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Apr 30
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4 Habits of Highly-Successful Business Owners

By YEC | entrepreneur, Entrepreneur Profiles, New Business Ideas, Roshawnna Novellus, Starting Up, Startupcollective, successful entrepreneurs, Todays Picks | No Comments

What makes a successful entrepreneur? Think about all of the successful people you know. Think about all the successful business owners you’ve heard of and read about. It may not…

Apr 30
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How to Make the Customer Happy, Even When They’re Not Always Right

By YEC | Brett Goldberg, Customer Service, Customers, happy customers, marketing, Sales & Marketing, Startupcollective, Todays Picks | No Comments

The cornerstone motto of customer service has forever been, “The customer is always right.” But those of you who have worked in the field know this is untrue: The customer is…

Apr 27
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E815: All #AskJason: Surprising founders, effective crowdsourcing, AI hot or hype?, video game startups, cannabis, holding v. selling, raising $, building expertise

By Jacqui Deegan | Uncategorized | No Comments

The post E815: All #AskJason: Surprising founders, effective crowdsourcing, AI hot or hype?, video game startups, cannabis, holding v. selling, raising $, building expertise appeared first on This Week In…

Apr 27
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Entering The Healthcare Tech Space? Three Things to Keep in Mind

By YEC | How I Did It, Kevin Yamazaki, Office & Operations, Running Your Business, Sidebench, Startupcollective, Todays Picks | No Comments

Healthcare is hard — but many startups are now successfully navigating the healthcare space with us. In this article, I explore how to approach the beast that is the healthcare…

Apr 27
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12 Things That Make a Startup Truly Innovative

By YEC | Business Planning, innovation, small business, Starting Up, Startupcollective, Todays Picks, Uncategorized | No Comments

Question: In your opinion, what makes a startup or small business truly “innovative” and why? Murray Newlands ChattyPeople It Achieves the Impossible “When other startups or small businesses think they’ve…

Apr 27
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9 Social Media Faux Pas

By YEC | Advertising, Networking, Sales & Marketing, Social Media, social media strategy, Startupcollective, strategy, Todays Picks | No Comments

Question: What should a company NOT do when it comes to crafting a social media strategy? Jayna Cooke EVENTup Post Too Much “You want to make sure you’re posting enough…

Apr 26
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Meet Saurabh Lahoti, Partner of Alacrity India

By Gabby Martinez | Alacrity India, Business Planning, Saurabh Lahoti, Starting Up, Startupcollective, Todays Picks, yec spotlight member | No Comments

Saurabh has 14+ years of experience in industries including technology, M&A and VC. He currently heads Alacrity India Fund, a SaaS focused fund. Follow him @lahoti Who is your hero? (In business,…

Apr 26
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Increasing Your Content’s Lifetime Value: 5 Keys

By YEC | marketing, marketing content, Sales & Marketing, Startupcollective, Todays Picks, Zac Johnson | No Comments

As someone who has been in the marketing industry for twenty years and a blogger since 2007, I know the importance of creating content that produces the highest impact on…

Apr 25
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3 Branding Exercises Every Founder Should Do

By YEC | Branding and Public Relations (PR), founder advice, marketing, new founders, Sales & Marketing, Startupcollective, Suneera Madhani, Todays Picks, Uncategorized | No Comments

In the past century, brands were largely defined by their trademarks: their logos, mascots and color schemes. The market was consumed by huge, monolithic companies whose logos were synonymous with…

Apr 25
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5 Ways to Successfully Make Your Startup Stand Out

By YEC | advice for starting up, Business Planning, New Business Ideas, Obinna Ekezie, Starting Up, Startupcollective, Todays Picks | No Comments

Startups, especially those that are bootstrapping, tend to focus more on building product/services than they do on marketing them. But when you’re trying to build up brand recognition and a…

Apr 24
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E814: Airtable Co-founder Howie Liu raises $52m Series B for his smart spreadsheets, launches “Blocks” customizable apps to supercharge database insights, shares lessons as a 2nd-time founder & vision for the ultimate workflow

