Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Valuing a business based on assets and financial performance is a well-understood process, but every investor knows the real value goes well beyond these parameters, either higher or lower. The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public.
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
These are the tools that we know, love, and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend—many of them we use ourselves. Use them to propel your startup into success and growth. Accounting software. Quickbooks: In the U.S., QuickBooks is hands-down the most popular accounting software out there. If you’re working with an accountant, chances are that they’ll ask you to use QuickBooks.
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ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Understanding what consumers want, what consumers need and why is a crucial part of conversion rate optimization. Earlier this year, BrandShop released the results of the 2015 Digital Consumer Preferences Survey , which revealed in no uncertain terms that consumers want (and need) buying online directly from brands to be easier. Why do consumers, despite the rise of eCommerce, find buying online difficult?
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
By Brian Sutter, Director of Marketing, Wasp Barcode Technologies. Today, many of us enjoy a seamless technology experience – moving from our smart homes, to our connected cars and into the workplace without missing a beat (or a swipe). These capabilities have created a new trend in business: BYOD, shorthand for “bring your own device”. Smartphones are the most common example of a personal device that might pull double duty as an in-office resource, but many employees also take their own tablets
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
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Passion powers entrepreneurs; tenacity pulls them through, and entrepreneurship can do good for the world explained todays guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Jered Lawson. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Jered Lawson , co-founder of Pie Ranch , a 14-acre farm on California’s San Mateo coast that is reconnecting people to their food.
Brandanew
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
It’s time for another monthly round up and I am excited to share thoughts that I’ve been discussing with global audiences. As you can see on my personal blog, 2015 has been a very heavy year of writing – which I truly feel grateful for and have enjoyed working on. This month I have some tips on how to do Content Marketing right. In addition you can join me for a free event on how to use digital marketing to sell your books , and also grab a free download of a content marketing
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Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Guest Post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co., with Kirsten Cluthe as Contributor. Here’s the thing about The Lean Startup methodology. It isn’t just for use by one industry, or one staff size, or even in any one country. Our customer-first, rapid trials-rapid discovery ethos is adaptable to all varieties of mission driven, enterprise, and startup companies around the world.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
As companies grow and expand into new global markets, this expansions comes with it issues related to maintaining proper cooperation and methods of communication across the diverse number of employees and cultures that the company has now begun to encompass. Before proceeding, it is first important to take note of the fact that communication between two different cultures is often fraught with a lot of unintended misunderstandings that can result in a variety of negative outcomes when it comes t
Rembrandt Communications
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Your content strategy and PR should provide results! Have you seen all of the stories about the death of traditional, public relations (PR) lately? The fact is that most people can get the news they need by simply going to their favorite, online news site, watching television or conducting an online search. Because of this, […]. The post What are You Writing and Promoting?
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
by Shaun Murphy, CEO and Inventor of SNDR.com. Consumers are expected to do so much of their holiday shopping online this year that delivery companies like UPS and FedEx are projecting increases of holiday deliveries of at least 10 percent and are hiring record numbers of seasonal employees. Some apartment complexes expect to be so overwhelmed by deliveries they have informed residents that they will no longer be accepting packages at the office and boxes will be left at apartment doors.
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
It's too soon to move entirely toward cryptocurrency payments, but accepting them as part of your payment platform can diversify your business structure in a very effective way.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
The question of whether or not you need to get a degree in order to become an entrepreneur is highly debatable, however there is no doubt that there are a number of courses which you can take to improve your business knowledge and help you to run your company better. However, with the cost of tuition fees constantly on the rise and a lot of successful entrepreneurs being drop-outs, do you really need to go to school?
The Equity Kicker
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Kara Nortman of Upfront Ventures has just published an interesting and well grounded post on the future of ecommerce which got me thinking about where we see opportunities. I think there are two broad areas (Kara lists four, but I merged her four into two). Brandtech – new brands that change stodgy industries. Simplified formula for success: target a large and valuable segment with poor product or unsustainably high margins. deliver a great product and brand.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
On Sunday I wound up leaving my car by the office because of the NYC Marathon. Last night I took it home, so this morning I find myself on the subway in a rare occurence. It's unfortunate because today is an absolutely perfect day to bike. Luckily I have to be in the city later so I'll have a chance to ride. For now, I'm subway thumbing. Lately, I've been a little stuck for things to write about.
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Marketing a new small business is hard, especially if you have a small team (or a small business of one).
Hunter Walker
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
The other day I tweeted some OH advice from a soon-to-be second time founder. "I wouldn't start my next company without first five hires in the pipeline" – 2nd time founder to me today re his lessons from last startup. — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) November 3, 2015. Someone asked me if I agreed with this advice – should you really not start a company unless you have the first five hires ready to go?
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Expedia, based in Bellevue, Washington, announced Wednesday plans to buy Austin-based HomeAway in a deal worth about $3.9 billion. That represents a per share price for HomeAway of $38.31, based on Expedia’s closing price on Nov. 3. Under the terms of the deal, Expedia will offer to acquire each outstanding share of HomeAway’s common stock […] The post Expedia to Buy HomeAway for $3.9 Billion appeared first on SiliconHills.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for TheLjusho. Check out more great work on TheLjusho ’s profile page. Nicely done, TheLjusho, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: uniquemind. Fresh from the SPRING: GoldBug.
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
IBM Tuesday announced that is has acquired Gravitant, a cloud-based software maker based in Austin. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Gravitant provides cloud brokerage and management software for the hybrid cloud environment, delivered in a software as a service model. The company, founded in 2004, has raised a total of $40.3 […] The post IBM Buys Austin-based Gravitant appeared first on SiliconHills.
Jeff Hilimire
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Long ago I decided that having a personal office isn’t for me. The entire idea of an office is a concept I very much dislike, as it takes leaders or people that have risen in the ranks and locks them off in their own space, where they can’t share their experiences (or learn from) their co-workers. Over the past few months, as I tried out just using an iPad for work , I got rid of everything on my desk at Dragon Army and either recorded it digitally (in Evernote), threw it away, or st
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
Sirius Computer Solutions has changed ownership again. The San Antonio-based company reached an agreement with Kelso & Company, a private equity firm based in New York, to buy an equity interest in the company from Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm and Harvey Najim, the company’s founder. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. […] The post Sirius Computer Solutions Sold to Kelso & Company appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
How to Gain Traction for Any Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Gabriel Weinberg. Marketing and growth are two very different things. ( I’ve written about this in the past ). Yet, most people mistake them as being one in the same. They are very, very related – in that it’s hard to have one without the other – but you must also understand the difference.
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