YoungUpstarts
APRIL 2, 2014
'Whether you aspire to manage a retail establishment or work in a company’s HR department, management can be a stressful field. For this reason, managers would do well to familiarize themselves with effective stress-relief techniques. By learning about convenient ways to reduce job-related stress, you’ll be able to confidently oversee employees with a newfound sense of calm.
deal architect
APRIL 2, 2014
'Innovation from around the world Stadel Museum in the flesh – Germany Design Capital – Las Vegas, US Europe’s startup capitals – various Services Outsourcing – Poland Reimagining India – India British Airways Digital Luggage Tag – UK Manufacturing lessons.
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YoungUpstarts
APRIL 2, 2014
'by Hunter Hoffmann, Head of US Communications at Hiscox Insurance. With the onset of spring, now is a good time for small business owners to track their progress on their goals in the first few months of the year, re-vamp their marketing and sales strategies and put a shiny, new face on their company for the rest of the year. Here are some tips on spring cleaning for your small business: 1.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 2, 2014
'There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” Answer: As long as you have scheduled for the design phase. I know. Not funny, “ha, ha” but pretty apropos. If you’ve been involved with a number of software projects you already have an intuitive sense for this. We’ve all been involved with projects that seem to drift and drift and make progress.
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
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 2, 2014
'by Anne Haimes of AH Interiors. Major retailers have long known that the layout of a store can seriously affect sales. By creating an environment which appeals to customers on a subconscious level, shop owners can persuade people to spend more money in-store. Since the economic downturn, this has become even more important, with shops pulling out all the stops in an attempt to boost sales and stay afloat.
Rembrandt Communications
APRIL 2, 2014
'How Fast Does Your Team Respond? How many of you are waiting for a response from a new client, partner, publicist, or someone else? In today’s busy, business world, it’s probably quite a few of you. Although we now have speedy tools like e-mail, social media, texting, and even the old standard of actually talking […].
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The Next Web
APRIL 2, 2014
'For many founders, their startup is their baby – it needs all the love, attention and care that a real infant requires. The founders of weeSpring are in the almost certainly unique position of running a startup dedicated to baby products and looking after a young child… with another on the way. How do they balance their business ‘baby’ with their real baby?
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 2, 2014
'Gluecon’s early bird pricing ends Friday, April 4th and I wanted to make sure you got the chance to register prior to the registration rates going up. When we started Gluecon with Eric Norlin six years ago, I don’t think any of us really had any idea about the true size of the wave of innovation that we were catching. Glue started out like a lot of tech conferences do, with a “business track” and a “technical track,” but we quickly realized what a mistake th
Gust
APRIL 2, 2014
'The challenge you face is that there are other amazing ideas out there. Actually, there are many, many, brilliant, wonderful, amazing ideas out there. So faced with all these amazing ideas, investors invariably choose the ones that have been reduced to practice, developed traction of some kind and proved that they are amazing businesses , not just ideas.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
APRIL 2, 2014
'In October of this year it will be ten years since I started my first blog (not this one). The official ten year anniversary for this blog you are reading now is January 2015. No matter how you look at it, I’ve been doing this a long time, at least in internet years. Internet years are longer than dog or … Read the rest of this entry » The post Blogging For Money Has Changed: Here Is How Smart Bloggers Can Profit In 2014 appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.
Up and Running
APRIL 2, 2014
'Small businesses, welcome to Uncle Sam’s favorite time of year! Though it may be Uncle Sam’s favorite, tax season is often less than anticipated with entrepreneurs, especially if you’re new to filing taxes for a business. How soon do I need to start hanging onto receipts? How should I tax my LLC? What can I deduct as a business expense and how do I classify my employees?
Life Beyond Code
APRIL 2, 2014
'Mini Saga #133 – Boomerang. Tom and Jack were arguing about a bug in the program. The argument escalated as they vehemently disagreed with the approach to solve the problem. Jack was angry and said, “It doesn’t matter what you say next Tom because you will be wrong.” Tom smiled and said, “You are right.”. Watch what you say – you don’t want to shoot yourself in the foot.
Mike Michalowicz
APRIL 2, 2014
'Nothing spreads like a secret. Start one about your business, and let the virality begin. The post Wanna Go Viral? Start A Secret. appeared first on Mike Michalowicz.
