YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2019

by Michael Heinrich, Founder and CEO of Oh My Green. More often than not, the words “start up culture” conjure up a very specific image in people’s minds: late nights at the office, lots of coffee and Red Bull, pizza boxes under the desks. In other words, an environment where people are just so committed to the work, that nothing else matters. Who needs rest, social relationships, proper nutrition, and exercise?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 9, 2019

I’ve been thinking a lot about gross profit (and gross margin ) lately. Yeah, I know I can be riveting, but stay with me. When I was in Boston a while ago (it was very cold, so it must have been January), I had a wide-ranging conversation with Eric Paley. This was before the IPO Summer of 2019 when all conventional valuation metrics have entered the land of “suspension of disbelief” which is short-term good and long-term well-we-will-see-…-eventually.

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View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

This is a post about raising a Series A from an investor that is not based in your home city. Let me preface this by saying that if all things were equal, you would probably prefer to have a local series A investor. Proximity helps, and you are more likely to get more time and attention from a series A investor that is in nearby. But, all things are not equal for many reasons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2019

A common complaint I hear from my startup clients and many entrepreneurs is that rapid growth is more difficult than ever anticipated. The assumption usually is that more money is needed for marketing, or another round of new development is needed on the product. Yet I find in digging deeper, the challenge is just as often getting the right people and culture , rather than money.

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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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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2019

If artificial intelligence confuses you, think about what happens when it’s not leveraged properly. For context, consider the London-based VC firm MMC who found that about 40% of European AI startups don’t use AI in any tangible way. MMC (and TheVerge) are saying that companies just want to take advantage of the AI hype. Meaning that the company or startup “talks” about AI, but they are unwilling or unable to put in the resources to deploy the process, store the data, or make

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2019

Are you wondering how to land funding from angel investors? Of course, any real answer depends on where you are and the specifics of your business. This article focuses on angel investors in the U.S., and the process of raising angel investment for high-tech or high-growth startups. It’s different in most other countries—and almost impossible for established businesses without high potential for growth. .

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ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2019

If you run an ecommerce shop, you’re always trying to boost your sales. Here’s how to increase the conversion rate of your ecommerce site. What’s a good ecommerce conversion rate? Don’t worry about “average” ecommerce conversion rates. A good conversion rate is one that’s better than what you have right now.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 24, 2019

A year ago, we set out to add to our team. You may recall that we opened a search for an associate last summer. We appreciated spending time with many candidates, as well as the many intros and referrals from our friends. Unfortunately, we didn’t find someone who was the right fit for us – and decided to take a short break from the search. We’re beginning to restart the process of finding our third team member.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 3, 2019

Startups are starting to launch without a central headquarters, or any designated office building, in an attempt to create “fully remote” businesses. The premise is simple; operate with all your leaders and employees working remotely, sometimes all over the world, to cut costs and broaden your potential employee pool. To conventional businesses, the notion seems absurd; they rely on in-house collaboration and the reputational allure of a headquarters.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

Right now, your organization’s IT infrastructure might rely on a physical server – whether based on your own premises or in a local data centre. However, 2019 could be the ideal year to consider switching to cloud servers; in other words, a cloud-hosted server accessible over a network. Cloud servers are otherwise known as virtual servers, virtual private servers or virtual platforms, as TechTarget explains – but why should you consider one?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

by Kedma Ough , MBA, author of “ Target Funding: A Proven System to Get the Money and Resources You Need to Start or Grow Your Business “ Is it possible to have your cake and eat it too? If there was a way to find your ideal job and build your dream business, would you consider both? Most people see this dichotomy and feel that they need to choose one dream over the other.

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ConversionXL

JULY 2, 2019

Every company dreams about creating high-performing teams. For us at OWOX , that dream centered on our analytics department, which included 12 specialists—junior analysts, mid-level analysts, senior analysts, and QA specialists. Collectively, our analysts were responsible for consulting clients on data analysis and improving our marketing analytics tool.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 2, 2019

Happy Canada Day to our friends and colleagues north of the border, and Happy Fourth of July to those of you south of the border. We hope everyone is having a great start to summer. Here’s a quick recap of the key activities and announcements from this past quarter. . Welcome to the V1 family! We welcomed Dolly (same -day retail delivery service) to our portfolio, after participating in a $7.5m Series A round , alongside Unlock Ventures Partners and Maveron.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2019

Don’t you wish you were better at saying “no” to all those extraneous requests for a bit of help at work? Every business owner and professional I know is struggling with their own workload, yet they let themselves get signed up for other people’s work, either out of frustration that things aren’t getting done, or guilt, or just plain sympathy. It’s time to stop jeopardizing your own future.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2019

Female entrepreneurship has been on a steady rise in the United States, with the number of women-owned businesses nearly doubling between 1997 and 2017. Today, almost 40 percent of the nation’s privately held companies are owned by women, and women launch an average of 1,000 businesses per day. Not only are women-owned businesses increasing at two and a half times the rate of all US businesses combined, but both the revenue growth and employment growth of women-owned businesses have also outpace

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

When it comes to branding, most people think only of what they see in terms of color and logo. While these are a part of branding, there are many other elements that makeup branding as a whole. As a company, your brand is not only about your visual identity but also about your personality. It is how people perceive you. Think about it as an individual person.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2019

If you are starting out on a new venture, chances are you won’t have a website or digital platform from which to help propel your business forward. With everyone using the internet for research of all types, especially mobile that makes up over 50% of global searches. There is now a longer and longer checklist that your company website needs to comply with to give it a chance of finding the public.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 17, 2019

Important Changes to the Google My Business Tool written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on Important Changes to the Google My Business Tool. Do you know about the Google My Business tool ? Google has been playing around with the idea of a local directory for years, but it seems like they’ve really settled into Google My Business.

