Tue.Oct 27, 2015

article thumbnail

Momentum Ventures: Three Reasons Your Teams Need To Be In House

YoungUpstarts

The traditional venture capital model calls for a degree of faith in the teams you choose to invest in. They can be down the hall, across the street, or on the other side of the world. At the end of the day, you can easily become detached from these individual teams, leaving them to their own devices in the hope they are working efficiently and towards the goal of building a successful business.

article thumbnail

Pixar, Artists, Founders and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

I’m still surprised when I find unexpected connections with innovation in different industries. —– In a recent workshop with a large company focused on the Innovation@50x process, I mentioned that founders and intraprenuers operate more like artists than accountants – on day one they see something no one else does. One of the innovators in the room said, “It sounds like you’re describing exactly what Ed Catmull the CEO of Pixar wrote in Creativity, Inc.”.

Founder 243
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

$1 Million At 25: How My Business Made Someone A Millionaire

YoungUpstarts

by Paul Scolardi is the CEO of Super Trades LLC. When it comes to finding financial success, so many people focus on having to build their financial portfolio for years and years and to wait decades until they can make the money they want and live the life they have always wanted to have. However, there is a young man by the name of Matthew Owens that is proving that philosophy wrong.

Stock 213
article thumbnail

Startup Branding: Dos And Don’ts For Your Small Businesses

Brandanew

Branding is usually seen as an expensive and complicated task normally associated with big organizations that are identified globally. However, in today’s digital world, as more organizations are moving from traditional to inbound marketing, things are changing. The barriers to entry are low, and anyone using social platforms and new media can establish a known brand.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

What Is Local SEO Marketing & How Can You Do It

YoungUpstarts

The most successful startup companies all begin with the same strategy: strong marketing. It is not a secret that marketing can bring in big revenue, and the best strategies can be well worth the financial investment. One of the most obvious strategies is to use social media marketing , and to the right audience with the right product this approach is worthwhile.

SEO 146
article thumbnail

Five Things We Learned from Starting a Community Radio Station

Up and Running

Like most other community radio stations, Radio Boise is a not-for-profit organization. While there is a small paid staff of seven people who help run the station—both part time and full time—the deejays are all volunteers. There’s also a small group of steadfast individuals, including community members, who help keep the station up and running. In 2003, when Radio Boise was in its infancy and only just banding together as a team of like-minded individuals, it was known as the Boise Community Ra

Community 109

More Trending

article thumbnail

How To Be Scalable

Mike Michalowicz

Scalable has become an abused word. Everyone wants to be scalable, yet few understand what it means. So let’s get a few things straight. To be scalable is not to increase sales. That’s growing revenue. To be scalable is not to hire more employees. That’s an HR nightmare. To be scalable is definitely not adding more space and more stuff.

Revenue 87
article thumbnail

Branding Your Car, Van Or Other Vehicle

YoungUpstarts

If you are running a small business, getting your brand recognized is one of the first steps to success. They say most people will remember a brand and have some ideas about it in their mind once they have seen it seven or more times. This may sound like a lot, but if you can get your branding into their field of vision regularly, or have them returning to something you have branded like your website often, it won’t take long for it to become firmly implanted in their memories.

article thumbnail

Austin Startups Need More Funding Sources

SiliconHills

Austin ranks first for startup activity but 12th in the nation for venture capital funding, according to a new report. The report released Tuesday from an assistant professor at St. Edward’s University, backed by the Austin Technology Council and the Austin Chamber of Commerce finds the city needs more funding sources. The report compared Austin […] The post Austin Startups Need More Funding Sources appeared first on SiliconHills.

Austin 82
article thumbnail

Why Is It So Hard To Find Quality, Affordable Freelancers?

YFS Magazine

Learn how you can meet the challenges of finding and hiring qualified freelancers through great communication.

Hiring 97
article thumbnail

Umbel Unlocks Value in Hidden Data

SiliconHills

By TIM GREEN Reporter with Silicon Hills News A basketball team’s most valuable assets – the players – are in full view during a game. The players’ skills attract paying customers to the arena. There’s another asset on hand, one that isn’t visible, but if handled the right way, can keep those fans returning for […] The post Umbel Unlocks Value in Hidden Data appeared first on SiliconHills.

Green 82
article thumbnail

This Sure-Fire Blogger Outreach Strategy Will Save Your Blog

YFS Magazine

Take note of the following tips below and you’ll see why blogger outreach is a winning marketing strategy.

article thumbnail

Cornell Women Entrepreneurs

ithacaVC

Business Insider just published results from a study on top schools for women looking to create their own companies and obtain outside funding. Here is the article. The ranking is for the top 10 schools only. Cornell is #9. The rankings are driven by PitchBook data, and you might recall that Cornell had the same ranking for women entrepreneurs raising venture capital described in my September 24th post.

article thumbnail

Motivation: NBA Edition

Hearpreneur

With the start of the NBA season, we decided to put together some motivational videos for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners.

Video 64
article thumbnail

What Is the “Walker Startup Package”?

Scott Edward Walker

I get calls and questions all the time about our Startup Package and, accordingly, I put together a brief clip from the podcast “ This Week in Startups ” which should be helpful. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1A44ShZfWo. As I discuss with uber-entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis (the founder and host of the show), the Startup Package is a flat-fee package designed for entrepreneurs and founders who are looking to set-up their company properly and to button-down the legal issues between the co

article thumbnail

Secure a Remote Job via Transformify Blogger's Island

Transformify

Register for the newest remote work platform and secure your Remote Virtual Job! It has never been so easy! You can share your expertise, experience and helpful tips on Blogger'S Island to establish your personal brand and attract the attention of employers. You can apply to open projects, they are just a click away. Or you may wait to be invited to an interview by a Business Partner of Transformify.

article thumbnail

Photo

Bryce Dot VC

50
article thumbnail

How to Make Guest Posting the Secret to Traffic Success

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Make Guest Posting the Secret to Traffic Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. First let’s define what a guest post is in the context of this post. A guest post is high-quality, often original, content that your readers, or the readers of another site, finds useful. All that to say it’s not a spammy, content farm method for getting links.