The Next Web

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'Anthony Bosschem is the founder and head of Darwin Analytics. You can contact Anthony on Twitter, where he is @AnthonyBosschem. Relationships are key to succeeding in business. Before our company even had a product, we acquired our first customers just by selling our ideas alone. But what happens after you gain your first few followers? If you don’t act fast, your believers will go away, so we wanted to get to $10,000 monthly recurring revenue as fast as possible.

Technical Cofounder 130

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Agile Design 130

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

deal architect

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'As an innovation author, I generally like to look ahead. But the mysterious time machine that is LinkedIn will often bring back colleagues and friends I have long lost touch with. A recent re-acquaintance reminded me I first encountered SAP.

Software 358

Software 358

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'In the US, the holiday season of Thanksgiving and Christmas is fast approaching. But no matter where you live in the world, you should use the holidays to give thanks for the positives in your life and your business. Yet you can never forget the seasonal business cash flow and activity demands that are approaching, so to be prepared – you need to start the planning now.

Business Plan 215

Business Plan Venture Capital Demand Forecast 215

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

deal architect

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'Phil Fersht, Founder and CEO of HfS has invited me to a fireside chat at his firm’s event Blueprint in New York. Broadly, we will cover 5 major disruptions shaking IT and in particular, the outsourcing world: Explosion in technology.

New York 325

New York Founder Technology 325

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'Here’s an interesting fact about the US job market – fully 97% of new jobs created in 2012 were part-time or freelance positions. More people are turning to freelance work as stable, permanent jobs dry up, or simply decide to turn to a more flexible working arrangement to suit their evolving lifestyles. This number is likely to grow over the next few years as the trend of remote, freelance and casual work takes off across the world, with the rise of online freelance staffing sites

Mobile 178

Mobile Marketing 178

Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'The success of your company is not determined by what you do, as much as it is by what you don’t do. You are the entrepreneur. You have the vision. You can do the complex, technical work. You can make the big sales. Devote your time to doing the complex, big work. And most importantly have the courage to give your $10/hour work to someone else.

Leadership 98

Leadership Sales Management Entrepreneur 98

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'Building products brands and ultimately companies that people love has been dear to the heart of Forward for a long time now and we are increasingly thinking of making it central to our brand and investment strategy here at Forward Investment Partners. Here’s why: It’s what we love doing – building things that people love is great fun, selling them stuff they want but don’t love, much less so.

Portfolio 83

Portfolio Channel Software Partner 83

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'From an interview in Fortune with John Deere’s CEO: How precise is agriculture getting? On our equipment — large combines, large tractors, large sprayers — we have proprietary GPS that enables what we call auto-steer. We don’t even want the operator to touch the steering wheel. Going up and down a field a mile each way, if the farmer has a 60-foot boom on the back, 30 feet on each side, there’ll be only a two-inch overlap.

Operations 75

Operations 75

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'How Can I Get My Local Business to Rank Higher in Search? written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Friday is “Question of the Week” day here at Duct Tape Marketing. Each Friday I’ll tackle a specific question I received via readers or in places where I’m speaking. Submit your question here and if we use it we’ll highlight you and send you a signed copy of Duct Tape Marketing.

Search 75

Search SEO Mobile Engineer 75

SiliconHills

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Nothing happens until somebody sells something. The question is, how do you find those top sales people who will, in the oft repeated words of Michael Osborne, “crush it?” That was the topic of the TeXchange panel Wednesday night at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. […] The post The Brutal Realities of Hiring and Firing Sales Staff Discussed at TeXchange appeared first on SiliconHills.

Sales 60

Sales Hiring Austin 60

Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'What makes a great startup? It’s an important question to ask and very relevant to me at this moment both because I’ve started a new company recently and because I sit in middle of Atlanta Tech Village , where over 100 startups have set up camp already. But being in this space for the past month and a half, and spending more time with our co-founder, David Cummings , I’ve learned been reminded of what really makes a great startup.

Atlanta 58

Atlanta Startup Cofounder Salary 58

Professor VC

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'partly, it might be a guy named Ivgot Tenure (not his real name). I recently got in a flame war with a colleague in the marketing department that started with one of those emails Deans like to send out recognizing a faculty member who was awarded with an Endowed Professorship. Ivgot Tenure responded to the dean, entire faculty, and the recipient of the appointment with a screed on another perk for administrators and nothing for peasants (his words) like him.

California 28

California Naming Email Startup 28

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'From a basically unrelated 2004 article on security expert Gavin de Becker. ".I recommend that before you meet someone for the first time, you send them a bio. You say, "I look forward to our meeting tomorrow afternoon, and so that you''ll be more familiar with my background, I''m sending you some general information." When you arrive, they say, "Oh, that''s what a security expert looks like.

Venture Capital 92

Venture Capital Matching Security Technology 92