Sat.Jan 09, 2016 - Fri.Jan 15, 2016

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Google’s Latest Gadgets And The Impact On Its Stock Price

YoungUpstarts

Google is one of the biggest and most profitable companies in the world. Although Google has derived most of its success in the internet and software service sectors, its forays into hardware promise to boost its future revenue potential. Google already has 6 products that enjoy more than 1 billion worldwide users and this gives it a significant edge as they enter the hardware world.

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Google Analytics Health Check: Is Your Configuration Broken?

ConversionXL

Peter Drucker famously said, “What gets measured gets managed.” But what if your measurement data is incorrect? What if you’re not measuring correctly or completely? What if there’s a whole pile of things you think you’re measuring when really… you’re not? The fact is that a lot of the people relying on Google Analytics are relying on bad data.

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What’s your data strategy? Defining the data hierarchy

Version One Ventures

Over the past decade, startups and enterprises have devoted hefty resources to collecting and analyzing huge volumes of big data. For some, data is used to fine-tune a product; in other cases, data forms the foundation of the product itself. When it comes to building a startup around data, the more unique that data, the better. As I wrote last week in reference to machine learning startups , algorithms have mainly become a commodity these days.

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Devolving From Good To Bad

SVPG

Lots of people have written about the challenges of managing growth. Especially about the importance of working hard to maintain staff quality as you scale the organization. There is little question that most organizations become worse in their ability to rapidly deliver consistent innovation as they grow, yet most people attribute this to staff quality and also process and communication issues of scale.

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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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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Photo Credit: Christopher Michel. Hunter Walk: I know you started Dogster, one of the seminal early online communities, but I don’t know Dogster’s founding story. How did the site come about? Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects).

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That Time I Passed on Datadog Because I Didn't Understand the Market

This is going to be BIG.

Systems administrators get all sorts of data from all sorts of places and don't have a holistic view as to what's happening. More parts throw off more data, which makes optimizing and troubleshooting that much harder over time. That was the Datadog pitch in late 2010, my first full year of leading deals, that I got from two software engineers. Makes sense, no?

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How to Effectively Evaluate an Employee’s Performance

Up and Running

Ideally, this is how things would go. If your employees are not “salespeople,” it can be a lot harder to track their work performance. To find out how others do it, we asked 10 entrepreneurs from the YEC to share what they feel are the most important points to consider when evaluating a team member. 1. Level of execution. “At the end of the day, nothing is more important than execution.” Click To Tweet.

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How to Find the Perfect Startup Job [An Insider’s Guide to Finding, Vetting, and Negotiating]

View from Seed

Editor’s note: Today, NextView is excited to release this ebook from partner David Beisel. Below, find an excerpt and free download of How to Find the Perfect Startup Job. Spend a few hours browsing content about startups, and one thing becomes painfully obvious: There’s a TON of it. And while plenty of it does a great job addressing the most common question I receive as a seed VC ( how to secure funding ), the second-most common question I get seems almost entirely missing from the

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Salesforce: Time to spread wings

deal architect

Salesforce hosted an Analyst Summit last week. It was very well done – a nice blend of product, strategy, customer and partner sessions. Add their event to the list of excellent summits I wrote about last year. I have been.

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How To Rise Above Guilt As A Woman In Tech

YoungUpstarts

By Tricia Sciortino, President of eaHELP. Working on Black Friday, Christmas, and New Year’s Day didn’t used to be a big deal to me when I was starting my career. But that was before I had a family. Many women feel the pressure to always be available to their work, and — although it may come as a surprise — this demand doesn’t change once you decide to settle down.

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8 Ways To Make Your Venture A Company That Matters

Startup Professionals Musings

More than ever before, people want to buy from, work for, and invest in companies that matter. Whether you are an entrepreneur starting a new business, or a corporate executive seeking to revitalize a mature business, the challenge is the same – to become the obvious choice within the hearts and minds of your customers, your employees, and your chosen communities.

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How Location-Based Startups Gain Traction City-by-City [Traction #16]

View from Seed

Despite heroic efforts that pay off in one city, a location-based startup practically hits the reset button when they enter new markets. In this episode, Justin Robinson, co-founder of mobile startup and liquor delivery app Drizly, talks about some of the ridiculously non-scalable things they had to do just to get their business off the ground in the right way in both Boston and beyond.

