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Upserve CEO Angus Davis on How Startups Sell to Main Street [Traction #21]

View from Seed

Last time, we heard from a CEO about how startups can sell to big brands and enterprises. This time, Angus Davis, the founder and CEO of Upserve (fka Swipely) shares stories and tactics around selling to Main Street businesses. As a startup that sells to later adopters of technology or very small businesses, how do you think about product, marketing, and sales?

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Shortcuts To Spring Renewal: 9 Simple Ways To Refresh Your Spirit (Just In Time For Easter)

YoungUpstarts

By David Solomon, author of “The Dead Saints Chronicles: A Zen Journey Through the Christian Afterlife” It’s almost Easter, and the promise of springtime is in the air. (Finally!) This is the season of rebirth. And it’s only natural that as dark, depressing winter gives way to budding greenery, we find ourselves longing for physical and spiritual renewal.

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The seven attributes of a highly successful start–up CEO

Berkonomics

Dave’s note: This week we welcome guest author, David Friedman, to tell us about his favorite startup CEO, and his take after interviewing her – asking for her list of attributes for startup success. . By David Friedman. I met Kirsten Mangers several years ago after she successfully sold her startup, Webvisible. Kirsten is the founder of ChickLabs , an incubator that focuses on helping primarily women entrepreneurs.

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How to Find Correlative Metrics For Conversion Optimization

ConversionXL

When you’re doing conversion optimization , one of the hardest parts is finding opportunity areas to optimize. Finding places people are dropping out is important in setting up a prioritized testing plan. Equally valuable is finding activities that correlate with higher customer success – whether that be RPV, LTV, or whatever metric you’re optimizing for.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Do You Have These 5 Essential Soft Skills To Succeed In Sales?

YFS Magazine

In order to achieve success in business you have to master sales. And salespeople need to possess a combination of two main skills — hard and soft skills.

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Austin: Battleground for Unintended Consequences

Austin Startup

My friends from California say the problem with Austin is “it’s surrounded by Texas.” While we all chuckle a bit at this jab at Texas, it… Continue reading on Medium ».

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How To Cultivate “I like you, but…”

Austin Startup

As a startup CEO, you’re going to meet a lot of people that you want to get involved in your company, but that you ultimately can’t… Continue reading on Medium ».

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8 Ways To Make Your Company Culture Great

YFS Magazine

Since my failure, I’ve learned that in order to succeed in business, you have to succeed in relationships.

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UberEats Launches in Austin

SiliconHills

Uber, the San Francisco-based ride sharing company, just launched UberEats in Austin. UberEats, a smartphone app available on iOS and Android, lets people order food from local restaurants. It just launched in Austin. It launched March 15th in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto. “For the past year and a half we’ve been […] The post UberEats Launches in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Improve Customer Retention With 5 Useful Tips

YFS Magazine

Here's an inside look at sound
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Chaotic Moon’s Cooking up Some Cool Tech Applications

SiliconHills

During South by Southwest, Chaotic Moon showed off some of the latest applications created by its research and development team. Chaotic Moon is known for some outrageous tech displays at SXSW. A few years ago, the studio launched a drone and tasered an intern in its offices. This year, no interns were tasered. But the […] The post Chaotic Moon’s Cooking up Some Cool Tech Applications appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The unequivocal power of patience for entrepreneurs

Jeff Hilimire

By our nature, we (entrepreneurs) are not very patient. And it’s a good thing, too, because change rarely comes from those who are patient. The problem is that there are times when patience is critical to the success of a startup. Over my career, during which I’ve been an entrepreneur since day one when I founded my first company in college, I’ve definitely made the mistake of not being patient enough.

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Craft Brewery Shares Startup Story

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Craft Brewery Shares Startup Story appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Why Do B2B Companies Need To Prioritize Social Media

Brandanew

“You need to be where your customers are!” This is the old school mantra that works pretty well in the today’s world of marketing. It means that your business should have representation where your audience is active. Although this might sound simple, it can be difficult to do right. If you’re wondering whether your B2B company need to prioritize social media, this is for you.

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How Entrepreneurs Can Be Forward-Thinkers

YoungUpstarts

by Eddie Lester, founder of Fitness Mentors. Unless you are Coca-Cola, there’s a good chance that your company relies on innovation, evolution and forward-thinking to sell products or services. Personally, I remain in a constant state of thought about how I can evolve my companies because I know that if I don’t, my competitors will create something that could bury me.

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7 High-Octane Strategies to Boost Site Speed and Leave Competitors in the Dust!

Duct Tape Marketing

7 High-Octane Strategies to Boost Site Speed and Leave Competitors in the Dust! written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. They teach fighter pilots “speed is life.” When you have speed, you can convert it into height anytime. This extra height gives you more time to think and act, which can save your life! I’m using this analogy because just like an aircraft’s speed, your site’s speed is critical for a great user experience and higher search rankings—s

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