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7 Basic Tips For App Development

YoungUpstarts

Better app development isn’t hard, in fact it just takes the right mindset and some well thought out planning. Here’s how to do so: 1. Start With A Clear Goal. Any strategy for successfully creating and promoting a new app relies on setting up clear goals for your new software. One of the best ways to think about this need is by concentrating on the problem your app is going to solve.

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Potential Pain Points When Starting a Small Business

Up and Running

If you feel restless working for someone else and have come up with your own idea for starting a business, you should consider the challenges that you will face ahead of time. Owning and running a business is incredibly rewarding—but it comes at a price. Stress, painful mistakes, and sacrifice all accompany the pride, excitement, and sense of accomplishment that comes with creating your own money making machine.

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In 2017, GE Will Buy More Tech Startups Than Google

Hunter Walker

When the WSJ and the NYTimes write the same trend story you can assume it’s a narrative that is being pushed by people who want it to be true! And the narrative for 2017 is OLD ECONOMY COMPANIES WANT TO BUY YOUR STARTUP. So, is it true? Largely yes, but the pot of gold might be more modest than some of 2016’s notable transactions suggest (Jet, Cruise, Dollar Shave Club).

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6 Tactics for Turning Your Website into a Lead Generating Machine

Duct Tape Marketing

6 Tactics for Turning Your Website into a Lead Generating Machine written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Photo Credit: Shutterstock. Anybody can create a website, but not everybody can create a conversion machine. Your website should be a mechanism in your business that allows you to convert prospective visitors into interested leads who will later become customers and advocates for the products and services that you sell.

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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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Entrepreneurs Turned Angel Investors: A Look At Some Of The Best

YoungUpstarts

An angel investor who also has experience in the start-up world has a much greater understanding of how businesses work, what fears and concerns the start-up owner or owners have and much more. They have gone through many of the experiences and situations that people in the businesses they are helping are going through at the moment or will go through in the future. 3 Great Examples of Entrepreneurs Turned Investors. 1.

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Get a Grip on Innovation — 10 Questions, 20 Minutes

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Get a Grip on Innovation — 10 Questions, 20 Minutes. Ten questions for you to focus on assessing the state of your organization’s innovation program. Twenty minutes to learn something and take action steps. If you think your current program is working, non-existent, or just a disaster — you will learn something by taking this quick survey.

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10 Ways To Keep The Road Ahead In 2017 A Happy One

Startup Professionals Musings

Welcome to another challenging new year ahead! You’ve probably already made your resolutions for 2017, but if not, I suggest a renewed commitment to finding happiness and satisfaction in your chosen business lifestyle. After all, most of us spend more hours in this role than any other, and life is too short to spend most of your life unhappy. If you haven’t tried it, one way to be happier at work is to be an entrepreneur, according to a Forbes article and a study by Babson College.

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Happy byproducts of startup work (even if the startup doesn’t)

The Startup Toolkit

I’ve felt financially secure ever since my first company failed. While I suppose that could be a sign of ambitious embezzlement, in this case it’s thanks to the byproducts of working on a startup: skills, network, insight. One benefit is that a couple years plodding away on a startup transforms you into an incredible freelancer[1]. While freelancing isn’t the goal for most founders, it’s a safety net that allows for big risks with small stress[2].

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How to Grow the Supply Side of a Marketplace Startup [Traction #34: Mike Russell, Paintzen)

View from Seed

Mike Russell is the CEO and co-founder of Paintzen , a NextView-backed company based in New York. Over the last couple years, they’ve experienced strong growth for their marketplace business, and today, we dive deep into the weeds of how Mike and team grew the business. More specifically, we learn about the approach and tactics used to grow the supply side of the Paintzen marketplace.

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5 Tips For More Productive Networking

YoungUpstarts

Have you ever felt like you’ve built a great relationship with an email address instead of a person? With the raw scale of connections at our fingertips, we can occasionally become victims of our own technological advances. When you are networking with dozens, maybe even hundreds of contacts at a time, how do you keep your networking connections meaningful?

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Can You Beat Amazon In The Race To Overnight Success?

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. So once in a while it’s good to look at some facts to temper our imagination. I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”.

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Entrepreneurship Is Intellectual Immigration

Feld Thoughts

At the MIT Celebration of 50 Years of Entrepreneurship in November, I heard a number of fantastic lines that have stuck with me. One of them was from Noubar Afeyan. “Entrepreneurship is intellectual immigration.” As I sat in an audience of about 200 extremely accomplished MIT graduates spanning over 50 years, I thought to myself “he just f **g nailed it.” I’m a huge fan and supporter of immigration, especially around entrepreneurship.

