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What You Could Learn from @John About Teens and Social Media

Both Sides of the Table

When most people think of John Shahidi two words come to mind. Bieber & Mayweather. Yes, that Bieber (67 million Twitter followers, 73 million on FB) & that Mayweather (6.4 million Twitter followers, 12 million on FB). The reason being – John Shahidi counts both as investors and friends. So. You’re probably thinking, “slick talking, super confident, tall, extroverted, arrogant, LA kinda dude.” You’d be dead wrong.

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10 Strategies To Minimize The Perils Of A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

There is an old saying that good lawyers run away from risk, while good businessmen run towards risk. Entrepreneurs see “no risk” as meaning “no reward.” In reality, all risks are not the same. Many risks can be managed or calculated to improve growth or provide a competitive edge, while others, like skipping quality checks to save money, are recipes for failure.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 2: Anand Sanwal and Chris Shipley

Steve Blank

Starting up requires both passion and a willingness to learn from mistakes, and gender balanced teams outperform imbalanced teams. Those were the messages from the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Anand Sanwal , co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ; and Chris Shipley , executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, joined me in the studio to discuss the day-to-day chaos of building a company.

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10 Awesome Social Media Facts You Need To Know NOW

Brandanew

Social networks never fail to surprise us. After the initial upheaval, we have now settled down with a few networks that have survived the battle and emerged with their own dedicated user bases. But even then we often come across a lot of interesting factoids that makes us wonder what exactly is going on. Today we bring you ten such fun factoids that will surprise, amuse as well as educate you. 1.

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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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Here’s Why We Fell in Love with Draft

Both Sides of the Table

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video.

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9 Lessons For Entrepreneurs From A Sales Expert

Startup Professionals Musings

Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe that a great idea alone will assure business success. Experts argue that it’s more important to have a great plan, and personal business acumen. Hardly anyone mentions selling principles. Yet in this age when customers have a thousand alternatives, and are overwhelmed by a multitude of messages, sales efforts can make or break a business.

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17 Entrepreneurs Celebrate Summer Business Accomplishments

Hearpreneur

Summer is over. While many were going on vacations and traveling, business was still being completed for many entrepreneurs and business owners. The time flew by and as school starts, the weather changes and the temperature drops, we decided to connect with entrepreneurs and business owners to see how their summers went and what were some of their accomplishments.

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Overcoming Obstacles to Hike Mt. Kilimanjaro

SiliconHills

In 2012, Ian Warshak, a software developer in San Antonio, came down with what he thought was a cold. But within a few days he got really sick with a bacterial infection in his lungs. The infection spread and led to septic shock. He was put on life support and put into an induced coma […] The post Overcoming Obstacles to Hike Mt. Kilimanjaro appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

When I meet with executives from large corporations, they’re often worried. And they should be; the feeding frenzy in the innovation economy is in some cases because startups are eating the lunch of more established companies. To quote a friend, if you’re an executive at an established company, your job is to blow on the ice cube to delay its melting as long as possible.

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Twitter Link Roundup #286 – Ideas for Small Business, Startups, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

A bicycle-riding robot? What other wonders could the world yet hold? Why if we can get a small machine to balance and adjust its center of gravity like this little fella, how long can it be until those flying cars finally go on the market? Well, I’m not holding my breath, but it does give me some hope that technology may save us after all. Or at least give us some modest entertainment.

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Building Relationships with your Leads

Duct Tape Marketing

Building Relationships with your Leads written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: 500 interns – NASA poster session via photopin (license). You’ve invested time and energy in social media, content marketing, you’ve created a call to action that’s been generating leads, and your email list of contacts is growing.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

The following interview by Steven Loeb was published in Vator.tv on 5 September 2015 and is reproduced below in its entirety. There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or not. What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big.

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8 Secrets To Credible Startup Financial Projections

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs often ask me why investors expect financial projections for a new startup even before the product is built and while the market is still being defined. I tell them that the projection process and results are most important for you the founder, to evaluate if there really is a business that can be built from the idea. You shouldn’t invest in an undefined business.

