YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2017

You qualify the buyer, bond, and interview him or her about pain points first. Let’s pretend you sell a web-based conference bridge (something many of us have experienced). They’re not overly concerned about how you’ll do it. They’re not overly concerned about how you’ll do it. Doves need reassurance and comfort.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

In fact, I found that if they didn’t like something about our business model, they usually didn’t say anything. They were vague, polite, and just never called us back. However, we do know that only about nine percent of entrepreneurs in venture capital backed technology startups are women. Never make anything up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2017

Steelman does a good job of outlining the key selling steps that separate great sales people from the rest of us. Be passionate about what you are selling, and get the latest tools you need to work more productively and manage your workflow from anywhere. Engage graciously.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2017

Once you have a name picked out, you need to decide where to park your site and which host to use. As you compare hosting companies, you need to think about factors like the amount of space allowed, the total cost and ease of use. Sell the Site.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

How about a nice bonus or reward offered by management for a project completed ahead of time? A corporate outing to just about anywhere offers team members an opportunity to socialize with their peers on a totally different level. Let’s face it. We can work for years alongside a partner and never even know where they live!

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 7, 2017

We’ve already written about why a good Board can be of help to even a seed stage venture , but now a few years into Homebrew, there’s an interesting side effect — you get to a five person Board faster, which eases the addition of an outside Director. So, I think this is suboptimal and handicaps the founders.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 11, 2017

But for me the books were about more than these two key takeaways, they were also an amusingly written philosophy of life and a celebration of avoiding the herd mentality and thinking differently. There’s a problem, however, which is that sometimes when we miss trains it makes us late, and it’s rude to be late.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 13, 2017

If you’d like to learn more about how Betterteam can help you find great employees , check us out. Go low tech—use sticky note reminders. Eleven years later, I work remotely as a content marketer for Betterteam, which requires me to be online constantly, and often on social media. But don’t let me distract you with that!

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 10, 2017

We allow anything and everything to distract us. Find what you care about, that’s where to focus. About ability, about confidence, about talent, project selection, etc. To borrow from Toole… you need a Confederacy of Creative Effectiveness. When it comes to Creative Effectiveness, we can all be dunces.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 12, 2017

Bonus tip : One of the best ways to grow a list is to spend 3 days telling everyone you know about what you do and a link to your opt-in. Lori Kennedy, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Strategic Business Coach and Founder, THE WELLNESS BUSINESS HUB Learn more about Lori and the Wellness Business Hub here: [link]. Show up everyday.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 12, 2017

Bonus tip : One of the best ways to grow a list is to spend 3 days telling everyone you know about what you do and a link to your opt-in. Lori Kennedy, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Strategic Business Coach and Founder, THE WELLNESS BUSINESS HUB Learn more about Lori and the Wellness Business Hub here: [link]. Show up everyday.

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 13, 2017

I think of myself as someone who often knows exactly what to say in most situations without even having to think about it—it’s something that comes naturally to me. These failed conversations are often the most important ones that I need to be having and need to be straightforward about. Why it’s so hard to say what you mean.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 12, 2017

Bonus tip : One of the best ways to grow a list is to spend 3 days telling everyone you know about what you do and a link to your opt-in. Lori Kennedy, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Strategic Business Coach and Founder, THE WELLNESS BUSINESS HUB Learn more about Lori and the Wellness Business Hub here: [link]. Show up everyday.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2017

Much like animals in the wild, our habits cause us to behave in instinctive ways, often overriding the knowledge that we should act otherwise. If you would like to use my Daily Planner template, you can download it below – no sign-up required. Habits are a powerful force of human nature – for good or for bad. My Daily Rituals.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 12, 2017

User feedback in hand, you cut some bits, add a few others, and move ahead without worrying too much about it. That cost us $60k worth of runway (we were spending $20k/month at the time). The ones I’m talking about are the ones that are extremely preventable. You over-engineered some parts and missed the mark on others.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2017

We hear complaints from ‘older’ people (including individuals born in close proximity to my own birth year) about how the ‘younger’ generation has been raised to believe that everything they do is wonderful, ribbons are handed out simply for showing up, and no one has to experience negative consequences anymore. No rocket science here, right?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 12, 2017

If you are game to donate, please give us a hand. If you are curious about the matching funds, they are coming from the following list of people. The campaign is now shooting to raise enough money to Launch Gaza’s First Coding Academy. There are two days left in the campaign and are currently at $210,000 of a $270,000 goal.

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entrepreMusings

JANUARY 7, 2017

Plus some pretty good comedy and music about all of the above! Here’s to us all getting better at playing the crazy cards life deals us as well as continuing to learn & grow from the harrowing, yet joyful game of life. Bring it on 2017…but please use wise and kind judgement when doing so!

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entrepreMusings

JANUARY 7, 2017

Plus some pretty good comedy and music about all of the above! Here’s to us all getting better at playing the crazy cards life deals us as well as continuing to learn & grow from the harrowing, yet joyful game of life. Bring it on 2017…but please use wise and kind judgement when doing so!

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