Wed.Feb 10, 2016

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10 Survival Strategies From Winning Team Leaders

Startup Professionals Musings

Did you ever wonder why some entrepreneurs always seem to have all the luck and success, while others never seem to catch a break? As an angel investor, I quickly learned that luck has very little to do with it, and I now look for some personal characteristics and leadership styles that separate the potential winners from the losers. These differences are the reason that investors say that they invest in people, rather than ideas.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

Your product and company vision needs to match your appetite for funding. And know that just because a venture failed doesn’t mean that you’re a failure. Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern).

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Building Strong Customer Relationships In Online Trading

YoungUpstarts

Image credit: Stock market graph from Shutterstock. Over the last years, there has been an explosion of online trading platforms that offer the option to trade online with the best technology and the lowest-priced account that maximizes the premium features your customers can actually use. There are all sorts of online brokers for every kind of trader and in such a competitive field you have to come up with the proper approach to building strong customer relationships.

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Resolving Buyer - Seller Tensions to Get Deals Done

Growthink Blog

For conversations around business financings and sales, there are natural tensions, of time , credibility , and trust , between entrepreneurs seeking to be financed/sold (“Sellers”) and the investors/acquirers that approached for $$ (“Buyers”). And if these tensions are not resolved, a deal cannot get done. Time Tension is the idea that our entrepreneur seller almost always seeks to have their business valued based on its future potential, while our investor / acquirer buyer seeks to price it ba

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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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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

“It was running fine.” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Now when we run a promotion with our new partner and get a thousand users coming in at one time, it grinds to a halt.”. We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff.

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One Microsoftin vendor world

deal architect

In the last couple of years I have written about the One Microsoft strategy – its ability to leverage a wide range of assets. In a demo at last year’s Convergence event it brought together its CRM, Office365, Skype for.

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10 Things I Wished I Knew Before I Started Blogging

Brandanew

Everyone blogs these days. It is no longer something to get shocked with… well at least that is what most people think. Before I started blogging everything seemed easy. Soon I realized, a lot of people blog just for the sake of blogging. Very few actually make any money ever and even fewer can make it a sustainable profession. So, what is the difference here?

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Make Glassdoor Work for Your Company

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin Umeda, Manager of Sales Planning and Coordination, Balboa Capital. With employment numbers picking up, job seekers can afford to be a little pickier when it comes to looking for their dream careers. Consequently, employers must pay more attention to the information available to potential employees about their companies. If employers are not asking themselves, “What is the first thing that job seekers see when they look up my company on the Internet?

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Got Local PR? Think Bigger for Better Results!

Rembrandt Communications

It’s time to set large, PR (public relations) goals and exceed expectations! Do you love your current public relations (PR) plan? Do you even have one in place? If not, you are losing out on third-party credibility you simply cannot obtain in any other way. And if you are just concentrating on local media, it’s […]. The post Got Local PR? Think Bigger for Better Results!

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Renting Out Apartments As A Business

YoungUpstarts

Image credit: For rent sign in Shutterstock. Starting your own small start-up can be as simple as purchasing a studio unit and renting it out to a tenant. However, before you go on sites like Property Guru and use the search term “ Apartment for sale “, there are some factors that you need to take into consideration. Location. The location of a property is a make-or-break factor when it comes to any start-up that focuses on creating an income from rental properties.

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The Key Drivers for SaaS Success

For Entrepreneurs

SaaS/subscription businesses are much more complex than traditional businesses, and SaaS performance cannot be measured in the same way as traditional businesses are measured. Based on a talk given at the SaaStr Annual Conference in San Francisco, this slide deck offers a comprehensive and detailed look at the key metrics that are needed to understand and.

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4 Simple And Savvy Tips For Real Estate SMBs

YoungUpstarts

Image credit: Real estate from Shutterstock. Whether you’ve only been in the real estate business for a short time or you’ve grown to a medium sized enterprise, this industry can chew you up and spit you out. On the other hand, it can also yield great returns if you know what you’re doing. Entering the game at the right time and with the right information makes a huge difference, as does paying attention to details.

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3 Young, Black Female Entrepreneurs To Watch

YFS Magazine

Finding and identifying myself with young, entrepreneurial black women makes me feel like I’m capable of building my dream business.

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How to Network When Meeting New People Is Your Biggest Fear

Up and Running

Does networking make you nervous? You can learn to overcome this fear. If you’re in the process of starting a business, then you already know how hard it can be. You need to be dedicated, invest enough time, energy, focus, and effort, and stay motivated and consistent. That’s why it’s always a great idea to choose a field you’re passionate about; it’s a guarantee that you won’t get bored any time soon.

