YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2015

The explosive growth of mobile apps is not only limited to the consumer space; the extensive adoption of smartphones similarly in business has led to a growing trend of the mobile workspace with Bring Your Own Apps (BYOA) and Enterprise Apps. And that’s not surprising, considering these statistics – 41% of employees do not believe that the tools their company provides actually meets their needs which is why they choose to ‘go rogue’.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2015

It seems like everyone wants to be an entrepreneur and get rich these days. As a business mentor, I sometimes feel besieged by people begging for my view and support of their latest idea. In reality, I like most ideas, but I have to tell them that the real challenge is taking the inspiration from a dream to a business. All the evidence says that over 99% fail to make that leap.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2015

by Yasir Billoo, partner at Golden & Grimes LLP. Most small businesses generally encounter very similar issues on a regular basis…“pitfalls”, as I like to call them. There are steps every business can take to avoid these pitfalls, and in turn, save money and the headache of legal problems later. Below are the top 3 pitfalls I regularly see in my practice: Poking holes through your own corporate veil.

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Rembrandt Communications

APRIL 29, 2015

The days of wishing, hoping and haphazard results are over. What is really going on with your BtoB content strategy? Please answer these questions… Are you just posting on social-media when you remember, or just because you “think you are supposed to” because everyone else is? Do you have tons of “social” followers, but no […]. The post What Are Your Trying to Accomplish with your BtoB Content?

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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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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 29, 2015

We are in a cycle again where how much you raise is the story. It’s what the press likes to write about (e.g. Company X raised Y from A, B, and C). Now that everyone is overly focused on unicorns, the headline number on the valuation (e.g. Company X raised Y at a valuation of Z from A, B, and C) has crept into the story on big rounds. While this makes for press release fodder and ego gratification, it’s of very little use to entrepreneurs.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2015

The first thing you should know is that even if you are certain that your credit is poor, it is still possible to get financing. It’s not easy, but it is possible. There are options, but bad credit loans are high risk; you probably wouldn’t take them under different circumstances. In this article, I’ll cover: What options exist for those with bad credit.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 29, 2015

I know that advice is free and plentiful, but not all of it’s worth taking. Particularly when it comes to finances, it’s best to take advice from people who’ve successfully been there, and done that. Listen to the experienced experts. That said, here’s my top list of business advice you should NEVER follow. 1. Raise lots of money. . The reason this piece of advice is a flop is because it suggests that raising money – in and of itself – is the end result, rather than a means to an end.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 29, 2015

Seed Sumo, an accelerator based at Texas A&M, announced Thursday the eight startups participating in its three month program. The program kicks off on May 20 and includes mentoring, business model design and a demo day. Each team gets $50,000 in financing. “We really had a total of about 16 companies we felt pretty comfortable […] The post Eight Startups Selected for Seed Sumo’s Accelerator Class appeared first on SiliconHills.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 29, 2015

Today marks the graduation for the six women who participated in our inaugural ReturnShip program, which I wrote about here and which was written up at least twice, in Harvard Business Review and in the San Francisco Chronicle. The ReturnShip was a 14-week paid internship program designed for women who have been out of the workforce for more than 1 year to re-enter and build credible and relevant experience, and to feed our funnel of prospective employees.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 29, 2015

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for ShahabasPoozhithara. Check out more great work on ShahabasPoozhithara ’s profile page. Nicely done, ShahabasPoozhithara, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: 5IVE_STAR_CREATIVE.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 29, 2015

SolarWinds announced Wednesday its acquisition of Papertrail, a cloud-based log management startup, for $41 million. Papertrail’s technology allows Solarwind to offer the best solutions to monitor and manage cloud-based applications, websites and infrastructure, the company said in a news statement. Papertrail lets technical workers collect and shift through log data on servers, apps and cloud-based […] The post SolarWinds Buys Papertrail for $41 Million appeared first on SiliconHill

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2015

The Automatic Customer written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Warrillow. Recurring revenue – now that’s business owner’s dream – or at least it should be! Creating a model where customers come back over and over again is a powerful way to build ongoing momentum and perhaps more importantly it’s a way to build a business that’s an asset rather than a job.

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Rob Go

APRIL 29, 2015

Very quick follow-up post to my article on Techcrunch. There was a discussion between @joshelman and @pingupceo who brought up a question that he was recently asked that goes: “What have I not asked that I should be asking?” Josh mentioned that this is something that he asks often, and my partner Dave asks this question occasionally as well.

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