By Jacqui Deegan | Uncategorized | No Comments

The post E814: Airtable Co-founder Howie Liu raises $52m Series B for his smart spreadsheets, launches “Blocks” customizable apps to supercharge database insights, shares lessons as a 2nd-time founder &…

Apr 24
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9 Best Practices for Hosting a Glitch-Free Webinar

By YEC | Business Apps & Software, Glitch-Free Webinar, hosting, Office Technology, Startupcollective, Technology, Todays Picks, web conference | No Comments

Question: What is one best practice for hosting a glitch-free web conference or webinar virtually? Drew Hendricks Buttercup Prepare for the Worst “While you may not know there will be…

Apr 24
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How to Successfully Network While on the Road

By YEC | business networking, Marlene Jia, Networking, networking events, Sales & Marketing, Startupcollective, Todays Picks | No Comments

Any entrepreneur can share countless travel stories of lonely hotel dining and tasteless room service dinners. Combine that with red-eye flights, missed connections and rental car lines, and business trips…

Apr 23
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What Playing a Sport Can Teach You About Running a Business

By YEC | Leadership & Culture, Leadership Development, Legend Times Group, Startupcollective, Todays Picks, Tom Chalmers | No Comments

On a podcast, I recently heard serial entrepreneur Jason Wilks refer to how his experience playing golf helped him run the businesses he founded. I have always been a sports…

Apr 23
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How to Identify If You’re Ready for a Rebrand

By YEC | Branding and Public Relations (PR), Brian Lischer, marketing, rebranding, Startupcollective, Todays Picks | No Comments

If there’s one thing that running a branding firm has made me appreciate, it’s the ever-changing nature of the marketplace. Whether you sell lattes to hipsters out of a repurposed…

Apr 20
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E813: Andy Rachleff shares insights from co-founding Benchmark & building Wealthfront to manage $10b+ assets, announces 50% fee cut for Risk Parity, talks stock market, financial literacy & the wisdom of investing against human instinct

By Jacqui Deegan | Uncategorized | No Comments

The post E813: Andy Rachleff shares insights from co-founding Benchmark & building Wealthfront to manage $10b+ assets, announces 50% fee cut for Risk Parity, talks stock market, financial literacy &…

Apr 20
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6 Ways B2B Companies Can Use Social Media to Communicate With Potential Customers

By YEC | B2B, Customers, customers communication, Sales & Marketing, social media communication, Startupcollective, Todays Picks | No Comments

Question: What’s one way B2B companies can use social media to communicate with potential customers? Andrew Namminga Andesign Create Valuable Content “Most social networks allow you to tag other accounts….

Apr 20
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8 Best Strategies for Making Problem-Solving Meetings More Effective Up Front

By YEC | Company Culture, effective problem solving, Leadership & Culture, problem solving, problem solving meetings, Productivity, Startupcollective, Todays Picks | No Comments

Question: What framework can I use to make meetings slated for problem-solving more effective? Christopher Kelly Convene Use the Business Model Canvas “The Business Model Canvas is a process that…

Apr 19
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How to Proactively Demonstrate Your Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

By YEC | Company Culture, diverse team, diversity, gender equality, hiring, HR, inclusivity, Leadership & Culture, management, Startupcollective, Todays Picks | No Comments

We at Rented.com recently learned about Founders for Change and the great work they’re doing to shed more light on issues surrounding diversity and inclusion. We too feel these are…

Apr 19
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Recruiting the Best Candidates From Your Internal Talent Pool

By YEC | Company Culture, hiring and recruiting, HR and Management, HR and recruitment, Leadership & Culture, Startupcollective, Todays Picks, Tommy Mello | No Comments

One of the hardest tasks of a business owner is hiring the right people. Top performers must have the right work ethic to fulfill expectations, but also be a good…

