Thu.May 26, 2016

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Give Your Customers An Unforgettable Experience

YoungUpstarts

No matter how innovative your product is or how great your staff are, your business depends on your customers. If you didn’t have any customers, you wouldn’t make any sales. No sales, no revenue, no business. Because the people you sell to are such an important factor, you need to be doing everything you can to make their experience with you a positive one.

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Resources to Increase the Impact of Your Nonprofit

Up and Running

Starting and running a nonprofit is richly rewarding in and of itself. As a passionate worker in a charitable organization, or someone who is planning to start one of these organizations, finding resources to help improve your nonprofit is bound to be on your mind. It’s never a bad time to look into increasing the growth and positive impact of your nonprofit business, and these resources will help you do just that.

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The Next Reboot VC Bootcamp

Feld Thoughts

Signups are open for the second Reboot VC Bootcamp happening January 19-22, 2017. It will – once again – be at my house in Longmont, Colorado. If you are interested, here are some reactions to the first Reboot VC Bootcamp. The post The Next Reboot VC Bootcamp appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Not being tricked by overconfidence

The Equity Kicker

It seems that lots of people in my network are reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman at the moment, at least I guess that’s why I keep hearing snippets of his wisdom. The latest is from BrainPickings : The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence [but] of the coherence of the story that the mind has managed to construct.

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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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Why the 4 Buyer Modalities Are Totally Meaningless

ConversionXL

As optimizers and business owners, you’re striving to better understand your audience. Who visits your site? What are they looking for? What will make them convert to paying customers? To help answer these questions, buyer modalities were created to help categorize visitors and their purchase behavior. The only problem? Buyer modalities are meaningless and personality models as a whole are extremely difficult to apply to online marketing and optimization.

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Six Ideas for Coping with Little “d” Depression in Innovation Projects

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Innovation and Depression. …Six Ideas for Coping with Little “d” Depression… Nobody talks about the dark emotions related to innovation. You hear about the emotional high of a big “aha” moment. Or, less frequently, about the “oh crap” moment when a project hits a brick wall. But nobody talks about how personal battles with the dark side impact innovation.

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Micro–train; macro–manage

Berkonomics

Dave’s note: The week, we again welcome Kim Shepherd as our guest author, with her blunt, on-the-target style. As always, you should enjoy her insights for management… By Kim Shepherd. You have enough on your plate without having to hold your employees’ hands or peer over their shoulders. In fact, the ideal scenario is to follow Lee Iacocca’s strategy: “I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.” Of course, in practice it’s not tha

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5 Signs Your Unchecked Ego Is Wrecking Your Business

YFS Magazine

Ditch the over-charged ego. The best businesses are built on heart and soul, not an insufferable and gigantic ego.

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They’re Never Too Young

Austin Startup

May 30, 2016: Happy Memorial Day, Patriotic Readers. This past weekend I attended a Georgia Tech Research Corporation board meeting in the… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Non Recurring Revenue Businesses

Rob Go

I’ve been thinking a little about non-recurring revenue businesses. Particularly, businesses where transactions are large, but infrequent. I’m coming to the belief that these are under-appreciated categories of investment, especially since the gospel of recurring revenue, subscription commerce, and SaaS has been preached in recent years.

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The Top 5 Social Analytics Tools for Small Business Marketers

Duct Tape Marketing

The Top 5 Social Analytics Tools for Small Business Marketers written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: keyhole.co. Putting a small business on the social media map involves using data to pinpoint and engage specific audiences with appropriate content. But how do you find the right social media analytics suite to collect this data?

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The writing is coming

Jeff Hilimire

I know I haven’t been blogging quite as much lately, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. I’m actually in the process of writing my first book, and I’ve built up a fairly consistent daily regime to make progress. I’ll probably post more about the process I’m going through to write the book, with the help of a few friends, but for now I’d say I’m 20% through and I’m focusing on the proposal at the moment (for the publisher/agent

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How to write a perfect investor update

Spencer Fry

I’ve been told by my Coach investors and startup friends that I write great investor updates. Entrepreneurs often ask me what my process is and how I write an update. Having been asked enough times, I thought it’d be easier to write up how I do them, so others can learn the process. How often to send updates. I think the going consensus amongst most founders is to send investor updates no less than once a quarter.

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Schroders: Leicester City’s Premier League Triumph And Retirement Investment

YoungUpstarts

by Stuart Podmore, Investment Propositions Director at Schroders . If you thought the most important investment-related news story of 2016 so far was China, Brexit, Donald Trump, the oil price, or politicians’ tax return revelations, you’d have missed a point. It’s Leicester City FC and its first Premier League title. Loss aversion. I don’t make this statement to trivialise or belittle either the fortunes of our clients in uncertain markets or the success of a proud football club.

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