Both Sides of the Table
MAY 11, 2014
'Mother’s Day. The one day a year where we recognize this all important figure in our lives who shapes our childhood providing unconditional love through our successes and failures with encouragement and support through our struggles. I’ve written about my own mom before and the role she played in shaping my life but of course you never quite appreciate the full contributions of Mom until you’re much older.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 11, 2014
'Entrepreneurs are all about firsts, and the most important is you making a great first impression – on investors, customers, new team members, and strategic partners. Poor first impressions can be avoided, but I’m amazed at the number of unnecessary mistakes I see at those critical first introductions, presentations, and meetings. The key message here is “preparation.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 11, 2014
'How does one achieve success on social media? How can companies achieve phenomenal growth without spending on advertising? The secrets to this and more can be found in “ Launch “, by social media marketing guru Michael Stelzner. Subtitled How To Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition, the book provides useful and practical tips to guide marketers in creating their own content marketing strategy and tactics while leveraging on both internal and external influencers.
Gust
MAY 11, 2014
'In the US, many entrepreneurs see grants as “free money,” since they are not loans and don’t have to be repaid. A grant is not an equity investment, so the entrepreneur doesn’t have to give up a stake in the company either. Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. A good place to start looking is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups.
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
YoungUpstarts
MAY 11, 2014
'When Microsoft’s first generation Surface RT hit the market over a year ago there was much curiosity, and just as much confusion, about the tablet device. Aside from the Xbox the Surface represented Microsoft’s first real foray into tablet hardware, which was not only seen as going up against Apple’s much vaunted iPad, but also seemed to compete against many of the consumer devices – think touchscreen Ultrabooks – being peddled by Microsoft’s hardware partner
The Next Web
MAY 11, 2014
'Vik Singh is CEO and co-founder of Infer, a provider of data-powered business applications, with customers such as Tableau, SurveyMonkey, Zendesk, New Relic, AdRoll, Box, and Cloudera. The first product manager (PM) is a crucial unicorn hire that no startup should compromise on. The reason is simple – your PM is responsible for managing your team’s most precious resource: time.
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The Next Web
MAY 11, 2014
'Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, a professional speaker and a freelance writer. This article originally appeared on the Skyword blog. According to a recent study by the Content Marketing Institute, 44 percent of B2B marketers rely on outsourcing content creation such as writing, design, content distribution, and editing. Of B2B marketers, a full 57 percent of technology marketers outsource their content marketing team.
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 11, 2014
'When a customer walks through your door, be it a bricks-and-mortar door or a virtual one, it is paramount that they be greeted and feel welcomed into your business. Not just making them at home, or perhaps offering a little espresso, but rather making them feel that you are there to help them, to answer their questions, to find what they are looking for, or to chit chat about whatever is on their mind.
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