Fri.Oct 09, 2015

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7 Winning Strategies For Smartphone App Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit.

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5 Simple Ways To Spruce Up Your Home Office 

YoungUpstarts

By Jennifer Tuohy. As an entrepreneur in the age of “we’re well past 9 to 5,” your home office is your command center — and it’s also most likely located in the corner of your bedroom or, if you’re really lucky, in your spare room surrounded by piles of winter clothing. As this is a space where the really important things get done, whether in the wee hours of the morning or while you’re burning the midnight oil, it’s important to take some time to make it attractive and welcoming.

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How Can You Get More Social Media Fans?

Brandanew

Building up a social media following can be a very tedious affair. While it is a great feeling to have a big fan base, the initial build up is generally slow. But the fan count is considered a matter of prestige more than anything else nowadays. Some people can judge you or your brand purely on the basis of the number of fans you have. And thus, some new businesses and Startups end up committing the cardinal sin of purchasing more social media fans from dubious sources.

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How To Motivate Long-Serving Staff

YoungUpstarts

By Melanie Astbury, HR Manager for officekitten.co.uk. At Office Kitten we value loyalty more than anything, and strive to keep employees with the company for as long as possible to maintain a high quality workforce. However, after being in any job for a number of years, workers can lose interest in their role. If managers fail to recognise this it can lead to a valued employee leaving for a new challenge.

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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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Watch Me Use A Glowforge

Feld Thoughts

If you’ve been following our Glowforge investment you will be familiar with the pre-order campaign they are currently running. Halfway through (with 15 days to go) they are now at $7.8 million. Yesterday, Dan Shapiro and I did a video of me creating a Foundry Group coaster out of a piece of wood. It was done remotely – I did all the design work on my computer in Boulder, uploaded it to the Glowforge cloud, and printed it on a Glowforge in Seattle.

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17 ways to say no: Real responses from real VCs on why they didn’t invest

The Next Web

Starting your first company (or your third) is a daunting and exciting prospect, but even if you manage to ultimately find some success it probably wasn’t at the first attempt. On that road is a whole lot of disappointments, so we thought it might be useful to bring you some real examples of rejection responses received by founders looking for investment from VCs.

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Google is the new Microsoft – musing on the meme

The Equity Kicker

We have just learned that over half of Google searches are now on mobile which has got me reflecting on where the company is going. Before I go any further I should say I’m a massive fan. Google has had an amazing run as a company, built many amazing products, is pursuing lots of super interesting and brave projects, and generally handles itself well.

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Micromanaging Employees Will Kill Your Business

YFS Magazine

Whether they are just trying to help someone struggling or they simply miss their old job, not everyone intends to be the overbearing monster they are made out to be.

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Misery Loves Company: FuckUp Nights at Austin Startup Week

SiliconHills

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News There was the story about a really fun, crazy marketing plan with no ROI, the entrepreneur who thought she could let her bills and health slide while she built her business, the visionary pivoter who didn’t bother to do any market validation before buying $100,000 worth of […] The post Misery Loves Company: FuckUp Nights at Austin Startup Week appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Negative Customer Reviews Happen—Embrace Them!

YFS Magazine

Customer reviews play a big part in how people view your business nowadays. So, you should do anything you can to harness the feedback.

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More Funding Won’t Magically Fix Your Startup

Mucker Lab

by Erik Rannala. Some entrepreneurs think that (more) money will solve all their company’s problems. It won’t. Like a teenager with a million dollar allowance and an identity crisis, a startup with too much capital and no product-market fit will become capable of making larger mistakes. Biggie Smalls said it best: “Mo Money, Mo Problems.”. As an investor, I root for startups.

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Boosting the French Tech Ecosystem

Cracking the Code

The French ecosystem has been booming for the past five years has proven its ability to generate Unicorns like Criteo , Showroomprive or Blablacar and the next wave is coming with a strong number of fast growing and disruptive start-ups including Peopledoc , Withings , Algolia , Doctolib , Food Assembly or Sigfox. Accel has been at the forefront of this new wave and we have been actively investing in France.

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U.K. Officials Seek to Attract Austin Gaming & Animation Companies

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News During Austin Startup Week, Austin Mayor Steve Adler declared Oct. 7th as “UK Day in Austin.” Officials with the United Kingdom, which is comprised of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, showcased some of the opportunities U.S. companies, and in particular Austin-based companies, have in expanding their operations […] The post U.K.

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13 Lead Generating Things You Should Be Doing (But Probably Aren’t)

Duct Tape Marketing

13 Lead Generating Things You Should Be Doing (But Probably Aren’t) written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: death to the stock photo. The face of Marketing in 2015 has rapidly changed and continues to do so at an extremely fast pace. One of the more recent developments in the world of small business marketing is ‘growth hacking.’.

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How to Convert Leads at the Bottom of your Sales Funnel

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Convert Leads at the Bottom of your Sales Funnel written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Dollar Photo Club. Studies show that email marketing still converts, but many businesses are failing to convert prospects in their email sales funnel. These leads have already expressed an interest in your brand, so it’s not difficult to reach them.

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Twitter Link Roundup #290 – Seriously. A Ton of Good Stuff For Small Business, Startups, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

We do, after all, love our city. Chicagoans are true and for good reason; we live in a place that is underestimated and overlooked in so many ways and for so many reasons. For instance tonight starts the National League Divisional Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and (guess who?) our beloved Cubs. It’s taken since 2008 to get back to October baseball, but the Cubbys finally have a shot at going all the way!