YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 26, 2016
by Kristy Dickerson, CEO and co-founder of STARTplanner. Somewhere, at some point in your life, you’ve had a brilliant idea for a start-up business. Am I right? Or maybe you have a hobby that you love and want to make a career out of it. Odds are that you’ve often fantasized about ditching your J-O-B to start a business of your own; to be your own boss; to set your own hours and make your own decisions.
YFS Magazine
DECEMBER 29, 2016
From new clients and potential investors to press inquiries, your online hub is the best place to start impressing the world.
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Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 24, 2016
In the spirit of clearing out some half-formed thoughts, one takeaway is that we’re again in a period where the most exciting investment opportunities possess real technology risk. When we started Homebrew in 2013 our industry was, in retrospect, probably midway through a cycle where innovations were in business model rather than underlying technology.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Making the decision to start your own business is a major commitment, with huge implications for skills and lifestyle. Yet there is no standardized testing or certification required or available anywhere to help you decide if you are a good fit for entrepreneurship, or founding a business is right for you. An MBA or other academic credentials just don’t do it.
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
DECEMBER 29, 2016
by Rebecca Weible, founder of Yo Yoga! When you’re opening a business with very little money, you know logically that this will make an already hard thing even harder and require even more work. But you don’t actually know until you are in the thick of it. At some point you will think that you know nothing at all except that you are a total idiot for taking on this endeavor and you will curse money, anyone who has it and yourself for not just being satisfied by the good corporate job
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 26, 2016
I woke up this morning thinking about people who have a desire to please. This is not my personality type, but I encounter it regularly. Amy often describes herself as an “approval-seeking people pleaser” and I’ve learned a lot from my 30 years of interacting with her. With CEOs I often notice the pleaser personality in the context of employees.
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Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 26, 2016
Too many people in business just expect their leaders to give orders. Maybe it’s for this reason that as professionals advance in their career, they tend to start asking fewer questions and providing more answers. Smart leaders, on the other hand, learn to ask more penetrating questions, listen carefully to expert input, and empower the right people to get the best solution.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 28, 2016
It’s important that your company’s office space is safe and secure for a number of reasons. Firstly, it ensures that all your employees are safe and comfortable during their working day. Secondly, it also ensures that all of your secure data and information is secure at all times and doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. However, even though office security is extremely important, it is usually at the back of many business owners’ minds.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 29, 2016
I’m not a predictor so you won’t find me participating in the “best/worst of 2016” and “predictions for 2017” lists. But there is a trend that feels inevitable to me: “Startups everywhere.” While Agent Smith was wrong, I don’t think I am. When the phrase “Startup Communities” started to become mainstream around 2012, I made the strong assertion that you could create a startup community in any city with at least 100,000 people.
YFS Magazine
DECEMBER 26, 2016
Some people say you should never go into business with your spouse or partner, but the fact is lots of people do so – and it’s worked brilliantly for them!
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 30, 2016
In this age of instant communication via the Internet, It’s ironic that I can now find out what’s going on around the world often more easily than in my own neighborhood. This opens an area of business opportunity, popularly called hyperlocal, which still seems to be underserved. Some experts have tied this market to location detection hardware (GPS), but even that is now pervasive on all smart devices.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 27, 2016
by Desha Elliot, CEO and founder of PB7APP. There’s benefits to making your small business legitimate. Yet many small business owners are unaware of the whys and hows. Often times, business owners are busy doing what they love and when they begin making profit, it doesn’t even cross their minds that what they are doing can be an established business.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 29, 2016
As we head into 2017, I have a steady stream of operating plans hitting my inbox. Since many of our investments are companies that are scaling, vs. companies that are just getting started, there are a lot of derivative metrics in these plans. Q1 is the easiest quarter to make your plan, so most of these companies are getting a free pass for the next three months after fighting the good fight of making or beating plan in Q3 and Q4.
YFS Magazine
DECEMBER 28, 2016
When it comes to sales, your bottom line is defined by how well you hit the sales process on the head. It isn’t rocket science.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 25, 2016
I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. But what if you are an introvert, or new to this game, and don’t know where or how to start? The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 25, 2016
Since Hong Kong started operating as a free port, it has emerged as an unbeatable financial hub. It is the undisputed fort that every investor would dream of as a Launchpad to fire a business to regional and international realms. For startups, Hong Kong nurtures and sets them on the path to prosperity. Why look elsewhere when a ready, tested & proven, and highly viable that is Hong Kong is open for you?
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 27, 2016
In the spirit of clearing out some half-formed thoughts, here’s how I try to kill the dream for folks who tell me they want to get into venture: “You really want to be an… investment manager?” Investment manager? That doesn’t sound as much fun as taking meetings with top founders, diving the future of tech with your fellow GPs, speaking at events across the world.
