YoungUpstarts
MARCH 19, 2014
'by Jeffrey Fermin, cofounder of Officevibe. Have you ever wondered what really makes an employee awesome in the eyes of the boss? There are always the obvious answers: they love friendly, motivated, enthusiastic workers that are passionate about their job. That’s great and all but how do we actually become this kind of worker and how do we use that to advance in the corporation?
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 19, 2014
'You may noticed from prior posts that we’ve had a difficult time at Foundry Group managing our growing portfolio of WordPress sites. We are not alone. You would think that by now, managing websites would be a solved problem, but that’s just not true. Talk with any professional marketer about their websites and two things will become clear: 1) websites are absolutely central to how digital marketing gets done and 2) websites are a giant pain in the ass.
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Up and Running
MARCH 19, 2014
'(Note from Tim: I post here every Wednesday and I’ve posted more than a thousand posts since I started this blog on Entrepreneur.com in 2007. Today I’m proud to offer this space to Melinda Emerson, “ The Small Biz Lady ,” who is the author of this guest post.). It doesn’t matter if you’re an experienced business owner or novice blogger, everyone has a point when they get stuck for ideas when creating that next great post.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 19, 2014
'This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. There is an old saying in poker that if you don’t know who the sucker at the table is – it’s you. The same can be said of critical decisions in a board meeting or frankly any other meeting where major decisions are ratified. If you’re turning up to important meetings hoping to persuade the critical people who attend of a decision you’re trying to make and having already “counted your votes” you are sub-opt
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
Up and Running
MARCH 19, 2014
'(Note from Tim: I post here every Wednesday and I’ve posted more than a thousand posts since I started this blog on Entrepreneur.com in 2007. Today I’m proud to offer this space to Melinda Emerson, “ The Small Biz Lady ,” who is the author of this guest post.). It doesn’t matter if you’re an experienced business owner or novice blogger, everyone has a point when they get stuck for ideas when creating that next great post.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 19, 2014
'How is it that only a few business leaders and entrepreneurs seem to drive exceptional results and disruptive innovation in this rapidly changing market economy (marketquake)? These few seem more adept at executing market and technology turns, not just incremental evolution. They consistently take bold steps to stay ahead of the curve, often contrary to conventional wisdom.
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The Next Web
MARCH 19, 2014
'Paul Jarvis is a Web designer and bestselling author, who’s obsessed with nature and hairless rats. His latest book, Everything I Know, is a guide to freelancing as a creative professional. My favourite activity while I lived in Tofino, BC was attending my artist friend, Roy Henry Vickers’ storytellings. His art gallery is a large room, set mostly in cedar, with an inset middle area where people can sit at several levels and listen.
Gust
MARCH 19, 2014
'The disappointing fact is that this is a highly, highly unlikely scenario, for several reasons. The most important is that venture capital firms simply do not fund business plans. They fund companies. There are several excellent explanations hereas to why this is the case, but the bottom line is that VCs are able to fund only one out of every 400 companies who approach them, and thus the bar is set very high for what is considered “fundable” For US VC-level financing, this will
SiliconHills
MARCH 19, 2014
'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News At the Women in Tech Networking event at South by Southwest Interactive last week, Rackspace Hosting launched its new training program, Linux for Ladies, aimed at helping women get top jobs in the IT industry. “Because of our rapid growth we want to make sure we have […] The post Rackspace Launches Linux for Ladies Training Program appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Equity Kicker
MARCH 19, 2014
'Think about the chart above for a moment. It’s showing that 50-80%+ of people who have got far enough through the purchase process to click on the checkout button then decide not to buy. That’s huge. Another way of looking at this data is to say that poor conversion of the checkout pages increase customer acquisition costs by 100-400%. Companies spend hours optimising their spend on Google and other channels for much smaller improvements than that.
Mike Michalowicz
MARCH 19, 2014
'If I had a product I wanted to sell you, would you ever let me solicit you? Hell no. No one wants to be sold to. So you put barriers in my way: voice mail, receptionist, email, no solicitations signs. Yet, entrepreneur after entrepreneur and salesperson after salesperson tries to sell their way into key decision makers. Sorry, but it won’t work.
SiliconHills
MARCH 19, 2014
'Phunware announced that it has raised $26.25 million of a $30 million Series E funding led by Firsthand Technology Value Fund. The Austin-based company expects to close its over-subscribed funding round within 60 days. The latest funding round includes current investors Fraser McCombs Ventures, Maxima Ventures, Wild Basin Investment and the Central Texas Angel Network. […] The post Phunware Lands $30 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.
Mike Michalowicz
MARCH 19, 2014
'LAKEWOOD, CALIF., March 19, 2014 – Are you an entrepreneur who’s breaking the rules— or do you know one? Traditional awards programs honoring entrepreneurs tend to focus on accomplishments such as revenues and growth. But the RuleBreaker awards, sponsored by Nextiva, Skype and Constant Contact, celebrate entrepreneurs for the things they don’t do—for ignoring conventional wisdom, taking the path less traveled and breaking all the rules.
Austin Startup
MARCH 19, 2014
'You may have missed a major milestone last week when British Airways landed the first transatlantic flight in Austin.
Jeff Hilimire
MARCH 19, 2014
'In Part 1: Why you should run your startup like a sports team , I talked about the importance of having a Common Goal and how that applies to both startups and sports teams. In Part 2: Put the right person in the right position at the right time , I talked about, well, that :). Part 3: Passion and Drive. To be a great sports team, no matter what the sport, you have to have intense passion to win and an insatiable drive.
Bryce Dot VC
MARCH 19, 2014
'“This would be one answer to why Apple’s recent hires of ‘wearables experts’ sound a bit like a team for a hospital device rather than a watch, measuring various quite technical things - because Apple plans to enable such devices, not try to pack every single one into its own device. That is, the straightforward sensors should live in the phone (like the pedometer that’s already in the iPhone 5S) and the complex and demanding ones should be enabled by an Apple platform, not become part of an Ap
Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 19, 2014
'The Visual Organization written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Phil Simon. Visual thinking is one of the more recent trends in business that has now reached into every arena. Organizations are rushing to become more visual. You need look no farther than the popularity of sites like Pinterest and Instagram to realize that people are inherently drawn to pictures. photo credit: GDS Infographics via photopin cc.
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2014
'It’s said an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In the case of your AdWords efforts, it’s a bit more like: a few hours of research is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Negative keywords are easy to overlook, but can be critical to finding your target market with PPC. You spend time carefully crafting your keyword list. You write compelling ads that are sure to drive clicks.
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