Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Not so long ago, every business assumed that the keys to success were the highest quality product, the best value for the buck, and the best customer service. Now all we hear about is providing the best “customer experience.” Exactly what is that customer experience that every modern marketer is talking about, and how do you measure it? A classic article in the Harvard Business Review “ The Truth About Customer Experience ” defines it as your customer’s end-to-end journey with you, not just the

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2017

by Isaac Kohen, founder and CEO of Teramind. Isn’t it absolutely overwhelming? You’re doing 20 things at once trying to keep your business going. With everything it takes to get your business off the ground, or maintain it, keeping track of cybersecurity can be tough. Thanks to cloud computing and SaaS/PaaS business models, cybersecurity is much more accessible to small and medium businesses (SMBs).

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YFS Magazine

JULY 29, 2017

Driving traffic to your website isn't enough if those visitors don't convert into customers. Here are four smart ways to boost website conversions.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 4, 2017

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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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. startup ecosystem for many decades. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. But this is becoming less true today, as more and more entrepreneurs find their way across the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2017

by Jay DesMarteau, head of small business and government banking distribution for TD Bank. Every industry faces a few slower months during some period of the year, but these times present an opportunity to make sure finances are in order and plan for the future, a task that might not cross the minds of many entrepreneurs during the harried daily grind.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 31, 2017

Stress seems to be one of those things we just cannot seem to avoid as adults. Whether it is a past due bill, an argument with the spouse, or a boss that simply will not cut you some slack, there seem to be stressful situations everywhere you turn. While it would be nice to say that the solution is to simply remove all of the things from your life that cause you any stress, that is not realistic.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. startup ecosystem for many decades. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. But this is becoming less true today, as more and more entrepreneurs find their way across the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2017

Managing a business is hard work. It can be frustrating and stressful when things are not going as you had planned. When figuring out how to run your business, make sure everything you do saves you time or money and helps the business grow. Whether you run the business and work on your own, or manage other people, these tips can help you figure out how to let go of the stress and run your business more effectively.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

There are many different biometric modalities but biometric matching always works the same way. First a person must be enrolled  — the biometric is collected and source documents are reviewed to create a biometric identity. For matching, the person will present that biometric to a sensor and the stored record is compared to the one that has been collected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2017

Every business I know is intimately familiar with outbound marketing, or pushing your message out to customers through email, newspaper, and television advertising. Only a few really understand the process and value of inbound marketing, for pulling customers to your brand. In my experience, it’s the fastest way to create trust and authenticity in this age of the consumer.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 31, 2017

Early in my career, I was indoctrinated with a Cardinal Rule of User Interface: A user interface should minimize surprise. Have you always hated tabs inside dialog boxes? Understandable, but users know how they work, so you have to use them. If you put a scrollbar instead, half your users will never realize that scrolling is possible. For example, this dialog is ridiculous but it’s still clear how to use it: Is the default system drop-down list not exactly right for your purposes?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2017

by Chris Byers, CEO of Formstack. According to ServiceNow’s 2017 State of Work study , nine out of ten skilled employees spend too much time on administrative duties. Odds are, that includes you. These numbers include business leaders, who spend as much as two full workdays each week on routine, manual tasks like spreadsheet updates and email. In a world of technology and innovation, something’s gotta give — and soon.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Everyone is naturally biased, but when hiring and promoting people, we want to avoid our bias to eliminate discriminatory actions. In 2016, an article from the Harvard Business Review reported the following: “When sociologist Lauren Rivera interviewed bankers, lawyers, and consultants, they reported that they commonly looked for someone like themselves in interviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2017

When you are starting a business with an exciting new idea, it’s easy to dismiss potential competitors as not being in the same space, or too fat, dumb, and happy to be concerned that you even exist. I hear it all the time as an angel investor, but I also see that same naïve or cavalier attitude come back to haunt entrepreneurs once they really get out in the marketplace.

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The Next Web

JULY 30, 2017

During the seven years I’ve lived in Latin America, I’ve encountered countless examples of misogyny. I originally came to Buenos Aires as part of a fellowship through Princeton in Latin America. My task was to set up a SAT prep course, but I had never done business in the region, never even set up my own business, barely spoke Spanish, so I failed miserably.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2017

by Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend. Data is the new battleground. For companies, the situation is clear – their future depends on how quickly and efficiently they can turn data into accurate insights. This challenge has put immense pressure on CIOs to not only manage ever-growing data volumes, sources, and types, but to also support more and more data users as well as new and increasingly complex use cases.

