YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

by Azhar Katib, founder of WebSell Solutions Ptd Ltd. Leverage on the reach of internet to spread word around about your business. If you are a small business owner with limited budget then this should be your go to medium for marketing your product or service. While the numerous online marketing methods offer are wide spread of options today, simple Pay-Per-Click Ads on search engines can deliver the best bang for your buck.

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David Teten

APRIL 28, 2015

I read a few books over the spring/summer that I thought were worth highlighting/recommending (belatedly): The book that has had the most practical impact on my life was The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health , by John Durant. This is a thoughtful analysis and explication of the “paleo” or “ancestral health” school of thought. The fundamental idea is that our bodies and minds were designed to function in a world very different than our modern desk-bound sphere, and that you’ll

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2015

5 Relatively Simple Steps to Dominate Local Search written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. If you do business mostly in your town, your marketing efforts must be hyper focused. You’re only targeting a very select group of people so, when those people go out there looking for a business in their community, you want to show up, right?

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View from Seed

APRIL 28, 2015

Ed. note: In 2013, Rob Go published a flowchart articulating his VC decision making process. Below, we’ve updated that graphic with new information in order to stay current and provide more context and transparency around each node. At NextView, we hold regular team offsites to step back and think about how we do everything from invest in seed-stage companies to create better platform initiatives in support of the Boston and New York startup ecosystems.

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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

Startup

deal architect

APRIL 28, 2015

At SapphireNow next week, SAP is expected to provide much more detail around its next-gen, S4 product. It’s been a quarter century since the predecessor R/3 product was designed. So much has changed in the world since. The shop floor.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

Financial services provider MasterCard has announced the results of its MasterCard Financial Literacy Index, which revealed that progress towards improving basic finance knowledge and skills across Asia Pacific has stalled as 12 of 16 countries record lower scores in financial literacy. MasterCard’s Index – which covers Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar ̵

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Asia Taiwan South Korea Myanmar 171

Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

If you’re raising money for your business, having an impressive pitch deck is a key component in your fundraising toolkit. A great pitch deck gets potential investors excited about your idea and engages them in a conversation about your business, hopefully leading to an investment. In this article, I’m going to give you the formula for what you should include in your own pitch deck.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2015

At dinner on Sunday night I had a short discussion with a long-time friend about the phrases detachment vs. non-attachment. I don’t remember the specific thing that brought it up, but I stated that I was much more interested in non-attachment in how I react to things. We bounced around words a little and then went back to our Mexican food and the broader conversation with the other people at the table.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 28, 2015

Apple released their results yesterday after another blockbuster quarter. You may remember that in Q4 they reported the largest corporate quarterly earnings of all time. Without the Christmas bump last quarter was always going to be less, but it still came in as the company’s second best quarter ever. What I hadn’t realised is the extent to which they’ve become a phone company.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

Jesse Thomas and Lauren Fleshman are a married couple and the co-founders of Picky Bars, a business that makes and sells natural energy bars. Picky Bars was founded in 2010 based on the founders’ mutual interest in athletics and in creating the “perfect” energy bar for athletes like themselves. Since introducing the product, Picky Bars has managed to grow successfully.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 28, 2015

In yet another sign that Austin’s tech industry continues to boom, California companies are opening up offices here. The latest is Betts Recruiting, a firm which specializes in placing sales and marketing tech talent that generate revenue with local tech companies. The company’s local customers include Dropbox, MongoDB, StitcherAds and Main Street Hub.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 28, 2015

I am reading The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod and it has me thinking (and exercising). I am so focused on work all the time, that it can be exhausting. It’s surely not healthy. When I am eating dinner, I am thinking about what I can do to improve operations. When I am in the car, I am thinking about clients. When I am working, I am thinking about working more.

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Operations 65

SiliconHills

APRIL 28, 2015

In its first acquisition, Bigcommerce announced Tuesday its purchase of Zing, an Austin-based startup that provides mobile retail technologies. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Zing’s team of five employees will join Bigcommerce. The company has also acquired Zing’s intellectual property. Zing moved to Austin three years ago and has raised less than […] The post Bigcommerce’s First Acquisition is in Austin: Zing appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Early Growth Financial Services

APRIL 28, 2015

This guest post was contributed by Justworks. The new hire onboarding experience is crucial for employee retention. This is the moment at which you can set someone up for success within your company. And hey, you probably just spent a good chunk of time and money to find this person in the first place and get them to take the job, so not onboarding them correctly would be a total waste.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

by Todd McDaniel, Vice President at Dynavistics Inc. One of the biggest mistakes a company routinely makes is waiting until a bill is past due to begin collection efforts. A good credit department reduces bad debt and past due accounts by getting proactive about debts collected, preferably before the due date. Collection of debts should be the final step in the sales process, beginning as soon as the debt is incurred.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

By Dr. Karen Reddington, President of FedEx Express, South Pacific. Online shopping is booming and will continue to grow exponentially – the global online retail market now tops $1 trillion a year and is set to double within four years. Asia is at the centre of that consumer-led, technology-enabled revolution in e-commerce. China alone is tipped to exceed $1 trillion in retail ecommerce sales in the next three years, making up more than 40 percent of the global eCommerce market. [1].

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