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Recent Posts

  • E1007: DoNotPay CEO & Founder Josh Browder built an AI lawyer to fight corporations & governments, demos product features & how it helps consumers, shares insights on following in footsteps of his father Bill Browder, & future of consumer empowerment
  • E1006: Farmer’s Fridge CEO & Founder Luke Saunders is creating a connected network of vending machines offering fresh & healthy meals, shares insights on creating a restaurant-like experience, solving food-supply chain issues, capitalizing on grassroots marketing & real-world virality & using sales data to create the most appealing menu
  • E1005: Scale AI CEO & Co-founder Alexandr Wang creates training data for all AI applications to improve machine learning, shares insights on the future of autonomous vehicles, China’s AI advantages over US, importance of humans focusing on higher-value work & next major trends in AI
  • E865: Nextdoor CEO & Co-founder Nirav Tolia on getting to 90% of US neighborhoods & 100m users globally with organic growth & hard choices, shares thoughts on parody, possible IPO, & becoming the unique social network that protects, as well as connects, its members
  • E864: Social Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya on how he fell for the mythology & Ponzi scheme of Silicon Valley, is now getting back to solving problems that matter; urges founders to grow real, grow slow, & stay true to what they want to build in the world @ LAUNCH Scale
  • E863: Optimism breaks barriers: Omaze CEO Matt Pohlson makes a difference through dream experiences with A-list stars, shares lessons in gratitude, family gambling, coming back from the dead (literally), Bono’s magic, & the smart business of crowdfunded charity
  • E862: Andela CEO Jeremy Johnson & his team are training Africa’s top talent to become the world’s software engineers, bridging the gap between a high-growth population & the global need for technical expertise
  • E861: #StartupTuneup Urban-X: Founders solving for cities pitch Jason on data-driven grades for apartments, urban outdoor spaces, connecting tolls to connected vehicles, bike-safety helmets riders will actually wear
  • E860: Elad Gil, Angel Investor (Airbnb, Coinbase, Square) & Operator (Color Genomics, Google), shares masterclass on fundraising timeline & process, landing & optimizing investors, notes & equity terms/trade-offs, common mistakes & more @ LAUNCH Incubator
  • E859: Emergency Pod! Instagram founders flee Facebook, things Jason hates/loves, tips for founders, the startup Jason wish existed
  • E858: #AllAskJason Call-In: Candid advice on founder mental health & the extreme pursuit of startups, syndicate investing best practices, setting up outside SV, the future of robot-enabled retail, & the dream social media platform to unseat Facebook
  • E857: Solving drowning: WAVE Co-founder & CEO Mark Caron demos his innovation detecting swimmers in distress, alerting lifeguards & parents; shares challenges & opportunities of changing human behavior, convincing VCs of the growing market for saving lives
  • E856: #StartupTuneup Equity Crowdfunding: Republic Co-founder Ken Nguyen opens opportunity floodgates for startups & investors with diversity-focused crowdfunding, joins Jason to hear pitches on enterprise collaboration, smartphone numbers on demand, & next-gen tailoring
  • E855: Blavity CEO & Co-founder Morgan DeBaun on how she built her media empire for black millennials based on trust in the era of fake news & Facebook fatigue, scaled to 5 brands (+counting) with 4m+ social, & landed Series A led by GV, smashing every SV barrier along the way
  • E854: Kairos CEO & Co-founder Brian Brackeen on innovating in facial recognition, processing over a billion faces, raising $30m via token sale, the dream & dystopia of AI, the persistence of racial profiling, & why he won’t sell his technology to law enforcement

Recent Posts

  • E1007: DoNotPay CEO & Founder Josh Browder built an AI lawyer to fight corporations & governments, demos product features & how it helps consumers, shares insights on following in footsteps of his father Bill Browder, & future of consumer empowerment December 6, 2019
  • E1006: Farmer’s Fridge CEO & Founder Luke Saunders is creating a connected network of vending machines offering fresh & healthy meals, shares insights on creating a restaurant-like experience, solving food-supply chain issues, capitalizing on grassroots marketing & real-world virality & using sales data to create the most appealing menu December 3, 2019
  • E1005: Scale AI CEO & Co-founder Alexandr Wang creates training data for all AI applications to improve machine learning, shares insights on the future of autonomous vehicles, China’s AI advantages over US, importance of humans focusing on higher-value work & next major trends in AI November 29, 2019

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