YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2015

'With smartphones becoming an essential piece of gadget to have in your hand, popular brands like Samsung, Apple, Motorola, HTC, Sony etc. are constantly coming up with phones that incorporate the latest technology and yet keep the price of the product at a minimum. One such endeavor is the launch of Sony’s Xperia E4 dual SIM smartphone in the first quarter of this year, which coming with a price tag of about Rs.12, 000 (this product and many more can be bought using Amazon gift vouchers )

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 9, 2015

'Honey, Does this Make My SaaS Look Big? I’m going to go on record now as saying that the world will soon be on “SaaS overload,” and that there will be a backlash. I am wondering if any other companies are feeling overloaded by SaaS applications as USERS of them, or are running into client objections of “I have too many SaaS apps” as VENDORS of them.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2015

'by Jeff Sauro, author of “ Customer Analytics For Dummies “ At first glance, it may seem like there’s no such thing as a “bad” profit. Isn’t the point of business to make money? Well, yes, but money obtained under negative circumstances brings with it some troubling baggage. As a consumer, you’ve probably felt the weight of that baggage yourself when you: - Paid the check at a restaurant after receiving terrible service and mediocre-at-best food. - Paid

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2015

'This is the first of several early excerpts I''ll be sharing from The Leader''s Guide, a 4-color, 250-page, hardcover and digital book which will be offered exclusively through Kickstarter--according to my agreement with my publisher, Crown, the book can never be sold in stores. As usual, I''m leaving out important details like company names in order to respect their privacy while the book is still in early draft form.

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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

APRIL 9, 2015

'by Jock Purtle, CEO of Digital Exits. You’ve spent a ton of time and money into developing a profitable ecommerce business, and you’ve decided it’s time to sell. You want to get the most you can for your business, but what makes a business attractive to buyers? Do you know what to do to ensure that you get the best possible price for your business ?

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 9, 2015

'Pew Research do a lot of the best research on internet usage and their latest report on teen social media use is just out. As you can see from the chart above Facebook and Facebook owned Instagram top the charts. Whilst teens are diversifying their social media use it seems that rumours of Facebook’s impending death are greatly exaggerated. If one subscribes to the view that what teens are using today we adults will use in the future, which I think is a reasonable first order approximatio

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Up and Running

APRIL 9, 2015

'Sure, customers may click on ads when they’re all over their browser windows, but in the age of digital, how can you make sure that your offline campaigns are gaining as much traction? To find out, we asked nine entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) what strategies have worked best. See Also 5 Marketing Mistakes I Made as a New Entrepreneur. 1.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 9, 2015

'Keep Punching, Stay True to Yourself and Trends, Make Things. The demise of Radio Shack., it’s depressing. Much like Kodak you read the history of events and can point to several ideas not done that could have saved them. You can also point to many ideas they tried that were clearly the wrong bets. Hindsight is better than foresight, but still, if they’d stuck to their original values they might have survived.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 9, 2015

'Are you feeling overwhelmed? Maybe you’re having a panic attack, or a sudden desire to curl up under your desk in a fetal position and cry. Now what? First, recognize it is ok… overwhelm happens. There are millions of people across America right now crying in the restroom or screaming like little girls behind their closed office doors. It doesn’t have to be like this.

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America Restful Email 92

Berkonomics

APRIL 9, 2015

'Reward failure? That may be a difficult concept for an executive. And there are limits of course. We wouldn’t reward a failure to follow laws, or protect lives, or deliberate endangerment of the company or its people. But should we reward a research team that fails for the fourth time to find the solution to a nagging problem – on the way to a new product?

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 9, 2015

'So I’ve been doing these “Five Questions” interviews recently and, personally, I’ve enjoyed hearing from, and helping to spotlight, different folks from the tech community. The format brings me back to my brief stint at Late Night with Conan O’Brien where I worked on the team researching guests and helping to write interview questions.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 9, 2015

'By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Lightphile won the 2015 InnoTech Beta Summit Thursday morning at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. David Barrick, CEO and Co-founder presented the company, which makes an app and hardware box to control stage lighting systems. Lightphile, based at Geekdom, is currently in private beta but has […] The post Lightphile Won the 2015 InnoTech Beta Summit appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2015

'2014 will be remembered for many reasons, one of them being the rise of cyber crime by sophisticated hackers who managed to breach startups, international corporations, and government agencies to steal sensitive data , inject malware in corporate servers, and cause other types of damage. All these industries incurred losses from investments in cyber mitigation, restructuring of servers, class-action lawsuits, and damaged brands.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 9, 2015

'Content Creation is Dead – Long Live Storytelling! written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Photo via BlogMutt’s CEO, Scott Yates. Since the first cave drawings, storytelling has been an integral part of society and the intellectual evolution of man. And that’s what we always called it: storytelling.

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Early Growth Financial Services

APRIL 9, 2015

'In the early days of your startup you might be just fine handling your own basic bookkeeping and expense management or even outsourcing those tasks to a small firm or an individual. But you will reach the point where you both need and want more sophisticated help. Maybe you’re close to getting outside investors or maybe your revenues are growing faster than you projected (congratulations!

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 9, 2015

'I’m hanging out with Morris Wheeler and his family for a few days in Cleveland. I first met Morris through my friend Howard Diamond, currently the CEO of MobileDay (which I’m on the board of). Both Morris and Howard are extraordinary Techstars mentors, so I was motivated this morning to knock out another post in my Deconstructing The Mentor Manifesto series as foreplay for me starting to work on my next book, #GiveFirst.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2015

'Buying items on the Internet is more than a fad these days – a savvy business owner can save a lot of money by getting substantial discounts on electronic goods such as printers for your office. You can order some of the best printers online and get them installed as well. Some latest printers also have Bluetooth connectivity feature that allows the owner to connect to the printer wirelessly.

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