ithacaVC

MAY 24, 2014

'I received this report yesterday: Entrepreneurship in New York ebook. It is worth reviewing if you are interested in entrepreneurship and VC in upstate NY. Good perspective though I am favorably biased towards activity that I see “up here” Our deal flow is strong and constantly growing. It is actually better than ever. I am including below the entire introductory email that came with the report.

New York 79

New York Venture Capital Technical Review New York City 79

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

'The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are in the forefront of these trends, on both the customer trends and the employee trends. Both are required to stay competitive.

Entrepreneur 261

Entrepreneur Startup Stock Options Social Media 261

The Next Web

MAY 24, 2014

'John-Paul Narowski is the founder of karmaCRM, a simple Web-based CRM software focused on small businesses. The days of high-pressured sales pitches by suave looking salespeople are over. You can thank the Internet for that. Nowadays, sales competition is fierce across industries, and a popular way to get ahead is through customer service-driven business models.

Customer 161

Customer Channel Business Model Web 161

Gust

MAY 24, 2014

'As the largest global database of startups (bigger than Crunchbase and AngelList combined, and more than double the size of StartupGenome), searchable by keyword and location, and with all entries written by the startups themselves, it can provide a quick sanity check before you go around saying “we have no competitors” Rest assured that your potential investors have already used it for their own research on your market.

Founder 135

Founder Database Restful Global 135

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

Startup

The Next Web

MAY 24, 2014

'Corey Eastman is a Director at Climax Media, a digital technology agency who specialize in building customized platforms for enterprise clients. For many of us working in projects daily, life without request for proposals (RFPs) can be practically unfathomable. Although it would certainly be simpler, it would also remove what appears to be a crucial process in evaluating suppliers for projects.

Search 132

Search Web Media Technology 132

Mike Michalowicz

MAY 24, 2014

'Ever walk past the perfume stands in the mall? If you have, you’ve been attacked by an army of perfume spraying sales clerks. It clearly frustrates most passerby’s. So why are they so insistent on getting that “spray bouquet” on your arm? Because of The Sampling Effect. Here’s how it works. A passerby is going to be a passerby anyway, so it is (to some degree) OK if you frustrate them.

Advertising 94

Advertising Conversion Customer Sales 94

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 24, 2014

'Weekend Favs May Twenty Four written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road.

Campaign 61

Campaign Video Small Business Email 61

Start Up Blog

MAY 24, 2014

'1. Primacy and recency : People most remember the first and last things to occur, and barely the middle. When scheduling an interview, ask what times the employer is interviewing and try to be first or last. 2. If you work in a bar or in customer service of any kind: Put a mirror behind you at the counter. This way angry customers who approach you will have to see themselves in the mirror behind you and the chances of them behaving irrationally lowers significantly. 3.

Lean 127

Lean Matching Conversion Sales 127

Small Business Force

MAY 24, 2014

"Lookin' for All in All the Wrong Places," is a song that made its mark as part of the music track of the 80s movie, Urban Cowboy , and it often defines ill-fated sales and marketing strategies that entrepreneurs pursue. When you're ramping your business up, there's almost nowhere you wouldn't look for revenue. But once you get going, even if you're fabulously successful, you always have limited resources that you need to deploy judiciously.

Sales 36

Sales Marketing Social Media Revenue 36