Tue.Feb 03, 2015

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Must-Haves For Your Online Store In 2015

YoungUpstarts

'by Rostyslav Demush, marketing manager at Cart2Cart. Since the first successful launch of online stores, the e-commerce world has developed to unprecedented heights. These days it is far easier to build up a top-ranked and profitable shop with little effort; it is now possible to add a dozen features or implement attractive templates without a problem at all due to the wide range of technology platforms available out there.

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How To Start An Etsy Shop

Up and Running

'If you’re someone who is both creative and entrepreneurial, you might be considering Etsy as a way to monetize a craft that you truly love doing. If so, you’ve come to the right place. Etsy is a popular eCommerce platform for everything handmade, from custom jewelry to baby clothes. It’s a robust online market place, with more than a million active sellers and over a billion dollars in sales in 2014.

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Leadership Crisis: Fact Or Fiction?

YoungUpstarts

'By Russell Harley, veteran project manager and Director at PMO. The short answer it is a fiction. Even though there are a number of articles that differ from this point of view – including these at Forbes and the World Economic Forum. If you want to know the details as to why this crisis should be considered fictional in this author’s opinion, then please keep reading.

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Free Templates for Great Startup Pitch Decks, Direct from VCs

View from Seed

'Today, NextView Ventures is excited to release a pillar project in our Growth Guides series: pitch deck templates for raising seed capital. These help address a common question which we frequently receive from entrepreneurs about how to create startup pitch decks for this crucial financial milestone. For context, last year, based on questions from our existing portfolio, we launched two board deck templates for seed-stage startups.

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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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S4HANAfrom the SAP Nation Lens

deal architect

'I listened to the SAP S4Hana webcast today from the NYSE. I expected a marketing event , and it mostly was with a focus on “most significant product announcement in 23 years”, demo of prettier UX, talk new acquisitions, speed.

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When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

Steve Blank

'I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Every once in awhile a team ignores my advice and builds a company worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. —– Jon Sebastiani and his team came into the 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class with several key observations: Snack foods were a large ~$35 billion bu

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How To Meet Your 2015 Goals

YoungUpstarts

'By Kris Duggan, CEO of BetterWorks. It’s already February, and if you’re like most Americans it’s highly likely you’ve thrown your New Year’s resolution out the window. According to 2014 research published by the University of Scranton’s Journal of Clinical Psychology, a mere 8% of ambitious goal setters end up sticking to their resolutions. While this statistic isn’t particularly shocking, I’d argue that we could see this percentage increase ten fold if we simply make changes to the way we’re

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How to skillfully architect a successful blog strategy

The Next Web

'Firas Kittaneh is the CEO of One Mall Group. Most entrepreneurs commit to starting a blog then sporadically produce content about their respective industry or niche. Months later, their aimless content campaigns are quickly abandoned in favor of a new, trendy marketing tactic. To avoid throwing money into a bottomless pit (and receiving nothing in return), here is how you may launch, grow and monetize your business’ blog.

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Turning Conflict Into Creativity – Consciously Choosing To Create Flow

YoungUpstarts

'by Hayden D. M. Hayden, author of “ Conscious Choosing for Flow: Transforming Conflict Into Creativity “ How do you deal with conflict? Is there a way to become a person of action who transforms conflict and has a positive impact on people’s lives and their business results? In every conflict, big or small, behind every action, and every word spoken, there are critical needs screaming to be acknowledged and satisfied.

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Why we are investing in Guardant Health

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'Today we are excited to announce that Lightspeed Venture Partners is leading Guardant Health ’s $50M Series C. For the last few years, we have been closely following advancements in genomics that have brought down the cost of sequencing the human genome to less than $1000. We believe that in the next 5-10 years, we will enter a world where it is commonplace to sequence your genome to diagnose all sorts of medical conditions from prenatal testing to infectious disease to cancer.

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Compareraja.com – Getting The Best Motorola Mobile Deals

YoungUpstarts

'Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives these days. Traditional buying methods have given way to smarter online buying. Buying mobile phones from online stores has become a fad these days and people from all walks of life are seen buying them from online stores. Today, a smartphone is the most popular gadget on your palm. Even school goers have smartphones these days.

