Growthink Blog
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'If you want to generate new leads and sales, consider public speaking. Assuming you’re not deathly afraid of speaking in public, below are answers to the five most common questions about using public speaking to grow your business. 1. Where should I speak? In determining where to speak, the goal is to speak in whatever venues will get you in front of the most target customers.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'Humm, an Austin-based startup aimed at changing the way guest-centric businesses interact with customers, today officially unveiled its patent-pending technology and analytics platform.
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Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'Two of the hot topics in education in the last few years have been Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC’s) and the flipped classroom. I’ve been experimenting with both of them. What I’ve learned (besides being able to use the word “pedagogy” in a sentence) is. 1) assigning students lectures as homework doesn’t guarantee the students will watch them and 2) in a flipped classroom you can become hostage to the pedagogy.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'(Guest post by Gordon Daugherty. If you like this, go see his Shockwave Innovations blog ) Anyone that has taken an accounting class or learned basic business financials knows the interaction between key elements of a P&L (revenue, cost, expense) and a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity). But it’s surprising to me how many companies with recurring/subscription revenue don’t understand the interactions between the elements that make up customer acquisition cost (CAC), chu
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
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'by Stacia Pierce , CEO of Ultimate Lifestyle Enterprises. Sometimes the most profound revelations, ideas, and experiences come in small, simple packages, like sticky notes. The little squares can be used in so many ways to increase your life, from rich reminders to awesome affirmations, you can use them to set goals and manifest your personal miracles in short periods of time.
Up and Running
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'If you think being your own boss means being able to sleep in til noon and screw off whenever you feel like it, think again. While working for yourself does give you the freedom to make your own hours and set your own deadlines, in order to run a successful business, you can’t let yourself adopt an “all play and little work” attitude. (At least not until your biz has become so large you can afford to automate it and let the money roll in.
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K9 Ventures
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'I was reading Dan Primack‘s Term Sheet this morning and saw the part about Chamath Palihapitiya making waves at HBS by telling current MBA candidates that “the overwhelming majority of us would not look favorably on a company started by one of you.” Chamath is correct in making that statement, especially if you’re careful to […].
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'Earlier we looked at how small businesses can grow the number of Likes on Facebook pages in a sustainable, cost-effective manner. But if you’re a savvy social media marketer you’d also know the importance of using Twitter as well, especially when you can integrate content and cross post from either platforms. And just like for Facebook, growing your Twitter followers isn’t too difficult with the liberal application of common (business) sense.
crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'We’ve experimented with many advertising and marketing channels over the years, including Facebook. A few years ago we tested whether promoting our posts on the crowdSPRING Facebook Fan page could expose us to more potential customers. We received more likes and fans, but discovered that our new fans were not engaging with us. During our experiments, we varied our targeting – sometimes our targeting was broad and at other times, specific.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'If you’re a frequent business traveller, you’d probably know the pain of getting hit by massive data roaming charges whenever you’re travelling aborad. And the trouble is that it’s not quite so easy to get a local data connection service either, especially when some countries require you to be a holder of a local passport or local credit card before you can sign up for one.
Life Beyond Code
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'Teaching is one of those evergreen triple-win opportunities. You rarely go wrong with it when you do it well. Think about it: If you teach something well, whatever you are teaching becomes clear in your own mind and you will become better at it. On the other hand, the people you are teaching to will learn something and they will grow. There is an additional bonus: Teaching is a valuable gift and when you engage in teaching with genuine care, more often than not it will activate the power of re
The Equity Kicker
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'Secret is the hot new app in the Valley. People read it for the gossip, and people post gossip there because they post anonymously. Last week people were even chatting on Twitter about the amazing gossip on Secret! Sam Altman of Y Combinator wrote this in a post about Secret: Anonymity breeds meanness–the Internet has proven this time and time again.
Mike Michalowicz
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'I heard it again today; an entrepreneur saying that when he “finally finds some great talent,” his business will grow, and be profitable, and he will work less, and blah, blah, blah. He continued to explain how his business just needs an employee who can do it all. I have bad news. Employees who can do it all, don’t exist. Scratch that. They do exist.
Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'Before Any of the Tactics Matter Answer These 3 Questions written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Most business owners think marketing and immediately think email, copy, Facebook and promotions – you know, tactics. Heck, most marketers do the same thing. photo credit: Ed Yourdon via photopin cc.
Jeff Hilimire
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'Yesterday I wrote a post about helping to fulfill my goal of doing more good in the world by asking people that wanted to meet with me for advice to give an hour of their time to a non-profit or other service-based cause. Specifically, I said: I will happily meet with you – if I can – but in exchange you agree to spend one hour helping a non-profit (or other related activity).
Early Growth Financial Services
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'Originally published in Verge. It’s like building a bridge as you barrel across while blindfolded. But at least you’ve found some bridge designers to show you what to do (and almost as importantly, what not to do). You can find startup mentor advice is all over the internet. However, the best guidance are the field-tested, entrepreneur-approved strategies from the trenches.
Version One Ventures
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'There are more start-ups being launched than ever before, while at the same time there are more ways to reach an audience. As a result, consumers and companies alike are being bombarded with marketing messages…whether it’s in a social media newsfeed, in an email inbox, or through content marketing. Cutting through that noise has become really difficult.
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'Google today announced the general availability of Cloud SQL , which, as its name implies, is a MySQL database that lives in Google’s cloud. Among the new features is the encryption of customer data, a 99.95 percent uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA), and support for databases up to 500GB in size. First and foremost, Cloud SQL data (database tables and temporary files) is now automatically encrypted.
crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve read hundreds of posts and articles about content marketing. That’s not a coincidence. Content marketing can be a powerful tool to help grow your business. But even the best marketers sometimes struggle to come up with consistently good content for their blog posts, whitepapers, social media posts, and emails.
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 11, 2014
'Google today announced the general availability of Cloud SQL , which, as its name implies, is a MySQL database that lives in Google’s cloud. Among the new features is the encryption of customer data, a 99.95 percent uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA), and support for databases up to 500GB in size. First and foremost, Cloud SQL data (database tables and temporary files) is now automatically encrypted.
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