4 Easy Ways to Protect Your Company From a Cyber Attack
4 Easy Ways to Protect Your Company From a Cyber Attack.
No matter who the individual victim, or what the size of the business or the organization’s government stature, the looming threat of hackers on a mission to steal information is real.
The best way to do this is by getting informed about the various cyber fraud schemes and threats — phishing, malware and system hacking — that businesses face.
For companies holding important data, be sure to take measures to always have this information encrypted.
Keep your information safe by turning to full-disk encryption tools which come standard with most operating systems on.
These measures to encrypt information are important to take because in the worst-case scenarios hackers have been known to steal this information and encrypt it themselves.
Not at all cyber-attacks come through a computer system.
There are a few companies that secure servers with locks, make USB security keys and hardware-based encryption making the grab and go process for burglars even more difficult.
Employees must be aware of the ways in which they themselves can put the company at risk.
Draw the line on what internet practices are prohibited within the office and on devices.
3 Tips for Making Social Responsibility a Priority at Your Startup
It turns out that there’s a lot of money to be made running a socially responsible business.
The mechanics of socially responsible business The concept of a triple bottom line — people, planet and profit — isn’t new.
In recent years, the triple bottom line has become even more popular, as businesses realize the power of making people feel good.
The company doesn’t market its sustainability by giving away a sponge every time you buy one.
After seeing that ingredient work so well in 2010, the company took the technology to the masses as a personal cleaning product.
All companies pay lip service to putting customers first and establishing a great company culture, but truly socially responsible companies make a real commitment to both.
Know the difference between “socially responsible” and “ethical.”
Social responsibility requires ethics, but ethics doesn’t require social responsibility.
Ben & Jerry’s is a good example of a company that understands both ethics and social responsibility.
To be truly socially responsible, you want to incorporate ethics into every aspect of your operations.
Orisa is Overwatch’s next character — a machine-gun wielding alternative to Reinhardt
Blizzard has unveiled the new hero that is joining the Overwatch team.
Image Credit: Blizzard Orisa is a new robotic Omnic character that has an enormous four-legged body.
She is the newest tank, and she should shake up matches with her new capabilities.
Orisa uses a machine gun called the Fusion Driver.
The weapon’s secondary fire is a pulse shot that will suck players into a space for a short amount of time — it’s like a miniature version of Zarya’s ultimate, except it’s available more frequently.
Orisa’s core ability is called Fortify, and it not only makes the robot tougher, it also neutralizes the effects of crowd-control weapons like Pharah’s concussive blast.
She also has a protective barrier that is like Reinhardt’s shield, but she can place it wherever she wants.
For her ultimate, Orisa has the Supercharger, which is an item she can drop to boost the damage of her teammates as long as they are within line of sight.
Overwatch designer Jeff Kaplan says that his team is adding Orisa to create a tank that could serve as an alternative to Reinhardt, who is a key character that most teams end up using.
It’s maintaining a strong audience on consoles and PC, and its esports scene is growing.
When Amazon Makes a Mistake, Expect a Prompt, Overly Detailed Response
The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) team was debugging an issue causing the S3 billing system to progress more slowly than expected.
Removing a significant portion of the capacity caused each of these systems to require a full restart.
While this is an operation that we have relied on to maintain our systems since the launch of S3, we have not completely restarted the index subsystem or the placement subsystem in our larger regions for many years.
By 12:26PM PST, the index subsystem had activated enough capacity to begin servicing S3 GET, LIST, and DELETE requests.
The placement subsystem began recovery when the index subsystem was functional and finished recovery at 1:54PM PST.
Other AWS services that were impacted by this event began recovering.
Some of these services had accumulated a backlog of work during the S3 disruption and required additional time to fully recover.
While removal of capacity is a key operational practice, in this instance, the tool used allowed too much capacity to be removed too quickly.
During this event, the recovery time of the index subsystem still took longer than we expected.
We understand that the SHD provides important visibility to our customers during operational events and we have changed the SHD administration console to run across multiple AWS regions.
Content Marketing Tips: How to Use Live Video to Build Your Brand
Content Marketing Tips: How to Use Live Video to Build Your Brand.
In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Salma Jafri discusses how just how important live video is in 2017.
Live video is a great to maintain a two-way conversation with your audience — something you simply can’t do when you’re reading a script — and major social networks are taking note.
