YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2015

by Richard Milam , the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated. The end of the fiscal year marks a time of reflection and a chance for businesses to set forth tactics and goals to boost performance and profitability when leaping into the next fiscal year. As the end of the fiscal year approaches, it is critical for businesses to determine what initiatives where successful, as well as what were financial weights in order to create strategic operational goals that will result in increased reve

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Technical Review Software Review Forecast Database 139

Brandanew

OCTOBER 15, 2015

As I shared over a month ago, Brandanew has been working on a digital media survey on Indian women online. This research was initiated in 2013 and the latest survey was to add insights to a large qualitative set of interviews that I was able to work on for the last couple of years. The hardest part of this research has been to disassociate my personal experiences of using the online space and see it objectively from the experiences of others.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Sam Altman of YC posted a long tweetstorm yesterday on the theme of frugality in startups. In short he thinks it’s a virtue we’re in danger of losing. That’s more true in the US than over here where there’s still less money in the market, but it’s a point worth repeating. The positives of frugality are that working with the constraint of limited capital forces creativity and sets the culture right for the long term.

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YFS Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Gone are the days of winging it. To coach people well involves more than just investing in a weekend workshop. It involves training.

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Business Plan 117

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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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Let me tell you a few short hair-raising stories of entrepreneurs who have raised money and regretted it later. Here are some rules that entrepreneurs almost always ignore to their future peril. Don’t take money from relatives who can’t afford to walk away without remorse. Do take money from experienced family members only after you ask them if they are sure three or more separate times.

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YFS Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Just because your business is small does not mean you aren’t at risk for data loss. For millions of small businesses in the United States, their data is their lifeblood – small businesses wouldn’t be able to operate without it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Harnessing Pinterest For Leads And Business Growth written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: photopin. I have been happily pinning since 2010 when this visual tool exploded onto the scene and became our best way to procrastinate. Now no longer the blogger’s secret, this powerful tool is a driving force of visual social media and a search engine in its own right.

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Early Growth Financial Services

OCTOBER 15, 2015

1. What exactly is a Chart of Accounts (COA)? In simple terms, it is an indexed listing of all the different account classifications for your organization’s expenses. A COA is targeted to your company’s specific revenue streams and forms the core of your accounting system. 2. Why do you need a Chart of Accounts? Your COA helps you track and report each class of items for which you spend or receive funds.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2015

3 Tests To Run On Your Website Now written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: www.DeathToTheStockPhoto.com. You’ve got a website, but do you really know what’s working on that site? As a small business owner, you’re pulled in so many different directions and marketing is just one more thing on your list. Which is exactly why you need to pay attention to what’s working and what’s not so you can focus your efforts on the things that deliver results – leads and sales.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Persuading completely rational people to make a certain decision or take a specific action would be quite easy. Unfortunately, you’re stuck dealing with irrational thinking , fuelled by cognitive biases and emotions. [Tweet It!]. So, how do you persuade effectively when people are so heavily influenced by subjective (and contextual) factors? That’s a complicated question with no definitive or universal answer.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Do you want to rock your social media marketing game? Keen to learn from the legendary Guy Kawasaki? If so, check out “ The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users ” co-authored by Guy Kawasaki and Peg Fitzpatrick. Providing over 120 “power tips for power users”, the slim volume provides practical hands-on “tips, tricks and insights” culled from Guy and Peg’s years of battle-hardened experience at the forefront of social media and content marketing.

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