Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years. He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 30, 2017
One of the most common complaints I hear from new business owners and startups is about the pain and difficulty raising capital. The “venture capital” model is the only option they know, where they feel they get no mercy, giving up equity and control. Based on my experience with startups, I’m a strong believer that there are far better alternatives available, if you think outside the box.
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 31, 2017
by Robbie Kellman Baxter, author of “ The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue “ In today’s competitive market, customer engagement (or lack thereof) could determine whether your company sinks or swims. Due to recent changes in consumer behaviors, wants, and needs, businesses must find better ways to connect with and delight their existing customers.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 30, 2017
This article is part of our “ Business Startup Guide ”—a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! People often ask us for a list of steps they can use to start their own business. From business type to business model to physical location, there are so many variables! However, there are things that every business needs to do to get off the ground.
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
The Startup Magazine
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
In today’s world, managing a business has become an arduous task. With the advent of the internet and cloud technology, many businesses have opted to keep their business online. In order to organize their things online, there is a growing requirement for apps as well as software among the businesses. These apps help the businesses to increase their productivity by improving the operational efficiency of the business owner as well his employees.
Austin Startup
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Fantastic Team Members and Where to Find Them A light-bulb flashes above your head with a fantastic idea that’ll be revolutionary. You’re keen to monetize. Hold those horses, because before anything else, finding your top-notch starting crew takes precedence. Now, who’s part of that dream team? Any founding business requires at least two key figures: One who knows the business, the Entrepreneur; and the Architect who puts ideas into motion.
Start Up Roar brings together the best content for start up professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose. Podcast Transcript. Most of the success stories in business marketing circles these days involve product and service companies thinking and acting like media companies. My guests for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast are Joe Pulizzi, founder of Content Marketing Institute, and Robert Rose, Chief Strategy Advisor of Conten
deal architect
OCTOBER 28, 2017
They come in threes, don’t they? In the last week, I have read three pieces which have my hype antenna buzzing about Salesforce IDC in an annual study commissioned by Salesforce says the ecosystem of customers and partners will drive.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 28, 2017
Throughout my career in small companies and large, I’ve always been appalled by the number of people who have a negative attitude or complain all of the time. These people don’t seem to realize that they are hurting themselves, as well as other people’s productivity, and jeopardize the future of the company they are working for. I’ve always thought that I might be overly sensitive, until I saw an article about a leadership survey done a few years ago by badbossoloy.com, which claims that many em
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
by Steve Hartert, Chief Marketing Officer at JotForm. Payment forms are e-commerce’s most necessary evil. You know that shoppers don’t enjoy filling out the name, address, and payment boxes ad nauseum. At the same time, you’re probably not sure how many fields are too many, or how your conversion rates stack up against other e-commerce companies. At what point does a shopper look at a form and say, “This inflatable dinosaur Halloween costume isn’t worth it,” and is the problem actually your paym
Duct Tape Marketing
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: I have seen the future of marketing, and it is killing me. Well, no. That’s not really true, but in this episode of The Duct Tape Marketing podcast I do speak with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose, authors of Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses are Turning Marketing Costs into Profit.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Plex has a neat publication for the new world of Advanced Manufacturing (see many examples in the resurgence that Greenville, SC is showing as a factory town) and where we are seeing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Plex calls it Connected.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Ideas are a dime a dozen, but the inspiration to drive a great business is a lot harder to find. As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I often get asked for next sure-fire idea. I have to tell them that anyone can find ideas, but only you as a person can find the passion to transform one into a successful business. That’s why investors talk about investing in the jockey, not the horse.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 30, 2017
by Joe Edgar, CEO of TenantCloud. The tortoise and the hare is a great bedtime story, but also proffers some advice to every young business owner and entrepreneur alike. The egotistical rabbit takes on a race of which they consider themselves to be the best and take no mind of their opponent. The CEO of Blockbuster, John Antioco, said in 2000, “Redbox and Netflix aren’t even on the radar.”.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 28, 2017
Unless you have been living in an underground bunker for the last five years, you must have caught a whiff of the legal marijuana industry booming in the 29 US states where consumption has been decriminalized. Marijuana retail sales across the US accounted to $6.5 billion in 2016, and are predicted to grow to $30 billion by 2021. As more and more states have loosened legislation — or gone full whack and decriminalized for personal use like in Colorado, Washington, and Vermont — the industry surr
deal architect
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
My blogs, now 12+ years old, my 6 books and much of my consulting in those years have cataloged and celebrated cloud computing, renewable energy and digital transformations. I have been a big booster of each, but think we are.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Some people are not cut out to be entrepreneurs. This is a good thing, or the business world would be chaos, with everyone trying to do their own thing. So what about you? How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built for you? I’ve hit this before, but I still hear from too many unhappy entrepreneurs.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
by Mark Latham, Product and Innovation Director of Handepay . The Government recently announced that retailers will be banned from charging fees for credit or debit card payments from January 2018. This comes as Visa revealed that it now takes all contactless transactions online as of last month. Let’s examine what these considerable changes to card payments could mean for the UK’s independent businesses.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 29, 2017
As the general manager of Europe for a global marketplace serving startups, entrepreneurs and freelance designers from around the world, I often find myself in debate over which city will be seen as the new business hub of the EU. With the UK on the brink of “Brexit,” few tech insiders see London continuing to hold its top position. In its place, it seems that Berlin’s “Silicon Allee” will emerge as the EU’s future tech center.
deal architect
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
My blogs, now 12+ years old, my 6 books and much of my consulting in those years have cataloged and celebrated cloud computing, renewable energy and digital transformations. I have been a big booster of each, but think we are.
