Steve Blank
JANUARY 21, 2016
If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product. You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). And going for crowdfunding before you do customer discovery with customers can lock you into the wrong idea too early.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 21, 2016
by Joseph Michelli, author of “ Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way “. Today’s consumers expect (no, demand ) an extraordinary service experience. Providing it is no longer optional. With a hypercompetitive global economy spawning endless options for consumers—who, not incidentally, come to the table pre-armed with reams of Internet research — players who can’t continuously up the “delight” ante might as well hang it up now.
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Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 21, 2016
I woke up this morning in Fort Worth, Texas. For the first minute I wasn’t really sure where was I but it eventually snapped into focus. This happens to me periodically when I travel. I’ve got a stretch where I’m on the road a lot. Fortunately, I’ve got amazing partners. I was reflecting on this over a cup of stale coffee this morning.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 21, 2016
by Andrew Ostashen, co-founder of Vulsec. When an organization is within the startup phase, the first thing on their mind is “How do we get our product to market as fast as possible?” followed up by “How do we scale our product(s) the fastest and most efficient way possible?”. Typically, the idea of cyber security comes later down the road after a company compromise or when the organization is filing for compliance & regulations.
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
The Equity Kicker
JANUARY 21, 2016
The idea for this post came this morning when I saw these two tweets from Benedict Evans. One shows the newspaper industry growing steadily for fifty years and then declining for ten and the other shows the Japanese fixed lens digital camera market growing from nothing to 120m unit sales in ten years and then dropping by 80% in the seven years after that.
deal architect
JANUARY 21, 2016
As part of its 2015 reporting, Rimini Street shared with me they now have as customers more than 125 Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 100 companies. That is pretty impressive reach when you also factor their smaller customers and many.
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YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 21, 2016
by Lewis Robinson. What exactly is time management? A general definition that is common to all is that time management entails being able to plan a daily cycle which consists of a twenty-four period. Although one can understand what time management means and that it should be an important factor in everyday life but not everyone utilizes the elements of managing time.
YFS Magazine
JANUARY 21, 2016
As a Christian business owner here's an inside look at how to achieve immense peace, real clients, real money, real happiness and the confidence to put faith at the forefront of business.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 21, 2016
How do you work effectively in a cross-cultural team? What should you do to seal a deal with a foreign partner? The answers to these and more are found in “ The Cultural Intelligence Difference: Master the One Skill You Can’t Do Without in Today’s Global Economy ” by cultural intelligence thought leader David Livermore. Billed as the “one skill you can’t do without in today’s global economy”, Cultural Intelligence or CQ is a scientifically validated instrument.
Seeing Both Sides
JANUARY 21, 2016
Today, we are announcing co-leading a $1.8m seed investment in Sentenai , an exciting machine learning company based in Boston, alongside our friends at Founder Collective, Project11 as well as a new local seed fund, Hyperplane. . Sentenai is one of those companies attacking a complex problem deep in the bowels of IT infrastructure. The company has developed a way to vastly simplify data infrastructure and database schema development through automated intelligent systems that use behavioral and
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 21, 2016
by Shawn Murphy, author of “ The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone “. 65% of employees would rather a new boss than a pay increase because of their dissatisfaction with the workplace. The workplace is going through an identity crisis. On the one hand, it wants to hang on to the traditional mindset that has helped build powerful businesses.
Seeing Both Sides
JANUARY 21, 2016
Today, we are announcing co-leading a $1.8m seed investment in Sentenai , an exciting machine learning company based in Boston, alongside our friends at Founder Collective, Project11 as well as a new local seed fund, Hyperplane. . Sentenai is one of those companies attacking a complex problem deep in the bowels of IT infrastructure. The company has developed a way to vastly simplify data infrastructure and database schema development through automated intelligent systems that use behavioral and
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 21, 2016
Many individuals find that it is increasingly difficult to make financial ends meet. In terms of working smart as opposed to hard, there are some who are rightfully considering a foray into the Forex markets. This is an excellent way to boost one’s income and enjoy a sense of fiscal liquidity that may not be possible otherwise. However, there is a substantial learning curve with such a venture and only through preparation will one become successful.
YFS Magazine
JANUARY 21, 2016
The idea that every talk will be flawlessly thought provoking is obviously wrong. What’s less noticeable is that aiming for perfection amplifies fear and substantially increases workloads.
Hippoland
JANUARY 21, 2016
I’ve ragged on investors quite a bit in my recent posts here and here. But fundraising meetings are a two-way street. Entrepreneurs also need to do a much better job pitching. Specifically, I’ve noticed that many first-time entrepreneurs do not ask any questions. This is a serious mistake. Entrepreneurs should learn *everything* they can about an investor.
Up and Running
JANUARY 21, 2016
Dr. Hutman’s clinical practice. I’m a clinical psychologist who works with parents of children with developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, attention deficits, and other mental health concerns. I bring to my practice extensive experience in autism research through my work as an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at UCLA. A primary goal of my work with parents is finding ways to strengthen relationships among all family members, as positive relationships are essential for healthy
ConversionXL
JANUARY 21, 2016
Day in and day out, you’re surrounded by copy. You’re watching TV commercials, you’re seeing PPC ads in your search results, you’re visiting SaaS pricing pages, you’re shopping online for a new office printer… the list is endless. It’s easy to look around and think, “Yeah, I could have written that.” Whether you’re just getting started with copywriting or you’ve already written a few dozen landing pages, it’s important to kn
SiliconHills
JANUARY 21, 2016
Datical, which makes software that lets companies update applications on their databases easily, announced Thursday it has raised $8 million funding. The Austin-based startup, founded in 2012, reported that S3 Ventures led its Series B round with participation from existing investors Mercury Fund and Austin Ventures. Previously, Datical raised $6.9 million in venture capital from […] The post Datical Raises $8 Million in VC Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.
YFS Magazine
JANUARY 21, 2016
Many people might think email marketing as an out-dated marketing tool, but looking at stats, the benefits of email marketing are clear.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 21, 2016
What Makes a Good Marketing Strategy? written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Remco Wighman via Creative Commons. Let’s begin with an answer to the question “What is marketing strategy?’. This popular expression tends to be mistaken with promotion or advertising strategy. Marketing strategy shows how you’re going to use your 4 Ps – product, promotion, price and place, to improve your business results.
Rob Go
JANUARY 21, 2016
One very broad category of companies are what I’d call consumer transactional businesses. These are companies that offer consumers a product or service (or both) that they are paid for (as opposed to consumer audience businesses that are monetized through advertising). Most consumer transactional businesses offer some combination of three value propositions. 1.
Up and Running
JANUARY 21, 2016
Jonathan and Peter look back on the first season of The Bcast. Listen in, skip the stuffy MBA classroom, and get information and advice that will actually help you grow your business today. Subscribe: Stitcher | TuneIn | Pocket Casts | PlayerFM | Soundcloud. Do you have a question you’d like us to answer on the show? Tweet at us: @Bplans (include the hashtag #BCast).
Berkonomics
JANUARY 21, 2016
Using old email lists for the first time is like eating really stale doughnuts. The taste is pretty bad, and the side effects could be disastrous. Email companies like Constant Contact, Mail Chimp and many others all have strict rules they follow to avoid being caught in spam hell, with their servers blacklisted and worse. Each has automated software watching over your uploads of new lists.
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