Fri.Jul 24, 2015

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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. This is a recap of the more insightful tweets and comments from the event.

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5 Tips To Better Communication In Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

By Scott Schreiman, CEO of Samepage. You’ve got a small crew that wears many hats. That makes each minute precious. Yet every minute, tons of data is generated. It’s a constant battle to maintain focus. You’re constantly absorbing information. Making sense of it. Then communicating the right data to the right people in a timely way. SIS International Research surveyed small businesses to uncover what’s mucking up the works.

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8 Ways That Blogging Will Kickstart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

As the number of sites on the Internet floats around one billion, the challenge with every new startup is to be found and stand out. More important, if someone does find your site, the content better be enticing enough for them to come back. Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. In this age of relationships, you, the entrepreneur, are a very important element of your new brand, and it’s never too early to start marketing the val

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Bits, Bytes, and the Blockchain: An Overview of Bitcoin

Early Growth Financial Services

Once regarded as part of a libertarian fringe, Bitcoin is increasingly commanding the attention of the world’s major financial institutions, institutional investors, and governmental regulatory bodies. Current estimates put the amount of Bitcoin outstanding at $14.2 million. Though this is tiny relative to other asset classes such as stocks, bonds, and physical currencies, proponents and, increasingly major financial institutions, believe Bitcoin has a major role to play in enabling not only con

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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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A customer-centric voice at SAP

deal architect

As I go through final edits of SAP Nation 2.0, I am updating it for its Q2 results. I was pleased to see two interviews with Rob Enslin, SAP's President of Global Customer Operations here and here. He provides some.

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We’re Stuck In A Success Crisis And It’s Affecting Our Kids

YoungUpstarts

By Susan Ford Collins, author of “ The Joy of Success: 10 Essential Skills for Getting the Success You Want “ Success and leadership have gears… and we’re not shifting them correctly! We’ve gotten stuck in “the more-better-faster, what-have-you-done-for-me- lately, too-busy-racing-around-to- enjoy-our-lives” gear. We’re over-fed, under-nourished, over-medicated, under-rested, and under-satisfied.

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Can’t attract VC money? Buy a business with private equity

The Next Web

Venture capital investors are looking for different things than private equity investors. Venture capital firms are typically growth-oriented, early-stage investors looking for these proof-of-concept points before cutting a check. Private equity firms are typically cash-flow oriented, later-stage investors, looking to invest in companies in excess of $10 million in revenues and $3 million in EBITDA (A company’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) in size.

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5 Smart Tips To Grow Your Blog’s Audience

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at five tips that have proven successful for many bloggers and brands who started out small but grew their blogs into a top-tier presence and source of niche expertise.

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Software doing the work of cameramen

The Equity Kicker

“Software is eating the world” and “robots are taking all the jobs” are much used phrases these days. That’s because they are regularly proven to be true in new and surprising ways. I was surprised earlier today when I read this excerpt from a Fast Company interview with Chris Anderson, founder of 3D Robotics: “The first phase of our little adventure was getting robots to fly.

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5 Startup Lessons Entrepreneurs Should Learn Early

YFS Magazine

Always understand what you are getting into, and why, as well as what is required to be successful.

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Your Small Business News Roundup

Up and Running

Grab some coffee, kick back, and catch up on the latest about small business. We’re getting insecure. The rising number of high-profile security breaches has spurred venture firms to invest over $1 billion in cybersecurity startups so far in 2015. On that note, this week’s breach at Ashley Madison was especially dicey. You would expect a site that encourages users to “have an affair” might protect their info a little better.

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When Should I Take A Profit?

Mike Michalowicz

I don’t care if your business makes a few dollars or a few million (or more). The foundation of every business, of every type, of every size is financial health. You must be profitable. You must take your profit first. Simply put: If you are making money, you should be taking money.

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BarkHappy Launches a Social Networking App for Dogs in Austin

SiliconHills

A social networking app for dog owners made its debut in Austin this week. It’s BarkHappy, a location based meet up and search app, for dog owners. The app, which is available on Android and IOS devices, lets dog owners discover other dogs in their area through geolocation. The app lets dog owners arrange meetings […] The post BarkHappy Launches a Social Networking App for Dogs in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Blogger Alert: 7 Signs That Your Blogging Needs Help

Brandanew

Let me start this with a couple of assumptions – the first that your brand is running a blog and the second, that you really want to be a good blogger but aren’t really going anywhere with it. No matter what you write, how you write and how many times you rehash your content strategy, the results are far from those expected. It could be signs that your blogging needs help.

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5 Mobile Web Usability Rules You Can’t Afford To Ignore

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Mobile Web Usability Rules You Can’t Afford To Ignore written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. If content is king then your website is its kingdom and no matter how great your content is, if your website is not providing the users a smooth user experience, your visitors are going to abandon it for sure!

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Twitter Link Roundup #279 – Wow! Great Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

At crowdSPRING we love latte and we also appreciate a great love story. And who better than Amy Schumer to tell a story of love and loss through the literary device of latte foam art? Follow the tale of a young couple as they meet, fall in love and, eventually, are left with only the cold, dank dregs of their bittersweet romance. Alright – it’s time now to finish that last cup of coffee and get to work!