YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
by Angela Leavitt, founder of Mojo Marketing. Fall is right around the corner and this an uptick in conferences and events. Add end-of-year planning with remote clients into the mix and you may find yourself on the road more than in the office. With so much going on, your road warrior self may fall behind on completing actual work and feel overwhelmed.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 19, 2017
Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. Yet in my role as a small business advisor, I still see a singular focus on achieving repeatable processes and “cookie-cutter” manufacturing. I don’t believe these two objectives have to be mutually exclusive.
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Up and Running
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Whether the widely reported statistic that eight out of ten businesses fail in the first 18 months is accurate or not, few will disagree with the fact that most startups fail. However, it’s rarely from a lack of owner passion, interest, hard work, or desire for success. In many cases, businesses are started by people with years of corporate experience.
ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
At TelTech , it took our product-marketing organization more than a year to get to something that resembled a true growth team, running high tempo testing. So, if you are struggling to implement the growth hacking methodology, I get it. We assembled a team, achieved product-market fit, and identified our growth levers, but got stuck when we tried to put process behind our testing.
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
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
by Trevor Foster , vice president of finance and innovation at Innovative Employee Solutions. Part of leading a small business is doing more with less, and labor costs are no exception. To compete with larger peers, most small businesses simply can’t afford to offer full-time positions with benefits. Technology is shrinking the world every day, creating a marketplace where businesses find themselves competing with companies around the world for workers and consumers.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Perhaps sparked by the now forgotten recession, I’m seeing a new era of the entrepreneur, with startups springing up all around. Based on my own mentoring and investing experience, the best entrepreneurs are pragmatic problem solvers. They have an uncanny ability to find elegant, easy, and fast solutions to pain points in the marketplace, as well as their own challenges.
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Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
Why Nobody is Finding Your Content written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Brian Dean. I believe that elements of SEO are now elevated to the strategic level. In other words, as you plan your message, website structure, and content for your marketing, you better include some research commonly seen as a technical aspect of SEO.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 23, 2017
In the technological age that we are living it, we are lucky that we have so many things that can help us, and our businesses, to do better and be better. One of the changes that has come into its own over the past few years is blogging. Writing a blog can be one of the most beneficial ways for your business to grow and to reach new customers. It helps you to engage with customers , help them to come back again and again, and to help your customer’s or client’s lives be easier, at the end of the
Austin Startup
NOVEMBER 19, 2017
Several conversations over the last month have turned to the topic of helping entrepreneurs. Having recently addressed founders in my chapter “Be Coachable,” allow me please in this essay to address this matter to you providers of help. As you probably know, I prefer advising founders in long, immersive engagements. It’s a bit like psychoanalysis — once a person gets on that therapy, he or she appears before a chosen shrink frequently and over a very long duration.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
Every entrepreneur can learn from a mentor, no matter how confident or successful they have been to date. Most people don’t know that billionaire Mark Zuckerberg , for example, gives real credit to the inspiring mentorship of Steve Jobs for Mark’s Facebook success. Yet most entrepreneurs simply don’t know how to work with a mentor. It is not as simple as one person giving the other all the right answers.
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
Are you writing a mission statement for your business? Sometimes it helps to look at samples of other companies’ mission statements to get a better idea of how to write your own. In 30 seconds or less, a good mission statement should define: What the company does for its customers. What the company does for its employees. What the company does for its owners.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
by Katie Lunden of crowdspring. Everyone has their own take on what makes a logo perfect. New trends (and fads) in logo design appear every year. Be careful not to fall into the trap of following every new fad. Today, small businesses and startups have to compete in an increasingly noisy world, against larger, more established businesses. To do so, they need to get noticed.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
There’s a magnificent exercise that I like to do for myself on a periodic basis. I’m sure it has a more formal name but I call it “Good Bad Like Dislike.” I create a two by two matrix that looks like this: I then go through my calendar for the next few months as a starting point to stimulate things to put in each box. I’m careful not to put specific items in the box, but concepts.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 19, 2017
News and notes for independent professionals and their clients. This is the November 20, 2017 edition.
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 23, 2017
Expect to take multiple meetings before landing an investor. As a founder, you have to treat the fundraising process much like the sales process.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 19, 2017
by Marek Danyluk, managing partner at Space Executive. There is a thin line between success and failure for startups, and that is usually determined by capital. The more capital a startup has, the easier it is to get off the ground and ramp up growth. In turn, this leads to the development of a thriving startup ecosystem which paves the way for technology and innovation.
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 23, 2017
Close. Avoid long-term commitments. It is statistically true that at least half of the young companies funded by angel or venture investors will not survive three years from funding to demise, and more than that percentage will die with two years if not well financed. The greatest burden of either a growing company or one needing to retract and reduce expenses is the office lease.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 18, 2017
The NYSE recently published a book – The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap – From Concept to IPO that I’ve been involved in. I wrote a chapter and made a number of introductions to the team working on the book that resulted in a number of other chapters. The book covers a variety of stages of company development, including: The Seed Stage: Starting a Company.
