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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

View from Seed

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. First and foremost, angels can provide capital. But secondly, the can play a strategic role in everything from optics (signaling “smart money” is involved to connections to tangible, operational help.

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The Optimizer’s Guide to Proper Website Quality Assurance (QA)

ConversionXL

Sites that don’t work don’t convert. That’s why optimizers conduct quality assurance on sites, landing pages, test treatments, email campaigns, you name it… to make sure they work the way they’re supposed to. While it’s common knowledge that quality assurance is something you should do, not enough optimizers complete it properly.

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Entrepreneurs Need To Focus On The Right Skill Set

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience in large businesses as well as years of advising startups, I see far too much focus on product skills, and too little on people and process skills. In my view, this focus on the wrong skill set is the primary reason why over half of new businesses fail in the first five years, and only one out of a hundred startups get their requested funding from professional investors.

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The Five Rs That Will Give Your Online Marketing The Precision It Needs

YoungUpstarts

Online marketing offers just about any business the opportunity to reach hundreds and thousands of people. But it’s also a very competitive space. You’re not the only one hoping to get noticed by your target market. But you can be one of the most successful if you realise that precision is what’s needed for the job. The more you hone your aim, the more successful your campaign can be.

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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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How aggressive should your business plan be?

The Equity Kicker

I was talking with an old friend on Friday about the fundraising pitch for his startup and how his conversations with VCs were progressing. He’s got a great business and I think he will get his round away, but he felt that he was losing some potential investors because they weren’t buying into the upside of his story. We discussed how he could add a slide making a better link from his impressive recent results to his vision of the endgame and I hope that will make a difference.

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Here’s Why Your Startup’s Antivirus Solution Might Be A Waste Of Tiime

YoungUpstarts

Let’s face it. The antivirus software running on office PCs is the last thing on an entrepreneur’s mind. People are too busy working hard on their startup businesses and doing what is necessary to make them grow. But, the Internet security software run on their computers should be a top priority. As you can imagine, many startups spend as little as possible on their IT systems.

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The Unexpected Benefits Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

By now, you’ve no doubt heard of cloud computing. It’s the not-so-new kid on the block, looking to transform the way that businesses do business. It’s touted as being able to reduce costs, scale with your enterprise and store all of your data. But the way that cloud computing is advertised to businesses belies some of the benefits. Many CIOs and other managers have noticed something interesting when using cloud computing.

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How To Define Your Brand Story — On Your Own Terms

YFS Magazine

If you’re honest with yourself about your values, interests, and priorities, your story will write itself.

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Live And Kicking: Pulling Off A Spectacular Live Event

YoungUpstarts

The buzz of a live event is second to none, whatever type of event you are hosting. Whether it is a conference, a comedy night, or a concert. As an audience member, we don’t know how much effort it takes to get to this moment. If you are looking to start a business in events, like comedy, a launch event , or speed dating, have a look at what needs to be put into place to ensure a smoothly ran event.

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How Modern Technology Influences Consumer Spending And Your Business

YFS Magazine

While we have not yet reached the tipping point between physical and virtual spending, we are certainly heading in that direction.

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Factom Lands $4.2 Million in Funding

SiliconHills

Factom, an Austin-based blockchain technology company that secures data, announced Wednesday it has closed on $4.2 million in funding. Billionaire Investor Tim Draper of Draper Associates led the Series A round. Blockchain is the underlying technology for Bitcoin, an alternative currency. A blockchain is a public ledger of all bitcoin transactions that have ever been […] The post Factom Lands $4.2 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Perils of Exits for Entrepreneurs

Tim Keane

Golden Angels recently had a very good exit with a young company on the west coast. As investors, we were ultimately pleased with the outcome. As it turns out, the founder isn't very pleased. Unfortunately, he has initiated a lawsuit.

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Firefly Space Systems Lays Off Staff and Explores a Possible Sale

SiliconHills

Firefly Space Systems, a private aerospace which was developing vehicles to launch small to medium sized satellites to orbit, laid off its staff of 159 employees and is exploring a possible sale of the company, according to a news report in Space News. Last year, NASA selected Firefly, based in Cedar Park, for a $5.5 […] The post Firefly Space Systems Lays Off Staff and Explores a Possible Sale appeared first on SiliconHills.

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In startups, is it ok to offer incentives to employees?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post In startups, is it ok to offer incentives to employees? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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How to Give Your Content CPR

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Give Your Content CPR written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Markeing Podcast with Laura Belgray. There are at least 2193 ways to make your content better and the best copywriters know them all. However, there are just three things that every marketer must master to dramatically improve their copy. Your web pages, brochures, and emails must have Clarity, Personality, and Resonance (CPR).

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Innovation Capacity: Do You Have It in Your Business?

Growthink Blog

The most prized, but often overlooked asset of any organization is its capacity to change and innovate. This can be measured by the premium investors will pay to buy into the business. Slow moving and growing companies are valued at very low multiples to their revenues and cash flows, while those possessive of strong brands and proprietary technology (ideally both!

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Why Our B2B Startup Chose to Land and Expand in Austin

Austin Startup

Starting and running a company focused on building apps, products and services for the consumer market in Austin used to be the hot thing… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Why Influencer Marketing Should Focus on Relationships

Austin Startup

It’s a well-known fact that marketing isn’t an easy job. Marketers have struggled for decades to effectively promote their products or… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Understanding The Sales Funnel

Austin Startup

B2B Sales pipelines are more telling than most people realize. In this post, I’ll outline how to think about sales funnels, and the… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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