Thu.Dec 10, 2015

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Six Rebellious Beliefs That Can Change The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

by Shawn Murphy, author of “ The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone “ To change the world through your work, you need to be grounded in beliefs that unleash human potential. After all, changing the world isn’t a solo endeavor. It takes a group of purpose-oriented people to shift realities. You could say it takes a rebellious mindset to even believe it’s possible to change the world.

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Workday: North by Northeast

deal architect

I started the year with voices of customers still ringing in my ear from interviews for SAP Nation. They were fretting that there were few operational, industry-specific applications in the cloud. Workday and other cloud vendors were missing out on.

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10 Startup Mistakes To Avoid On Your Pathway To Success

YoungUpstarts

So you have decided to start a business. That is fantastic. Welcome to the world of entrepreneurship. Now you need to achieve your goal of getting the desired success from your startup venture. It may be a long road, but you want to make it as efficient and smooth as possible to reach your desired success. You already know that most startups fail within the first three years of business due to making mistakes that set them back to where they started or worse, into closure.

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Crowdfunding for Gaming Startups: Interview with Fig CEO Justin Bailey

View from Seed

You know that when someone is able to raise $55,000 on a Kickstarter campaign for potato salad , we have reached peak-crowdfunding craziness. But just because the campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo seem to be getting more absurd and less beneficial to both backers and startups doesn’t mean that crowdfunding — as a fundraising and market gauging mechanism — has become less effective.

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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 Reliable Tips For Selecting The Right Business Loan

YoungUpstarts

By Kathryn Petralia, Kabbage co-founder and COO. As someone who has been involved in seven start-up businesses, I understand the challenges associated with finding business funding. Since co-founding Kabbage Inc. more than six years ago, I’ve been fortunate to play a role in supporting tens of thousands of entrepreneurs working to sustain and grow their businesses.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 13: Liz Powers and Rocio Perez-Ochoa

Steve Blank

Successful founders believe anything is possible but they build strong founding teams to achieve their startup dreams. Naivete and a shared vision are among the key markers for success, two social entrepreneurs said on the latest episode of Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111. Liz Powers. Joining me at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco were: Liz Powers , co-founder of ArtLifting , a for-profit online art gallery that features the work of homeless and d

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What’s your TRUE customer lifetime value (LTV)? – DCF provides the answer

For Entrepreneurs

Overview The old formula that everyone uses for customer lifetime value (LTV)) –average gross profit per customer divided by churn – ceases to work properly when you have very long customer lifetimes and negative churn. LTV can become infinite, which clearly doesn’t reflect reality. This post offers a new way to calculate LTV based on discounted.

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Factors To Consider When Creating An Acquisition Strategy As A Tech Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Cameron Johnson. The goal of most startup companies is to increase their market share and revenues. In reality this is not always an easy task. Very few companies manage to grow to giant sizes like Google and Facebook. Many fail, get acquired or merge with other companies along the way. For most of those that manage to grow big, acquisition of other companies plays a major role in their success.

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How to calculate the Discount Rate to use in a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis

For Entrepreneurs

We look at how to compute the right discount rate to use in a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis. This post is a supplement to a blog post titled “What’s your TRUE customer lifetime value (LTV)? – DCF provides the answer“. My thanks to my partner Stan Reiss, who co-authored this piece with me, providing.

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Innovative Ways To Attract Visitors To Your Exhibition Stand

YoungUpstarts

An exhibition stand is an excellent way to go out amongst your potential customers and let them know what you have to offer. However, many stands don’t attract visitors. This means you never get the opportunity to impress these potential customers with your product or service. This problem is increased if you attend a show or exhibition with many others competing for the attention of passers-by.

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5 Unconventional Customer Service Practices That Get Results

YFS Magazine

Service reps need to have a wide variety of skills to be able to satisfy today's customer. Training should go beyond product knowledge and old school canned responses.

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Dual Class Common Stock Structure for Founders

The Startup Lawyer

A startup founder’s desire to hold equity better than plain-vanilla common stock isn’t new. Several years ago, Series FF stock for founders was all the rage when it came to founder liquidity at subsequent financing rounds. We implemented Series FF for a handful of clients back then but we haven’t done so recently.

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6 Email List Building Strategies For Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

If you aren’t growing your email list you’re leaving money.

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Are you an old school customer marketer?

Berkonomics

“Broadcast the message and they will come!” “Segment my broadcast and I will have better response.” Both of these time–honored methods of reaching our customers have worked for as long as there was print and radio–TV to get the message out. And both have become increasingly obsolete as new channels of reach have evolved, allowing direct and personal contact with our potential customers, and better yet, free and near–free forms of marketing just for the asking.

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CBANC Raises $4 Million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

CBANC, a network for bank and credit union professionals, announced it has raised $4 million in venture capital funding. The Austin-based network with 22 employees plans to use the funds to hire new employees, expand membership and launch new products CBANC founder Hank Seale led the Series B funding with participation from Texas Independent Bancshares, […] The post CBANC Raises $4 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Growing Your Business with Email Marketing Templates

Duct Tape Marketing

Growing Your Business with Email Marketing Templates written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Flickr. Which templates generate the best engagement? What kind of ‘asks’ will get you closer to your goals? By the end of this article, you will be able to write a killer email template that will get your contacts opening your emails in a heartbeat.

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You should have good market size slides in a pitch deck

The Equity Kicker

A post from Bryce Roberts, a VC with AlphaTech O’Reilly, titled You can never size a market in Excel has been doing the rounds this morning. His main point is that assessments of market size for early stage companies is largely instinctual. He makes three great points: Questions over market size are the single biggest killer of deals. Once doubts over market size set in they are very hard to overcome.

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10 Quotes for Small Business Owners from Big Entrepreneurs – Humble Beginnings!

Designmantic Blog

“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you”. Tony Hseih (CEO of Zappos). Even the most successful names in business began their journeys to greatness through startups. You will be surprised to know that a lot of big brands had humble origins. Some billion dollar ideas were concocted in the unlikeliest of places like a relative’s garage while others started off with nothing but the will to see their visions through to the very end.

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Be Unique. Be Interesting.

Mike Michalowicz

Not a single unique person has a universal appeal. Not a single interesting person is universally liked. Yet the people with the courage to be truly unique are the most interesting and most liked by some.

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Should You Do Something You’re Good at, or Follow Your Passion?

Up and Running

Which path should you choose? Do what you know, or do what you love? It’s a polarizing question. Some entrepreneurs will tell you unequivocally that you should follow your heart, and start a business based around something you’re truly passionate about. Others will suggest that you look to the things you do well, and build a business based around your skills.