Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2015

In my years of working with entrepreneurs, I have heard many times the promise that their new idea will create the next Amazon or Apple, but I rarely hear the more important promise that the founder will practice all the good habits of winning entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs. You see, I’m convinced that the entrepreneur makes the company, not the other way around.

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deal architect

JULY 17, 2015

I first wrote about ERP third party maintenance (support independent of the software publisher) in 2005. Even earlier, I have written about similar offerings like plug-compatible mainframes and specialty auto shops who do better than official dealers. I have noticed.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2015

by Alaina G. Levine, president of Quantum Success Solutions and author of “ Networking for Nerds: Find, Access and Land Hidden Game-Changing Career Opportunities Everywhere “. Love them or loathe them, conferences are an established fixture in most industries. You may think that if you’re not presenting a poster, giving a talk, sitting on a panel, or actively on the job market, it’s okay to be a passive participant — or decline to attend altogether.

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Brandanew

JULY 17, 2015

Are you a social media enthusiast longing to network with those from your field? Or someone who is setting foot in the marketing world because they found social media to be their calling? Either ways, the rules of the game are pretty simple – the more you network, the better you get at your job. Like every other field out there, social media enthusiasts across the world hold conferences every now and then with the sole purpose of networking and finding inspiration for their next campaign.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2015

Is there anything you like about your current job? If not, what would you rather be doing? Being in a job that you take no joy in can be truly detrimental to your life and the people around you. The opposite holds true when you find that job that makes you feel challenged, needed and passionate all at the same time. Ever thought about just how far-reaching your happiness can be?

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The Next Web

JULY 17, 2015

When we went out and raised the first time (four years ago), we hit our fundraising goal. We had additional investor interest and almost closed the round. Instead, our advisor pushed us to keep going and we raised two times that amount. The second time we raised, we took on three times our target. It took our advisor serious effort to convince us the first time around (Investors and advisors: the crowd, the ringside, and your corner).

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YFS Magazine

JULY 17, 2015

Here are three ways entrepreneurs can institute and maintain a productive horizontal structure.

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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2015

Grab some coffee, kick back, and catch up on the latest about small business. Hope your summer’s going well! Don’t get too caught up on the beach—or running a business—to miss these insightful reads from the past week. 1. Planning is key. A series of studies done by Rice University found that when it comes to launching a business, preparation is often far more important than passion. 2.

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YFS Magazine

JULY 17, 2015

How can you attract the right talent? We asked two UK-based startups to share their coveted staffing tips.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 17, 2015

A college buddy of mine loved to say, “You can polish a turd as much as you want… it’s still a stinkin’ turd.” (If you haven’t figured it out, I went to an aggie school.) Yet so many entrepreneurs throw money at their turd offerings. If what you’re doing isn’t extraordinary, having a nicely polished marketing campaign is just gloss. The turd still exists underneath.

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YFS Magazine

JULY 17, 2015

Here are 13 smart ways to set your life up for financial success.

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ConversionXL

JULY 17, 2015

At ConversionXL Live 2015 we had an amazing testing panel featuring statistics and testing gurus Lukas Vermeer from Booking.com, Matt Gershoff from Conductrics and Yuan Wright from Electronic Arts. And the audience asked some of the toughest testing questions ever. All of them got answer. Watch the video here: Note: get on the email list to get notified when tickets for ConversionXL Live 2016 become available.

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SiliconHills

JULY 17, 2015

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News The amount of venture capital bucks invested in Austin dropped nearly 49 percent in the second quarter to $162.5 million, compared to the first quarter’s $267.2 million, according to the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thompson Reuters.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JULY 17, 2015

The Entrepreneurial Mind : Ron Samuels, founder and CEO of Avenue Bank, shares his insights about investor relationships TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Bank Founder Shares His Views on Investor Relations appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 17, 2015

10 Simple Ways to Generate Blog Post Ideas written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Brainstorming blog post ideas off the top of your head only goes so far. Thankfully, there are a number of ways to get into your reader’s mind to generate post ideas you know will be helpful and relevant. Here are ten simple ways to keep your blog post ideation machine cranking: 1.

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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2015

Are you finally ready to turn your business idea into a reality? As you know, there’s a lot of preparation that goes into launching a business. Creating a business plan and securing funding are common items on the startup to-do list. One thing you should add to that list is time to review common business laws that could affect your business. To make your research a little easier, we’ve scoured a number of government websites and compiled a list of laws and regulations that affect every busines

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2015

Not one, but two of our favorite technologies were Gilles Deschaud’s film, “Chase Me.” We love the art and the painstaking craft of stop-motion animation and Deschaud has got it down cold. Maybe more impressive is the fact that he produced the entire film using 3d print technology! As mashups go, h cool is that? So get out your printers and dust off your animation stand, but first be sure to enjoy this set of links and articles that we shared with you over the past week on our

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