Thu.Jan 29, 2015

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How Does A Small Company Make A Big Company Successful?

Feld Thoughts

'tl;dr: As a small company, focus on two things with big companies: “1. What can we, the small company do, to make the big company successful? 2. What can I do, as a leader of a small company, do to help the people I’m working with at the big company be successful within the big company?” I was on the phone yesterday with the head of corp dev for a very large tech company.

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What Customers Want

Duct Tape Marketing

'What Customers Want written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing, and today’s guest post is from Mark Kirkpatrick – Enjoy! photo credit: shutterstock. The only consistent in the wants and needs of internet users is change. This has less to do with finicky temperaments and more to do with the change of the infrastructure of the internet itself.

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The SAP Fort Knox

deal architect

'Andrew Nusca at Fortune interviews Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP here. What’s striking is Bill talks incessantly about the “new SAP” : HANA, Ariba, Concur, SuccessFactors, Hybris, Fieldglass, Sybase. The stuff is not exactly new – most of the products.

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How To Improve Internal Communications In Your Business

YoungUpstarts

'by Ian Cowley, managing director of www.cartridgesave.co.uk. As your company grows and your workforce increases, it is vital that you have a robust internal comms strategy in place. All your employees should feel they can speak with ease to members of their team, as well as their senior managers. Miscommunication at home or in social situations can easily lead to arguments; in the workplace the repercussions can be far more severe – unmotivated employees, unsure of what the future may hold and

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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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It’s Time To Supercharge Your Business!

Rembrandt Communications

'Sales slow? Bored? Want a change? Read on… If you own a business, you are probably wearing numerous hats and running around like a crazy person to meet all of your responsibilities and deadlines. This year is brand new… are you already exhausted? How are sales going? If any of this sounds familiar, you are […]. The post It’s Time To Supercharge Your Business!

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Commercial Current Accounts: A Primer

YoungUpstarts

'Business current accounts offer various financial advantages over personal bank accounts, yet many businesses are not taking advantage of these. One of most important is, first and foremost; the ability to keep your business transactions separate from your personal finances. If you’re operating a small to medium size business, either online or physically as a sole trader and aren’t already utilizing your bank’s commercial account services, you could be shooting yourself in the

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Facebook is a powerful advertising platform

The Equity Kicker

'You can see from the charts above (originally on Techrunch ) that Facebook is getting stronger and stronger as an advertising platform. So long as advertisers are spending rationally, which is a good first order assumption, then if ARPUs are rising then ads are becoming more effective. Perhaps unsurprisingly, none of this is happening by accident. Facebook has been improving ad measurement , improving app speed , and pushing video to increase time-on-site.

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4 Easy Steps to Increase Your Business’s Online Security

Up and Running

'Cyber theft is no longer just a big-business problem, and the conversation concerning cyber security can be confusing and complex. The important question really is: What can you do to protect your business from cyber threats? See Also 5 Ways to Protect Your Business Against Hackers. Here are four easy steps you can take to make your business more secure and protect your customers’ sensitive information from cyber criminals. 1.

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Stay in touch with your investors.

Berkonomics

'Investors as a group have a common gripe – almost universal. Information flows from the company irregularly, in fact most often when the company is urgently in need of more money. Investment documents usually call for quarterly reporting by the company to the investors. Less than a quarter of companies receiving early stage investment voluntarily fulfill this promise.

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7 Ways To Discover Your Biggest Competitor’s Secrets

Mike Michalowicz

'Investigating what’s going on with your competition can not only give you invaluable insight into what your rivals are up to, but it can also give you information about your own company and how to position yourself better. Legal commercial espionage is simply using all of your available resources to make the best business decisions possible. Here are some tips on how to discover what the other guy’s up to: 1.

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Why the Series A “Crunch” is Good for the Startup Ecosystem

Early Growth Financial Services

'We’ve all seen the numbers. Measured by any metric: dollars invested, numbers of participants, and average deal size, seed funding is through the roof. Not only are rising numbers of startups setting up and getting seed funding, but the proportion of startups that raise seed funds from outside investors has also increased. Funding Trends There were 1,843 seed deals in 2013 versus 1,749 in 2012 and 1,065 in 2011.

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Code Schools are hot! #FLNewTech

Scalable Startup

'See more info here: [link].

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