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How to Found a Startup in a New Industry

View from Seed

Most startups’ founding mythologies are full of the same phrases : “hard work,” “agile strategy,” “smart scaling.” But one of the most undervalued and elusive factors is timing. As they say, timing is everything. Arrive to the market too soon and there’s no demand for the product. Arrive too late and you’re light years behind your competitors.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

Change agents inside a corporation or government agency know how to build consensus and be a rebel at work. They are attuned to finding colleagues who think like they do. And they can figure out how to get new ideas adopted within their organization’s culture and framework. And oh by, the way my two guests did it while at the CIA. How to be a rebel at work was the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing week

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When Do You Really Need A Software Patent?

YFS Magazine

In the end, your business’s individual expertise and knowledge of your industry are what makes your product valuable — and that cannot be copied.

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15 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.

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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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Why Twitter will die if we keep saying it

Start Up Blog

I’ve been thinking a lot about twitter lately based on the many articles written forecasting its demise. I really hope they’re wrong, but I think they might be right. The main reason I think it will die, is because so many people are saying it. The same people who espoused it’s virtues when it arrived in 2007, are now nostalgic about a time when twitter really, really mattered.

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How To Communicate A/B Test Results To Stakeholders

ConversionXL

Data should speak for itself, but it doesn’t. After all, humans are involved, too – and we mess things up. See, while data may be pure, humans are riddled with cognitive biases, dissonance, and egos. We hold positions that may be contingent on a certain way of working. Our ideas are fragile under the scrutiny of empiricism. That’s why the hardest work in optimization doesn’t have anything to do with the statistics, the ideation, the research, or the implementation – it has to do with

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Entrepreneur Guru Focuses on the Value of Communication

Hearpreneur

There is no rule which states that an entrepreneur needs to be the most extroverted person in the room. There has been a long line of entrepreneurs who prefer to be behind the scenes, working on the guts of their business, making sure their ship continues to run the right course. No matter how shy, how quiet, and even how introverted you are, there is one thing an entrepreneur does have to hold a command over – communication.

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The State of NYC Seed: Startup Trends & VC Data [REPORT]

View from Seed

At NextView, we’ve never been higher on NYC tech. Today, we’re excited to launch the State of NYC Seed — a comprehensive report on the ecosystem, authored by our own Tim Devane. Since joining NextView, we’ve talked often and excitedly about the New York startup ecosystem. With many seed investments locally already, everyone on the team has had a window into how entrepreneurship in the city has evolved over this current cycle.

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3 Steps to Set up eCommerce Tracking in Google Analytics

Duct Tape Marketing

3 Steps to Set up eCommerce Tracking in Google Analytics written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: technource. To all the eCommerce store owners, if you haven’t set up eCommerce tracking in Google Analytics then you are not taking your online business seriously. I think that you all have heard the word “eCommerce Tracking” but don’t have an exact idea what it is and how it is beneficial for business.

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Super Tech Waste Bowl

deal architect

Nearly half of next Sunday’s Super Bowl 50 Host Committee's 18 primary sponsors are tech companies — Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Intuit, SAP, Seagate, Yahoo and Verizon. Lots of corporate parties expected to be hosted by tech companies in.

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8 Reasons To Incorporate Your New Company Early

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs are so focused on finalizing their innovative product or service that they procrastinate on the formalities of forming the requisite new company until later. Unfortunately, waiting until later will dramatically increase the risk of losing ownership of the solution they worked so hard to complete in addition to personal and family assets.

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To Gain Traction, Some Entrepreneurs Think Content-First, Not Product-First [Traction #18: Joe Pulizzi]

View from Seed

When looking back at the seed stage of their companies, lots of guests on Traction will cite the same regret: “I wish I started content marketing sooner.” Today, we talk to the man who coined the term, Joe Pulizzi, founder of the Content Marketing Institute, an education and training organization serving thousands of customers and millions of readers a year.

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How To Turn A Struggling Business Around

YoungUpstarts

Owning and running a small or start-up business can be daunting, to say the least. After all, with so much to learn on the job, so many plans to put in place, and day-to-day operations to keep track of, it’s little wonder that so many people end up working every hour that they’re awake. While such an approach can pay off it also pays to step back and relax every now and again, because if a crisis should ever hit they must be prepared with every faculty that they possess.

