 24, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Our guest today is Sunita Cherian, Senior Vice President Human Resources at Wipro. What does diversity hiring mean to you? To me, inclusion is all good, and it is good for the business.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2019

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv, a team leader from CouponBirds , a growing e-commerce company specialising in coupon code services and advertising. Here are his insights on the development approach and challenges of building and maintaining a high-quality e-commerce site. . What is your job at CouponBirds?

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SiliconHills

JULY 23, 2019

TrustRadius, a platform for software reviews, announced Tuesday that it has received $12.5 million in additional funding. The Austin-based company has raised $25 million since its founding in 2012. Next Coast Ventures led the Series C funding round with participation from returning investors the Mayfield Fund and LiveOak Ventures. TrustRadius plans to use the funds […].

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

by Mike Bird, CEO and co-founder of Social Garden. Whether you’ve just secured your first graduate role or you’re looking to boost the numbers of your own business’s social media accounts, we can all agree that without experience, social can be scary. In fact, up to 40% of us are unsure if our efforts on social are even working. You want to know how to improve social media engagement, but you don’t even know where to begin.

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David Teten

JULY 24, 2019

If you’re looking for a job in venture capital (or private equity), here is a list of compensation benchmarks, plus all the recruiters I’m aware of who do searches for roles inside venture capital firms, Analyst through Partner. Compensation Benchmarks. Heidrick: PRIVATE EQUITY COMPENSATION TRENDS IN NORTH AMERICA: 2018. Holt-MM&K-Buyouts Insider: PE/VC Compensation Report.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 25, 2019

What do your customers really think of your products or services? It can be tricky to figure this out, especially if your business is a startup with limited resources. Perhaps you have an inkling that something’s not right – you’re seeing a lot of customer churn, for instance – but the handful of emails you’ve received from customers are positive. You need to gather customer feedback to truly understand your startup and its prospects.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 21, 2019

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Spotify | Raw RSS ] Tim Cameron-Kitchen grew up with a passion for music, in particular playing the drums. The highlight of Tim’s drumming career occurred in a most unexpected place — on stage in a cover-band singing competition reality TV show… in France.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

The pace of change in consumer behaviour has never been higher than in the last couple of years. While large corporations are struggling with the digital transformation, small agile firms emerge every day and challenge traditional retailers. Although Amazon is certainly the most dominant player within this field, there are smaller firms which can offer attractive services to consumers and push traditional and slow adjusting retailers out of the market.

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Board Effect

JULY 22, 2019

As new board directors get indoctrinated into their positions, they quickly see how much a nonprofit board of directors handles. The wealth of policies and procedures alone provides many hours of reading material. The benefit of having clear and accessible policies and procedures is that they ensure that everything gets managed consistently. Nonprofit policies and procedures ensure that the organization responds fairly and equitably in all situations.

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deal architect

JULY 24, 2019

Frank Scavo's Computer Economics has a nice post about the the long, winding road - the slow customer march to cloud applications. Bill Kutik pointed to similar slow movement more specific to HCM cloud applications in a recent LinkedIn post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2019

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on. These can trip up even the best, often at the cost of more than a good night’s sleep.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

As commonplace as meetings are in the workplace, they’re also a hot-button issue in corporate culture today. Some employees sing the praises of meetings; others feel they’re largely a waste of time. A more moderate stance is that meetings are still necessary in this day and age, but that many organizations could benefit from streamlining their approach.

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Board Effect

JULY 24, 2019

Efficiency is a key component of nonprofit board meetings. Donors and constituents expect nonprofits to organize themselves well and to do their work as efficiently as possible. Most nonprofit board directors also consider efficiency to be a key component of board meetings and hold the same expectations for themselves as for donors and constituents.

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deal architect

JULY 25, 2019

Readers know my favorite vendor event is a summit - a day or two long analyst-centric event. Not that I mind going to user focused events but feel like I intrude on customer time there. In the last year, I.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2019

Every entrepreneur and business person I know wishes he had more time for coaching all the members of his team. I often hear the excuse that coaching takes more time than simply diving in and doing the job for the other person, but is that really true? In fact, studies have shown that the long-term value of coaching has a return of at least 2x to more than 100x times the cost.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

A lot of the time, people encourage you to follow your dreams while you’re young – and it makes perfect sense. When you’re young you’re a lot less likely to have responsibilities than you are later on in life, whether that be being tied to a mortgage or having children. This gives you the freedom to completely throw yourself into whatever it is that you may be passionate about with full force.

