Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 7, 2015

We know that companies are successful (or not successful) because of their people. Over the past few years, it has become relatively acceptable to work with a leadership coach and investors typically have a handful of good coaches in their rolodex ready to support and develop young founders. Yet even with this rise in popularity, leadership development is still primarily limited to CEOs and select executives.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2015

by Ajay Kapur, CEO and Founder of Moovweb. The holidays are approaching, and mobile is going to play a bigger role in eCommerce than ever before. Last year, mobile holiday shopping traffic surpassed desktop for the first time and retailers are expecting even higher mobile traffic this year. Below are six key mobile holiday shopping trends we’re seeing take shape for 2015: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2015

According to several reliable reports , job satisfaction for employees is at an all-time low. An online survey published earlier this year found that nearly two-thirds of the respondents were not happy at work. One obvious alternative is to become an entrepreneur. As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to switch and get real satisfaction from this lifestyle.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As marketers, when we are in a hurry trying to create new, interesting content for our audience. We can sometimes forget how easy it is, nowadays, to take advantage of some great DIY content marketing tools. These really can take your content marketing efforts to the next level! . Today we’ll be talking about some free tools that you may not have heard about or may not have given the attention they deserve.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2015

One of the most challenging aspects of starting a new business is managing everybody’s schedules. There are many reasons for this. In the beginning, a new business has to establish itself. It can take months before a business is able to provide reliable full-time employment to a group of workers. In the meantime, employees will have to rely on other areas of their life from which to earn their living and invest the bulk of their time.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Getting the right logo can often be the hardest part of building a brand. It’s the one mark that defines you in the marketplace. It’s the holy grail of how you should look. Right? Actually no. Often businesses get themselves worked up in a frenzy, trying to make their logo the next Mona Lisa. What ends up happening? The logo becomes over-complicated instead of being a simple and succinct mark.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Before you think about diluting your brand offering or price in order to serve everyone and anyone, here are five strategies you can use to attract the right customers.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Data published by CityAM gives the following picture for November (see here and here ): Total consumer spend up 1.1% year on year. Driven by 4.1% increase in online spend – most notably on Black Friday. Whilst the High Street fell by 1.5%. Most growth is in categories which give benefits at the top of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (hotels, bars, restaurants, cinema, theatre, clothing and footwear) – although education dropped.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The secret benefit of reading a book instead of the web is this: It makes you stay inside an idea much longer. While I love reading on the web (and writing on it) as much as anyone, I know I always get more out of a book than I do from articles. The length of time it takes to read a book means we have to digest the concept over a longer period. This then affords our own imagination the time needed to converge their ideas with our own experience.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Can you picture your boss building an app? Just as anyone who wields PowerPoint can create a logo, now anyone can build a business app, thanks to Microsoft’s new PowerApps , a new enterprise service to help workers create apps. Introduced last week at its annual Convergence MEA , Microsoft’s Software as a Service (SaaS) PowerApps can also connect to business systems in a secure way and let employees share their apps with coworkers.

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YFS Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2015

To say we're excited to bring you our 2015 holiday gift guide would be an understatement. This year we've scoured every corner of the web and unearthed 100 of our favorite gift ideas.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 7, 2015

These motivational videos are for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. Dominate like Michael Jordan did. It was his competitive nature which made him unstoppable. Be the Michael Jordan of your industry. If you put your mind to doing whatever you want to do, good things can happen. .

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2015

By David Kidd, Vice President of Governance, Risk & Compliance at Peak 10. In the aftermath of recent data breaches, two thirds of consumers say they don’t trust retailers with their payment and personal information. [1] But has pubic concern inspired action? According to the 2015 ISACA IT Risk/Reward Barometer the majority of U.S. consumers (89 percent) want employees with access to their personal information to be cyber-security certified, but only 64 percent of businesses feel confi

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 7, 2015

About 10 years ago now I watched Bear Grylls take to the stage at a leadership conference I had organised when I was leading our global Laundry and Homecare business. He was the youngest British person to ever climb Everest, and was there to talk about the experience of his climb. He said something that has stuck with me to this day – that the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just one little word… extra.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 7, 2015

VC’s talk about being value-added partners all the time. It’s a vague way to articulate the kinds of things that VC board members might do, often with fairly indirect or immeasurable impact. Some firms have specific initiatives that are more directly impactful to a founder and their company, especially stuff around recruiting or sales/BD.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Also Available On. Show Summary. Pizza Champion Michael Shepherd joins Mike Michalowicz, Chris Curran and Kristina Bolduc for Episode 57 of the Profit First Podcast! Michael talks about his experience in growing his pizza chain an how he managed business growth at a fast rate. Our Guest . M ichael Shepherd a 4 time World Pizza Champion, 3 Time U.S.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Everyone knows that their website doesn’t exist in a vacuum. However, a majority of websites still act like they do. And that’s costing them business. I do qualitative research for every optimization project I work on, and one of the things I investigate is comparison shopping. How many websites did the user check out besides yours? In all my years of doing this, I’ve never come across a website where users did not check out the competition.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The standard answer to this question is: No, we live in a 3D world and to discover its third dimension – depth, we need at least two receivers. This fact is confirmed by Mother Nature who decided not to follow the examples from the Greek Mythology and skipped the creation of Cyclopes. The one-eyed robots can be found in Hollywood only. Even though we like them a lot, they too, have problems in recognizing the objects in front of them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2015

4 Local SEO Tips For 2016 written by Alex Boyer read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you run a company that depends on local customers, then local SEO is vital for your business. Local SEO is a subset of search engine optimization that helps people in your area find you on the search engines. And let’s be honest. When we say “the search engines”, we really mean Google.

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