Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 24, 2015
Entrepreneurs need to be effective team leaders, since no one can transform an idea into a product and a business without some help. Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. But fortunately, team building is a skill that can be learned and practiced, for those willing to put in some effort.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 24, 2015
by Richard Milam , the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated. The summer brings humidity, heat, vacations and the well-known fact that employee productivity decreases this time of year. Workers become distracted and sluggish when wanting to be out-of-the-office. A Captive Network study of 600 white collar North American workers says that workplace productivity drops 20 percent during the summer months, worker attendance decreases by 19 percent, projects take 13 percent more time to complet
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Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 24, 2015
5 Ways Writing A Book Will Supercharge Your Online Presence written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Let me tell you right off the bat, writing and publishing a book is a lot easier than you think. In September of 2014, when I became a Duct Tape Marketing Certified Consultant, I provided a list of ten reasons why joining the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant network is a no-brainer for digital agencies.
deal architect
JUNE 24, 2015
Like most, I have watched many a “One more thing” announcement by Steve Jobs. While it made many run out and line up for blocks when Apple introduced that shiny new thing, it inspired the author in me to write.
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
JUNE 24, 2015
by Robert B. Pamplin Jr., serial entrepreneur and author of 19 books. In a saturated and increasingly competitive market, the first steps toward a prosperous entrepreneurial career begin with a strong imagination, belief in yourself and your abilities, and refusal to quit in the face of adversity. To achieve entrepreneurial success, it is crucial that you believe in yourself and have confidence in your abilities.
The Next Web
JUNE 24, 2015
Launching your software in beta mode is an excellent way to get feedback on your product and make any necessary adjustments before bringing it to market. Your beta testers hold all of the valuable information you need when it comes to improving your product, so it’s worth it to take the time to ask them about any difficulties or pain points they experienced while testing it.
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This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 24, 2015
In the last two days, I've had three different conversations with people who were asking me what I do with the people who want to grab coffee when the mutual benefit isn't immediately mutual. Don't get me wrong--these are people who are all extremely generous with their time--and that's probably why more people reach out to them. You have a useful meeting with someone and then they tell someone else it was useful, and so on, and so on.
YFS Magazine
JUNE 24, 2015
Is it time to upgrade to a larger collaborative space or lease an office of your own? Here’s a look at three key questions to ask yourself before finalizing a decision.
The Equity Kicker
JUNE 24, 2015
The best writing is clear and concise. Easily said, but difficult to do – which is why it’s popular to say “If I had more time I’d have written a shorter letter” Practice helps, but only if you concentrate on writing high quality prose. David Ogilvy , founder of Ogilvy and Mather had this to say on the subject in an internal memo sent to all Ogilvy staff: Good writing is not a natural gift.
YFS Magazine
JUNE 24, 2015
It really does come down to how we think. We really can train our minds to think in more productive ways.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 24, 2015
I recently interviewed Matt Mazzeo of Lowercase Capital. By now most of you know that Chris Sacca invested in what is now thought to be one of the best performing VC funds of all time having invested an $8.4 million fund in: Uber, Instagram, Docker and Twitter, amongst others. He then went on to build perhaps the largest single shareholding in Twitter.
YFS Magazine
JUNE 24, 2015
Investors are much better at negotiations than you are; after all, they do it over and over again, and you do it rarely.
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 24, 2015
When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for oldpencil. Check out more great work on oldpencil ’s profile page. Nicely done, oldpencil, nicely done! Related posts: from the SPRING: airborne. Fresh from the SPRING: martinroy.
SiliconHills
JUNE 24, 2015
Milestone Technologies, a Fremont, Calif.-based IT services company, is opening a new office in Austin on July 1st. The office will serve Milestone’s growing customer base locally. “Austin is a great choice for us and our customers,” Prem Chand, CEO and Founder, said in a news release. The Austin office is Milestone Technologies’s fifth office. […] The post Milestone Technologies Opens Austin Office appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 24, 2015
Proveen Strategies for Local Lead Generation written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mark Z. Fortune and Kevin Jordan. Every local-based business wants to improve their local lead generation process. Leads are the life-blood of your marketing efforts. The best salespeople can convert those leads into sales, but without leads even the best sales force on the planet can’t bring you more business.
Early Growth Financial Services
JUNE 24, 2015
You’re ready to raise seed funding. You haven’t reached critical mass to attract VCs. Or maybe VC funding is an option, but you don’t want to part with a large chunk of your startup equity. Angel investors should absolutely be considered as a startup funding option. Before you approach them though, you should understand who they are, what they look for, and how to impress them.
Up and Running
JUNE 24, 2015
Is it time for Plan B? The monthly review meeting is absolutely essential to real business planning. The real value of business planning is the decisions it causes, and the management that results; and for that you need not just a plan but a regular monthly review to track results and revise as necessary. And the toughest part of the review meeting is this crucial question: Do we stick to the plan, or do we change it?
Early Growth Financial Services
JUNE 24, 2015
Originally published on PRWeb. National outsourced financial services firm EGFS announces addition of three new CFOs to West Coast operations. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 24, 2015 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an accounting and financial services firm that offers an extensive range of outsourced financial support to early-stage companies, announces the hirings of David Horning, Jerry Saenz, and Perry Panchmatia.
Brandanew
JUNE 24, 2015
Even in today’s times, many business – big or small, are way behind the mark when it comes to SEO, content marketing and blogging. They’re dabbling in all other digital marketing techniques , and blogs and social content is being largely ignored on account of these channels not being effective enough. Where does your blogging fear lie at?
K9 Ventures
JUNE 24, 2015
We have a problem. The first step to solving that problem is acknowledging it exists. And the second step to solving that problem is start using Auth0. Twenty years ago, most of us had maybe one password, and most often a single identity. Today, it’s almost impossible to manage without a password manager and we have multiple sources of identity and authentication.
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