Fri.May 22, 2015

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12 Signs You Need to Hire a Manager

Up and Running

When first starting your business you do it all—you oversee every aspect of your company. But as things grow, you eventually have to admit that trying to do everything yourself is no longer effective. However, it’s hard to let go. We asked 12 founders from the YEC to share with us when they knew it was time to hire a manager (or a few managers) to oversee the day-to-day activities of their business.

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SELLING YOUR COMPANY? 3 TIPS FOR ENTREPRENEURS

Scott Edward Walker

Last week, my client closed the sale of his company for approximately $65 million. Like most M&A transactions, it was a difficult and tricky ordeal. Indeed, we started the sales process nearly two years ago — so when the wire hit, he was a happy man. He even sent me a very gracious email: “There is no way this could have worked out so well without your hard work, experience, and persistent attention to detail.

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The Minimalist Guide To Managing Your Brand Reputation Online

Duct Tape Marketing

The Minimalist Guide To Managing Your Brand Reputation Online written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. A dissatisfied customer, on an average, tells 25 of his friends, while a happy one tells only 15. Seems like if good reviews spread like wildfire, bad reviews would be rushing with light speed. Reviews, and how the masses consume them, are human nature, but this human nature can be fatal for online businesses especially at a time when 8 out of 1

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The Art Of Storytelling – Converting Fairytales To Brand Stories

Brandanew

When Brothers Grimm wrote up those wonderful stories stocked up in the forests coming up with one engaging fairytale over other, they perhaps did not realize the nostalgia, and childhood sense of fulfillment they would evoke in adults and children a century ahead. Fairytales with all their quirks and issues brought forward by modernists and Shreks, still remain stories that we remember.

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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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How To Stay Fully Charged As A New Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

New entrepreneurs routinely jump into a startup with a full charge of passion and energy, but often find themselves drained of both after a few months by the workload and challenges. As a result, burnout and loss of passion are consistently listed among the top causes of startup failure, according to many studies. The challenge is find ways to continually recharge along the way.

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The Apparent Benefits Of Taking Your Business Online

YoungUpstarts

by Simon Horton, founder of ShopIntegrator.com. Either flow with the water or be ready to drown. And for businesses today the water-flow is towards the web. If you are asking me why, here comes my counter question – why not? Your customers are online and so are most of your competitors. There is no reason for you to lag behind unless you are thinking to retire.

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Have Diploma, Will Work For Recognition

YoungUpstarts

By Hunter Hoffmann, Head of US Communications at Hiscox Small Business Insurance. Millennials graduating this month are entering a strong job market full of optimism with dreams of starting their new careers. The increasingly healthy economy provides more job opportunities for this year’s graduates than recent classes. But, not all of them are looking for a traditional entry-level, get your foot in the door job as their first step after college.

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Know Your Industry Before You Start Your Business

Up and Running

Take a second to get into context here. If your plan is a plan to be presented to outsiders, then you need to explain the type of business you’re in. You’ll be expected to explain the general state of your industry and the nature of the business, especially if your plan is going outside your company to banks or investors. And if your plan is for your own management purposes, you should still be very sure—whether you have to prove it to others or not—that you know your market.

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VC value add: trends and challenges

The Equity Kicker

In recent years VCs have been rushing to add value by hiring non-investors to help their portfolio companies. I touched on this subject last week when I wrote that Capitalism is being replaced by talentism. This week I want to talk a little more about what VCs are actually doing. This is a list of the funds that are working hardest to add value beyond capital, strategic advice, and the partners’ contacts.

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Twitter Link Roundup #270 – Exemplary Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

Dan Deacon is an electronic musician with a huge following. Crowds go crazy at his live shows where audience participation and collaboration is a core element of the performance. So it is now surprise that Deacon put his head together with 9 animators to collaborate on a new video for his song, “When I Was Done Dying.” Sponsored by Adult Swim, the result is a mind-boggling mashup of styles and a musical and visual tour de force.

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Selling Ice To Africans

Mike Michalowicz

I don’t want that sales guy who is “so good” he can “sell ice to Eskimos.” Why not? Because eskimos don’t need ice. That sales guy has a horrible sense of the target market. That guy is a world class scammer. I want the guy who can sell ice to Africans. That guy understands the target market. That guy understands how to serve. That guy is a world class salesman.

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Planview Acquires Troux

SiliconHills

Planview, an Austin-based software company, announced its acquisition of Troux, which develops IT project management software and is also based in Austin. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Gregory S. Gilmore serves as the CEO of Planview. David Hood headed up Troux. “With the acquisition of Troux, the newly combined entity creates […] The post Planview Acquires Troux appeared first on SiliconHills.

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RetailMeNot Defends Itself Against Mary Kay Coupon Lawsuit

SiliconHills

RetailMeNot, which bills itself as the world’s largest digital offers marketplace, Friday filed a response to a lawsuit brought by Mary Kay in March. In the lawsuit, Mary Kay asked the court to stop RetailMeNot from using the Mary Kay name on RetailMeNot.com. “RetailMeNot, Inc. rejects Mary Kay’s attack on the rights of Americans using […] The post RetailMeNot Defends Itself Against Mary Kay Coupon Lawsuit appeared first on SiliconHills.

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