Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 16, 2016
Most new entrepreneurs have great ideas, and many are highly skilled in building their solutions. Unfortunately, far fewer have the focus and experience of building and maintaining a highly engaged team. They don’t realize that strong team engagement leads to even stronger customer engagement, which can more than double your startup revenue and growth, according to experts.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 16, 2016
By Taryn Naidu, CEO of Rightside. One of the first and most important decisions any CEO, founder, or startup is going to make is what to name the company. It’s a decision that will inform every phase of your business’ future. And for years, entrepreneurs struggled between their desire for the perfect name and a rapidly diminishing supply of.COM domains.
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Up and Running
MAY 16, 2016
Do you find yourself driven by both entrepreneurial and humanitarian interests? Is it important to you to build a business you can be proud of, knowing you are making a positive difference in people’s lives? If any of this speaks to you, you could be an excellent candidate to start a home health care business. There’s never been a better time to do so— home health care is one of the largest growing industries , not just in North America, but around the globe.
Steve Blank
MAY 16, 2016
We just held our seventh week of the Hacking for Defense class. Now with over 750 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) almost all the teams are beginning to pivot from their original understanding of their sponsor’s problem and their hypotheses about how to solve them. Minimal viable products are being demo’d to sponsors and sponsors are reacting to what the teams are learning.
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
Brandanew
MAY 16, 2016
It’s a growing field. But many think of content as a field with a need for extensive resources that can’t fit into the plan of a lean startup or small business. While Google and Facebook have made content marketing fashionable, we do see a lot of people wondering if it is really worth the time. Does content marketing actually work? If you had just two seconds, the answer is a resounding YES!
YoungUpstarts
MAY 16, 2016
By Pamela Webber, Chief Marketing Officer at 99designs. For all the new freedoms and exciting milestones that entrepreneurship brings, there are also a number of unexpected road bumps that come up along the way. The good news is that there are also a ton of online resources that can help you get started and (hopefully) steer clear of common early-stage missteps.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 16, 2016
The business of fashion in the UK is continually growing and there’s no doubt that wedding dress shops in London are helping to make up a large chunk of its endearing popularity with bride’s travelling from around the UK and Europe to find the latest designs. According to the British Fashion Council, the country’s fashion industry is worth more than £26 billion which is double the size of the country’s car manufacturing industry.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 16, 2016
It's very easy to think that there is a clear cut difference between the really great ideas and the really bad ones. You believe that no matter when you get pitched, you'll usually do a good job of telling the difference between the two. Sure, most of the really low chance of success stuff--things in unworkably small markets, unprepared founders, or ideas that lack a clear user value proposition--falls away pretty quickly.
ConversionXL
MAY 16, 2016
Both your visitor and Google prefer your site to be fast. Increasing site speed has been shown to increase conversion rates as well as increase SERP rankings , both resulting in more money for your business. But A/B testing tools actually may slow down your site. We researched 8 different testing tools to show how your site performance is affected by each one.
SiliconHills
MAY 16, 2016
Today is an historic day for startup investing and fundraising. Title III of The Jobs Act goes into effect four years after President Barack Obama signed the act into law. That means companies, ranging from restaurants and bars to video game makers and software companies, can now raise funds through equity crowdfunding portals from mom […] The post Equity Based Crowdfunding Starts Nationwide Today appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 16, 2016
Cognitive biases are unconscious forces that affect our decision making, most of them negatively. Confirmation bias – the tendency to seek out information which confirms what we already believe is one of the most insidious, and sunk cost bias – the tendency to overvalue things in which we’ve invested is another common failing. However, there are a few cognitive biases that correlate with success.
The Startup Lawyer
MAY 16, 2016
Tech Wildcatters, the original Dallas accelerator, is hosting their first pitch day of 2016 on May 26th at the House of Blues in Dallas. Here’s the streamlined agenda: 12:45pm — Accredited Investor Preview 1:30pm — Doors Open to General Public 2:15pm — Program/Pitches 3:30pm — Happy Hour It’s free to attend, but be sure to register … Continue reading → The post Tech Wildcatters Pitch Day May 2016 appeared first on Startup Lawyer.
YFS Magazine
MAY 16, 2016
Investing in the well-being of your employees leads to increased productivity and a company culture competitive advantage. Start thinking about how you can incorporate health and wellness into your culture.
