Fri.Jun 12, 2015

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Grants May Be Free, But They Do Come at a Price

Startup Professionals Musings

Every investor in your startup, even friends and family, normally expects a share of your company (equity), which means your return for all your effort goes down quickly. Thus founders seeking funding for a good cause or a new technology often seize on grants from universities, government agencies and philanthropic organizations as free money to solve their problems.

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5 Inspiring Quotes About Marketing From Great Storytellers

Brandanew

As marketers , we pride ourselves on coming up with fresh ideas week after week for marketing our brand’s products and services – keeping the interest of the audience and relevance in mind all the time. But where do we go when in need for some inspiration? When we hit a dead end? To other creative works in our field, that’s where! So here are some of the go-to inspiring quotes about marketing that you could think of pinning up on your board for this week’s inspiration: 5 Inspiring Quotes A

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The Holy Grail Of Content Marketing – And When To Recommend It

YoungUpstarts

by Tanya Hall, CEO of Greenleaf Book Group. With much of the business world abuzz about content marketing, smart marketers are taking stock of opportunities for their clients to use the power of story to convey a message and build stronger brands. Conspicuously absent from most content strategies, however, is the granddaddy of all content marketing: writing a book.

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Mindfulness makes you better at work

The Equity Kicker

My friend Josh March recently said that meditation is “an essential part” of his “entrepreneurs toolkit”, a sentiment I’m hearing echoed by increasing numbers of entrepreneurs and startup execs. As you may have read here before I have been practicing mindfulness and meditation for two years now and found it hugely helpful in dealing with stress and improving my interactions with people, and at Forward Partners we have regular mindfulness sessions for all staff organ

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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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7 Networking Archetypes And Which One Are You?

YoungUpstarts

by Kara Ronin, international business etiquette expert and founder of Executive Impressions. Have you ever been guilty of going to a networking event and pretending to send important text messages to avoid talking to others? Maybe it’s because you’ve had the experience of being stuck in conversation with a rambler – somebody who just keeps talking and won’t let you break away.

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8 Failed Startups, 5 Lessons Learned

YFS Magazine

I used to think college was the path for success. Then something happened. I was catapulted back into reality. I began freelancing at my first startup.

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Raising Money From Investors? 5 Financing Mistakes to Avoid

YFS Magazine

Raising capital is a tough job, but when you’re prepared it can make all the difference in getting investors to sign on the dotted line.

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Episode 4: Signs You Need a Manager, Online Tools for Startups, and Our TV and Podcast Top Picks

Up and Running

Tune in weekly for a fun and informative discussion that will help you grow your business. Every week, we bring in business experts to discuss the latest trends in marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship. Skip the stuffy MBA classroom and get information and advice that will actually help you grow your business today—and have some fun while you’re doing it.

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4 Reasons Your Social Media Marketing Is Broken

YFS Magazine

Social media is a marathon, not a sprint. You will not attract an audience with a few haphazard tweets or random Facebook post.

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Profitable Pricing in Four Steps

Mike Michalowicz

A jewelry store at a busy cruise ship port had a store full of items, one of which wasn’t selling, despite its relatively modest price of $25. Frustrated and worried about getting the inventory moving, the store manager told her employee to drop the price to $18 and just close the thing out. The manager returned from a few days off and discovered that her employee had misunderstood her and raised the price to $80.

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Bootstrapper Alters Plans to Grow

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The Entrepreneurial Mind : Dan Stephenson – Dan’s Gourmet Mac And Cheese TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Bootstrapper Alters Plans to Grow appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Will Online Marketing Help You Save Money?

Duct Tape Marketing

Will Online Marketing Help You Save Money? written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: 123rf. Online marketing is a rapidly-evolving new world, and there are subject experts for most of its related topics — digital strategy, social media, search engine optimization and marketing, website design and development, e-commerce, content management systems, etc.

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Twitter Link Roundup #273 – Quintessential Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

Language evolves, and just like Darwin theorized, the strongest word thrive and survive and the weakest… Well the weakest just get relegated to the Oxford English Dictionary, buried somewhere around page 2,315. Our pals over at boredpanda took the time to list out a whole bunch of new words that are quickly rising to the top of the food chain.

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Prepare for Liftoff: Day 5 of the Big Brand Challenge

Up and Running

Welcome to Day 5 of the Big Brand Challenge—the last day! On Day 1 and 2 of the challenge, you laid the foundation for your brand. On Day 1 we defined who we are, on Day 2 we defined what we looked like, on Day 3 we created (or updated) your logo, and on Day 4 we outlined those essential marketing materials you needed to create. Now it’s time to prepare your brand for liftoff!