YoungUpstarts
MARCH 9, 2016
by Larry Fontillas, managing director of the Americas for ansarada. For a young entrepreneur, the mergers and acquisitions process can be exciting and potentially lucrative but it can also be the source of considerable stress. When the company you are selling is your “baby” that you created and nurtured over time, it’s important to make sure that every part of the deal process runs as smoothly as possible.
ConversionXL
MARCH 9, 2016
UX mistakes often go undetected because they are quiet. They aren’t a broken image or a misspelled word or a form that isn’t sending. No, UX mistakes are foundational. To visitors, UX mistakes are loud, whether they consciously detect them or not. In fact, IBM is credited for the saying, “Ease of use may be invisible, but its absence sure isn’t.” [Tweet It!].
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Up and Running
MARCH 9, 2016
Whether opening a new business or expanding an existing one, when evaluating new markets, many entrepreneurs ask themselves several questions: Is there a demand for my product or service in the area? Will I be able to adequately staff my business in the local market? Does the city promote and support small businesses? If you’re the one starting a business, the last question in particular is one you must answer before you plant your roots.
deal architect
MARCH 9, 2016
Salesforce highlighted for me this report which says “by 2018, Salesforce and its ecosystem of customer and partners will create 1 million jobs and generate $272 billion in GDP impact worldwide.” My initial reaction was “Uh-oh” about the $272 billion.
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
View from Seed
MARCH 9, 2016
The prospect of selling a new product from an “unproven” business into a large corporation can seem daunting. But startups launch all the time as enterprise-focused entities. Still, that doesn’t make the situation any easier, so in this episode, Joe Coleman, cofounder and CEO of Contently, gets way into the weeds of selling into the enterprise.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 9, 2016
Why do a few entrepreneurs, like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, seem to come up with all the real innovations, while the majority of business leaders seem stuck in the rut of linear thinking? I have always wondered if innovation required some rare gene mutation, or whether I might be missing a simple formula for unlocking the ability in any intelligent business person to innovate.
Start Up Roar brings together the best content for start up professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 9, 2016
If you are looking for ideas on starting a business but aren’t quite sure what you should be doing, why not target Millennials? Although they are said to be a bit less free with their spending than Baby Boomers, they have a huge amount of spending power since it is the most populous group within the current workforce. What does this mean? It means that if you can determine what it is Millennials want and can effectively market to them, you’ll have one successful venture in the end.
For Entrepreneurs
MARCH 9, 2016
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. When Polyvore CEO Jess Lee was looking for a CFO, she found everything she wanted in Cheryl Dalrymple: incredible experience, shared values about how to run a company, and immediate personal rapport.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 9, 2016
To make your startup a success, you need to have a firm grip on your finances and know exactly where every penny is being spent. But even if your business is doing better than expected already, it’s always beneficial to seek out ways you can save money. During the initial stages of your startup, nothing is certain, and it’s better to save money rather than spend unnecessarily.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 9, 2016
Take time away from the office to recharge or ease into it with a worcation. Exhibit a strong dedication to health and wellness, and see what happens to company morale when the rest of the company follows your lead.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 9, 2016
by Amit Damani , cofounder of Vista Rooms. Can an entrepreneur just watch a movie without thinking of start-ups? Probably not. Deadpool is a total laugh riot and its garrulous humour is meant to, and bound to entertain – but if you watch it with a keen entrepreneurial perspective, you’ll find some key messages – albeit completely undirected – for entrepreneurs.
The Equity Kicker
MARCH 9, 2016
Yesterday Benedict Evans wrote about Disrupting Mobile. He noted how PCs disrupted mainframes and how mobile in turn disrupted PCs, and how in both waves of disruption a massive increase in the size of the ecosystem led to the increases in investment which meant the new paradigm prevailed. Looking forward, pretty soon a high percentage of everyone on the planet will have a smartphone making it hard to see where the next massive increase in ecosystem size will come from.
Austin Startup
MARCH 9, 2016
They’re taking PR measurement to the next level. TrendKite CEO, Erik Hiddleston, gives us some PR tips on creating your best SXSW… Continue reading on Medium ».
YFS Magazine
MARCH 9, 2016
For a first-time business owner the road ahead can be rewarding and tough. Getting the best possible financial head start can make all the difference.
SiliconHills
MARCH 9, 2016
1. Attend the free BBVA Compass Pre-SXSW Startup Crawl on Thursday night, put on by the Capital Factory. It will give you a flavor of Austin’s startup ecosystem that just keeps getting bigger and bigger. 2. Check out these panels featuring Austin entrepreneurs and issues of importance to the technology community. 3. Austin Tech Entrepreneur […] The post Do SXSW Interactive Like a Local appeared first on SiliconHills.
Austin Startup
MARCH 9, 2016
I’ve never written a blog post and don’t thrive off of public debate but as an entrepreneur, uncomfortable is what I do. Continue reading on Medium ».
SiliconHills
MARCH 9, 2016
Austin is known as one of the cities with the worse traffic congestion in the country. And on Friday, it’s about to get a whole lot worse. South by Southwest kicks off on Friday and President Barack Obama plans to give a keynote address at SXSW Friday afternoon and visit a few other locations around […] The post Austin Mayor Adler Wants People to Work From Home Friday appeared first on SiliconHills.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 9, 2016
Was the Notorious B.I.G. right when he rapped “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems”?
SiliconHills
MARCH 9, 2016
Set.fm, which rolled out its service at South by Southwest three years ago, just got acquired by London-based Pledge Music, a direct to fan e-commerce platform. Austin-based Set.fm, a member of the Austin Technology Incubator, originally launched in 2013 as Dejaset. Matt Peterson founded the company in 2011. Set.fm has raised $2.27 million in five […] The post Austin-based Set.fm Acquired by Pledge Music appeared first on SiliconHills.
Jeff Hilimire
MARCH 9, 2016
Wow. Just wow. When I decided to “donate” my birthday to Central Outreach & Advocacy Center , a nonprofit that is near and dear to me, I never thought my friends would contribute to the tune of over $3,000!!! Central OAC focuses on opening doors out of homelessness, and I thought I’d share what the donation that many of you made can do.
SiliconHills
MARCH 9, 2016
San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor is meeting Thursday morning with Austin Mayor Steve Adler to put an end to the Taco War. The battle began on Feb. 19th when Matthew Sedacca, a writer originally from New York, declared Austin the best place for breakfast tacos in an article in Eater titled “How Austin Became the […] The post San Antonio and Austin Mayors to Meet for Taco Summit appeared first on SiliconHills.
Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 9, 2016
How to Become a Millionaire Slowly written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jaime Tardy. In a recent post, I wrote about the idea of making choices about how you optimize your business and then using that focused choice as a tool for making daily decisions. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Jaime Tardy, founder of The Eventual Millionaire and author of The Eventual Millionaire:How Anyone Can Be an Entrepreneur and Succe
SiliconHills
MARCH 9, 2016
President Barack Obama Wednesday announced Austin is now part of the country’s TechHire initiative. Austin is one of 15 new communities added to the TechHire program. San Antonio joined the program last year when President Obama launched it. “In my State of our City address last month, I promised to make workforce development in tech […] The post Austin Joins Federal TechHire Initiative appeared first on SiliconHills.
Brandanew
MARCH 9, 2016
I recently wrote to a friend of mine about brand storytelling. He said, his only connection with storytelling was kids’ storytelling and everything else seemed like buzzwords. Many times when I host a storytelling workshop, people don’t necessarily know the terminology or understand how it works from a brand perspective. You may think that it’s fluff, or something that can’t work for your products.
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