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Why You Should Take A Holiday

YoungUpstarts

by Ian Cowley, managing director of www.cartridgesave.co.uk. When you have a business to run and employees to manage, the very idea of taking a holiday seems ludicrous. However, having that time away from the office can give you a valuable sense of perspective. Don’t be fooled into thinking that leading by example means chaining yourself to your desk.

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Building Relationships with your Leads

Duct Tape Marketing

Building Relationships with your Leads written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: 500 interns – NASA poster session via photopin (license). You’ve invested time and energy in social media, content marketing, you’ve created a call to action that’s been generating leads, and your email list of contacts is growing. Now how do you generate sales from your current leads and expand your reach to attract new leads?

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3 SlideShares That Define The Future Of Marketing

Brandanew

As marketers we are always up-to-date with what’s trending in the industry – or at least try to be! But more often than not we hit a dead end when it comes to explaining what these trends are. Today, I’ll share three slideshares that define the future of marketing, so that YOU don’t have to struggle! Long gone are those days when you could fill up your website with product and services specifics along with a price range.

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8 Ways Entrepreneurs Benefit From the New Networking

Startup Professionals Musings

Successful entrepreneurs like Tony Hsieh of Zappos and Chris McCormick of L.L.Bean have long realized that networking is no longer something that you do to get what you want, but requires listening and relationship building to do what the other party wants, with a win-win outcome. We now live in a world where even subtle persuasion efforts are suspect, so it’s a bad idea to go into a networking situation thinking you’re going to talk somebody into doing your bidding.

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Top 3 Reasons To Use Event Marketing To Drive Growth

YoungUpstarts

by Tim Raybould, CEO at Ticketleap. To grow your business, you’ll need to develop relationships with new customers and form stronger ties with your existing client base. Effective marketing initiatives are designed with this purpose in mind. They help you reach out to prospects and customers with a personalized message that resonates with the target audience.

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Building Relationships with your Leads

Duct Tape Marketing

Building Relationships with your Leads written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: 500 interns – NASA poster session via photopin (license). You’ve invested time and energy in social media, content marketing, you’ve created a call to action that’s been generating leads, and your email list of contacts is growing. Now how do you generate sales from your current leads and expand your reach to attract new leads?

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Unicorpse

Feld Thoughts

The current usage of the word unicorn makes me tired. I could rant about it for a while, but that would make me tired of myself ranting about it. Instead, I’d like to focus on a word that appeared a month ago by Aileen Lee in Welcome To The Unicorn Club, 2015: Learning From Billion-Dollar Companies. That word is unicorpse. From section #6 in Aileen’s post: “Given how much capital our private companies have raised in the past few years, most likely have cash to fund 2-4+ more

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5 Branding Guidelines That You Must Always Follow

Brandanew

Branding a Startup is often seen as an art- your golden touch rather than an exact science. That’s why many still struggle with a clear definition. With so many industries, segments and sentiments attached to your Startup and small business brands , it may also be difficult to formulate generalized rules on how to to build a remarkable brand.

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[Infographic] The State Of Our Smartphones (Singapore)

YoungUpstarts

The mobile phone is today an indispensable part of our lives, the one on-the-go device that keeps us connected at all times. But the problem is that these rather fragile devices can get damaged easily. A study on smartphone protection habits by OtterBox – which sought to understand how the habits of 2,500 smartphone owners over the age of 18 years from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore lead to phone damage, and examine how they are protecting their devices – revealed that on

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Nine common things that start-up founders tend to underestimate or overestimate

Version One Ventures

When you’re in the midst of building a company, it’s hard to fully assess the significance of various activities and decisions- particularly for first-time entrepreneurs who don’t yet have the wisdom learned from prior mistakes. As an investor (who was also once a first-time entrepreneur), I have noticed several key areas where founders either overestimate or underestimate the value to their company.

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Desirable growth from a startup: AirBnB case study

The Equity Kicker

The chart above shows the number of guests AirBnB has hosted each summer for the last five years. It was on Techcrunch this morning. It’s an amazing chart. AirBnB has delivered on the proverbial hockey stick growth that I imagine they had in their pitch deck back in 2010. They’ve lived the dream. We can draw lessons for this for new startups.

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5 Hacks To Pitching A PR Story That Actually Works!

