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Search Engine Optimization Algorithm Changes For 2017

YoungUpstarts

Search engine optimization is a practice used to help your website rank higher in the search results fields of major search engines. Optimizing your website and knowing the algorithm changes expected in 2017 can help improve your page rank and business. Check out the following tips to help ensure you are using the best SEO practices for 2017. 1. Replace Keyword Research with Audience Targeting for Best Results.

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7 Qualities Of Successful Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

The most successful entrepreneurs share common qualities and personality traits that are crucial to success in business. Which ones do you possess?

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How Aggregation Can Greatly Enhance Your Business

YoungUpstarts

In this day and age, it is absolutely essential for all modern companies to have a website. Of course, there is a major difference between having a website and having an effective website. In order to ensure that your website is able to bring in new customers, it is pertinent to keep your site filled with up-to-date, relevant content. This is where content aggregation can prove to be enormously beneficial.

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6 Ways To Return From The Brink Of Business Burnout

YFS Magazine

There is often a burdensome responsibility that comes with being a leader. And with the added stress, business burnout can quickly follow.

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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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Which is more important: Management quality or a better plan?

Berkonomics

So, what do you think is more important? The quality of your management team, or the plan you execute toward success? Checking with professional investors from angels to VC’s, the answer appears to be near unanimous: the quality of the proposed or actual management team comes in a strong first, before the attractiveness of the business plan itself. The quest for a great management team is not a fluke, but rather a result of backward looks at the failure rate from past investments by those same

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Assessing product demand – top down and bottom up

The Equity Kicker

It’s common for VCs to look at the market size for a potential investment from a top down and bottom up perspective. The top down perspective takes market research, often from an analyst firm or investment bank and the bottom up approach works by multiplying the number of customers by their likely spend – more detail in my old blog post here.

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20 Fantastic SXSW Sessions on March 17

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 17, 2017 TGIF and thank goodness we have even more amazing panels, presentations, activities and networking events at SXSW 2017. On Friday, March 17 , don’t miss these outstanding options: Can Content Industries Rely On The Chinese Music Market? Following a tumultuous history of copyright evolution, China has finally become one of the major players in the music industry.

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Book Short – Blink part III – Undo?

OnlyOnce

Book Short – Blink part III – Undo? I just finished reading Michael Lewis’s The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Mind s , and honestly, I wish I could hit Life’s Undo button and reclaim those hours. I love Michael Lewis, and he’s one of those authors where if he writes it, I will read it. But this one wasn’t really worth it for me.

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Mobile Apps: The Only Way to Navigate Festivals — Tools Like APIs Make it Work!

Austin Startup

As you, my virtual audience and friends, have seen the last few days in ATX were a BLAST! I love the energy and ideas of SXSW , and I quickly learned the ONLY way to manage a schedule was via the SXSW GO app. I also had the opportunity to be a SXSW Speaker this year with my friends @shawnabboud, @shakeelr and @masundu on Angel Investing; what a thrill to be part of the “official” programming!

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Only make new mistakes – advice for kids and companies

Jeff Hilimire

I was on a panel last week with one of my good friends talking about innovation to GA State MBA students. He’s a brilliant guy (read articles like this one and you’ll agree) but it was something about how he parents that really struck me during our talk. We were talking with the group about accepting failure, and he made the comment that at his house, he tells his kids, “Only make new mistakes.” That means two things.

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The New Future: Scary, Exciting, and Everything in Between at SXSW 2017

Austin Startup

SXSW 2017 (copyright Doug Sisko) This is my third year attending #SXSW, and this was a year marked by firsts and revelations: All the general futurist trends (AVR, Apple Watch, AI) that I thought were somewhat b t are coming together into a new kind of convergence , and I’m both scared and excited. I had a game plan to manage all the events and general hootenanny of the sh0w (win).

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How to Use LinkedIn Groups to Generate Quality Leads Continuously

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Use LinkedIn Groups to Generate Quality Leads Continuously written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you’re a professional or job seeker (which, if you’re on the DTM blog, you obviously are), you’ll know that LinkedIn is the biggest, baddest kids on the block. With over 400 million users to date, a recent acquisition by Microsoft , and a revamped user interface, LinkedIn seems poised to be the best platform for you to get leads, job opportunities, and keep the conversatio

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SXSW 2017 VR recap

Austin Startup

Last night’s American Airlines flight from Austin to LAX felt like a “who’s who” of our young industry. After 3 days @SXSW this week I am further convinced this is VR’s moment to establish itself as an essential part of the Entertainment eco system for decades to come. The VR Hall at the JW Marriott in a separate convention center from the rest of the exhibitors, was about 1/3 the size of some of our other industry events like VRLA.

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Understanding The Vast Importance Of Instagram For Businesses

YoungUpstarts

In this day and age, small businesses need to think outside of the box, when attempting to attract new clients. The sad truth is that a small business will have limited capital and this will make it far more difficult for them to compete against far bigger and wealthier rivals. Of course, there is a single playing field that can be equally fair for small and big businesses.

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Are You Ready for PR?

Austin Startup

You’ve got your startup in a good place, you know what differentiates it from competitors, and your messaging is on point — so now you’re ready for a huge PR push, right? Well, hold on a minute. One of the biggest ways startups set themselves up for failure is by getting ahead of themselves. You may be doing well now, but consider the possibilities if you suddenly get 10, 20, 50 percent more business coming your way.

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3 Shifts That Will Take Your Story To The Next Level

Duct Tape Marketing

3 Shifts That Will Take Your Story To The Next Level written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The global aid organization, Mercy Corps, tested a story approach to fundraising. Their traditional email approach told about the work the organization was doing throughout the world. How they had grown over the years through contributions and support.

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