Mon.Feb 13, 2017

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5 Essential Guidelines To Selecting The Right CRM For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Rohit Thakral, CEO of Target Integration. Customer relation management is one of the most important aspects of any business. The essence of any business establishment is the set of customers and clients. Now, when it comes to a start-up, this aspect becomes all the more important. The people, who bring you the revenue by using your products or services, need to be kept content and appeased.

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5 Success Practices of Ultra-Effective Business Teams

Startup Professionals Musings

It takes an effective team to attract and serve a community in business these days. With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. Thus team makeup is the critical success factor.

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3 tech founders on scaling multi-million dollar businesses

The Next Web

Creating a startup may be one of the most difficult things you ever attempt, but scaling the venture to a mass market is even harder. As your brand grows, unless you’re fully prepared to scale it properly, everything will become chaotic. Often leading everything to fall into disarray and eventually crumble. With over 90 percent of startups never reaching their fifth birthday, it’s no secret starting a business is just the beginning of the race.

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Top Startup Mistake: Unrealistic Forecasts

Up and Running

True story: I sat down for lunch with a friend, a Sand Hill Drive venture capitalist. When I asked the standard “How are you,” he answered: “If I see another hockey stick forecast this week, I’m going to throw something at somebody.”. That was so long ago that I had to ask him to explain the hockey stick metaphor. He answered: “That means that sales are going along flat and boring, with nothing happening—but things are going to shoot up as soon as I get your money.” See A

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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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Registering A Domain Name For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Even if you don’t plan to use a website for business, it’s wise to register a domain name. The basic purpose of the business domain name is to allow visitors such as customers, vendors, and others, to identify your site on the World Wide Web. To check available domain names , follow the steps below. Your domain name is different from its IP address.

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Do You Love Your SEO Content Marketing Results?

Rembrandt Communications

Make your business heart race with a new, SEO content marketing strategy. It’s time for Valentine’s Day and that means love is in the air… unless your SEO content marketing strategy is not giving you the results you want! When copywriting works, it can skyrocket sales, online awareness, a positive reputation, and more. So if […]. The post Do You Love Your SEO Content Marketing Results?

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5 Online Business Ideas For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

Here is a look at 5 compelling, easy-to-start online business ideas that often have a short learning curve and require very little capital. This article 5 Online Business Ideas For Aspiring Entrepreneurs appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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Three Huge Market Opportunities For Startups Interested In Fintech

YoungUpstarts

The global startup scene has witnessed rapid growth in the last couple of years as many people start to find the entrepreneurial drive to set out on their own. The success stories of startups that grew from humble beginnings into billion-dollar brands are also fuelling interest and hope for entrepreneurs. However, a cursory glance at the startup scene will suggest that there’s practically hundreds of startups in every area of human endeavor.

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8 Life Hacks For Better Productivity

YFS Magazine

We’re all looking for ways to increase productivity and reduce stress. Here's a look at 8 life hacks that will do the trick. This article 8 Life Hacks For Better Productivity appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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Alexa, Techstars, and Cooper

Feld Thoughts

Recently, Amazon’s Alexa team and Techstars launched The Alexa Accelerator , powered by Techstars , Last week, a bunch of fun skills have been integrated into Alexa. I thought I’d give some a try. Cooper, my intrepid two year old super alpha golden retriever shows up around a minute into the video when I do my favorite Alexa skill, the Woof Woof.

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Who is the Best Wrong Person for the Job?

This is going to be BIG.

I asked a founder the other day the following question: Can you describe a candidate that would be a fantastic hire somewhere else that would never thrive in your organization? If you can't answer that, it's going to be really difficult to find the people that *will* thrive in your company. Not every candidate is a great hire for every company. Obviously, you want to hire above a certain level of competency and work ethic--but if you're going to find people who really thrive, you need to underst

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Katie Rae and the Engine at MIT

David Cohen

Everyone who knows Katie Rae at Techstars is thrilled that she’s taken a lead role with The Engine at MIT, a new venture fund and incubator space there. Katie was the Managing Director at Techstars for our Boston program from 2010 to 2014. She epitomizes “give first” and cares deeply about the founders she works with as well as developing the Boston ecosystem.

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Austin-based My Fit Foods Closes all of its Stores

SiliconHills

Austin-based My Fit Foods posted a notice on its website announcing the closure of all of its stores effective immediately. The company, founded in 2006, has stores in Austin and San Antonio. The company expanded to a total of 80 locations in five states nationwide. It specialized in creating healthy prepared meals for customers. “Since […] The post Austin-based My Fit Foods Closes all of its Stores appeared first on SiliconHills.

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No more second guessing yourself

Spencer Fry

Over the past two years, I've second guessed my decisions more than any other time in my life. I have a few theories about why. The first theory is related to Coach ’s funding--it’s the first startup I've raised money for, and as a result, I feel a lot pressure to deliver to my investors and team. That added pressure makes me feel as if I need to get every decision right and that I can't make a mistake because there's more on the line than my previous bootstrapped businesses.

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Monday Motivation: The Law of Attraction [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

Share. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot.

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a16z Podcast: Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services

Ben's Blog

The modern enterprise holds all sorts of applications, devices, and workflow needs.

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The Emoji Economy: Why Little Stickers Have Become A Multi-Billion Dollar Business

YoungUpstarts

by Dana Loberg, co-founder and CEO of MojiLaLa. With the 2017 business year in full swing, entrepreneurs are back at their desks and thinking deeply about how to set themselves up for a successful new year. For beginning entrepreneurs, the burning question is, “What new business trends should I adopt if I want to increase revenues this year?”. But what about creative types — those who have a passion or talent that hardly brings in enough money to pay the bills?

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