Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 7, 2014
'Most of the entrepreneurs I know realize they have some bad habits, like maybe procrastination or not listening well, so they focus on dropping these. New studies indicate that a more productive approach would be adopting new good habits and behaviors that clearly move your business forward, like good time management and implementing customer recommendations.
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 7, 2014
'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
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Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 7, 2014
'Copywriting Tips and Tricks in a Digital World written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Christopher McMurphy – Enjoy! As a marketing tactic, copywriting has been around since the days when the Mad Men of advertising were knocking back highballs in the afternoon.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 7, 2014
'When it comes to technology, the tendency is to believe that men are likely to adopt the latest as compared to women. Well, not to rock the boat, but statistics show otherwise, especially when it comes to using social media. Let’s take a look at some of the statistics from the United States – more women use top social media platforms than men.
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
The Next Web
MARCH 7, 2014
'Ilya Pozin is the founder of Open Me and Ciplex and is a columnist for Inc, Forbes & LinkedIn. Sometimes, you need more than conventional wisdom and obvious advice to get yourself back on track. In fact, some of these hacks, whether it’s looking at baby animals or grabbing some Z’s, might actually seem counterintuitive. After all, these aren’t your grandpa’s productivity hacks; they’re a little more strange than “go for a walk” or “prioritize your to-do list” – but all of these methods
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 7, 2014
'Time. Small business owners never have enough of it. There’s always something that requires our attention, and far too much of our time can be taken up by meaningless little tasks which should instead be channeled at growing our business. And time is something that once wasted, it’s never coming back. Here are three ideas on how entrepreneurs can look at saving hours of their precious time: 1.
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Up and Running
MARCH 7, 2014
'We’ve all seen the late night TV commercials targeted at entrepreneurs touting “free money from Uncle Sam”. Unfortunately, for the most part, there is no such thing. I say “for the most part” because government grants for small businesses do exist, but the opportunity to secure one is limited to a narrow field of candidates. Here’s what you need to know about government grants for small businesses, who is eligible to receive them, and how to go about getting them.
The Equity Kicker
MARCH 7, 2014
'The goal of most consumer focused startups is to become an automatic habit for their customers and I’ve written before about Nir Eyal’s powerful Desire Engine framework for building habit forming services (tl;dr: take users round and round a four step habit loop – trigger, action, reward, investment). Yesterday Nir wrote about applying this framework to turning users into visitors, advocating that companies should use the onboarding process to take users round the habit loop f
Up and Running
MARCH 7, 2014
'We’ve all seen the late night TV commercials targeted at entrepreneurs touting “free money from Uncle Sam”. Unfortunately, for the most part, there is no such thing. I say “for the most part” because government grants for small businesses do exist, but the opportunity to secure one is limited to a narrow field of candidates. Here’s what you need to know about government grants for small businesses, who is eligible to receive them, and how to go about getting them.
Mike Michalowicz
MARCH 7, 2014
'In his must read book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert Cialdini explains that people are prone to trust taller people more than shorter people. So, size does matter after all. Regardless of how tall you naturally are, you can do a few things to give you the trust (tall) advantage. When filming video or Skyping, position the camera to be a little below you, so the picture is taken at an upward angle.
SiliconHills
MARCH 7, 2014
'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News With more than 500 people in attendance there was a line out the door for Capital Factory’s event: The 10 Best Startups in Austin. Several of the companies were high-tech takes on low tech problems. For example, Weeva was created when founder Kim Gorsuch thought her father […] The post The 10 Best Startups in Austin?
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 7, 2014
'In this series, I have typically chosen a group of people and looked at the unique things they do from which we can all learn. These lessons have sometimes been silly, and sometimes serious, but they have always tried to be. Entrepreneurs can learn a great deal from the world of sport, and in particular we can learn from the professional athletes themselves.
SiliconHills
MARCH 7, 2014
'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News There were startups from Guatemala and Germany, Malaga, Spain, France, Australia, Russia, Denmark, Sweden and more at the invitation-only SXSW Global Startup Forum at City Hall. In addition to local dignitaries like Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell and SXSW Interactive Director Hugh Forrest, was a panel of venture […] The post Startups from Around the World at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.
Jeff Hilimire
MARCH 7, 2014
'This is the fifth installment of my “5 Questions for a CEO” series. The first was with Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta; the second was with Devon Wijesinghe , CEO of Insightpool; the third with Mark Feinberg , CEO of Uruut; and the fourth with Simms Jenkins , BrightWave Marketing. . Rob Kischuk is easily one of my favorite tech entrepreneurs in town.
The Next Web
MARCH 7, 2014
'Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. Mikael writes about psychology, startups, and product marketing over on the ooomf blog. That annoying little curser. Blinking at you. Waiting for you to say something. In the last few months, I’ve written 20 pieces that have been viewed over two million times.
ConversionXL
MARCH 7, 2014
'Is it possible to make $1,000 profit with no list , on a business that’s less than 24 hours old? Noah Kagan did, using nothing but a $0.99 domain from Godaddy, his Facebook connections, Linkedin, Skype & Gtalk. In this interview with Noah Kagan of AppSumo, we discuss: Validating your business idea. Creating a budget to set goals and build a strategy.
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