Up and Running
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'Are you unhappy with your current job? Have you always dreamed of being your own boss? Before you quit, you need to create a plan. I had the opportunity to speak with Melinda Emerson, the “SmallBizLady” and America’s #1 small business expert, who took the opportunity to share with us her proven, step-by-step method to transition from employee to entrepreneur.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'Every so often a promising entrepreneur seems to freeze in the oncoming headlights and gets run over by his competition. Why is it that his idea which seemed so fundable only months ago fails to attract investors today? The team is the same. The company''s market is the same. The only change might be a visible new competitor, or another economy downturn, resulting in investors holding their money, and that makes all the difference.
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Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'I spent the weekend in Las Vegas with my dad. He’s almost 77 and I’m 49. We had an awesome weekend which I expect he’ll write about in detail on his blog Repairing the Healthcare System in the next few days since he generally does a really nice retrospective of our annual trip together. As I was reflecting on our weekend during my flight home yesterday, I remembered a discussion I had with Todd Vernon , the CEO of VictorOps , and a long time friend (we’ve been investors
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'By Suaad Sait, Executive Vice President of Products and Markets at SolarWinds. Many of us are familiar with the term “Time is Money”. It is often a way of life for most business around the globe especially in a well-connected society. Typically, most expect the internet to function on high speed to meet this ideal, however, if something were to hinder the process – such as network failure or terrible internet connection – people end up being frustrated by their circumstances.
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
The Equity Kicker
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'Karl Popper was perhaps the pre-eminent philosopher of science of the 20th century and central to his work is the notion that for a theory to be useful it must be falsifiable. Benedict Evans posted this quote on Twitter yesterday in a debate about the applicability of Clayton Christensen’s innovators dilemma theory to the iPhone. I’ve reproduced it here because it’s useful for startups generally.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'[Image credit: Bergadder / Pixabay ]. It’s no secret that thousands of hopefuls start up new businesses each year. We live in an age where enterprise is strong. All those people want to earn a decent living. And they want to build up a brand from scratch. The world’s your oyster when it comes to startup business ideas. There are thousands of ways to make a living these days, and many of them can get done in an office environment.
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David Teten
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'I’m surprised at how many funding pitches I get which lack some of the basic information which investors require before funding. I think this stems from two causes: 1) Lack of basic knowledge of the information investors require. I would hope that a competent founder could easily educate herself about what information an investor wants with some basic research. 2) A desire to hide important information which you think might be perceived badly , e.g, you raised $6m but are pivoting and would
Up and Running
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'Should you outsource your payroll, and if so, how do you decide where to outsource it to? One of the most important aspects of running a business is managing payroll—from the minute your first employee (even you!) starts working, you need a payroll system. But small businesses often lack the adequate resources, time, and money to handle payroll in-house.
ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'The title may seem a bit controversial, but this is a fairly common question I get from large (and small) companies – “Should I run A/A tests to check whether my experiment is working?”. I’ve been doing split and multivariate tests since 2004, and have watched nearly every one like a hawk. I I’ve personally made every test cockup in the book and wasted many days on fruitless effort, in order to become better and to continue to hopefully improve my ability to run valid tests.
Hunter Walker
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'Product Hunt has the best shot of building something I’ve wanted for a long time: an IMDB for Products. In the arts and other traditionally creative professions “credits” are a well understood part of professional recognition. Those efforts were always collaborative and project-based. But for some reason technology projects, despite possessing those same characteristics, never ended up with the same way to identify and recognize individual contributions.
crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'I like to think of myself as a benevolent boss – guiding the team with a wise and gentle hand. Except on those occasions when I am not. Day-to-day I don’t think a great deal about the bossing-style I practice, but when I do take time to reflect, I realize that I have some very serious shortcomings and could stand to learn from the example set for me over the years by some of my own bosses.
Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'Questions to Ask Yourself Before Defining Your Marketing Strategy written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Today’s guest post comes from the newest member of the Duct Tape Marketing team Kala Linck – Enjoy! It’s February already! That means another year of customers, products, and sales.
Scott Edward Walker
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past three weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. Quora: As a startup CEO, what is your favorite productivity hack? [link]. “You can always recognize the first-time [entrepreneurs] because they are too secretive…” - @naval [link] (at 6:40).
Bryce Dot VC
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'News began leaking this morning of an investment I’ve been excited about for a while but haven’t been able to talk about. Despite the press, there will be very little info about what they’re building here or elsewhere. The company is Fetch Robotics and they’re building low cost industrial robots for a bunch of different application in warehousing and manufacturing.
Seeing Both Sides
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'Conventional wisdom suggests that the most important metrics for a startup - such as unit economics, cost of acquisition, lifetime value, churn rates - typically get better with time. I hear this asserted frequently by entrepreneurs who confidently project their businesses with increasingly improving metrics as they scale into the future. The topic of scaling startups is one that I enjoy thinking, living and writing about (most recently, Scaling the Chasm ).
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'By Alan Glazer, Senior Product Manager at Hostway Services, Inc. In today’s enterprise environment, a disaster recovery plan isn’t just something nice to have – it’s more crucial than ever. A business continuity strategy must be formulated to ensure that when a disruptive event takes place – be it a service interruption, inclement weather or some other instance – the company can sustain its usual processes.
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'Forming a board. It''s what the best performing companies do once they take on outside investors. Board members can provide useful feedback, help to focus the founding team, and provide a network of contacts. . Unfortunately, many companies don''t get financing--because they don''t get any of the above. They don''t get the feedback they need, especially around priorities.
Mike Michalowicz
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'Show Summary. Dr. Sabrina Schleicher and her client, Julie Wurzer join Episode 14 of the Profit First Podcast. Sabrina and Julie discuss the importance of monitoring your expenses and hiring top level employees. Our Guests. Dr. Sabrina Schleicher (left) is President and Founder of Tap the Potential LLC, America’s Leading Rural Business Growers. Dr.
Occam's Razor
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'Half-way through this post, you'll seriously wonder why you've spent so much time obsessing with Adobe/Google Analytics/Chartbeat or other web analytics tool. When you are done reading the post, you'll be super mad that your marketing strategy is not more influenced by your competitor's data! Such is the power of being able to proactively identify which of your competitor's strategies are working well, where their current customers come from, and what specific tactics y
Mike Michalowicz
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
'Show Summary. Dr. Sabrina Schleicher and her client, Julie Wurzer join Episode 14 of the Profit First Podcast. Sabrina and Julie discuss the importance of monitoring your expenses and hiring top level employees. Our Guests. Dr. Sabrina Schleicher (left) is President and Founder of Tap the Potential LLC, America’s Leading Rural Business Growers. Dr.
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