View from Seed

JUNE 8, 2015

Traction is NextView’s twice-monthly podcast sharing the stories of creative and unusual ways entrepreneurs gain initial results. Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale, so we wondered … what ARE those things? Available on iTunes , Stitcher , and SoundCloud. . In this episode of Traction , Brad Hargreaves joins Rob and me to discuss the launch of General Assembly, including a very unusual problem facing GA when it launched — we dub it the

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 8, 2015

We’re told not to judge, lest we be judged. But we are judged, by our customers choosing between us and a competitor, by our employees choosing whether to entwine their careers with our fate, and by our peers, allies, and passive-aggressive antagonists on social media. We’re instructed to respect others, especially other cultures. And it’s true that new perspectives yield new insight, and that we’re generally plagued with a bias against the unfamiliar, especially when it’s convenient for our ego

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2015

Relationships are the key to survival and success for entrepreneurs, and first impressions usually turn into lasting impressions. As an advisor to many early-stage entrepreneurs, I caution them to always be prepared for that chance meeting with a famous investor, a potential partner or an industry guru. It’s not smart to believe that your passion and gift of gab will impress anyone.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 8, 2015

By Tim Eisenhauer, President of Axero Solutions. One of the main objectives for deploying a social intranet is to make life easier for employees and improve productivity. Many companies mistakenly think these changes will happen overnight as soon as the platform is up and running, but this isn’t always the case. There are plenty of reasons why intranets fail, and understanding them up front is critical to ensuring your company’s deployment doesn’t meet the same fate.

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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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The Next Web

JUNE 8, 2015

Thankfully, Autopsy.io isn’t “Uber for hearses”. Rather, it’s a newly-launched site that collects stories of startup failure, with the aim of sharing the lessons learned with the whole community. The great thing about the project – which is growing daily – is the bluntness of founders’ reflections on their shuttered startups, with reasons ranging from the brutally personal (“We were naive idiots.”) to the geopolitical (“Consequence of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 8, 2015

By Bob Proctor, author of “ The ABCs of Success: The Essential Principles from America’s Greatest Prosperity Teacher “ In Napoleon Hill’s classic book “ Think and Grow Rich “, an entire chapter is devoted to persistence. Hill said, “There may be no heroic connotation to the word ‘persistence,’ but persistence is to character what carbon is to steel.”.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 8, 2015

I’ve written a lot about robots and AI taking jobs from humans and a little bit about the the arrival of super intelligence and what it might mean for society. Others have written a lot about the dangers of these technologies and how we will soon be bowing to our robot overlords. Well, we’re not going to get there without a lot of work! It’s a slow news day today and I’m posting a video of state of the art robots.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 8, 2015

The Entrepreneurial Mind : Eric Gehrke – Nashville Rowing TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Social Entrepreneur Brings Rowing to Nashville appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 8, 2015

The NBA Finals have started and it has been a great first two games with each game going to overtime. This looks like it will be a great, long series. We decided to post these videos from the two leaders and MVPs of their respective teams for your motivation this week. Remember, that there is a big parallel between sports and business and just like a great athlete works hard at his or her craft, so can you on your business.

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Rob Go

JUNE 8, 2015

Dave, Lee, Jay, and I are really excited to announce that Tim Devane has joined our team! Tim is a Principal with NextView and is our first team member based full-time in New York. Since the founding of NextView, we’ve been excited about the New York market and a big chunk of our portfolio is New York based. We’ve been fortunate to partner with some great entrepreneurs and invest in terrific companies like TapCommerce , Sunrise , and TripleLift , and bring on some great NY based advisors like M

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 8, 2015

Anyone who uses “read later” tools like Pocket (which I use) or Instapaper or Readlater knows what I’m talking about. You never get to the list! It just keeps piling up with things you think you want to read but its next to impossible to find time to knock the list down. I have a goal of reading at least a book a month this year, and so far its going great.

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Rob Go

JUNE 8, 2015

Dave, Lee, Jay, and I are really excited to announce that Tim Devane has joined our team! Tim is a Principal with NextView and is our first team member based full-time in New York. Since the founding of NextView, we’ve been excited about the New York market and a big chunk of our portfolio is New York based. We’ve been fortunate to partner with some great entrepreneurs and invest in terrific companies like TapCommerce , Sunrise , and TripleLift , and bring on some great NY based advisors like M

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Brandanew

JUNE 8, 2015

While talking to clients and Startups , many often get into Content Marketing with a sort of skepticism, questioning the ROI of content. Content is a long term investment- like branding your Startup or company is. There are different ways to check the progress of your Content Marketing initiatives and setting smart goals. Not getting leads or traffic or achieving business goals is a symptom of something being off in your strategy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 8, 2015

It is certainly not the first time I’ve said this, but the point bears repeating: your customer’s voices are the thing you should be paying the closest attention to. Today. There are many ways to get your ear to the rail and listen to what they have to say: surveys, exit questionnaires, customer service emails, live chat, and phone are all channels that you can leverage to request and respond to customer feedback.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 8, 2015

Also Available On. Show Summary. Business founders Scott Weintraub and Jennifer Dawn join us for Episode 31 of the Profit First Podcast. Scott shares his method of networking. Jennifer shares her coaching experience in helping business owners put their Profit First. Our Guests. Scott Weintraub (left). Scott is a founding principal of Healthcare Regional Marketing, playing a lead role in all aspects of the business, including product development, new business development, and HRM brand managemen

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Up and Running

JUNE 8, 2015

Welcome to Day 1 of the Big Brand Challenge. Today we focus on the core of branding—defining who we are. Take a good look at your business. Your customers can’t begin to understand your value proposition unless you know it yourself. How the challenge works: If you’ve signed up to take part in the challenge, each day you’ll receive an email with a link to the relevant article.

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