View from Seed

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The NextView podcast Traction explores all the clever, creative, and atypical things entrepreneurs do to make initial progress against the odds. If startups should do things that “don’t scale,” then this podcast asks a simple question: What ARE those things? Past episodes include stories from founders of LinkedIn , DraftKings , General Assembly , Mattermark , Duck Duck Go , InsightSquared , and more.

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Brandanew

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

As shared before, we conducted a workshop on how to use digital marketing to generate sales with a group of authors/writers concerned about their book sales in Ann Arbor on November 12. While the ideas were specific to authors, I do believe the tips and information that was shared can be used for any physical product sale. This includes: selling art, pens, mugs to clothes!

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

by Michael Baker, co-founder of EduBirdie. What do we know about goals achievement? Certainly, whatever you may think, it will come back to you in the form of real events and things. Today the topic of our discussion is the book “ The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement ” written by Israeli physicist Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt who is aware of the process of achieving the goals and managing business.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

How to Make Your Gust Account Stand Out to Investors Before you read any further, I want you to know that I’ve personally used Gust to raise money for my first tech startup. I know a lot of other entrepreneurs who use or have used Gust to seek funds, but their profiles don’t always get attention from investors. Below are. Read more >. The post Trying to Raise Money?

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It should be easy to fund your new business idea if the concept is likely to make a profit. Sometimes you have to think outside of the box because the old techniques don’t always produce the best results. Even so, we’re going to cover some of the best funding solutions for your new company in this post. Hopefully, reading about them today will help you to gain a better perception.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

This morning I was talking with an investor in our fund about how when the internet disrupts industries it often makes them smaller and, from the perspective of incumbents, less attractive. Amazon is doing that to much of retail, MySQL and other open source companies have done it to large swathes of the software industries, Craigslist did it the classifieds industry, and I could go on.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

What’s a good conversion rate? A conversion rate that’s better than the one you currently have. Whatever your current conversion rate is, today’s top conversion rate optimization experts have banded together to help you double it… in just 23 days. 2X Your Conversion Rate in Less Than 30 Days is our brand new, 100% free email course.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

by Cenaca Cyprian, co-founder of Instant Christ™. Starting a business with your spouse can be one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences you have as a couple. There will be times when you might ask yourself, “what did I get myself into?” and there will also be times that you will celebrate together for achieving your goals and dreams. But in the end, there’s nothing like sharing the payoffs of working together toward a common goal with your life partner.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I do not love meetings. They typically take far more time than necessary, involve more people than necessary, and often lead to more meetings. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to run a successful company and not meet with your team. After all, meetings can help resolve problems that could otherwise take too long or be too difficult to resolve. Some companies have adopted unique strategies to make meetings more effective and efficient.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Food+City has selected 24 finalists for its second annual Food Challenge Prize with cash awards totalling $50,000. The Austin-based organization reported 115 entrepreneurs applied for the contest, which is aimed at improving or solving a wide range of food system issues. Of the 24 finalists, six are from Texas including four from Austin and two […] The post Food+City Challenge Prize Selects 24 Finalists appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

A revolution in the mobile phone industry is unfolding. Major.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

This motivational video for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners if from Puff Daddy or P. Diddy. He is the founder of Bad Boy Records , Sean John , Ciroc & REVOLT TV.

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The logistics of moving your products from their point of.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

A Collection of the Best Virtual Tools Available Today written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. At Duct Tape Marketing, we only have two team members that work out of the home office in Kansas City. In fact, they actually work out of a co-working space. The majority of our staff (including me) are virtual and spread out throughout the United States.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. They also chat about recent changes at Zappos, and the CFO of Palo Alto Software Trevor Betenson talks about human resources and conflict resolution. Subscribe: Stitcher | TuneIn | Pocket Casts | PlayerFM | Soundcloud. Do you have a question you’d like us to answer on the show?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I had a bunch of topics teed up now that I’m back in LA after 2 weeks of constant travel. I felt excited to write because it’s a cathartic outlet for me and saves me from doing email. But no words would come out this weekend. After watching the terrorist activities in Beirut and Paris and blog post seemed trite. It’s terrible that a group of Islamic extremists is having some success in perverting the Muslim religion in an attempt to divide the rational world of moderate people.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

At least, that would be the title if somebody made a kids movie out of it. It just seemed like a fitting title for a company built around narrative by a founder who used to write stories for a living. It's a story that just hit a milestone--a $4mm round of venture funding that I'm ecstatic to say Brooklyn Bridge Ventures just led. I'm joined by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, NucleasHG, the founders of Seamless, a host of extremely helpful angels, and a CircleUp syndicate led by my fri

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Also Available On. Show Summary. Teams of Distincton co-founder Antoine Gerschel joins Mike Michalowicz, Chris Curran and Kristina Bolduc for Episode 54 of the Profit First Podcast! Antoine has some fantastic words of wisdom for moving your business towards distinction (rather than extinction!). Our Guest . Antoine Gerschel is co-founder of Teams of Distinction, an advisory firm focusing on helping organizations reach SWING: the near perfect synchronization of talented people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

How many times have you heard or suspected that a certain entrepreneur was just lucky? Without fully discounting that random good things sometimes happen, I’m a firm believer that great entrepreneurs make their own luck. The smart ones get some extra support early on critical decisions, and work a bit harder on issues that are common startup killers.

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