Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2021

As Director of the U.S. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force Pete Newell delivered innovation at speed and scale in the Department of Defense. Pete is now CEO of BMNT, a company that delivers innovation solutions and processes for governments. Here are Pete’s 5 principles that will accelerate innovation. To help a large Defense organization wrestle with how to increase the velocity of innovation in their ranks Steve Blank and I spent the better part of last week with our heads together re

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2021

Many professionals in business, from startups to multi-nationals, assume that team leader or executive is an appointed position, and the skills come with the title. In reality, leadership is best demonstrated while not in a position of authority, and is a skill that must be sharpened every day of your life. Most experts agree that leadership, as perceived by people around you, is more about behavior than it is about specific skills or knowledge.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

There is no denying that website security is the most fundamental aspect of doing business, especially in the financial sector. It is absolutely essential for maintaining consumer trust. This is why, you need to take security seriously when you operate a financial planning software, investment dashboard, online banking portal, or handle user data in a private manner.

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Up and Running

MAY 17, 2021

So you’ve started a company and it’s growing. Great! If you’re like many start-up founders, that might not be enough. You may feel the deep desire to push through and reach new heights. . If you can do this without external funding, go for it. But if you require an external round of funding and are getting ready to fundraise from VCs, ask as many of your founder friends for their advice on how to tackle the process.

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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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Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2021

Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2021

During all my years in business, I’ve noticed that some people seem to make their job look effortless , while others are always in a struggle, no matter how simple you thought the task should be. I’ve always wondered if some people are just that much smarter, or what some do that the rest of us can emulate, in order that we too get the best results without working so hard.

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Up and Running

MAY 19, 2021

You don’t know your prospective clients and customers if you don’t understand the problems they’re experiencing. Taking that a step further, even knowing their problems isn’t enough if you don’t understand how they currently deal with it. They’re doing this on their own, making rash choices and attempting to sort through extensive options from various business solution providers.

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Austin Startup

MAY 17, 2021

Interplay Learning?—?Helping the Skilled Trades Rebuild a Bigger and Better Workforce By Sam Decker, Board Member, Interplay Learning Big Problems, Big Solutions The last 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged businesses and organizations like never before. While some companies have remained transfixed, allowing external events to shape and define them, others have stepped up to the plate?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2021

The days when you locked and loaded your career in school, and then blasted away down that same narrow path the rest of your life, are gone, never to return. Career survival today requires thinking and acting like an entrepreneur starting a business, staying nimble and resilient, willing to pivot, and supersensitive to the market realities of supply and demand.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

The business world has realized that it wastes a lot. Whether it’s time, energy, power, or any number of other metrics, businesses have become wasteful because they adopt a result-oriented approach. The twenty-first century has no place for such a mindset, and companies will have to change and adapt. BP Trends mentions that businesses could improve their bottom line by raising their process efficiency.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

In discussions with founders and investors, as well as interviews , I describe the role that games have played in my career. It’s become a somewhat quirky facet of my public persona: Reid Hoffman, game geek. I love games, and I love talking about them. But none of these profiles has ever focused on the games themselves. They might (at best) mention one or two games and muse.

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deal architect

MAY 18, 2021

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ), as part of my Analyst Cam series. I know the title suggests it is about the Tears for Fears hit. Sorry, click.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2021

The most successful entrepreneurs and executives I have seen are savvy business people first, and experts in their field second. This may seem counter-intuitive to technologists, especially in an era when technology seems to be driving the world. Yet the sad truth is that a technology not focused on a real problem is not a business, and will probably fail in the marketplace.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2021

You might have a unique startup idea, or maybe you’ve wanted to be your own boss and start your own company for many years. Now, you feel like the time has come to implement those plans. You’ve got a business loan, or maybe you’ve located a venture capital firm that’s willing to back you but want to avoid any difficult startup niches. Source: Pixabay.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 17, 2021

When you’re a business owner, you’re concerned with many things. One of the most critical parts of your business is how your products look and feel when they reach customers. You must have custom product labels so that people know what brands they’re buying from. This blog post will provide tips on creating a compelling product label design for your company.

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deal architect

MAY 18, 2021

In the 46th episode of the series we have Monty Hamilton of Rural Sourcing. While the COVID-19 pandemic and related WFH protocols have turned many of us into recluses, the big realization is you can WFA - as in Anywhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2021

Most successful entrepreneurs will tell you that their primary motivation is to “change the world” and to build something lasting, not to make a lot of money. But the conventional wisdom is that employees work for money, above all else. Yet my own experience, and a still relevant McKinsey survey , leads me to believe that non-cash motivators may be more effective in the long term than financial incentives.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2021

There are many inexpensive ways to reward your employees. Creativity is key to getting the desired result. The post 5 Fun Ways To Reward Your Employees appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 17, 2021

One of the keys to any successful business is ensuring that it operates like a well-oiled machine. Efficiency is one of the foundations that underpin any enterprise hoping to grow its brand and market reach. The sad truth is that many companies are seldom efficient. Inefficiency is a problem that must get tackled if a company wants to survive and become a market leader.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 18, 2021

I recently nominated James Oliver’s ParentPreneur Foundation for the new Techstars Accelerate Equity Program. Amy and I provided the lead gift of $100,000 through our Anchor Point Foundation. For a detailed look at what the ParentPreneur Foundation does, take a look at Techstars Foundation Empowers Black ParentPreneurs, So They Can Leave A Legacy For Their Children.