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12 Products and How Their Prices Have Changed Over the Last 100 Years

Up and Running

'This look back through history proves that the price of products is never set in stone. From electronics to food and appliances, very few products have remained in the same price range when compared to their original counterparts. Each of the following images is broken down into three elements: “What it Was:” – This was the original price of the product when it was first released. “In Today’s Dollars:” – Using the Consumer Price Index inflation calculator, yo

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Compareraja – Getting The Best Motorola Mobile Deals

YoungUpstarts

'Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives these days. Traditional buying methods have given way to smarter online buying. Buying mobile phones from online stores has become a fad these days and people from all walks of life are seen buying them from online stores. Today, a smartphone is the most popular gadget on your palm. Even school goers have smartphones these days.

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Beyond SKUs: Dipping Our Toe Into Hardware Investments

Hunter Walker

'Often the best way to learn is just to do it and same holds true in venture. When Homebrew launched two years ago, Satya and I knew that smart hardware was going to be important to our Bottom Up Economy thesis but also that neither of us yet had meaningful experience working alongside the best hardware entrepreneurs at the seed stage where we invest.

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How Long Will Today’s Fad Be Popular?

Mike Michalowicz

'The pet rock lasted about 6 months, albeit over 1.5 million pet rock sold. The Chuck Taylor All Star sneaker from Converse has been a fad since the 1930’s and continues to steamroll in sales 80 plus years later. The typewriter had a good run since the 1860’s, but I doubt you care to own one any more (unless you are a collector… and that does not count as a fad).

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Civitas Learning Lands $16 Million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

'Civitas Learning, a three year old education technology startup, announced Tuesday it has secured $16 million in funding. Rethink Education led the investment with additional funding from existing investors Austin Ventures and Emergence Capital. To date, the company has raised $32 million in four rounds from seven investors, according to its Crunchbase profile.

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Homebrew Investment: eero Home WiFi

Hunter Walker

'It’s fun investing in things that people want. And with today’s launch of eero , the best solution for home WiFi, it seems the founders aren’t alone in wanting better home connectivity. As we write on the Homebrew blog: Increasingly the modern household has numerous devices which rely on strong, consistent internet connectivity. First it was work productivity and entertainment – laptops, streaming music and video – but increasingly it’s our thermostats, kitchen app

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Startup Financing: Overview of Preferred Stock

Early Growth Financial Services

'This post by Ian Engstrand first appeared on Founders Workbench. From time to time on Founders Workbench we give a brief primer on common terms and issues in venture financings. Today, we’re tackling participating versus non-participating preferred stock, a fundamental economic term in VC deals that goes to the heart of the business agreement between investors and management in connection with a sale of the company.

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4 questions answered by successful entrepreneurs: Part 2

Jeff Hilimire

'One of the participants in Advice For Good , after donating an hour of time to a charity and then blogging about it on the AFG website, asked me if she could ask the list of advisors four questions to help her with her startup. What a great way to use the AFG community! Because each question has many answers, I’ll share these over time so its not too overwhelming of a blog post.

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A short guide (and resources) for introverted founders

The Startup Toolkit

'In my first company, I tried to act extroverted, because I thought that’s what good leaders did. It was exhausting and counter-productive. I’ve found a more comfortable way of working and wanted to share a few thoughts and resources that have been helpful to me. SALES. The back-thumping, rapport-building, steak-and-strippers salesman is just one of several styles, and it’s not even the most effective.

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The Top 5 Reasons You Suck at Making Rational Decisions

ConversionXL

'In many ways conversion rate optimization is really decision optimization. If you are doing it right, you will constantly discover that what you thought mattered – actually doesn’t. . Optimization work and testing challenges everything you think you know about marketing and your users. This can lead to some introspection about why you think you know things and what lead you to hold those erroneous beliefs in the first place.

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One Weird Trick to Build a Personal Brand

Both Sides of the Table

'My long-time friend Jason Lemkin is on the verge of launching a spectacular SaaS conference called SaaStr this week. What Jason has achieved in no time flat in VC is astounding. Without inventing the browser he has single-handedly created a personal VC brand on a shoestring. And as I’ve written about before – building a personal brand is extremely important in today’s competitive job market.

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