Fri.Jun 19, 2015

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Why Successful People Focus on the Bottom End of the Funnel

Both Sides of the Table

Business leaders have many tasks to accomplish and prioritizing stuff can be hard. Yesterday I wrote about the need to “ do fewer things, more often ” in which I described that frenzied world we live in and why the shiny objects and distractions stop us from living up to our true potential. Today I’d like to give that advice in more tangible terms and with a framework to think about your tasks – the funnel.

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Changing Your Company Name? Here’s What You Need To Know.

YoungUpstarts

By Herman Yau, CEO of Tend. Thinking about changing your company name? It’s a daunting task, and requires more than a new set of letters. Changing your company name is usually synonymous with a rebrand, and always requires market awareness to keep customers, investors and even employees on the same page. At Tend, we underwent a name change to support our future vision of enabling the world to “tend” to their loved ones.

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5 Ways Small Business Owners Can Save on Healthcare Finances

Up and Running

Personal and financial freedoms are two selling points that may have convinced you to become a small business owner. Each day you have the freedom to work as hard as you want to grow your company. You don’t have to answer to anyone but yourself about day-to-day decisions. However, with that freedom comes obligation to employees (and possibly family members) who look to you to provide them with financial security.

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How about something for what we have already invested in?

deal architect

Both sides like to tweak each other. Both like to harangue customers for new revenue. Customers however fume that stuff they have paying maintenance for years cannot seem to get much attention. So I was pleased when reader Tan Ah.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Tips From Successful Business Owners And Executives Who Balance Fatherhood And Career

YoungUpstarts

by Michelle Talsma Everson. Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 21, and the occasion is not only a great time to honor the special father figures in your personal life, but also to learn a few “tricks of the trade” from busy men who balance fatherhood and business leadership. We’ve compiled some tried and true tips from dad inventors, entrepreneurs and business leaders who have learned first hand how to balance fatherhood and being a business leader: Kevin McCarthy – founder and CEO of McCarthy Mu

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UK startup job creation growing 80% per year

The Equity Kicker

CityAM reported today that UK tech startups are expected to created 20,000 jobs this year and that tech startup vacancies are up 80% on last year. The data from Adzuna. It’s great to see the startup scene making a real and growing impact on job creation and the economy. To put that into context, 202,000 jobs were created over Q1 in the UK economy as a whole (see ONS ).

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How Top Online Retailers Sell Goods With No Inventory, No Storage And No Money!

YFS Magazine

If you want to launch an e-commerce store without having to invest thousands of dollars in inventory up-front drop shipping may be the answer.

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The yin and yang of the engineering team and the sales team

Eric Friedman

There is a balance between developers and sales people that allows them to get along. This is sometimes the result of one team pushing the other to its limits, often the sales team pushing the limits of the engineering system already in place. Its a dance that happens within startups everday. Through planning, brainstorming, innovation, and sales – these groups have to work together in companies to get things done.

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3 Ways To Create Passive Income For Your Business

YFS Magazine

When your primary business interest has a bad month, passive income very well may save your company from financial ruin.

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Trago Creates Smart Water Bottle to Track Hydration

SiliconHills

The era of the smart water bottle connected to the Internet that tracks water consumption has arrived. It’s the Internet of Things in action. And Austin-based Trago is making a smart water bottle that will measure hydration and help the average athletes improve performance. Trago, founded by brothers Jac and Davis Saltzgiver, launched a Kickstarter […] The post Trago Creates Smart Water Bottle to Track Hydration appeared first on SiliconHills.

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3 Social Media Relationship Rules Your Business Could Be Breaking

YFS Magazine

Here are three things your business should do to start utilizing social media more appropriately.

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What Makes Tesla, Apple, and Amazon Different

ReadWriteStart

There’s something about Tesla … In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future , Ashlee Vance’s excellent, newly released biography of the Tesla Motors CEO, he writes that Musk’s all-electric Model S Tesla sedan “slapped Detroit sober,” despite the automobile industry tinkering with electric cars for years.

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3 Effective Ways to Use Video in Your Marketing Mix

Duct Tape Marketing

3 Effective Ways to Use Video in Your Marketing Mix written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. With consumers viewing more than 8 billion videos per day on Facebook and YouTube, it’s increasingly critical that businesses include video in their marketing strategy. In a recent survey conducted by Animoto, we asked more than 1,000 U.S. consumers how they interact with and feel about businesses that use video in their marketing.

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Now I’m also posting on Medium…what’s the deal with that?

Jeff Hilimire

I’ve now written several posts on Medium, a different kind of blogging platform. For example, earlier this week I posted, What startups can learn from a college tennis player: Focus on results, not the appearance of results. To answer a few questions I’ve been asked about this: Are you still going to be posting on THIS blog? Absolutely, this blog will always be my primary platform.

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Accounts Receivable Metrics You Should Be Tracking

YoungUpstarts

by Todd McDaniel, Vice President at Dynavistics Inc. Collecting debt from clients can often be a difficult task. No matter what you do, it is not fun and tends to only get serious attention when cash flow is needed or after everything else is done. Invoice payment is the final step in the sales process and should be planned. The longer an invoice goes unpaid, the less likely you are to receive payment.

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Episode 5: Alex Blumberg, Business Credit, and Cloud-Based Subscription Services

Up and Running

Alex Blumberg at Internet Week in New York. Photo Credit: Insider Images/Andrew Kelly. This week, we hear from Alex Blumberg from Gimlet Media and the Startup Podcast in our new Bcast Bytes segment. Peter and Jonathan talked to Levi King from Creditera about why your business credit matters, and we share a few of our favorite subscription services. Only have time for a Bcast Byte?

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Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015

Ben's Blog

[vimeo 130722577 w=720 h=404]. We've shared a lot of data about whether and why 'this time is different'. But beyond that, why is the tech market opportunity larger than any time in history (no, really!)? One word: mobile. a16z's Benedict Evans shares just how and why mobile changes everything in this update to his presentation on Mobile Eating the World.

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Check Your Entrepreneurial DNA Before You Start Up

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor, I get requests almost every day to review a new product or website, and provide feedback on its potential success. Yet I can’t remember the last time any entrepreneur asked me to assess personal potential, despite the fact that most investors will admit they invest in the person more than the product. It is people who drive successful businesses.

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How To Do Content Marketing Research

Brandanew

What differentiates Content Marketing from advertising based marketing is that fact that brands can use informational, entertaining and interactive content to engage with consumers. Instead of bombarding them with advertisements that they ignore. As an example statistic, 77% people watch TV while using another device. Do you think they’re watching the ad?

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Twitter Link Roundup #274 – Non-conventional Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

The 1980s. Anybody else remember that awesome decade? In spite of Reagan and his ‘nomics, we did manage to have some fun, listen to some great music, and sit on some really weird Milan-inspired designer furniture. But perhaps best of all was the technology that was booming. Who here had a walkman? I had several and loved each one; if you long for those days, have a look at the video above and relive the experience!