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Pay Your Payroll Tax With R&D Credits

YoungUpstarts

by Evan Stephens, Senior Tax Manager at Sensiba San Filippo and Carlos Freitas, Director with Hull & Knarr LLP. Starting in 2016, Research and Development (R&D) tax credits can be used to offset payroll taxes. Previously, these credits could only be used to offset income taxes. Since many start-ups produce little to no profit in the first few years, there was no income tax for the R&D credits to offset, and therefore, no opportunity to use the research tax credit.

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13 Entrepreneurs Share Their Pick for a Dream Mentor

Hearpreneur

Share Entrepreneurship and mentorships are often seen as going hand-in-hand. Business mentors are as old as concept of entrepreneurs themselves. From Oprah and Maya Angelou to Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, famous mentorships have a powerful impact on the lives of entrepreneurs. Having a strong figure in your life to help steady you through the currents of growing your business can be a lifesaver.

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The No Excuses Culture

Steve Blank

Getting ready for our next semester’s class, I asked my Teaching Assistant why I hadn’t seen the posters for our new class around campus. Hearing the litany of excuses that followed –“It was raining.” (The posters go inside the building.) “We still have time.” (We had agreed they were to go up a week ago) — I had a strong sense of déjà vu. When I took the job of VP of Marketing in a company emerging from bankruptcy, excuses seemed to be our main product.

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The Importance of Boards

ithacaVC

I have written quite a few posts on the topic of Boards of Directors. Just put in “board of directors” into the search bar. As a quick review, it is the Board of Directors or “Board” that literally by law makes all critical decisions for the company. The Board has to vote on issuing stock, approving the annual budget, setting the company’s strategy, changing the company’s by-laws and certificate of incorporation, selling the company, merging with another co

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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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Power To The People – Creating Trust In Data With Collaborative Governance

YoungUpstarts

by Jason Bissell and Calvin Hoon, Talend. Today’s enterprise IT organizations are once again experiencing a massive upheaval due to pressure from employee forces. It’s a familiar story. Just think of the turmoil caused by the dawning of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) era, with employees demanding to use their beloved, personal mobile phones or tablets for work.

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6 Ways to Kill Bad Habits One Small Step At A Time

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur I know has a few bad habits they intended to overcome a long time ago, such as micromanaging, or failure to get enough rest and relaxation. As a result, both their business and their personal lives continue to suffer. Wouldn’t you like to know how to make that big step to get past your procrastination and get to your maximum potential once and for all?

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How to create a successful corporate-startup collaboration

The Next Web

The idea that corporations and startups excel better together isn’t new. We all know innovation is key to sustained success, and one way to accelerate innovation is through collaboration. Three-quarters of startups that collaborated with corporations reported their experience to be highly beneficial. And research shows that collaboration leads to increased business for corporation.

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Full Time Side Gigs At Parttimerz

YoungUpstarts

The nature of today’s economy is such that the 9-to-5 jobs typical to previous working generations are quickly and surely giving way to careers that are a lot more amorphous – the gig economy, especially, has resulted in a new generation of workers who are adapting to new norms such as working on-the-move, whenever they like, on projects of their own choosing.

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8 Reasons To Initiate A Startup In A Sluggish Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

According to CNN Money , the economy is still very sluggish, with only 1.6 percent growth in 2016. Yet if you wait for an economy bubble before starting your new business, you will be making a comparable mistake to the people who thought during the dot-com bubble "all I have to do is a startup, and I'll be rich." In reality, what matters more is who you are, not when you do it.

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10 Female Entrepreneurs Taking Over The World

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at 10 inspiring female entrepreneurs who are pioneers making moves and taking names every day of the week. Be inspired!

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5 Research-Backed Tips for Increasing B2B Sales

Up and Running

According to The Alternative Board’s (TAB) September 2014 Small Business Pulse Survey , only six percent of business owners consider themselves “very trusting” of the information they receive from B2B vendors. Facing such a high degree of skepticism, business owners who aim to sell to other business owners must be doubly strategic in their approach.