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View from Seed

JULY 26, 2019

Another phrase we use internally at NextView pretty often is that of a “favorite future”. Early in NextView’s history, when we were raising our first fund (e.g. sometime back in 2010 or early 2011) one of the limited partners we met with asked us what our “favorite future” was for NextView. We were excited to talk about our vision and aspirations for the new VC firm we were building, but also intrigued by this as a general question.

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deal architect

JULY 22, 2019

I read the Leander Kahney book on Tim Cook on the long Emirates flights to and from India. In India, I had a conversation with an Apple consumer like me (not really that knowledgeable about the operations of the company).

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Agile VC

JULY 26, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes. This post also appears at NextView’s blog. Another phrase we use internally at NextView pretty often is that of a “favorite future”. Early in NextView’s history, when we were raising our first fund (e.g. sometime back in 2010 or early 2011) one of the limited partners we met with asked us what our “favorite future” was for NextView.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

by Shawn Burcham , founder and CEO of PFSbrands and author of “ Keeping Score With GRITT : Straight Talk Strategies For Success “ Bosses might want to take notice if employees view their jobs as “the daily grind.”. A disgruntled and disengaged workforce can undermine production and harm customer relations, while a happy, engaged workforce does the opposite.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 25, 2019

The sheer quantity of data that is processed by any company on a daily basis, especially startups and businesses whose core market is digital, makes them a target for hackers and thieves. In order to keep the running of your business going smoothly, your responsibility as a business owner is to minimize business risks and improve the security of your company. .

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2019

Numerous challenges come with starting a new business. One way to keep things clean and simple from the start is to separate your business finances and personal finances early on. . It’s easy to mix the two—for example, putting business expenses on your personal credit card, or dipping into money for your business to pay for personal expenses. Over time, this can be detrimental, not only for your business, but your personal life as well.

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YFS Magazine

JULY 23, 2019

Every business leader needs to take time to look back over the tapestry of their lives and learn the profound lessons that come from reflection.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

by Peter Yu, General Manager (Singapore) of Campfire Collaborative Spaces. The myth that having the best education guarantees a clear route to career success is an ideal that has been disproven by stories of outliers finding success. Success, that upon first glance looks disproportionate to the level of formal education they might have received. Seeing the emergence of the startup that succeeds through the combination of the right technological expertise, advantage, and out-of-the-box thinking h

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 23, 2019

By Dan Simerman, Director of Financial Relations, The IOTA Foundation. Incentives are funny things. They often live in the background, invisible, outside our conscious reach. But incentives can play funny tricks on business models and digital products, especially ones that begin to permeate the very fabric of our lives. As an entrepreneur who lives at the intersection of the digital and the physical, the public and the private, the open-source and the proprietary data networks, incentives are so

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 23, 2019

When you look around, who are you surrounded by? Who are you affiliated with? Association is very impactful. I think about this often but it really hit me when I saw my books displayed next to Michelle Obama’s. (Political association aside, you know that was pretty great!). There are many factors which can represent you and your affiliations are one of them.

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SiliconHills

JULY 20, 2019

By LAURA LOREK, Publisher of Silicon Hills News HOUSTON – The astronauts get all the glory, but hundreds of thousands of people worked behind the scenes to put the first men on the Moon. “It took around 400,000 people to land humankind on the Moon from engineers to computer programmers to the people who sewed […]. The post The RocketStar Engineers Behind the Apollo 11 Mission appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2019

by Grant Parr , author of “ The Next One Up Mindset: How To Prepare For The Unknown “ Are leaders born or are they developed? It’s a subject that’s long been debated. And in the workplace, can an employee who holds no supervisory job title be an effective leader — before being entrusted with managing people? . To me, the answer is yes — and it’s almost mandatory if someone hopes to be ready as a leader when promoted to a bigger role in an organization.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 23, 2019

If you’re running a business, you probably already know that there’s nothing more important to you than your employees. Without them, you simply won’t be able to operate and your business would shut down. This also means that by helping them increase their productivity can be a huge favor for your business. But how exactly do you help your team members get more work done?

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