November, 2015

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Framework Benchmarks Round 11

TechEmpower

Round 11 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is now available! We'll keep this blog entry short and sweet. The highlights for Round 11. Three new languages are represented in Round 11: Crystal , D , and Rust. Meanwhile, the total number of frameworks has increased by 26. The new frameworks are: silicon (C++). aleph (clojure). pedestal (clojure). crystal-raw (crystal). moonshine (crystal). vibed (d). jawn (java). mangooio (java). koa (js). sails (js). clancats (php). limonade (php). a

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

Both Sides of the Table

I’m often asked about the differences between being at a VC and being an entrepreneur and whether I prefer one or the other. The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their

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Improving Employee Recognition Efforts – Overcoming The Challenges

YoungUpstarts

by Steve Sims, CDO of Badgeville . A recent Gartner report clearly illustrated the need for recognition of quality performance for employees. The report states, “Recognizing a job well done is a proven method of increasing employee morale and engagement. This is especially important in organizations with an increasing proportion of Generation Xers and “millennials”… and in highly people-centric businesses and industries where working as part of a team is needed to meet organization

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These 8 Disciplines Define A Fundable Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Aspiring entrepreneurs often ask me what to do first when starting a business. Let me assure you, there is no absolute right or wrong, but there is real value in doing things in a sequence that minimizes the risks, optimizes your efforts and generates the best “first impression” on potential investors. Just don’t try to sell your business to investors before it is well established.

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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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Protect Your Business Plan Like It’s Your Baby—Here’s How

Up and Running

We all want the best for our babies—and our business plans! Nearly all businesses, whether they are small or large, are comprised of intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets, which can serve as the foundation for commercial success. The World Intellectual Property Organization defines IP as, “creations of the mind,” which, depending on the business, can take many forms.

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17 Entrepreneurs Share their Favorite Quotes

Hearpreneur

André Gide wrote that,”Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” Quotes are an important part of motivation, though many of them are repeats of another turn of phrase. Business owners are particularly partial to famous quotations. Reading a motivational speech from a business legend or famous creative mind can give you a spark.

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The Advanced Guide to Holiday Testing

ConversionXL

When you think about the holiday season, you think more traffic, right? More traffic means more conversions. More conversions mean more data. More data means more insights. But is the data from the tests you run during major shopping holidays representative? We can’t throw sample pollution out the window, can we? Will your insights still be relevant in February when the rush dies down?

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Website Building Checklist: Supporting Your Brand

YoungUpstarts

By JR Reichl, Senior Director, Marketing Communications at Hostway Services, Inc. Right now, there are more than 858 million registered websites for users to visit, according to Tech Made Easy. This means you have a lot of competition to deal with when creating and building out your brand’s online presence. A website is an essential piece of the business puzzle, helping a brand connect with its customers and offer potential for the organization.

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6 Reasons Startups Should Skip the Big-Bang Launch

Startup Professionals Musings

Big-bang hard launches make sense for large enterprises like Apple or Microsoft, who are building on existing revenue streams and have the resources for lavish events, Superbowl ads and large inventory buildups. But for startups with limited resources and experience, I always recommend a soft launch or toe-in-the-water approach in a local market -- and scale up later.

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Moving Your Startup into Its First Office

Up and Running

More than a few tech giants got their start in cramped quarters, typically in a basement or garage. As they grew, a need for office space became essential. Not just that, but a search for space that catered to their business’s needs—whether that was an area large enough to facilitate massive supercomputers, or just one that could fit in a few employees and exude professionalism to potential investors and clients.

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Startups and IP Ownership Issues

Scott Edward Walker

For many startups, intellectual property (IP) is their most valuable asset. Below are the three most common IP-related mistakes that startups make — the first of which I discuss in this brief video with Jason Calacanis. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqL3Xm5iUCY Mistake #1 – Moonlighting at a Prior Employer. Startups must ensure that none of the founders’ prior employers have any rights to the venture’s IP because a founder was working on the venture while previously employed.

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7 Activities That Don’t Scale but Will Win You Customers

Duct Tape Marketing

7 Activities That Don’t Scale but Will Win You Customers written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Photo Credit: www.launchsolid.com. Starting a business is hard work and early on you will need to hustle to find your first customers. There is no need to stress right away about what marketing channels will scale because you won’t know which options work best.

