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How Idea People Can Transform Into Visionary Leaders

Startup Professionals Musings

A popular approach for aspiring entrepreneurs these days seems to be to corner anyone who will listen, with a pitch on their current “million dollar idea.” The initial monologue usually ends with the question “How much money do you think this is worth?” In my opinion, ideas are a commodity, and are really not worth much, outside the context of a visionary leader who can execute.

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6 Productivity Hacks For Success-Hungry Startups

YoungUpstarts

Haven’t you heard? Time is money. Or…so the saying goes. But before we go apologising for wasting yours, we suggest you set aside a few minutes and keep reading. Think of this as a ‘ timely ’ investment that’s guaranteed to bring you a better return than checking social media again. We know, we’ve been there. So, back to the ‘ time is money ’ thing.

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What Does Your LinkedIn Profile Say About You?

YFS Magazine

What does your LinkedIn profile say about you? Utilize these simple tips to improve your presence in today's age of networked intelligence.

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?” Slide

View from Seed

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. So you’ve covered the “who”, “what”, “why”, & “when”. Now it’s time to discuss the “where”. As a seed-stage company, it is understandable to have a nascent (or non-existent) product and a barebone team relative to the great ambition of the company.

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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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8 Strategies To Avoid The Entrepreneur Arrogance Trap

Startup Professionals Musings

In my years of mentoring entrepreneurs, a problem I have seen too often is low self-esteem, and over-compensating through arrogance and ego. These entrepreneurs find it hard to respect customers or team members, and their ventures usually fail. As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Fortunately, both can be fixed.

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4 Ways To Keep Lone Workers Safe 

YoungUpstarts

There are currently around 6 million lone workers in the UK, which represents around 1/5 of the UK population. The HSE ( Health and Safety Executive ) defines a lone worker as “someone who works by themselves without close or direct supervision.”So it’s an umbrella term that encompasses broad range of workers, including< remote workers, homeworkers and people who work alone at a premises.

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How to Achieve Tech-Powered Collaboration in the Era of Remote Work

ReadWriteStart

Forever gone is the era when workers assembled each day at the office. Today, they’re just as likely to be working from home or spread across the globe. Collaboration has always been important among teams. But with team members no longer literally sitting side by side, collaboration tools are vital to preventing ineffective silos. Business leaders are increasingly aware of the value of modern collaboration tools in ensuring teams stay connected.

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Bold Titles to Increase Customers

Mike Michalowicz

Bold titles are compelling. Maybe you have a business podcast or you’re writing a business blog, book or a keynote speech. One of the first steps in building a profitable business is to attract your audience. To do that, you need to create bold, eye catching titles. A bold title that speaks to people is one of the most powerful keys to attract and increase customers.

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Communication In A Multi-Location, Multi-Team, Multi-Project Business

YoungUpstarts

As the world of business evolves, the small business only remains small in name. Nowadays, small business that have 20 or 30 employees have to act and behave like medium-sized businesses. The workplace has also evolved whereby employers and employees need to communicate on just about everything. Increasingly, we’re seeing better and better services coming out for small businesses at affordable prices.

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5 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Poor performance in business doesn’t always imply the failure of a business. It can be an improving point for a business or mark its upward trajectory. Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy.

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Meet our Startup Chica Committee Members

Austin Startup

Startup Chica Spotlight: Meet our 2019 Committee Members Meet the Austin professionals and community leaders who have embraced the Latinitas mission and helped make Startup Chica 2019 a reality. As Latinitas ambassadors, they have offered their expertise and support in event planning, marketing, business, technology and more. Their help has aided in producing the next generation of female entrepreneurs and innovators!

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AgileFall – When Waterfall Sneaks Back Into Agile

Steve Blank

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. AgileFall is an ironic term for program management where you try to be agile and lean, but you keep using waterfall development techniques. It often produces a result that’s like combining a floor wax and dessert topping. I just sat through my a project management meeting where I saw AgileFall happen first-hand.

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Why Entrepreneurs Should Be Generous With Investors

YoungUpstarts

by Alejandro Cremades , cofounder of Panthera Advisors and author of “ The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know “ Why should entrepreneurs intentionally be generous when negotiating with investors? Generous is not a word often associated with talking about negotiations between startup entrepreneurs and their investors.