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Startup Business Investments Around The World

YoungUpstarts

by Rocky Chan, business consultant for Enterph.com. Startups caught the attention of venture capitalists as far back as three decades ago. At the time, most startups were from the internet’s dot com side of businesses, as the outlook was bullish then. Unfortunately, a number of them had an early exit from the business scene due to ineffective business plans and/or unsustained revenue for their investment.

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7 Keys To Hard Hitting Social Media Use For Business

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. But, contrary to what most people preach, it isn’t entirely free. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment to be hard hitting – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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4 Tips To Ensure Mobile App Success

YFS Magazine

In today's digital age, mobile apps have become a valuable resource for all types of businesses. Here's how to make sure your mobile app is a success.

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Startups: What are your odds for success?

Berkonomics

Well, the numbers don’t lie, even if there are several sources of these statistics. Starting a company is HARD – in so many ways. And risky too. I read several years ago, that the average startup restaurant lasts only about a year. Ouch! Here I am a professional investor in early stage companies, and I attempt to find those with the greatest chance of success and growth in value over time.

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Increase Your Sales With A Powerful Content Marketing Strategy

YoungUpstarts

The notion that “content is king” isn’t a new one. It also isn’t any less true than it was Bill Gates coined the phrase back in 1996. Effective branding hinges on delivering good content and that means every kind of content. A good content marketing strategy is built upon a foundation that includes not just some of the following elements, but all of them to one degree or another.

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How You Should Start a Business Before the Bubble

Startup Professionals Musings

In the entrepreneur world, most of the energy I see is focused on the current opportunity bubbles, now including anything mobile, the new sharing economy (Uber, Airbnb), or yet another social media app (Snapchat, WhatsApp). Too few entrepreneurs are searching for the next bubble, so too many funding requests I see as an investor are yet another “me too” solution, with low odds.

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Become An Industry Influencer With This Quick-Start Guide

YFS Magazine

The internet is saturated, but there are niche markets waiting for a new influencer to shake things up! Become an industry influencer with this quick guide.

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What You Heard About VCs is Usually Wrong and Why You Can Blame VCs for It

This is going to be BIG.

VCs lie. Everyone knows that or at least suspects it. What you don't know is whether they're lying to you or to themselves. I can't tell you how many times I've heard an entrepreneur make a generalization about VCs based on a few meetings that was completely wrong--and they were usually basing their statement off what the VC told them. Often, it's that the company didn't have enough traction, which could mean either one of two things: 1) The VC just didn't like the idea or the founder, but didn'

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8 Ways Small Businesses Can Stay Competitive With SEO

YoungUpstarts

by Maulik Patel, managing director at HireSEOAgency. It is said that if you’re passionate about something, just do it! But then, the very next moment a question arises- how? How to carry successful strategies which would be beneficial in the long term? The mantra for a business to succeed is to make a strong relationship with the new clients along with keeping harmony with old ones.

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True Wealth Ventures’ $20 Million Fund Invests in Women-run Startups

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Publisher and Senior Reporter with Silicon Hills News Women run startups outperform all male teams yet they still struggle to get venture capital. That’s a problem Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp with True Wealth Ventures, are seeking to solve. They are raising a $20 million venture capital fund focused on investing in […] The post True Wealth Ventures’ $20 Million Fund Invests in Women-run Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Harness Your Entrepreneurial Fear And Use It To Win

YFS Magazine

Are you scared? Don’t fight that feeling—embrace it. As an entrepreneur, you can use entrepreneurial fear to great effect. This article Harness Your Entrepreneurial Fear And Use It To Win appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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Evaluating whether a sector is interesting as an investment target

The Equity Kicker

We have been thinking about how to evolve our investment strategy recently. I will write about the full process when we’re done and I’ve got a better sense of which bits have worked and which haven’t, but for now I want to highlight a post by another VC which highlights a lot of the methods we like to use when thinking about the attractiveness of potential focus areas.

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Create An Office Space You Love With These 10 Tips

YoungUpstarts

Do you run a business out of your home? Or, do you simply have a space where you can attend to tasks, like organizing your home or paying bills? Your home office should be a place that you can be proud of. It needs to be a place that you enjoy, and it should be reflective of the design scheme in the rest of your home. If you want to set up an office space that works for your needs and also looks great, take these ten tips to heart: 1.