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
What does team building look like in the era of the mobile, remote workplace? Here is a look at the fundamentals of remote team building.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
So, you’re ready to launch your startup, or perhaps you already have. You’ve come up with a great product that you believe solves a problem in your chosen niche. Your next question is: how do you get customers to see the value in what you’re selling enough to want a piece of the pie? Attracting new customers is a challenge every entrepreneur faces, but retaining their business is equally critical to the growth and survival of a business.
The Startup Magazine
NOVEMBER 23, 2017
Running a business is a challenge, and many business owners face major hurdles that lead them to turn towards consulting. The right consulting business can take a struggling or new company and push it towards the path of progression. A consultant can help all types of businesses leverage their resources and turn a profit. More importantly, they’re able to help identify goals and various strategic ways to help achieve those goals.
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
By LAURA LOREK Publisher with Silicon Hills News MassChallenge Texas is a new startup accelerator that is currently accepting applications for its inaugural Texas cohort. One of the things that is unique about MassChallenge is since it doesn’t take any equity, it can work with all the other accelerators and incubators statewide to grow the […].
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 18, 2017
Create an SEO strategy that can evolve and adapt with the times so that when inevitable changes occur, you will be ready to meet them.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 23, 2017
by Scott Wintrip, author of “ High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant “ As a small business owner, you’re beyond busy — and that isn’t likely to change. One moment, you’re serving as a salesperson, trying to close that new piece of business. The next, you’re playing service rep and solving a buyer’s problem or doing executive tasks like running to the bank to sign loan documents.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
Looking Glass , a Brooklyn-based company we recently led the Series A investment in, just released HoloPlayer One, the world’s first interactive lightfield development kit. This is a new interface that lets groups of people see and interact with floating 3D scenes without VR or AR headgear. While it’s an early release dev kit, it’s still as close to achieving the dream of the hologram shown in Blade Runner 2049 as I’ve seen.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 19, 2017
As I sat in the movie theater watching Justice League, I thought a lot about the idea of a hero in the context of 2017. Generally, we've thought of heroes as possessing some kind of special power--or larger than life. We've confused the powerful and influential for people we should look up to. Yet, as we've seen in the retelling of a lot of the comic book stories on screen, our heroes aren't always purely good, nor are they as good at being people as they are at being powerful.
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 18, 2017
When building a team, there is nothing more important than hiring someone who is not only good at what they do, but who will also exhibit these 5 qualities.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 23, 2017
by Jane Bernard, author of “ Lucid Living: in The Virtual Age “ You know more than you realize. You can create change you need by using your five senses to sync with your 6 th sense, intuition. Take five seconds to really notice what you see, hear, taste, touch and smell and you will ground your reality. You might even get a little “nudge” because intuition is a grounding sense.
Start Up Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
A global economy ends up with many pieces of global infrastructure. Communications system, social networks, sans-nation-state currencies, political forums, international transport to name a few. We are currently in the middle of the transition to a global language, the written version at least. Something seemingly childish is about to entirely transform the written word: emojis.
The Equity Kicker
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
Two weeks ago I wrote about our Skill and Pace value. Another of our four values is Enjoy The Journey. This one is more axiomatic for me than the others. Everyone at Forward Partners is devoting a significant part of their life to the cause and if it’s not enjoyable, what’s the point? The journey is the destination. But what does it mean to live the value “Enjoy The Journey”?
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
My husband and I started our business nine years ago. That.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
by Jesse Wood, CEO of eFileCabinet. Businesses that are tired of the tedium of data entry and wish there was a better way to digitize and organize their documents can rest assured — there is. A robust document management system (DMS) that takes care of tedious tasks for you, while ushering your office into the digital age with an entirely paperless workflow.
The Startup Magazine
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
Everyone would love to own their own business one day. But with the shape of the economy, the prospects of starting a startup business can be slim to none. If you are lucky enough to have the money to invest in a startup, you without a doubt want to do everything in your power to make sure that it succeeds. With all that being said, you might be surprised to learn that only 2 out of 10 startup companies are successful.
Hearpreneur
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start the week off on the right foot. We become what we think about. What will be the best habits to have? Say thank you for what’s already yours. To achieve your goals, you must apply discipline and consistency every day. Working really hard is what successful people do.
SiliconHills
NOVEMBER 18, 2017
Rob Hirschfeld is the founder and CEO at RackN, an Austin-based startup which makes software to automate data centers. Hirschfeld has 15 years of experience in the cloud and infrastructure industry. He has served four terms on the OpenStack Foundation Board and previously worked as an executive at Dell. He’s also a serial entrepreneur. On […].
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
Startups, whether you’re a tech company or a small business trying to make it in the service industry, needs to offer something different. I read an interesting article on SaaS startups a while ago stating that branding is essential because dozens of other people are offering the same thing. Software is unique because new features can be pushed rapidly, helping a business expand fast.
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