Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2016

Most entrepreneurs, and members of any small team, naively assume that the key to their success is hard work, dedication, and long hours in the business. In reality, their effectiveness is usually more related to how well they develop their work relationships with peers and business leaders. First they need to decipher correctly every relationship as a workship, friendship, or foe.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

2015 was a great year for Content marketers and brand owners. Social analytics and video marketing are likely to be the key marketing trends for 2016. The pace of technology has altered the way we view digital and connect with our customers. Most small business and Startup founders are talking about customer engagement and social presence beyond the customary likes and one-post-a-month schedules.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2016

As the owner of a start-up, you must make dozens of important decisions. Your decisions about finance may have the biggest impact on the success or failure of your company. To succeed, you need to have some financial tools in place from the very beginning. You can use these tools to monitor your finances and make informed decisions. Critical tools for financial planning.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 8, 2016

By EVA RUTH MORAVEC Reporter with Silicon Hills News A licensing rights agreement with the Walt Disney Company has awakened the force at an Austin company known as a global leader in 3D visualization. Zebra Imaging is taking pre-orders for the result of that agreement: a 3D hologram of one of five images from the […] The post Star Wars Could Pave way for Austin Hologram Company’s Success appeared first on SiliconHills.

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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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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

A cliche I’ve heard many times is “Wall Street Always Wins.” The first week of 2016 in the public markets has been an entertaining reminder of this. In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds).

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 8, 2016

On Monday this week taxi app Lyft raising a new $1bn round which included $500m from General Motors. Twelve months ago the received wisdom was that Uber was on a tear and it’s competitors would fail and in response to this funding news LA Times wrote a piece questioning whether the ‘winner takes all phenomenon’ that characterises so much of the internet doesn’t apply in transportation.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 8, 2016

I got a delivery in the mail with a new copy of my recent book from my publisher – The Great Fragmentation. I was really thrilled to see my ideas being made available to the most spoken language in the world – Chinese. Mind you all dialects of Chinese read the same characters, and you need to know around 3000 characters to be able to read most anything fluently.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2016

While new businesses should define the brand image they want, they need to focus on positioning themselves in the marketplace first.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2016

Why (and how) you should let your customers do the advertising for you written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: DSC_0134 via photopin (license). I grew up in the nineties, and my parents weren’t big on technology. My first computer had a 486 processor with a monochrome screen, it ran DOS, and it had Chessmaster 3000 on it.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 8, 2016

I love reading content on Medium. I get the daily email from them with posts from people I follow, and I love that. So, I tried Medium last June. My original hypothesis was that I would post different things on this blog vs. my Medium page. I knew this would be a short-term solution as no one wants to read things in different places, so telling my friends to check both my blog and Medium was too much to ask.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2016

When you hear “data segmentation”, your instinct might be to bury your head in the sand or fall asleep. Why? Well, segmentation can seem daunting (or boring) to those unfamiliar with it. It’s an unfortunate truth because segmentation is perhaps one of the most effective tools at our disposal. The ability to slice and dice your Google Analytics data is the difference between mediocre, surface-level insights and meaningful, useful analysis.

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