Thu.Apr 16, 2015

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Six Ways Retailers Can Perform Spring Cleaning

YoungUpstarts

'By Nikole Haiar, Director of Marketing at Hostway Services, Inc. Although the holidays are over, retailers still have projects and initiatives going on. In fact, with spring just around the corner, many brands are building better e-commerce websites and revamping their in-store presences to reflect the warmer weather and changing customer needs. Some companies emphasize this time of year, utilizing it to adjust their offerings for the warmer months.

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Value Inflection Points for Seed-Stage Startups

View from Seed

'When raising capital, it’s important to focus on raising enough money to get your company past big value inflection points. An easy way to think about it is that value over time doesn’t go up and to the right in a straight line like this: Instead, it’s more of a stair step like this: So, what are the value inflection points that create the stair steps, and how does one think about it at the earliest stages?

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7 Tools To Motivate Sales Reps For 2nd Quarter Success

YoungUpstarts

'by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. With the 2nd quarter of the Fiscal Year underway, it is time for public and private companies alike to assess their financial success over the first part of the year. This is a particularly crucial time period for companies that rely on sales to drive revenue. It is the time for senior management to assess which of their salespeople are on their way to earning the proverbial set of steak knives and which ones need help and motivatio

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Announcing the Global EIR Coalition

Feld Thoughts

'Yesterday morning, over scrambled eggs and smoked salmon with Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital (he had yogurt), we talked about immigration reform and our broken immigration system. Both Jeff and I have been working hard on making it much easier for immigrant entrepreneurs to get visa’s to start their companies in the US. Both of us have been unsuccessful in our efforts at a national level.

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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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5 Tips For Millennial Entrepreneurs To Secure Financing

YoungUpstarts

'By Evan Singer, General Manager for SmartBiz. The Millennial Generation have birth years ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. Technical, civic-minded and experiencing growing economic prospects, millennials are important contributors to America’s small business landscape. In order for entrepreneurs to grow business and and flourish financially, there are universal truths about lending that millennials need to know.

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The Complete Guide to Using Twitter Lead Generation Cards to Find New Customers

Up and Running

'Small businesses thrive on fresh leads. If you’re not constantly working to grow your customer base, your business will start to decline. Savvy entrepreneurs use a variety of lead-generating ideas to keep new prospects coming in. One of those tools should be Twitter’s Lead Generation Cards. This online advertising tools can generate a list of new contacts to keep your business growing.

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How To Cut Costs in Business Without Any Downside

Mike Michalowicz

'You don’t have to go into debt, compromise quality or performance to cut business costs. There are significant ways to save money without compromise. How? Most of the techniques revolve around “productivity transfer,” where you get the same results by using alternative resources at a lower cost point. Here’s how: 1. The Power Of Pooling. Pooling takes some effort, but the savings can be huge.

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Life Lessons From Your MBA

YoungUpstarts

'As with any investment in education and further career development, it’s important to know that time spent learning will be rewarding down the line. An MBA qualification often comes under scrutiny for its high-cost versus job potential, and we’ve highlighted reasons in which the MBA qualification is still so relevant to today’s job market and life experience.

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The coffee and wine school of innovation.

Berkonomics

Here’s one for debate around a cup of coffee or a glass of wine. Most innovation occurs when creative people are relaxed and thinking about other things. We all can picture the corporate R&D lab with tens of scientists working at white boards, or over computer models, or with prototypes. And we picture programmers working at their workstations or on their portable notebooks creating great new code.

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Elevating Customer Experience a Must When Marketing Luxury Brands

Duct Tape Marketing

'Elevating Customer Experience a Must When Marketing Luxury Brands written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s no secret that luxury brand buyers’ needs are quite different from those of traditional buyers. With more resources and generally less time available than the average consumer, competition for their money and attention is fierce.

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VC Fundraising: Real Advice From A Real VC

Early Growth Financial Services

'If you could have a VC’s undivided attention for fifteen minutes, what would you ask? Our Ask The VC webinar was an open forum with Sean Foote, Founder of Co=Creation=Capital. If you missed it, in addition to reading this rundown of the highlights, you can view the presentation deck on SlideShare. Understanding what VCs are looking for is top of mind for many founders seeking funding.

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Hacking Immigration - The Global EIR Coalition

Seeing Both Sides

'Our immigration reform system is broken. That isn''t new news. There is now a fix for high-skilled, immigration entrepreneurs that can be implemented TODAY with no legislation required. That is new news. And it has the potential to break through the political logjam. Only 85,000 H1-B visas are normally issued each year to immigration entrepreneurs and high-skilled technology workers.

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Forced Encryption Rendering Nexus Devices Useless

Venture Chronicles

'I have a Nexus 9 and a Nexus 6, both running Android Lollipop 5.01. Almost immediately I noticed that there was a lot of lag in the UI and performance was generally slow. After doing a lot of research it appears that forced encryption in 5.0x is a huge performance drag on hardware that would otherwise be quite snappy. Lollipop 5.1 is rumored to be available but despite being on Nexus devices I have not received OTA updates (Verizon for the 6, T-Mobile for the 9).

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Vertical or Horizontal

A Crowded Space

'People in the startup ecosystem have been heralding the “unbundling of Craigslist” graphic for years now. This is the original from Andrew Parker. The conventional wisdom is to say that horizontal marketplaces will be replaced by vertical marketplaces. And why not – if you are designing a vertical marketplace you can have the user experience custom tailored to that vertical and provide a better experience.