YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 31, 2017
If you’ve started your own business, you’re no doubt aware that creating a website is a must in today’s increasingly digital economy. Yet, at best you may not know where to start, and at worst technology may even intimidate you. The good news is, this process doesn’t have to be as difficult as you imagine, due to recent changes in how websites are created.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 31, 2017
At this point in time, the field is flooded with solutions. Finding a proper A/B testing tool isn’t the problem anymore. Now, the problem is choosing the right one. If you work in conversion optimization – whether at an agency, in-house, or as a consultant – you almost certainly run A/B tests. Though you could hire someone full time to sift through and analyze the pros and cons of each tool, it’s easier to learn from the experience of others and make a decision based on that.
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Up and Running
AUGUST 30, 2017
Working out a business plan for your daycare center can be a challenge. There are many expenses you must calculate—more than you’d think! Projected enrollment growth and market demand can also be tricky to estimate. From knowing your competition to picking the right place to establish your daycare center, there are a lot of lessons to be learned. As someone who owns eight successful daycares in the Chicago area, I know the strategies and approaches that work when it comes to developing a sound b
Berkonomics
AUGUST 31, 2017
Time bankruptcy results from the deliberate over-commitment of core resources. Close. You’d know the symptoms, if not the name. You’re fighting to put out the fires from customer complaints, or incomplete work, or are suffering from an inability to focus upon new development or new customers before cleaning up the mess inside your organization. I created the term “time bankruptcy” almost thirty years ago when the computer software business was young, and I was a software developer building a yo
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
AUGUST 30, 2017
If you have a website, then content improvement should be one of your primary goals as a way to increase visitors. Although there are many different actions you can take to gain search engine recognition, content creation is the one with the most staying power. It makes sense, too – after all, other ranking methods may get people to the page; but only good content can actually make them stay on it.
VC Adventure
AUGUST 31, 2017
If you read my blog regularly you know I love (LOVE) metrics. So no surprise that when River Cities Capital released an overview of SaaS operating and valuation benchmarks, I hung on every juicy detail. It’s chocked full of them – I’d highly recommend your reading the full report. But if you’re too busy for that, below are some of the key take-aways.
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View from Seed
AUGUST 30, 2017
If a man from 1987 stepped into a time machine and emerged in 2017, he would find the modern world fantastically different in many ways. Mobile computing means that he has the world’s information and entertainment at his literal fingertips. The cars on the road may be familiar to him, but now, he can also magically hail a car on-demand or pay ludicrously low prices to get from place to place by sharing rides with one or two other passengers.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 27, 2017
by Jeff Pederson, Kroll Ontrack. When starting a new business, it is wise to develop a response plan in the event that you lose your company’s data. Functioning a business without critical data not only delays operations, but can stall potential revenue. With no established IT department readily at hand, small businesses will attempt to recover their own data.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 26, 2017
As the economy flourishes after some tough economic times, more and more people seem to be turning to entrepreneurship as an alternative to traditional employment. I applaud this trend, but caution all of you thinking this direction to approach entrepreneurship with your eyes wide open. It is not for everyone, as the entrepreneur’s path is fraught with challenges.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 29, 2017
Climb the Value Pyramid. You can’t ignore the Value Pyramid. Photo by Stacy Wyss on Unsplash. The title isn’t clickbait: a study of hundreds of companies concluded that you can improve profits by more than 11% through a 1% improvement in pricing. (Yes. Pricing.) We’ll get to the data in a second, but first we need to get something straight: pricing is the biggest problem you’re currently ignoring.