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The unbearable lightness of enterprise software launches

deal architect

A reader of SAP Nation 2.0 commented it read like a “slow-motion train wreck”. It starts with the incredible excitement and expectations when S/4HANA was launched in February : “This is the biggest product launch in the last 23 years.

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Successfully Get Your New Business Off the Ground With This Free New Tool From Intuit QuickBooks

YoungUpstarts

Let’s face it, navigating your 20s and 30s is no easy feat, but doing that while looking to start a business is even more difficult. From initial funding processes to increasing your online presence, to tackling accounting and more, there’s a lot that goes into getting your business off the ground. Even with all this, it doesn’t have to keep you up at night.

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8 Myths That Can Inhibit Innovation In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Starting an entrepreneurial business, or maintaining the competitiveness of a mature business, requires innovation. Yet everyone I know seems to have a different perspective on what constitutes real innovation, and why is seems to happen so rarely. Another challenge is to debunk some of the common myths that seem prevent many from even assuming they can innovate.

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How to Launch a Product: A Startup-Friendly Process

View from Seed

The journey between an initial idea and actually shipping can be summed up with one word: agony. It’s agonizing because you care — a lot. It’s agonizing because you’re building from zero, and that can be daunting. It’s agonizing because of all the thinking and rethinking, talking to customers and talking to the team, debating and kicking and screaming.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 11: Pat Sullivan and Sebastian Jackson

Steve Blank

Startup founders strive to turn their dreams into reality, and the mentors who guide them often learn as much as they teach. How startup ideas are developed and nurtured was the focus of conversations with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Pat Sullivan. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Pat Sullivan , CEO of Ryver , a team communication tool.

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Social Customer Service Metrics: 3 Case Studies

Duct Tape Marketing

Social Customer Service Metrics: 3 Case Studies written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Flickr. How has marketing changed thanks to social media? Well, now 90% of customers are influenced by online reviews. Some companies cringe when they hear this: The decision whether to buy can come down to a good or bad Yelp review.

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Man-Machine equilibrium

deal architect

I am researching how automation – robotics, AI, 3D printing, process bots, drones etc – is changing every job category and the results may end up in a book, several blogs. In just the beginning stages of my research, I.

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Smaller-Sized Service Businesses: What They Bring To the Table For Big Brands

YoungUpstarts

By Lindsey Groepper, president of BLASTmedia. Smaller to mid-sized service businesses are unmatched when it comes to agility and work ethic, and there is a growing trend of larger companies choosing smaller shops (marketing agencies, rep groups, financial firms, etc.) over their larger counterparts. While large businesses are still booming, the need for small to mid-size businesses that fit niche roles, is growing.

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7 Key Maxims of a Mindset Focused on Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my experience advising entrepreneurs, I’m convinced that success is often more a mindset than a specific set of skills or intelligence. The mindset I’m looking for is one that sees challenges as exciting rather than threatening, setbacks as learning opportunities and that effort and perseverance will overcome any obstacle. Most experts call this a growth mindset.

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More Women. Fewer Trolls. Better Internet [Traction #13: Sandi MacPherson]

View from Seed

The NextView podcast Traction explores all the clever, creative, and atypical things entrepreneurs do to make initial progress against the odds. If startups should do things that “don’t scale,” then this podcast asks a simple question: What ARE those things? Past episodes include stories from founders of LinkedIn , DraftKings , General Assembly , Mattermark , Duck Duck Go , InsightSquared , and more.

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Lean Startup In Japanese Companies

Steve Blank

Implementing the Lean Startup in any company is hard. All the culture and incentives are designed for execution. Innovation at times seems like you’re swimming up hill. Now compound that level of effort with trying to put a Lean Startup culture in place in Japan. According to Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino, Japanese companies tend to be technology centric, obsess over quality and have weak leadership.

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7 Social Media Marketing Habits That Lead To Failure

Brandanew

George Washington said, “99% of failures come from those that make excuses.” If your campaigns are using a range of social media marketing habits that lead to failure, then it's time to make a change. Social media marketing (SMM) not working is simply a sign that you need to identify what's going wrong and try again. Trial and error is the only way you will consistently improve and grow your campaigns.

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Another victim of the war on terror

deal architect

Freedom House monitors freedom on the web and its 2015 assessment of countries based on developments as of May was gloomy enough. “Of the 65 countries assessed, 32 have been on a negative trajectory since June 2014. The most significant.