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VC Cafe

MAY 19, 2021

Tal Ben Shahar, Happier. This is a slightly different post than normal, inspired by a book i’m reading, called Happier. The book is writted by Tal Ben Shahar, a Professor at Harvard University teaching the school’s most popular class on positive psychology after dedicating much of his adult life to studying everything he could about Happiness.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2021

Looking after the safety of your employees’ eyes at the workplace is something that should be taken seriously at all times. The post Eye Care At Work appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Social media has become the easiest way to communicate with your customers and express what your brand stands for. Businesses that don’t take advantage of this extremely useful marketing tool are setting themselves up for failure. . Source: Pixabay. Social media isn’t just for posting pictures, videos, or posts relating to your brand. It’s also a valuable way to create meaningful relationships with your customers.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2021

I’ve been reading hard science fiction lately, along with some actual science. The hard sci-fi includes Dragon’s Egg and Starquake by Robert Forward (wow – awesome) and Nova by Samuel Delany (also awesome). The science includes The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku and Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 16, 2021

Here's an inside look at how Emily Wells launched her brand design agency while in college and why she loves bringing ideas to life.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2021

Here is a look at the main ways that you can get found on the search engines in order to increase your business online. The post How To Increase Business With SEO appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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VC Cafe

MAY 17, 2021

For the founders out there… There’s raising smart money, and then there is raising money smartly. The fundraising process can be daunting for entrepreneurs, and often involves a process of ‘frog kissing’ to find the right fit with investors. Many VC funds report that they invest in less than 1% of the opportunities they screen in a given year.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 19, 2021

My newest book, The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors , comes out next Tuesday, May 25th. This has been an on-again, off-again project with Dave Jilk that began in 2013. We were spending the weekend in Keystone with our wives (Amy and Maureen), which generally involved a lot of sitting around reading. Dave was reading On Nietzsche by Eric Steinhart.

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Transformify

MAY 17, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic brought a wind of change as business industries were obliged to make the big shift to work from home. It can even be more challenging since everyone is confined to quarantine as an individual effort to minimize the contagion. Despite the threat of cabin fever, this new work lifestyle has gained warm appreciation from transposed employees.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2021

Leon Goren, owner and CEO of PEO Leadership, explains how a peer or leadership group can go a long way toward helping young entrepreneurs succeed. The post Young Entrepreneur? How A Leadership Group Can Help You Succeed appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2021

When establishing the beginning process of your crypto trading experience, there are a number of things that you should take into consideration before moving to the next big stage of the trading experience. All of this implies the fact that the broad aspect and the innovative nature of this concept requires a detailed plan of action that will further help users achieve l of the goals that they have in mind.

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SiliconHills

MAY 19, 2021

Founded 17 years ago, Realty Austin has seen tremendous growth. The husband-and-wife team of Jonathan and Yvette Boatwright have developed the company into the number one independent brokerage in Central Texas. In the beginning, Jonathan worked at Microsoft at the time Yvette was starting her real estate business. Together, they focused on the technology behind […].

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Hunter Walker

MAY 19, 2021

Teaching my daughter that ‘adventure boo-boos’ are part of life. I come from a family of flinchers. Well-intentioned of course but with an instinctual urge to ask “is that safe?” before proceeding. Perhaps Darwin favors this trait in humans and long ago the majority of my look-before-you-leap ancestors did not fair so well. But when we had our daughter, I wanted to find a new intermediate point between seeking absolute safety and Wile E.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2021

Learn what entrepreneurs do to make those things happen, and you're ready to dive into the daily operation of your own start-up company. Here are 5 good habits to develop. The post 5 Habits Of Highly Effective Startup Owners appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

When you run or work for a startup, you’ll probably have to get involved with areas of the business that you’re not exactly an expert in. It’s not uncommon for graphic designers or app developers to be responsible for marketing, content creation, human resources, or even the financial side of a business. If you’re a startup marketing rookie, however, you might not know where to begin.

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David Cohen

MAY 18, 2021

A huge thank you to Brad Feld and Amy Batchelor and Anchor Point Foundation for getting the ball rolling in a big way with the ParentPreneur Foundation , by nominating them for the Techstars Foundation Accelerate Equity program and providing a $100,000 lead grant. Amazing! The ParentPreneur Foundation is an awesome organization and peer network started by James Oliver Jr. that empowers black ParentPreneurs so they can leave a legacy for their beautiful children.

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