YFS Magazine
DECEMBER 28, 2016
These steps to attract, connect and keep the clients you need are not time intensive or expensive to incorporate into your business.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 24, 2016
Every entrepreneur wishes that he could predict whether his idea could be the “next big thing,” before he spent his life savings and years of energy on it. Investors, on the other hand, typically don’t even look very hard at the product or service, but prefer to evaluate first the entrepreneur, and secondly the business plan. I define these products and services as “solutions” (customers buy solutions to a problem), but Guy Kawasaki more generically calls them causes, meaning any new idea, compa
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 30, 2016
If you are a very talented writer then it is must that you should have your own blog on the internet. Blogging is one of the easy ways to convey your ideas, suggestions and useful information to large number of people. So, creating your own blog sounds a very good idea for this but how to create a blog ? Such question is very common from the people but there is something which you must know when it is about blogging and i.e. blogging platforms.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 25, 2016
I had a great digital sabbath yesterday with Amy and my friends Dave and Maureen. I had a cold so I took a three hour nap in the middle of the day. For the rest of the day, I sat around in my PJs. I read Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle. Amy and I loved Season 1 of the Amazon series but struggled with the first episode on Season 2 (I’m sure we’ll fight through it and watch it this week.
YFS Magazine
DECEMBER 27, 2016
Is there an area of your life where you’re struggling to move forward? If so, use these tips to get some much-needed motivation.
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 29, 2016
Some types of businesses generate more and more recurring revenues over time, often growing to a size where recurring revenues pay all of the overhead of the company – an enviable position. There is a phenomenon I have observed time after time with mature companies receiving over 75% of their revenues from recurring sources. Management undertakes a simple exercise of calculating the increased profitability of shutting down all R&D, sales and subordinate operations, and universally notes wit
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 27, 2016
by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com . Entrepreneurs routinely get solicited by insurance agents for a business owners policy (BOP). A staggering number of business owners imagine this to be some sort of hedge against a loss in your business. That is not exactly what a BOP offers. In this article, we will take a look at what a business owners’ policy (BOP) is and why you may need one.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 28, 2016
A snarky person could call the title of this post “the tagline for Facebook and Twitter.” A bitter person could expand this to mean all of media. I’ve got a cold (it’s a bummer to end the year with a cold, but if it runs its course by January 1st I’ll be happy) so it’s been hard to concentrate this morning. Instead of working on the final draft of the Second Edition of Startup Opportunities: Know When to Quit Your Day Job (being published by Wiley in Q117) I&
YFS Magazine
DECEMBER 29, 2016
Most people dread the day they hear their boss say, "Sorry, but we need to let you go." For me, it was a day of celebration.
Mike Michalowicz
DECEMBER 28, 2016
It’s about passion. It is having a love for what you do. It is about giving a s**t. I met a woman who is a dolphin trainer. She couldn’t stop gushing about how amazing her work is. Communicating with dolphins. Learning their personalities. Connecting. The stories she shared were nothing short of remarkable. And by the time we were done talking, I wanted to experience, even just for a moment, what she does.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Search Engine Optimization is not a linear task, so to say. It does not follow the usual flowchart one would pursue with traditional marketing methods, such as in print, radio, banners, or TV advertising. In all these other mediums, the sponsor pays a certain designated amount for the desired results displayed within the assigned time frame. Say, you want to run a TV advert.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 27, 2016
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that my dad Stan is one of my best friends. So is my brother Daniel. Over the last decade we’ve been doing regular things together like an annual trip (me/Dad, Daniel/Dan) and monthly dinners (me/Daniel). Last month I proposed a new idea – a monthly book club between the three of us. We’d rotate choosing the book of the month.
YFS Magazine
DECEMBER 24, 2016
Very simply put, people need to buy you before they will buy into whatever you are selling.
BeyondVC
DECEMBER 28, 2016
When Microsoft announced the purchase of LinkedIn an overlooked element of the story was how they planned to give users the ability to find experts while inside of all office apps. Imagine being in powerpoint and having a sidebar to find expert designers who are connected to you for hire or sitting inside of Microsoft word and looking for some editing help from a contact of yours.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 27, 2016
They say you should zig when other businesses zag. If you keep on doing what the competition is doing it’s hard to see how you’ll crush them. Promotional models aren’t as common as they were years ago thanks to the internet, but they’re still a highly effective way to grow your startup into a million-dollar business. First you’ll need to know how to utilize them correctly, so let’s look at some of the things they’ll be able to offer you: They’ll He
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 25, 2016
In the spirit of clearing out some half-formed thoughts, I wanted to share my response to venture LPs who ask about the effect of “so much money” flowing into the seed space and how we think about its competitive impact upon our fund Homebrew. [Context regarding our fund’s strategy is important here: we make 8-10 seed stage investments per year, where we’re leading or co-leading the round and stepping up to serve as a committed, proactive investor for the company in the y
YFS Magazine
DECEMBER 27, 2016
There’s always something new to learn and apply that can make your business, career or personal life that much sweeter.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
DECEMBER 30, 2016
2017 marks the 10-year anniversary of a big event in my life – the day I sold my editing company for six figures. For seven years, from 2001 to 2007, BetterEdit.com was my main project. It was also the first true Laptop Lifestyle online business I created, providing a full-time. The post Introducing Services Arbitrage: The Perfect New Business For Non-Experts Looking For A Laptop Lifestyle Income Stream appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Setting up any kind of professional enterprise can be quite the challenge in this day and age. With high levels of competition across the board, it takes a lot to stand out from the crowd and earn your place in the customer’s heart. If you’re passionate about the idea of helping people in their time of need, however, starting a moving company can be an attractive prospect.
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