Austin Startup
MAY 16, 2016
This has been a difficult week for many Austinites. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
YFS Magazine
MAY 16, 2016
No supply chain is completely sturdy or invincible to changes in the market; there are too many moving pieces to make that a possibility. But, if you stick to these strategies and tips, you should be able to weather the storms.
SiliconHills
MAY 16, 2016
Austin’s home-grown delivery service, Favor, has just moved into some cool new digs in downtown Austin. The company, with 121 local employees, now occupies 12,000 square feet of office space at 1705 Guadalupe Street. It’s decked out with murals of Austin landmarks and favor delivery items in blue and white, Favor’s signature colors.
Austin Startup
MAY 16, 2016
One way to think about Uber and Lyft is as B2B2C companies who have to close enterprise software like deals with cities in order to get the… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
Hearpreneur
MAY 16, 2016
Share Because Instagram decided to make a change in their branding and more changes are on the horizon , we decided it was a good time to make a pivot in our logo design as well. You might have noticed that our website logo and color scheme has changed too. In addition, we have made a few changed at CEO Blog Nation- CBNation too! First Logo. Second Logo.
Guy Nirpaz
MAY 16, 2016
I’d like to be clear: Customer Health, is not designed to be a churn predictor. Think about yourself, going to a regular checkup at the doctor’s office. A good doctor will check your vital signs: blood pressure, height, weight and in some cases will ask for a blood test that goes deeper into various indications like body fat, cholesterol, vitamin deficiency and so on.
Hearpreneur
MAY 16, 2016
Share. This motivational speech is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start your week off on the right foot. Starting a business is extremely hard. Many people don’t understand the sacrifice that it takes financially and even emotionally. There will consistently be ups and downs but what you want to keep in mind is that it’s a process.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 16, 2016
Recently I was looking at a photo of a tree where you could see the roots. The artist was showing the entire tree, not just the part that sticks out of the ground. And I started to think, a tree is a great metaphor for a company. It starts as a little sapling, and it has to have all the right elements to build momentum. Enough of the right soil, enough (but not too much) sunlight, deer have to mind their own business, no bulldozers need to run over you, etc.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 16, 2016
5 Tools That Will Make You A Better Writer written by Alex Boyer read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I love writing. To me, there is nothing more cathartic or soothing than turning off the rest of the world and putting my thoughts to paper. This passion has made it easy for me to create content for Duct Tape Marketing. I don’t see it as a chore; I see it as an opportunity to relax.
Street Smart Product Manager
MAY 16, 2016
This is the BIG question, isn’t it? We all want to be the best at what we do. And product managers are no different. We want to be good. Great. Awesome. And we want to be recognized for it! We want to launch products people love. We want customers to love it. Our company’s to […]. The post How Do You Become A Good Product Manager? appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 16, 2016
There aren't many people who get the chance to analyze venture capital fund return data. You'd have to work for a very limited number of fund performance tracking firms, like Thomson Reuters, Cambridge, etc., or be an institution big enough to see a ton of different funds over time. So when someone gets access to a dataset, no matter how incomplete, it's no surprise they'll rush into making lots of declarative statements about how the asset class performs without even a reasonable gut check.
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 16, 2016
Also Available On. Show Summary. Welcome to Episode 88 of the Profit First Podcast! WARNING: this episode contains references to spiritual and biblical beliefs… and if that scares you off it’s unfortunate. Today we have the privilege of speaking to famed author Edwene Gaines about the concepts of her book, The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity: A Simple Guide to Unlimited Abundance.
VC Cafe
MAY 16, 2016
Startup landscape maps remain, in my opinion, one of the best ways to quickly scan an industry vertical and understand how it breaks down into sub sectors. In this post, I collected the top startup landscape visualizations for Israel, covering VR/AR, Fintech, IOT, DevOps and Cybersecurity. By the nature of the fast moving market, they tend to get out of date quickly, yet still I find them one of the most effective ways to scan a vertical when I start researching.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 16, 2016
Last week I was on vacation and off the grid. Amy and I decided to stay home, rest, just hang out, and read. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right was first on the list. I have a very cynical attitude toward politics, especially in the context of big money, so I was fascinated by this book. I’d read snippets about it and had read the New Yorker article Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama by Ja
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