Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2013

'This article is part three of a five-part series on online lead generation. The information used in this series is the result of many conversations with a mentor of mine, Andrew Pawlak, who is an industry authority and CEO of leadPops, a cutting-edge landing page solution. Click here for part two. Building trust among visitors to your landing page is just one of the solutions to overcome the “going for the jugular” flaw that was previously discussed.

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deal architect

AUGUST 30, 2013

'InformationWeek has a sobering assessment of the state of mobile security - over 25% of those surveyed say at least 10% of the mobile devices at their entities have had a "security incident". But what''s scarier later in the article.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2013

'Everyone recognizes a great entrepreneur when they work with one, but most entrepreneurs don’t know what to look for in themselves that will drive that perception by others. In my experience, there is no magic gene involved, just simple good habits executed consistently and convincingly until everyone around you in a startup wants to follow your example.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

AUGUST 30, 2013

'In our last post we noted that at least half of all Bitcoin transactions in June 2013 were for online gambling on the gambling site Satoshi Dice. We were interested to see what has happened since Satoshi Dice was acquired in early July. Thanks to some useful blockchain data analysis that The Genesis Block shared with us, we now have an answer. The Bitcoin blockchain is essentially a public ledger of all prior Bitcoin transactions.

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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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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 30, 2013

'A few weeks ago I did an event with Built In Denver where I interviewed Tim Miller and Ryan Martens, the founders of Rally Software , on their journey from a startup to a public company (NYSE: RALY ). As part of the event – held at Mateo in Boulder – the gang from Built In Denver announced they were rebranding as Built In Colorado. The attendance at the event was roughly 50% Boulder entrepreneurs and 50% Denver entrepreneurs.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 30, 2013

'Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly, a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60 million in funding. This is the second part of a four-part series that will provide insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 30, 2013

'E.J. Lawless, who formerly worked as senior director of online marketing at indeed.com, has launched a vertical search engine called FurnitureNear.Me focused on helping consumers find furniture near their houses to save people time from going to store to store and searching on multiple Internet sites. The site is currently available for consumers to search […] The post FurnitureNear.Me Seeks to Make Furniture Shopping Easier appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

'from left: David Cummings, Ryan Tuttle, yours truly. Chapter one was Spunlogic , which we sold to Engauge in March 2008. Chapter two was Engauge, which we sold to Publicis in August 2013. And in the immortal words of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and now for something completely different … For those that know me, you know I’ve long been enamored with mobile technology and apps, particularly as they relate to consumers.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 30, 2013

'The Austin Technology Incubator’s summer-long Student Entrepreneur Acceleration & Launch, known as ATI SEAL, culminates next Thursday with a Decision Day event. The event, on Sept. 5th, kicks off at 6:30 p.m. and runs until 8:30 p.m. at the Blanton Museum at 200 E. MLK Blvd. It features nine student-run companies showcasing their startups.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2013

'Why Landing Pages Are a Must written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing September 19th I’m hosting a free webinar titled - “How to Quickly Grow Your Email List, Dramatically Increase Your Conversions and Skyrocket your Sales and Profits.” with LeadPages founder Clay Collins (Sign up at the bottom of this post.). photo credit: AHMED… via photopin cc.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

'This morning as I was reading the AJC ( you do know I still read the paper right? ) I was so happy to see a guest column by Moxie Engauge’s very own Ashley Twist entitled, “ Where are your mobile manners? “ You can read the article here but sadly you’ll need a subscription to read the entire thing ;(. In the article she introduces “in-hand behavior”, described as email, texting, social networks, etc., which interrupts one conversation to start a new one with

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Early Growth Financial Services

AUGUST 30, 2013

'Outsourced financial services firm adds valuation to suite of services to provide early-stage companies with a comprehensive integrated-service approach to finance. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 29, 2013 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), a Silicon Valley-based accounting and finance support firm with 175+ active venture-backed companies, is now offering valuation services.

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SVPG

AUGUST 30, 2013

'Our job in the product organization is to create products that can sustain a business. Make no mistake about it: everything depends on strong products. Without these strong products, our marketing programs require customer acquisition costs that are too high; our sales organization is forced to get creative which drives up cost of sales, lengthens the sales cycle, and puts downward pressure on price; and our customer service organization is forced to take it on the chin every day with frustrate

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 30, 2013

'There are songs about it (think One by U2), there are stores named after it (think Pier 1) and every sports team on the planet says they are number one after an exciting victory. It’s good to be number one. Now think about “two”. There are few songs about number two, fewer stores and I don’t believe any team marches around proudly cheering “We are number two.”.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2013

'by Eva McKnight, Formstack Santiago Jaramillo is the CEO of Bluebridge Digital , an Indianapolis startup that specializes in app development and maintenance for clients who may currently be underrepresented in the mobile market. The Bluebridge Network currently houses VisitApps and CollegeApps , bringing mobile exposure to the tourism and higher education industries.

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