For Entrepreneurs
OCTOBER 31, 2017
We recently released Part 1 results of our private SaaS company survey in partnership with KBCM Technology Group (formerly Pacific Crest Securities). This is the sixth annual survey we’ve produced together, which provides data to help SaaS companies benchmark their performance against their competition. In Part 1, we covered growth rates, go-to-market trends, operational aspects, and cost structure.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
The introduction of online banking has greatly simplified a lot of our banking chores. Paying bills or sending money has never been so easy. This begs the question about the relevancy of paper checks. Why are people still using checks? Well, checks may not be able to match the swiftness and convenience of internet banking; it does however come with its own set of advantages.
YFS Magazine
OCTOBER 30, 2017
I’ve had to get comfortable and learn how to ask for what I want – because it's rarely given. This is how you earn a seat at the table.
ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
Persuasive writing skills are among the few things in life that can give you massive returns. If you want to know how you can become better at writing persuasively, keep reading. I have analyzed examples of masterful copy, and identified the 3 core elements they all have in common. They are: What you say. How you say it. How you structure it. We’ll go through these one-by-one and define what you can do to ace them all, and get your reader to take the desired action.
For Entrepreneurs
OCTOBER 31, 2017
The third annual forEntrepreneurs SaaS Survey Infographic shares top highlights from this year’s SaaS Survey results! You can find the full 2017 survey results here: Part 1 shares growth rates, go-to-market trends and cost structure Part 2 covers application delivery methods, operational costs, gross margins, contract terms, churn rates, capital requirements and accounting methods.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 29, 2017
by Jane Bernard, author of “ Lucid Living: in The Virtual Age “ Americans have experienced tense times lately as Mother Nature unleashed her fury with a series of hurricanes that pummeled Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Meanwhile, wildfires ravaged California and the Northwest U.S. Anyone living through these disasters certainly felt stressed, and to a lesser degree so did millions of others who saw news reports updated constantly on their laptops or phones.
OnlyOnce
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
A couple of months ago, I was doing an internal lunch & learn for senior managers, and the topic came up as to “how do our VC firms work?” In the spirit of deeply understanding our customers’ businesses in order to better serve them, I thought the same would be true of our investors and Board members – that educating our team on the inner workings and economics of our investors would lead to greater empathy of one of our other key stakeholders.
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Top talent is hard to attract and even harder to keep. If you want to bring high-caliber employees to your organization, follow these five tips.
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 2, 2017
Rent your first office with caution. . Several years ago, I became involved with a Southeast Asian company looking to expand into the United States. During the discussions with the CEO about hiring North American managers, he made it clear that he wanted us to find a first-class office facility from which to start the search process, and proceeded to name cities that attracted him.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. Your brand should be like a fingerprint – completely unique and associated with your business only. Everything about your brand, from your business name to your logo to your web design, should support and communicate your brand’s unique identity. So why on earth would you consider using stock art or stock images to represent your brand?
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
The Nature Conservancy and Techstars just announced a partnership to create the Techstars Sustainability Accelerator. Amy and I were part of the public announcement this week in Denver. Both organizations are important to us so it’s a joy to be involved in having them work together. Amy and I have been supporters of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) since we started our relationship in 1990.
YFS Magazine
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Launching an app can feel like a huge risk, but doing your research and finding a great app development team to work with can produce amazing results.
David Cohen
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
I was on a panel at FounderCon last week with Noah Pittard from Cooley and Service Provider Capital. Something Noah said on that panel was so insightful that it really stuck with me. Someone asked about the types of founders we want to invest in and the types of people we want to surround ourselves with, and the conversation meandered until we were talking about the concept of integrity.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
by Soulaima Gourani , founder and CEO of Tradeconductor. Are you or your company going into strategic partnerships with other people or companies? Do you see the benefits of entering into a partnership in order to reap the numerous benefits without having to make large investments, such as in acquisitions? A strategic partnership, requires at least two individuals willing to share the burdens and benefits of their business.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Amy and I are financially supporting a new movie about mental health, depression, and suicide called The Weight of Gold. Jeremy Bloom (Olympic skier, pro-football player, CEO of Integrate, and awesome human) introduced me to the creator of the film Brett Rapkin. THE WEIGHT OF GOLD / Sizzle Reel from Podium Pictures on Vimeo. While the focus of the storytelling is around Olympic athletes, it highlights a challenge that one in five Americans struggles with.
YFS Magazine
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Pay close attention to on-page SEO. If your website is not optimized then SEO performance (and sales) will suffer.
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