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SAP: Help me help you

deal architect

Shaun Snapp writes “It is now common to hear about "HANA fatigue." For four years just about every SAP conference has been distinctly HANA flavored. One of my clients told me of her experience of at one SAP conference where.

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10 Creativity Barriers To Overcome In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Successful entrepreneurs are the ones who think the most creatively, not only in their initial product or service, but more importantly all through the stages of growth from startup to maturity. But even the best of them can easily slip into some bad decision habits that limit or hurt their business, due to natural human tendencies and the pressures of business challenges.

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10 Amazing Books On Blogging You Must Read

Brandanew

It’s new month and time to make it count. If you’re running a corporate blog or are a pro-blogger, it’s a great idea to start thinking about how you can improve and create stronger impact. If you’re wondering where to start, this post enables you to find books on blogging you must read to take your efforts up several notches.

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3 Techniques To Help You Switch Industries

YoungUpstarts

by David Schwartz, founder and president of The Water Scrooge. Not long ago, I became fascinated with Israeli water conservation techniques. I knew the green industry was the next big thing, and I was excited to make my mark. Unfortunately, I had a serious problem: I worked in the jewelry business. I probably knew less about water conservation processes than the average person at the bus stop.

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Japan: Man-Machine extremes

deal architect

As part of my book research on automation and impact on jobs, I have been studying Japanese society. As Anthony Bourdain once said “Rigorously conventional on one hand, batshit crazy party animals on the other, Japan will always confuse outsiders.

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8 Essential Attributes of a Successful Mindset

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s easy to declare yourself an entrepreneur, but it’s not so easy to convince investors, your team and customers that you are that special one to fund and follow. If you don’t consistently display the right entrepreneur mindset traits, people won’t follow and business success will likely elude you. And don’t even think you can fake the important attributes once the going gets tough.

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The Right Time + The Right Team + The Right Technology

Eric Friedman

I have been working with a number of early stage teams going through various stages of fundraising and using this diagram to help explain my thoughts on some of the questions they will come up against. This is certainly not all inclusive, but it helps me outline the key points that I think must be overcome by an early stage team to convince an outside party to invest their capital in their company.

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A Dozen Ways To Avoid Getting Abandoned At The Register

YoungUpstarts

By Josh Hatfield, Senior Manager, Digital & Cloud Sales at Hostway Services, Inc. According to a 2015 Business Insider report, about $4 trillion of purchases are abandoned annually in online shopping carts , and that number is only increasing. Many e-commerce sites experience abandonment rates between 60 and 75 percent, according to the Baymard Institute – in addition to a website bounce rate in the vicinity of 30 percent – but why are 3 out of every 4 or 5 customers failing to complete th

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Executive Hires: The Case for Extreme Referencing

For Entrepreneurs

Hiring a strong executive management team is one of the most proven ways to ensure startup success. Yet, hiring executives is a very different undertaking than hiring for other roles in your company and requires a different process, skill-set, and time commitment. There are three reasons for this: First, the stakes are higher. The right.

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10 Tactics To Reduce Your Startup Success Timeline

Startup Professionals Musings

Businesses always seem to take longer to succeed than an entrepreneur expects. Seth Godin once said that overnight success in startups takes about six years, and Seth is an optimist. Thus we all look for shortcuts. Execution shortcuts would be hidden strategies to achieve the endgame sooner, without losing 40 to 60 percent of the financial potential along the way.

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Computer Science For All

Feld Thoughts

This morning, President Obama and the White House made an awesome announcement of a new initiative called Computer Science for All. The goal is to empower a generation of American students with the computer science skills they need to thrive in a digital economy. NCWIT (where I’m the chair of the board) is deeply involved in this. Rather than try to recreate Lucy Sanders (the CEO of NCWIT’s) message to the extended NCWIT community, I’m just republishing it below.

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5 Ways To Take Startup Pressures Off Your Shoulders

YoungUpstarts

Running a startup is never the simplest job around. There are so many stresses and pressures to deal with. So, here are five top techniques that will help to take some of those pressure off your shoulders. 1. Limit Expectations. If you have set your expectations too high, you simply put extra pressure on yourself to achieve. This is not always such a bad thing.

