YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2016

by Steve Smith, U.S. Chief Operating Officer at Esker. The efficiency of your accounts payable department can have a significant impact on your business’s financial stability and reputation among clients and vendors. However, even the most talented accounts payable team can present inefficiencies that cost your business unnecessary time and money. Here are just five of the benefits accounts payable software can provide your business: 1.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

You already know retargeting works. But what if you’re doing it all wrong? What if grouping all audiences into the same retargeting campaign is actually doing more harm than good? The truth is that a lot of people never give the attention or resources that’s needed to improve their retargeting campaigns. It’s an afterthought. So today, we’re going to look at seven retargeting case studies that use some seriously creative tactics that I’ve never thought of… or even heard of.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2016

If you have ever wondered about the market domination of WordPress, then you’ll get the best possible answer here.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

Realizing you need help and learning how to ask for help are crucial skills for a founder. And while how much money you make at startup is a way to keep score, a successful life can’t be measured only in dollars. These topics 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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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

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2016

In business, the only thing that counts is results, not how hard people work or how many hours they put in. Have you noticed in your startup or around your office that some people are always at work and busy, but others seems to consistently get more done? Studies of software teams, for example, show differences as great as ten to one in productivity between working team members.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2016

by Mark Simpson, Chairman of shop4pop.com. For small businesses, building your client base is crucial to success. For 85% of small businesses , interest is drummed up through word of mouth – and whether you’re trying to drive traffic to your site or increase footfall to your store, a powerful marketing strategy is key. Whether they’re shopping online or in-store, immersing your customers in a fluid brand experience will undoubtedly increase sales at the checkout.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2016

Financial protection is a top priority for businesses. As well as making money, you want to make sure that you don’t lose any because of poor security of preparation. This guide is designed to ensure you know where all your money is and how you can keep control of it. Even in the event of a disaster, your business should have as much protection as possible against the loss of any revenue.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 29, 2016

Even though there are a lot of web resources on how to put together a pitch deck for seed-stage companies, most don’t address how many decks you need and for what purpose. If you are fundraising, you’ll need at least 2 decks: An email deck An in-person meeting deck If you are participating in a Demo Day with an accelerator, you’ll also need a Demo Day deck.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 29, 2016

Price elasticity of demand is a function that economists study for different products. With the odd exception demand goes up when price goes down, but sometimes the function is linear and other times you get more of a step change. As you can see, solar energy is a product where there is a step change. This chart makes it remarkably clear how quickly demand grew once solar energy became cheaper than alternative sources.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2016

In order to live a creative lifestyle, you're constantly on the go at any given moment. Key essentials can be the difference between having a productive meeting in the city, or another wasted Monday.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 29, 2016

You might have heard of the Blue Ocean Strategy. A business book which ascribes the benefit of competing in a space where less competitors exist. Which, sometimes means people think than selling plastic fur balls for imaginary internet cats is a good idea. But it generally means find a market that’s valid, but has been ignored. Here’s another way to view it: Thought the time lens. .

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2016

Furniture is big business no matter how you look at it. Take a look around your home, office, or any restaurant you’re at. The room is filled with furniture of different shapes and sizes. You have office chairs, desks, tables, seats, and a whole range of furnishings that a company has to provide. That’s where OFM comes in. Continuing the family-owned tradition, Blake Zalcberg sits as CEO of the company.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2016

There was a time in my life when I felt physically sick just thinking about spending 8 or more hours each day in an office cubicle.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2016

The Components of a Good Marketing Strategy written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. There is hardly a small business owner who is not obsessed with this term: marketing strategy. That’s the main aspect that makes the difference between successful entrepreneurs and those that fail. It’s strange how everyone cares about discovering the perfect marketing techniques for their business, but we don’t bother realizing what marketing strategy really means. .

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Brandanew

JANUARY 29, 2016

There’s a ton of amazing websites out there where you’d like to pitch a new post and get some referral traffic, quality back links and new relationships onto your Startup, small business or personal brand. Being able to use someone else’s community to create something is hugely relevant. To give you an example- Startup killer (or winner) Buffer’s CEO wrote 150 guest posts in 9 months and got hundreds of thousands of referrals back to Buffer.

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