YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2016

by Reed Gusmus, director of marketing at QASymphony. The outright and abject failure of a software development project is a surprisingly common occurrence, and the reasons for a specific project’s failure tend to revolve around three easily avoidable mistakes. Since failure ought to be viewed as an entirely unacceptable outcome, it is essential that software development professionals recognize the most common issues that ultimately lead to the complete demise of a project that once held a

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I just read an article about Bonobos --or was it a press release. I'm not completely sure. If you've met Andy Dunn, you'll know why that's going to be a fine line for any reporter, because it's nearly impossible to have a conversation with him without getting wrapped up in a story optimized to share. And damn, does he have his story and the ability to perform inception with it down cold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Steve Jobs was a one-in-a-million entrepreneur who seemed to violate many conventional rules of starting a business and dealing with people, yet undeniably achieved great success. According to various reasonably credible reports, including his authorized self-titled biography “ Steve Jobs ,” by Walter Isaacson, he often ignored customer input, berated team members, and misused key business relationships.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The third edition of Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist is going to print and pre-orders are up on Amazon. For everyone who has purchased, read, or reviewed our previous editions, thank you! While it’s difficult to know exactly how many copies have been sold (the joy of publisher metrics), it’s around 100,000 to date, which blows our mind since we had no expectations around this when we wrote the book in 2011.

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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2016

If your business is having productivity problems, you need to work hard to fix them. When your business is still new and young, it’s vital to be productive to stop the startup from stalling. Not managing to hit the ground running can cause the business to fail before it’s even got going. Slow productivity is not something you can turn a blind eye to if you want your business to be successful and sustainable.

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YFS Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The great thing about marketing in creative industries is that the possibilities are endless – your creativity is the only limit.

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YFS Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Instagram is one of the most powerful apps in the social media landscape, with an engagement rate that exceeds that of Facebook or Twitter.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2016

When you’re a company who sells products, fast and efficient delivery is essential. You’ll want your buyers to get their items quickly without any damage or hassle. It’s important to make sure your delivery services are on point for complete customer satisfaction. Many things go into improving deliveries for customers. You’ll need to make sure items get packed safely.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Look out, here comes the female entrepreneur! Women entrepreneurs are making their way in the business world in a big way. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 7.8 million businesses in America in 2007, which were owned by women. That is up from 6.5 million in 2002. Women business owners are surging! It used to be a guys world. Business used to play naturally into a male mindset.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Every company wants their visitors (i.e. potential customers) and customers to leave their site with a lasting positive memory. Of course, that’s much easier said than done when you consider technical issues, copy confusion, price barriers and the like. If you want to bring a smile to people’s faces when they hear your company name, you’ll need to understand how memory works and how you can design for it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Local Listings: Which Ones Should I Focus On? written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Peter Thoeny. It’s common knowledge that your business website is the best place to get customers to go when they’re online. And if you’re a local business with a physical address, a lot of your website traffic may come from maps listings.

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