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How to Found a Startup in a New Industry

View from Seed

Most startups’ founding mythologies are full of the same phrases : “hard work,” “agile strategy,” “smart scaling.” But one of the most undervalued and elusive factors is timing. As they say, timing is everything. Arrive to the market too soon and there’s no demand for the product. Arrive too late and you’re light years behind your competitors.

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Entrepreneur Guru Focuses on the Value of Communication

Hearpreneur

There is no rule which states that an entrepreneur needs to be the most extroverted person in the room. There has been a long line of entrepreneurs who prefer to be behind the scenes, working on the guts of their business, making sure their ship continues to run the right course. No matter how shy, how quiet, and even how introverted you are, there is one thing an entrepreneur does have to hold a command over – communication.

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What Do Industry Insiders Think Will Happen in VC in 2016?

Both Sides of the Table

“This is the year the tortoise may gain on the hare.” There are a lot of data points that one can observer to get a sense of the venture capital markets – both LP fundings into venture and VC financings of startups. They point to some widely known facts: financings & valuations are up massively over the past 7 years and non-VC money has entered the system.

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A Dozen Ways To Avoid Getting Abandoned At The Register

YoungUpstarts

By Josh Hatfield, Senior Manager, Digital & Cloud Sales at Hostway Services, Inc. According to a 2015 Business Insider report, about $4 trillion of purchases are abandoned annually in online shopping carts , and that number is only increasing. Many e-commerce sites experience abandonment rates between 60 and 75 percent, according to the Baymard Institute – in addition to a website bounce rate in the vicinity of 30 percent – but why are 3 out of every 4 or 5 customers failing to complete th

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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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Executive Hires: The Case for Extreme Referencing

For Entrepreneurs

Hiring a strong executive management team is one of the most proven ways to ensure startup success. Yet, hiring executives is a very different undertaking than hiring for other roles in your company and requires a different process, skill-set, and time commitment. There are three reasons for this: First, the stakes are higher. The right.

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Top 3 Security Takeaways From 2015

YoungUpstarts

by Bill Carey , Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at Siber Systems Inc. . With the holidays firmly in the rearview mirror and 2016 now fully underway, business leaders are taking stock of the year just passed and adjusting strategies for the coming months. One priority for many businesses is strengthening their information security posture.

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Introducing The Dial Telephone

Feld Thoughts

If you are over 80 years old, you experienced the transition from the non-dial telephone to the dial telephone, which included the magic “finger stop.” If you are 30, imagine what you will be reflecting on 50 years from now. The post Introducing The Dial Telephone appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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7 Ways Women Entrepreneurs Can Be More Persuasive

YFS Magazine

Persuasion is a skill that definitely comes in handy. One may think it to be a natural gift, but in fact, persuasion is a skill that can be learned and improved upon over time.

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It’s not just generation Z that craves authenticity

The Equity Kicker

Business of Fashion wrote yesterday about what brands should do to tap into generation Z – that is youngsters born from the mid-90s onwards. They identify a number of interesting differences between generation Z and their forbears: Online nearly all the time – born digital and never experienced life without technology. Spend less money on fashion (down from 45% to 38% of teenage spend 2005-2015) and more on technology (up from 4% to 8% of spend) and food (up from 7% to 22% of spend)

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Big data: Information is NOT knowledge

Berkonomics

Say that you have a log file of every contact to your website. Or that you are a cell phone company with a multi–billion record log file of every call made from every location to every number dialed using your network. You can accurately state that you have big data at your fingertips. But it is useless in this raw, usually unstructured form. Adding context to data takes this information and creates actionable knowledge.

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6 Branding And Growth Strategies Founders Can Learn From Birchbox

YFS Magazine

So what’s Birchbox’s secret? Here we break down six branding and growth strategies that fueled it’s mega-growth.

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Your app is not an app

Start Up Blog

Never, ever tell anyone your startup is an app. It’s a startup that does X, Y or Z. Saying your startup is an app, is a bit like telling people your startup uses electricity. The app side of what you do is making the infrastructure the hero, not the problem you solve. My latest startup is all about Surfing. #SneakySurf – you might have seen me tweet about it.

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Greenbelt Greens Launches in Austin

SiliconHills

The salad days are here to stay in Austin. And thanks to a new Austin-based subscription service, Greenbelt Greens, people can get chef-designed salads and grain bowls sent straight to their doorstep. The startup just launched its service this week. Customers can personalize their deliveries when they set up their Greenbelt Greens profile. They’ll be […] The post Greenbelt Greens Launches in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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10 Important Things You Can Do To Be A Good Customer

crowdSPRING Blog

As customers, we often put our expectations in the hands of the customer service team. That being said, there is so much one can do to take charge of their own experience as a customer. The company, the product, and the team are only part of the equation, and not the only deciding factors on how smoothly your experience will go. So how do you, the customer, take charge of your own experience?

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Techstars Announces its 2016 Austin Cohort

SiliconHills

For the first time half of the Techstars Austin cohort hails from Austin. This is the fourth class for the popular Techstar accelerator in Austin and the first one led by its new managing director, Amos Schwartzfarb. “It was not intentional,” Schwartzfarb said. “We were very location agnostic. It wasn’t a field in the spreadsheets […] The post Techstars Announces its 2016 Austin Cohort appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Five Questions for Alec Ross: Secretary Clinton’s Senior Advisor for Innovation

Hunter Walker

Obama was the first Presidential tenure of my adult life where I felt as if I could get involved and make a difference. During my time at YouTube, I saw a number of my former Google colleagues take roles on the campaign or in the administration. Mostly through these folks I was connected into a group of really brilliant, hard-working thinkers who saw new opportunities for public and private sector collaboration.

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Pitch with Purpose Encourages Female Founders to Apply

SiliconHills

Pitch with Purpose is encouraging women entrepreneurs leading high-growth, scalable businesses that support the resolution of the world’s most pressing problems to apply for its pitch competition. Circular Board, based in Houston, announced the competition Thursday in partnership with the United Nations Foundation, Dell and Guggenheim Partners.

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How to Optimize Your Site for Google’s Featured Snippets (Quick Answer Boxes)

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Optimize Your Site for Google’s Featured Snippets (Quick Answer Boxes) written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In 2014, Google introduced a new way to satisfy a user’s intent by giving them quick answers right within SERPs in the “featured snippet” position (above the top organic result and below the paid listing) and online businesses and publishers have been trying to adapt to the change since then.

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Austin-based Clarify.io Selected to Participate in Microsoft’s Machine Learning Accelerator

SiliconHills

Austin-based Clarify.io, which allows developers to search and understand audio and video using a simple API, was selected to participate in Microsoft Ventures’ Machine Learning Accelerator in Seattle. And Paul Murphy, the company’s founder and CEO, reported in a blog post that the company is not relocating to Seattle. “We are thrilled to work with […] The post Austin-based Clarify.io Selected to Participate in Microsoft’s Machine Learning Accelerator appeared first