YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

by Andrea Martins, co-founder of GreenSocks. Have you ever fallen in love so passionately with someone or something that you find yourself addicted to their every tweet, video or Facebook update? I have, thanks to Sam Altman, the President of Y Combinator. Not that I fell in love with Sam himself. He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shi

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Up and Running

JUNE 15, 2015

Do you want to learn how you can get big brand value on a small business budget? What can you do to increase customer loyalty, and get the recognition your business needs? Discover what a brand is, why it matters, and how easy it is to create one for your business. If you completed our Big Brand Challenge (it’s ok if you haven’t yet), then your brand is ready to conquer the world!

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deal architect

JUNE 15, 2015

I am writing the sequel to SAP Nation to update it for the launch of S/4HANA. I analyze the launch and also delve into the history of next-gen products in enterprise software over two decades to provide some perspective on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

With the uptick in the economy, as an active startup mentor, I’m seeing a new surge of entrepreneurs and startups, with the commensurate scramble for funding. There just aren’t enough Angel investors and VCs to go around. Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the backdoor as a reverse merger. A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cos

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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

JUNE 15, 2015

Yes, content marketing is all about telling your existing and potential customers how your product or service can make a big difference in their lives without sounding like a desperate door to door salesman. It is not just about jotting down a few lines on how to use something or what it does but building strong relationships with your growing audience.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

Contractors are those who operate via their own professional companies, and are similar but not the same as a freelancer. The main difference is that a contractor is bound by a contract. The distinction is subtle but those in the field, and their accountants, need to know what these differences mean, such as a difference in tax brackets and IR35 legislation.

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The Next Web

JUNE 15, 2015

Introducing a new idea into the market and turning a profit is a feat in itself. But what happens when your startup has reached its limits on a local scale, tempting you to see how far your company can really go? As a company that started locally in Canada — and currently making a push to expand into the US market and other countries — we have taken on a number of strategies that will help many entrepreneurs work around the challenges that continue to face small business expansion overseas.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2015

I just pushed out a major update to the Startup Revolution site. This is the URL that I use for all the books I’ve been involved in and all the discussions around the books. Take a look and give me feedback. Special bonus points for finding bugs. The post Help Me Debug The New Startup Revolution Site appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 15, 2015

I was chatting with a friend about going to work for startup companies, and told her that career development really came down to two simple things: 1. Do you know what you do? Do you offer a clear deliverable , best suited for a particular segment of customers or clients, that aligns with their near term goals ? In other words, do you "do marketing" or do you "help seed and Series A backed companies test and optimize their marketing content, deploy it across multiple channels, and analyze the cu

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2015

I write often about setting goals and defining strategy, but I rarely think about those things in a personal context. What should my own goals be for the next 10 years and beyond? What strategies can I use to accomplish those goals? As startup founders go, I am a pretty old guy. When we started working on the earliest iterations of crowdSPRING I was already well into my 40’s and, well, time marches on.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

by Marcel Daane, author of “ Headstrong Performance: Improve Your Mental Performance With Nutrition, Exercise, and Neuroscience “ It’s Monday morning, and Michael, a senior executive at a global telecommunications company, faces the week utterly exhausted. Only 38, he’s been a high-level leader with the firm for more than a decade.

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 15, 2015

Rather than wishing you had a larger marketing budget, use these five tips to generate press exposure.

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Hippoland

JUNE 15, 2015

Dear elizy: I’m raising a seed round, and an investor asked me if I would take an acquisition offer if someone offered me one today. Why is he asking me this? And, is there a wrong answer? -Selling myself in San Francisco Dear Selling Myself: This is definitely a common question! Before, I answer that, let’s go through some of the math around startup investing.

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 15, 2015

Being a leader doesn’t come with a how-to guide, but a couple of key tactics can go a long way.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 15, 2015

Winners are always developing a thicker skin. They are always working on the areas of their life they need to improve in. How to get a little tougher and win: Sometimes it takes a push. Get serious about getting help. It takes a team. Focus on what you’re doing right now. Big goals start with small steps. You can’t stop fueling your desire.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 15, 2015

I loved the book, The Martian. And the preview for the upcoming movie looks amazing: And this video interview with the author is fantastic: Big shoutout to @simianlogic for suggesting I read this book!

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 15, 2015

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past four weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. Dear Founders: As smart as Larry and Sergey are, they tried to sell Google to Excite in 1999 for less than $1 million.

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Up and Running

JUNE 15, 2015

Your business is doing okay—but it’s not the raving success you were hoping for. There’s no time like the present to look at new ways to bring it back to life. Below are some tips to help re-ignite your business, and your own enthusiasm. Try the Zappos way. Zappos infuses customer service into everything they do. In a sea of online competition, CEO Tony Hsieh is driven to “deliver happiness” to both customers and employees.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

By Aaron K. Olson and B. Keith Simerson, co-authors of “ Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results “ Successful entrepreneurs walk the proverbial “razor’s edge.” Their challenge: to leverage the personal attributes that contributed to their initial success while figuring out what it takes to remain successful on an ongoing basis.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 15, 2015

Also Available On. Show Summary. Bestselling author Noah Fleming, and UK Xero’s Managing Director, Gary Turner, join us for Episode 32 of the Profit First Podcast. Noah and Gary share their marketing and customer service tips. Our Guests. Noah Fleming (left). Noah is a marketing expert. As a thought leader in strategic marketing and customer loyalty, Noah helps clients dramatically and rapidly increase sales, multiply profits, and maximize customer value.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 15, 2015

In the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store we currently have two vibrant mobile app ecosystems. Going back a few years the prevailing wisdom was that network effects would ultimately make this a winner takes all markets and that over time users and developers would eventually coalesce on a single platform. That was the lesson we all learned from Windows in the 1990s.

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