Small Business Force
AUGUST 27, 2017
Selling, especially for technology products always looks way easier than it actually is. Many entrepreneurs make the mistake of believing that their products are so good, they, literally, sell themselves. Not even close. In fact, three key elements have to be in sync for your sales to succeed – the right product, the right sales team, and the right sales process. "I coached good; They played bad." I’ve sat on the boards of more than a dozen companies.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 26, 2017
You probably already know how crucial it is for you to choose the best web host for your website’s success; you do have to determine the things that you should consider when choosing the right one for your needs. While there are several factors that should be taken into consideration when choosing a web host, here are 5 of the most important ones. For more points of consideration, MangoMatter has a decent page on website hosting for India.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 28, 2017
Advice is cheap. As a new business owner, you don’t have to take any advice you hear, but failing to listen and learn from someone’s prior experience can cost you a fortune. As a long-time mentor and business advisor, I find it ironic that many look only to friends for advice. They forget that friends tell you what you want to hear, while good mentors tell you what you need to hear.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 26, 2017
On a balmy August morning last week, community and tech leaders populated a long conference room table at Capital Factory and listened to Mayor Adler passionately articulate the Downtown Puzzle which includes the expansion of the Austin Convention Center. I had previously breezed by headlines in the Statesman , the Business Journal and Community Impact and admittedly filed it in my “learn more later” folder, not being able to quickly discern whether this was or was not a positive move for Austin
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 29, 2017
Top workplace complaints: 1) The way things are 2) Change. — Andrew Annett (@akannett) June 1, 2015. This plays out in many important ways: Customers demand an improved UX , but they don’t want to learn a new UX. Team members want consistency but don’t want policies. Developers want to be more efficient but don’t want to change how they work.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 29, 2017
by Sharon Schweitzer, author of “ Access to Asia: Your Multicultural Guide to Building Trust, Inspiring Respect, and Creating Long-Lasting Business Relationships “. Once integrated into the professional business world, email becomes second nature. Communications are synthesized through these messages and it can be quite repetitive. The constant emailing causes some to become less formal in their communications, and it is easy to commit electronic etiquette snafus.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 27, 2017
Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their employees can and do deliver memorable experiences to their customers. The result, according to an often-quoted Gallup survey , is 70 percent of workers not fully engaged, and poor customer experiences.
The Next Web
AUGUST 26, 2017
In entrepreneurship, female founders are still few and far between. However, they certainly are on the rise. According to a study done by Kaufman, female entrepreneurship saw the biggest increase in the past 20 years. Every month, 260 out of every 100,000 women choose to pursue their dream of becoming an entrepreneur. In addition, a report by the American Express State of Women 2016 stated that four out of every 10 new entrepreneurs are women.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 28, 2017
Note: my blog has moved to www.seeingbothsides.com. Also, check out www.jeffbussgang.com to see my new book, Entering StartUpLand, which ships on October 10th. Goldman Sachs and CB Insights recently reported that startups have raised over $1 billion in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) this summer — more than the total amount of venture capital raised during the same period.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
Are you a company owner that is looking to host an event to launch a new product or service? Have you been tasked by your employer to set up an event to host all the best speakers on a particular subject? There is no doubt that holding such an event takes a lot of organization and hard work. It isn’t just the logistics of where you will hold the event, it is also trying to arrange the speakers and any catering that will be laid on for the day.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 30, 2017
In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders.
