Fri.Mar 04, 2016

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10 Startup Mistakes You Can't Afford To Make Again

Startup Professionals Musings

The good news is that everyone expects entrepreneurs to make mistakes, since founders explore uncharted territory. In fact, investors recognize that founders usually learn more from mistakes than from success, so a well-explained startup failure can improve their odds of funding the next time around. However, investors do expect you know the common pitfalls -- and not repeat them.

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Beyond Lead Gen: How To Optimize B2B Sales Enablement

ConversionXL

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. The two aren’t disconnected, though. There’s a lot we can do online to help our sales teams close deals. It starts with sales enablement. What Is Sales Enablement and Why Should You Care? Technology is changing the way sales is conducted.

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Why Teleportation Will Be Awesome

Feld Thoughts

As I sit in my hotel room in Virginia trying to fall asleep (and not succeeding), my mind has wandered to my trip here from Austin this morning and my trip home to Colorado tomorrow. During this contemplative moment, I’m fantasizing about teleportation. I would like to simply walk into a teleportation machine on this end and appear instantly in my house in Boulder.

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5 Ways To Generate More B2B Leads

YoungUpstarts

Even though there is no certain formula for writing that perfect cold email, there are some points that will help you get a better chance of receiving a response. The below 5 ways can help you whether you want write better sales emails, find a podcast guest or pitch a local reporter in order to get some press: 1. Star, chain, hook. With the star being the big idea and the chain the series of facts, benefits and reasons you can then hook the reader with a call to action.

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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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Indeed Plans to Hire 1,000 Employees in Austin

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Indeed started out in 2004 to build a better search engine. Today, Austin-based Indeed is the world’s largest job site attracting 200 million unique monthly visitors. Indeed is focused on how people will find jobs in the 21st century, said Chris Hyams, its president. “More people find […] The post Indeed Plans to Hire 1,000 Employees in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Best Cities In America For Startups

YoungUpstarts

So you want to start a business. While there are some cities in America which are well-known for startups, some of them won’t be the best for everyone. These cities (which will go unnamed here, but are in California and Texas) may be famous for startups, but they are highly competitive and increasingly saturated with businesses just like the ones you want to start.

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How A Company Can Recover After Workplace Violence

YoungUpstarts

by Rob Wilson, CEO of Employco USA. A few days ago a gunman killed three people and injured 18 others in a small Kansas town. The shootings largely took place inside Excel Industries. As the country reels from yet another mass shooting, others are wondering if their office is safe or if their company is at all prepared for a violent attack. Following on the heels of the San Bernardino shooting and the WDBJ-TV shooting which occurred on live television, workplace violence is now becoming a hot b

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The Easiest, Most Affordable Content Marketing Tips You’ve Ever Heard

YFS Magazine

Great content marketing doesn’t require a big investment. Stick to a clear purpose, consistently create, learn and improve, and with time you’ll see the benefits.

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More proof there are many paths to the same destination

Start Up Blog

The people in this video below have been two of my digital mentors for a long time; Gary Vaynerchuk and Seth Godin. Seth even blurbed my book! Both are in a very similar market space, and I imagine they both share many of the same customers. They are both NYT best selling authors on business in the modern era. Both provide keynote speeches to old industrial centric businesses.

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7 Smart Data Management Tips For Small Business Owners??

YFS Magazine

Irrespective of the size of the data that is collected, collecting and managing data provides real value for small business owners.

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Why the ecosystem is more important than market share

Start Up Blog

The caterpillar hidden in a tomato from my garden is great news for me as the gardener. While it’s one less tomato to eat, the presence of this little creature is enhancing the ecosystem I’m trying to build. I’ll put that tomato back into the ground. There’ll be more bugs, and butterflies which will make my soil more fertile.

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Startups Can Benefit From Live Video Streaming Apps Like Periscope

YFS Magazine

If you're looking to leverage a live video streaming component with your social media efforts, here are two simple ways to get started.

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Every Shrink Has a Shrink

Austin Startup

March 6, 2016: “Physician, heal thyself.” (Luke 4:23) is a maxim that nearly all of us have heard. Continue reading on Medium ».

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How my friends (and I) manage Twitter followers #twitterpoll

Jeff Hilimire

I’m curious how people use Twitter these days ( me on Twitter ). I’ve recently gotten back into Twitter as a way to engage with friends and get an additional source of news. Recently when I blogged about how I get news/content , I didn’t even list Twitter. But a few of my close friends surprised me by listing Twitter as one of the top ways they get news, and that swayed me to give it another significant try.

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3 Simple Time Management Tips For Creatives That Work

Brandanew

A few years ago, when my team was working on consumer behavior that was data driven and didn’t really have to work on the creatives, things were decidedly different. In the creative world, when you’re sometimes struggling to find the right words, or the right design elements, things can quickly go south. Today, I’m going to share simple time management tips for creatives that truly work!

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Why Multimedia Production Will Push Your Brand Forward

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Multimedia Production Will Push Your Brand Forward written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Pixabay. It’s no secret that the way we do business today is far more dynamic and advanced than the way we did business even just ten years ago. The professional world has skyrocketed far beyond basic printed text when it comes to marketing; there are increasingly more outlets surfacing that allow us to tell the world about our products and services, and taking advantage o

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