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Start With an Initial Assessment

Up and Running

Get all your ducks in a row with an initial assessment of your business opportunity. This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Start your business planning with a quick assessment. Even an established business should take the time to step away from daily operations and look at the basics.

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Nobody Reads Powerpoints

Babbling VC

Bear with me as many generalisations are to follow. . . via GIPHY. "Nobody reads Powerpoints anyway!" I heard this from a business acquaintance recently and was initially taken aback by that comment. The brunt of what I have done over the past twenty years in business has involved Powerpoints (or more recently Google sheets but you know what I mean.

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5 Market Obstacles That Kill Even Compelling Products

Startup Professionals Musings

Even when your new product or solution fills a real customer need, and has a positive value proposition, many new venture founders are surprised and frustrated to find that excited customers are hard to find and growth is slow. Thus, as an advisor to many startups, without being negative, I often spend hours with them brainstorming on all the possible barriers that may slow adoption rates, and how to plan or modify the business model to work around these obstacles.

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Google Ads Changes Affecting Small Businesses

Duct Tape Marketing

Google Ads Changes Affecting Small Businesses written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on Changes to Google Ads. Google has recently made some drastic changes to their ads program—starting with a name change, from Google AdWords to Google Ads. Some of the changes are technical, like tweaks to the interface.

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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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3 Things Every Entrepreneur Must Do Before Starting An LLC

YoungUpstarts

by Dustin Ray of Incfile. Maybe you woke up one day and decided to start a business on a whim. Or maybe you sat long and hard, mulling over your business idea in your head for years before finally taking action. Maybe you fell into becoming an entrepreneur by accident. However you got here, you did it for a reason. And if you haven’t already, you will soon experience the many (many!

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Unintended Consequences of the Upcoming Drone Apocolypse

Feld Thoughts

On Monday, I wrote a post titled Look Up and Don’t Give Up that included the 2:48-second video of a mama bear and her cub struggling across a steep cliff covered with snow. 20+ million people have also looked at it and, I expect, found inspiration from it as I did. I didn’t think very hard about this until this morning when I read The Atlantic article titled The Problem Behind a Viral Video of a Persistent Baby Bear: What appears to be a life-affirming triumph is really a cautionary tal

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Texas Health Catalyst at UT Austin Showcases Early-Stage Projects at its Demo Day

SiliconHills

The Texas Health Catalyst held its Demo Day Tuesday afternoon with 13 early-stage ventures showcasing their new projects. “These are really, really early innovations,” said Nishi Viswanathan, director, Texas Health Catalyst at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. They are still figuring out if they clinically viable projects, she said.

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Ways To Give Your Blog Better Visibility

YoungUpstarts

Businesses shouldn’t look at blogging as an afterthought. For one, your business blog allows for better branding and recognition. Aside from that, the content you publish through it is valuable along the lines of thought leadership. Generally, a blog is more than just a great way to educate your audience. It also helps find customers and generate sales.

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VC Joe Lonsdale Tells UT Austin Students Not to Start a Company

SiliconHills

Don’t start a company, Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir Technologies and 8VC, told a couple hundred University of Texas at Austin students. “I think in general it is very rare students end up founding very big companies, there are some exceptions,” Lonsdale said in a response to a question about how to support student founders. […]. The post VC Joe Lonsdale Tells UT Austin Students Not to Start a Company appeared first on SiliconHills.

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A Startup Strategy: How To Acquire New Customers

YoungUpstarts

There are numerous marketing strategies to choose from to help grow your budding company. Yet, not every tactic you embark on might be the best option for your company and its budget. That’s why you must undertake promotional strategies that will help you to acquire new customers throughout the year effectively. If you want to increase your customer base in 2018 and beyond, read the following informative tips on how to acquire new customers.

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For Small Business, Does the Election Matter?

Growthink Blog

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Women On Site: Essential Things To Know About Workers’ Compensation

YoungUpstarts

In the past decade, the number of women entering the workforce in traditionally male-held occupations has increased by nearly 30%. Women are working as skilled trade laborers, becoming police officers and firefighters, and can be found just about anywhere around a construction site. It is important that all employees, men and women, are taught the same rights and regulations regarding Workers’ Compensation.

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Best Practices for Making Your Product Stand Out

Transformify

When you're selling a product that you may believe in, you likely want to attract customers and boost sales. However, gaining a competitive advantage is always a challenge. If you're going to make your product stand out in a crowded market, there are a few main tips to follow. Create Unique Ads. The ads that are used to market your product will determine if customers are interested in what you're selling and if they'll consider buying the item.

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How to Cultivate a Female-Friendly Cannabis Brand

crowdSPRING Blog

With recreational cannabis use legal in nine states (and soon a 10th, Michigan), the District of Columbia, and in Canada, the cannabis industry is steadily growing. But to grow even more quickly, cannabis firms will need to push their branding and advertising to reach beyond the core demographic of stoners and hippies. There’s a huge opportunity for cannabis firms to more effectively market to women.