Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2016

So you’re setting up your own business and of course your number one goal is to make money. The best place to start is to make sure you’re not throwing precious cash away. Hire Freelancers. It may seem counterintuitive to spend money on employers like freelancers when setting you up own business, but in fact the cost savings are significant. Using freelancers frees up your time so you can get more done, to focus on the most important thing – your clients.

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Rembrandt Communications

JANUARY 20, 2016

You have a unique, competitive advantage. Are you using it? You’ve spent hours writing really cool blogs, social-media posts and Website content that rocks… or does it? It’s one thing to write copy, it’s another thing to have your content actually create sales for your business. Content provides a unique way for you to stand […]. The post How to Turn Content Into Sales appeared first on Boost sales with BtoB Content Strategy and PR here.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2016

by Allison Conkright Engel, Global Marketing Strategy, Sr. Manager – Dell for Entrepreneurs. For all the bad press Uber seems to garner, it sure knows how to appeal to its constituents and harvest unrelenting support. When Uber launched in Washington, D.C. , in 2012, its first step was gauging the local market’s wants and needs. It appealed to the city’s suit-and-tie professionals by rolling out black sedan limos to replace shabby taxicabs.

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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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For Entrepreneurs

JANUARY 20, 2016

forEntrepreneurs is focused on writing about pressing topics founders are encountering and sharing the best resources and advice we can find to help you build your company. Based on readers’ feedback, we’re sharing the top articles from forEntrepreneurs in the hopes that you gain some new insights as well. Please enjoy and share with others who might also benefit.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2016

There are a lot of things stacked against you as a young professional, in a job market saturated with thousands of people just like you. The journey along your career path has only just begun, but there are a lot of things you can do to boost your chances of getting towards your end goal of that dream job that you trained so hard for. Here are three easy steps that will help you do just that: 1.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 20, 2016

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] I have a special edition podcast episode for you featuring someone you may know well – Pat Flynn. Several years ago when Pat was a lot less well known we did an ‘entrepreneurs journey’ podcast together, learning. The post Pat Flynn: Will It Fly? How To Validate Or Find A Profitable Topic For Your Online Business appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com. [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | R

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2016

Make your meals powerful
 and strong so your body can achieve optimal performance needed to meet your business goals and the high demands of entrepreneurship.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 20, 2016

A wise VC once told me when dinner is served, you eat. When it comes to fundraising, I’ve learned that if someone is trying to invest now, you should strike while the iron is hot. Given that the headwinds are getting stronger, we at boldstart have been advising all of our portfolio companies to raise as much as they can as soon as they can and to make sure that every dollar spent has a real ROI.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 20, 2016

Civitas Learning announced Wednesday it has acquired College Scheduler, a web-based class scheduling platform for students at colleges and universities. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. College Scheduler, based in Redding, Calif., was founded by a student, Robert Strazzarino, at California State University at Chico, to solve his problems with scheduling classes […] The post Civitas Learning Buys College Scheduler appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 20, 2016

Perhaps the most underrated of Steve Jobs' many talents was his maniacal ability to be totally convinced that whatever business position, opinion, or strategy that he was holding at a particular moment was the 100% right and righteous one , that all who disagreed with him were fools and/or ill-intentioned, and that everyone at Apple had to right away rally around (and do so 24/7!

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 20, 2016

I’m launching a new Telco Service here’s some of the features I’m hoping to include in my customer proposition. There will be no fixed line or cable access. While the service will have technical capability to call any phone number, you won’t be able to call just any number you want. We’ll have a directory with the numbers you can actually call on it.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2016

Weeding out bad candidates is not as hard as it sounds when you ask the right questions.

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ithacaVC

JANUARY 20, 2016

I have been a little tardy with posts this month. Too many things eating my time. This hysterical “Ithaca” list was just sent to me, and I felt compelled to share and archive on my blog for future reference! Enjoy this list of Ithaca problems.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 20, 2016

Not All Prospects Are Created Equal written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Scott Oldford . When marketers create one size fits all marketing campaigns they turn away about 80% of their market. Now, your numbers may vary, but the point is that even if someone is a perfect match for what you do they may not be ready to learn about your awesome services because there is a very good chance they don’t even realize the nature of the problem you might be

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 20, 2016

The thing about enterprise security, from the outside at least, is it reads like a Hollywood thriller. Nation states are after your company’s most valuable assets and they must be stopped at all costs.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 20, 2016

My good friend and Leadership Atlanta* classmate, Dr. Brett Jacobsen , asked me to be on his Design Movement podcast. Dr. Jacobsen is the Head of School for Mount Vernon Presbyterian School , and I’ve been following his podcast since he started it. We had a great conversation and you can download the podcast here. Some things we talked about: When asked what isn’t going to change in MY world (building mobile experiences at Dragon Army ): People will continue to want more simplicity a

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deal architect

JANUARY 20, 2016

Bob Evans, Chief Communications Officer at Oracle has a nice “State of the CIO Nation” post at Forbes, with the infograph below and he cites examples from GE, Monsanto and other companies. ‘ It’s a feel-good post from a CIO.

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