Wed.Apr 30, 2014

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#TrackThis Episode 4: How Do You Measure Happiness?

Up and Running

'Welcome to episode four of #TrackThis, my recurring webinar series with Matt Rissell, CEO of TSheets ! This episode’s topic is a big deal for my company, and that’s why I wanted to share it with you. Happy employees are more productive, and they’ll make your company better. Money spent on employee happiness is money well spent! And I hear all of the time—and as you’ll hear in this webinar, even Matt feels this way—that current company leaders who are addressing employee

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London – Home Of Award Winning Startup Bike Makers

YoungUpstarts

'The start of every year is marked with “awards season” – a flurry of ceremonies celebrating the great and good that has perhaps been developed to keep everyone in an aspirational frame of mind during those dark winter months. In London cycling gets its own taste of awards season, with prizes presented at Bespoked – the UK Handmade Bicycle Show – in April.

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As a VC or angel investor, how has your approach to investing changed over time?

Gust

'The biggest change is the one that ALL serious angel investors eventually arrive at: no matter how smart or experienced you are, there are simply too many exogenous factors affecting outcomes for you to be able to pick only winners. Having now invested in over 85 startups, and finding that my personal metrics are very similar to aggregated industry ones, it is clear that (a) there is little to no correlation between my home runs and my personal favorites, and (b) angel investing done correctly

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Protecting Your Business Abroad

YoungUpstarts

'The global nature of today’s business world presents exciting opportunities that simply did not exist years ago. However, all opportunities also entail a risk – one of the dangers of international business today is the threat to your intellectual property. You may have registered your idea or product at home and installed the requisite cyber-security measures necessary.

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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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How to Build Buzz with Small Business Public Relations and Content Strategy

Rembrandt Communications

'Boost sales and online awareness fast and cost-effectively. Recently, I was fortunate enough to be interviewed on “Black Hollywood Live’s Phenomenal Women.” I had a great time during the interview, and the host and I discussed “How to Build Buzz.” With this in mind, I thought I’d share some tips with you on how you […].

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Man vs. machine: Which is better at converting sales?

The Next Web

'Ofer Yourvexel is the CEO of WRNTY, developing leading order taking apps and sales management software. Technology replaces people – that’s a fact. The things that made our society more productive could now be contributing to its decline as humans are less in demand. But have we arrived at the point where the salesman is no longer needed at all? Let’s find out in the ultimate battle of man versus machine.

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5 Forgotten Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses

Up and Running

'Events still bring in big boosts in sales. These days a startup or entrepreneur can use any number of web-based techniques to spread the word of their business, and these include such strategies as using SEO (search engine optimization), social media marketing, and ‘PPC campaigns’ (which consist of advertisements that are paid for on a ‘per click’ basis).

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The First Step To Making A Million Dollars

Mike Michalowicz

'There are a few things that are repeating over and over in my head. One is this horrible Milli Vanilli song that played on the radio a couple days back. “Blame it on the rain that was falling, falling.” For God’s sake, I’m humming (oops, I mean, lip syncing) the tune right now as I type this blog post. The other thing that continues to play in my head is the question I get asked routinely.

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Who, Why, When: 15 Minute Due Diligence for the Modern Investor

Growthink Blog

'Over the last two weeks we have discussed the motivations of private equity investors , and then characteristics of companies with breakout potential. So now we are at brass tacks: actually making Yes/No decisions on specific deals and opportunities. In other words, handicapping the probability of a company’s investment return projections actually coming to pass.

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The Joy of Exits: apprupt Sold

Babbling VC

'I was happy to recently see that apprupt had sold. This was one of my early investments at Neuhaus Partners and in hindsight probably one of the more fruitful ones. Did it deliver crazy returns? Not really. Was it internationally known and a market leader in a super hot space? Also not really. Then why is it relevant? Well, it''s an investment I made because of.the founders, a company I stayed engaged with.because of the founders and a company where I remain friends.with the founders.

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Softletter’s Saas and Cloud Applications University Returns to Austin

SiliconHills

'Are you a SAS startup or company? Then there’s a conference coming to Austin you may be interested in. And last night at Startup Grind San Antonio I announced that you can get a free ticket – but only for a handful of people so act quick. (Full disclosure the conference is an advertiser on […] The post Softletter’s Saas and Cloud Applications University Returns to Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Why doesn’t British Airways Want to Make Money?

VC Adventure

'British Airways parent company finally got back into the black in 2013, presumably benefitting from an increasingly favorable global economy. They certainly were not benefitting by their own policies as I unfortunately found out recently. I’m writing this post in the hopes of gaining an explanation for why BA would behave so stupidly. Here’s the quick summary: A few months ago I purchased tickets from BA that were basically two round trips (one inside the other).

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How Techstars Affirms Today’s Top Technological Trends

ReadWriteStart

The Platform is a regular column by mobile editor Dan Rowinski. Ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence and pervasive networks are changing the way humans interact with everything. Twittering laughter fills the air at the new Techstars office on the edge of Chinatown in Boston, as dozens of young engineers, designers, and marketers gather to raise a glass to Katie Rae, a startup veteran with short, curly blond hair and unstoppable energy.

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I’m making some terrible mistakes right now

Start Up Blog

'The problem is that I’m not exactly sure what they are. The passing of time is the only thing that will actually reveal them to me. As much I want to avoid making mistakes, I know I’m doing some things right now which will just look silly or uninformed once I look back at them. Last night I was looking back at my life in 5 year increments thinking about the things I’ve done, some of the projects I’ve undertaken and how I would have done things differently in hind sight I

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Franchisee Identifies a “Hole” in the Market

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Keith Deerkoski. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Franchisee Identifies a “Hole” in the Market appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Last night’s Advice For Good event was amazing

Jeff Hilimire

'Last night was a perfect example of why I created Advice For Good. We had our kick-off event and I was blown away by the support from everyone who attended. And the Atlanta Community Food Bank was an INCREDIBLE host! We kicked off with an intimate startup talk with Sanjay Parekh and Ed Trimble where they went back and forth telling stories about their early startup days.

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Why doesn’t British Airways Want to Make Money?

VC Adventure

British Airways parent company finally got back into the black in 2013, presumably benefitting from an increasingly favorable global economy. They certainly were not benefitting by their own policies as I unfortunately found out recently. I’m writing this post in the hopes of gaining an explanation for why BA would behave so stupidly. Here’s the quick summary: A few months ago I purchased tickets from BA that were basically two round trips (one inside the other).

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Universal Analytics: Understanding the Value of the User-ID w/ Justin Cutroni

ConversionXL

'You may have heard that Google recently announced that Universal Analytics was officially out of beta. But what does that mean & more importantly, how can you take advantage of Universal Analytics to improve your business? Let’s start with the basics. You don’t need to run out and upgrade to Universal Analytics right now, but it should be on your roadmap.