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SAP Nation: More of the same

deal architect

Somebody asked me recently if SAP was surprised by the many customers who spoke out loudly in the two volumes of SAP Nation. I said I did not think so – I had been telling SAP executives in person about.

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Four Ways To Improve Your Company’s HR In 2016

YoungUpstarts

By Mark Sinatra, CEO of Staff One. When companies ring in the New Year, most are focused on assessing the previous year and planning ahead to strategize for a better season. However, as business leaders focus on their core strengths and concepts, most are willing to let human resources slide, even though putting human resources on the backburner could seriously damage their business.

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6 Prerequisites For Turning Your Passion Into Profits

Startup Professionals Musings

I meet many entrepreneurs with a real passion for their new idea, but unfortunately they don’t all realize that passion is necessary but not sufficient fuel to turn their idea into a successful business. The result is that far too few really great innovations ever get implemented -- or last more than a moment in the marketplace. First of all, passion needs to be surrounded by a host of other personal attributes necessary to survive the rigors of the long, hard journey to success.

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How Can a Blog Make Money and How Much Can I Earn?

Brandanew

It’s 2016. All your friends are either sharing professional looking images or deciding to be professional bloggers. Ever wondered- can a blog make money ? Read on, we have the answers! If you’ve read our first post in our Blogging series about what is a blog and why you need one, you’re aware of how important blogs are for increasing traffic to your website and for gaining your potential customers’ trust.

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12 years of Deal Architect

deal architect

Several congratulatory messages on LinkedIn alerted me to the fact that my company, Deal Architect is a dozen years old. When I started the company, I was a bit timid having come off a failed dot.com startup. But the support.

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2016 New Year’s Resolutions For Small Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

By Hunter Hoffmann, Head of US Communications at Hiscox Small Business Insurance. Now that we’ve closed the books on 2015, it’s the perfect time to start thinking about resolutions for 2016. No, not your personal resolutions like running a marathon, or losing weight, that, let’s be honest, mostly won’t happen. But, no time is better than now to think about your business and reflect on what worked well in 2015 and what needs work in the year ahead.

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6 Ways Startups Are Fooled By Prior Business Models

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. If you ask them for a reason, most will insist that they couldn’t get funding, or they ran out of money too early. But I’m not convinced that it’s as simple as that. Many are just not facing the reality that their passion had a critical business flaw. As I was reading a recent book “ Dead Companies Walking ,” by Scott Fearon, who runs a hedge fund that profits from businesses headed toward bankrupt

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10 Proven Books To Help You Be A Better Storyteller

Brandanew

They say that writers are born, not made. You have to have a way with words and you have to be born with it. Otherwise no amount of courses and learning can help you. However, this is only the half-truth. Firstly, although talent is a prerequisite, it will only blossom with the right kind of environment where you receive training as well as inspiration.

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CES: The year of automation

deal architect

CES has traditionally been a harbinger of technology and societal trends with the products that are launched there: 1981 saw the introduction of the camcorder, 1991 the Interactive CD, 2001 the Microsoft Xbox and 2011 was the year of the.

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Important Tips On How To Start A Business… Straight From A Self-Made Entrepreneur

YoungUpstarts

by Erik Wilson, CEO and co-founder of Pozify. Every day, countless new entrepreneurs make the brave decision to create a business of their own. Starting and running your own business is no easy task. It requires a great deal of work, of sacrifice and of commitment. This challenge can become even more daunting when you must start this journey from the bottom and begin your climb with nothing.

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7 Skills to Thrive, Not Just Survive, in Any Career

Startup Professionals Musings

Career growth in today’s fast moving environment requires all the skills that we normally ascribe only to entrepreneurs -- ability to adapt, change, be innovative, resilient and stay in constant learning mode. The days are gone when you were able to focus on a specific skill set in school and hone that expertise into a satisfying career for the rest of your working life.

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Boxing in Boulder

Feld Thoughts

I spent an hour yesterday at The Corner Boxing Club. I spent an hour with Carrie Barry (the founder) learning the very, very, very basics. And I got an incredible workout that had me in bed reading – after a bath – by 9pm. I love trying new things. Often, I only do something once if I’m not interested in it, but I’ll definitely be back to The Corner Boxing Club.

