YoungUpstarts
MARCH 8, 2016
by Martin Hunter, co-founder of Free Event Finder. While many consider “ Who Moved My Cheese? ” by Spencer Johnson to be overly simplified, the heart-warming tale of mice and little people learning to adapt under ever-changing conditions was exactly the push in the right direction that me and my wife needed to pack our bags and head off in search of personal growth and adventure.
Up and Running
MARCH 8, 2016
So, you’re in the market to start a cleaning business? You have the skills. There aren’t that many hurdles or license requirements compared to other operations. And you can get started fast and affordably. The thing is, you’re not quite sure what, exactly, is involved in starting a cleaning a business. In this guide, you’ll get a better sense of the industry, what skills you should develop in order to be successful in it, and how to go about starting your own operation.
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Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 8, 2016
The Secret to Getting Unstuck written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This post applies to business and life I think – so use it as you will. I’ve owned my own business for a very long time and like most businesses I’ve had my share of ups and downs. More often than not though I’ve had sometimes long stretches where I mostly just felt a bit stuck – not going anywhere exciting and not knowing what my next move should be – only that I should mo
View from Seed
MARCH 8, 2016
Jesse Derris is the founder and CEO of Derris & Company , a PR, branding, and communications firm based in New York. His firm has worked with companies like Warby Parker, lululemon, Oscar, and more. He and his firm are widely applauded for their work with high-growth startups, particularly those with a consumer focus. Jesse recently sat down with NextView (I assume he was sitting anyway — we spoke on the phone) to talk seed-stage company branding, building a startup identity, and some
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
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 8, 2016
by Eyal Shinar, CEO and founder of Fundbox. The typical 9-to-5 (or let’s be honest, the 8-to-7) workday is becoming less prevalent as the first generation of freelance natives carve out a new frontier: working from wherever, whenever, on select business ventures of their choosing. As the gig economy expands, freelancing is becoming a viable and attractive option for many millennials and recent college graduates.
Gust
MARCH 8, 2016
Kathryn Schifferle, Founder and CEO of Work Truck Solutions, turned being a woman in work trucks into an oversubscribed $2.1 million round. We sat down with Kathryn as she shared what her fundraising journey was like, the startup lessons she learned, and her advice to fellow founders, especially women. Here is what she had to say: HK: Tell. Read more >.
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Version One Ventures
MARCH 8, 2016
Last week I attended the NFX demo day. For me, it is one of the most fun demo days to attend as NFX, like Version One , focuses on network effect businesses, particularly marketplaces and social platforms. During the day, NFX partners shared their insights from having worked with dozens of businesses over the first 2 cohorts and one of the most interesting takeaways was hearing about how they try to help companies move faster.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 8, 2016
Having just settled a sizeable law suit after being injured on the job, you may be worried that other employers will never think of hiring someone with a history of suing their previous employers. Sometimes that may be the case. However, there are a few things you need to consider first. Are you ready to go back to the nine-to-five just yet? After all, you’ve been injured on the job and since you won your case, chances are your injuries are substantial enough that you may want to consider re-ent
Mucker Lab
MARCH 8, 2016
Four years after founding and bootstrapping Mucker Capital , we are pleased to announce the close of a new $45 million fund, Mucker III. This is our third fund, which might make us seem like grumpy, rich, old VCs. In reality, we are scrappy founders, just like the entrepreneurs we serve. To use a startup fundraising analogy, our first fund was a small friends and family round; our second fund was a seed round that allowed us to validate the core hypotheses of our business; and Mucker III is our
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 8, 2016
Growing numbers of businesses are deciding to build a mobile app to boost their online presence but it’s important to not just weigh in but consider carefully the reasons for doing so before starting. This means the business must be clear from the beginning what their objectives for the mobile app will be and how the mobile app marketing strategy will be implemented to ensure success.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 8, 2016
Contrary to popular belief, it does take certain habits to maintain a personal style and image that’s consistent with a your desired brand image.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 8, 2016
I was at dinner a few weeks ago with my long time friend and first business partner Dave Jilk. We ended up talking about how difficult it is to determine signal from noise, fact from fiction, truth from b t, and b t from complete-and-total-b t. I recently hit the wall with all the political stuff that was popping up everywhere. I think the thing that flipped my switch from on to off was a satirical article about Hillary Clinton and all the horrible things she had done that was being passed aroun
The Equity Kicker
MARCH 8, 2016
Often results are not linear. You get a little bit more mass, and you get a lollapalooza result. Charlie Munger. Critical mass is a term that gets bandied around a lot in the startup world. A common use case is to describe the point when a company reaches sufficient scale that it achieves profitability. Another is the point where a network or ecosystem has sufficient supply and demand that the user experience starts to work.
SiliconHills
MARCH 8, 2016
It’s time to soak in all of the knowledge from South by Southwest Interactive, which officially begins Friday. And even though some people with badges never step inside a panel discussion, they are missing out on some thought provoking discussions. Don’t be one of those people. Go to the panels, book signings and discussions. Check […] The post Top Picks for SXSW Interactive Panels with an Austin Flair appeared first on SiliconHills.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 8, 2016
On my way back from a networking coffee meeting I listened to The Man Who Sold The World by Nirvana as it played on the radio. You may have heard the remake version by the late David Bowie.
