Tue.Nov 24, 2015

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How to Launch a Product: A Startup-Friendly Process

View from Seed

The journey between an initial idea and actually shipping can be summed up with one word: agony. It’s agonizing because you care — a lot. It’s agonizing because you’re building from zero, and that can be daunting. It’s agonizing because of all the thinking and rethinking, talking to customers and talking to the team, debating and kicking and screaming.

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Small Business Loan Lingo: Terms You Need To Know

YoungUpstarts

by Jocelyn Baird, NextAdvisor. It can be daunting for young or new small business owners to consider taking out a loan, especially if they haven’t had much experience with this type of financial transaction. You probably wouldn’t try and open up a new credit card or take on a mortgage without learning the terminology specific to those financial products are.

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VCs AS EMCEES: LA EDITION

Mucker Lab

(Guest post by Mahbod Moghadam ). Several months ago, I wrote an essay for Mucker Blog about the nexus between venture capitalists and rappers. I opined that the strong relation between the two “professions” is that they are not actually real jobs, they are both just what you tell your friends you’re doing when you don’t actually have a job. (“Entrepreneur” also fits into this category – I’ll write about that in my next essay!

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It’s the questions not the answers

Eric Friedman

Slack recently had an outage, which happens to every company, and people noticed on Twitter – wow what a reaction! Slack being down for a long time is kind of a bummer when you a) pay for it b) your whole team is remote. — Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) November 23, 2015. I was reminded a lesson I learned from Brad Burnham while I was at Union Square Ventures ; it’s the questions and conversations that are important, not the answers. .

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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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Disney’s new streaming service is the way of the future

The Equity Kicker

I’ve long thought that producers of TV and movie content should build direct relationships with their customers over the web. It’s been slow to happen though, largely because the content producers were wary of retribution from their cable, satellite and IPTV partners if they launched properties that competed with them. So instead of content owners moving to the web we got new web companies stepping into the void – largely Netflix, Amazon and Hulu.

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3 Tell-Tale Signs You Need A Small Business Accountant

YFS Magazine

A skilled accountant then, is your lifeline to sanity when running your own business. They help juggle the problems that you simply don’t have the expertise in dealing with.

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Boost Holiday Sales With These 4 Content Marketing Tips

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at four tips you can use during the holidays to improve content effectiveness and boost sales.

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Instacart Delivers Booze on Demand in Austin and Houston

SiliconHills

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Instacart, the popular food delivery service, announced Tuesday it has partnered with select liquor stores to offer alcohol deliveries in as little as an hour. The San Francisco-based startup has partnered with Spec’s Wine, Spirits and Finer Foods to offer delivery of fine foods, wine, liquor and beer. Right now, […] The post Instacart Delivers Booze on Demand in Austin and Houston appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The More Human You Are, the More Successful You and Your Company Will Be.

Small Business Force

In this age of texting and emails, less and less personal contact, some of the human touch seems to have been lost. And that can be a crucial difference in how you communicate and address issues that help you as a leader and drive your company's success. The New York Times runs a column called "The Corner Office," every Sunday in their Business Section, where they interview executives across industries, from entrepreneurial to Fortune 500 companies.

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Missionaries vs. Mercenaries

SVPG

One of my all-time favorite quotes in our industry comes by way of the legendary VC, John Doerr , where he argues that "we need teams of missionaries, not teams of mercenaries.” This point captures so much, and gets right to the heart of the most important trait of strong leaders, strong organizations, and strong product teams. This is not hard to spot, either way.

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How to Market to the Reptilian Brain

ConversionXL

Do you make rational decisions or are you a slave to primitive thinking? Does free will exist? Do you buy a product because you analyzed the options and decide it’s the logical choice? Or are you impulsively (and subconsciously) making decisions based on the part of your brain that’s well over 70,000 years old? As it turns out, we use our old, reptilian brains to make most of our decisions.

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Your Ultimate Guide to Remarkable Brand Storytelling

Brandanew

Digital Marketing trends in 2016 show us that brand storytelling is a growing trend. Over 90% customers wish for brands to create adverts that sound like stories. Marketers are trying to create brand stories to engage, connect and convert their communities. Storytelling is helping brands create stronger brand recall, a unique consumer centric value proposition and a loyal community of followers.

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How To Be A Truly Ludicrous Startup Leader

YoungUpstarts

by Paresh Shah , founder and CEO of Glimpulse. A creative leader can mean the difference between success and failure, a firework and a flop, rags and riches. A startup team is an untapped reservoir of world-changing ideas and powerful entrepreneurial energy, but only with great leadership will this collective ingenuity come to light. Too often, upper management proclaims the importance of creativity and innovation, but then it does nothing when the demands of bolstering next quarter’s earnings

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