Snapchat is now a multi-billion-dollar company with live news feeds, Twitter has invested heavily in Periscope, and Facebook is pushing its own live feeds.
So, get on board now and learn how to use this tool in 2017, because it’s going to be bigger than ever.
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Construction Management The Smartest Business Startup Trend for 2017
By Bartie Scott of Reporter Inc.
Why it’s hot: Spending on U.S. construction projects has steadily increased over the past five years.
And President Trump’s proposed $1 trillion investment in U.S. infrastructure projects could contribute to even more growth over the next few years.
For example, Procore Technologies landed $100 million in funding for its project management software.
And IronPlanet, an online marketplace for used heavy construction equipment, received more than $100 million in venture capital before being acquired by Canada-based Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers for nearly $800 million in 2016.
What’s required: A new venture requires a thorough knowledge of the construction industry.
For businesses creating tech-based solutions, app- and web-development skills are a must.
Along with real estate startups, it’s a market that’s sure to get more crowded in the next two years.
Growth: Global funding for construction tech startups skyrocketed to $254 million in 2015, from $51 million in 2010, according to CB Insights, but analysts say tech companies are just getting started.
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6 Changes Your Company Must Make to Develop More Female Leaders
6 Changes Your Company Must Make to Develop More Female Leaders.
Unconscious bias While we may not realize it, everyone is subject to unconscious bias.
In fact, studies show that it’s not just male managers who unconsciously stereotype women — female managers are also susceptible to unconscious bias against their female reports.
If male managers hold on to an unconscious fear that women will be more likely to react emotionally to feedback, their female reports will not receive the same coaching opportunities as their male peers.
Therefore, studies show that when women demonstrate qualities typically associated with men, it is often criticized.
Here are six ways you can help your company develop more female leaders: 1.
Without a common and agreed upon set of top leadership qualities, it is more likely that people will hold onto the dominating stereotype of the typical “boss”.
Find out what qualities are most important for being a great leader in your company.
Rather than asking if said person has leadership potential, ask people to review others based on their ability to coach, communicate effectively or empower others.
This will help both men and women develop the leadership skills needed to effectively manage your teams.
How Imran Khan swapped Wall Street for a huge role at Snapchat and earned $150 million in 2 years
‘A very strategic thinker’ Business Insider spoke with six executives who worked directly with Khan at various points in his career.
Khan’s career has taken him from an investment-banking job at ING Barings, the Dutch financial-services firm, to conducting sell-side research at JPMorgan and eventually running the technology banking franchise at Credit Suisse.
Though most spoke in friendly terms, it’s clear that his rise and transition from research analyst to internet banker and now tech-industry millionaire rubbed some the wrong way. ‘A testament to his scrappiness’ That strategic thinking soon had Khan building relationships with China’s budding technology companies, which were flocking to the US IPO market in the mid-2000s.
In 2011, after six years with JPMorgan, Khan moved to Credit Suisse to take over the company’s internet-banking franchise. “Imran is very good in front of people,” one person said.
When he moved to Snap, The Wall Street Journal called him a “star tech banker.”
Goldman Sachs, one of the banks on Snap’s IPO, is predicting that Snap’s revenue will rise to $2 billion by 2018.
Despite Khan’s having worked for Credit Suisse, Snap did not choose that firm for a lead role.
Bankers from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs would blame Khan for everything that went wrong on Alibaba, the person said, dismissing him as a research analyst who didn’t know anything about banking.
3 Places to Find Funding in the First Quarter of 2017
AddImage If your company is still working on getting its first customer, it is in what I call the prototyping stage.
Once your startup has its first customer, it will want to find more of them.
How will you pay for the engineers, sales people, and customer service professionals you need to find and keep more customers?
To do that, you will likely need to raise tens of millions of dollars from a venture capital firm.
Even if you don’t win after your best efforts, the work you did will make your business better.
Raising money from angel investors Angel investors are individuals who got rich–mostly by running successful companies.
If you want to raise money from angels, find the ones who know your industry well and see you as a younger version of themselves.
Getting investment from venture capital firms Venture capital is the most dangerous form of capital.
What’s more, you have to recognize that taking venture capital also means hiring a boss–at least one partner from the venture firm will join your board as a condition of investing.
But you’ll also need to tell the venture capitalists how you will use their money to grow enough to take the company public.
