Tue.Nov 25, 2014

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Catch Them On Thanksgiving, Convert Them Into Customers By Christmas

YoungUpstarts

'by Gil Ilani, CEO of Camilyo. Beginning on Black Friday, and increasingly so later on Thanksgiving Day, online and traditional retailers alike enter a period that can make or break their business’ overall yearly performance. This is especially the case for SMBs without the cachet and powerful name recognition of the Amazons, Nordstroms, Macy’s and the like.

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Why I Look for Obsessive and Competitive Founders

Both Sides of the Table

'Obsession. The drive to succeed at all costs. When second place isn’t good enough because we live in winner-take-most markets. The desire to be better than anybody else in one’s field. This blog started from a series of conversations I found myself having over and over again with founders and eventually decided I should just start writing them.It would often make my colleagues laugh because they’d hear me like a broken record and then the next week read my ramblings in a post.

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10 Tips for Effectively Handling Customer Complaints During The Holiday Rush

YoungUpstarts

'By Ron Kaufman, author of “ Uplifting Service: The Proven Path to Delighting Your Customers, Colleagues, and Everyone Else You Meet ”. For the customer service sector, the holiday season is crunch time. With more shoppers, more sales, more shipping, more advertisements, and more product demand, there’s (so much) more potential for something to go wrong.

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Thanksgiving is Important for Entrepreneurs… Why?

Rembrandt Communications

'Say Thanks All Year Long It’s Thanksgiving, and you are probably looking forward to spending time with family and friends… or just getting some much-needed rest. But for entrepreneurs, Thanksgiving is something much more important. It’s a time to be thankful for how far you’ve come and all of the ups and downs involved in […]. The post Thanksgiving is Important for Entrepreneurs… Why?

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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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[Infographic] Why America Needs Tax Professionals

YoungUpstarts

'Love them or hate them, we just can’t do without them. No, we’re not talking about lawyers – we mostly just hate those – but tax professionals, those trained beancounters who help millions of Americans navigate the intricacies of the Internal Revenue Service’s complex Internal Revenue Code in time for Tax Day on April 15.

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Good tips for a pitch deck

The Equity Kicker

'The pitch deck guide below is one of the best I’ve seen. Thanks to my friend @alexhoye for sharing. It’s a great guideline for content – both everything that should be in a deck and a slide by slide guide – that’s hugely valuable, but the other thing that’s important is to sell a story. One simple and highly recommended way to do that is to cultivate a sense of inevitability , another is to make it exciting by following standard story telling arcs – e.g

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Don’t Carpet Bomb For Introductions

Hunter Walker

'Recent Pet Peeve: Being asked to make an introduction to someone without being told that other people were being simultaneously asked to make the same intro – ie “ carpet bombing ” someone with requests. (second pet peeve: people who publish blog posts about their pet peeves. third: people who use the word ‘pet peeve’).

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Upland Software Acquires Solution Q for $5.8 Million

SiliconHills

'Austin-based Upland Software has acquired Toronto, Canada-based Solution Q for approximately $5.8 million and plans to retain all of the company’s employees. It’s Upland Software’s seventh acquisition in three years and is part of the company’s overall strategy to expand its products and services, according to a news release.

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Fresh from the SPRING: cdavisdesigns

crowdSPRING Blog

'When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for cdavisdesigns. Check out more great work on cdavisdesigns’ profile page. Nicely done, cdavisdesigns, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: greenblack.

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Experiment Engine Closes $1M Seed Round

Austin Startup

'Experiment Engine, an Austin-based SaaS start-up, proudly announces the close of a $1 million seed round. Founder Collective, based in NY and Boston, joined the seed stage round with other notable support from Texas-based Mercury Fund. Two former E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year award recipients also participated: Dan Graham, CEO of BuildASign, and Rony Kahan, Co-founder of Indeed.com.

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Experiment Engine Gets $1 Million in Seed Funding

SiliconHills

'Austin-based Experiment Engine announced Tuesday that is has closed on a $1 million seed funding round. The company received funding from Founder Collective, based in New York and Boston, Mercury Fund in Houston and Austin Angel Investors Dan Graham, CEO of BuildASign and Rony Kahan, Co-founder of Indeed.com. Experiment Engine, which recently graduated from the […] The post Experiment Engine Gets $1 Million in Seed Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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A Billion Seconds verses A Million Seconds

Babbling VC

'This is more of a fun post but there''s a point to it. I was listening to a podcast this morning where Tony Robbins was being interviewed.he''s out promoting his new book. I have to admit I bought it based upon the press it''s been getting more so than actually being interested in the topic. Nevertheless, he makes an interesting point in the interview.which I''m presuming I''ll also see in the book: "Set your goals based on realistic numbers.".

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Google Fiber Austin Announced 1 Gigabit Internet Pricing Plan at its New Downtown Headquarters

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Google Fiber will house its Austin headquarters in the former Austin Children’s Museum at 201 W. Colorado, Mark Strama, head of Google Fiber announced Monday. Strama said he hopes the 23,000 square foot building will be Austin’s “Living Room.” He was hearkening back to the opening of […] The post Google Fiber Austin Announced 1 Gigabit Internet Pricing Plan at its New Downtown Headquarters appeared first on SiliconHills.

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A Chat With the Founders of Talkapolis

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Founder of Talkapolis, John Bransford, and co-chair Kane Harrison take a break from staying behind the scenes of The Entrepreneurial Mind and come on as guests to talk about their progress. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post A Chat With the Founders of Talkapolis appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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BikeTexas Teams up With Spinlister

SiliconHills

'Spinlister, the peer-to-peer bike sharing service that launched in Austin last month, has signed a deal to sponsor BikeTexas, an organizations that encourages and promotes bicycling. Spinlister plans to help BikeTexas with marketing and logistical support for its new BikeTexas parking and valet programs. It plans to offer the services to event organizers to promote […] The post BikeTexas Teams up With Spinlister appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Autocorrect for life

OnlyOnce

'Autocorrect for life. I used to joke that life should have an undo button, the ultimate Control-Z for when something goes wrong. But lately, I’ve been more of the mind that life should work like an Apple device with a good Autocorrect function. Why just undo things when they can be fixed in the blink of an eye, before anyone even knows they went wrong?

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When Should You Raise Startup Capital?

Early Growth Financial Services

'Originally published in GeekWire. There’s more than one school of thought about startup financing. After all, there are some very successful companies that have managed just fine without VC money, often on purpose. But as one entrepreneur we polled puts it below, if you really want to see your startup grow and thrive, then the question might be quite simple: “Do you want to be king, or do you want to be rich?