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Transcript of Developing Habits to Become a Master Influencer

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Developing Habits to Become a Master Influencer written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Jason Harris. He is the CEO of award-winning creative agency Mekanism and the co-founder of the Creative Alliance.

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Nonprofit Requirements: Complying with Rules and Regulations

Board Effect

Nonprofit organizations play an important role in society. Federal, state and local governments do their best to balance their income by providing services to citizens. Despite the best efforts of all three levels of government, there can never be enough money to supply the needs of every citizen, especially as it pertains to health and social services.

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10 Key Components Of Every New Venture Strategic Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Deciding to be an entrepreneur is a lifestyle move, and should be part of a long-term strategic plan. You shouldn’t be making this decision just because you are mad at your boss, or you would like to be rich, or someone else thinks you have a good idea. In these changing times, if you already have a startup, with no plan, maybe it’s time to think ahead for a change.

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5 Top-Rated Forex Trading Apps In 2019

YoungUpstarts

Recently, there has been an increase in the number of forex trading apps in the market. While this gives traders a healthy number of choices, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the numerous choices. It gets even more daunting considering that most apps offer almost the same capabilities with a few differences. . To make it easy for you, below are the top 5 best trading apps that offer advanced features and unique capabilities: Metatrader 4.

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3 Ways To Build A Brand For A High-End Product

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When you are creating a brand for your business, you need to think about what kind of customers you are targeting. Are you going to be a budget brand that is known for value, or are you going to be a high-end, premium brand that is known for quality? If you are aiming for the latter, you will be targeting people that are willing to spend more money on a product because they are confident that it will meet their high standards.

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Can You Be The Best?” Slide

View from Seed

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. Although most pitch decks follow a logical progression, we think the best pitches are ones that evolve into spirited discussion after the first 10 minutes.

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8 Change Triggers Every Entrepreneur Must Spot Early

Startup Professionals Musings

When the economy tanks as it did in the last recession, that’s a strong signal that things have to change, and it’s hard to miss. But most of us in business have to deal most of the time with weak signals, or change that is happening in a far more subtle way. These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world.

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What You Need To Know About Renting Out Income Properties

YoungUpstarts

Whether you’ve saved up enough on your own or have found an amazing and reliable loan provider, buying an investment property can be an excellent choice. While owning an investment property and renting it out can be extremely lucrative and a great way to reap regular profits from a long-term investment, though, it is also pricey and not without risks.

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Help Your CEOs Thrive with the Right Communications

Rembrandt Communications

How PR Pros Can Help Their CEOs Thrive With the Right Communications. Work together and everyone wins! Do you have the right communications in place? Your B2B CEO, CMO, CFO, and other executives have a lot going on, and you only see a small portion of what they have to deal with on a daily basis. Behind closed doors, they handle stressful investor issues, legal hassles, employee situations, and much more that they keep private.

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Some Thoughts on Ownership

View from Seed

When I started out in VC, there was a strong consensus around early stage investors that the “right” level of ownership was 20%. Pretty much every firm was targeting at least 20% ownership. And I found that pricing, check sizes, and deal sizes were strangely shaped by the 20% target as much as the actual needs of the company. As someone who was new to venture at the time, I understood that more ownership of a good company was better.

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10 Tips On Managing An Overwhelming Business Workload

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the most common complaints I hear from entrepreneurs is that they are overwhelmed by the workload and stress of starting their company. Then there are the additional challenges of balancing the demands of family and friends. Having too much on your plate can turn your dream into a nightmare. Some people will tell you to just get a bigger plate, meaning hire some help.

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Not So Petty Cash: A Guide To Small Business Billing Systems

YoungUpstarts

When you’re trying to handle your business in a way that is organized and productive, you have to get a handle on your billing and invoicing. While you surely love what you do, it’s not a business unless you’re getting paid. To make this happen, you’ll need to look into the billing systems that will ensure your small business is paid on time and in full.

