Thu.Apr 07, 2016

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My Advice To Entrepreneurs: Consider Canada For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Photo credit: Canada flag from Shutterstock. By Raj Narayanaswamy, cofounder and Co-CEO, Replicon. For aspiring entrepreneurs, it’s hard to resist the allure of Silicon Valley. The access to some of the world’s brightest minds in technology, the proximity to some of the industry’s most influential brands, and the vast networking opportunities in both start-up and investor communities is hard to ignore.

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Managing Up

OnlyOnce

(The following post was written by one of Return Path’s long-time senior managers, Chris Borgia , who runs one of our data science teams and has run other support organizations in the past, both at Return Path and at AOL. I don’t usually run guest posts, but I loved the topic with Chris suggested it, and it’s a topic that I’d only have a limited perspective on!).

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A Crash Course In Startup Labs: What Every Tech Entrepreneur Needs To Know

YoungUpstarts

By Konstantine Sukherman, CEO of Bit Olive Ventures. One of a startup’s biggest problems is its rocky ascent to success. With countless roadblocks along the way, it’s not uncommon for a startup to falter to the point of folding before it has ever reached even the simplest of business goals. The rub is that a startup likely has the ideas to take it straight to the top, but it’s also likely that the company lacks the business skills to make it truly successful.

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Four Things to Do Before Emailing an Influencer

Duct Tape Marketing

Four Things to Do Before Emailing an Influencer written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Pixabay. It’s a common scenario: you find an influencer on social media, and you want to contact them for a project. Maybe you think they would make a great guest blogger, or you just want to feature their story on your site. But is it time for a cold email yet?

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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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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 27: Brandon Bruce and Jack Sundell

Steve Blank

When your customers are grabbing your Minimal Viable Product out of your hands, it’s time to launch the product. The latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere explained why. The radio show airs on SiriusXM Channel 111 (weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). It follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more.

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Keys To Marketing In Latin America

YoungUpstarts

Image credit: Latin America map from Shutterstock. When reaching outside your comfort zone to market to new areas of the world, it is important to realise there will be differences in culture as well as in language. It is vital to reach across the barriers in order to understand what those markets are looking for, what will attract them, and of course what will bring them to the point of conversion.

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How To Make Your Business Stand Out

YoungUpstarts

by Danella Yaptinchay, managing director of Full Suite. Getting a business off the ground is not the end of a business person’s problem. In fact, this is only just the beginning. Once the business has been set up and completed the necessary steps for business registration in the Philippines , there are a lot of other things the business owner needs to do.

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Obsessing About Competitors Is A Rookie Move

YFS Magazine

Startups and small businesses are at greater risk for competitive failure than large businesses. They have no “fat” to cushion a competitive threat or to recover from a serious blunder.

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Economies of scaling: Building a bulletproof business

The Next Web

Hiring has never happened so fast. Especially in tech, where being first to market can give you a considerable advantage. Just take grocery delivery company, Instacart, which grew from 91 full-time employees in January 2015 to over 300 today. This kind of hyper hiring comes with risks. Success isn’t measured on the amount of staff you employ, especially if your user base and revenue aren’t growing at the same speed.

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Austin-based Aeglea BioTherapeutics Goes Public and Raises $50 Million

SiliconHills

Aeglea BioTherapeutics went public on the NASDAQ Stock Market Thursday at $10 a share with an Initial Public Offering bringing in $50 million. Shares in the biotechnology company, which develops enzyme-based therapeutics in the field of amino acid metabolism to treat inborn errors of metabolism and cancer, closed down two percent at $9.77 a share. […] The post Austin-based Aeglea BioTherapeutics Goes Public and Raises $50 Million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The power of THREE – Solving critical issues

Berkonomics

Here’s a formula for success… Let’s say you have been told by your board, by your chairman, CEO, or direct leader to solve three problems you identify and report back within a month showing progress – or that you have solved these three. First, you’d worry that this is an artificial way to focus management. Why three? Why now? After a short moment, you’d turn into action mode, perhaps calling in senior staff for a brainstorming session.

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RetailMeNot Buys GiftCard Zen for $33 Million

SiliconHills

RetailMeNot, a platform for deals and coupons, Thursday announced that it has acquired Phoenix-based GiftCard Zen, a secondary marketplace for gift cards. The Austin-based company acquired GiftCard Zen for $22 million in cash and up to $11 million more if it meets specific targets and continues to employ a key employee after the deal closes. […] The post RetailMeNot Buys GiftCard Zen for $33 Million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Questions established companies must ask themselves

Start Up Blog

“How could our customers do this thing without us?” “What can be removed from the process and still solve this problem?” “How could this problem be solved without using a physical product?” “What technology is likely to be introduced into our things? “What will happen to prices of the thing we sell when more technology is introduced.?

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RetailMeNot Buys GiftCard Zen

SiliconHills

RetailMeNot, a platform for deals and coupons, Thursday announced that it has acquired Phoenix-based GiftCard Zen, a secondary marketplace for gift cards. The Austin-based company acquired GiftCard Zen for $22 million in cash and up to $11 million more if it meets specific targets and continues to employ a key employee after April 5th when […] The post RetailMeNot Buys GiftCard Zen appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Do Fix This …

Austin Startup

April 10, 2016: Thanks to all of you who commented on my essay last week about laws and regulations running amuck and running counter to… Continue reading on Medium ».

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The 2016 State of Conversion Optimization Report

ConversionXL

In this 2016 State of Conversion Optimization Report, we gave a 48 question survey to 722 people who work in the optimization space. Of course, a lot of what we learned was expected. For instance, many optimizers have little to no budget (sadly). But we also learned some surprising things, like how many companies are still operating without a structured process, and how little experience many optimizers have.

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The Truth Behind Why Your Content Marketing Fails

YFS Magazine

Infographics, articles, tools, guides, whitepapers, ebooks – whatever types of content you’re producing, there’s an investment behind it. This is why content that fails to deliver on your goals is so frustrating.