YoungUpstarts
JULY 4, 2014
'Traveling is a passion. You can take every opportunity to travel, no matter where it takes you. Some practices that allow people to travel so much are budgeting, putting money aside monthly, traveling inexpensively and maximizing the travel benefits you get with a travel credit card. When these things are done wisely, you’d be surprised at how many trips you can go on each year.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 4, 2014
'Time is too precious to waste trying to close a deal with the wrong investors at the wrong time. Luckily, not all investors are looking for the same thing, so it pays to know what type of investors are most interested in what your startup brings to the table. The key is understanding how potential investors see you, and especially how they view the maturity stage of your startup.
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YoungUpstarts
JULY 4, 2014
'by Ben Acheson. Your website is looking a little dated, and you just got off the phone with your web designer. You’re still not sure exactly what changes to make and you don’t want to just throw money at your website. That never works. What you need are design elements that will pay off. Here are five that you might not have thought of yet: Designing For Mobile.
The Next Web
JULY 4, 2014
'Alex Manthei is the Community Manager at mention, a media monitoring app that lets you monitor, react, collaborate and analyze your online presence. This article was co-written with Shannon Byrne, mention’s content and PR Manager. No matter what you do in life, chances are good you’re reliant on some kind of a community. People to read your writing.
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
The Equity Kicker
JULY 4, 2014
'It’s been widely reported this morning that music downloads are now in decline. If you take the launch of the first iPod as the date when music downloads started to become a meaningful market then the time from inception to decline is a meagre 13 years. As an indicator of the significance of the download market, remember that it was the iPod that saved Apple after Jobs returned to the company – according to Wikipedia iPod revenues peaked at $4bn in Q4 2007 and were 42% of Apple̵
The Next Web
JULY 4, 2014
'Whether we like it or not, these days, tech is one of the most important aspects of business — even for businesses that aren’t primarily tech-focused. Hiring the perfect technical lead is crucial to your product’s success, but if you’re not a technical person yourself, finding that person can be tough. With this in mind, I asked a panel of successful founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: What is one unusual way you vet potential technical hires and why does
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Mike Michalowicz
JULY 4, 2014
'The world of sales is a touchy area. Say one wrong thing and it can literally break the sale. Getting a sale often relies a lot upon making sure you say the right thing and ask the right questions. It also relies upon not asking the wrong questions! This can be an even bigger mistake than not asking the right ones. The biggest mistake that you can do in trying to make a sale is to ask the customer, “What do you think the solution is?
Feld Thoughts
JULY 4, 2014
'I love origin stories. The moment of the beginning of something new, or a key point in the founding of something, is always powerful to me. On the 238th birthday of the United States of America, I think it’s useful to reflect on America’s origin story. So, after seeing an email by Bart Lorang at FullContact where he said that he read the Declaration of Independence to his new son, Laser Lorang, I decide to go read it again.
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