Wed.Feb 26, 2014

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Startya Helps You Build Your Idea For A 30% Stake In Your Company

YoungUpstarts

'Perhaps you’re an aspiring technology entrepreneur with a great idea of a product you believe would take off, but due to the lack of technical knowledge or funds have no way to turn your business idea into reality. You could try the hard route and raise funds to put together a team. With funds you could maybe even consider outsourcing the development.

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Finding The High Converting PPC Keywords That Are Right Under Your Nose

ConversionXL

'Note from the editor: We talk a lot about conversion rate optimization, and how it’s about showing the right people, the right thing, at the right time in order to get more out of your website. For many ConversionXL readers, PPC advertising is a big part of your business & in many ways it is just as critical to the conversion process as what’s happening on the page.

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Why You Should Not Ignore The Science Of Marketing

crowdSPRING Blog

'Supermarkets share a common layout. Many competitive products (toothpaste, for example), have similar packaging. Do supermarket and toothpaste companies lack imagination? It’s possible, but a different explanation is more likely. Smart businesses apply science to marketing. Relying on psychological research, these businesses adapt marketing strategies to maximize revenues and profits.

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A Sneak Peak at Some LA Startup Energy

Both Sides of the Table

'Mark. You disappeared? What the fork happened to you? And what’s up with this crazy new blog design? Well … more on that next week. I will tell more. But for now … Every year we run a big VC, LP & Tech Summit in Los Angeles (this year downtown) to showcase the best of our community and invite others from around the country. Our event this year will feature many portfolio companies and also emerging LA tech companies such as Tinder & Whisper.

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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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Precisely Wrong

deal architect

'One of the most closely watched metrics at the annual NFL Scouting Combine this time of the year is each athlete’s 40 yard dash timing. At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference last year a panel decomposed that metric. How.

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[Infographic] Virtual Teams In The Global Economy

YoungUpstarts

'Workplaces are turning virtual – work no longer need to be confined to a desk in the office when the devices at home or the ones in your hand can easily be used to do what needs to be done and get projects delivered on time. In fact, many global companies are embracing virtual teams – where employees scattered across the world but put into teams to complete a project – and the technologies required to make that happen.

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Home Workers Are Happy Workers: How Your Business Can Benefit From This Growing Trend

YoungUpstarts

'by Tim Brown. There are many aspects of modern life that have changed significantly over the last couple of decades in particular, and the way we do business has certainly changed with the growth of areas such as eCommerce shaping the way many of us now work. One aspect of modern business methods that is seemingly constantly up for debate is whether home workers are as productive as their office-based colleagues and whether this growing trend can help your business to prosper with this flexible

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How to build feedback into the culture of your startup

The Next Web

'Jason Freedman is the co-founder of 42Floors , making it easy for everyone to rent office space. He’s a two-time Y Combinator alum and blogs regularly on humbledMBA. This post was originally published on the 42floors blog. I remember showing school essays to my dad growing up. He’s a really good writer and so getting his feedback before I turned a paper in usually helped me make some improvements.

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What Google looks for when hiring – hint: not good grades

The Equity Kicker

'I’ve just read about an interview with Laszlo Bock, head of hiring for Google. Here’s what they look for in candidates: Cognitive ability – the ability to learn, to process on the fly, and to pull together disparate information. Emergent leadership – the ability to step up and lead when necessary and to step back when it’s best for others to lead.

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Why we should ditch the ‘affiliate’ in affiliate marketing

The Next Web

'Jochem Vroom is the co-founder and managing director of Imbull. He is currently working on the global couponing site Flipit , and has seven years of experience within the affiliate sector as a manager, blogger and speaker. One of the biggest problems plaguing affiliate marketing today is that the industry attracts two very different types of clientele.

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What are the biggest global events for Venture Capitalists and Business Angels where they can learn about their own business?

Gust

'There are surprisingly few such conferences, for the very good reason that there are actually relatively few such people (venture capitalists and ‘professional’ angel investors) to attend them! But that said, here are the biggest (i.e., “only” events of their type): Business Angels. Angel Capital Association (US) Annual Summit.

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How we can fix online video advertising’s weakest links

The Next Web

'Yuval Brener is CEO of Carambo.la , an interactive video enrichment platform. No matter how you look at it – bandwidth consumption, number of viewers per hour, virality – online video has taken over the Web. ComScore states that 89 million people in the United States are going to watch 1.2 billion online videos before the day ends ! Over six billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube alone.

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Common traits of Successful Startup Entrepreneurs.

Scalable Startup

'Here are a few traits to try to emulate if you want to be a successful startup guru. Success may be financial, fulfillment of a life goal or even altruistic. Success will begin to create itself if your heart is in the right place… Take a look at the 9 things below and send me feedback on your thoughts. 1… Genuineness, honesty. 2… Humble openness to feedback.

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AT&T Plans to Open Innovation Center in Austin

SiliconHills

'AT&T announced plans Wednesday to open a new center for technology innovation and collaboration in Austin. The Dallas-based company did not provide details on how many people the center will employ or its cost. It did report its making a multi-million dollar investment. Currently, AT&T employs about 2,600 people in the Austin area. In addition, […] The post AT&T Plans to Open Innovation Center in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The New Way To Collect Email Addresses

Mike Michalowicz

'What’s one thing all entrepreneurs need? Clients. Sometimes I feel like I spend half of my time working to make connections, land clients, and strengthen relationships with existing customers. I suspect I’m not alone. The client side of our businesses is both the most important and the most time consuming, which means that mastering it represents a huge efficiency; And huge efficiency means a very profitable business (cue salivating).

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Blind Faith Does Not Apply To Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

'One of the challenges of trying to do something you have never done before is dealing with a lack of results. While I am not religious, this is the one area of life where I think faith becomes critically important. If you don’t believe you can achieve something then how are you going to continue striving for it? Faith … Read the rest of this entry » The post Blind Faith Does Not Apply To Business appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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What the Scrambling Quarterback Says About Business Planning

Up and Running

'I was delighted to catch Sometimes You Have to Scramble in my blog feed yesterday. That post on smallbizclub.com was written by Pro football hall-of-gamer Fran Tarkenton, who was famous for scrambling as quarterback of the pro football Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants, back in the 1970s. Who better to point out two essential truths about real-world use of business plans?

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How Much Transparency Is Too Much?

Duct Tape Marketing

'How Much Transparency Is Too Much? written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Marketing podcast with Pat Flynn. Transparency is a business concept that’s been tossed around liberally these last few years. To some extent social media has forced organizations to be more transparent, because they no longer had the luxury of hiding behind press releases and company spokespersons.

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SXSW 2014 Launch: EvoSure

Austin Startup

'We allow players in the commercial insurance industry to deliver better results by making the right connections.

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Super bald

Jeff Hilimire

'Yesterday in Seattle I shaved my head in support of my best friend. So don’t freak out the next time you see me – I’m super bald.

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Words of Wisdom from Ben Horowitz

Scott Edward Walker

'To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week (or two), we share a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present Ben Horowitz , co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz and a former entrepreneur. In this interesting interview by Mark Suster a few weeks ago (courtesy of the Startup Grind ), Ben shares some solid nuggets for entrepreneurs, including the

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Sharing Links

Scalable Startup

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How I Set My Pitch Apart and Won a Pitch Competition

Up and Running

'The first good thing that happened to my startup was a small victory at a local pitch competition. It was good for a lot of reasons. Most obviously, we won $1,000 in prize money that we put towards our minimum viable product (or MVP). But even if we hadn’t won, the competition itself forced us to move from the business planning stage to the real world, and in the process we learned what makes for a compelling pitch.