Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 27, 2016
For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. I still generally advise software startups to file a patent as a barrier to entry from competitors and to increase their valuation by investors, but every entrepreneur needs to understand the tradeoffs.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 27, 2016
by Wes McDowell, The Deep End. If you’re a startup, you probably already know the importance of having a killer website. In addition to being your lifeline to the rest of the world, it can (and should) be a major tool to allow you to grow your prospects, and gain traction in the marketplace. The way I see it, your website should cover two major bases: It should be current.
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Brandanew
JANUARY 27, 2016
Building a startup from the scratch is hard work. Surely we do not have to explain that to you as an entrepreneur. In case you have already taken the plunge, you must be already prepared or getting to experience it hands-on. Even if you’ve been in business for long and are just beginning to explore the thriving online world, this is for you. Beyond the proverbial blood and sweat, you need certain practical assets and additional help to establish and grow an online business.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 27, 2016
Having a snazzy website is not enough to become a successful online business. You also have to make sure that your site gets found. This is something a search engine optimization company can help you with. Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a strategy that gets more relevant traffic to your site, thereby increasing your ranking on the Search Engine Result Page, or SERP.
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
Rembrandt Communications
JANUARY 27, 2016
Are you missing out on more income at this very moment? If you take the time to write a regular blog and post it, that’s great. But you may be missing out on some key factors to significantly boost sales, online awareness and more. There are so many advantages to writing regular, blog-posts. Are you […]. The post 7 Secret Sales Are Hiding in Your Blog Content Right Now!
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 27, 2016
by Brandon Levey, CEO of Stitch Labs. The New Year is here! You’ve made it through the hectic holiday season and it’s now time to start planning for success in 2016. But how can you start striving for success if you don’t know definitively what success should look like for your business in comparison to your competitors? Laying the Groundwork for Success.
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YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 27, 2016
by Raj Subramaniam, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications, FedEx Services. For many visitors to Thailand, a trip to Bangkok’s famed Chatuchak Weekend Market is one of the highlights of their holiday. A hub for traditional retailers, the bustling, 27-acre site houses 15,000 stalls that sell an incredible variety of art, antiques, silk, and handicrafts from around the country.
The Equity Kicker
JANUARY 27, 2016
Apple has $160bn of net cash and has paid $153bn to shareholders, for a total of $313bn. US private tech funding 2006-2015: $258bn (real). — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) January 27, 2016. Jon Bradford, founder of Techstars UK, once said to me that corporate innovation budgets dwarf venture capital. This tweet from Benedict Evans gives an insight into how much.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 27, 2016
The internet is a world of its own, and it has a language of its own. There are also many professionals within the world of internet, and whenever you get a group of professionals together, you inevitably get complicated jargon and acronyms that mean very little to the general public. One such acronym that you may have come across is PPC. This actually stands for ‘pay per click’.
Up and Running
JANUARY 27, 2016
With the arrival of a new year, we often become very reflective. We spend time thinking about what we’re grateful for, what we’ve been inspired by, and how we can improve ourselves in the upcoming year, both in body and mind. With this period of reflection, it’s a good idea to take a look at what worked—and what didn’t—for your business in 2015.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 27, 2016
When business owners go through mergers and acquisitions, they often enlist the services of specialist advisors. This is for a variety of reasons. They may need legal representation, they may want to have a company evaluated, they may need capital or they need a good exit strategy. Either way, merger and acquisition services are vital to the success of such an enterprise.
OnlyOnce
JANUARY 27, 2016
Well, that’s a mouthful. Let me break it down. Ideas Matter Less Than Execution. Execution Matters Less Than Timing. Timing Matters Less Than Luck. There’s a persistent myth about entrepreneurs as heroes – the people with the brilliant ideas and Eureka moments that bring companies to life and create success. I’ve never believed in that myth, or at least not in its universality, as I’ve always valued both ideation and execution in terms of business building.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 27, 2016
If you are interested in the blockchain or bitcoin, go support William Mougayar’s new Kickstarter The Business Blockchain Books. William is writing two books on the blockchain. We had early discussions with him about doing them via FG Press, but since we’ve decided to shut down FG Press (more on that in a later post) we encouraged William to explore different options.
YFS Magazine
JANUARY 27, 2016
Is employee silence a component of your company culture? If so, take a good, hard and honest look at what might be contributing to this scenario.
SiliconHills
JANUARY 27, 2016
This is the kind of warm and fuzzy story that warms our hearts and our stomachs during the height of flu season in Austin. Austin-based Favor, the on-demand delivery service, has teamed up with Kinsa, the maker of the smart thermometer that tracks the spread of illness, to send out hot soup via Soup Peddler, […] The post Favor and Kinsa Team up to Send Soup to Sick People in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.
YFS Magazine
JANUARY 27, 2016
We often sacrifice so much for success. We can even unknowingly sacrifice our health. .
SiliconHills
JANUARY 27, 2016
Austin-based Pivot3 announced Wednesday it will acquire NexGen Storage, a privately held maker of hybrid storage appliances based in Louisville, Colorado. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Pivot3 intends to market and enhance all current and planned NexGen products. “Everyone talks about the need for agility in terms of business needs, but […] The post Austin-based Pivot3 Buys NexGen Storage appeared first on SiliconHills.
Start Up Blog
JANUARY 27, 2016
Here’s two great questions to ask when starting a business endeavour: Is there a gap in the market? Is there a market in the gap? Question 1 is about needs being unmet or not fully satisfied. In the realm of disruptive technology, you may be able to solve customers problems a better way. The gap in the market could even live at the emotional level – $200k Hermes handbag anyone?
Jeff Hilimire
JANUARY 27, 2016
Last night I had the chance to interview my friend and mentor, Charles Brewer. When I was growing up running Spunlogic , Charles was one of the most well known startup leaders in the country. He grew MindSpring to a company worth over $3 billion at one point and his story of humble beginnings never ceases to inspire me. We had our fireside chat at the newly opened Switchyards Downtown Club.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 27, 2016
In the last 5 years, email has been pronounced dead half a dozen times, if not more. The truth is that email is very much alive and, for most optimizers, it’s far from being on its proverbial deathbed. How can there be such a divided opinion? Segmentation and personalization are the answer. Optimizers who take advantage of it are seeing real ROI.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 27, 2016
Lead Conversations to Replace Lead Funnels written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Danny Iny. The term “lead funnel” seems to be getting a lot of love from the Internet marketing set. Today it seems as though there are dozens of marketers promoting products and courses teaching this age old tactic cloaked in a new set of tools.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
JANUARY 27, 2016
TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Tech Entrepreneur Pivots Through Industry Changes appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
Growthink Blog
JANUARY 27, 2016
With the Iowa Caucuses this coming Monday and the New Hampshire Primary a week later, this is crunch time in both the Democratic and Republican Presidential Nomination Races. And whatever your politics, as business people we can learn a lot in these next two weeks from how the leading candidates sprint and compete hard for votes and momentum. So as you are watching the election coverage, don’t just get upset by all of the rhetoric but also learn from these winning political strategies and mindse
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