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One year into Fund III: some high level stats

Version One Ventures

A few weeks ago I shared my reflections on my first year as a GP. Along with all the well wishes (thank you!!), many asked what Version One is investing in these days. Our portfolio companies aren’t as quick to publicize fundraising rounds like they used to and as such, we’re not making as many public announcements about our activity. So, as a follow up, I thought I’d share some high level stats on our investing activity since we kicked off Fund III nearly a year ago in October 2018. . 8 invest

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Vital Tips When Starting an Event Planning Business

The Startup Magazine

Event planning is a lucrative venture that should be given the credit it deserves. If you already have the passion and talent for managing events, it’s high time you gave it a shot. All you need is the talent, zeal and consistency to become a successful event planner. To start a successful event planning business, there are several things you need to do.

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Austin Ranks First as the Hottest Real Estate Market in the Country

SiliconHills

Austin ranks number one as the hottest real estate market in the country, according to the Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2020 report. PwC US and the Urban Land Institute released the report this week which also included another Texas city: Dallas/Fort Worth, which claimed the sixth spot. Others in the top ten included Raleigh-Durham […]. The post Austin Ranks First as the Hottest Real Estate Market in the Country appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Reasons Why Women Excel As Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

by Randy Patterson , author of “ The Matriarch Rules: How to Own Your Power, Know Your Worth, and Lead the Life You’ve Always Wanted “ Becoming an entrepreneur is no joke. But if you are a woman and an entrepreneur, you have some serious advantages. I’m not saying that owning a business is easy, but nothing driven by passion, ever is….

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The Story Behind Our Investment In Humble Dot

Haystack

About a year ago, a friend told us about this new work app they were using. Didn’t think much about it. Then, the same thing happened a few days later. It’s just the Bay Area echo chamber at work. And then finally, a few weeks later, their usage started to spike, and a real investment round came together, and we scrambled, triangulated, and spent a bunch of time with Will and Macgill, the original creators of Humble Dot.

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Career Advice: Seth Whitmer on Healthcare Administration and Healthcare Management

The Startup Magazine

Healthcare administration is a broad-ranging field with many healthcare career opportunities for dedicated individuals. The field as a whole is concerned with making the healthcare system run more efficiently while meeting the needs of the general public. Seth Whitmer, a seasoned healthcare administrator , gives an overview of healthcare administration and introduces some specialized careers within the field.

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Austin-based Gardenio Caters to Millennials Looking to Grow Their Own Food

SiliconHills

At Brown University, Roman Gonzalez studied philosophy to understand big things like love and purpose. He wanted to distill these difficult concepts and relate them in a way to make people’s lives better. At the same time, he was working to reshape his relationship with food, and he learned that to make a good salsa, […]. The post Austin-based Gardenio Caters to Millennials Looking to Grow Their Own Food appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Career Growth Checklists: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly To-Dos To Maintain Your Hireability

YoungUpstarts

by Akin Tosyali, Director of Digital Marketing for Tiege Hanley. In the digital age, it pays to keep your skills sharp. Whether you’re hoping to get a promotion at your current job or you’re searching for employment, maintaining your hireability is key to getting ahead in your career. Although, saying that you’ll do something and actually doing it are two different things.

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Accessibility as an Advantage in Venture Capital: Why Creating Value for Everyone in the Community Wins

This is going to be BIG.

I believe that the next generation of top companies are far more likely to be founded by people not on VC radars today. Today's top founders will undoubtedly start something new in the future, but they won't make up the majority of innovators going forward--just as prior generations of venture backed founders don't make up a majority of those who are succeeding today.

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Common Workplace Injuries Employers Need to Be Aware Of

The Startup Magazine

Employers have a responsibility to be aware of some of the most common workplace injuries and ensure policies are in place to prevent them. Up to 5,000 workers get killed each year in the workplace. You are responsible for the safety of your workplace as an employer. Of course, you cannot prevent every workplace injury, accidents happen sometimes. That’s why it’s important to focus on the most common workplace injuries.

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The Markets Are Great. but Venture Outcomes Haven’t Changed Much

VC Adventure

A few years back I blogged about the hard data behind venture outcomes and the challenge of creating a venture portfolio that produces strong returns. That blog post – which turned into one of my most read posts ever – grew out of a study done by Correlation Ventures showing the distribution of outcomes across over 21,000 financings during the years 2004-2013 as well as some of my own observations.