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Monthly Roundup: How Can You Get Ahead In Content Marketing?

Brandanew

It’s been a while since I wrote the last monthly round up , and frankly it hardly feels like we’re already in the second month of a very new year! I’ve honestly had no time to think through how time has been flying! The good news is that after having met many of our clients working on Content Marketing, my mind is buzzing with the new possibilities and also the challenges that 2016 is set for.

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7 Steps to Master the Art of Persuasion

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs are so passionate about their new startup idea that they can’t believe any intelligent being, investor or customer wouldn’t react just as excitedly after a quick introduction. They don’t realize that they can often kill their credibility -- and future opportunities -- by communicating only with passion, responding with a cynical comment or giving up too soon.

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How to Drastically Improve Your Content in 20 Minutes or Less!

Rembrandt Communications

5 Simple Steps to Sales-Copy Success You are a small-business owner with a non-existent, content-marketing budget. This means you write all of your sales materials and hope for the best. Well, don’t despair! Even though you can’t hire a professional copywriter or content strategist right now, that doesn’t mean you can’t steal a few of […]. The post How to Drastically Improve Your Content in 20 Minutes or Less!

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Why Pursuing An Alternative Career Is Better For Achieving Financial Freedom

YoungUpstarts

by Paul Scolardi, CEO of Super Trades LLC. There are so many young people today who are looking for careers that can help them make money and have the financially stable life they have always wanted. There is nothing wrong with dreaming big and wanting to find a career that can help you make money. However, there are so many people that want to achieve this level of financial freedom, but who aren’t following the right path to do so.

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30 Small Business Ideas (for When You Don’t Know What Business to Start)

Up and Running

Maybe you’re ready for a career change. Maybe you’re still unsure what career to pursue in the first place. Maybe all you really know is that you want to run your own business, but are fresh out of small business ideas. While looking at the booming industries year by year can be tempting, it’s also a good idea to look to your strengths. What is your skill set?

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The mother of all Turing tests

The Equity Kicker

Microsoft have had an artificially intelligent chatbot running on WeChat for the last eighteen months. The bot is called Xiavoice and she’s had over ten billion conversations, most of them about private matters. Over six million of those conversations were posted on social media by the human on the other side. Those are huge numbers, and yes, you read them right.

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Introducing The Dial Telephone

Feld Thoughts

If you are over 80 years old, you experienced the transition from the non-dial telephone to the dial telephone, which included the magic “finger stop.” If you are 30, imagine what you will be reflecting on 50 years from now. The post Introducing The Dial Telephone appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Top 3 Security Takeaways From 2015

YoungUpstarts

by Bill Carey , Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at Siber Systems Inc. . With the holidays firmly in the rearview mirror and 2016 now fully underway, business leaders are taking stock of the year just passed and adjusting strategies for the coming months. One priority for many businesses is strengthening their information security posture.

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Highlighting Risks in Your Business Plan Will Help You Get Funding

Up and Running

Maybe not quite this much risk. One of the areas constantly dismissed by business owners in their business plan is an articulation of the risks in the business. This either suggests you don’t believe there to be any risks in your business (not true), or are intentionally avoiding disclosing them. Either way, it is not the best start to have with a potential funding partner.

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The two places startups find customers online

The Equity Kicker

Google and Facebook accounted for about 55% of the global internet ad market in 2015, worth over $150bn pic.twitter.com/fPuyWjhd5F. — Ian Maude (@IanMaude) February 2, 2016. Facebook and Google are the two tech companies that are flying right now and the chart above explains why. Everyone else is watching their share price go south because they are struggling for growth but these two have nailed internet advertising, dominating and growing the market.

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Is History A Guide In Business?

Feld Thoughts

I was at a fascinating dinner with a bunch of founders and investors last night. Until I was 35, I was often the youngest guy in the room. While this was a seasoned crowd, much of the experience – both around creating companies and funding companies – started around the mid-2000s. As someone who has been doing this since the late 1980s (I started my first company in 1987) I definitely felt like one of the old guys in the room.

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