Thu.Feb 26, 2015

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4 Reasons Small Businesses Fail

YoungUpstarts

'By Brian Sutter, Director of Marketing, Wasp Barcode Technologies. Most entrepreneurs start a new business with dreams of success, but the unfortunate fact is that too many of them fail. The U.S. Census Bureau showed the reality in hard terms – 400,000 small businesses opened and 470,000 SMBs closed their doors just last year. What separates new businesses that flourish from those that close in disappointment?

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Startup Opportunities Book Tour, Presented by Intuit QuickBooks

Feld Thoughts

'Sean Wise, my co-author for my next book, Startup Opportunities , is a professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. When we first started writing this book in late 2013, we knew that we were going to do both a United States tour and a Canadian book tour. We flipped a coin to see which one we’d do first and Canada won. The book is comes out in March ( pre-order right now to give me some love ) and we’re celebrating that with a Central and Eastern Canadian book tour.

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5 Reasons To Hire A Financial Advisor For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

'Running your own business is more than just a job. It’s a way of life. From the initial concept, through those faltering early days and (hopefully) on to success and growth, a business becomes a 24/7 commitment. But this all-encompassing nature of business means that many successful entrepreneurs neglect to make arrangements to protect their assets and plan for the future.

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3 Strategies to Inspire Your Social Media Marketing

Up and Running

'Social media has become one of the most important outreach and marketing channels available to brands, which in turn means that it’s important to have a social media strategy as a core part of your overall marketing plan. Social media channels offer businesses a cost-effective way to promote their companies, to increase brand awareness, and to generate customer engagement.

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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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Market Like Its 1999 In 2015 – 9 Marketing Strategies That Worked Back Then & Still Work Now

YoungUpstarts

'By Victoria Treyger, CMO of Kabbage. It seems like every day there’s a new app, search engine update, or upgrade that marketers simply “must” incorporate into their marketing plan, often at the expense of other tactics. While it is important to keep pace with technological and tactical advances, it’s also important to hang on to marketing tools that continue to prove their worth.

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5 Ways to Find New Customers Fast… Without spending a fortune!

Rembrandt Communications

'Time to Boost Sales! As a small business owner, you are probably always thinking about your sales quotas and new customers. With all of your marketing, accounting, and other, responsibilities, the whole process can be overwhelming. But it’s time to step back and take a more simple approach. Here are… 5 Ways to Find (and […]. The post 5 Ways to Find New Customers Fast… Without spending a fortune!

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Everyone should be a writer

The Equity Kicker

'Blogging has been great for me over the last eight years. It’s helped build my profile, get to know many great people, stay in touch with many others, and maybe most importantly sharpen and deepen my thinking on numerous topics. These benefits are open to anyone who writes well. We love it when we see entrepreneurs who promote their companies through effective blogging and we encourage everyone at Forward Partners to get publishing.

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10 Easy Hints To Help You Move Beyond “Surface” Networking And Make Deep Connections

YoungUpstarts

'by Nancy D. O’Reilly, PsyD, author of “ Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life “. If you want to join the women-helping-women movement, you’re already looking for opportunities to make deeper, more meaningful connections, support each other, and make the world a better place. But just going to the conference or fundraiser or team meeting isn’t enough.

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5 Ways to Find New Customers Fast… Without spending a fortune!

Rembrandt Communications

'Time to Boost Sales! As a small business owner, you are probably always thinking about your sales quotas and new customers. With all of your marketing, accounting, and other, responsibilities, the whole process can be overwhelming. But it’s time to step back and take a more simple approach. Here are… 5 Ways to Find (and […]. The post 5 Ways to Find New Customers Fast… Without spending a fortune!

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Overhead

David Cohen

'Yesterday, I didn’t leave my house. I was supposed to be in San Francisco for a board meeting but I was forced to cancel the trip suddenly. It left me with a rare day with only that one meeting (which I had to attend remotely) on my calendar. Otherwise, my calendar was wide open. I can’t remember that last time my calendar looked that way.

