Up and Running

AUGUST 16, 2016

Accepting credit cards come with risks, especially for businesses that sell online or key-enter credit card details. Fortunately, there are several tools you can use to protect yourself and your customers. The three tools we’ll discuss in this article are available from virtually all credit card processors, meaning any business can use them. The tools are Address Verification Service, Card Verification Value, and 3D Secure technology.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

A wise man once said that employees are the life force of a company. We forgot who it was that said that but his words remain true to this day. When you run a company, there’s an excellent chance you won’t be interacting with your customers. Instead, you will hire workers to do this for you. Let’s look at the basic example of the retail shop. In a retail shop, customers interact with shop assistants.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 16, 2016

The Ultimate Guide to Small Business Keyword Research written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Keyword research is an important strategic marketing practice that, when thought of correctly, never really ends. While many people think of this type of thing as a technical aspect of search engine optimization (SEO), I would like to suggest that it’s so much more.

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deal architect

AUGUST 16, 2016

My excitement for the manufacturing Renaissance comes out loud and clear in a paper I wrote about NetSuite’s manufacturing customers here “The agenda (at the WEF in Davos) this year was “Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. The first three revolutions.

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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

Startup

View from Seed

AUGUST 16, 2016

When thinking about how much seed capital to raise, we need a more sophisticated lens than just the old rule of thumb of “18 months of runway.” This is especially crucial given that the 18-month timeframe is a bit circular — a founder can always just take whatever amount she closes and divide by 18 to determine what her monthly burn rate should be.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

By Sarita Rao, Vice President, AT&T Wi-Fi & Data Patterns. For all the benefits that Wi-Fi has brought to small businesses, the misperceptions of its value have crept in over time. Here are three common myths about Wi-Fi: Myth #1: Customers don’t care about free Wi-Fi. Your customers always want to be connected. They use connected devices for nearly every element of their lives.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

by Randy Steele , author of “ The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap to Success “ When speaking with groups, questions arise on how and where to get started on going into business for ones self. Often times a new entrepreneur feels he or she has done their due diligence only to learn later that they barely scratched the surface. They checked out the market, discussed the business idea with friends and family and feels they can come up with enough capital to set themselves up for success.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 16, 2016

It’s 1:34am in Boulder. I’m normally asleep by 10pm. However, since I returned from Australia, I’m up until – well – now. For most of last week, I still felt shitty from the salmonella poisoning I got two weeks ago. I rationalized that it was ok to take an ambien every night since I was still sick. But, I’m not a fan of ambien or how it makes me feel, so I stopped on Friday.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

Businesses are just starting to wake up to the benefits of having a wellness strategy in their organisation. What was once seen as a fad is now being recognised for the financial benefits and employee value that it provides to an organisation. The institute for health consumerism reports that up to 50% of profits are consumed by health related issues such as absenteeism for sickness and workplace injuries.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 16, 2016

In the cold light of morning, I just deleted three draft blog posts that I wrote last night during a bout of insomnia. Their titles are telling about what was on my mind at 1am in the morning. SaaS + Transaction Fees. Games Are a Hits Business, But B2B SaaS Is A Grind. The B2B SaaS MRR Funding Dead Zone. I usually write posts in real time (like this one).

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 16, 2016

It seems to be a tradition that business partnerships and operating agreements 1. Don’t ever get reviewed, or 2.They get reviewed once a year at the same time. Instead, review your partnership agreements every fifteen months. Why? Because it will break you away from the influences of seasonality. Your business may be different in the winter than it is in the summer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2016

Being a designer is hard. Like, really hard. Not only do you need to study and practice, and then study and practice some more, but then you begin the often grueling process of finding work. It’s worth it, though, because they get to do something they’re passionate about. Well, they’re passionate about the actual design part. Managing the customer relationship?

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 16, 2016

Best Buy has selected San Marcos as the location for its e-commerce sales operation with plans to hire 25 employees. The Greater San Marcos Partnership announced the deal Tuesday. “We’re pleased to have reached an agreement to bring this e-commerce sales operation to the City of San Marcos and Hays County,” Best Buy spokesman Shane […] The post Best Buy Selects San Marcos for E-Commerce Sales Operation appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YFS Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2016

As the years go by, your workspace can grow stale. A balanced work environment can fuel you and your team.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 16, 2016

Austin’s City Manager says he wants Austin to become the “Most Livable City in the Country — a model city, the city everyone is talking… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 16, 2016

Austin-based Magnitude Software announced Tuesday plans to buy Simba Technologies, a data and analytics firm. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. “This acquisition furthers our strategic vision to enable enterprise-wide visibility and insights for corporate performance management,” Chris Ney, Chairman & CEO of Magnitude Software, said in a news release.

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Babbling VC

AUGUST 16, 2016

It’s been some time that I’ve again been with a corporate. Those who know me told me often that they bet I’d be here for two or three years and then gone. That was over four years ago. To be honest, I too thought max three years and I’m moving on. Surprisingly, lots of things went right and I’m quite certain that this opportunity exists with many more companies as well.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 16, 2016

Switchyards Downtown Club (of which I’m a proud card-carrying member) founder Michael Tavani continues his stretch of great interviews on the On Doers series with this one with Steve Kooning, CEO of the Atlanta Hawks. Pay particular attention to what Steve feels is his super power, and why he’s as big a believer in Atlanta as both Tavani and me.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 16, 2016

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Can I operate a business from my home? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

by Evan Varsamis, Founder/CEO at Gadget Flow Inc. Myself and my co-founders were just a bunch of young upstarts with a big idea. We envisioned a platform where you could discover and buy incredible gadgets. Instead of raising money we found another way to achieve exponential growth. We were in the middle of the economic crisis and didn’t take on any outside capital.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 16, 2016

Fast Company Article “Brainstorming is Dumb” Misses the Point. Brainstorming, Done Properly, Is Not a Tool, It’s A Multi-Step Process. Here we go again. And yet another major publication publishes a misleading article about brainstorming — Brainstorming is Dumb. This happens about every six months. This time it’s Fast Company.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 16, 2016

If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you have new business ideas all the time. Entrepreneurs like you and I see the world as a place that can be constantly improved—we know we could make products and services that make things better. The problem is, not all of our ideas are great ideas. They might seem like good ideas at the moment, but not all of them are worth turning into real businesses.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 16, 2016

It’s no big secret that video improves conversion rates. And with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram all making recent upgrades to their video capabilities, it may almost seem like a no-brainer to blast your next marketing video everywhere you can. Not so fast. Every platform is different and therefore no single video is right for every platform. That’s not to say your business shouldn’t be using every platform, but let’s be smart about it.

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