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10 Manageable Risks That An Entrepreneur Should Take

Startup Professionals Musings

There is an old saying that good lawyers run away from risk, while good businessmen run towards risk. Entrepreneurs see “no risk” as meaning “no reward.” In reality, all risks are not the same. Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure.

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How To Build A Career In Agile Software Development

YoungUpstarts

It is no surprise that Agile as a revolution of the software development and project management world is still picking up its pace. This has caused a need for Agile professionals within the IT sector who understand the principles and methodology behind this concepts of Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean. If you have long considered taking on the challenge of learning Agile and becoming a Product Owner or a Scrum Master, but are wondering if it’s worth it, we hope to answer your question.

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Today’s opportunities in enterprise SaaS

Version One Ventures

Enterprise SaaS has seen tremendous growth over the past decade and created many, many large stand-alone companies. Given the current public struggle of tech-enabled services, marketplaces, hardware and DTC companies, enterprise SaaS also feels like VC’s most favourite investment category right now. The amount of money that has poured into this space has made enterprise SaaS highly competitive.

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The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase

Austin Startup

The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase The Startup Testing Evolution Story and Some of the Lessons Learned We sometimes focus on robust testing or the best testing strategy but it’s not quite that simple. While there is a strategy that is typically best if we want to release code with very few bugs in the most efficient way possible, this is not always the strategy that makes the most sense for a particular 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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6 Team Members Who Will Make Your New Venture Robust

Startup Professionals Musings

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. That’s why investors say they invest in people (bet on the jockey, not the horse), rather than the idea. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.

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Top 5 Esports Trends Entrepreneurs Should Keep An Eye On In 2020

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin Manship , co-founder of Gamer One. Pick up the sticks, put on your headphones and get ready. Esports finally hit its stride in 2019, and with momentum behind it, the industry’s growth shows no signs of slowing down in 2020. When the first year of the new decade ends, esports fans around the world will number 307 million. Imagine all of America tuning in to watch the world championship of Fortnite, League of Legends, or Overwatch.

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The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase

Austin Startup

The Evolution of Testing With Your Codebase The Startup Testing Evolution Story and Some of the Lessons Learned We sometimes focus on robust testing or the best testing strategy but it’s not quite that simple. While there is a strategy that is typically best if we want to release code with very few bugs in the most efficient way possible, this is not always the strategy that makes the most sense for a particular company.

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Finding Happiness at Work

Duct Tape Marketing

Finding Happiness at Work written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Bruce Daisley. Podcast Transcript. Today’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is author and podcaster Bruce Daisley. After a career as a senior executive at Twitter and Google, Daisley changed his trajectory. He left the corporate world to begin a podcast called Eat Sleep Work Repeat.

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Choosing The Right Engagement Model When Hiring A Web Design Agency

YoungUpstarts

So, you figured out that your business finally requires additional online presence with a company website. However, since you are not a web design company, you will need the assistance of a web design agency to take care of your creating your website and launching it. One of the things you should think about before hiring one is the engagement model for working with it.

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How to Protect Your Enterprises’ Data Online

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When it comes to business success, data protection is vital. Even if an enterprise generates an endless amount of sales and glowing feedback from customers, this could be wiped before you could even blink, by a crippling cybersecurity attack. Yet the risk of your data landing in the wrong hands is constantly growing. This is because the workplace continues to allow employee-owned devices to be used.

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Four Tricky VC Questions and How To Handle Them

View from Seed

During the course of a fundraise, founders are likely to encounter a few questions from VC’s that seem awkward or even a bit unfair. These are questions that usually don’t have anything to do with the business itself, but center around the dynamics of the round or maybe the motivations of the founders. Below are the most common flavors of these questions.

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6 Personal Assessment Tools To Optimize Career Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many people, young and older, let their career and their lifestyle happen to them, rather than proactively making things happen based on their personal passions, skills, and interests. Others make decisions based on someone else’s interests, such as the father who wants his son to take over the family business, or dreams openly of having a doctor in the family.

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Five Tips For Boosting Business Efficiency

YoungUpstarts

Even if it’s successful, you know in the back of your mind there are ways to improve your business. Are projects not finishing as swiftly as expected? Maybe stock levels are too high and they’re causing unnecessary expenses? Or perhaps the productivity of your employees has dropped off? Whatever the case, no business is perfect and issues will arise.

