Sat.Jul 08, 2017 - Fri.Jul 14, 2017

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Why good people leave large tech companies

Steve Blank

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I was visiting with an ex-student who’s now the CFO of a large public tech company. The company is still one of the hottest places to work in tech. They make hardware with a large part of their innovation in embedded software and services.

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Ready To Revamp Your Website? Here’s How To Do It Right

YoungUpstarts

Whether you have a small business or a super large corporation, you will need a website. But it cannot be just any website. It has to be a website that is going to work for you. It needs to work on both a technical level and a personal level. It has to resonate with your readers. If you have no idea where to get started, you are in luck. Everything you need to know to point you in the right direction can be found here: Get The Best Hosting Possible.

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10 Unconventional Management Techniques That Work

Startup Professionals Musings

I’ve been a manager in business for many years, and like most of you, I’ve also had my share of bad managers, as well as a few good ones. As a result, I’m certainly convinced that engaging, retaining, and developing people for maximum performance is one of the toughest jobs you will ever have. I’m also convinced that the conventional wisdom for best practices isn’t always right.

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Pricing Strategy for Your SaaS Startup

Up and Running

Five months ago, the five members of our Chanty team gathered around a small table in a coffee shop to try to answer the ultimate question for our business: “How will Chanty make money?”. Determining the right monetization strategy is by far the most important issue for every SaaS business. You can have all traction in the world—acquire, activate, and retain users, but until your startup earns money, you are doing charity work, not running a business.

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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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Health Tech Entrepreneur Builds a Business Focusing on Improving The Lives of Tens of Thousands

Hearpreneur

Health is your greatest wealth. This is a realization for many people who have a healthy lifestyle and make it a priority to eat well and live an active lifestyle. Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him.

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Revenue Recognition’s Effect On M&A

YoungUpstarts

by Jacqueline Pruscha, Audit Manager at Sensiba San Filippo. There has been a lot of chatter regarding changes in revenue recognition criteria lately, but the effects it will have on the evaluation of companies planning an exit is just beginning to emerge. While the dust is still settling, it’s becoming increasingly clear that these changes will affect not only the way a potential acquirer analyzes a target’s financial statements, but also on the way a deal is structured.

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Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge: The Make or Break Difference

Up and Running

Most successful business plans entail launching a new product, service, or distribution outlet that attacks existing market competitors on what military planners would term an exposed flank. In battle, an effective flanking attack hits the opponent (or competition ) where they are less able or unable to respond. A smart commander will mass forces against this flank, just as an astute business leader will pour resources into their flanking effort.

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“Their baseline knowledge of Silicon Valley probably comes from HBO’s Silicon Valley.” How Alyssa Bereznak Covers Tech for The Ringer.

Hunter Walker

My undergrad degree was in history, but I always qualify it as “social history,” which to me means not just focusing on “names, dates, wars” (aka high school history) but understanding the past through stories. Alyssa Bereznak covers tech for The Ringer and her reporting appeals to me for the same reasons. Alyssa doesn’t write wrote explainers about Instagram’s latest feature updates but she will go deep into the Plantsagram subculture.

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How To Reduce Unsubscribe Rates For Your Email Marketing Campaigns

YoungUpstarts

by Chris Low, founder of MyTeamPlan. No matter how useful and interesting your newsletter is, there is still a small percentage of your subscribers who may no longer find your content relevant. A Mailchimp study found that between 0.1 to 0.4 percent of subscribers opt out of mailing lists on average during any given email campaign. Mailing lists that offer discounts and vouchers have extremely low rates of opt-out.

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Inforum: Mixed emotions

deal architect

The buzz at Infor’s annual user conference (and a side analyst summit) was around Coleman, the AI platform Infor announced to use “powerful machine learning to improve processes such as inventory management, transportation routing, and predictive maintenance”. The name Coleman.

