Fri.Oct 31, 2014

article thumbnail

Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

'Entrepreneurship is everywhere, but everywhere isn’t a level playing field. What’s the playbook for your region or country to make it so? ———-. Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar market cap. They grow into companies that define an industry and create jobs. Not all start ups want to go in that direction – some will opt instead to become a small business.

Global 335
article thumbnail

Escape From Corporate America - Be An Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

'According to several recent reports , job satisfaction for employees is at an all-time low. An online survey published earlier this year found that nearly two-thirds of the respondents were not happy at work. One obvious alternative is to become an entrepreneur. As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to switch and get real satisfaction from this lifestyle.

America 250
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

[Infographic] Leadership Styles Around The World

YoungUpstarts

'Workplace cultures differ around the world, and not surprisingly, leadership styles tend to also vary as shaped by the different cultural norms in a particular society. From autocratic style management to more egalitarian ones, there are specific overarching philosophies that drive leadership styles in different countries. Even in the Western world, leadership styles can differ.

article thumbnail

Common email mistakes that’ll haunt most professionals

The Next Web

'Denise Chan is the US Inbound Marketing Associate for Mailjet, an email service provider with more than four years of experience and 25,000 clients across 158 countries. Navigating your email campaigns into your customer’s inbox can be a scary process. Broken links, wrong subject lines, using spam words – these spooky mistakes that can haunt an email marketer for weeks.

Email 132
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Essential Steps To Consider Before Launching An Online Store

YoungUpstarts

'by James Woodgate, PR and marketing manager at Simtech. Ecommerce is one of the leading business trends nowadays for millions of vendors willing to get the most out online without investing a fortune. As online markets are constantly growing in their popularity, you can see more and more merchants moving their businesses into the Web. If you have a traditional brick-and-mortar venture, but wish to increase your online sales dramatically or take your business activity to the next level, then it&

eCommerce 145
article thumbnail

Eating Dinner Alone

Feld Thoughts

'I arrived home from Boston last night at 5:30pm and realized I had no plans for dinner. Amy was still in Boston since her Wellesley board meeting doesn’t end until mid-day today so I voxed Seth, Ryan, and Jason to see if any of them were around for dinner. Seth was just landing from Vermont where he had been at Ello for the past few days, Jason was in NY at dinner, and Ryan was already at home having dinner with his family.

Vermont 124

More Trending

article thumbnail

How One Family Started a Successful Online Halloween Business

Up and Running

'Interested in starting a holiday-specific business? We talked with Tom Fallenstein, president and CEO of HalloweenCostumes.com to hear the story of his family business. The Fallenstein family started making and renting a dozen Halloween costumes from their Minnesota garage, and the small business sparked a lot of interested in the little town of Mankato.

Minnesota 107
article thumbnail

The Best Marketing Platform: Blogs?

Mike Michalowicz

'Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Reddit. There’s no end to the number of places a business can promote, engage and entertain their customers and potential customers. There’s heated debate over which platform is best for converting readers to buyers. But when it gets down to the actual numbers, blogs win hands down. They’re part of the top three platforms for effective marketing—creating audio/visual content, white papers and article/blog content.

article thumbnail

Google Analytics 102: How To Set Up Goals, Segments & Events in Google Analytics

ConversionXL

'Some of you out there may find this Google Analytics feature overview to be mostly review. That’s awesome! That means you’re really taking ownership of your data. However, if you’ve never used any of these features, only experimented with them a little, or aren’t sure you’re using them correctly, you should read on. From the time you set up your account and put your tracking code on your site, Google Analytics, starts to capture and display a lot of data.

Analytics 134
article thumbnail

The challenges of marketing a high-priced product (and how to overcome them)

The Next Web

'Firas Kittaneh is the CEO of One Mall Group. Businesses make a killing selling products that rarely cost more than a hundred dollars. Take Warby Parker and H&M, for instance. It’s hard not to smile at the prices; it’s easy to swipe your credit card too. For companies that offer single items worth hundreds of dollars or goods that cost an alarming four-figures, there are a number of obstacles to overcome before you can convince shoppers to spend even a dime.

Product 140
article thumbnail

Optimizing Your Tweets for Search

Duct Tape Marketing

'Optimizing Your Tweets for Search 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 Daniel Page– Enjoy! photo credit: Flickr. Twitter’s among the most powerful social networks in the world for brand awareness – which is why it’s of the utmost importance that you know how to tap into it.

Search 70
article thumbnail

Twitter Link Roundup #241 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

'People. Are you ready? It’s time for another weekly roundup of the articles, videos, posts and quips that we shared with you over the past week on our very own crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account ). We like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and various random stuff!