YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

Strong leadership skills are often relative to success, whether you’re looking to gain traction in a start-up company, strengthen an established brand, or see a project come to fruition. When leading a group of employees, volunteers or co-workers, it’s vital you understand how you can align each person’s skills and dreams to meet a common goal. Read on for 4 ways you can improve your leadership skills to bring out the best in not only yourself but others as well: 1.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 31, 2016

Earlier this week I had a call with a friend who wanted help because his company is close to running out of cash and his investor is playing hardball. The company has been performing OK, but would have been better if my friend and his investor hadn’t been at loggerheads over distribution strategy and who should run the company. That conflict resulted in the company implementing a strategy it didn’t fully believe in which then didn’t work.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

Image credit: Sin from Shutterstock. By Tom Walker, president & CEO of Rev1 Ventures. There’s a lot of focus these days on teaching entrepreneurs how to do startups right : Validate the market before you build a prototype. Conserve cash. Meet milestones. If you have to fail, fail fast. One of my favorite quotes from the late, great Yogi Berra (I’m a huge baseball fan) sets up a different perspective: “We made too many wrong mistakes,” the best catcher in all of baseball said.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2016

There are many roads to Rio, so they say. But there is one overwhelming method of appraising the effectiveness of a business leader. Outcomes. We can invent lots of metrics to measure progress for a leader, including revenue, profit, employee satisfaction, cost containment, percentage of available market, and more. But these are all individual roads to Rio – which is the stated goal for the organization.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

Image credit: Exotic fish in water from Shutterstock. By Bruce Hodes, CEO of CMI Teamwork Chicago and author of “ Front Line Heroes “. When does a fish notice water? When it is out of the water! The fish gasps for breath. The fish beats its tail on the deck and moves in a helpless manner. It is out of the water and clearly feeling the difference. Hence the saying “like a fish out of water”.

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YFS Magazine

MARCH 31, 2016

These online business tools can help you get your business on track and keep it there.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 31, 2016

eRelevance Corp., which makes a marketing platform for small to medium sized businesses to engage customers, on Thursday announced it has raised $4.5 million in its Series A round of funding. The Austin-based startup, co-founded in 2013 by serial entrepreneur Bob Fabbio, has raised $8.6 million since launching. The company plans to use the money […] The post eRelevance Corp.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 31, 2016

It is possible to earn a lot of money and create very little value for society. It is possible to earn very little money and create incredible value for society. So how to do we know when we have it right, for a startup or even life? Here’s my measure – how much would people miss you if you didn’t turn up? And how long would it take for them to notice after you stopped turning up?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2016

April 3, 2016: This essay is about the counterproductive intrusion of legal and political affairs into our personal lives and our… Continue reading on Medium ».

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 31, 2016

Google became famous for the concept of “dog fooding.” Basically, it is term used when a company ensures its creators use the products they’re building, especially while testing. Dog fooding is also a really good way to show the need for what is being made, while simultaneously evangelising it. “We know it works because we eat our own dog food !

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YFS Magazine

MARCH 31, 2016

Here's a look at seven deadly sins to avoid in your next SEO campaign.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2016

Having a well-thought-out plan for A/B testing Facebook ad campaigns is essential if you want to improve your performance reliably and consistently. And the more you test, the better. A study of 37,259 Facebook ads found that “most companies only have 1 ad, but the best had 100’s” A/B testing Facebook ad campaigns can get complicated quickly (and easily produce invalid results).

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