Thu.Jul 09, 2015

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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

View from Seed

Accidental VC is a series of short posts written by me, Jay Acunzo. Though I never planned it, I somehow wound up working in VC as NextView’s VP of platform. As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. So this series is my attempt to share that knowledge beyond our walls … one overheard lesson at a time.

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5 Tips For A New Business Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Solomon Thimothy, founder & Chief Executive Officer of Clickx. When you’re starting out a business, it’s difficult to keep up with everything. From day-to-day operations to growth strategies, it’s difficult to know what the next move is for your business. Listening to advice from colleagues, employees and other industry professionals can be helpful but oftentimes confusing.

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5 Reasons Why Content Marketing Is Getting Harder And Why You Need Experts

Brandanew

Tim Berry recently wrote a great post on why content marketing is getting harder from a very personal and a business focused perspective. With many small businesses and Startups getting into the Content Marketing fray- along side the big brands, it is getting crowded indeed. Here are some of the reasons why I believe it’s getting tougher and also, why you need experts before you jump in!

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3 Things To Do Before Creating An Online Form

YoungUpstarts

by Chad Reid, Director of Communications for JotForm. 2015 is a renaissance of sorts for do-it-yourselfers, with web forms right in the thick of it. For many years, the only way you could have an online form embedded on your website was if a developer put it there. Now? Anyone can build their own contact, survey, application or event registration form without knowing a lick of code.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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8 components of branding your startup

The Next Web

There is no instruction manual for building a brand. A brand position and reputation is something that is slowly built up and earned over time. That said, as you are planting the early “seeds” of your brand, the actions you take from the start of your business, will dictate where your brand is heading long term. It is important you get this right, as it is often more difficult to change a tarnished brand image, than it is to start from scratch.

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A Week of Intellectual Dissonance

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been heads down this week on a handful of transactions. As a result, I haven’t been paying much attention to the world around me, but it’s inevitable that some stuff leaks through in random conversations, emails that I get and skim to respond to later, or stuff I notice, even though I’m not looking. While I was just in the shower, I had a handful of random things roll through my head that I realized were creating intellectual dissonance for me.

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10 Tips to Help Small Businesses Get Government Business

Up and Running

It’s important to know how to say “hello” to a public official. It sounds simple, but many sales reps fail this first step. Government culture differs greatly from corporate culture. The two environments are so diverse that communication is commonly difficult. Companies may pay top dollar for outstanding sales representatives, but unless the person understands the government marketplace and the culture, success will be slow in coming.

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Is The Snooze Button Sabotaging Your Business?

YFS Magazine

Beep, beep, beep! I roll over to hit the snooze button, and then think to myself, “Just five more minutes!” This is how the day starts for me, every time.

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Spreadsheets in legal documents

The Equity Kicker

I have spent a considerable part of today translating the equalisation clauses in our Limited Partnership Agreement into formulas in a spreadsheet. Equalisation payments are made when new investors join a Limited Partnership and they pass from new investors to old investors to compensate the old investors for the additional risk they took by investing first and/or to adjust for changes in the value of the fund’s investments in the period between when the old and new investors invested.

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Need Funding For Your Startup? Try These 5 Ideas

YFS Magazine

Funding your startup shouldn’t be an anxiety driven ordeal. Here’s a list of the top five ways to fund your business idea.

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CSO Research of Austin Merges With MBA Focus

SiliconHills

CSO Research, which makes undergraduate career service software and founded in Austin in 2001, has merged with MBA Focus, based in Dublin, Ohio. MBA Focus, founded in 2003, provides graduate business school career service software and recruitment technology. It works with more than 2,000 companies and students at 75 graduate schools. Erik Mulloy is the […] The post CSO Research of Austin Merges With MBA Focus appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Clever And Creative Ways To Advertise Your Brand

YFS Magazine

To inspire more creativity for your next ad campaign, study other creative campaigns and proven advertising principles.

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Whatever it is, try to deliver it via the cloud

Berkonomics

By David Steakley. Editor’s note: Popular contributor, David Steakley, returns this week with his take on the importance of cloud delivery for technology businesses. – DWB. Everyone knows that software-as-a-service has displaced the old style of delivering enterprise software. You may have assumed that this has transpired as a natural evolution of technological capabilities.

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Optimizing the Free Trial Signup – How Flow Got a 17% Lift [Case Study]

ConversionXL

Free trials are to SaaS applications as keys are to locks. The right one gets you in right away, but sometimes you have to try a few before you find the one that works. For many SaaS and cloud service providers, 100% of customers sign up for a free trial as part of the sales process — yet one study suggested that even the best-in-class of SaaS marketers were losing a staggering 75% of those who signed up for a free trial before they entered their credit card details.

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Ask The VC: Make Your Startup Pitch A Winner

Early Growth Financial Services

Since our first “Ask the VC” session was so popular, we decided to give it another go: this time with Marc Phillips, Managing Director at Arafura Ventures and author of Inside Silicon Valley: How the Deals Get Done. Marc and Gadiel Morantes, Chief Revenue Officer at Early Growth Financial Services, focused on crafting a winning startup pitch. One of their first pieces of advice was to ask for feedback when you get a “quick no” from a VC.

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Supercharge Your Marketing Campaign with Visual Content

Duct Tape Marketing

Supercharge Your Marketing Campaign with Visual Content written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. From choosing which products to buy, to interacting with other humans via a smartphone screen, much of our lives are now filtered through images. Research shows that in the age of tweets and Snapchats, humans now have shorter attention spans than goldfish !

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Using Convertible Notes For Startup Financing

Early Growth Financial Services

If you’re planning a seed round raise you need to know your way around convertible debt: what it is, how it works, and what the benefits are. While investors in some less well-developed startup hubs are still largely resistant to using convertible notes and some angels prefer priced rounds, according to SEEDCHANGE’S Kevin Smith, 93% of early-stage rounds in coastal startup hubs use convertible notes.

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