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How I Knew That I Could Bootstrap My Company

YoungUpstarts

by Aytekin Tank, founder & CEO of JotForm. In the realm of software and internet companies, 2006 was a whole different landscape, and it was the year that I founded JotForm. At the time, most users accessed the web through Internet Explorer. Facebook had just opened its doors to outside college campuses. Myspace was the largest social networking website in the world.

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The Fall enterprise event season

deal architect

September to November brings many enterprise events – Oracle OpenWorld, Workday Rising, Salesforce Dreamforce and others. I am looking forward, this year, to updates on core ERP, HCM and CRM functionality, but also hope to hear more around: a) Use.

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Should You Automate Your Business’ Social Media Feeds?

YoungUpstarts

Social media is a great way to promote your brand and products. It is also a way to connect with customers directly. Thanks to today’s best social networks, it is possible for brands and companies to interact with users in real-time and on a personal level. The whole experience that social networks present allows brands to market itself more effectively.

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4 Valuable Lessons That Changed My Business

YFS Magazine

I've learned many invaluable entrepreneurship lessons that have changed my business forever. To be honest, I wish I'd learned them sooner.

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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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Essentials You’ll Need Before You Launch Your Non-Profit Organisation

YoungUpstarts

It could be that you are in the early stages of considering whether or not your idea for a non-profit organization is viable or not. Or, it could be that you have already taken the big leap and go things in motion! Either way, congratulations. Even getting as far as you have is inspirational and something to be proud of in itself. However, as you surely know, setting up a non-profit organization is a challenging thing.

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FullContact Continues Its Journey To Solve The Contact Management Problem

Feld Thoughts

When we invested in FullContact in 2012, they were a small team with a big vision to create One Address Book To Rule Them All. Over the past four years, they’ve systematically executed on their vision, building a contact management platform that touches all aspects of the problem. Along the way they built a sizable business. Two weeks ago FullContact raised a $25 million round.

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Are These 5 Common Marketing Mistakes Putting Your Brand A Risk?

YFS Magazine

It doesn’t matter how shiny or sparkly we look, we need to be aware of the way we communicate and offer value to everyone around us.

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ThousandEyes Sets up Austin Office

SiliconHills

ThousandEyes, a San Francisco-based network intelligence company, announced Wednesday plans to open a sales and customer service office in Austin. The company also named Victoria Abeling to head up the office as director of corporate sales. ThousandEyes plans to hire about 30 sales and customer service employees by the end of the year to staff […] The post ThousandEyes Sets up Austin Office appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Are These 5 Common Marketing Mistakes Putting Your Brand At Risk?

YFS Magazine

It doesn’t matter how shiny or sparkly we look, we need to be aware of the way we communicate and offer value to everyone around us.

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Celebrate your mistakes!

Berkonomics

How do you teach your work force that mistakes are OK as long as they learn and don’t repeat them? By being a visible example. A friend and fellow CEO states that he publishes each of his mistakes in his company internal blog along with the lesson he learned. “If the CEO can do this, he gives permission for anyone to confess as well,” he states. You may not know it but the National Transportation Safety Board has for years offered a reporting program for pilots, air controllers and others inv

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The WOW Factor: Being a Youthful Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Share Here is my advice to young entrepreneurs, which applies as much to them as it does to me: Pursue your passion because, if you believe in the quality of your idea and enjoy the creative process, youth is neither a handicap nor a hindrance to success. It is, instead, an opportunity – time is our most sacred commodity – to learn from one’s mistakes, and to succeed more rapidly – and extensively – than someone many years older than you.

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Fresh from the SPRING: RoyalSmart

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for RoyalSmart. Check out more great work on RoyalSmart’s profile page. Nicely done, RoyalSmart, nicely done!

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What makes people want to work for you

Austin Startup

Reading Time: 4 minutes This week I decided to switch things up and ask my own question to Lawrence Coburn, the founder and CEO of… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Traveling the World

Up and Running

Starting a new venture, or just feel like your business is stuck in a rut? I can help with that. You’ll hear me talk about my experience as a member of the Entrepreneurial Scholars program at the University of Portland (shameless plug for my awesome university) repeatedly in other articles. The university provides a fantastic opportunity for business majors and non-majors alike to start and grow a business venture in a school year.

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Build a Solid and Truly Useful Customer Survey System

Duct Tape Marketing

Build a Solid and Truly Useful Customer Survey System written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Pexels. Customer surveys are the most direct way of understanding your clients’ needs and preferences. The success of your business rests in their hands. If they are not satisfied, there’s very little you can do to make your business grow.

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3 Landing Page Blunders That Can Kill Your Conversions

Duct Tape Marketing

3 Landing Page Blunders That Can Kill Your Conversions written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Can you hear it? Bounce, bounce, bounce. No, that’s not the distant sound of the discotheque down the street. That’s the sound of visitors leaving your landing page. Visitors you’ll never see again. Something on your landing page is throwing your visitors off and making them turn around.