YoungUpstarts
MAY 3, 2013
'by Mike Broderick, co-founder and CEO of Turning Technologies. If you were built to lead instead of follow, a career as an entrepreneur might be right for you. But before you can launch a high-growth company, you’ll need to find the right business plan and create a culture of success. Here are four strategies that can help you generate the spark: Tap into a Behavioral / Cultural Trend.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 3, 2013
'There are many reasons I love Dropbox , but one thing they do better than almost any company is their incentive program. Check this out, I’ve earned 5 GB and have ways to earn more. I think those 1 GB referrals are from me posting my dropbox referral link (hint, hint, nudge, nudge) on this blog and a few people signed up. Hoping they add things to this like leaving a customer review, writing a blog about them, etc.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 3, 2013
'Money does matter, but knowing how to choose methods of payment matters a lot too. When you use cash, check or credit really should depend on circumstance. Not knowing when to use which can land you in a lot of financial trouble – in fact, Americans have so far racked up over 47 billion dollars worth of debt, and that number is not going to abate any time soon.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 3, 2013
'I’m a big fan of doing stuff while I work. When I created my first treadputer in 2006 it was definitely ahead of it’s time. Today, I enjoy the Walkstation from Steelcase. Recently I’ve been exploring new options and with my friends at Betabrand came up with the idea for CanDo – The Lavatory Workstation. More about it in the video below.
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
The Equity Kicker
MAY 3, 2013
'CRM startup close.io just blogged about how they sweat the small stuff when it comes to UI and UX design. They gave four examples: Updated the contact entry form so it parsed details entered and automatically identified them as emails, phone numbers etc. Made it so pasting email addresses always produced a simple email address ‘john@example.com’ and never “John Smith” <john@example.com> Enabled zero configuration sending of emails from within the app that appear to come fr
SiliconHills
MAY 3, 2013
'By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News Do you want a doctor? Do you want to bypass the hassle of insurance claims and pay cash up front? Then BudgetDoc wants to make your life easier by creating a network of doctors willing to give discounts to patients that pay cash up front. Dr. Megan [.] The post A Slice of Silicon Hills News Features BudgetDoc appeared first on SiliconHills.
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SiliconHills
MAY 3, 2013
'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News What drove Andrew McFadden, director of innovation and business development at Press Enterprise crazy, was that the Orange County newspaper company he worked for only saw the downside in readers’ shift to the internet. The publishers couldn’t see the tremendous opportunity that the shift afforded. “I’ve been [.
Up and Running
MAY 3, 2013
'Don’t get so wrapped up in work that you forget to stay up with the current events of the business world! Amid all of the chaos, grab a cup of Joe and take a short reading break. 1. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article telling leaders not to do try to do everything because they’ll end up doing nothing. Inc. Magazine contributor Vanessa Merit Nornberg also spoke on this issue, instead insisting that entrepreneurs do everything in their business because it allows them to see what problems
Hippoland
MAY 3, 2013
'Yesterday, I watched Noah Kagan’s webinar on how to do $30M in sales , and he shared 3 great tools that he uses to close his deals. . 1) Streamline sales with Gmail Canned Responses. Using canned responses is a great to cold-email people efficiently. At LaunchBit, we use Tout and YesWare for our canned responses. Literally, with just two clicks, I can send a cold email in 2 seconds.
ReadWriteStart
MAY 3, 2013
Guest author Gary Whitehill is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Weekend. Struggling entrepreneurs around the world are in deep envy of Nick D’Aloisio’s business acumen. Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! If and when D’Aloisio starts another company, it will certainly be, to put it mildly, well-funded.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 3, 2013
'Today is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Gordon Graham – Enjoy! Ever seen a “white paper” on the web… and figured those are only for the big guys? Think again. A white paper is a 6- to 8-page marketing document that helps a prospective customer understand an issue or solve a problem. Producing one can help your small business generate leads, build buzz, and level the playing field with much larger companies.
ReadWriteStart
MAY 3, 2013
Would Dunder-Mifflin, the fictional paper company of The Office , buy a 3D printer? Undoubtedly. Here’s how it would play out: After an airline magazine declared 3D printers the next new thing, boss Michael Scott would buy one, install it in the office, and christen it by printing out a coffee cup. Ten hours later, after the cup was completed, Scott would hold the cup aloft as he outlined his vision of the future.
Scott Edward Walker
MAY 3, 2013
'To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a short video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Fred Wilson , a super smart investor and the Managing Partner of two VC firms, Flatiron Partners and Union Square Ventures.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 3, 2013
'Way back in the day – over 13 years ago in fact – when Raj , Danny and myself were just starting Spunlogic , we ran into an amazing husband and wife team that we somehow convinced to join our small (and somewhat pathetic…ok, inspiringly pathetic) digital agency. Donovan and his better half quickly became two of my favorite people in the world and they meant the world to Spunlogic’s success over the years.
Hippoland
MAY 3, 2013
'Yesterday, I watched Noah Kagan’s webinar on how to do $30M in sales (a prelude to his course on How To Make Your First Dollar ), and he shared 3 great tools that he uses to close his deals. . 1) Streamline sales with Gmail Canned Responses. Using canned responses is a great to cold-email people efficiently. At LaunchBit, we use Tout and YesWare for our canned responses.
Rob Go
MAY 3, 2013
'I’ve been using the days.am app for a few months now. (Full disclosure, I’m an investor in their parent company, Wander). It’s a beautiful, visual diary that allows you to capture life “unfiltered” You can read more about the thinking behind the product here. It’s been a fun app to play with, and one that has brought with it some cool, unexpected surprises.
Small Business Force
MAY 3, 2013
These are two phrases I use a lot when advising young companies and have touched on in previous blog posts. Attending a couple of recent angel networking events just brought home their importance and how young companies are often done in by not understanding them. They are two sides of the same coin and I believe they are critical traps for young entrepreneurs to avoid, to achieve and build on early success.
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 3, 2013
'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 3, 2013
'With the advent of LinkedIn, Facebook, and dozens of other websites requiring your profile, the old-fashioned written resume is simply an artifact of a hiring practice that is slow to change, and should be abolished. In fact, if your profile is not already on one of these sites, it probably means that you aren’t in the business market anyway. Today, most personnel organizations readily admit that they already use the Internet to cross-check what they see in your written resume.
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 3, 2013
'As entrepreneurs, we ask ourselves questions all the time – how we can get more customers, how we can get more money, or how even how we can get more expenses to qualify as a legitimate tax deductions (come on, we’ve all done it). But when it comes to asking ourselves questions, we would be better served if we asked better questions. By doing so, we may just find that we are also given better solutions.
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