Mon.Oct 12, 2015

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Making The Transition from Entrepreneur To Leader

YoungUpstarts

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Lightspeed is in the business of encouraging entrepreneurship. This past summer, the Lightspeed Summer Fellowships program invited selected guests to provide a unique perspective into the world of entrepreneurship. The program provides aspiring entrepreneurs the resources and mentoring they need to build their companies and develop their skills.

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Retention Optimization: How to Increase the Value of a Conversion

ConversionXL

Are you familiar with the expression, “The most valuable customer is the one you never lose”? In the CRO industry, it’s easy to focus on simply converting more leads all day, every day. More visitors to the landing pages, more emails submitted, more phone numbers captured, etc. A higher conversion rate is great, but as Peep says, “If you want to increase conversions, make everything that you sell one cent, conversions go way up, but you go out of business.

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Do You Want An MBA For The Right Reasons?

YoungUpstarts

by Ben Williams, CTO at Reelio Labs. In the tumultuous and intimidating world of entrepreneurship, the prospect of an MBA can be a divisive thing. It is both aspired to and demonized , but a lot of the debate misses the point: Earning an MBA is situation- and person-specific, and it can be a waste of time or a lifesaver for different people. I’d love to tell you that I had a totally rational and logical process backing my decision to get an MBA.

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What Is The “Third Wave” Of This Generation?

Feld Thoughts

When I was 14, my dad gave me a copy of Alvin Toffler’s book The Third Wave. It blew my f **g mind. I then read the prequel – Future Shock – which was good – but since my mind was already blown, it was anticlimactic. If you don’t know the arc of Toffler’s waves, they go as follows: The First Wave: agricultural society.

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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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How ‘Shark Tank’ Taught Me To Be Myself In Business

YoungUpstarts

by David Schwartz, founder and president of The Water Scrooge. By now, everyone’s familiar with ABC’s “ Shark Tank ”, the popular reality show in which entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to wealthy potential investors in hopes of a big break. It’s dramatic, fast-paced, and cutthroat; if you’re not prepared, you’re out before you know what happened.

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How to Create a Branded Website

Up and Running

You are how you look online. If you are trying to launch or build a successful business, you need to look the part. You can’t sell CFO services when you look like a bookkeeper. You can’t build credibility if your customers suspect you’re at home in a robe and slippers. Put on a tie, button up, and build your brand. Your brand is what the outside world thinks of you; it’s a collection of impressions you build up over time.

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Winning is the Best Revenge

This is going to be BIG.

Over the weekend, the Mets, and Ruben Tejada's leg, got the short end of a controversial play. At best, the play was against the rules and both the runner and the batter should have been called out. At worst, it was a dirty play intended to knock over another player at any cost. Lots of fans on Twitter are calling for bean balls in tonight's game, but the Mets know that would only take Matt Harvey out of the game and send it to the Mets bullpen early--a recipe for disaster.

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4 Smart Ways To Make Your Business Day More Productive

YFS Magazine

No matter which of these techniques you choose for reducing mental fatigue, think of these tips as energy boosts instead of breaks.

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Starting a Company Is Hard But….

Hunter Walker

As a seed stage investor to young companies (and someone who has previously worked at a brand new startup), I know it’s hard. Really hard. The type of hard where you joke that if founders could properly calculate the odds of succeeding, no one would ever start a company! Two recent blog posts have stuck in my head which focus on the exception focus, skill and luck you need to build a startup.

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ROIKOI Gets $1.7 Million in Funding and Launches Recruiting Platform

SiliconHills

ROIKOI taps into the wisdom of employees to rate their online networks of friends and associates to help companies find the best employees. The Austin-based startup has helped its customers, HomeAway, Zenoss, Intouch Solutions and Squareroot recruit employees. The company, founded in 2013, has also raised $1.7 million from angel investors like Brett Hurt, Rob […] The post ROIKOI Gets $1.7 Million in Funding and Launches Recruiting Platform appeared first on SiliconHills.

