Thu.Jun 09, 2016

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Social Commerce: What It Is, What It Isn’t and Why You Should Care

ConversionXL

Seth Godin once said, “You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.” [Tweet It!]. Strangers into friends? Of course. Friends into customers? Yep, it’s relatively easy to promote your site (where followers and friends can make a purchase) on social media. Customers into salespeople?

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The Clear-Cut Guide to Social Media Engagement

Duct Tape Marketing

The Clear-Cut Guide to Social Media Engagement written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Pixabay. As of 2016, there’s estimated to be 2.3 billion active social media users — nearly 1/3 of the global population. While this eye-popping statistic presents obvious marketing potential, determining how your business can capitalize on it is decidedly less clear.

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Forex Trading: What You Should Know

YoungUpstarts

Some people would like to get into the world of forex trading, but they just aren’t sure of how to begin. Fortunately, there are helpful resources and tools that can guide you along the way, such as easyMarkets , that can provide a clear-cut way to set yourself up for forex trading success. Rating the Stability of Forex Trading. So, how stable is this whole Forex trading business anyway?

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Matching Grant to the Techstars Foundation to Help Improve Diversity In Entreprenership

Feld Thoughts

For the next 90 days, Amy and I are matching every gift to the Techstars Foundation on a 1:2 basis up to $100,000 from us. Our overall goal is to raise at least $300,000 for the Techstars Foundation by the end of the summer. If Techstars has touched you in any positive way, I’d request that you consider making a grant to the Techstars Foundation.

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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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The lion and the ant: A managerial lesson

Berkonomics

This story has been making the rounds lately, and I confess that our research cannot find the source. So, with thanks to whomever created this great little parable, here it is: “Every day, a small Ant arrived at work early and started work immediately, she produced a lot and she was happy. The boss, a lion, was surprised to see that the ant was working without supervision.

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5 lessons for building a scalable SaaS sales machine

The Next Web

When we started Teamleader, we liked to read the GrooveHQ blogs – they were full of practical tips on how to build a startup, and Groove CEO Alex Turnbull was incredibly transparent about GrooveHQ’s MRR growth. Blogs like those helped me think about my own company. And having successfully gone from 5k to 100k MRR in less than 24 months, what better way to help others than by sharing our story.

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You’re wrong if you think your startup is about you

The Next Web

Your startup isn’t about you, and it’s not about your product, either. Your startup is all about your customers. It’s hard to overstate how critically important this seemingly simple insight is. I recently wrote an op-ed piece about how entrepreneurs rarely seem to take the time to prepare before pitching to venture capitalists. In the piece, I raised the question of how these entrepreneurs can expect to deliver effective pitches without understanding how we think and make decisions.

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Non traditional venture investors are still getting to grips with startup investing

The Equity Kicker

Perhaps the biggest story in venture capital from 2012-2015 was the rise in late stage valuations. That was fuelled in large part by new investors coming into the private company market. Because of Sarbanes-Oxley and other factors, companies have been staying private longer and mutual fund and hedge fund investors who didn’t want to miss out on the late stage growth at companies like Uber, AirBnB, and Snapchat started investing in late stage private company rounds.

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10 Resources to Help You Start and Grow a Successful Hair Salon

Up and Running

Starting a hair salon is an incredibly creative process, in which you finally get to flex your skills as a stylist and create the salon you’ve always dreamed of. That being said, you’re not just renting a chair anymore—it can also be a lot of work. We’ve compiled a list of resources to help you grow your hair salon, improve your skills as a stylist, and work through the kinks in the process with help from other professionals who have been there before.

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8 Energy Management Tips To Make The Most Of Your Day

YFS Magazine

Here are 8 simple energy management tips to optimize your life and help you to make the most of every day.

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Dell Names 16 Winners of its Internet of Things Innovation Contest

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News The Internet of Things is making us safer. V5 Systems created a portable outdoor security system that doesn’t need to be plugged in, can capture video, detect a gunshot and pinpoint the location it was fired from to alert authorities in real time. V5 Systems won Dell […] The post Dell Names 16 Winners of its Internet of Things Innovation Contest appeared first on SiliconHills.

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“We reinvest all free cashflows back into the business:” SMB Tech Talk from Blank Label

Hunter Walker

This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). LocalBiz stories are really fun for me since my first high school job was working in an independent bookstore. These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company.

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Investment Platform Aimed at Women, Ellevest Launches in Austin

SiliconHills

Ellevest, a new investment platform aimed at women, launched this week in Austin. Ellevest's co-founder Sallie Krawcheck, created the investment platform to "close the gender investing gap and redefine investing for women with a practical, goals-based approach," according to a news release. Krawcheck has nearly 30 years of experience leading financial services companies on Wall […] The post Investment Platform Aimed at Women, Ellevest Launches in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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“We reinvest all free cashflows back into the business:” SMB Tech Talk from Blank Label

Hunter Walker

Hunter Walk: Can you share the founding story of Blank Label ? How did it all begin? Blank Label: It all started because someone complimented me on what I was wearing at work. The summer previous to starting Blank Label, I was in Shanghai and got some custom suits and shirts made. When I came back into the office, people would start complimenting me on my new clothes.

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The tradeoff Startup founders must never forget

Start Up Blog

Them: So, we’ve just nailed our MVP and we are getting some real traction. Next we’re going to raise capital, get some funding. We’ll probably go to the Valley as it’s easier to raise there. The valuations are more generous. We’re super pumped, finally getting our startup off the ground. Me: I thought you were an entrepreneur?

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Must-Read Tips For Protecting Your Business From Theft

YoungUpstarts

Theft is a serious element of risk to any business, regardless what form it takes. The truth is that there is no single identity or stereotype that fits every kind of theft. You need to be vigilant in a manner of ways at all times, whether you’re a home business, a small retailer or the proprietor of an immensely popular app. Here is how you need to protect yourself from theft: Loss prevention.

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The tradeoff Startup founders must never forget

Start Up Blog

Them: So, we’ve just nailed our MVP and we are getting some real traction. Next we’re going to raise capital, get some funding. We’ll probably go to the Valley as it’s easier to raise there. The valuations are more generous. We’re super pumped, finally getting our startup off the ground. Me: I thought you were an entrepreneur?

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Tracking productivity

Hippoland

Off-topic post today on my own productivity and no gifs today :(. Last night, I gave a fireside chat and a question that came up was about how I balanced running my startup LaunchBit while having / raising a child. It wasn’t easy. But, more generally speaking, having said child forced me to improve my productivity a TON. It’s far from optimal, but I track / analyze like crazy so that I can continue to get better.

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