Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Expect to read a new story each week straight from our keynote and breakout stages. In an interview with GE’s Culture Transformation Leader Janice Semper during Lean Startup Week, Eric Ries remarked, “Listen, that's our specialty here.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

If you’re a college student, chances are you’re short of money. Even if you’re not, I bet you’d like to have a little more of it. There’s a mistaken belief among young people that they cannot get a well-paid job due to the lack of experience and qualification. But there’s something college students can do well. They write academic papers regularly. If you’re lucky to have brilliant writing skills, you may get a job at an essay writing service like EssayPro.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Employees are still too often thought of as a commodity, to be acquired “just in time” for the lowest cost, and managed as a disposable asset.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing

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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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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2017

At Box, like at many other companies, we’ve decided to take our large monolithic web application and start the process of breaking it up into microservices. Now that we’ve built out our first service to prove out the framework, we want to start allowing teams to build lots of new services along with the additional infrastructure pieces needed to support these new services.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2017

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com . With a growing number of budding entrepreneurs and small business enterprises spreading across the globe, there is intense competition in every industry you can name. Smaller businesses particularly find themselves stifled due to the fierce competitive practices of large companies, which restricts their growth.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast is sponsored by Podcast Bookers, podcastbookers.com. Podcast are really hot, right? But you know what’s also really hot? Appearing as a guest on one of the many many podcast out there.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Learn 4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018. Alignment, Team Diversity, Knowledge & MoshPits. The challenges facing innovation leaders, facing 2018 is — how do you integrate new digital capability? This is not innovation as we once knew it. This is not your Dad’s innovation. It’s not even Your Innovation of five years ago?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2017

So you successfully built an online business you can be proud of. You are going through growing pains, and are getting overwhelmed by paperwork and administrative tasks. Many entrepreneurs before you have gone through the same experience. If you would like to reclaim your life and have more time focusing on things that take your business further, you could take advantage of the latest technology to see a snapshot of your finances and customer satisfaction any time.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 10, 2017

As lawyers will tell you, there is no perfect jurisdiction for everyone. In each case, a number of factors (tax considerations, applicable regulation, team location, reputation, etc.) need to be considered. For our survey, we have analyzed the top 100 coins (by market capitalization, as listed on [link] as of 1 November 2017). We started at the top and continued until we were able to match 50 coins to particular jurisdictions.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The CEO of a manufacturing company expresses frustration his plant employees have to key entries into the shop floor system. Why not a voice interface? And anticipating the objection, says don’t tell me they cannot use noise canceling technology to.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Have you ever noticed that some of your business owner friends get all the bad customers, and yours all seem fairly reasonable? Or is it the other way around? I’m always amazed that, in my role as a business advisor, bad customers somehow seem to gang up on certain businesses. I long ago learned that the customer is not always right, but you can turn most around to be great.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

by Amanda Setili, author of “ Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets “ Polarization is a common problem for companies trying to make smart and agile strategic decisions. (Hint: That should be all companies.) When people band together with likeminded teammates, it’s human nature for them to get more and more entrenched in their mindset.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Men use similar tropes on why #MeToo may go too far. It’s time to break these down. It’s time for more men to start saying, “enough is enough,” “I believe her,” and “I will step out of my comfort zone and speak up so that others feel empowered to follow me.” Men will make mistakes. But mistakes are much better than silence. Mistakes are better than condoning misconduct, harassment, bias or abuse.

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For Entrepreneurs

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Intro Many potentially great companies fail each year because, while they have an incredible product, they don’t figure out how to get it to market fast enough. Figuring out how to reach customers and break through to Product-Market-Fit remains one of the hardest parts of building a successful startup. This post introduces a four stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Getting things done effectively in a startup requires total individual and team accountability. You can’t afford excuses and multiple people doing the same job. In my view, “taking responsibility” is the core element behind accountability. Many people hear responsibility as an obligation, but I hear it as “the ability to respond.” Unfortunately many people don’t have the ability to respond, because they lack confidence in themselves, or simply don’t have the skills required.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It’s amazing what you can tell about a business based on just a quick look at their website. From size and financial status to how long they’ve been in business, website aesthetics act as a cipher. As a burgeoning entrepreneur, though, this can put your company at a serious disadvantage. So how do you make a new business look established? It’s all about making smart web design choices.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 9, 2017

We used to make scientific leaps. Engineers, scientists, and manufacturers once made bold steps and drove the human race forward. Less than 10 years passed from developing jet engines to launching a supersonic aircraft into the sky and 20 years from the first fully automatic computer to one that took us to the moon. Now? Most engineering teams make progress by the inch, despite their relatively vast resources.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 11, 2017