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From the Vault: 7 biases that can effect your decision making

crowdSPRING Blog

EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally published this post back in 2010. I really loved this piece, but that could be my own susceptibility to #3, below… . Einstein once said, “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” Common sense, Einstein was arguing, can often be the enemy of rationality, science, and fact-based decision-making.

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7 Things To Consider Before Moving Into Shared Office Space

YFS Magazine

In today’s on-demand market, small businesses have options well beyond co-working.

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Work on Yourself [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. Many of us never realize our greatness because we become sidetracked by secondary activity. Work on yourself – spend more time on yourself.

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Blindly Trusting Market Data

Babbling VC

This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone but it bears reminding. Never blindly trust market data regardless of whom it comes from. I remember all the years of reading business plans and seeing market data referenced. So and so market is so large and so forth. Such and such is booming right now. Useful at times but usually b t. At best, it was skewed only slightly but most likely totally off.

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Dell and EMC to Merge in a Deal Worth $67 Billion

SiliconHills

In one of the largest tech deals ever, Dell, with participation from Silver lake and MSD Partners, announced on Monday plans to acquire EMC Corp. for $67 billion. Dell is partnering with Silver Lake and MSD Partners to complete the deal. VMware, a cloud computing company in which EMC owns 80 percent, will remain as […] The post Dell and EMC to Merge in a Deal Worth $67 Billion appeared first on SiliconHills.

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3 Pitfalls of Marketing Automation You Need To Be Prepared For

Brandanew

Marketing automation is generally promoted as the all in one remedy for a lot of problems for Startups and businesses, especially to be able to scale. Automated tools save time and reduce manpower requirements, saving money for the organization in the long run. Tools also help a growing organization and its teams streamline processes and be able to prioritize better.

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What Small Businesses Can Learn From The Biggest DDoS Attacks On The Web

YoungUpstarts

In 2013 the non-profit anti-spam organisation Spamhaus was hit by a huge DDoS attack, with up to 300Gbps of traffic saturating its servers. The attack, thought to have originated from hosting company CyberBunker, went on for days, and slowed the internet down for millions of users – one site particularly affected was Netflix. Spamhaus eventually thwarted the attack, in part because it has a highly distributed infrastructure, allowing it to continue operating in some capacity.

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Metrics that matter to social platforms (Part 3/3): measuring engagement by relationships

Version One Ventures

Over the past two weeks, we have introduced our social platform KPI dashboard to track the key metrics for social platform startups. We first covered the high-level metrics (such as DAU, MAU and stickiness) and then took a deeper dive into content engagement. When we talked about engagement, we related it to a specific action performed by a user (i.e. post, upvote, share, etc).

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One brain scan may be enough to predict a person’s success

The Equity Kicker

Scientists from the Human Connectome Project have just published results of a brain scan study which maps pathways in the brain and relates them to personality and behaviour (preview of article here , nature.com write up here , SingularityHub write up here ). They were surprised by what they found. From SingularityHub: The result was stark and stunning: the brain connectivity patterns could be aligned in a single axis, where one end was associated with positive traits — such as more education, b

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Top 4 Content Marketing Metrics

Duct Tape Marketing

Top 4 Content Marketing Metrics written by Alex Boyer read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Knowing how to use Google Analytics is the #1 tool any content marketer needs to have in their arsenal. The best part about Google Analytics is that it shows us everything we need to know about our websites and then some. Unfortunately, it throws a lot of data at us and sometimes it can be overwhelming and difficult to interpret.

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8 Types of Investors That Entrepreneurs Need to Avoid

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t assume that all investors are the same, just because their money is always the same color. Every entrepreneur should do the same due diligence on a potential investor that smart investors do on their startups. Check on their track records, values and management style. Taking on an investor is a long-term relationship, like getting married, that has to work at every level.

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Episode 49: Confidence to Steal the Show with Michael Port

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Bestselling Author Michael Port joins us again for Episode 49 of the Profit First Podcast! Michael talks about his new book and gives us great pointers on how to gain the confidence you need to Steal the Show. Our Guests. Called “an uncommonly honest author” by the Boston Globe , a “marketing guru” by The Wall Street Journal , and a “sales guru” by the Financial Times , Michael Port is a NY Times bestselling author of six books including Book Yo

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