Thu.Sep 10, 2015

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Here’s Why We Fell in Love with Draft

Both Sides of the Table

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video.

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Building Relationships with your Leads

Duct Tape Marketing

Building Relationships with your Leads written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: 500 interns – NASA poster session via photopin (license). You’ve invested time and energy in social media, content marketing, you’ve created a call to action that’s been generating leads, and your email list of contacts is growing.

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Top 3 Reasons To Use Event Marketing To Drive Growth

YoungUpstarts

by Tim Raybould, CEO at Ticketleap. To grow your business, you’ll need to develop relationships with new customers and form stronger ties with your existing client base. Effective marketing initiatives are designed with this purpose in mind. They help you reach out to prospects and customers with a personalized message that resonates with the target audience.

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Building Relationships with your Leads

Duct Tape Marketing

Building Relationships with your Leads written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: 500 interns – NASA poster session via photopin (license). You’ve invested time and energy in social media, content marketing, you’ve created a call to action that’s been generating leads, and your email list of contacts is growing. Now how do you generate sales from your current leads and expand your reach to attract new leads?

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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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Preventing Overload At Work

YoungUpstarts

by Juliet Funt, founder of WhiteSpace at Work. Is your company sacrificing you to the false god of busyness? Is your day filled with an endless barrage of meetings, emails and presentation revisions? Do you arrive at work tense and stressed – dreading and anticipating an avalanche of urgent requests and directives? Do you have time to truly think… and really get anything done?

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Building Relationships with your Leads

Duct Tape Marketing

Building Relationships with your Leads written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: 500 interns – NASA poster session via photopin (license). You’ve invested time and energy in social media, content marketing, you’ve created a call to action that’s been generating leads, and your email list of contacts is growing. Now how do you generate sales from your current leads and expand your reach to attract new leads?

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5 Hacks To Pitching A PR Story That Actually Works!

Brandanew

Highlighting your USPs , the latest achievements and jotting down the points of future growth – the conventional approach to giving your PR story a structure. But how often does this kind of a story become the reason for your growth? You got it published on a popular platform, you even got an experienced writer to frame the story, you boosted on some of the social networks as well – so, what went wrong?

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What Is Behind MasterCard’s Rapid Market Growth In Emerging Markets?

YoungUpstarts

MasterCard have always been one of the biggest companies on the planet but even the biggest names need to work hard to hold on to their position of strength. After a few quieter years – and faced with an increasingly competitive market – MasterCard has returned to form. As of October 2014, MasterCard had announced a 10% year-over-year increase in net income on the back of an increase in gross dollar volume and cross-border transaction volumes.

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Rackspace and Intel Open the OpenStack Innovation Center

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Officials with Rackspace and Intel Thursday officially cut the ribbon on the OpenStack Innovation Center at Rackspace’s headquarters. “We are going to make this the launching pad to make OpenStack and the entire cloud available to everyone in the industry,” said Imad Sousou, vice president of the […] The post Rackspace and Intel Open the OpenStack Innovation Center appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Launching The Path Forward

The Equity Kicker

As regular readers will know at Forward Partners we’ve been working with idea stage entrepreneurs for over two years. During this time we’ve seen the same patterns play out again and again and we’ve developed a suite of tools and tactics to help our partners. We’ve pulled those thoughts into a framework for ecommerce and marketplace entrepreneurs called The Path Forward that we launched at our #FPLive event last night.

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5 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Recruit The Right Team

YFS Magazine

Keep these tips in mind as you build your team and you can be on your way to having the right group behind your new foray as an entrepreneur.

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Timing your exit – Don’t ride it over the top.

Berkonomics

Dave’s note: For the second time, we invite Basil Peters, author of “Early Exits,” back as our guest – to provide more of his insight into the “when” to exit by selling your business. In future weeks, we’ll add the voices of other well-known professionals in the field of exits to my own, and try to give you a compendium of useful advice in the process. .

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Starting A Business? Don’t Forget These Marketing And Branding Essentials

YFS Magazine

Congratulations! After numerous sleepless nights and deliberation, you finally decided to.

Marketing 101
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Freescale Buys Canada-based CogniVue

SiliconHills

Freescale announced its acquisition of Ottawa, Canada-based CogniVue Corp. to boost its position in the autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems market. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Freescale, a microchip maker based in Austin, is a market leader in making sensor, microcontroller and microprocessor solutions for automotive radar and vision applications. […] The post Freescale Buys Canada-based CogniVue appeared first on SiliconHills.

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What a crushing defeat in tennis taught me about the power of focus

Jeff Hilimire

Andrew Lues was the #2 ranked 18-and-under player in Georgia when I was 16. I was probably ranked in the 30’s at that point. Andrew was everything I wanted to be as a player. He was a chip-and-charging, serve-and-volleying machine. The very second he had the chance to attack the net, he did it. He was the Stefan Edberg of my time, and I thought he was amazing.

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How to Write Copy for More Than One Audience on a Page

ConversionXL

When you’re putting together copy for a website you may not have the luxury of only having to speak to one audience. In fact, you may have multiple audiences you need to address. Which means you’ve got a juggling act on your hands. Who is most important? What if both audiences require equal attention? How do you write copy that attracts more than one audience on a page without confusing your messaging?

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10 Tips to Improve Business Efficiency

Up and Running

Your company is running smoothly enough, but you know things could be better. Sometimes, a project gets hung up a few days too long, or meetings that once felt productive and useful now seem to drag on for hours. It can feel like wheels spinning in the mud, and it’s hard to get that traction back. How can you fix these kinds of issues? By focusing on improving the efficiency of your business.

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What It Takes To Excel At Startup Marketing

Early Growth Financial Services

What does it take to build a winning startup marketing program? Peter Mansfield, Founder of Mansfield + Associates, discussed the nuts and bolts on our Marketing for Startups: Building a Killer Marketing Program webinar. #1 — Know what traits and expertise a startup marketer should have The best startup marketers are pragmatic risk takers. They also need to be creative, relentless, disciplined in setting priorities, defining processes, and following up on ideas; and they also need to be co

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Are Individual Angel Investors Starting To Get Tapped Out?

Feld Thoughts

I got the following question from a friend yesterday. “I’ve had a few conversations recently about how individual seed investors are getting kind of tapped out – for a variety of reasons, but in general it’s not that easy to find people who are still actively investing. I don’t recall your having blogged about this – are you seeing it too?