YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2013

'By Emily Miller. If you own a brick and mortar store, you’re the one who decides what your business hours will be and then hangs the sign on the door. And if you run a mom-and-pop shop, you may even be there during most of those hours. As a store owner, you’d never open late or close early. The hours on your door serve as a guarantee to your customers, and if they can’t trust you to be open when they come to you, they’ll find another place to shop.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 27, 2013

'Join the Application Developers Alliance at a Boulder Developer Patent Summit August 28 at 6 PM at FUSE Coworking. The event is a chance to share stories of demand letters and lawsuits from trolls, discuss legal strategies and litigation costs, and share ideas for software patent reform. DATE: August 28th | FREE | 6pm. LOCATION: The Riverside (FUSE Coworking) | 1724 Broadway | Boulder, CO 80302.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 27, 2013

'At the Pike Powers Lab this morning, Nest Labs, based in Palo Alto, announced it has selected SPOT BPO LLC. to help expand its technical support and customer service in Austin. SPOT BPO is locating in a 27,000 square foot building at 6800 Burleson Road in the Bergstrom Technology Center. The center will house about […] The post SPOT BPO to Add 140 Jobs at New Call Center appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2013

'Every startup founder feels the pressure of the thousands of things that need to get done, all seemingly at the same time. There is just not enough time! The real solution is better productivity and less procrastination, to put you back in control of your business. You need to spend time on important things, as well as the urgent. Many entrepreneurs waste too much time on low-priority administrative tasks, procrastinating on higher priority but tougher tasks, resulting in last minute crises, an

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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

AUGUST 27, 2013

'So you’re put in the position of a leader at your workplace, but do you have the chops for it? But what skills should one have to be an effective leader? Here’s an interesting infographic from New England College Online Master of Science in Leadership that highlights five of the most important leadership traits. According to them, a leader needs skills that help him or her in: 1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 27, 2013

'Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Last week, Eric sat down with developer Dan Milstein --one of the most popular speakers from the 2012 Lean Startup Conference --for a webcast conversation on getting engineers into the Lean Startup cycle. If you missed it, go ahead and watch it here. And if you have questions, post them in the comments here; Eric and Dan will be jumping in to answer.

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Rembrandt Communications

AUGUST 27, 2013

'Get a head start on the busy months ahead Can you believe it’s almost September?! The summer is flying by, and soon, it will be the busy, sales season. Are you ready for it? If not, now is the time to prepare. Here are three things you can do right now to get the most […].

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 27, 2013

'I can’t make angel investments in tech companies anymore because of my Foundry Group fund agreements. So I’ve been making angel investments in food companies. Justin’s Nut Butter , Rick’s Picks , Blue Bottle Coffee , and Quinn Popcorn are some recent examples. I figure if things don’t work out at least I can eat some of the inventory.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 27, 2013

'Don’t quote price ranges. When you tell a prospect that your offering falls somewhere between X (the lowest price) and Y (the highest price), you both lose. The prospect will hear what’s in their best interest: X. The vendor (you) will hear what’s in your best interest: Y. No matter what price you settle on, the customer will pay more than they expected and you will make less.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 27, 2013

'A study by the Texas Tech University has found that five hours of mediation training over two weeks leads to increased activity in the areas of the brain associated with self control: The researchers also conducted brain scans of participants before and after the training regiments, finding that at resting state, participants in the meditation group had increased activity in the anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortex brain areas.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 27, 2013

'Marketing is an unusual business indeed, encompassing art, science, psychology, sociology and economics. With so many different factors in play all at the same time, it is hardly surprising that even the world’s most powerful and successful companies are susceptible to costly and embarrassing mistakes. As a marketing consultant, I try to help the small businesses I work with to get things right with the small budgets they have, but apparently having near-unlimited funds does not preclude some o

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

'Mobile marketing is here, and it''s here to stay. Interestingly, I both hate and love mobile marketing. Here''s what I hate about it, and particularly, my frustrations with mobile phones: 1. I''ve seen families out to dinner together where 2 or more of the family members are on their mobile phones (come on, it''s family time) 2. I''ve seen kids spending too much time texting and playing games on mobile phones, when they should be reading, playing sports, doing school work, etc. 3.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 27, 2013

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Julie Huls, president and CEO of the Austin Technology Council, said Monday night that now, while Austin’s considered a bastion of “cool” and tech is growing, now is the time to address local tech needs going forward. To that end, ATC has spent the last few years […] The post Austin Tech Needs Rebranding Says ATC’s Julie Huls appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2013

'How To Extend Facebook With New Embedded Posts Feature written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Facebook recently rolled out a new feature to all users. The feature is called Embedded Posts and works much like the embedding feature from content networks such as YouTube. The feature is currently working on both personal profile posts and pages.

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Bryce Dot VC

AUGUST 27, 2013

'Last December I pinged Chris Anderson with a simple question- which of 3D Robotics drones should I buy my 8 year old son, Max, for Christmas? At the time, I thought it was a pretty simple question with, what I assumed was a pretty simple answer. The email thread that followed opened my eyes to just how DIY the company’s products were. From placing an order to flying Max’s drone would require not only purchasing a wide variety of parts and installing numerous software downloads, but would also r

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Early Growth Financial Services

AUGUST 27, 2013

'Originally published in Inc. Acquiring new customers is a permanent fixture of your sales process. But how do you develop new strategies to earn new business? Try these ideas from the Young Entrepreneur Council. We asked successful founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council to name some unusual—or at least lesser-known—customer acquisition strategies they’ve used recently to strong results.

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Bryce Dot VC

AUGUST 27, 2013

'And here’s a quick video of the Iris in action. I love that drones are giving us a new view onto the world. A we’ve not been able to capture before at these altitudes and at this fidelity.

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Business Plan Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

'Multi-Device Retail Preference. Multi-device usage is quickly becoming the norm in consumer behavior. Consumers will research a product on their phone or iPad, test the product in a brick-and-mortar store, and go home to purchase the product online from their laptop computer. While this shift to multi-device usage can make it difficult for marketers to reach their consumers, it does come with added benefits.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 27, 2013

'I sit on the sand. The slight breeze brushes the most precarious of formations. One grain tumbles, nudging a few others, a recursive Fibonacci cascade dampening to zero as quickly as it began — an ant-sized, blink-lengthed avalanche. It’s happening everywhere, three times a second, in the corners of perception, yet never where I happen to be currently fixated.

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