Why Construction Management Is One of the Best Industries for Starting a Business in 2017
Why Construction Management Is One of the Best Industries for Starting a Business in 2017.
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Why it’s hot: Spending on U.S. construction projects has steadily increased over the past five years.
And President Trump’s proposed $1 trillion investment in U.S. infrastructure projects could contribute to even more growth over the next few years.
Startups in this space increasingly are closing massive funding rounds.
For example, Procore Technologies landed $100 million in funding for its project management software.
For businesses creating tech-based solutions, app- and web-development skills are a must.
Along with real estate startups, it’s a market that’s sure to get more crowded in the next two years.
Growth: Global funding for construction tech startups skyrocketed to $254 million in 2015, from $51 million in 2010, according to CB Insights, but analysts say tech companies are just getting started.
Canada Goose Launches Initial Public Offering
Canada Goose Launches Initial Public Offering.
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Canada Goose Holdings Inc. (“Canada Goose” or the “Company”) today announced that it has commenced an initial public offering of 20,000,000 subordinate voting shares, including 12,851,000 subordinate voting shares to be sold by the existing shareholders.
CIBC Capital Markets, Credit Suisse, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and RBC Capital Markets are serving as joint book-running managers and as representatives of the underwriters for the proposed offering.
BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, BMO, TD and Wells Fargo Securities are also acting as joint book-running managers and Baird, Canaccord Genuity and Nomura are acting as co-managers for the proposed offering.
The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus.
A copy of the preliminary prospectus relating to this offering, when available, may be obtained from any of the following sources: A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective.
These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy these securities be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective.
An amended and restated preliminary prospectus has been filed with the securities commissions or similar securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces and territories of Canada containing important information relating to the subordinate voting shares.
There will not be any sale or any acceptance of an offer to buy the subordinate voting shares until a receipt for the final prospectus has been issued by the relevant securities commissions and similar securities regulatory authorities in Canada.
The Company’s jackets are sold in 36 countries around the world, including in two owned retail stores and four e-commerce stores.
RealCo Fills The Tech Accelerator Void In San Antonio
RealCo Fills The Tech Accelerator Void In San Antonio.
San Antonio has a growing number of startup technology companies.
These programs have become important in growing technology sectors but there is a lot of confusion over what they do and when they are appropriate.
Essentially they’re trying to whip a company into shape and get them ready for a demo day – where they can pitch investors…and early evidence says they work.
Techstars—a leading program out of Boulder Colorado—closed its San Antonio office after 5 years.
“But what we don’t have is many opportunities to provide funding, mentorship and one of a kind programming in a real-time manner.” That is where RealCo comes in.
Evans along with Chris Saum and Codeup cofounder Michael Girdley make up RealCo.
Companies can get up to $125,000 in funding from RealCo, who take an ownership stake in return for levels of funding.
Chris Saum says RealCo is different from traditional accelerators in that they tailor a little more and stay with a company for as many as 15 months. “If we didn’t have this in San Antonio a company like ours, looking to grow in the tech industry would probably be looking towards Austin or Houston to get the support we needed.” Jones believes his company is already making progress with the help of the RealCo, but Brookings’ Ian Hathaway says accelerators vary dramatically.
Snap Inc. Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
Snap Inc.
Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering.
VENICE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Snap Inc. today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 200,000,000 shares of Class A common stock at a price to the public of $17 per share, for a total offering size of $3,400,000,000.
Snap is issuing and selling 145,000,000 shares of Class A common stock and the selling stockholders are selling an additional 55,000,000 shares of Class A common stock.
The shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on March 2, 2017 under the symbol “SNAP.” In addition, Snap and some of the selling stockholders have granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 30,000,000 shares of Class A common stock at the initial public offering price less the underwriting discount.
Morgan Stanley, Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank Securities, Barclays, Credit Suisse and Allen & Company LLC are acting as book-running managers for the offering.
The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus.
A copy of the final prospectus related to the offering may be obtained from: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014; Goldman, Sachs & Co., Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, telephone: 1-866-471-2526, facsimile: 212-902-9316, or email: prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Attention: Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, telephone: 1-866- 803-9204, or email: prospectus-eq_fi@jpmchase.com; Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Attention: Prospectus Group, 60 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005, Telephone: 800-503-4611, or email: prospectus.CPDG@db.com; Barclays Capital Inc., Attention: Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, telephone: 1-888-603-5847, or email: Barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com; Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, One Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 10010, or by telephone at +1 (800) 221-1037, or by email atnewyork.prospectus@credit-suisse.com; or Allen & Company LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 711 Fifth Avenue , 10th Floor, New York NY 10033, telephone: 212-339-2220, or email: dweidlein@allenco.com.
