YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2015

by Heather Foley, consultant at etsplc.com. The holiday period can be a tricky time for any business. You may struggle to meet an increase in demand, customers may insist that you work to even tighter deadlines and your workforce may be running on minimal numbers, but nowhere are problems more evident than in the small business. A holiday time can impose pressures on a small business which may stretch it to breaking-point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

As an angel investor, I hear many entrepreneurs making negative comments about competitors or asserting they don’t have any competitors. They don’t realize that knocking competitors is assessed as a weakness and denying that you have any competition suggests there is no market for your solution. The smart approach is to find competitors to highlight your strengths.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 11, 2015

In our ultimate storytelling guideline , we shared how storytelling began from pre-historic times. It is definitely not new. For marketers and business owners, storytelling helps you keep the audience glued to your brand and connect with them emotionally. Many tend to believe that storytelling skills are an exotic mumbo-jumbo that cannot be taught. But, the reality is, authentic brand storytelling is a trend for the future.

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Rembrandt Communications

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Take a few hours to make changes that bring results It’s the peak of the holiday season, and your sales are flat. What can you do? Here are… 5 Fast Ways to Boost Holiday Sales with Content Marketing Now! 1. Review your site. Potential, new customers are visiting your site to find gifts. Do you […]. The post 5 Fast Ways to Boost Holiday Sales with Content Marketing Now!

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2015

by Nicole Lininger, Director of Corporate Communications at InventHelp ®. Great inventors typically don’t just have one or two terrific ideas — they are always thinking of new and better products. If inventing is in your blood, chances are new ideas occur to you during your daily life as well. But the holidays aren’t an ordinary time, and the change in routine can be a major distraction — or an inspiration.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 11, 2015

For the second time this week I’ve been thinking about my early career as a VC. This time I was remembering how I would find interesting deals only to have them shot down in seconds by the partners I was working with. Usually because they didn’t fit with some pattern he was working with, or were in an area where the fund had had bad experiences. For those of you that have read Thinking Fast and Slow , That’s Kahneman’s Type 1, or fast thinking in action.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Mastering your pitch to a VC, prospective customers, new hires or partners is part art and part science. As a VC, I hear dozens of these every week, and what I’ve learned is that a masterful and successful pitch for a SaaS company involves 10 key items. The best entrepreneurs are often those who can articulate their vision and roadmap in a simple, elegant and purposeful manner.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2015

To craft an outstanding brand and thriving business, you have to be strategic when it comes to differentiation.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 11, 2015

TabbedOut, a mobile payments app for bars and restaurants, announced Friday it has raised $2 million more in its Series C venture round. Miami-based Aeterna Capital provided the funds. That increases TabbedOut’s Series C round to $23.5 million. The other investors include lead investor Wellington Management Company and participating investors NEA and Morgan Creek Capital […] The post TabbedOut Raises Additional $2 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Ask for money and you get advice. Ask for advice and you get money.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Vendini, a San Francisco-based live events company, announced Friday it has acquired CrowdTorch, an Austin-based consumer ticket and live event platform, previously owned by Cvent. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Its Vendini third acquisition since its founding in 2001. Vendini plans to keep the CrowdTorch ticketing platform and operate it as […] The post Vendini Acquires Austin-based CrowdTorch appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Why You Should Use Remarketing Tactics to Grow Your Business written by Amy Metherell read more at Duct Tape Marketing. What is remarketing? Remarketing is a way to reconnect with potential customers who have visited your website. Whether you realize it or not you have probably been remarketed to before. Have you ever been to a website and then started seeing their banners everywhere?

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 11, 2015

When I used to have a desk, I had this thing where I couldn’t sit down and focus on anything of substance unless my desk was clean. It was like there was this nagging voice telling me that I couldn’t possibly work when there was a mess around me that I could easily clean up. I realized recently that this same nagging voice also comes from my email inbox.

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