SiliconHills
APRIL 2, 2014
'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Codeup, a 12-week boot camp to teach technical skills to people, won the 2014 InnoTech Beta Summit on Wednesday afternoon. Michael Girdley launched Codeup last year and the first class of 28 men and women is about to graduate. The startup, based at Geekdom, charges $9,850 per […] The post Codeup Wins the 2014 San Antonio InnoTech Beta Summit appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Equity Kicker
APRIL 2, 2014
'I’m a big fan of Jason Silva. He’s a modern day beat poet with a keen interest in the singularity - the point in the future when the human species transcends it’s biological form by merging with technology. Video is his medium and I’ve posted some of his work here before. His latest short video, embedded below, doesn’t disappoint.
Austin Startup
APRIL 2, 2014
'Spredfast, the leading provider of social relationship platforms for large brands and agencies, and Mass Relevance, the technology leader in enabling social marketing experiences for brands and media companies, announced today that they are merging.
SiliconHills
APRIL 2, 2014
'Spredfast has merged with Mass Relevance to create one of the largest independent social marketing companies, and will operate going forward as Spredfast. Mass Relevance has created social media management platforms for more than 350 major brands including Pepsi, Campbell’s, GE, Target, Walgreens and Microsoft. Spredfast also provides its customers with a social media platform […] The post Austin-based Social Media Powerhouses Mass Relevance and Spredfast Merge appeared first on Sil
Growthink Blog
APRIL 2, 2014
'Don’t you just love these booming markets? Well, if you don’t, try on these IPO, M&A, and financing stats from 1st Quarter 2014: Initial Public Offerings: 72 companies went public in the U.S. in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1 billion. And, as of Monday 54 of the 72 of them were trading above their IPO price.
SiliconHills
APRIL 2, 2014
'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News On the first Tuesday of every month, a group of people interested in the latest technology developments in San Antonio gathers at Geekdom for the San Antonio New Tech meetup. The hour-long program showcases some of the latest startups in the city along with other interesting projects. […] The post Soloshot, BiblioTech, Cloud Academy and SMSGate at SA New Tech appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Startup Lawyer
APRIL 2, 2014
'My firm and Tech Wildcatters are co-hosting a live mock Series A term sheet negotiation on April 25th from 1-3pm. The event will take place at Tech Wildcatters at 2700 Fairmount St in Dallas Texas. Brad Hunstable, founder and CEO of Ustream, will play the role of the startup founder and a “TBD” VC will […].
Mucker Lab
APRIL 2, 2014
'Even before Sequoia Capital made $3.5 billion on a $60 million investment in WhatsApp, the seed- and early-stage funding landscape had already changed significantly. Most major VC firms have significantly scaled back their seed-stage investment programs. Furthermore, many Series A funds will openly admit that the traction needed to raise a Series A today as opposed to 18 months ago is comparable to Series B.
Software By Rob
APRIL 2, 2014
'This is a guest post by Thomas Smale from FE International , a website brokerage with an emphasis on SaaS apps. At FE International we speak to website owners on a daily basis who are looking to sell their businesses. Unfortunately, many of these businesses are not sellable for a number of very avoidable reasons. Planning your exit in advance (even if you have no intention of selling now) is always the sensible thing to do and will put you in good stead, saving you headaches when you do decide
Start Up Blog
APRIL 2, 2014
'Blog posts are awesome. When you find an entry that answers just the problem you’ve just been facing in business or life. But every now and again what we actually need is a very short direct answer to a sticky question. Right? So today I’ll be doing a live Q & A on your questions on twitter with the good people of Business Victoria.
Venture Chronicles
APRIL 2, 2014
'A report is out today suggesting that up to 1/3 of wearable computing users are abandoning the devices. That observation is strengthened by research from Endeavour Partners in the US, which found that one-third of American consumers who have owned a wearable product stopped using it within six months. What’s more, while one in 10 American adults own some form of activity tracker, half of them no longer use it.
Jeff Hilimire
APRIL 2, 2014
'I have many friends that want to start blogging or have started several times and haven’t been able to keep up with it. Blogging is a difficult thing to find a rhythm with, but what I hear most is that there is difficulty in finding enough things to say. The fact is, everyone has interesting thoughts on topics, the trick is figuring out how to get them out of your mind and onto the page in a non-intimidating manner.
Software By Rob
APRIL 2, 2014
This is a guest post by Thomas Smale from FE International , a website brokerage with an emphasis on SaaS apps. At FE International we speak to website owners on a daily basis who are looking to sell their businesses. Unfortunately, many of these businesses are not sellable for a number of very avoidable reasons. Planning your exit in advance (even if you have no intention of selling now) is always the sensible thing to do and will put you in good stead, saving you headaches when you do decide i
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