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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (1 of 2)?

David Teten

You’ve got an amazing idea. You’ve got everything it takes to bring a start-up from nothing to something that really makes a dent in the universe. … and if you’re like most of today’s startups — you need to get an app in the hands of customers. Once customers love your app and you show some traction, you raise some money and grow it into that impactful dream of an idea that you’ve had figured out in your head for as long as you can remember.

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Postmodern ERP Strategies: Next-gen infrastructure

deal architect

Another in the series of postmodern ERP Strategies. While these are excerpted from SAP Nation 2.0, the concepts can be applied to many other ERP environments. A number of SAP customers have been changing hosting providers and moving to private.

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What You Need To Know About Motivating Your Team

YoungUpstarts

by Chuck Cohn, CEO and founder of Varsity Tutors. There are several factors that go into creating a successful business, but certainly one of the most important is building an outstanding team. Hiring the right talent is the first step; keeping them genuinely motivated is the next. For many leaders, this can be a difficult task. Certain statistics have shown that 52 percent of employees don’t feel engaged with their work — and this doesn’t necessarily mean the other 48 percent do feel engaged.

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5 Traits of Great Writers That You Can Learn From!

Brandanew

The air’s getting a bit nippy, October in its glory has finally arrived. We thought, a great start to the month could be by sharing some awesome inspiration with you all. So, at the start of the new month, we share the traits of great writers that you can learn from! Sure, there is no formula to being a great storyteller or a writer. What is defined as greats can be chalk and cheese in terms of approach.

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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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Friends In Remote Places – Nurturing Relationships With Unlikely Suppliers

YoungUpstarts

by Rob Arnott, the founder and managing director of Okapi Home ( www.okapihome.com ). Today’s shoppers like bespoke, they like unique. Across the UK there has been a monumental surge in the popularity of independent retailers – shunning the big brands is a source of great pride amongst many consumers. And it is this trend that our business taps into, offering something a little different – in our case, high quality, contemporary homeware from East and Southern Africa.

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Content Strategy…Turn Social Media Hassles Into Happiness!

Rembrandt Communications

Sales Await! You have your morning cup of coffee, turn on your computer and look at all of your e-mails and “To Do” list. Then, that gnawing feeling hits you. You need to post something on all of your social-media channels again. Ugh! It’s never-ending. What to post? Where do you find information to share? […]. The post Content Strategy…Turn Social Media Hassles Into Happiness!

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Pioneer Square Labs – Investing More In Seattle

Feld Thoughts

Pioneer Square Labs (PSL) launched today. We led the round and I’m joining the board. PSL, based in Seattle, is a not a VC firm, accelerator, or incubator, but instead is a startup studio, which is a company that creates companies. The co-founders are Greg Gottesman, Geoff Entress, Mike Galgon, and Ben Gilbert. Greg is a co-founder of Madrona and long-time VC.

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Bill Gurley’s insights into the future of ecommerce – know your customer and personalise

The Equity Kicker

A Fireside Chat with Bill Gurley of Benchmark: The Future of Ecommerce — September 15, 2015 from Sailthru on Vimeo. Gil Dibner recommended this video with Bill Gurley in a recent post about the five forces of venture capital. It’s 50 minutes and I very rarely watch videos this long (the opportunity cost is too high), but I’ve been consistently blown away by Bill’s insights on his blog and decided to at least start this one.

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The Science of Familiarity: How to Increase Conversions by Being Completely Unoriginal

ConversionXL

Do you remember when Slack launched last year? At the time, I was a diehard HipChat fan. Needless to say, I wasn’t interested in trying Slack. I considered it nothing more than a passing trend. Now? I use it for an average of 10 hours a day for personal and professional reasons. (Sorry, HipChat.). What’s going on here? How’d I go from loathing something to using it daily in the span of just 3-4 weeks?

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Before Becoming An Entrepreneur, Work For One

YFS Magazine

The unobstructed views of how we approach running a small company surely outweighs what they might’ve otherwise seen making Excel files at LPL Financial.

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Angels and VCs: Don’t be greedy even if you can.

