Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2016

A question I often get as an adviser is whether or not to join a business incubator or accelerator as a way to move forward faster and smarter and increase the odds of business success. The simple answer is always yes, but like any other resource, finding the right one depends on your implementation stage, your own expertise, and what’s available in your geographic area.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

Note: If you’re viewing this post on the website WordPress autoplays all the videos simultaneously. Turn off your audio. Then… Scroll down and manually pause the videos until you’re ready to play them. Then turn your audio back on. We just held our tenth and final week of the Hacking for Defense class. Today the eight teams presented their Lessons Learned presentations.

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Brandanew

JUNE 3, 2016

Content Marketing ’s true worth was emphasized by Bill Gates when he said, “Content is king.” Since 1996 when this statement was made by one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, the three words have gone really, really viral. Whether the true essence was understood or not, the sentence spread like wildfire. Maybe that is one of the reasons why almost every brand created a content marketing campaign initiated by a blog but gradually they posted less and less, eventually abandoning the id

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2016

by Hagan Major , president and chief operating officer of YellowHammer. When running a new startup, entrepreneurs have to wear countless hats, including (and especially) one for marketing. Understanding how to determine a campaign’s success isn’t a mystery, but it does require learning the nitty-gritty of the digital advertising world. Facebook likes are great if all you’re using to advertise your business is Facebook, but when it comes to truly reaching your target audience and current custom

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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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The Next Web

JUNE 3, 2016

554. That’s how much monthly website traffic we had to our website three months ago. 20 visitors a day may sound encouraging if you’re starting a personal project, but when your goal is to build a successful business with a team counting on you… Well, you’re probably screwed. And if we continued at that pace, we would’ve been. So what did we do? After a few minutes of panic, we got down to reality, and started experimenting with any possible source of traffic to our website.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2016

Startups rarely have much money to throw around when they’re just getting started. But there are some cheap and easy ways to give the company a boost, and that could make a world of difference. So, read on to find out about some of those methods: Sell More to Existing Customers. If you have a solid base of customers already in place, you need to solidify that.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 3, 2016

Analytics is a field that moves fast. Most changes have happened as a result of the transition from PC computing to mobile. Mobile is still a new space for analytics. Things are happening quickly, and everyone’s looking for the newer, better, and faster solution. At Amplitude , we’ve now been analyzing data non-stop for four years. We want to share four of the themes that we’ve seen emerge over our time helping companies with analytics.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 3, 2016

The industrial and tech world is keen to add sensors in more and more places. But many of them may end up being “virtual” sensors. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 3, 2016

There are several expressions that talk about the company you keep. The one I always heard from my tennis coach was, “If you lay down with dogs, you’ll come up with fleas.” The idea being: hang out with losers and you’ll end up one. As a father, I think about this a lot. I’m always wondering if my kids’ friends are going to be good influences on them, and vice versa.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 3, 2016

6 PPC Misconceptions You Need to Know for Success written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Free Digital Photos. PPC won’t make you wealthy overnight, spawn record-setting sales or turn your company into the ‘next big thing.’ Like any tool available to marketers, there are some quick wins, but the long-term gains are where you’ll excel.

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