Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

'Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. Thus, financial projections for up to five years are a necessary element in every business plan.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 4, 2015

'I remember how excited I felt… It was the first time I logged into the online control panel for a shopping cart system designed to sell information products. At the time I had never sold a product of my own from my blog before. Finally I made the decision – The post What Products Should You Sell From Your Blog? appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 4, 2015

'There are many, many, many lists of conversion optimization best practices. Some are sacrosanct: Sliders distract – you should get rid of them. Everything needs to be shorter – cut stuff out. Just make the button bigger ! These practices often come from broad trends observed over many experiments and they highlight what usually and typically works.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 4, 2015

'One thing I’ve learned over the past several years as I’ve spent more time studying and supporting non-profits, is that awareness of an issue is a huge barrier. The more people are exposed to things, the more they understand the problems in the world and feel compelled to help. I went through an intense, eye-opening experience in 2012 when I went through Leadership Atlanta and it changed my life.

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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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