Mike Michalowicz
JULY 19, 2013
'My business sure ain’t an episode of Mad Men. I don’t spend my day lounging on a couch sipping scotch, and I often wonder why I bother to keep an office at all. I’m constantly on the move, and that means my business has to move with me. Take a typical day: I arrive in a new city at 2am, catch a cab to an unfamiliar hotel, check email and discover that a new project has come in during my flight.
crowdSPRING Blog
JULY 19, 2013
'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
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The Next Web
JULY 19, 2013
'“We had bookings at midnight, one AM last night and six ‘o’ clock this morning. I had a couple of calls, two people had booked and were in pain. ‘I’ve booked in Tower Bridge’ ‘I’ve Booked in Soho’. So I said, ‘great, did you read the email, everything’s fine.’”. This is currently the life of Lloyd Price, ex- Badoo man and founder of Zesty , a service that will find you a dentist in London at the click of a button. “’Yeah but I just need to know is the appointment booked?’.
deal architect
JULY 19, 2013
'In March I asked why Dynamics teams alway lag in leveraging innovations like Azure, Surface, Lync and others that Microsoft colleagues are developing just down the office. Maybe I spoke too soon. Josh Greenbaum does not have too many kind.
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
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2013
'Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup Founders dilemmas in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above. The dilemma is that these goals are usually mutually exclusive.
The Startup Toolkit
JULY 19, 2013
'false I’ve tried a bunch of work/life balances over the past 7ish years: Full-on startup. Four of us living & working under one roof, with an unhealthy peer pressure around working harder and longer. We always thought things would get better once we raised the next funding round. Turns out that money doesn’t fix bad culture. We’d moved the company from SF to London to be closer to our customers and I decided to stay there.
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Mike Michalowicz
JULY 19, 2013
'Have you ever noticed that when someone else is talking that you struggle to listen. And what if you are in a crowded room, and other people are texting and talking and the such? How do you stay focused? The most simple way, believe it or not, is to use imagery. Picture a telephone, the old school type with a cord, held up to your ear with a long cord running directly from you to the speaker.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 19, 2013
'New York-based provider of alternative business financing solutions AmeriMerchant has announced a new US$60 million credit line aimed at helping provide more capital to small and medium-sized businesses nationwide through its merchant cash advance program as well as its small business loan program through its sister company, Main Street Business Loans. “This new credit line will allow AmeriMerchant and Main Street Business Loans to keep up with the growing demand in the marketplace of sm
The Next Web
JULY 19, 2013
'Maker’s Row, the startup that wants to put US businesses back in touch with US manufacturers, has successfully nabbed a cool $1 million of seed funding. The cash injection comes from a round led by Comcast Ventures and Index Ventures that included follow on funding from prominent angels such as Joanne Wilson and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Matthew Burnett, CEO of Maker’s Row, said: “From first-time entrepreneurs to big brands, everyone faces the same problem when it comes to finding a fa
David Teten
JULY 19, 2013
'(Previously published in Forbes.). Congratulations on your new job! Now, how do you make sure that you keep it? 46% of newly-hired employees will fail within 18 months, while only 19% will achieve unequivocal success, according to a study by Leadership IQ. Of those that fail, only 11% lacked the necessary technical skills. The overwhelming majority (89%) have other difficulties integrating into the workplace, with coachability, emotional IQ, temperament, and motivation being particularly commo
The Equity Kicker
JULY 19, 2013
'This graphic comes from a post on Venture Village about design thinking for startups but it should apply equally to investment companies. Here at Forward Labs we are continuing to iterate and develop our investment product to make it more attractive to entrepreneurs. We offer a bundle of strategic advice, development services, marketing support, design advice, product management, office space and cash that are designed to dramatically increase the chances of an entrepreneur succeeding and we as
David Teten
JULY 19, 2013
'(Previously published in Forbes.). Congratulations on your new job! Now, how do you make sure that you keep it? 46% of newly-hired employees will fail within 18 months, while only 19% will achieve unequivocal success, according to a study by Leadership IQ. Of those that fail, only 11% lacked the necessary technical skills. The overwhelming majority (89%) have other difficulties integrating into the workplace, with coachability, emotional IQ, temperament, and motivation being particularly commo
Up and Running
JULY 19, 2013
'It started in the 1990s with “Google” and “Yahoo” (which, if you didn’t know, named themselves after a misspelling of the huge number “googol” and an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”, respectively). Next came Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Yelp and Bing. And now we’re meeting Spotify , Vine , Airbnb , Giphy and countless others with quirky names that don’t have much to do with the product or service the company s
SiliconHills
JULY 19, 2013
'OpenIncubate, a new accelerator program focused on startups creating open source software and hardware, launched this week. The program is backed by Austin Ventures in Austin, Battery Ventures in Boston and The Valley Fund in Menlo Park, Calif. OpenIncubate is currently accepting applications. “Our aim is to make 6-8 seed investments in the coming 12-18 [.
ConversionXL
JULY 19, 2013
'An average of 67.75% of all online shopping carts are abandoned according to Baymard Institute, an independent web research company. Think about that for a second, for all of the work you’ve spent optimizing landing pages, pricing strategies, and perfecting your information architecture, just about 7 out of every 10 people are going to stop at the finish line.
Jeff Hilimire
JULY 19, 2013
'This is a blindpost from the article, What’s the one thing successful people never do , by Bernard Marr. Sticking with the blindpost rules, I didn’t read his article until I finished my post. In fact, do me a favor and before you read this, think about what you think might be the answer. What do YOU think the one thing successful people never do is?
Jeff Hilimire
JULY 19, 2013
'Ok, several Coke people I talked to about this had never heard of it, so I figured I should share it. According to Wikipedia (so it has to be true), in the 1940′s Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov requested Coca-Cola but wanted it to be white (or closer to Vodka-looking) so that his people wouldn’t see him drinking something that in his country was a symbol of American imperialism.
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