Wed.Feb 25, 2015

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Optimizing Your Website For Better Business: Four Tips To Getting It Right

YoungUpstarts

'By Patrick Llewellyn, CEO of 99designs. You never get a second chance to make a first impression. While most entrepreneurs today recognize the critical role having a website plays in attracting customers, many neglect to optimize it to ensure its performing at its best. Consumers have grown increasingly impatient when it comes to using the Internet, so it is important to catch their attention early with content that will keep them engaged.

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How Smart Entrepreneurs Make Innovation Look Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

'Why do a few entrepreneurs, like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, seem to come up with all the real innovations, while the majority of business leaders seem stuck in the rut of linear thinking? I have always wondered if innovation required some rare gene mutation, or whether I might be missing a simple formula for unlocking the ability in any intelligent business person to innovate.

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Enterprise Software Churn: Microsoft momentum

deal architect

'This continues a series about customer moves to reshape their enterprise software landscapes. When I was researching SAP Nation, I was impressed with how many customers are swapping out software, moving to third party maintenance, “ring fencing” the core solution.

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4 Reasons Why Starting Your Own Business May Be The Best Option For Foreign Students In The US

YoungUpstarts

'by Serhat Pala, President and founder of RhinoForce. The United States is the Land of Opportunity for many. This includes the almost 820,000 foreign students who were enrolled in US universities in 2013. They all came for their own reasons, but the one thing the vast majority of them have in common is they probably want to stay here past graduation and build their lives here.

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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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Founders on a Mission

K9 Ventures

'I’ve often repeated that the definition of entrepreneurship is “ Insane perseverance in the face of complete resistance ” (something I learned from my professor and mentor the late Jack Thorne). Put differently, there are some founders for whom failure simply isn’t an option. They’re on a mission and they’re not going to let anything stand in their way.

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How Small Businesses Can Grow Faster Using Business Dashboards

YoungUpstarts

'by Sreeram Sreenivasan, founder of Ubiq. As business owners, we need to regularly keep an eye on all the important activities and processes in our business; figure out which areas are doing and scale them, find out which areas are not doing well and fix them. But, how to regularly monitor the various areas of your business? How to identify growth opportunities & risks so that you can respond quickly?

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How to Manage Labor Costs for Your New Restaurant

Up and Running

'Quality of service is important—but make sure you’re not overstaffed. Whether you’re about to open a restaurant or have been running your place for a few months already, there’s no doubt that the process will be expensive. Alongside food and beverages, labor is one of the most costly factors in the equation, but cutting wages isn’t the answer.

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A Complete List of Things That Always Boost Conversions

ConversionXL

'… That concludes the list. The post A Complete List of Things That Always Boost Conversions appeared first on ConversionXL.

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A better professional network

David Cohen

'Techstars is an amazing network of over 3,000 entrepreneurs, mentors and investors. Being part of the network is a lifelong benefit for the companies we fund. One of the most important (but often undervalued) assets a startup needs to create is a strong and supportive network around itself. For me personally, making connections among people that can help each other is a big part of what I do.

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HackerRank Event Explores Latest STEM Recruiting Strategies

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News About 30 recruiters gathered on the 17th floor of the Hyatt Tuesday evening for the HackerRank second annual Re-engineer event focusing on improving tech recruiting outcomes. HackerRank representatives talked about their platform that replaces job fairs with hackathons and code sprints. And Whole Foods’ Global Talent Recruiter […] The post HackerRank Event Explores Latest STEM Recruiting Strategies appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Storytelling Can Kill Your Message

Mike Michalowicz

'We tell stories because they paint pictures in people’s minds. When we get an audience – whether it’s one person or 2500 – thinking creatively and engaged in our story, then they’re active participants in our performance. Stories make our messages more memorable and persuasive, and they’re an essential element of public speaking. We all know that there are times when stories fall flat, fail to convey a point, or even obscure a message.

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Uber, SpaceX, Cloudera: Simplicity, Power, Promise

Growthink Blog

'Yesterday, TechCrunch posted a neat slideshow on the nine largest venture capital and private equity financing rounds of the past 24 months. It is an extremely cool piece - profiling seven (two companies on the list had multiple rounds) of the highest flying technology companies in the world. And the emphasis is clearly on the World - as four of the seven companies profiled ( Didi Dache , Flipkart , Meituan , and Xiaomi ) have businesses focused outside of the United States.

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Fresh from the SPRING: uniquemind

crowdSPRING Blog

'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 uniquemind. Check out more great work on uniquemind’s profile page. Nicely done, uniquemind, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: 5IVE_STAR_CREATIVE.

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I Stared at Startup Pitch Decks for 3 Straight Weeks – Here’s What I Learned

View from Seed

'A few weeks ago, we launched two startup pitch deck templates for raising seed capital — part of NextView’s platform of exclusive startup resources. And while the NextView partners served as the editors and directors of the project to ensure its usefulness to founders, I wanted to share a few of the more surprising or alarming lessons and trends I witnessed after spending weeks of my life staring at actual pitch decks from dozens of startups to inform our templates.

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What Does the New Sales Leader Look Like?

Duct Tape Marketing

'What Does the New Sales Leader Look Like? written by Alex Boyer read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mark Roberge. The current sales leader for inbound marketing giant Hubspot was a self-proclaimed geek at MIT with no sales experience who found that by using data he could grow the organization.

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Pre-startup Advice

Diego Basch

'It occurred to me that trying to give startup advice to a founder is somewhat like coaching a marathon runner during the race: it’s not completely useless, but you’d want to start months or years earlier. Of course, as an investor you don’t have that luxury; you typically meet founders at mile 2 or 3 (e.g. YC, AngelList, demo days).

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Midnight in the Valley of Good and Evil

Bryce Dot VC

'There’s a story in the Bible about a deeply righteous man. So righteous, in fact, that he was described by God as a perfect man so upright in his dealings and eschewing of evil that there was not another to be found like him on the earth. He was good, and that goodness was rewarded with tremendous riches and a happy, vibrant family life. Then, one day, that all started to crumble.

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Cybersecurity: What Every Small Business Owner Needs To Know

YoungUpstarts

'by Matthew Edenhofer, Director of Information Technology, Balboa Capital. Over the past year, there have been many high-profile security breaches involving some of the largest retailers, technology companies, health insurance companies and entertainment companies in the U.S. If cybercriminals can break into large corporations’ websites, there is no telling what damage they can do to small businesses.

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Some Final Thoughts on the FCC and Title II Ahead of Tomorrow’s Vote on Net Neutrality

Feld Thoughts

'Tomorrow, the FCC is expected to vote on a proposal for new rules around Net Neutrality. The vote is likely to be 3-2 in favor of the rules, split along partisan lines (3 democrats, 2 republicans – shocker…). There has been an enormous amount of bombastic rhetoric in the past few months about the issue that has recently become especially politicized in the same way the debate about SOPA/PIPA unfolded.

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