YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2015

'by Tal Segalov, CTO & co-founder of Mintigo. Last year, Twitter announced that it would unveil its Buy Button in the first quarter of 2015, cementing the role social commerce will play in the way businesses must market their products to consumers. In an age where consumers’ attention spans are somewhere around 8 seconds, businesses must adapt quickly to keep up with the changing landscape or they’ll be left in the dust by their competitors.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

'Both founders and researchers in healthcare are spending far too much of their energy in areas where they’re not going to make maximum impact. Most health problems are self-inflicted, but the innovation economy doesn’t reflect the power of preventive healthcare. Dr. An Nguyen and I just completed an analysis of VC and research funding compared with the cost to society of different diseases, and the results show wildly disproportionate funding for certain diseases relative to their impact in s

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2015

'The line between workspace and personal space is gradually blurring due to the constant connectivity provided by technology, and increasingly businesses are looking at BYOD – Bring-Your-Own-Device – policies to allow employees to use their own personal devices for work. In fact, research and advisory firm Gartner has predicted that by 2017 at least 50 percent of white collar workers in the United States will be part of the BYOD movement.

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The Next Web

APRIL 6, 2015

'Shannon is the Chief Content Officer for CloudPeeps, where she crafts words, creates strategies, and recruits loyal brand advocates. She’s also the founder of asongaday.co, hand-curated songs delivered to your inbox, and an enthusiast of live music, sunshine, craft beer, and quality content. This post originally appeared on the Cloudpeeps blog. In business school, you’re often taught to lead with numbers and stats when presenting yourself or your work in order to prove your value.

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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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2015

'by Andrew Cagnetta, CEO of Transworld Business Advisors. If you are seriously considering purchasing a business then you need to make sure you have as much information as possible before the final purchase. Asking these vital questions can help you determine not only if it’s the right time to purchase, but if the business is right for you: 1. Tell me about the business.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 6, 2015

'I''ve known Hunter Walk for almost a decade. He found me through my blog and I didn''t think he was real. Hunter Walk can''t be any blog commenters real name, can it? Turns out that not only is he real, but he''s one of the most genuine, thoughtful, and egoless people I''ve met in the startup world--a real breath of fresh air. I look forward to connecting with him when he''s in NYC and when I head out his way.

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 6, 2015

'By most measures, we are in crazy times right now in the tech startup world. We have thousands of new companies every week, hundreds of funding rounds over $100 million every month, and so many $1 billion exits or calculations that we’re getting used to them. A $1 billion valuation used to be a big deal for a web based company that wasn’t one of the top few.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

'CB Insights just included ffVC in 13 Micro VCs We’re Watching , along with a (highly inaccurate) superhero graphic. CB Insights has become a very influential data source in the industry. In fact, I recently had dinner with a well-known VC who said that he was surprised to see the CB Insights database includes investments his firm has made in stealth companies which haven’t even been announced yet.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2015

'At ConversionXL Live fun is a serious business. This year we tried something never done before – we played a Family Feud style game show we called Conversion Feud. We had two teams of speakers, trying to guess what the actual conference audience (who were surveyed before) answered to questions asked from the contestants. Here’s a recording of it: See you at ConversionXL Live 2016!

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 6, 2015

'So, I was going to do a Five Question Interview with my friend Brooklyn Bridge Ventures founder Charlie O’Donnell but he turned the tables on me. Charlie suggested that I answer five questions from him on my blog and he’d do same on his. Mine are below and you can read Charlie’s here. Charlie: What’s on your priority list to learn how to do better as an investor?

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SVPG

APRIL 6, 2015

'In my last article I discussed the trade-offs between the sometimes conflicting goals of team autonomy versus leverage. Quite a few of you wrote to me and said this was a hot topic at your company, and several asked about the same basic topic, but less from an engineering perspective and more from a product and design perspective. This issue comes up enough in different forms that I thought it was worth elaborating on.

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 6, 2015

'I spent last weekend in Boulder, Colorado rock climbing for the first time in years. It was a reinvigorating weekend with a dear friend who had first introduced me to the sport. I reflected on why I love rock climbing so much and how many parallels I find to entrepreneurship. So many of us are climbing steep, unpredictable and unforgiving walls – and the more innovative and groundbreaking the concept, the steeper those walls are.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2015

'The Most Excellent Qualities of Shareable Content written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Today’s post is by Duct Tape Marketing’s Kala Linck – Enjoy! You posted a picture of your new shoes on Facebook, and now the whole world is debating whether they are pink and green or red and yellow. 50 thousand shares, and umpteen million interactions.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 6, 2015

'I was asked recently by an entrepreneur, “Should I have a business partner?” She had a young company that was starting to grow, but she was having trouble managing all the moving pieces while still focusing on growth. Her thinking was, maybe a business partner could help alleviate some of the responsibilities and pressure, giving her a better chance to scale the business.

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 6, 2015

I spent last weekend in Boulder, Colorado rock climbing for the first time in years. It was a reinvigorating weekend with a dear friend who had first introduced me to the sport. I reflected on why I love rock climbing so much and how many parallels I find to entrepreneurship. So many of us are climbing steep, unpredictable and unforgiving walls – and the more innovative and groundbreaking the concept, the steeper those walls are.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

'A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their startup. Of course, they can outsource part of the work or hire employees, but that approach means more time and money to manage the work, which they don’t have. The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills.

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Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2015

'Growing a company, generating recurring revenue, and creating loyal customers is no mean feat, regardless of your budget, or the number of employees at your disposal. Robbie Kellman Baxter, author of “The Membership Economy,” has discovered one way to do this, and that’s by becoming a “membership company.”. For most people, the word “membership” implies involvement in a club, society, or function of some sort; it’s not typically a concept that feels hugely applicable to “smal

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

'Marketing is an analytical process. Setting goals comes first. Developing strategy is second. Third is the execution of the specific tactics to support the strategy. And fourth? Well fourth is measurement and data analysis. Simple right? Most small businesses and startups follow some version of this rational approach to operating and marketing a business.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 6, 2015

'Show Summary. Kurt Shafer, CEO of Invisco, joins Episode 22 of the Profit First Podcast. Kurt shares his story of how an inventor came to dominate the industry. Our Guest. Graduated BSEE University of Southern California 1965. Field Engineer for Bendix, Magnavox, Harris. Sales Representative for National Semiconductor, International Rectifier, Unitrode, Philips, Harris, Intel, and others.

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