Tue.Jan 08, 2013

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Leader of the Pack – Tips For Moving Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

by Jay Harris. No one would ever dispute the fact that moving is a giant pain. But when you’re moving your small business, it’s imperative to make sure that the move does as little as possible to disrupt your daily activities and inconvenience your clients. When you move a business, you aren’t just moving physical boxes and desk chairs–it’s an opportunity to breathe new life into what you do and reach out to your network.

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A Template for Updating Your Investors

This is going to be BIG.

Tweet. The last thing I ever want to do is create work for my portfolio companies. That being said, I think that there's a certain amount of management communication that serves a purpose well beyond just letting the investors know what's going on in the company. Ideally, investor communication serves the following purposes: Focuses the attention of the CEO on goals over a fixed about of time: "What are we going to accomplish between now and the next update?".

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Want to Have a Startup AND a Life? Read This Book.

David Cohen

Just a reminder that Startup Life: Surviving And Thriving In A Relationship With An Entrepreneur, by Brad Feld and Amy Batchelor , will be coming out very soon. The second book in the Startup Revolution series, Startup Life addresses the unique challenges that come with being in a relationship with an entrepreneur. It’s such an important and often overlooked aspect of starting a business.

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How To Raise Money For Your Business

Mike Michalowicz

Money is like oxygen. And the flow of money is like breathing. You need to breathe to live. And you need the flow of money to keep your business alive, right? Pretty simple. But what happens if you get too much or too little air? Too much oxygen can make you delirious or light-headed. Too little, and you become unconscious — or it kills you. Too much money is unlikely your challenge currently.

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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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Interesting stats show Facebook mobile ads are working, especially on Android

The Equity Kicker

There was a good round up of Facebook mobile advertising stats on Techcrunch yesterday, culled from a number of different sources. These are the highlights: 20% of ad spend on Facebook now goes to mobile, from a standing start last March and up from 14% since October. 71% of ad spend targeted to phones goes to Android. 97% of ad spend targeted to tablets goes to iOS.

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Free Mini-reviews (Part 1)

ConversionXL

As I promised during Christmas , I’m doing mini-reviews of websites that signed up to get one. There were a ton – 236 websites. Since there are so many and there’s so little time, I won’t be able to do thorough reviews, but quickly point out the low hanging fruits within a minute or two. The only goal for this feedback is to help the website owner.

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How to Manage Energy and Why You Must

Duct Tape Marketing

A few weeks ago I started a series of posts I’m calling Recover You. The series is focused on practices and habits that I believe lead to a healthier mind, body and spirit, a healthier business and ultimately a healthier economy. You can catch the entire Recover You series here. Business owners lack time more than anything else. And so, they concoct all manner of routine to try to help them manage this most precious resource.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Maple Butter. Search for: Videos. About. You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Tweet. I just realized that I’ve answered over 1200+ questions on Sprouter.

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Free Mini-reviews (Part 2)

ConversionXL

Here’s part 2 of my annual free mini-reviews. See first part here. Again, the disclaimer: I haven’t seen any analytics or survey data for any of these websites, and all my comments are only based on my experience in the field. I’m only spending very little time on each site, so there’s going to be superficiality. Some of my feedback is going to be brilliant, and some of it won’t make any difference.

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12 Tips for Successfully Borrowing Startup Money from Family Members

Early Growth Financial Services

Originally published in Small Business Trends. Starting up with just the next big idea is just that: an idea. In reality, new businesses need money, usually more than that amount initially calculated alongside that very first draft of the business plan. And sometimes, those funds can come from family. However, borrowing capital from family members is risky business.

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Resolve to Start Your Business in 2013

Up and Running

The world continues to turn, many new opportunities lie ahead, and now is the perfect time to fulfill dreams of taking charge of your future. 2013 is the year to kick business planning into high gear and start your own company. More opportunities than ever exist for innovative entrepreneurs to offer specialized services and products to meet niche market needs, and in many cases the cost of entry is low.

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Startups are the Place to Find and Use Baby Boomers

Startup Professionals Musings

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. Only the under-35 age group need apply. I will argue that times have changed, and you better take another look. First of all, the Boomer demographic is currently the single largest, mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today (76 million people strong).

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How Private Equity Funds Are and Should Be Using Social Media

David Teten

PEHub just posted this guest article: Can professional investors use social media? Or, is social media strictly for teenagers and staying in touch with your friends? Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy and their activities very discreet. Today, however, some are aggressively employing social media tools to discuss their strategies, deals in the pipeline, and even their political views and sporting accomplishments.

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Experimenting With Writing On More Channels

Feld Thoughts

Historically, most of my writing has been either on my blogs or the books that I’ve written. Occasionally I’ve written for magazines, like a year-long stretch I did for Entrepreneur a few years ago, and longer form articles of mine appear in different places every now and then. But pretty much everything I write ends up on Feld Thoughts at some point.

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US Immigration Fails Entrepreneurs Again

Feld Thoughts

I’m so sick of how – as a country – our authorities treat people as though they are criminals. A month ago a successful Boston entrepreneur who has been incredibly engaged in the Boston startup community was thrown in jail for three days after a CPB agent decided she didn’t have a valid visa (she did have a valid visa, and she was from that extremely dangerous country of Canada.).