YoungUpstarts
JUNE 21, 2013
'by Chris Garrett. Building a business from the ground up can be a difficult process, and every entrepreneur knows the importance of marketing. There are many different types of marketing, and it isn’t uncommon for one or more of them to be overlooked by busy business owners. This guide is intended to ensure that your small business doesn’t miss out on any of the customers who can be reached by a thorough marketing campaign: Digital.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 21, 2013
'Most leaders agree that poor customer service is a business killer today, in terms of lost customers, reduced profits, and low morale. Yet the average perception of customer experience continues to decline. Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected.
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Up and Running
JUNE 21, 2013
'Most of the challenges in starting a business relate back to doing the little things right. Like any good coach has said at some point: The fundamentals get you to the top. If you are thinking of starting a small business, make sure you follow these ten important rules for small businesses: 1. You need to manage your cash. The number one reason small businesses go bankrupt is lack of cash , not lack of profits.
blog.alinelerner.com
JUNE 21, 2013
'Aline Lerner's Blog. making technical recruiting suck less. Home. Posts. About. Press. Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. Jun 21, 2013. I ran technical recruiting at TrialPay for a year before going off to start my own agency. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position.
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
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 21, 2013
'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
tuckermax.me
JUNE 21, 2013
'Home. Menu. About. Reading Lists. Quote Lists. Book Summaries. Archive. Contact. June 21, 2013. Don’t look for talent, find people who do things. I wrote a blog post a while ago about what one of my former assistants did after working for me, and in it I wondered why so many of them have had success. My conclusion was that: I honestly don’t think I have much to do with it.
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Feld Thoughts
JUNE 21, 2013
'20 years. Just amazing. You are my favorite person on this planet. Here are some pictures from the past 20 years. Fashion has clearly never been my strong sense. Fortunately, my t-shirts are rubbing off on you. And your class and grace is rubbing off on me. But you can never really take the girl out of Alaska. And one never really does leave Wellesley, does one?
Life Beyond Code
JUNE 21, 2013
'Free rider in simple terms is someone who benefits ( takes ) all the time without ever thinking of paying for what he or she is getting. In other words, free rider is someone who takes the giver for granted. Free riders are part of your life. You can’t avoid them but if you don’t spot them early, some of them can turn you into a doormat and walk all over you.
SiliconHills
JUNE 21, 2013
'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News “Wouldn’t it be great if you guys could be in a conference and wear (Google)Glass and it did facial recognition—which it doesn’t—and you could instantly look up all this information about people in the conference? How many of you would want that?” Whurley asked the crowd of [.] The post Google Glass WTF?
Austin Startup
JUNE 21, 2013
'Home Slice Pizza, East Side King, Torchy’s and anything else your heart (or tastebuds) desire is just a few taps away using Favor’s new mobile app.
SiliconHills
JUNE 21, 2013
'It’s that time of year again when the A-List of Austin Startups gets released. The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and South by Southwest Interactive announced the 2013 Austin A-List this week. They compiled the list based on input from local investors. This year’s list includes 19 startups spanning a wide range of industries. The [.
Up and Running
JUNE 21, 2013
'Thinking about taking a business partner? The costs can easily outweigh the benefits. If you’re going to apply for a small business loan , check your free credit report —any negative marks will damage your application, and some you might not even know about. Is there room for your small business to expand overseas? It’s becoming easier and more popular for small U.S. businesses to export their products and services.
SiliconHills
JUNE 21, 2013
'By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News The United States may be the land of opportunity, but opportunity is useless unless there are individuals to take advantage of it. Today our country is currently lacking the scientists, engineers, and tech experts that our high-tech industry needs to be successful. While there are foreign students [.
Austin Startup
JUNE 21, 2013
'Atlanta Technology Angels (ATA) today announced it has joined Cowtown Angel Network, Central Texas Angel Network and Golden Seeds in a $3 million investment in Austin-based Wisegate.
Venture Chronicles
JUNE 21, 2013
'I read this piece in Business Insider about comments that David Karp of Tumblr made while keynoting at Cannes Lions, a big advertiser conference held this week. I’ll save you the pain of reading it on their site, here’s what their core complaint is: 1) Karp originally refused to allow advertising on Tumblr, stating at the time that “it turned their stomach”. 2) In 2010 Tumblr famously reversed their stance on advertising. 3) Today Karp is effusive in his admiration and praise of advertisers (th
Small Business Force
JUNE 21, 2013
Great customer service is critical to the success of any small business.Few would argue that. However, so is a quality product. But, with a crappy product, no matter how hard you try with customer service, you're still just dressing up the aforementioned pig (no disrespect intended to pigs everywhere). You can sometimes get away with lackluster customer service and a quality product, but if I asked you which was more important, quality product or great customer service, I think most would agree
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