The Next Web
AUGUST 26, 2017
For every startup founder with a dream of building a business and scaling to infinity, there seems to be an organization promising to help make it happen. In virtually every major city in the world, a growing number of business accelerators and incubators are trying to replicate the successes of the organizations behind many of Silicon Valley’s so-called “tech unicorns.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 28, 2017
Note: my blog has moved to www.seeingbothsides.com. Also, check out www.jeffbussgang.com to see my new book, Entering StartUpLand, which ships on October 10th. Goldman Sachs and CB Insights recently reported that startups have raised over $1 billion in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) this summer — more than the total amount of venture capital raised during the same period.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 30, 2017
by Les Trachtman, author of “ Don’t F**k It Up: How Founders and Their Successors Can Avoid the Clichés That Inhibit Growth “ Money. There is lots of it available in the market. VCs and PEs have more capital than they are capable of managing well. Valuations are always astronomical for other companies (i.e., not yours). Angel capital usually comes from people who have too much time on their hands and like to put their noses in places in which they have no expertise.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
For a few, delegating comes easily, maybe too easy. For others who are perfectionists, letting go of even the most trivial task is almost impossible. If you are in this second category, you probably don’t like the references behind your back that you are a “control freak” or a “micro-manager.” London business school professor John Hunt notes that only 30 percent of managers think they can delegate well, and of those, only one in three is considered a good delegator by his or her subordinates.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 28, 2017
Adam Grant has a superb essay in the New York Times this weekend titled Networking is Overrated. I enjoy Adam’s writing immensely (his book Give and Take is a huge inspiration for my upcoming book #GiveFirst). Early in the essay, he has a strong lead in. “It’s true that networking can help you accomplish great things. But this obscures the opposite truth: Accomplishing great things helps you develop a network.” He finishes the essay with a great punch line. “If you make g
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 30, 2017
Written by Misti Yang, Contributor for Lean Startup Co. In the opening paragraphs of Eric Ries’s upcoming book The Startup Way , Eric sets the scene: He arrived at GE in the summer of 2012 amidst a multi-hundred-million-dollar, five-year plan to develop a new diesel and natural gas engine. He knew next to nothing about the engine but a good bit about entrepreneurial management, and GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt and Vice Chair Beth Comstock thought the insights he’d developed in The Lean Sta
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 27, 2017
by Tricia Hussung. Entrepreneurship enables business professionals to work on their own terms and create impactful, solution-based products and services. However, entrepreneurs face many decisions that can determine whether or not their business is sustainable in the long term. Deciding on a new business or startup’s structure is one of the most critical decisions an entrepreneur will make.
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 29, 2017
The struggle to maintain an entrepreneurial spirit is something every founder struggles with throughout the lifetime of their business.
The Next Web
AUGUST 29, 2017
With Amazon Web Services Technical Certification Training ($39, 86 percent off from TNW Deals), you’ll have the skills to go from newbie to pro on every facet of using the AWS platform.
Rembrandt Communications
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
Discover content marketing strategy, SEO , B2B copywriting, and PR tips here from Melanie Rembrandt. Does Your Current Content Boost Sales to the Max or are you Missing Opportunities? You write content including blogs, social media posts, newsletters, emails, and more each month. You know that it’s important. But… you are not seeing results from all of this work.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 29, 2017
by Terri R. Kurtzberg and Jennifer L. Gibbs, co-authors of “ Distracted: Staying Connected without Losing Focus “ As an entrepreneur, you will likely end up with two completely different jobs. One is to produce or offer something that the world values and thus create a line of revenue. But in addition, you also hope to end up in the position of having to manage other people, and thus will need to set the tone for a company as it grows and thrives, to decide what rules and behaviors w
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2017
When you love what you do, it seems like you wouldn’t want to step away from it. However, if you don’t take a break, you will burn out.
Mike Michalowicz
AUGUST 30, 2017
There are two main reasons why most entrepreneurs (and I used to) spend more than they should on things they really don’t need: 1. It’s human nature to spend what you have. Whether you’ve got $1,000 or $100,000, you will find a way to spend all of it unless you automatically deduct a percentage of your revenue as soon as you receive it. We have a false perception that what is, today, will also be tomorrow (or even be better).
Up and Running
AUGUST 29, 2017
When you’re just trying to get your business off the ground, having fun isn’t always a top priority. You’re more focused on your business plan , go-to-market strategy, financials, and—perhaps most importantly—time management. But your business will mirror your attitude, and if you are out of gas, customers will sense it. When you add more fun to your day, research has shown you become more productive.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 30, 2017
by Clate Mask, CEO of Infusionsoft. So you started a company, but does that make you a marketing expert? Probably not. If you’re like many small businesses, you have a love-hate relationship with marketing. There is nothing more important than finding and keeping customers, but you’d rather be delivering great service than creating your next Facebook ad campaign.
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