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How to Avoid a PR Nightmare

Rembrandt Communications

5 Steps to Avoid Losing Time, Money (and Even Your Entire Business) in a Crisis With new technology, the public relations (PR) process has changed. In the past, PR focused strictly on company news, press releases and the media. Now, it works directly with all of your sales, SEO, social media, content-strategy, and marketing processes […]. The post How to Avoid a PR Nightmare appeared first on Boost sales with BtoB Content Strategy and PR here.

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Smart Policies That Make It Easier For Asian Business To Expand

YoungUpstarts

By Dr. Karen M. Reddington, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. Is it unrealistic for us to expect small business to go global from day one? Not if we have the right policies in place. In the 21st century, businesses don’t need to be big to go global. Today, all they need is a mobile device, a shipping platform and a big idea. Even the smallest business has access to communications and technology tools that were beyond the reach of even large companies just 15 years ago, and SMEs are increasi

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How to Stand Tall While Being Human

This is going to be BIG.

Starting a company is a stressful, draining, and extremely emotional undertaking. The burden of responsibility to your investors, your customers and your employees--not to mention to yourself--is the heaviest of weights. Sometimes, it takes every last drop of strength you have just to endure it one. more. day. Yet, at the same time, everyone looks to your confidence.

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Branding for lean startups: How to brainstorm a simple and strong business name

The Next Web

The Internet, as we all can see, has drastically improved the world’s way of life. And the simplicity of entry for founders with small to zero budgets (AKA lean startups) into virtually all industries is one of its greatest improvements. People can now take on very little amount of risks and end up becoming the next Aaron Levie (Box), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), etc. just by doing a few things that works.

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Attention investors: can you just be upfront with your thoughts?  K thx bye.

Hippoland

The first time I ever tried to fundraise, I was completely clueless. My team had built a highly technical product that allowed consumers to co-browse with each other, but we had no customers / users. A lot of investors turned me down, but I didn’t even realize it, because they were not clear in their rejections. Investors would tell me: “Oh this is a very interesting product.

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Why Starting A Business In The Farming Industry May Be Right For You

YoungUpstarts

“EIEIO” is the sound that Old McDonald made when he saw his balance sheet for January. Everybody knows that farming is not the most lucrative job in the world, or even Nebraska. So there have to be reasons to get into the business besides wanting to join the Bill Gates club. That said, there are ways to prepare for your January cash flow problems in advance.

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5 Reasons Your Employees Quit? (And How To Make Them Stay)

YFS Magazine

Every business has employee turnover. No matter how great a leader you are or how big a priority you place on company culture, employee perks and pay, people quit. That’s life. However.

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Running With The CEO

Feld Thoughts

I’m a solo runner. While I regularly get asked to go on runs with other people, I almost always decline, as one of my great joys is to run alone. There is one exception – I love to run with CEOs and founders of companies. There are some great stories about the outcomes from these, like my runs with TA McCann that resulted in our investment in Gist.

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Clouds on the horizon

The Equity Kicker

Through much of last year there was talk of a bubble in venture capital, particularly in late stage investments. Valuations were stretched, both on a fundamentals basis and compared with the public markets, and there were even whispers of a ‘new paradigm’ for valuing companies now that businesses can expand around the world so fast. It was inevitable that the heat was going to come out of the market at some point and my hope was that it would come out sooner rather than later, and th

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7 Tips To Beat The Obstacles In Your Head And Create Winning Habits

YoungUpstarts

By Dr. Jason Selk, author of “ Organize Tomorrow Today “ You’re tired of feeling tired and facing yourself in the mirror. Inspired by a workshop you attended on the benefits of fitness, you’ve decided to start a new workout routine. In the parlance of habit creation, the workshop was a “triggering incident”; it got you started. Now you’re ready to develop the habits that will keep you on track.

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Are You Using the Best eCommerce Platform for Your Business?

Up and Running

The world of eCommerce is growing every year. A whopping 45 percent of American consumers were projected to shop online this past holiday season. With this type of growth, the toolset online sellers have at their disposal is expanding every day. From selling products on Amazon to installing simple WordPress plugins, anyone can set up an online shop.

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Top 5 Accounting Tips For New Business Owners??

YFS Magazine

Accounting is an unavoidable part of self-employment. It is not only a mandatory requirement by the taxman, but can also help you control your business’ finances.

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