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5 Supplements To Enhance Your Productivity At The Office

YFS Magazine

Most people make it through the day, barely hanging on by a thread and by the time three o’clock comes around they're drained. If you're running a startup, or a fast-growth business you can relate.

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Rock Analytics More: Obsess About Goals And Goal Values!

Occam's Razor

If you don't have goals, you are not doing digital analytics. You are doing i am wasting earth's precious oxygenalytics. Let's back up. Let me start with a story. We were brain storming about the next cluster of coolness for Analytics, the conversation quickly went to what Analysts need to look at on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

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Service discovery in conversational commerce – might not work for startups

The Equity Kicker

There’s widespread excitement in the startup community about ‘conversational commerce’ – a new shopping paradigm where we buy things virtually through chat interfaces, probably inside the major chat apps – Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Slack, Telegram, WeChat, Line etc. Now that traffic to the top four western messaging apps now exceeds traffic to the top four western social networks it is only a matter of time before all the commerce ideas we’ve hea

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The Profit Imperative

VC Adventure

With the markets crashing around us and the sky once again falling I thought it was time to revisit a few fundamentals and perhaps more importantly share some what what we’re now seeing in the private funding markets. Growing Profitably. Let’s start with what I labeled the Growth Imperative a few months ago in a post, where I pointed out 1) that investors were (over) valuing growth and 2) that when this changed it was going to change quickly (and in a separate post said: “when

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Advertising Advice That Will Help Define Your Target Audience

YFS Magazine

The first question I ask when I'm meeting with a new client is, Who is your target audience?" More often than not the response is: "We want to reach everyone!".

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What are the Technical Performance Requirements for your Startup?

SoCal CTO

By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power. While I’ve updated it a few times, it continues to get at important questions that startup founders need to be asking. I find myself sending it to startup founders all the time – maybe just slightly less than Free Startup CTO Consulting.

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7 Things NOT to Say To Customer Service

crowdSPRING Blog

In customer service, we hear many of the same phrases all day, everyday. If given the chance, most customer service reps would likely give you a list of cringe-inducing phrases they hear at work (and in their haunting nightmares). As a self-proclaimed representative of the hoards of customer service workers out there, here are just a few of the things NOT to say when interacting with those of us who genuinely try to lend a hand… “Don’t give me a cookie cutter answer” Why

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Indeed.com Hits a Record 200 Million Unique Visitors in 31 Days

SiliconHills

Lots of people are looking for a new job. And where are they going? From the traffic statistics, it looks like Austin-based Indeed.com. Over the past 31 days, Indeed reached a record number of 200 million unique visitors. “These candidates searched for jobs in over 60 markets and in 28 languages—a record number of countries […] The post Indeed.com Hits a Record 200 Million Unique Visitors in 31 Days appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Find More Ideal Customers with Buyer Personas

Duct Tape Marketing

Find More Ideal Customers with Buyer Personas written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Adele Revella. You know how much I love to talk about strategy -well, the reason is that strategy before tactics is how the game is played – I mean, if you want to win. But, what exactly is strategy? It’s many things I suppose, which one of the reasons it’s so vexing for most people.

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Indeed.com Surpasses 200 Million Unique Monthly Visitors

SiliconHills

Lots of people are looking for a new job. And where are they going? From the traffic statistics, it looks like Austin-based Indeed.com. Over the past 31 days, Indeed reached a record number of 200 million unique visitors. “These candidates searched for jobs in over 60 markets and in 28 languages—a record number of countries […] The post Indeed.com Surpasses 200 Million Unique Monthly Visitors appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Converting Residential To Business: A Look At New Trends In Apartment Usage

YoungUpstarts

Image credit: For rent sign in Shutterstock. One of the more interesting trends in apartment purchasing today has been to convert them towards use as places of business or as an office. Normally seen in some of the older buildings within Indonesia; converted apartments have been locations for dermatology clinics, dentist offices, small call center operations and have even been used as office spaces for business startups.

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Indeed.com Surpasses 200 Million Unique Monthly Searches

SiliconHills

Lots of people are looking for a new job. And where are they going? From the traffic statistics, it looks like Austin-based Indeed.com. Over the past 31 days, Indeed reached a record number of 200 million unique visitors. “These candidates searched for jobs in over 60 markets and in 28 languages—a record number of countries […] The post Indeed.com Surpasses 200 Million Unique Monthly Searches appeared first on SiliconHills.

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