The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

'Yu Yongfu is the chairman and CEO of UCWeb , whose mission is to provide a better mobile Internet experience to billions of users around the world. Earlier in his career, he was a VP at Legend Capital. Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Whenever I visit the US, one question mobile entrepreneurs always ask me is ‘How can my startup break into China?’.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 17, 2014

'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2014

'Why Video Marketing is Underrated (and How to Use it to Your Advantage) written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Today is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is David Preston – Enjoy! photo credit: Andrew* via photopin cc. Words tell the story. Images illustrate it.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 17, 2014

'The email lands in your inbox and your heart starts racing. “Hey, are you still looking for a marketing lead? I know a great woman over at Facebook who is thinking of leaving. Do you want an intro?” As a startup CEO, one of your greatest responsibilities is to hire the best talent. So the opportunity to bring on a superstar… wow, this could change everything.

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IPO Cofounder Hiring Reputation 86

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

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2014

'There is no real business opportunity without risk. Serious entrepreneurs know that, but too many “wannabes” still fall for that elusive dream of a get-rich-quick scheme with no risk. As an active Angel investor, I still hear entrepreneurs asserting large opportunities with minimal risk or no competition. My conclusion either way is that there is no market, or they haven’t looked.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2014

'By Gabriel Bristol, President/CEO of Desert Call Connection. New entrepreneurs very often have to wear many hats, they may be the person unlocking the office and making coffee in the morning, holding important sales and marketing meetings in the afternoon, and then sweeping the floors in the evening. For many entrepreneurs they become so accustomed to being all things to all people that they find it difficult to know when to let go.

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Customer Leadership Finance Sales 186

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 17, 2014

'The chart above shows clearly how ecommerce penetration continues to grow and grow in the US. It’s the same story over here in the UK, where ecommerce penetration reached 20% over Christmas (including click and collect). The varying penetration by category points to where the opportunity for startup lies these days – i.e. food, beverage, and healthcare.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

'David Hassell is the CEO of 15Five. This post was originally published on the 15Five blog. I am not a mind reader, but I’ve tried playing one at work. I think we all have. I used to imagine that I could peer into the silent void of a discussion with an employee and their thoughts and feelings would magically pop in my head. It never happened. We are in the feedback business.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 17, 2014

'I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Nir Eyal , Stanford Business School lecturer, start up mentor, and author of “ Hooked: How To Build Habit Forming Products.” Nir’s research is fascinating. He studies how businesses design habit forming products that create “unprompted user engagement”- like the habit that makes you check your phone 30 times a day without realizing it.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2014

'Getting a business off the ground is nothing short of a miracle. People who you never knew before are now clients (and they trust you with their business). People who you have never met before now work for you (and trust you with their livelihood). You’re doing work you never knew you would do (or be able to do). Entrepreneurs pull off miracle after miracle.

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Entrepreneur Employee Sales Management 68

klinger.io

JANUARY 17, 2014

'Andreas Klinger #product #metrics #marketing Startup Lessons Learned. Follow @andreasklinger. I am a product-guy good in two things: Making people believe I am good in anything at all and making stuff worth a tweet. On this website I share notes & thoughts. ?. About. ⇓ Work. ?. Slides. ♡ Follow. A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. 6th January 2014.

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Analytics Metrics Startup Database 67

Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 17, 2014

'A few months back Prem Bhatia (co-founder of Cooleaf , a really cool startup you should check out) asked me if I wanted to be a mentor in Founder Institute. It was really a no-brainer for me as the list of mentors is great , Prem is A+ and I love helping startups, so I quickly accepted the invitation. Plus its hosted at the Atlanta Tech Village so its an easy commute.

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Founder Atlanta Cofounder Hosting 54

Up and Running

JANUARY 17, 2014

'The phrase “lean startup” comes up a lot in conversations about entrepreneurship. I’ve been to several panel discussions on the topic, had it taught to me in a business school classroom, and read a book dedicated to lean startup methodology. Despite all of this tutelage, I often wondered if the theories were just a gimmick—until it came time to build my own business.

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