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The Importance of Organization and Inventory Management

Women Entrepreneurs Can

For a lot of businesses – and especially those in retail – inventory is the most important aspect of day-to-day operations. So much time is spent on inventory: manufacturing it, ordering it, paying for it, unpacking it, collecting it, shipping it. And yet, for many companies, organizing inventory seems to fall by the wayside. You might not believe it, but taking the time to carefully organize inventory can help your business in myriad ways, and not just by having a cleaner, easier-to-navig

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Robot Love

Start Up Blog

We don’t just have a relationship with technology, we use technology to find relationships. Newspapers, video dating, website matching services and apps – and to the most direct of all – Tinder. The reason Tinder works is simple. It replicates human behaviour in the real world. The moment someone walks into a night club they look around at the faces of people and say to themselves, Yes, No, No ,Yes, No, No, No, No Yes, Yes.

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5 Strategies For Startup Partnering To Win Long Term

Startup Professionals Musings

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors a few years ago to give away their battery patents, to infrastructure and competitive c

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[Interview] Meghan Fitzgerald, Author Of “Ascending Davos”

YoungUpstarts

Navigating the corporate landscape is a challenge for anyone: for women, it can be akin to climbing Mt. Everest. It was in the mountains, in fact — in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum — that Meghan Fitzgerald realized she had been trading her health for her career. As others in Davos shared their stories about their own climb, she saw a disturbing thru-line: in general, the higher women rise, the less they value their own health.

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An advisory to small businesses about mobile bank deposits

deal architect

I am big fan of automation and how it can make workers more productive and customer-friendly. In my book, Silicon Collar, I had a number of examples of automation which led to "super workers" - drivers who can drive millions.

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The Challenge of Being an Excellent Board Member

Feld Thoughts

When I started blogging in 2004, there weren’t many VC bloggers. I followed Fred Wilson and David Hornik’s lead and just started writing what was on my mind about, well, anything that was on my mind. Today, VC content pieces are everywhere. I’ve become less interested in writing this kind of stuff so my blog has evolved into whatever is on my mind, but a lot less “VC stuff.” Every now and then I come across a spectacular VC blog post (or article in Techcrunch, or on

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7 Business Leadership Keys To A Thriving New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the realities of being an entrepreneur is that you have to keep learning and changing to survive. Everyone on the startup team knows there is no buffer, and no personal isolation from impact based on your job description that can save you. Thus everyone has to make sure they are focusing on what is important, and making leadership decisions to save the business.

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Starting Up A Business Vs Buying An Existing Business

YoungUpstarts

If you generally have the idea of starting up a business or buying an existing business, each has its advantages and disadvantages to it (If you are looking to fund your new venture and need help comparing the market Nowloan can provide you with some of the best rates on the market just click here ). Businesses can be tricky if you aren’t careful enough.

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How to Set Up Your Small Construction Enterprise

The Startup Magazine

Working a life in which you’re an employee can be a little tiring. You work hard every day – often in a role that you feel you could do all by yourself – only to be paid a wage, with the profits siphoned off at the very top. It’s this feeling of unease that leads many people, especially those with practical and hands-on experience, to set up their own companies, trading privately with their own clients.

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You All Instead of You Guys

Feld Thoughts

While reading Kim Scott’s book Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity , I came across an anecdote from a discussion she had with Dick Costolo. One of my favorite stories about Dick and diversity was his effort to eliminate the phrase “you guys” from his vocabulary. I told him a story about my twins—one a boy and one a girl—who were in kindergarten.

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Public Venture Funding Could Help Build Canada’s Tech Talent

ReadWriteStart

Over the last few years, Canada’s technology sector has been experiencing a renaissance. Increased venture funding has been helping to develop a robust tech ecosystem with major hubs in Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto. Here’s how public venture funding can help build Canada’s tech talent. Despite this noticeable growth, however, Canadian tech companies still face significant challenges when it comes to attracting and retaining top-quality talent — but that’s starting to cha

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Tech Career Advice For People Looking To Enter The Industry

YoungUpstarts

As the tech industry advances into new levels of highs and popularity, this also means that careers in this sector are becoming more and more lucrative. It’s without a doubt that the tech industry can present applicants with some of the most rewarding and record-breaking employment opportunities. These job openings can benefit those who have no diploma at all but have a lot of tech knowledge and expertise, and those who know technology, programming, and other related matters from A to Z.