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[ADV] How Can Translation Services Help Business?

YoungUpstarts

Today, the world is smaller than it ever was before. The developments in technology now allow us to communicate with other people based anywhere across the globe within seconds. Similarly to our personal lives, globalisation can also have a positive effect on businesses. The idea of international expansion becomes more and more popular within the UK SMEs.

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9 Business Leader Bad Habits That Sabotage Results

Startup Professionals Musings

After working with dozens of entrepreneurs, I’m still amazed that some seem to be able to do the job easily and effectively, always in control, while others always seem to be struggling, out-of-control, and fighting the latest crisis. I am more and more convinced that it is the right business behavior that leads to success, rather than some exceptional intelligence or training.

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You Need More Than BtoB Content Strategy for Success

Rembrandt Communications

3 Simple Secrets to Win Loyal Customers, Sales and Credibility You worked hard to get your BtoB content strategy in place. Now, your business is buzzing with current and interesting social-media-posts, articles, newsletters, videos, contests, case studies, press releases, and more. You are doing what needs to be done. And now, it’s time to take […].

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Starting a startup as CTO / Head of Product

Gust

After less than a year, Glassbreakers is now a team of 10, we have thousands of active users on our free product, we’ve expanded into enterprises with paying customers and raised over a million in seed funding. After a few of my Glassbreaker matches inquired, I started to reflect on what it’s like to build a startup. Read more >. The post Starting a startup as CTO / Head of Product appeared first on The Gust Blog.

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Happy Thanksgiving From Our Family To Yours!

Brandanew

All of us here at Brandanew, wish you a great holiday. Happy thanksgiving from our family to yours. We’re immensely grateful for your support and love. “Thanksgiving is here, so our minds have turned. To what time has taught us, to what we’ve learned: We often focus all our thought. On shiny things we’ve shopped and bought. We take our pleasure in material things, Forgetting the pleasure that friendship brings.

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How to not kill your SaaS: How I overcame my dangerous addiction to PGH (Premature Growth Hacking)

The Next Web

Do you work for a startup? Are you a marketer? If so, you may be addicted to PGH–Premature Growth Hacking. What is PGH addiction? The “P” stands for “premature.” Growth hacking by itself is fine, when done at an appropriate moment in a startup’s development. It gets you more users and revenue by using creativity–rather than relying too heavily on paid advertising.

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Top 5 Tips To Successfully Recruit Creative Talent

YoungUpstarts

By Marina Djordjevic, Director of Talent Acquisition at Idean. The rapid rise of the digital economy and sharp focus on delivering an excellent user experience has made it challenging for companies that aren’t Google or some other tech giant to recruit the creative talent they need. Big companies can throw money at candidates with hard-to-find skill sets, an option that isn’t available to most startups or smaller app development businesses.

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7 Criteria For Selecting an Entrepreneur-Confidant

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs are too stubborn to seek a mentor for guidance: They have so much confidence in themselves and their ideas that they don’t see the need to ask anyone for advice. The best entrepreneurs, however, actually claim multiple mentors : Mark Zuckerberg relied on Steve Jobs at Apple and Washington Post chief executive Donald Graham, almost 40 years his senior.

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Web Designer

Transformify

Tired of 9 to 6? Fancy working from home in your pajamas? Then this job may be just right for you. WEB DESIGNER. What you need to have. A keen interest and passion in all things digital. Knowledge of JavaScript and Git. Experience and passion about UX design and SEO. Experience on email marketing platforms and email coding. Proficient in Adobe creative Suit (CS6): Photoshop (or) Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign and Illustrator.

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Trying to Raise Money? Thinking About Gust for Startup Fundraising?

Gust

How to Make Your Gust Account Stand Out to Investors Before you read any further, I want you to know that I’ve personally used Gust to raise money for my first tech startup. I know a lot of other entrepreneurs who use or have used Gust to seek funds, but their profiles don’t always get attention from investors. Below are. Read more >. The post Trying to Raise Money?

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How To Generate Leads Through Business Blogging

Brandanew

Business blogging has been around for quite some time. Generating leads through business blogging has become key to accepted content marketing ROI. Yet, some companies maintain business blogs even without knowing what to do with them. As a “me too” strategy or just because it has become the norm. The good news is: business blogging is not a mere hygiene factor or a “good to have” It can not only be a major promotional tool but can also generate effective leads for your bu

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