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8 Applications You Should Hunt Down On Your Network

YoungUpstarts

By Leon Adato, Head Geek, SolarWinds. In a study conducted by SolarWinds in Singapore, application performance and availability were found to be critical for 59% of respondents to accomplish their work. For 71% it became more important over the past five years due to an increase in the time spent using applications, coupled with an increase in their workload and more demanding deadlines.

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Checklist To Find The Startup Partner Of Your Dreams

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to startups, I often get asked what to look for in an ideal co-founder or business partner. My first response is that it’s much like finding that ideal spouse, where chemistry, common interests and complementary communication skills are key. After some reflection, I now realize these attributes are necessary but not sufficient to be an ideal business partner.

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How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science: Errol Arkilic — Part 1 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs. Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. In my interview with Errol, we discussed the origins of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), how and why it was created, and how it

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5 Reasons Why Storytelling Works For Your Brands

Brandanew

Well, who does not like a good story ? What we can never remember as dry theory can be easily etched in mind as a story. This is why we all love fiction (and hate text books). Ancient knowledge and traditions have always been stored as folk stories rather than voluminous history books. This is exactly why no one should underestimate the power of storytelling , including marketers.

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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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5 Ways To Ensure A Safe Workplace For Your Employees

YoungUpstarts

Employees want to know their workplace is as safe as it can be; after all, it is an area in which they are spending a decent amount of time every week. A safe workplace is also an efficient and productive one, so after you create a plan of action for your business, it is also important that all employees work together to make sure the workplace is as safe as possible.

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How we determine valuations for marketplaces

Version One Ventures

I often get asked about how to determine the valuation for a marketplace startup that is starting to scale. So I’ll run through some basic math for how we value marketplaces at version one. The main multiple we like to use for marketplace businesses is GMV (Gross Merchandise Volume…the total volume of goods sold on the marketplace). Our rule of thumb is that marketplaces at scale are valued at roughly 1x annualized GMV (typically about 6-8x annual revenue).

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Sometimes I Ask Myself If The Juice Is Really Worth The Squeeze

Feld Thoughts

One of my all time favorite blog posts is Ben Horowitz’s The Struggle. If you are a founder and you haven’t read it, open it up in another tab for after your finish this post. On Friday, a CEO I know sent me the following message. “Brad – I crafted the entry pasted below this morning for my eyes only (and for my own therapeutic purposes), but in thinking about it today, I realized that you’re probably one of the only people I know who might be able to relate or who has

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Retail’s future is to solve the paradox of choice

The Equity Kicker

The primary function of retail used to be access/distribution. In the vast majority of cases consumers had to visit high street shops to get products and manufacturers went through physical retail to reach customers. One of the big promises of the web is that brands/manufacturers will form direct relationships with consumers. They can build their own showrooms and take orders direct over the web capturing the retail margin for themselves.

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Raising Money Using Convertible Equity

YFS Magazine

Lately, more founders are inquiring about convertible equity. Some wonder if it is a good replacement for convertible debt (which has become ubiquitous in seed stage startup funding).

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Cash Flow 101: Building a Cash Flow Statement

Up and Running

(Note: This is the third installment in our “Cash Flow 101” series. The first and second installments can be found here and here. ). In order to make sure that their businesses are always able to access the cash they need to grow, many business owners—or at least their accountants—produce cash flow statements at monthly, quarterly, or even yearly intervals.

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The Ultimate Affiliate Marketing Landing Page Guide

YFS Magazine

Implement these optimization tips into your landing page and marketing efforts and you will see massive conversion and engagement increases across the board.

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A + : Is eBay’s Reputation System a Hidden Gem?

Hunter Walker

Imagine if 10 years ago eBay had opened up its account system to all commerce sites. By encouraging people to sign-in with eBay, any other site could have accessed eBay’s reputation system and, let’s say, discounted fee PayPal. For me it’s one of the biggest missed opportunities of the decade, one which could have put eBay at the center of P2P commerce.

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Joining Expa

Eric Friedman

After 5+ years at Foursquare , I am excited to be joining Expa as an EIR. I am taking a short break between roles but looking forward to starting this week. More here. The post Joining Expa appeared first on Eric Friedman.

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Techstars Cloud Fall Program is Accepting Applications

SiliconHills

Techstars Cloud is back at it again. The fall program, which kicks off Nov. 2nd and runs until Feb. 11th with a two week break for the holidays, is now soliciting applications. This is the second Techstars Cloud program for 2015. The first one ended in April with ten companies pitching at Demo Day. “This […] The post Techstars Cloud Fall Program is Accepting Applications appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Easiest Way to Ask for Referrals

Duct Tape Marketing

The Easiest Way to Ask for Referrals written by Sara Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. We have a great opportunity in the small business world these days that can be simply defined by one word: collaboration. Coming together and focusing on a common goal, contributing what resources you have, and working towards something bigger that just yourself is the idea here.

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Small Business and Startups: Making Customer Service Available (On Your Own Terms)

crowdSPRING Blog

Periodically (like every single quarter) we review our customer service data to determine whether we are best using our resources. This is an excellent practice for a small company, especially one that is ambitious and by its very nature capacity constrained. At crowdSPRING we strive to provide world-class quality support , but our team is small and their responsibilities complex.

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Episode 37: Drug Testing and Profitability with David Bell and Eric Greenspan

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. David Bell and Eric Greenspan join us for Episode 37 of the Profit First Podcast. David talks about what drug testing does for your business. Eric tells us what the School of Bookkeeping is all about. Our Guests. David Bell (left). David Bell is the CEO of USA Mobile Drug Testing. In his previous position as the VP of Sales and Marketing, he doubled company revenue by helping franchisees leverage technology to increase sales and improve customer service.

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Monday Motivation – Transcend [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. Here’s some gems to remember from the video: Why not? What is the single most important element of any human being that separates their level of success from the rest of the world? It’s HUNGER. You show me someone that is hungry and doesn’t lose their hunger.

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