This is a great collection of questions for brand leaders who carry the weight or the privilege of making things that matter. Questions that Matter to Brand Leaders. Does what I do count? Does what I do make a difference to anybody? Why should I come here? Can I be somebody here? Is there for me any rhyme or reason here? Can I “own” this place? Do I have any rights?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2017

The entrepreneurs I see are always talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas, but the plans I read are more often linear extensions of a current hot offering, like one more social network with the best of Facebook and Twitter, one more dating site dimension, or another “must-have” accessory for smartphones. Perhaps hard questions need to come before ideas, rather than after.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2017

by Alex Campbell, Managing Director, Asia, ‎ Xero. Global Entrepreneurship Week took place last month around the world, and it was a rather opportune time for me to examine the factors that have helped Singapore startups succeed. It should not really come as a surprise that this year, Singapore was ranked number one in the world for startup talent by Startup Genome, a US-based small business research and development firm.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We in Latin America are the happiest people in the world. We have dominant international soccer teams. We have over half our population using the internet, and some of the highest daily internet usage in the entire world. Understandably, having a population higher than Russia and America combined, Latin America also comes with a vast amount of differences between our North American cousins.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager are tools that most marketers use on a daily basis. New stuff is added to both of them all the time. What’s something new and useful that was added in 2017 the top experts love? In no particular order. #1: Krista Seiden, Google. My favorite GTM release of the year is hands down the two new triggers released in October 2017: Scroll Tracking & Element Visibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

As an angel investor and business advisor on new ventures, I expect to see five-year financial projections from every entrepreneur. Yet I get more pushback on this request than almost any other issue. Founders point to the great number of financial unknowns in any new business, and are reluctant to “commit” to any numbers which may come back to haunt them later.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2017

If you are a small business owner, it’s easy to make some mistakes regarding DIY work. On the one hand, a young entrepreneur might think that they must do everything possible on their own in order to save money and learn the ropes. However, this can backfire when the entrepreneur does something wrong, gets overwhelmed with the tasks at hand, or doesn’t leave themselves enough time and energy to directly build their business.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Today’s millennials are willing to trade up a cubicle for a garage or a kitchen table if it means being in charge of their own destiny.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Many modern businesses rely on logistics companies to help them manage their shipping and warehousing needs. Companies that specialize in this service handle a variety of different tasks for other businesses ranging from storing products to delivering them to their final destination. They often work with companies that are shipping goods overseas or that are shipping large items that require freight services.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We have just hours. The FCC is about to vote to end net neutrality—breaking the fundamental principle of the open Internet—and only an avalanche of calls to Congress can stop it. So we decided to help “Break the Internet” on our sites. You can also support on Twitter , Tumblr , Youtube or in whatever wild creative way you can to get your audience to contact Congress.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2017

One of the greatest challenges when it comes to job hunting is writing a good resume. Employers usually just take a couple of seconds scanning each resume before they stick it in the ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ pile, which is quite harsh. However, you should not fear since this article compiles the top 10 tips for writing a good resume that will help you secure that all-important interview. 1.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2017

If a no-meeting day is adopted more focused time for work, the next step is to improve and reduce the number of meetings that take place.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Doing business taxes can be difficult for new entrepreneurs. In this article, I’ll share smarter and faster ways to record your expenses and keep track of your receipts and other important documents for your taxes. Each of these tips is easy to implement and should help make tax time a breeze! Tip #1: Use accounting software to keep track of business expenses.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Have you ever thought of creating an advisory board? As you can guess, that would be an informal group with no legal responsibilities, but one able to be called upon to act as business, industry and scientific advisors to you and the company. Usually, you would want to create an advisory board to fill in the critical areas of need not evidenced in the board of directors or within the company itself.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2017

by David Zimmerman, CEO of LC Technology International. Entrepreneurs and small business owners are often coming to market with that “one great idea.” Their intellectual property that details their new product or service is exceedingly valuable and warrants the utmost in protection. Unfortunately, it’s much too easy to not properly plan for disasters and how to protect and recover data during such catastrophes.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2017

When you truly want to be organized, you will put your mind to work and leverage the right technology to accomplish more.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Amy and I love to read. For a number of years, I’ve recorded everything I read on Goodreads. When I write a blog post reviewing a book, I usually (but not consistently …) repost it on Goodreads and occasionally remember to post it on Amazon. Regardless, the definitive log of what I’ve read is on my Goodreads Bookshelf. Last year Goodreads started doing a fun compilation of all that a user read in the past year with their Year in Books summary.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 11, 2017

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News GenXComm, a telecommunications startup spun out of the University of Texas at Austin, announced Tuesday it has raised $7 million in funding, led by Intel Capital. Other investors included Azure Capital Partners, Bandgap Ventures, Capital Factory, FAM Capital Partners, Lip-Bu Tan, UT Horizon Fund and WS Investment […].

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