YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2014

'Every small business that has some success inevitably deals with various growing pains. This should not be treated like a disease to be avoided, but a problem that needs to be addressed. There is an initial period of time when owners of startup businesses wear many hats as salesperson, accountant, researcher etc. – all necessary to run the business.

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deal architect

JANUARY 3, 2014

'An excerpt from The Digital Enterprise says “There is a growing acceptance that most commercially available antivirus software cannot keep up with the speed and intensity of the attacker community.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2014

'“History is written by the victors” – maybe said by Winston Churchill. “ History is Written By the Winners ” - George Orwell. “To the victor belong the spoils” – New York Senator William L. Marcy. Yesterday I wrote a post about my first experience as a venture capitalist. I didn’t try to dramatize anything – I just wrote what I remembered.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 3, 2014

'Most people know how they would answer the question, “What would you do with a million dollars?” The replies are usually about stuff – new house, new car, bigger this, bigger that. Or experiences, such as travel, staying home with the kids, or getting a college education. And for wannabe entrepreneurs, the answer almost always is, “Start a business.

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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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SiliconHills

JANUARY 3, 2014

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Spredfast announced Friday it has raised $32.5 million in venture capital led by Lead Edge Capital. The Austin-based company makes a software platform that allows large companies to manage their social media postings. The latest funds will help Spredfast market its product and add additional staff, said […] The post Spredfast Raises $32.5 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 3, 2014

'SpareFoot, which operates the country’s largest online marketplace for self-storage, is hosting an open house this month to recruit team members for its Austin call center, whose staff will nearly double in size by this summer.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 3, 2014

'I''ve been dolling out career advice ever since I walked into college with a paid internship in finance. I seemed to know what I was doing, so lots of people asked me for help. I spent a lot of time thinking about what seemed to be driving my career and the paths of others, because I wanted to make sure I really believed that the advice that I was sharing could work.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 3, 2014

'As the New Year approaches, many small business owners will be taking time to reflect on their marketing strategies for the New Year. This year their timing couldn’t be more perfect—with the changes to Google’s new Hummingbird algorithm settling in, companies need to look at a fresh new approach to their online strategies. Gone are the days of using services that either create or provide shoddy content and link that content to substandard, irrelevant sites.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2014

'5 Most Popular Guest Posts of 2013 written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing In 2013 we added a new weekly feature to Duct Tape Marketing – guest posts. Each Thursday we run a marketing small business related post here from content contributors around this globe. Writing and running guest posts is a form of networking that’s essential is this sharing and linking world we find ourselves marketing in.

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