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TrendKite Expands to London

SiliconHills

TrendKite, a public relations analytics company for agencies and corporate brands, has opened a new office in London. The Austin-based startup, founded in 2012, closed on $16.6 million in funding last year and to date has raised $37 million. TrendKite hired Gerard McNamara as its vice president of sales for Europe, Middle East, and Africa. […] The post TrendKite Expands to London appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Why A Design Mindset Matters For Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

I can safely state that most people don’t get what “design” means. This is why design is usually relegated to the outskirts of organizations. This article Why A Design Mindset Matters For Entrepreneurs appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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How To Set Goals Like You’re Google (Even If You’re Not)

Hunter Walker

Embrace the 10x factor. That is, ask the question, “what would we do differently if we were trying to increase revenue 10x instead of by 10%” or “instead of working on features which improve conversion by a few percentage points, what would we need to do to experience an order of magnitude lift?” It’s simple, and doesn’t always produce immediate breakthroughs, but at least challenge your team to see if there are higher risk bets which could produce commensurat

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The Long And Short Of Rebranding Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Chris Low is the founder of MyTeamPlan. Rebranding your business can be an exhausting task. This is because the job essentially entails undoing a lot of work that you had put in earlier. But rebranding is often necessary because it is done under desperate circumstances. You may have just been acquired, your business might be trying to come out of a major crisis or you could need to rebrand because your core audience no longer identifies with your business.

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Austin Shows Off its Best VR/AR Startups

SiliconHills

By HOJUN CHOI Reporter with Silicon Hills News The virtual and augmented reality industry has teased our imaginations for years now, introducing potential for audiences to reach new levels of immersion in their everyday lives. At this year’s “Austin’s Best VR/AR Startups” panel, five local startups from Capital Factory’s accelerator program showed SXSW attendees exactly […] The post Austin Shows Off its Best VR/AR Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Mantras Startup Founders Should Live By

YFS Magazine

What drives you to succeed? Here are five mantras that drive the way I do business — important startup lessons I've learned along the way.

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How to fit OKRs into your company’s mission and values

The Next Web

In Simon Sinek’s Ted Talk entitled, How Great Leaders Inspire Action, Sinek refocuses companies away from thinking first about what they do, and instead advises them to figure out why they’re doing it. This not only impacts their services and products, but also the people who build out and fulfill the company vision. No matter how great your vision, the world will always be pulling your company away from fulfilling your higher purpose.

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Professional Organizer Tips For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Lea Schneider. Who doesn’t want to make a resolution of increasing revenue and have it stick? The New Year brings new opportunities to fine-tune things that work and change things that don’t. One of the best resolutions you can make for your business is to get organized. Being organized lets you focus on generating revenue instead of hunting for things.

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Silicon Hills News’ Ideas to Invoices Podcast Launches at SXSW

SiliconHills

Silicon Hills News announces the launch of our new podcast: Ideas to Invoices, featuring Austin and San Antonio entrepreneurs and stories about how they built their companies. The first three interviews are now available for download in iTunes. The latest interview features Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, Internet Pioneer, partner emeritus with Polaris Ventures, pundit […] The post Silicon Hills News’ Ideas to Invoices Podcast Launches at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Redesigning Your Website? Don’t Forget An SEO Audit

YFS Magazine

It’s time to relaunch with a bang. But before your new website goes online you'll want to run a few tests—specifically, an SEO audit.

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I Haven’t Handled My Own Email In 12 Years

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The other night I was at a small networking dinner event in Vancouver. As we were doing round the table problem solving, one of the other entrepreneurs commented about how much time she spends every evening keeping up with her email. I turned to her and said… I haven’t handled. The post I Haven’t Handled My Own Email In 12 Years appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Tips on Getting Funding for Your Healthcare Start Up

YoungUpstarts

Are you in the process of starting your own healthcare business? Deciding to establish your own healthcare company has the potential to be a commercial success and could be one of the best decisions you ever make. However, when you are starting out, there are certain obstacles you need to overcome. Money is often one of the main concerns of startup owners, so it’s vital to address this issue straight away and ensure that you can get the funding you need to move forward with your business v