YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Image credit: Taking the leap from Shutterstock. by Rob Villeneuve, CEO of Rebel.com. Making the jump from a traditional career is terrifying. I found that leaving behind a predictable income in favor of following my passion wasn’t dissimilar to jumping out of an airplane with a questionable parachute. Starting your own business is filled with obstacles, fear, and crippling self-doubt; it seems crazy that anyone would ever choose that life.

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Brandanew

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Ever so often we have a winter that doesn’t really feel like a Michigan winter. This year’s been like that. Middle of February and it already feels like we’re in spring. If you’ve been following my recent brand new escapades on Instagram , then you probably know this already. Good news is: spring’s a good time to get rid of things we’ve not looked at in years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

To be an entrepreneur, you have to have a thick skin and not be defensive to customer feedback and constructive criticism. On the other hand, no entrepreneur should tolerate negative vibes and complainers on their own team. The challenge is to understand the difference between these two situations -- and to respond effectively to both. You can’t reinforce negative thinking and stay positive.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

While finding product-market fit is important, getting the rest of the business model right is the difference between and a great demo and a great business. And embracing risk-taking or failure is hard when you go to college and have to be the example for your family. Lessons learned from starting up and teaching entrepreneurship were the focus of an interview with the latest guest on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific,

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

by Patrick Stroh, author of “ Business Strategy: Plan, Execute, Win! “ We love innovation, don’t we? It’s fun, it’s sexy, it’s headline grabbing and customer pleasing. And of course we know globalization and commoditization is forcing companies to innovate continuously or get left in the proverbial dust. Yet there’s another aspect to success that, at first blush, seems to be the opposite of the creative impulse: discipline, or (said another way) executio

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

For three out of four quarters in 2015, New York City’s tech ecosystem has led with more startup funding requests than any other region in the country, including California’s long reigning Silicon Valley. After a dip in Q3, New York rebounded in Q4 claiming nearly 20% of every funding application around the country. California ranked second with 17.8% of total.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Deliveroo founder Will Shu was interviewed by CityAM and gave a piece of advice that is close to my heart: Unlike many higher flyers turned entrepreneurs, Shu doesn’t advocate seeing your startup as a Saturday project – if you’ve got an idea, you need to go for it. “Guys from finance are taught to hedge themselves – ‘I’ll work at Goldman, do my startup on the weekend or advise a couple of good ones and see if I can get in on that’ – but it’s important to be irrational, actually.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Money has been used around the globe for many centuries. People in the United States use them for more than 220 years! In the beginning, paper money was very rare because there was not technology that can create long-lasting and durable paper money. This is the reason why authorities have decided to use small coins. Most of these coins were made from metals like silver and gold even though they had some other metals too.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Last week New York was the third state to create a program – called the International Innovators Initiative (IN2NYC) – based on the construct of the Global Entrepreneur in Residence program. This is a New York City based program created by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the City University of New York (CUNY).

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Anyone launching a new business has a plethora of details to attend to. Some of the most important include establishing credibility, providing proof of expertise, and building key relationships that can help you create a firm footing for your business right from the outset. Of all the online platforms that can help you do just this, LinkedIn is perhaps the most beneficial.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

I am always asked how I built a large following on social media, specifically Facebook, with 191,790 followers and counting.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and video clips relating to startups, entrepreneurship and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bitly ) for the past three weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. “I didn’t even know what a vesting schedule was… That mistake probably cost me billions of dollars.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Your website should be the biggest marketing tool you have. It can be used to drive traffic, get qualified leads, and increase sales.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

SEO Is An Integral Marketing Channel written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Earlier this month, Google surpassed Apple as the world’s most valuable company. The two companies have yo-yoed for first place since then, but the point is that Google is one of the most successful companies in the history of capitalism. How Did This Happen?

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Here are some of the best tips to gather leads from your next Twitter marketing campaign.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Share. These motivational videos are for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start the week off on the right foot.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Startups can face the difficult choice of either engaging with a full-service marketing firm or going it on their own. We have chosen the bootstrapping path for now. Although it is a longer and slower road to growth, it seems to be working for us so far. Read about it here at my latest column […]. The post A Cost Effective Approach To Outsourcing Digital Marketing appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Last week I was approached by a company to write blog posts about their product. I would write one post a month for five months, and send out 8 tweets per month. They would send me the idea for the posts/tweets, and then I could write whatever I wanted to after that. They wouldn’t even see, much less approve, the posts before I put them live. Plus, I’m already a customer, so it didn’t feel too yucky at the outset.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Written by Venu Shamapant (General Partner, LiveOak Venture Partners) Continue reading on Medium ».

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Phone Trading Startup Shares Story appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

I burst out laughing when I saw Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for “Single-Instance ERP for Product-Centric Midmarket Companies.” Talk about a mouthful. When I was there in late 90s, we worried about segmenting markets too narrowly. Apparently. in the last 15.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Also Available On. Show Summary. This week we had the privilege of interviewing Jonathan Royce, founder of Hustling Hoagies – a brand new business that delivers hoagies to Univ. of Michigan football games and other local events. Join Mike Michalowicz and Chris Curran for a journey with Jonathan as we discuss where he’s making money and where he’s not, as well as the concept of imminent need.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Too many owners of small businesses overlook the importance of the office. Usually, they put a lot of time and effort into the running of the business, but not the day-to-day details. You see this all the time – a young business, with superb operations, and an office which is falling apart. The truth is, the office space is really important for a number of reasons.

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