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The Only Thing an Investor Can Give You that Matters

This is going to be BIG.

VCs promise a lot of things. We've got all these platforms, advisors, special partners, communities, networks.special economic bells and whistles, spaces, programs, partnerships, etc. Meanwhile, they most useful thing we can give you when you're first starting out seems to be the hardest to get: Honesty. VCs see a lot of deals. We see successful companies and others that fall on their face--so getting our actual opinions about something, pass or fund, can be really useful.

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Attention Healthcare Administrators: These Technologies Can Keep Your Facility Competitive

YoungUpstarts

If there is one thing that can be said of living and working in the 21 st century, it would be the impact technology has had on literally every aspect of daily life. If you hold an MSHA degree (master of science in health administration) then some of these bits of technology can make your life a whole lot easier. Not only is technology vital to healthcare but the right technologies can keep your hospital or healthcare facility competitive.

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9 Steps To Increasing Your Street Smarts In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

People who are good at solving problems for other people make great entrepreneurs. That’s what a business gets paid to do. The challenge is not the same as inventing a new technology, or finding things that make you feel good, and assuming that everyone will want one. In business, the ability to solve problems is called “street smarts,” and it’s more valuable than “book smarts.

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A recap of Q4: Great momentum for 2017

Version One Ventures

Welcome back! We hope everyone had a restful holiday! While we’re ready to look ahead and embrace 2017, here’s a quick recap of the major activity across our portfolio last quarter. We’re looking forward to continuing this momentum into the new year. Portfolio companies in the news. In continuing to be the consumer’s financial advocate, Trim launched a chatbot that helps renegotiate your Comcast bill.

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A Full Day At CES

Feld Thoughts

Pro Tip: If you are at CES today and want to connect, I’ll be hanging out at Eureka Park from 11am this morning (Friday) when I’m on a panel about diversity until I leave the premises at 2:30. My dad and I left the Venetian yesterday at 8:30am to head over to the Las Vegas Convention Center. When I arrived back at the room at 10pm, I was done / baked / toasted / wiped.

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3 Ways To Grow Your Construction Company In 2017

YoungUpstarts

As the new year starts, we’re being inundated with the usual horror stories about failing economies and collapsing industries, all of which make business owners around the world worry about the future. But you’ve been working in construction for long enough to know the deal. The industry is notoriously volatile, with business prospects ebbing and flowing on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis, and there’s absolutely no doubt in your mind that 2017 will be exactly the same.

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Is It Time to Trim Your BtoB Waistline?

Rembrandt Communications

How to improve the health of your business in 2017 Welcome back from the holidays, BtoB owners! I hope you got some much-needed R&R and also had some fun. And if you’re like most people, you may notice that your clothes fit a little more snugly from overindulging a bit during the holidays. Well, it’s […]. The post Is It Time to Trim Your BtoB Waistline?

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The hunt for the fastest growing company in Europe starts now

The Next Web

At TNW, we love fast growing tech startups – telling their stories and celebrating their growth. This is why we have decided to partner with Adyen – for the fourth year in a row – to host our acclaimed Tech5 competition. For Tech5, we focus on one key figure: Revenue growth. We’ve witnessed the exponential growth of the European tech scene. Ecosystems all over the continent are maturing at an extreme pace, providing a launchpad for tech companies like Transferwise, Delivery Hero, Cabify, Foodpa

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For Life Coaches, Travel Expands Your Business — Here’s How

YFS Magazine

It really does not matter where you plan to travel to; these experiences will support the growth, personally and professionally.

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Making Money As An Uber Driver

YoungUpstarts

Uber has quickly spilled into the mainstream as an affordable alternative to taxicabs. This is excellent news for those who do not own a car as well as those who are in search of work. Yet the question begs: how much do Uber drivers really make? The surprising truth is that these individuals really do earn a “living wage”, especially if they live in an area where there is a strong demand for transportation services.

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Scaling customer learning is NOT about talking to more people

The Startup Toolkit

From the mailbag: “Related to your book, quick question. what tools do you recommend (if any) to effectively talk to your customers and get feedback from customers once launched and scaling up (vs. the more personal versions you can afford to do early on)?” Every growing team has this question. The main mistake is thinking of “scale” in terms or reaching more customers.

