YoungUpstarts
MAY 29, 2014
'by Robb Begg, CMO at Introhive. I’ve seen the insides of many hotels over the last 10 years. I know what goes into a great hotel room , and I know what differentiates work trips where you’re productive and those where everything feels like a struggle. I’ve worked in all sorts of different environments and have learned a thing or two about doing it effectively.
Version One Ventures
MAY 29, 2014
'We’re all too familiar with the very real gender gap within the tech community. Women are underrepresented as engineers, management, investors, and founders. A commonly cited statistic is that only 7 percent of U.S. venture capital deals go to women founders and CEOs. Business Insider recently crunched the numbers behind 26 of the top venture capital funds in Silicon Valley and learned that the percentage of female-founded startups in their portfolios ranged from a high of 19% to a low of just
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Steve Blank
MAY 29, 2014
'In the last five years I’ve been at Commencement Day at universities around the world – a few times to receive awards and three times as the commencement speaker. But attending both my daughters’ college graduations this year helped me to see how things look from the other side of the podium. ——-. First, college graduations fall in the category of “life cycle” events.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 29, 2014
'With so many different ways to communicate nowadays, it’s important for companies to know which situations call for certain devices. Statistics produced by Kcom and the Customer Contact Association have revealed that, despite the recent advancements in technology, the telephone is still the number one way in which customers choose to communicate with organisations.
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
Genuine VC
MAY 29, 2014
'It’s been five years now since large VC ‘signaling’ entered the seed stage entrepreneur’s lexicon. Yet even today, whether or not to take a (relatively) small check in a seed round syndicate from a multi-hundred million or even billion dollar fund is still a decision which takes quite a bit of consideration and sometimes consternation. It seems as though it’s been talked about ad nauseum in the blogosphere, but we see first-hand as entrepreneurs we’re investing in at NextView Ventures w
YoungUpstarts
MAY 29, 2014
'By Victoria Treyger, Kabbage. Family businesses make up a major portion of small businesses in the United States; however, only one-third of family businesses survive after they have been passed to the next generation. If you are currently working for your family business and have been a part of it your whole life, chances are one day you will be taking on the family business.
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VC Cafe
MAY 29, 2014
'Guest post by Sagi Shorrer*. We’re seeing a revolution in the use of games for purposes beyond mere entertainment. Serious games, as they are known, are on the rise. The idea is simple: the best way to get people to do something is to make it fun. ‘Edutainment’, a seventies buzzword for educational entertainment, is nothing new. But games as a medium offer something no book or television could: interactivity.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 29, 2014
'Mary Meeker has just published her excellent annual roundup of Internet Trends. As always there’s lots of good stuff in there. My biggest takeaway is best explained by this slide: Across the whole world mobile data usage continues to grow and take share, yet in the developed world smart phone penetration is approaching saturation levels and growth in device sales has slowed.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 29, 2014
'A few years ago, David Cohen and I started a Colorado CEO Jobs list in response to the regular stream of inbound email we got from folks looking to move to Colorado and interested in tech-related jobs. We seeded this list with CEOs from companies Foundry Group and Techstars had invested in. As other CEOs requested access to the list, we added them.
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 29, 2014
'Anyone who has been paying attention to rock music over the last couple of decades can’t help but know about Sammy Hagar. He has proven that, in the music world, he is a force to be reckoned with. But what many people beyond his large fan-base don’t realize is that he is also a savvy businessman with an impressive record as a serial entrepreneur. Establishing His Roots.
Berkonomics
MAY 29, 2014
'By JJ Richa. J.J. Richa is a successful entrepreneur and technologist giving back to the entrepreneurial community in many ways, including his weekly Internet TV program on entrepreneurism, and participation in several mentoring programs. . Business planning is a crucial part of a successful business. Business plans are dynamic instruments used on a regular basis to help owners and executives to plan for future growth, and.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 29, 2014
'The 7 Best Ways To Utilize Outbound Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Jon Rognerud. - Enjoy! Outbound marketing is essentially any marketing that involves a business or person reaching out to customers directly.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 29, 2014
'I’m starting to become slightly obsessed with how I manage my time. I have to be as I’m pulled in a lot of directions and if I’m not careful, I’ll end up spending too much time on the less important critical things and not enough time on the things that are the most important to me: family, friends, Dragon Army , and “Doing Good” With those four areas of focus as the driving force, I’m tightening down on how much of my time goes elsewhere.
ConversionXL
MAY 29, 2014
'Could you imagine a situation where 72% of your customers think that the content on your site was completely disconnected from what they really wanted? What if you discovered that only a measly 14% of your customers actually valued a relationship with you and your brand? Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but according to recent research done by CEB Marketing , this might just be the case.
Early Growth Financial Services
MAY 29, 2014
'Pitch decks can be really useful for organizing the information you need to present to investors and for crafting concise, meaningful messaging. But at the end of the day, they are just tools. Successfully pitching investors goes way beyond building an impressive Powerpoint presentation. Sure presentation is important, but the real fundamentals of fundraising are selling and marketing your organization.
ConversionXL
MAY 29, 2014
'Could you imagine a situation where 72% of your customers think that the content on your site was completely disconnected from what they really wanted? What if you discovered that only a measly 14% of your customers actually valued a relationship with you and your brand? Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but according to recent research done by CEB Marketing , this might just be the case.
Up and Running
MAY 29, 2014
'Dwight Schrute may have over a decade of experience and an excellent sales record, but do you really want him on your team? Image via. Hiring new employees is never an easy process. Hiring managers can receive hundreds of applications for a single position, and weeding out the majority of those applications can be daunting, and tiresome. Typically, human resources staff will make it a little easier on themselves by eliminating certain candidates based on their lack of experience.
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