SiliconHills
MARCH 8, 2016
Women@Austin has put together a list of events of interest to women at South by Southwest this year. On International Women’s Day, it seems like a good time to share these resources. Jan Ryan, head of Women@Austin, organized many of the events to put a spotlight on women in technology at SXSW Interactive, the nation’s […] The post Spotlighting Women at SXSW on International Women’s Day appeared first on SiliconHills.
Mike Michalowicz
MARCH 8, 2016
When the naysayer says, “What if it’s a flop?” Ask them, “What if it isn’t?” When the naysayer says, “What makes you think you can do it?” Ask them, “Why would I ever think I can’t?”. When the naysayer says “You will never succeed!” Tell them, “I think you have me confused with someone else… yourself.”.
SiliconHills
MARCH 8, 2016
Choose San Antonio wants people to choose San Antonio. It’s a nonprofit organization that just sprung up out of the blue devoted to promoting San Antonio to the world. Eric Bell, vice president of corporate development at Group 42 and Kevin Peckham, chief strategist with Lightning Jar, a digital marketing firm, founded the organization. It […] The post Choose San Antonio to Showcase the City at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 8, 2016
Think there aren't enough inspiring women entrepreneurs? Think again. Here's a look at collective wisdom from twenty game changing founders.
SiliconHills
MARCH 8, 2016
South by Southwest Tuesday released details on President Barack Obama’s keynote address this Friday in Austin. It will be held at 2:30 p.m. at Dell Hall at The Long Center. But tickets are limited. To be considered, SXSW Interactive, Gold and Platinum badgeholders must register for a drawing. No other credentials are eligible to enter. […] The post SXSW Holds Ticket Drawing for President Obama’s Keynote appeared first on SiliconHills.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 8, 2016
Whatever type of company you run, you want people to know about it. In an era where most product and service research is done via Google, you need your website to rank high.
SiliconHills
MARCH 8, 2016
Do you feel a case of FOMO coming on? That knot in the stomach that keeps getting tighter the closer South by Southwest gets? It doesn’t matter if this is your first SXSW experience or you go every year. One thing is certain: you will sign up for something and you will not go because […] The post Say No to FOMO: A List of the Best Lists for SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 8, 2016
For all of these reasons outlined in this article, and more, it makes perfect sense to ensure your website is mobile-friendly. If not, you are leaving money on the table.
Start Up Blog
MARCH 8, 2016
Just write a non-epic blog post everyday. Then with the frequency of non-epic, continuous blogging, eventually an epic one will sneak through without permission. It will just arrive. The reason that it will inevitably arrive, is that the law of large numbers sets in. If we have a high frequency of doing anything, then outliers have a chance of appearing.
ReadWriteStart
MARCH 8, 2016
Despite a meager track record for generating outsized returns, investors keep piling money into open source start-ups. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, a minimum of 110 “open source startups” had raised more than $7 billion from venture capitalists as of 2015, up over 100% since 2013. The hottest open source companies are focused on big data, with companies like DataStax, Cloudera , and MongoDB bagging billion-dollar valuations as they earn ever-increasing revenues.
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 8, 2016
Persuasion is a delicate art form. It’s easy to be ineffective when trying to persuade, but also remarkably easy to be overbearing. As a business owner or entrepreneur, your job is mostly to persuade. You must persuade people to come work for you, stay in your company, follow your lead, become a customer, be a partner, write stories about you and your company, and much more.
SiliconHills
MARCH 8, 2016
Accenture Federal Services plans to hire 300 new employees in San Antonio this year for its Technology and Innovation Center. Accenture already has 1,100 employees in San Antonio. The center, which opened in 2015, provides technology services to federal clients nationwide. “This expanded Technology and Innovation Center accelerates our ability to help more federal clients […] The post Accenture’s Technology and Innovation Center to Hire 300 in San Antonio appeared first on Sili
Andrew Payne
MARCH 8, 2016
I read a recent Harvard Business School blog post titled “ Startups Can’t Revolve Around Their Founders If They want to Succeed “ The authors make a general argument that founders are the biggest obstacles to long-term startup growth, citing a new research paper (paywall, sorry) that hypothesizes: For a given startup, the value of the startup varies inversely with the degree of control retained by founders.
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 8, 2016
When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for kayagraphics. Check out more great work on kayagraphics ’ profile page. Nicely done, kayagraphics, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: 5IVE_STAR_CREATIVE.
Austin Startup
MARCH 8, 2016
Here are all of the host stops on the crawl this year. Can you visit them all? Better move fast. Megastops are the biggest and baddest… Continue reading on Medium ».
ConversionXL
MARCH 8, 2016
How you design a survey or a form will affect the answers you get. This includes the language you use, the order of the questions, and of course the default values and ranges you use. This article will focus on response scales. This could be in a survey (1-5 vs 1-10 scale, etc) or on a dropdown menu, and it also includes the language you use. Think back to the last survey that you filled out that asked you your age or salary.
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