Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2016

The new year is already upon us. Can you believe it? Do you feel ready to put 2015 in the past, or are you looking back on a year well spent? Each year, we’re all familiar with the tradition of setting resolutions, things that we vow to achieve or become in the next year. Entrepreneurs, being goal setters by nature, often like to participate with resolutions related to their small business or startup.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 7, 2016

Conversion optimization is hard, but often the heaviest lifting is often organizational – changing an organization from a gut-based approach to one driven by data and experimentation. Picture, perhaps, a Director of Marketing at a large, stable company with a solid brand. She’s on the cutting edge of digital marketing, reads articles like this and wants to implement a testing culture within her team and organization.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 7, 2016

I’ve been meaning to follow up on Rob’s post last month highlighting the competitor slide as the least informative in an investor pitch deck. I’d like to nominate another: the market size slide, which is usually dominated by graphics like these: As investors, we’re considering the total addressable market for a given product or service immediately upon hearing a vision for it: How many users and/or customers are there for this?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2016

The business world is ever changing and progressing in all aspects. When it comes to the workplace, traditional office spaces are becoming a thing of the past. Coworking is an inventive new way to work that increases productivity and functionality in the office. Shared spaces are the perfect solution for entrepreneurs, freelancers, writers, techies, and startups all looking for a place to conduct business.

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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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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 7, 2016

I often write about cognitive biases because they undermine decision making. If investors aren’t conscious to avoid sunk cost bias, confirmation bias and many other cognitive biases they will make bad decisions. Today I’ve had my thinking taken up a level by a post on brainpickings titled The Hidden Brain: How Ocean Currents Explain Our Unconscious Social Biases.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2016

by Jeffrey Camp, President and CEO of Ox Bonding. Transitioning a business concept into a company is a difficult process for many entrepreneurs; how do you gauge whether or not your concept will be successful? Any new enterprises, business endeavors, and start-ups begin as a concept, an idea for a product or service that is of value to the consumer.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 7, 2016

There is so much information being shot at us daily via social media streams that we should monitor and control that which pertains to our business – and do so with some level of expertise. There are tools to inform you when your company name or personal name is mentioned. Google Alerts can be set for any parameter and then be set to deliver your results daily or more often using Google.com/alerts.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2016

After all, there are a myriad of ways to get cash for your startup, and none seem particularly easy. However, one of the best ways to advance your startup and improve your chances for funding is to join a local accelerator.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 7, 2016

Five years from now you will arrive at your destination. This destination can either be well designed, or undesigned. Regardless of what you choose, five years from now you will arrive. Undesigned destinations though, can be kinda sub-optimal. You might end up working where you don’t want to work, living where you don’t want to live, driving what you don’t want to drive and doing things you don’t want to do.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2016

Home office spaces come in all shapes, sizes and styles. Create your dream office space with these five home office decorating ideas.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 7, 2016

I had the good fortune of meeting Shiva on his first day at Google in September 2006. He’s an excellent product leader and someone I relied upon to help lead YouTube’s efforts AND personally learned a great deal from. Shiva’s over in Europe helming a number of product initiatives at Spotify. Hunter Walk: You’re an expat, having moved to Sweden last year for a leadership role at Spotify.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2016

Know Your User: How to Define Target Audience For Your App written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: depositphotos.com. Do you want to know a common reason for a business’s demise? CB Insight has analyzed hundreds of stories on failing startups and concluded that 14% of them hadn’t examined their client. This is a pain point for those who develop and market mobile apps.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 7, 2016

A cool product by itself is not a company. And why being a military veteran is great training for starting up. The importance of using customer feedback to shape Minimum Viable Products and why world-class founders are disciplined were topics discussed by the guests on the latest episode of Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2016

By Eugenio Ferrante, General Manager, Parallels Asia Pacific. Mobility’s shift towards the enterprise is accelerating, especially in light of recent hardware announcements from the world’s major device makers. Apple, for example, unveiled the iPad Pro a few months ago, a bigger version of the iPad complemented by a stylus and a keyboard, all in the name of improved productivity for professionals on the go.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 7, 2016

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Several years ago, shortly after moving to Melbourne Australia, I received a message from a local named Nathan Chan. He wanted to take me out to dinner. Normally I’m a bit wary of dinner invites from people. The post Nathan Chan: Young Aussie Entrepreneur Turns Foundr Digital Magazine Into A Six Figure Business And Grows Instagram Following To 500,000+ appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com. [ Download MP3 | T

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