Up and Running
MAY 22, 2014
'Most people understand the basics of consumer debt: if you rack up more expenses on your credit card than you can pay back, you’re in big trouble. But, for some reason, when it comes to small business debt, the picture isn’t quite so clear. Not all businesses are at a point where borrowing money is the best course of action for them. So, what types of businesses should think about taking out a loan?
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 22, 2014
'In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice.
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Rembrandt Communications
MAY 22, 2014
'Are you Guilty of These 3 Website Sins? You’ve spent hours creating your website, marketing your products and services and writing content. That means you website traffic should grow, and the sales should be coming in… but they’re not. Why not? Well, you may be guilty of these… 3 Website Sins That Turn Customers Away […].
YoungUpstarts
MAY 22, 2014
'Forget about Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, there are some far lesser known geeks who are quietly working behind the scenes but holding on to the reigns of the tech world. Consider Paul Graham (pictured right), the man who is known for helming startup incubator Y Combinator - whose startups have a combined value of $13.7 billion in 2013 - but who also helped popularize Lisp programming with his books “ On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp ” and “ ANSI Commo
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
Agile VC
MAY 22, 2014
'My first two posts on this mammoth S-1 covered a high-level sizing of Alibaba and a deeper dive into some of Alibaba Group’s governance which in some ways mirrors the Politburo structure. Today I’m going to analyze monetization across Alibaba’s various businesses. How exactly is each marketplace and complementary service monetized?
YoungUpstarts
MAY 22, 2014
'By Teddy Hunt. Social media marketing is a hip and brilliant way to drive traffic to your business. But are you doing it right? Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ are fantastic networks that, when used correctly, can give you exciting marketing opportunities that lead to conversions. If you’re using these platforms, make sure you’re not making any of these ghastly mistakes.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 22, 2014
'When you look at how many big corporations around the world trumpet the successes of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, you’d think that they’re truly magnanimous in helping the communities in which they operate. It’s somewhat true – some companies dig rather deep into their bottomline to help make the world a better place.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 22, 2014
'I could spend a lot of time writing a long diatribe about what it means to create a brand, or I could just show you three videos that Tinybop , a company I seeded in 2012, made as part of the marketing for their new app, Plants. Consider the bar raised. As a biased investor, I not-so-humbly submit that this is the most creative thing any startup in New York City has ever produced as part of a launch: Plants by Tinybop from Tinybop on Vimeo.
K9 Ventures
MAY 22, 2014
'Ingenuity. Ingenuity is a beautiful thing. It’s a beautiful word. It is at the heart of engineering. It is also something I strive to have in every company that K9 Ventures invests in. A lot startup ideas are an incremental or marginal improvement over something that already exists in another form. But, once in a while you come across something that make you have that “Aha!
Hunter Walker
MAY 22, 2014
'I’m several weeks into Foursquare’s Swarm app and enjoying many of the social features, although the norms around usage are still forming among my friends. One striking difference is how neighborhood-focused it is because of background check-in vs Foursquare’s venue orientation. New Foursquare, due later this summer, will likely remain venue-centric given its goal of finding places of interest, whether it’s for a coffee, a meal, shopping, etc.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 22, 2014
'The screen grab above is a picture of our new website. The team here has worked incredibly hard to push this live and we’re all proud of what they’ve achieved. We wanted something which showcased our belief in the importance of good design and which explained what makes Forward Partners unique and hopefully this does that in spades. Here are the key differences to our previous website: Much greater prominence for the operational team, now on the home page and with more detailed bios
OnlyOnce
MAY 22, 2014
'The 90-Day Reverse Review. Like a lot of companies, Return Path does a 90-day review on all new employees to make sure they’re performing well, on track, and a good fit. Sometimes those reviews are one-way from the manager, sometimes they are 360s. But we have also done something for years now called the 90-Day Reverse Review, which is equally valuable.
Berkonomics
MAY 22, 2014
'By Bill Payne. Bill Payne has been actively involved in angel investing since 1980, funding over 50 companies and mentoring over 100 more. He is the recipient of the coveted “Hans Severiens Award form the Angel Capital Association, its highest honor. . The sale of equity in private companies is regulated by the Securities Act of 1933, which requires that the company either register with the SEC or meet one of several exemptions (Regulation D).
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 22, 2014
'The Positive Secret to Outbound Marketing Success written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is from Jonathan Curran – Enjoy! . Contrary to what many internet marketers have been telling the world, outbound marketing is not dead.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 22, 2014
'A friend asked me this question recently: How do you personally deal with the pressures of getting your business off the ground, trying to sustain/grow, and the responsibility to do so for your investors and employees? I think the most important aspect of pressure is how you deal with it. I certainly feel a responsibility to my team and my investors, but more importantly, to my family.
Early Growth Financial Services
MAY 22, 2014
'Hopefully you caught our webinar on attracting angel investors. In case you missed it, here’s the download and my quick rundown of the main points. In order to attract funding, you have to think like investors do. First off, who are angel investors? They’re mostly self-made individuals who typically invest in early stage companies on a part-time basis.
The Next Web
MAY 22, 2014
'Paul Jarvis is a Web designer and bestselling author. His upcoming book, The Good Creative, explores 18 traits of the world’s most interesting and respected creative professionals. Say you look at your stats and see you received a single visitor to your website today. Awful, right? Maybe you didn’t write that good of a post, you’d think. Or maybe you need to change a call to action, since they didn’t subscribe or buy anything.
ConversionXL
MAY 22, 2014
'“Conversion Rate Optimization” principles don’t just apply to landing pages or capturing emails. That narrow brand of thinking severely limits the truly transformative impact CRO principles can have on a business. In a big picture, can’t “Conversion” really be boiled down to getting more of the right people clicking on the things you want them to click ?
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 22, 2014
'If you are banking on the old school method of question and answer interviewing, you have a snowballs chance in hell at making a good hire. In fact, randomly picking a candidate out of a hat, without interviewing them, will serve you just as well. There is a far better way to identify great candidates and it is all rooted in behavioral psychology. In short, the strongest indicator of how a human will perform in the future is by seeing how they performed in the past.
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