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Transformify

JULY 24, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Our guest today is Sunita Cherian, Senior Vice President Human Resources at Wipro. What does diversity hiring mean to you? To me, inclusion is all good, and it is good for the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2019

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. Then they are surprised to see productivity and creativity take a big dip. What they should be doing is hiring only “entrepreneurs,” meaning people who think and act as if this is their own business.

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SiliconHills

JULY 23, 2019

TrustRadius, a platform for software reviews, announced Tuesday that it has received $12.5 million in additional funding. The Austin-based company has raised $25 million since its founding in 2012. Next Coast Ventures led the Series C funding round with participation from returning investors the Mayfield Fund and LiveOak Ventures. TrustRadius plans to use the funds […].

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2019

Bitcoin is what is known as a cryptocurrency. It can be used online to make payments if the person receiving the payment will accept the currency.There are currently a number of merchants who are prepared to make trades using Bitcoin and as the advantages of the currency become clear, more and more merchants are coming on board. For startups, the opportunity is twofold.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

Small businesses and young entrepreneurs are in a difficult position in the market. They have to make their little voice stand out in an already loud area. And they have to do it fast or else – they’ll run out of money. Around half of all startups fail by their fifth year. Of those, 29% running out of cash as their reason for failure. This explains why saving money as much as you can is important – not only because you have limited capital, but also because you risk losing money the longer you s

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Where to Play

JULY 18, 2019

The post CompPair- Finding the way from the Lab to the Market appeared first on Where to Play. CompPair develops healable composite materials for extending the life-time of composite structures. Founded by Dr. Amaël Cohades and based on over 12 years of research at EPFL (Switzerland), this startup needs to find the best market opportunity for its innovation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

Why Reviews Matter to Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Aaron Weiche. Podcast Transcript. My guest on today’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Aaron Weiche, CEO of GatherUp. GatherUp is a platform that helps businesses capture customer feedback, testimonials and reviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2019

One of the biggest challenges I find for new business owners is for them to move from working in the business to working on the business. You are so engaged in building and selling your product or service, that you “don’t have time” to focus on strategy and the next round of changes for the business to survive and grow. The result is a business plateau that hits you like a ton of bricks.

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Board Effect

JULY 19, 2019

Nonprofit executives often lament their boards’ limited engagement. Recognizing that volunteer board members will prioritize professional and personal obligations first, they accept whatever investment busy board members can make. When I heard a nonprofit leader recently acknowledge a disconnect between having the right professionals on his board and expecting their involvement, I was reminded that better board engagement requires better board recruiting.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 10, 2019

The word leader brings to many people’s minds characteristics of intellectual strength, decisiveness and focused commitment. The authors of the new book Today’s Inspired Leader published by Fig Factor Media , demonstrate their own personal stories and statements about defining leadership. Below are their definitions of what a leader is and should be: James Oberhofer, a sought-after crew chief in the National Hod Rod Association (NHRA) Circuit.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2019

Running your own startup is a unique experience that prepares you like no other for an entrepreneur career path. Startup businesses are often the trailblazers of our times, daring to venture into niche industries and come up with new concepts. Yet being bold will not guarantee success on its own – and this is why most startups nowadays are bound to fail.

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Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area over twenty years ago. Back then I could think of no other place to be; it was the kitchen of the internet. Obviously in hindsight it was a good call. I was fortunate to live through several waves of crazy growth: first, internet infrastructure and basic applications that needed to exist. Then social networks, and finally mobile computing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 24, 2019

Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on To Niche, or Not to Niche in Your Business? There’s a big movement today of people selling advice, programs, and courses about how to build your business that all sound like this: “Find a niche, run Facebook ads to this niche. Then become specialized, and get rich.” While I won’t go as far as to call this a marketing scam, I will say that I think it’s bad advice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2019

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” What entrepreneurs forget or don’t realize is that most customers are wary of all technology, educating the market on new technology is expensive, takes a long time, and people buy problem solutions rather than technology. Investors will likely wait for more traction.

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deal architect

JULY 24, 2019

Frank Scavo's Computer Economics has a nice post about the the long, winding road - the slow customer march to cloud applications. Bill Kutik pointed to similar slow movement more specific to HCM cloud applications in a recent LinkedIn post.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 10, 2019

As we all know, recruitment is a hugely expensive game. A common misconception made by those who are new to the practice is that it’s just the starting salary that needs to be taken into account. As it turns out, there are a whole host of other fees to consider, such as HR, pension, tax and others. It means that mistakes come at a cost. If you do make a bad hire, you might have the chance to rectify it through the initial probation period, but in general it’s something that can cost

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 27, 2019

In their busy life entrepreneurs get very less time to sleep, hence it is important for them to know the right type of mattress and sleeping position. While many factors affect the quality of sleep, we have, such as outside noise, a spinning spouse or simply not having time to get enough sleep, surprisingly there are some simple ways to improve the quality of sleep to improve our sleep.

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