YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2014

'by Todd Unger. Starting a business involves establishing new processes and systems that will ensure a strong foundation from which to grow. Here are a few simple tax tips all new businesses should put into place, before they officially hit the ground running: Establish the appropriate structure for your business. Because there can be different tax implications associated with different business structures, its important that you have the appropriate legal entity established before you offici

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2014

'In my experience, inventors and technologists arent interested or arent very good at building a business, and entrepreneurs arent usually good scientists. These people need to find each other, and can jointly make a great team for a new startup. Without the synergy, companies like Apple might never have gotten off the ground. Historically, its also not often that a good inventor was also a good entrepreneur.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2014

'by Ash Nashed, CEO and founder of Adiant. Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer recently stated that 46 percent of Millennials consumed branded content through a native ad. One third of those Millennials then shared that branded content. Whats the takeaway from these comments? It showcases the growing value of native ads, especially when it comes to engaging Millennials.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

'I remember the first time I met Mark Gerson, the founder of expert network company Gerson Lehrman Group (where I previously worked), as he described how Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) first started. Investors (mainly hedge funds at the time), needed a way to quickly understand an industry they were going to invest in. One day could be pharma and the next, commercial real estate.

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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

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 11, 2014

'In yesterday’s post Mentors 4/18: Be Direct. Tell The Truth, However Hard , Joah Spearman left a very powerful comment about empathy. “The older I get the more I realize that truth is something that is best coupled with empathy. Ultimately, you have to seek to understand before you can be understood and part of telling the truth is knowing that you’ll never know someone else’s truth until you hear it directly from them rather than assuming you know what someone has exp

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The Next Web

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Jo Johansson is the Content Strategist atGeckoboardwhere she plans, produces and publishes content.This post originally appeared on the Geckoboard blog. Everyone loves a big number.Startups as well as established businesses tend to boast with their growth metrics: pageviews, registered users, downloads, social following. The list goes on. Even though these metrics might be signs of traction, more often than not theyre just empty numbers.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Shankar Ganesh is a Marketing Analyst at Freshdesk. In this modern age,no matter what youre selling, its becoming increasingly common for your product or service tohavea customer base that is spread across the world and speaks multiple languages. Even if you have phenomenal customer support reps and you invest heavily in support, your customers may not be getting whatthey need if your agents dont speak your customers language.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Do you have a great place for people to work? If you hesitate about answering that question, it may be time to give it some thought. Having a high turnover rate means that there are problems with the company culture, or the things that make up the overall attitude and end up influencing how enjoyable it is to show up every day. The last thing you want to do is spend your time recruiting, hiring and training, only to see those people walk right out the door.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 11, 2014

'At Forward Partners we invest in early stage companies in the ecommerce ecosystem, often from company inception. Muchof the time, then,there are no customers who have bought the product, and often there isn’t even a prototypewe can look at. We have to evaluate the idea and conversations with potential customers areone way of doing that.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

'This post was originally made as a guest post on PandoDaily and VentureBeat. Marketplace businesses They always seem great on paper, but its so insanely hard to solve the chicken or the egg problem. Every founder I meet whos building a marketplace business basically says the same thing: Its so much harder than I thought to build a two-sided marketplace.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 11, 2014

'You have a great new product that you want to take global. Now, you need to find someone to manufacture that product. Do you know where to find a manufacturer overseas? I do. Contract manufacturing is when a company arranges to have a local or overseas manufacturer make all or part of the product. Typically, the hiring firm provides a design or formula to the contract manufacturer to replicate or improve.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Pivot3, a leading supplier of hyper-converged infrastructure, announced today that it has closed a $12-million funding round that will drive additional product development and accelerate the companys growth. The round, led by new investor S3 Ventures of Austin, also included participation by current investors, InterWest Partners and Mesirow Financial.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2014

'10 Ways to Supercharge Your B2B Lead Generation Efforts written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. B2B lead generation seems to be a mystery to many marketers. Just do a search on the topic and youll find little thats helpful. In my opinion, there are two reasons for this. One  people are searching for that one killer lead tactic that will mask all ills or, Two  people fail to realize that successful B2B lead generation is made up of

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Austin entrepreneurs Jeff Chambers and Marshall Capps, Co-Founders of DrillingEdge.com, a data as a service platform, are simplifying the upstream oil and gas data market and taking it to the masses.

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Scott Edward Walker

AUGUST 11, 2014

'Im using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweetsfor the past four weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. Kudos to @KeithCowing : “exploring space is really something anyone can do” nyti.ms/1rzFzaa. “What separates the top 10% of startup CEOs from the rest?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2014

'The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), part of the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin (UT), today highlighted recent momentum from current portfolio company, eyeQ. eyeQ has developed a unique technology to bring online-style customer experience to brick and mortar stores. Its customer insight technology is being aggressively adopted by retailer and brands, with 5 agreements signed in the 10 months since releasing their initial product. eyeQ is also a showcase company for IBM, ha

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2014

'My last post, perhaps provocatively, called for a reduction of data in executive dashboards (digital, online, offline). More English (IABI, specifically) would lead to a smarter understanding of performance, and of course glory for data practitioners. Here's the post: Strategic & Tactical Dashboards: Best Practices, Examples. In the post Adil commented that he's observed that attribution modeling is missing from most web analytics dashboards.

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