YoungUpstarts
MAY 13, 2015
Your website may be your most effective tool to engage prospects and convert them to customers. An effective website, however, has to be tailored to the needs of your customer and your industry. Your web design has a huge impact on the number of prospects you convert to clients. How do customers use your website? To implement a plan for web design, you need to know how customers are using your website.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 13, 2015
You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. You can count on it and plan for it, or you wait for the next survival crisis brought your way by this rapidly changing world. You can even give it a more elegant name, like “market-focused reinvention,” but it won’t be graceful if you don’t take the lead.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 13, 2015
by Todd McDaniel, Vice President at Dynavistics Inc. Historically, the interaction between the credit collections department and the sales team has been an adversarial relationship. The credit collections team believes that salespeople have no concern for collections and just want to sell to anyone to make commissions and meet quotas. The sales team sees the credit collections department as an obstacle to opening new accounts and closing deals.
Steve Blank
MAY 13, 2015
My guests this week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM Channel 111 were: Kathryn Gould co-founder of Foundation Capital. Mar Hershenson co-founder of the VC firm Pejman Mar Ventures. Sophie Lebrecht co-founder and CEO of Neon Labs. All three of my guests started their careers as scientists or engineers and ended up starting companies or venture capital firms.
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
deal architect
MAY 13, 2015
On a flight last week, the captain announced “our flight path will take us over Winslow, AZ”. That prompted the gentleman next to me to blurt out about flat-bed Fords.
The Next Web
MAY 13, 2015
Pulsating with high-energy startup fever, the 10th 500 Startups Day in Mountain View yesterday afternoon offered the best of what 33 young companies in Batch 12 had on offer to enhance the way we live and work. While Demo Day is a private viewing for investors of 500 Startups’ newest accelerator startups, TNW got a peek at what the innovators of Silicon Valley and beyond have on their minds.
Start Up Roar brings together the best content for start up professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Up and Running
MAY 13, 2015
According to a study published in the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, approximately 60 percent of restaurants fail within their first year of business. If you are dreaming of becoming a restaurateur, you can increase your chances of success by honestly answering all of the questions proposed in this article, as well as checking off everything suggested below.
The Equity Kicker
MAY 13, 2015
The chart is from a Fletcher School study of how different countries are succeeding in embracing the digital revolution. You can see that the UK is doing very well on the Y-axis, showing that we are very “digitally evolved” and that we are doing OK in terms of progress – neither falling back or accelerating. It’s easier for smaller countries to substantially re-orient themselves, as Singapore in particular has done, so the real point of comparison here are the other larg
Up and Running
MAY 13, 2015
Doing business on an international scale is very exciting. But, it can also be overwhelming. Not only should you bring your “A-game” from a professional standpoint if you want to close the deal, you also have to bring it culturally as well. One misplaced word, hand gesture, or even inaction can deeply insult your overseas customer or partner. As such, the stakes are high, and you’ll need to know what you’re doing.
thebarefootvc
MAY 13, 2015
Impact investing, venture philanthropy and social entrepreneurship are all areas in practice and theory that have been close to my heart for years. As regular readers of my blog know, I was born in Nairobi and grew up visiting the developing world in the 1980s, after my family moved to the United States. If I had to choose one moment that changed my life, it was when my parents took my brother and me to my dad’s ancestral village in 1982.
Mike Michalowicz
MAY 13, 2015
Entrepreneurs in general are take-charge, independent people. I sure fit into this mold myself, but I also recognize the wisdom that can be gleaned from the words of business and thought leaders who have shaped world to accommodate their vision and passion. I’ve assembled some of the choicest bits of wisdom on several business topics. Minimalism/Simplicity.
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 13, 2015
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 airborne. Check out more great work on airborne ’s profile page. Nicely done, airborne, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: SUJITHFAB. Fresh from the SPRING: Feniks.
Up and Running
MAY 13, 2015
I had the pleasure of co-hosting a free Bplans webinar with Lara Galloway, a business coach and time management expert. In the webinar, Lara offered some excellent time management tips and productivity hacks. She also answered several audience questions, which I’m sure you will find useful for your own situation at home or at work. Lara is an author, speaker, business coach, and the host of the popular Mom Biz Solutions Show podcast.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 13, 2015
Why Do Buyers Trust Content So Much? written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Marcus Sheridan. Today, educational content is the price of admission. If you’re not consistently producing high quality, useful content that addresses the questions, concerns and needs of your prospects and customers there’s a really good chance you won’t get found, won’t stand out and won’t garner the kind of trus
Rob Go
MAY 13, 2015
It’s immensely easier to get a company going successfully when the wind is at your back. I’ve heard a number of different investors say something akin to this, and I totally agree. Some quick disparate thoughts: 1. Building a company with the wind at your back does NOT mean you aren’t being contrarian. Contrarians can see positive tailwinds when others miss them, or think that markets will shift differently from conventional wisdom.
thebarefootvc
MAY 13, 2015
Impact investing, venture philanthropy and social entrepreneurship are all areas in practice and theory that have been close to my heart for years. As regular readers of my blog know, I was born in Nairobi and grew up visiting the developing world in the 1980s, after my family moved to the United States. If I had to choose one moment that changed my life, it was when my parents took my brother and me to my dad’s ancestral village in 1982.
Up and Running
MAY 13, 2015
“There’s always money in the banana stand.” — George Oscar Bluth, Sr., Arrested Development. Welcome to the Bcast, the official podcast of Bplans.com. Each week we discuss the latest news, resources, and advice for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Hosted by Jonathan Michael and Peter Thorsson. In this week’s episode, we use the Bluth’s Frozen Banana Stand to show you how to write a business plan in under an hour.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 13, 2015
by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. With only eight states and less than 3,000 miles between Wall Street and Silicon Valley, there is a remarkable contrast in business cultures between these two global business hubs. While New York is influenced by Wall Street’s high-powered deal-making, business in San Francisco tends to have a more relaxed feel with an emphasis on relationships.
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