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Hiring Momentum: Underrated Component of Startup Success

Hunter Walker

'There’s an old adage about if you want to see what matters, just follow the money. But with startups, capital is a lagging indicator of success. If you want to really figure out the future, you follow the talent. Where do the smartest people want to work? What problems are interesting them? What companies are they joining? From an investment perspective, the ability to recruit talent is a key sign of promising founders.

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The Open Cloud Institute Launches at UTSA

SiliconHills

'The University of Texas at San Antonio on Thursday announced the creation of the Open Cloud Institute with $9 million in backing. The Open Cloud Institute will focus on creating degree programs in cloud computing and big data. It will also work closely with companies in the cloud computing industry. The 80/20 Foundation has pledged […] The post The Open Cloud Institute Launches at UTSA appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Steps To Take When A Great Employee Has A Bad Habit

Mike Michalowicz

'About fifteen years ago, I owned a company with a small telemarketing division. Of the four or so employees we had in that division, Bill was far and away the superstar. He scheduled more appointments than anyone else, and he did it effortlessly, with no complaints. He was the standout in that division, but there was one problem. Bill didn’t shower.

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Sprinklr Acquires Austin-based Pluck

SiliconHills

'Sprinklr announced Thursday its acquisition of Pluck, an Austin-based social media company. This is Sprinklr’s second acquisition of an Austin company. A year ago, New York-based Sprinklr acquired the Dachis Group in Austin, a social media and brand analytics company. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. “First party and third party social experiences […] The post Sprinklr Acquires Austin-based Pluck appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Help your employees to grow through their position.

Berkonomics

'When we accept the work commitment from a person we hire, we make a pact with the new employee that often stops at agreeing to pay for service rendered and to provide a safe working environment. There should be more than that. With some people you hire, you know you are just renting their services as they pass through your organization, aimed at a higher calling.

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Feedback Is A Gift; Should You Ask For It?

David Teten

'It’s rare to find someone who is insightful about you and your business … and rarer to find someone confident enough in their relationship with you to give you honest feedback. I treasure these people, and have paid a coach to do this for me personally. When you’re meeting with your board, I strongly recommend you ask explicitly for feedback.

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Thoughts on Pre-Seed / Genesis Rounds

Rob Go

'Over a year ago, I wrote a post describing what I was seeing happening in the early stage financing market, especially as it pertained to what I call “ genesis rounds “ Today, genesis rounds or “pre-seeds” are fairly common nomenclature, and in fact, some folks are forming funds specifically targeting these types of opportunities (like my friend Nick Chirls and his partner Alex Lines who recently announced the launch of Notation Capital ).

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Setting up Your Startup Accounting: What to Do When

Early Growth Financial Services

'When your business is in its early days, your main, and definitely most important, areas of focus are product development and customer acquisition. While it won’t be your primary focus, your startup accounting is equally important to get right, in order to build a strong foundation to help you reach your strategic goals. In a recent webinar, Sirk Roh covered what you should be thinking and doing in terms of setting up an accounting system both when you’re just starting up and after you’ve raise

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How to Determine When A Lead Is Sales-Ready

Duct Tape Marketing

'How to Determine When A Lead Is Sales-Ready written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Today’s Guest Post is by Ellen Gomes – Enjoy! . Relay runners know that the exchanges make or break a race. The same is true for businesses of all sizes. Whether you’re an enterprise industry with huge marketing and sales teams or a small business owner piecing everything together yourself, figuring out when a lead is ready to buy can be tricky busin

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Early Growth Financial Services Welcomes New Tax Director

Early Growth Financial Services

'Originally published on PRWeb. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 26, 2015 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an accounting and financial services firm that specializes in providing a range of outsourced financial support to early-stage companies, announces the hiring of Andy Kapur to head its Tax Practice. Andy will direct tax efforts for the nine markets that EGFS currently operates in, bringing his 15 years of global tax experience to bear in working with EGFS’ 450+ clients.