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Startup Tax Planning for Better Cash Flow Management

Up and Running

Small business owners know a larger than expected tax bill could put a wrench in their company’s cash flow management , a scenario everyone is eager to avoid. But accurately forecasting your tax obligations may seem difficult, particularly when you’re busy running a company. Not only that, tax laws change from year to year. “Many small business owners have no idea what they will owe in taxes until it’s time to pay them,” says Paul Gevertzman, CPA, a tax partner at Anchin, Block, & Anchin i

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Silicon Valley Will Suffer a Shameful Legacy for Introducing Inequality to the Great Equalizer

Austin Startup

Silicon Valley — another American racist/sexist shithole just like the Segregated South When the Internet first came around in the mid-1990s, it was herald as “The Great Equalizer” where anybody with a keyboard can start an e-commerce shop, publish their works and reach the world to millions who are also attached to the Internet. Today, Silicon Valley took the Great Equalizer and established a system of inequality where only white male faces are prominently displayed in “tech media”, VC firms ex

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Critical Workplace Skills For New Graduates

YoungUpstarts

by Michael Timmes, senior human resource specialist at Insperity. This summer, countless college and high school graduates are transitioning from academia to the working world. However, despite long hours in the classroom and the high cost of a university education, applicants may find they lack certain critical skills that a growing number of companies desire in their applicants.

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What You Need to Know About Google Posts

Duct Tape Marketing

What You Need to Know About Google Posts written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Google is at it again! After much anticipation, Google has released Google Posts for all Google My Business users. Originally this feature was only available to select small businesses, celebrities, sports leagues, movies studios, and even political candidates (you may have noticed “candidate cards” throughout 2016 which were essentially the same as Google Posts).

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The Clover-Leaf Talent Economy

deal architect

In analyzing factoids from the recent listing of the Fortune 500, I came up with a startling data point. The F500 have a combined total revenue of $12.1 trillion equal to 65% of the US GDP. Yet they only employ.

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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

Andrew Krowne and I recently co-wrote an article in Tech Crunch , Why SAFE Notes Are Not Safe for Entrepreneurs. We’ve received numerous constructive comments, both privately and on social media, from attorneys, VCs, and CEOs who are well aware of the problem (including several who are experiencing it in real time). This is a fundamental issue that does, indeed, boil down to understanding the post-money valuation of a company.

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My Talk at MIT: Beyond Finance, Considering Business and Social Impact of Blockchains

thebarefootvc

A couple of weeks ago I spoke at a conference entitled “Business of Blockchains” that the MIT Technology Review and MIT Media Lab organized in Cambridge. One of the reasons I started investing in the blockchain space 4 years ago was the rush I got learning about the tech at my first bitcoin conference – akin to the chills I got when I first logged into the Internet in 1994, when I was deeply passionate about more equal access to education.

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Four Ways Virtual Office Assistants Can Help Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

A business owner who arranges for virtual office services is taking decisive steps to improve the bottom line of his or her business. Take a look at four specific ways these services can give a business the advantage over its competition: 1. Projecting a Professional Image. When a business owner hires virtual assistants, he or she is building a professional image.

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What Does the Future of Podcasting Look Like?

Duct Tape Marketing

What Does the Future of Podcasting Look Like? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Tom Webster. Podcast Transcript. I’ve been podcasting a long time and it’s been pretty fun to see how this “channel” has evolved, particularly of late. The podcast or audio distribution format has definitely hit mainstream status.

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7 Leadership Principles To Get You From Smart To Wise

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of the entrepreneurs I have met are smart, but many are not always wise. That means they may show great insights into a new technology that has marginal business value, their passion may motivate team members more than customers, or they may allow themselves to be pulled over the ethical line in their success drive. Wise leaders are authentic, timeless, and enduring.

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Inside the Fast-Growing Startup Rethinking Weddings [Traction #44: Shan-Lyn Ma]

View from Seed

Today’s episode features a fast-rising company led by Shan-Lyn Ma. Her startup, Zola, is changing the way people purchase gifts for brides and grooms. Anyone who has ever experienced the insanity of wedding season — whether attending as a guest or planning your own — knows just how stressful the whole experience can be. Shan-Lyn and her team are using some unique insights and past experiences to rethink it, and boy, is it working right now.

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Will Your Ego Be The Death Of Your Career? 

YoungUpstarts

by Edward D. Hess and Katherine Ludwig, coauthors of “ Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age “. This may be good news or bad news, depending on who you are: The day of the aggressive know-it-all who steamrolls over colleagues is drawing to a close. In the future, success will belong to those who can quiet their egos, collaborate, and empathize with others.

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Transcript of What Does the Future of Podcasting Look Like?

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of What Does the Future of Podcasting Look Like? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: So what does the future of podcasting hold? Kind of weird that we’re gonna talk to Tom Webster on a podcast about podcasting. Check it out. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.