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I’ve gone plant-based for a month, here’s my experience

VC Cafe

While this blog is normally about startups and venture capital, I wanted to share a personal experience. If you don’t care about nutrition, you can stop reading now… A couple of weeks ago, I watched Game Changers on Netflix. Produced by James Cameron and narrated by James Wilks, a former UFC fighter and martial arts trainer, the movie includes an all-star team of co-producers (Arnie, Hamilton Lewis, Serena Williams, etc).

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How To Work From Home

YFS Magazine

I would be lying if I said working from home is easy. Here's how to conquer distractions and stay productive while being mindful of your surroundings.

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3 Startup Ideas That’ll Make You Some Money in 2020

The Startup Magazine

Is owning a business your only professional goal? Are you still in need of that one amazing idea that’ll be sure to get you started on the entrepreneurial career path? Well, you’re in luck, as a number of brilliant business ideas can be found below. Turning your Ideas into Assets. Rest assured, you don’t need a lot of funding to get these startup ideas off the ground.

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7 Digital Marketing Benefits That Have The Biggest Impact On Customers

YoungUpstarts

It’s no secret that marketing a business is hugely important, as it’s what advertises products and engages customers. Without marketing, it’s very difficult to grow and evolve as a business. There are a lot of different ways to market products and services, but a lot of businesses focus their attention on digital marketing. This is because digital marketing is hugely impactful and it has a number of benefits.

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Startups are never straight lines

K9 Ventures

This is a recent tweet-storm that I wanted to cross post here as well as I feel so strongly about the lessons. 1/ So much of building a product/company is about progressive discovery. You build something, you figure out something else, then you build that, and so on. But you only figure out what to build by taking the first step, which may not always be *exactly* in the right direction. 2/ This is why it’s impossible to “accelerate” a startup.

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6 Ways To Love Your Employees and Customers Better

YFS Magazine

Want your customers and team to love you? Chocolates are enjoyed and forgotten. Roses eventually wilt. But heartfelt leadership endures.

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Startup Opportunities in the Motion Control Market

The Startup Magazine

Motion control has quickly taken an integral role in the development of modern industrial processes and consumer products. Motion control allows the automation of any application to be enhanced offering superior movement, precision, velocity, and force. Photo by Daniele Levis Pelusi on Unsplash. By working with an automated system that is made up of motion controllers, hardware, drives, feedback devices, sensors, and software tools it can help to create the route the motor follows.

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3 Ways To Keep Your Workspace Active, Flexible, and Thriving

YoungUpstarts

by Joseph De Sena , founder of Spartan. No one ever completed a Spartan Race by daydreaming on his couch. Finishers make it to the end of intense obstacle courses by training, pure and simple. If they didn’t, they’d never have the stamina to push themselves beyond their comfort zones. Most workers aren’t training to be Spartans, of course. Yet they still deserve the health and wellness benefits that come from getting and staying in motion.

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Startup Essentials: Stop Overcomplicating Your Processes

ReadWriteStart

Let’s face it; we all overcomplicate things. But when you’re just starting as a new company, you can’t afford to waste time overthinking and complicating simple processes. You’ve got the gift of a clean slate. Meaning you’re not like the more prominent, older companies who have thousands of employees learning new CRM software. You’ve got you and maybe a few other people heading up your main departments.

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5 Ways To Become A Thought Leader In 90 Days (Or Less)

YFS Magazine

Becoming a thought leader can provide a steady stream of new business opportunities, and these five tips can help you get there.

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Six Vehicle Features That Keep Your Employees Safe

The Startup Magazine

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) , over 37,000 people were killed in motor vehicle accidents in 2017. Furthermore, research has shown that the majority of road accidents are caused by human error. Employers must do what they can to keep their employees safe when acquiring or leasing vehicles for employee use, as well as to reduce business liability of company vehicle accidents.

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