Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Contrary to what you might guess, the highest rate of entrepreneurial growth over the last few years is not Gen-Y upstarts, but Boomers over the age of 50, now called encore entrepreneurs. In fact, according to the most recent Index of Startup Activity by the Kauffman Foundation and recent SBA reports , these Baby Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 21, 2016
by Kaloyan Dimitrov, founder of Vambos.com and Coriti.com. A business has various departments which work interdependently to maximize performance. For instance, a typical firm will have sales, operations, accounting, customer service and human resource departments. Each unit has distinct roles and performance metrics. An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software comes to combine these functions into one system.
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Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Like many of history’s historic friendships, Jennifer Pahlka and I met first on Twitter. I had heard of Code for America but wasn’t exactly sure what they did or how they did it. So Jen invited me over to their SOMA HQ for coffee and afterwards, well, my head spun because the scope of their work as a nonprofit is so massive. But Jen has been one of the leaders over this past decade of finding ways to marry technology and government.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 21, 2016
by Raghav Mathur, VP Strategy, Partnerships & Business Operations, G/O Digital. Social media marketing – every small business owner has been told time and time again they must do it. Anyone who has a Facebook account can set up an ad campaign in a snap, and even target specific audiences based on a variety of characteristics. It’s affordable, effective and has almost no barrier to entry.
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
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 21, 2016
If you read my last post, you would know I participated in a hackathon organised by the BBC for this year’s 100 women season. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 21, 2016
There comes a time in most business owner’s lives when they need to think about hiring staff. However, you can’t just hire them and expect them to get on with it. You need to make sure you’re taking good care of them. Although many business owners believe that the customer is the most important thing to them, taking care of your employees is even more important.
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YFS Magazine
DECEMBER 21, 2016
It’s easy to become interested in something that seems like a good idea, but in reality turns out to be a terrible waste of time.
ConversionXL
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Every year we publish a list of most read articles on ConversionXL that were published that year. The following 10 new posts got the most pageviews in 2016. Starting from number 10 and moving up: #10 7 Retargeting Case Studies That’ll Boost Your Current Campaigns. You already know retargeting works. But what if you’re doing it all wrong? #9 The Conversion Rate that Actually Matters in Mobile Apps.
YFS Magazine
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Do you have what it takes to keep Millennials engaged and happy in the workplace?
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Take a stroll down the toy aisle of Target, and you’ll notice the myriad of gendered items. Pink and pretty for girls, with toys like… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
SiliconHills
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Silicon Hills News launched its Ideas to Invoices podcast project on Kickstarter on Dec. 12 and met its goal in two days. On Dec. 20th, Kickstarter designated the Ideas to Invoices podcast as a “Project We Love” in the journalism category. The crowdfunding portal hand picks a select group of projects from the thousands submitted […] The post Kickstarter Designates Silicon Hills News’ Ideas to Invoices Podcast as a “Project We Love” appeared first on SiliconHills.
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 21, 2016
What if autonomous cars weren’t allowed to optimize for the driver but instead were more broadly cognizant of the cost any single action imposed on society at large? Would self-driving cars be selfish or unselfish, optimizing for the efficiency of the driver or the impact upon cars and pedestrians? While this question doesn’t have quite the same moral imperative of the trolley problem, it’s a consideration that algorithms and regulations should consider.
Jeff Hilimire
DECEMBER 21, 2016
I’m a huge believer that a person’s network can help them in almost everything they do in life. And specifically in helping you grow your business. I’ve blogged about the topic of networking over time, like the 6 keys to being a great networker post that I wrote a few years back, but I’ve never talked about my philosophy for networking for business leaders.
Duct Tape Marketing
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Getting Started With Authority Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Brian Ainsley Horn. Last week I wrote about reputation management: Page One On Google is Your New Business Card. Today’s post goes hand in hand with the previous post. Authority Marketing, or showing in places that people already value, can greatly increase your reach and expertise – all things that lead to more business and the ability to charge higher fees.
Rob Go
DECEMBER 21, 2016
I don’t love prediction posts typically, but I suppose this is one of them. I started out writing about a couple things I’ve been observing that I think will end up coming to greater fruition in 2017. Next thing you know, I had a 2017 prediction post So, here are three fairly unrelated things I’m thinking about as we approach 2017. 1.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
DECEMBER 21, 2016
TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Entrepreneurial Mind Makes Feedspot Top 50 appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
Campus Entrepreneurship
DECEMBER 21, 2016
According to recent reports, Facebook is making funding available to the most creative researchers at the most elite universities, basically offering a potential of breaking the bureaucratic log jam the is involved in much of the research funding universe. Ideally this type of initiative will look beyond the usual suspects (Harvard, MIT, Stanford, etc) as the company itself had to look well beyond elite university students to grow.
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