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The Battle of the Brand: CRO vs. Branding

ConversionXL

Math. It’s cold. It’s undeniable. It’s absolute. It’s infallible. Or is it? As CROs we tend to boil the world of human behavior, intent, and action into neat rows in a spreadsheet. We weave our assumptions together with formulas in order to break down complex interactions into absolute spreadsheet cells valued by the number of the digits they contain.

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How To Create A Successful Mentorship Process

YFS Magazine

Mentoring is a significant responsibility for managers and it’s one that can take them out of their comfort zone. But it can be hugely valuable for everyone involved.

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The Buddhists Of Silicon Valley

YoungUpstarts

by Sarah Emory, Instaread.co. “I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.”. – Edna Mode, The Incredibles. When Lawrence Levy sat down to write “ To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History “, he was making a conscious choice to look back and reflect upon what he saw. Levy’s current spiritual path might lead one to believe that he can do so from a more enlightened “now,” undeterred by the past’s distractions.

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The hunt for the fastest growing company of Europe starts now

The Next Web

At TNW, we love fast growing tech startups – telling their stories and celebrating their growth. This is why we have decided to partner with Adyen – for the fourth year in a row – to host our acclaimed Tech5 competition. For Tech5, we focus on one key figure: Revenue growth. We’ve witnessed the exponential growth of the European tech scene. Ecosystems all over the continent are maturing at an extreme pace, providing a launchpad for tech companies like Transferwise, Delivery Hero, Cabify, Foodpa

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Why eCommerce Product Filtering Is Broken (and How to Fix It)

ConversionXL

Discoverability and findability are two important terms that optimizers should be familiar with. Discoverability is when you find the perfect book, even though you were not necessarily looking for it. Findability is when you find the exact book you were looking for, even if all you knew about it was the author’s last name. eCommerce product filtering, when done right, can solve both issues.

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Tax Tips and Deductions for Restaurant Owners

Up and Running

From sit-down steakhouses grilling up delicious ribeyes to ice cream shops offering the sweetest variety of flavors in town, there are all types of restaurateurs out there who want to make their customers happy through the high-quality food and beverages they serve each day. Despite the numerous expenses that come with the territory in the food industry, restaurant owners are eligible to take full advantage of a number of tax-saving strategies and deductions to help them save money and stay comp

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The Benefits Of Daily Meditation

YoungUpstarts

by Yunha Kim, founder of Simple Habit. Just one week of brief daily meditation has been found to produce significant improvements in attention, energy, and stress. Simple Habit is aimed at helping people make mindfulness a part of their daily routine by offering a variety of 5-minute meditations personalized for all kinds of life situations. Here are six ways meditation can improve your personal and professional life: 1.

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Five of the Best Austin Startups that Launched in 2016

SiliconHills

data.world – This startup, which launched in July with $14 million in venture funding, seeks to solve the problem of making data fast and easy to find online. It also wants to make that data easy to use to solve problems. It bills itself as a “social network for data people.” The company is founded […] The post Five of the Best Austin Startups that Launched in 2016 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How To Create A Personal Brand For Your Home-Based Business

YFS Magazine

I've laid out a simple, yet extremely effective process for using a personal brand to grow your business in 2017.

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2017 Is A Prime Year For …

Feld Thoughts

Ok – first nerd joke of 2017 for me. Yup. 2017 is a prime number. But 2017 is a pretty special prime. In fact 2017 is a sexy prime with 2011 – bet you didn’t know that! The Shrike né Predator and I wish you a Happy New Year. If you need a great blog to start 2017 with, give yourself the gift of following the Daily Overview. And, buy the book – it will blow your mind.

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You’ve Got The Whole World In Your Hands – At Least Your Business Can With These Top Ideas

YoungUpstarts

Christian Arno. Have you ever wanted to have an all-conquering business that is known the world over? This is the desire of many a modern business owner, but it’s something that can be hard to accomplish. So, you need to make sure you look at the best ways of doing this and try to ensure you have a world-beating business. If you can accomplish this, you’re going to find yourself in a much stronger position, and you’ll be able to take the company on to bigger and better things.

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Time, talent and treasure – Spending each wisely

Berkonomics

In the non–profit world, the term, “time, talent and treasure” has been used so often it is almost at the edge of being trite. It’s used in that arena to describe a volunteer’s sacrifice in support of the non–profit enterprise. I have been surprised to discover that it seems undiscovered in the business world. So, let’s bend the meaning to help us focus on resources while preserving those words.

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Studies Show ‘The Generalist’ Lands The Corner Office

YFS Magazine

Thanks to a number of recent studies, we have more insight than ever into what it takes to be a titan of industry.

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