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YFS Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2017

Are you ready to dive into SEO, but unsure where to start? Here's a helpful quick start SEO guide that includes the basics you need to know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2017

One of the first harsh realities that every entrepreneur has to learn is that most of the things that are critical to startup success are outside of their direct control. Just because you dream it and build it, doesn’t mean they will come – that encompasses not only customers, but also investors, partners, team members, and even your own family. They won’t come if they don’t trust you.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 3, 2017

The EU’s upcoming Copyright Reform threatens to strangle platform businesses by siding with rightholders and large corporations over users. “This is a dysfunctional proposal. It’s bordering on the absurd as to why it would be proposed on an EU level,” Raegan MacDonald, Senior Policy Manager and EU Principal at Mozilla, told TNW. Mozilla is strongly opposed to the measures and is actively fighting the reform in its Copyright Campaign.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2017

by Brian Buffini, author of “ The Emigrant Edge: How to Make It Big in America “ When I was a young man, I believed that I could achieve both the financial freedom I wanted and the fullness of life I craved in harmony with each other. Despite my best intentions, however, as my business grew there were too many evenings I came home late for dinner, too many afternoons spent negotiating on a cell phone at my kids’ soccer games, and too many hours being preoccupied or exhausted when I c

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 3, 2017

This is the last in a series of posts summarizing our speakers’ insights from the Data-driven Marketplace Meetup in May. You can check out previous posts summarizing talks from Bala Ganapathy on pulling levers to reach supply-demand equilibrium and from Jamie Davidson on Winning with Data. . Every company wants to be data-driven. But what exactly does this mean, or more importantly, how does a small start-up with limited resources go about creating the infrastructure and expertise needed to b

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YFS Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2017

Do you meet the most pressing marketing mandate of today: deliver the right content, right customer, right time? If not, here's how.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 4, 2017

It was only a matter of time before hip-hop would find its way to rapping about getting rich off digital money, after all, it’s being called gold 2.0: It might not be as easy to wear around your neck, but it’s just as easy to buy and sell in a pinch. Faberyayo and Abel, two Dutch rappers who recently caught the crypto fever, put their mouths where their digital money is.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2017

Entrepreneurship can be a tough challenge to tackle. Along with the challenge can come many hardships and setbacks, but any successful entrepreneur knows that these tough times pale in comparison to the feeling of working for yourself and even growing a business. Most successful entrepreneurs today started out by just growing their own services into small businesses when they were young.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2017

While there’s a certain cachet that comes with being able to say you raised a round of funding for your startup, realize that it’s a lot of hard work to actually secure venture capital (VC) funding , and there are reasons you might not want to. To know which businesses might be a good fit for VC funding or not, venture capitalist Josh Linkner provides this guideline: 10 times minimum return within 10 years.

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YFS Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2017

Although remote work offers a competitive advantage for companies to attract top talent, it is still a challenge for businesses to manage remote employees.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 1, 2017

Imagine somebody asked you to write on a piece of paper the things you love doing. If what came to mind was “partying, hanging out with friends, going to the beach, meeting new people, traveling,” you might ready to go on vacation or spring break. If on the other hand, you wrote “learning, making decisions, listening, risk, selling, working hard and building something from nothing,” you might be ready to be an entrepreneur.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2017

Starting a new business is often an overwhelming experience. Whether you are a foundling entrepreneur, or this is one of many businesses which you have now begun developing, the foundational processes can be the most difficult to get through. Many Helping Hands. With all of the hefty communication which must be carried out, you may consider a search for top call center outsourcing companies.

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Small Business Force

JULY 29, 2017

Building a business is always about acquiring customers and driving revenue. And that’s about selling - creating and delivering value. Many entrepreneurs believe their products are so good they sell themselves and all they need to do is present them and then send a proposal and the sale is theirs! Over the years, having run and advised dozens of companies, I’ve seen every manner of a sales force and sales process, and that rarely was ever the case.

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YFS Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2017

Small businesses with big ambitions need resources. Luckily, we live in a service economy and we've seen a rise in professional service outsourcing.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2017

Creativity is a term thrown about the workplace all too often. It bounces off the walls, flying over the heads of employees, and often fizzles out in a corner, without always having made the desired impact. It’s no wonder then, many employees switch off as soon as they hear the word. 80 percent of people feel pressured to be productive rather than creative at work and most people don’t even believe that they are creative in the first place.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2017

by Scott Wintrip, author of “ High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant “ There’s a shortage of skilled workers across all industries in the country. You’ve likely experienced this skills shortage impact within your own organization, usually in the form of empty desks and jobs remaining unfulfilled for weeks or months at a time.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

I embarked on a 30 day blogging challenge to restore my childlike curiosity for writing (more about it here ). Please sign up to my newsletter to receive the latest updates. This is day nine. Today I’d like to cover Intelligent Assistants. Perhaps this is cheating a bit, because it’s a post I originally published on Medium on June 22nd.

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YFS Magazine

JULY 31, 2017

Failing isn’t just an abstract possibility—it can really happen, and it’s painful. I wondered if I was I really cut out to run my own business.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2017

There is no question we are in a period of profound change. Very soon, seven billion people will be seamlessly connected to each other and all of humanity’s accumulated knowledge. We’ll be permanently and invisibly connected to an internet that is an ever-present fabric in our lives, surrounded by a cloud of data that knows our every preference and habit.

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