Brandanew

Highlighting your USPs , the latest achievements and jotting down the points of future growth – the conventional approach to giving your PR story a structure. But how often does this kind of a story become the reason for your growth? You got it published on a popular platform, you even got an experienced writer to frame the story, you boosted on some of the social networks as well – so, what went wrong?

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5 Reasons To Use Your Personal Credit Card For Business Expenses

YoungUpstarts

Most people have the notion that one’s business and personal lives should be entirely separate, and in many cases this is true. The ability to manage a personal life away from a business one can be vital to one’s sanity. However, if you’re the owner of a business or hope to start one in the near future that separation can be nonexistent. This is especially true when it comes to the capital that is needed to either start or maintain a business.

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Awesome Near Term Sci-Fi – David Walton

Feld Thoughts

My idea of a really good afternoon on a three day weekend is to lay on the couch and read a book. Other than a nap in the middle of the experience, that’s what I did today. I read the Supersymmetry by David Walton. It’s the sequel to Superposition , which I read earlier this year. They are both excellent near term sci-fi in the action/adventure save the world while learning physics genre.

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Passion is European startups’ secret weapon and they ace it

The Next Web

I wrote the other day that a (relatively) hidden key to a successful startup scene is loyalty. This time I want to talk about the ‘secret sauce’ of events: soul. The bigger an event gets the greater the risk becomes that it loses its soul. Le Web is on hiatus right now. That’s for two reasons, in my not so humble opinion: 1. It had its legs swept away by other events that moved faster, and 2.

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5 Important Reasons Why You Should Set Business Goals

YFS Magazine

Here are five important reasons why it is important for business owners to set goals, and tips on how to make those goals work for your business.

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How To Build The Credit Rating Of A New Company

YoungUpstarts

Establishing the business credit of a new company can be extremely difficult. After all, without a credit history, credit report, and credit score, lenders and creditors will be less likely to be willing to give you the funding you need or the access to the credit that you require to do business daily. Therefore, taking steps from the launch of your company to establish a positive credit rating is imperative.

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Mentors 12/18: Know What You Don’t Know. Say I Don’t Know When You Don’t Know

Feld Thoughts

Techstars Boulder Demo Day is this week. It always marks the true end of summer for me and it’s a reminder that I stalled out on my Techstars Mentor Manifesto series of blog posts. The last one I wrote was #11: Clearly Commit To Mentor Or Do Not. Either Is Fine. It’s an important life rule – either commit or don’t commit – but choose!

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Worried your job might disappear? This taxi driver isn’t.

Start Up Blog

I spend my fair share of time in taxis and Ubers in order to get the the airport. One of the topics I find interesting is to ask the drivers what they think about changes in the taxi / private driver industry. Sometimes I ask them, but I’m also finding they bring up the topic before I do. So here is the tale of 3 drivers in the same industry. Driver 1 – A taxi driver.

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Are You Press Ready? Do’s And Don’ts For On-Camera Attire

YFS Magazine

Are you ready for your next media interview or press photo shoot? Here's a look at five do's and don'ts to keep in mind before you step in front of the camera.

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Preventing Overload At Work

YoungUpstarts

by Juliet Funt, founder of WhiteSpace at Work. Is your company sacrificing you to the false god of busyness? Is your day filled with an endless barrage of meetings, emails and presentation revisions? Do you arrive at work tense and stressed – dreading and anticipating an avalanche of urgent requests and directives? Do you have time to truly think… and really get anything done?

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Favor Names New CEO

SiliconHills

NeighborFavor, which operates Favor, Wednesday announced Jag Bath as its new Chief Executive Officer and President. The Austin-based startup has been expanding quickly and recently entered the Canadian market. Bath has served on Favor’s board since May. Bath previously worked as senior vice president of product at RetailMeNot, an Austin-based coupon retailing site.

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Space Matters: Unveiling The Kennel

K9 Ventures

In April 2014, in the post Making Moves , I wrote about K9’s impending move to a new space and outlined my reasons for leaving downtown Palo Alto. I loved being in downtown Palo Alto, but it was simply becoming too expensive to be able to consider staying there long term. I deliberated for a long time before ultimately pulling the trigger on the move.