A registration statement relating to the offering has been filed with, and declared effective by, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor will there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful before registration or qualification under the securities laws of that state or jurisdiction.
Why You Need to Maintain an Offensive Mindset, in Business as Well as Lacrosse
Why You Need to Maintain an Offensive Mindset, in Business as Well as Lacrosse.
Five reasons: Being on offense is proactive; being on defense is reactive.
Back in the day, as a college lacrosse player, I was an attackman, which meant strictly playing offense, as my position didn’t cross midfield into the defensive zone.
When I first started playing lacrosse in high school, I chose the position; it didn’t choose me.
If a defenseman crossed midfield with the ball, I wanted him to put pressure on the other team, attack the goal and see what opportunities he could create.
Which meant that we didn’t sit back on defense; we attacked.
How can you make sure you’re on offense all the time?
You can choose how you want to approach any given situation: by being proactive or reactive.
Offensive means attacking the green, defensive means avoiding the water.
That’s why I believe in offense.
Millionaire Restaurateur Cameron Mitchell: ‘I’m Scared Every Day’
Millionaire Restaurateur Cameron Mitchell: ‘I’m Scared Every Day’.
In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Bryan Elliott sits down with restaurateur Cameron Mitchell to talk about breaking into one of the most difficult business landscapes in the world — restaurants. “I still live with fear even today .
But, fear is like the sun.
It’s always there, and it’s the same with competition.
Watch the full interview with Mitchell on YouTube.
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6 Strategies for Being a Better Listener
Just because you can hear something doesn’t mean you’re listening.
We weren’t listening.
Related: Listening Is an Art, and Mastering it Will Make You a Great Leader Hearing is a physical process.
With active listening, you listen to someone and then repeat what you comprehended in your own words back to them.
Strategies for being a better listener If you’re ready to become a better listener, do these things: 1.
You cannot truly listen if you’re more worried about your own personal outcome in a conversation than creating a positive outcome for all involved.
If you’re formulating your response in your head while the other person is speaking, you’re not listening!
When listening, you don’t always have to agree with what the other person says or feels, but good listeners and strong communicators acknowledge that those feelings were heard.
Make sure you heard what the person intended.
So many conflicts could be avoided in the workplace and so many teams would run more smoothly if people would just check for mutual understanding.
3 Unique Paths to Improving Office Productivity
Being productive shouldn’t mean you’re chained to a cubicle.
Similarly, there are more ways to make your workers more productive than by simply making them work more hours — research has shown things like group lunches increase productivity in the office.
If you’re looking for out-of-the-box ways to increase office productivity, see three unique ideas below: Provide in-office catering.
That is why all sorts of companies provide their employees with lunch, and why companies like Hungry have started adjusting to the demand.
In fact, Hungry’s co-founder, Eman Pahlavani said, “We’re excited to launch an office lunch and catering service because Hungry can help boost workplace productivity, culture and happiness.” Buy a ping pong table.
It goes against your intuition, but research has shown that office spaces with ping pong tables create more effective teams.
To the point, when’s the last time you went to a startup’s office and didn’t see a ping pong table?
To better understand a office dynamic with a ping pong table, I asked Jack Richardson, a portfolio analyst at Square 1 Bank.
This boosts team outlook and builds stronger relationships amongst employees .
especially when they’re learning together.
3 Reasons Tech Startups Fall Into a Death Spiral
Could he make his software create value for consumers?
So over to you, tech entrepreneur.
Slow iteration with customers By now, many tech entrepreneurs realize they need to continually improve their ideas with feedback from the market.
Thus, he and his team worked to speed it up.
Make sure the time you spend making things for your customers nets you the maximum amount of learning.
Technology looks worse than alternatives I get it.
Your customer won’t see it the way you do.
Macmillan says: “At the end of the day, if what you do can’t be measured against an alternative, it’s very hard to show you’re making progress.”
Does your product increase something for your customer — say conversions, sales, cost efficiency or such?
If you fail to make your value measurable against your customer’s best alternative, you unknowingly put a curse on your sales process.