YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2015

'by Stephen Fontenot, Marketing Communications Specialist at Hostway Services, Inc. It’s that time of year again: Businesses and individuals alike are gathering their financial information to complete their federal and state taxes. Companies assess their bottom line and squeeze as much value as they can out of each of their assets. Everyone loves a large refund check, and corporations use this money to invest back in their mission-critical initiatives.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 7, 2015

'I honestly don’t recall how Zach and I met but it was likely via a mutual NYC tech friend or his snappy Twitter stream. Either way, he’s cost me thousands of dollars alerting me to notebook and backpack/gearbag projects on Kickstarter that deserve support (he’s also into pens, but that I just don’t get). Codecademy has been focused on helping people worldwide learn to code.

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View from Seed

APRIL 7, 2015

'Recently, I’ve been mentally noting a few things that I observe VCs doing regularly that many entrepreneurs may not readily understand. Below are four that come to mind, but there are probably a dozen or so that are pretty interesting. (Leave a comment below if you can think of any more. Ironically, I was speaking at an event just last week where three of these came up in the conversation.).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2015

'Youth is no barrier to entrepreneurship, as the likes of Mark Zuckerberg – who founded Facebook at the tender age of 20 – has shown. We’ve seen how many have followed his footsteps ; and there have been many who have paving their own way to making their fortunes since. From those who have similarly founded their own startups such as Nick D’Aloisio of Summly and Mashable’s Pete Cashmore, or who first found fame on YouTube such as Michelle Phan, these young entrepren

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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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Rembrandt Communications

APRIL 7, 2015

'Combine content efforts for the best results! Do you write content only to share your thoughts and insights? Do you send out a press release just to announce news? Do you distribute e-mails, newsletters, and other messages solely to sell, sell, sell? Well, I’m sorry. The days of “solo” communications are over. Today, all of […]. The post Does Your SEO BtoB Content Strategy Work WITH your PR and Marketing?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2015

'Okay, so you have launched your own business, and it is now running successfully and bringing in a good amount of profit. Until now you may have run the business alone or with one or two team members helping you. But as your business starts to grow, it might be time to consider adding a couple more employees to the mix. You may be wondering why you can’t just outsource extra tasks, but some roles are better if done in-house.

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Up and Running

APRIL 7, 2015

'When you pitch a startup to angel investors, you want to get questions. If you don’t get questions then your pitch fell flat and nobody is interested. So plan on answering questions—and hope you have some to answer! See Also Master Your Pitch and Find Funding Success. Embrace interruptions. Most of the business plan competitions I judge ask the judges to listen quietly for 20 or 30 minutes before asking questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2015

'You may have heard, I''m writing a new book. And I''m doing it in an unorthodox way, by offering an MVP via Kickstarter. It''s called The Leader''s Guide , and this week is your last chance to get it (no, really). The Kickstarter campaign has been in full-gear for the last three weeks, and we''re heading into the last week. I’m grateful and excited for the support and the positive feedback so far.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2015

'I heard a rumor on a call the other day that some startup companies are starting to keep balance sheet cash in higher yield instruments such as corporate debt. This is apparently becoming trendy again as private companies do $25m+ rounds and end up with a bunch of cash on their balance sheets. This scares the s**t out of me. As a high growth startup, I think you should be focusing on maximum protection for your cash, even if the yield is 0%.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 7, 2015

'I remember reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance when I was in my year out between school and university. It’s amazing, yet also amazingly dense. I remember the philosophy as inspiring, but tough. It’s in my mind now because I just read a great post about the tyranny of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) which echoes a lot of thinking we have done at Forward Partners.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 7, 2015

'Next time someone calls you weird, revel in it. It’s the weirdos who are different. It’s the weirdos who challenge the norm. It is the weirdos who realize the foundation of success comes from the courage of being yourself unabashedly. The world celebrates the weirdos and often pays them handsomely in the process. Here’s to being weird.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

APRIL 7, 2015

Don’t miss the first (Australia) and second (Hong Kong) laptop lifestyle travel diary posts that came before this one! Hello Tokyo! Touching down in Tokyo Narita airport I was well prepared. This was my first trip to Tokyo, although not my first trip to Japan. I spent a long weekend. The post I Think I’m Turning Japanese appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 7, 2015

'Steve Case, chairman and CEO of Revolution and co-founder of AOL, plans to invest 100,000 in four female founded startups following a pitch competition last week. Sara Rodell with Loop and Tie, based in Austin, received a check. So did the founders of Mati Energy in Durham, NC, InRentive in Chicago, Il. and Seamless Planet […] The post Venture Capitalist Steve Case Invests $100,000 in Austin-based Loop and Tie appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Early Growth Financial Services

APRIL 7, 2015

'Monika Jansen of GrouponWorks contributed this guest post. Have you ever wished you knew which marketing efforts yield the biggest payoffs? That way you could better focus your limited resources on avenues most likely to deliver positive returns. Actually you can. A recent survey from Infusionsoft found the following marketing strategies to be the most effective: Word-of-mouth (62%) Email marketing (34%) Social media (23%) The least effective strategies were: Print ads (8%) Pay-per-click ads (8

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SiliconHills

APRIL 7, 2015

'The 7th Annual Emerging Medical Technology Symposium kicks off Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. The conference features a luncheon keynote address by Rick Hawkins, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lumos Pharma, based in Austin. He will talk about the sea change taking place in the pharmaceutical industry. Afternoon […] The post The 7th Annual Emerging Medical Technology Symposium in San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 7, 2015

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 7, 2015

'The worlds richest man, Bill Gates, did something important all those years ago when he lead the personal computing revolution. He didn’t let perfection get in the way of success. In fact, he became the worlds richest man by selling a product which in many ways was well, suboptimal. His software crashed so often it was just a normal part of the product usage experience.

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