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The Loneliness of an Entrepreneur

Feld Thoughts

This showed up in my inbox the other day from a friend of 20 years. He’s been involved in a number of companies that we’ve invested in over the years in different senior and/or co-founder roles, including CEO. It was short and sweet but captured the essence of something I often talk about with founders. Heard you and Jerry on CPR this morning , nice job!

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6 Ways To Learn From Failure, And Beat Success Odds

Startup Professionals Musings

Aspiring entrepreneurs and new business owners often ask me for a secret formula for success, and they seem surprised when I tell them there isn’t one. In my experience, every new business is best handled as a series of experiments, from which smart founders learn a winning strategy, after some mistakes. In fact, that culture of learning as you go is my secret to business success.

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What To Keep In Mind When Working For Yourself

YoungUpstarts

Working for yourself is a blessing and experiment all rolled into one. There are many challenges that come with the territory that you need to keep in mind. It’s not always going to go smoothly or as planned. Be open to learning and adjusting to the circumstances in front of you. You’re taking on a great responsibility when you decide to work for yourself.

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This startup wants to save the planet by keeping your tires rock-hard

The Next Web

Even great ideas need the right circumstances to succeed. Without the right funding or opportunity, startups can be stuck with their innovative solutions and technologies, unable to make the impact that they want. For the Tel-Aviv-based startup Neomatix, which developed an automated car tire monitor system that runs on computer vision and big data, this opportunity proved to be the New Energy Challenge: the competition that aims to find and fund the most sustainable ideas by European and Israeli

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Inside the Fast-Growing Startup Rethinking Weddings [Traction #44: Shan-Lyn Ma]

View from Seed

Today’s episode features a fast-rising company led by Shan-Lyn Ma. Her startup, Zola, is changing the way people purchase gifts for brides and grooms. Anyone who has ever experienced the insanity of wedding season — whether attending as a guest or planning your own — knows just how stressful the whole experience can be. Shan-Lyn and her team are using some unique insights and past experiences to rethink it, and boy, is it working right now.

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The Business Model Canvas Can Get Your Startup Funded

Startup Professionals Musings

New entrepreneurs are always looking for a shortcut in getting their venture story and plan across to investors, and closing on the funding they need. An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. It forces you to bridge the gap between idea and execution.

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Keep It Clean: Mixing Business And Personal Finance

YoungUpstarts

by Tony Smith, Managing Director at Company Debt. Many entrepreneurs use their personal savings to start their new business and their personal credit score to get a start-up loan. However, as the business thrives and grows, drawing a line between personal and business finances is vital to stay on the right side of the law and to make sure that the IRS gets its share of those profits.

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3 Awesome Ways To Boost Employee Engagement And Productivity

YFS Magazine

When it comes to creating a winning strategy to keep your employees happy and productive, it's really not a matter of science.

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6 lessons every business leader should learn from Uber’s uphill culture battle

The Next Web

Given the recent news headlines, it’s clear Uber — among other companies — must reevaluate its company culture. Earlier this week, when news hit that Uber’s board of directors approved a set of 47 recommendations prepared by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, I was surprised how well I could relate to most of the suggestions. I’m sure I’m not alone.

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Great Businesses Focus On Solutions, Not Technologies

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though I love technology, I always cringe when an entrepreneur starts an angel investor pitch to me by touting his new technology. They have forgotten that new technologies are perceived by most customers as causing more pain than the problems they eliminate. I chastise these startups to highlight the solution created by the technology, rather than the technology.

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15 Tips For Managing Your Own Payroll

YoungUpstarts

by Graham McKenzie, Global Tax Director at activpayroll . There’s more to the payroll process than delivering wages on time – beyond the number-crunching and pay-deadlines, your system needs to remain compliant with a complicated set of rules and regulations. Although many businesses choose to outsource payroll to third-party organisations, for a range of reasons others may decide to keep the process in-house.

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The Right Way To Raise Future Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

Parents wonder if their kids could be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Evan Spiegal. But who becomes a successful entrepreneur? Is it anything parents have control over as their kids grow up?

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4 types of startup advisory board members — and how to deal with them

The Next Web

Here’s something they might not have told you when you set up your startup to “be your own boss” — everyone has bosses. Every startup CEO knows that in theory their advisory board is just here to ‘advise’. But some of them, maybe even all them, have a stake in the company, and are actually crucial to your success. Here are the four types of people you’ll encounter on every startup advisory board and how to deal with them.