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Ready For A Website Redesign? Keep This Best Practice In Mind

YFS Magazine

If you skip the most important part of a website redesign, your new site will do nothing for your business.

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Manufacturing: The STEM cells of the enterprise

deal architect

I am always invigorated when I spend time with Plex executives and customers as I did at its PowerPlex event in Nashville last week. There was a blue collar excitement to the event. Accounting had an industrial engineering flavor with.

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8 Business Name Mistakes That Investors Hate to See

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new baby gets a name before it is introduced to the world, and yet some entrepreneurs continue to send me business plans with TBD (to be determined) in place of a business name on the front page. They don’t realize that the name they choose, or lack of it, sets an initial perception of the business that may override all of its value. Your business name will have the same impact on potential customers.

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Branding Your Startup- Monthly Round Up, June 2015

Brandanew

The month of June just ended, and was full of wonderful energy and creativity at Brandanew. As usual, here’s a round up of all the content we shared with our partners in the last month. The tips are summarized here for all the readers to have a quick overview of various topics and themes. This month we worked a lot with Startups and also shared our own stories.

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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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3 Things You Need To Do Before Launching Your Online Start-Up

YoungUpstarts

by David Jinks, Public Relations Manager and Publisher at ParcelHero.com. Kicking off your own online start-up can seem daunting to a budding young entrepreneur, but if you have the product then you are already half way there. Fortunately, the internet caters to both those with money and those without, so here are three things you need to do before launching your online start-up: Who are you selling to?

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The dog ate my homework

Startup Lessons Learned

A quick update for those of you following the Kickstarter campaign to launch my new book The Leader's Guide (and good news for those of you who missed out): For those of you who backed the campaign: Keep an eye out for an email which includes a link to a very short survey where you can confirm your shipping information and purchase additional items.

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New Story – Help Fund A Home in Haiti

Feld Thoughts

I got a random email from Brett Hagler last Thursday asking me to help his startup New Story. I looked at his web site and quickly told him it wasn’t something we’d be into exploring as an investment. He wrote back immediately, telling me that he wasn’t looking for investment, but had created a non-profit that used crowdfunding to finance and build life-changing houses around the world.

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399 scale-ups in UK, 208 in Germany, 205 in France

The Equity Kicker

The Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) just published their SEP Monitor: From Unicorns to Reality. There’s a wealth of good data there on fundraising in different categories split by geography. “Scaleups”, companies that have raised $1m-10m, are where we focus and are shown in the picture above. The report also covers companies that have raised over $100m, termed “Scalers”, M&A, and IPOs.

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Cash Flow 101: The Symptoms

Up and Running

This is the second installment in our “Cash Flow 101” series. The first installment can be found here. Though they’re by no means uncommon, cash flow problems can cripple businesses of all sizes, and smaller ones are perhaps more vulnerable. Without access to capital, companies are unable quickly adapt to today’s ever-changing business world. As such, they’re unable to grow.

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Sales Lessons From 13 Year Old Who Sold 22,000 Boxes of Girl Scout Cookies

Hunter Walker

I’ve got a term sheet waiting for this girl as soon as she’s ready! How To Sell The Most Cookies (via NYTimes). Smile. ‘‘No one wants to buy from a person who is frowning,’’ says Katie Francis, 13, who sold 22,200 boxes of Girl Scout cookies this year, breaking the world record she set last year. Look and act like a professional, even if you’re just a child.

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6 Quick Tips To Improve Communication With Your Employees

YFS Magazine

It is vital that a business owner is able to effectively communicate to his or her employees.

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Monday Motivation – Push Through It [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to remember to keep moving forward and push forward. It’s hard living. Life is hard. Keep moving. Keep plugging away. . A warrior creates how they want to be.

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5 Step Mobile App Marketing Strategy for Appreneurs

YFS Magazine

Here’s a look at five steps to help you market your mobile app, faster and smarter.

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Planning for Expansion into a New Market

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The Entrepreneurial Mind : Greg Stephenson, PM Environmental, talks about the process of expanding this Michigan-based company into the Southeast. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Planning for Expansion into a New Market appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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6 Ways to Make the Most of Your Site Navigation

Duct Tape Marketing

6 Ways to Make the Most of Your Site Navigation written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Your website is one of the most important aspects of your business. If done correctly, it’s the first thing people see about your brand or product. Unless you’re such a well-known brand that people don’t have to search online to find out about, then you should make sure your website is not only a sales tool but a resource for your potential customers.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: June 15th – July 5th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past three weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. Quora: “As a startup CEO, what is your favorite productivity hack?” A few solid responses: [link]. “The other thing I learned as CEO is that it’s very lonely.” -Tae Hea Nahm ( @stormventures MD) [link]. “There’

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I finished two books over the holiday weekend, Sick in the Head and Setting the Table. Here is why you might consider reading them.

Jeff Hilimire

I finished up two more books over the holiday weekend. I’m now at 8.5 for the year. With a realistic goal of one book a month, and a stretch goal of 20 for the year, I’m on a decent pace. To see the other books I’ve read this year (and the ones I’m currently reading) check out this page. - Jim Carrey and Judd Apatow -. Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy - I love reading the stories of stand-up comics.

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Mistakes Were Made, But Not By Me

entrepreMusings

I recently read a very eye-opening and somewhat disturbing book called Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (Amazon link). It was recommended by a friend who is a prominent executive coach as well as another mutual friend in the financial recruiting space. I highly recommend it and wish everyone would read it!

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Venture Fund Targets Campus Startups | @PejmanMar Partners w @BerkelyHaas

Campus Entrepreneurship

Further evidence that the campus is the frontier — early stage venture fund Pejman Mar Ventures, which has history in investing in and supporting student startups from Stanford, has taken its show around the bay area to UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. The firm has announced a new challenge — The Pejman Mar Ventures $250K Berkeley Startup Challenge.

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Why Taking Some Risks in the Sales Process Can Improve Results

Both Sides of the Table

Many people are too cautious in sales processes and as a result when they present their solutions they end up sounding milquetoast and undifferentiated from anybody else in the market. In this post I advocate taking a harder stand on where your product or solution differentiates in the market – even if it means you lose some deals as a result.

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Episode 35: Productivity and Cash Flow with Emily Morgan and Billie Anne Grigg

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Emily Morgan and Billie Anne Grigg join us for Episode 35 of the Profit First Podcast to discuss how to be more productive in your business, and how to get that profit in your pocket! Our Guests. Emily Morgan (left). Emily Morgan helps entrepreneurs and execs strategically clear their plates so they can focus on what they love!

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From the Vault: America’s Founding Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally published this post back in July of 2011. As this is a holiday weekend (and the entire team is trying to get in a little recreation), we thought we’d repurpose this and see if it still has legs… On this Independence Day I have been thinking about the summer of ’76 and America’s Founding Fathers.

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Problems In Your New Business? Who Ya Gonna Call? Mythbusters!

YoungUpstarts

by Heather Foley, consultant at etsplc.com. The business world is full of myths. They’re repeated so often that they start to feel true. If you’re running a new business, you’d do well to bust the following myths pretty quickly! 1. It’s all about luck. There are two variations of this one. The first goes along the lines that those who make it got lucky.