Berkonomics

Sometimes the end game or sale of the company is not a happy event for the early investors, including the entrepreneur or the founders. Especially when outside investors, venture capitalists or angels have put in substantial money, and the sales price is not enough to give them a reasonable return for the time and money invested, these investors can be – in a word – greedy.

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How a Youtube video with 566 views made more money than one with 7 million views

Start Up Blog

Here’s a simple question: Which one of these two videos below is more successful? A smart answer is that It depends on what the objectives were. But the more common answer is the one with the most views. I can tell you first hand, that if the objective was profit – it is the one on the left with 566 views. I know this because I was one of the people that made the lego car video with more than 7 millions views, and paid for most of it and I made a loss, a significant one.

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So, You Think You Can Market To Everyone? Here Are 3 Reasons Why You Can’t

YFS Magazine

Here are 3 reasons why you can’t possibly get success by marketing to everyone especially when starting out!

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Ok, Here Are My Fall 2015 Calendar Experiments

Hunter Walker

Most of you will find this post boring so stop reading. Okay, for those still with me: while sharing a bunch of links around time management I offered to note some of the changes I’m making to my calendar, if anyone was interested. Well at least 12 of you said “yes,” so… I do a twice-annual calendar refactoring, trying to break bad habits that I may have fallen into and also experimenting with a few changes that I believe could lead to a more productive and happier state.

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Bellhops Seeks to Take the Pain Out of Moving

SiliconHills

Taking the pain out of moving is a problem that Bellhops seeks to solve in the quickly evolving on-demand economy. The Chattanooga, Tenn.-based startup launched into the Austin market a few years ago and now has more than 65 contractors, University of Texas at Austin students, who work part-time to move people around Austin. Bellhops […] The post Bellhops Seeks to Take the Pain Out of Moving appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Best lock screen ever?

Jeff Hilimire

Thanks to my wife’s awesome photography skills, I now have the world’s best lock screen on my phone. What a great reminder of just one of the many blessings waiting for me back at home. Life is good.

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Aceable Closes on $4.7 Million in Funding

SiliconHills

Aceable, a startup seeking to disrupt the driver’s education market, announced Thursday it has received $4.7 million in seed stage funding. The Austin-based company plans to use the money to hire employees and to enter new markets that require professional certificates. Silverton Partners led the funding with participation from Floodgate Ventures, NextGen Angels and Capital […] The post Aceable Closes on $4.7 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How Recommendation And Remarketing Tools Can Boost Your Sales

Duct Tape Marketing

How Recommendation And Remarketing Tools Can Boost Your Sales written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Up until fairly recently eCommerce recommendations and remarketing were only possible for large eCommerce sites. However, the emergence of recommendation and remarketing tools and service providers over the last two years have made these sales boosting benefits accessible to even small businesses and marketers.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. accelerators, e.g., Dreamit, ER Accelerator, Techstars, Y Combinator. incubators, e.g., the many options in New York.

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13 Myths And Misconceptions About Product Managers

Street Smart Product Manager

The good news: product management is now being seen as a legitimate profession and increasingly critical to a company’s growth strategy. (Ok, maybe it was always thus in Silicon Valley, but the rest of the world is now catching up.) The bad news: There are still many myths and misconceptions folks have about our profession. Here … Continue reading 13 Myths And Misconceptions About Product Managers.

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3 Musts For Better Cash Flow Management

Early Growth Financial Services

Cash is mission critical for any business and running out of it is the number 1 startup killer. Generating tons of revenue and showing a lot of accounts receivables (A/R) mean little if you don’t also have adequate cash in the bank to keep the lights on. Keeping a laser focus on your cash position and always maintaining a healthy operating runway are two of your main tasks as a founder.

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A Joint Venture Just Might Be Your Ticket to Rapid Growth

Up and Running

While we all dream of making it alone, the reality is that sometimes we do need help on the path of entrepreneurship. That is where joint ventures come in; they give your business the chance to grow thanks to someone who shares your vision. However, in a joint venture, you lose some control of business decisions, and it is therefore important to enter a venture with someone who has your best interests at heart.