Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2015

If you're an aspiring entrepreneur, you need to take a hard look at yourself before leaving that regular paycheck. Don't assume you will be happier and make more money starting the business of your dreams. The good and the bad news is that as an entrepreneur, you won’t have a manager charged with directing your efforts or peers helping you implement, and your new team will be quick to tell you only what you want to hear.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Also Available On. Show Summary. Joseph Shemesh and Ethan Anderson join us for Episode 40 of the Profit First Podcast. Joseph shares his expertise on heat mapping for your website. Ethan discusses the new age of booking appointments with your clients. Our Guests. Joseph Shemesh (left). Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. A long-time entrepreneur, Joseph founded/co-founded many technological companies throughout the years.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2015

Who says business can’t be fun? Leadership is not just about productivity, strategy, and tactics – much more important is the fact that great leadership is about people. Strong leaders never lose sight of the individuals who make up their team and never stop working to make the team stronger. A great team is at once a reflection of its leadership, but it also defines its leaders.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

I did one of my last proofs of the SAP Nation 2.0 manuscript (available for preorder at Amazon) while watching the GOP debate last week. I should say I tried to do both, but the debate dominated my attention In.

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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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Brandanew

AUGUST 10, 2015

Organic content is very good for your online health and certainly adds longevity to your brand presence. This kind of evergreen content is usually that which is inspired. The inspiration can come from anywhere including movies, books or influencers that you follow. Mine usually happens to come from graphic novelists and authors. Here are a few tricks with which your brands can create remarkable content to talk to your consumers because that’s what creates a real bond. 5 Creative Ways In W

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2015

by Choosing a product to sell on Amazon is the most important determinant for your success. Everything about your business and the decisions you make depends on your product, so you can see why choosing your product is an important decision. If you pick a bad product (i.e it doesn’t meet the criteria for a profitable product), it doesn’t matter what else you get right – finding a great supplier, settling on a good price, your product is of great quality, your listing is awesome – yo

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2015

Business owners who have tried to register domain names for their businesses may have found that those domains may have been taken up by someone else. In some of those cases, especially where it mirrors trademarked names of brands and products, they may have been registered by those who seek to profit by selling it to the brand name owners. This is called cybersquatting, also known as domain squatting.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 10, 2015

My long time friend Jeff Hyman has started a new business called Startup Therapist. In addition to a different hair style and some great content, he has an interview up with me. I was a seed investor in Jeff’s first company, Career Central. It was the very first investment I did at Mobius (via Softbank – prior to us raising our first fund) and it was doing great until the Internet bubble collapsed and no one was hiring anyone.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 10, 2015

How do I protect my business idea? How can I find investors without giving it away? How can I get people to join me without telling them all about it? What if they steal my idea? Here’s the hard truth about protecting your business ideas: You don’t own your idea, and you can’t sell it. You don’t own your idea. An idea is like a summer breeze—you can enjoy it, maybe use it to power your windmill or sailboat, but you can’t own it.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 10, 2015

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Invictus Medical is a homegrown San Antonio biomedical startup focused on improving the lives of newborns. In 2010, Daniel Mendez, Israel Cruz and Nicholas Flores, all engineering undergraduates at the University of Texas at San Antonio, invented a device, initially called the aqua bonnet, during an engineering […] The post Invictus Medical Sells a Device to Help Newborn Babies appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 10, 2015

Nir Eyal recently wrote a great post speculating that ‘Assistant-as-app’ companies might be the next big tech trend. I think he’s right – it’s a trend that has legs, but it’s also a trend that has been going for a couple of years already but hasn’t yet been given a good label. Magic and Operator are the companies in this space that have made the biggest splash recently but companies like Thread.com and Big Health from our portfolio and like Native and

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YFS Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2015

Here’s our weekly link roundup of small business buzz, musings and muchness. A curation of the best small business talk around the web.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2015

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. What we think, we become. . The best revenge is massive success. . There enough people telling us we’re not good enough. Why do we want to do that? Find out what makes you thrive. What you live for. When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe. .

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YFS Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2015

A career shift of any kind can be the ideal way for any person to explore their previously underused talents.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 10, 2015

There were a lot of past Spunlogic and Engauge team members at my house this weekend! . One of the things I’m most proud of with my first company, Spunlogic , is the culture that we had there. I can brag a little about that because it wasn’t really by design. We just had a belief that if people loved the place they worked, and the people they worked with, that they’d do great work.

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YFS Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2015

These simple travel tips will help make your future business travel a breeze.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2015

5 Steps to Optimize Your Website Like a Pro written by Alex Boyer read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Google via photopin (license). Everyone uses search engines to find products and companies these days. About 60% of all consumers use Google search to find businesses, and over 80% of online searches result in direct sales or in-store visits.

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