Wed.Aug 17, 2016

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Should you raise on convertible notes or do an equity round?

Hippoland

A reader named Turner Dean recently asked me whether it’s better to raise seed money on convertible notes or straight-up equity. Since this is a hefty topic that we could discuss for days, in this post I’ll aim to cover just the pros and cons of each from a founder’s perspective and will NOT cover: What is a convertible note, equity, or convertible security ?

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Startups Providing A Service Are Difficult To Scale

Startup Professionals Musings

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business.

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Creating A Remarkable Blog Needs the Right Tools

Brandanew

Very recently I ran a workshop at Ann Arbor talking about how to create an ideal blog. It’s a simple idea but often requires hours and days of consistent practice to stay successful. As you’ve probably figured, I do believe in the 10,000 hour rule that things will get better for you with time and effort. Setting yourself up for success and a remarkable blog is a matter of knowledge.

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The Best Business Investments For SMBs

YoungUpstarts

by Jason Kruger, President at Signature Analytics. Owners of small- and medium-sized businesses can sometimes find themselves in a money-spending (or saving) dilemma. What areas of the business should you invest the most in? Where should you be cutting costs in order to divert more resources towards more useful departments or products? With so many options on the table, and such a high importance on proper investing, it’s easy to become overwhelmed.

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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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Bridge Group 2016 Sales Development Metrics and Compensation Benchmark Report

For Entrepreneurs

Intro Sales development teams are taking a much more data-driven approach in recent years by closely tracking their metrics and performance. Benchmarking your performance against other companies offers a valuable way to see how your company stacks up against the competition. We have collaborated again this year with The Bridge Group, an inside sales research.

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Introducing Mucker Academy: A Discussion With Jerry Jao

Mucker Lab

We’re pleased to announce the launch of Mucker Academy, a new initiative meant to help entrepreneurs understand and master the brass tacks of building a great company. To kick it off, we’ll be sharing videos from our “Leadership Stories” series, where leading experts from the Mucker network sit down and talk with current MuckerLab companies.

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9 Real Estate Marketing Strategies to Expand Your Business

Up and Running

The real estate market goes through many ups and downs and is dependent on several factors such as interest rates, economic conditions, and job growth. Regardless of how the market behaves currently, both novices and pros can apply many strategies that can propel the business forward. This article examines some of the key strategies that can be employed to expand your real estate business.

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Seth Asks Me Difficult Questions in Minneapolis

Feld Thoughts

On Tuesday 8/23, my partner Seth will be doing a Q&A with me at Beta.MN at the Target Plaza Commons in Minneapolis from 5pm – 8:30pm. He refuses to discuss anything about the questions he’s going to ask in advance, so I expect it will be spicy. The post Seth Asks Me Difficult Questions in Minneapolis appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Stealth Startup Magic Leap Officially Opens its Austin Office

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News A few years ago, Michael Klug left his job as co-founder and chief technology officer at Zebra Imaging. At Zebra, Klug worked for 17 years on its dynamic 3D holographic and light-field display products. He helped the company raise money and launch its products. Klug, who has […] The post Stealth Startup Magic Leap Officially Opens its Austin Office appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Fitbit Pole to Pole Badge

Feld Thoughts

I love getting this in my inbox. Over the past few years I’ve walked from the North Pole to the South Pole. That’s 12,430 miles. If you are counting steps, it’s 23,882,806 as of this morning. And my best step day ever was April 7, 2012, when I ran a 50 mile race and covered 96,442 steps. Ok – back to work … The post Fitbit Pole to Pole Badge appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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If I Could Start Over As An Entrepreneur Again This Is One Thing I Would Do Differently

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

It was the year 2003… Like most days, I started my morning lying in bed on my back, feeling a combination of excitement and stress as I stared at the ceiling, thinking about all the things I’d like to change about my life. I was 23 years old, graduated from. The post If I Could Start Over As An Entrepreneur Again This Is One Thing I Would Do Differently appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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4 Secrets Of Super Successful Brands That Use Social Media

YFS Magazine

With more than 2 billion social network users, it’s obvious
 that every business owner should consider how to make the best use of their social presence.

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Have Fun Dad!

Mike Michalowicz

“Have fun Dad!” My kids always say that when I leave the house. I could be going to a lawyer’s office or a funeral (which are one and the same) and they still say, “Have fun.”. I got annoyed. Then I learned. We choose what we experience. We choose what is fun (including a lawyer’s office). I now go in with the intention of having fun every time.

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The Key to Startup Success? Bend it Like Beckham

crowdSPRING Blog

20 years ago, in the summer of 1996, a young David Beckham electrified the crowd at Selhurst Park. He’d noticed that Wimbledon keeper Neil Sullivan was off his line, which left him with an opportunity. It was a long shot — 50 yards long, to be exact. But Beckham went for it. And Beckham scored. It was an iconic moment that launched the fresh faced soccer (football, for the rest of the world) player into superstardom.

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From Stories To Snaps: How To Use Live Video To Engage Social Media Fans

YFS Magazine

No matter where you choose to "go live" give it a spin. It's no longer optional.

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Business Arguments You Cannot Win

Austin Startup

August 21, 2016: Every startup leadership team has periodic arguments. There are always many gray areas in which one person’s guess may be… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Business Lessons from Bolt, Phelps, et al.

Growthink Blog

An amazing 3.5 billion people - half the globe - are watching some or part of the Rio Olympics. Because it is great entertainment. And because, perhaps more than at any other event, nowhere is on greater display the full range of human emotion, achievement, failure, joy, and heartbreak. And from it all come awesome wisdoms - on life, relationships, culture, country - and if you look not even all that closely, on entrepreneurship, business and success.

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How to Run Meetings Nobody Hates

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Run Meetings Nobody Hates written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Cameron Herold. It’s pretty much a given in most organizations – meetings are a necessary evil and that’s just it – they are evil. The thing is – it’s not that meetings suck – it’s that most people suck at running them.

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Where can I go for help?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Where can I go for help? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Developing A PR Strategy For Your Small Business’s Product Launch

YoungUpstarts

by Cameron Johnson. In the past, the way a product launch worked was by hiring a PR agency, meeting with reporters during a press tour, and watching the articles pile up on launch day. The media no longer plays such a big role in product releases due to the vast technological advancements and cultural shifts toward the Internet. News becomes perceived as “old news” quicker than it used to as well.

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Double The Revenue of Your Cart Abandonment Campaigns (Our Step-by-Step Process)

ConversionXL

If there were only one email campaign we could send for 350+ of our online retail and eCommerce customers for rest of their lives it would be this one…. The cart abandonment campaign. Why? Because after sending millions of different lifecycle email campaigns, win back, promotional emails, replenishment, welcome series and more, we’ve seen this campaign prove itself as the biggest money maker by far, plus it’s conversion rate to sale (due to customers being deep in the buying cycle) is a lot high

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Juggling A Degree With Starting A Company: How To Survive

YoungUpstarts

If you’re heading back to school to further yourself professionally, you may also be considering starting your own company so that you can apply your new skills in real-time as you learn them. Whether you’re finishing up a 4-year program that you never completed, or you’re trying to get a masters in public health online from the University of Arizona , you’re going to find yourself multitasking much more than other students.

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