Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2019

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on. These can trip up even the best, often at the cost of more than a good night’s sleep.

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SiliconHills

JULY 20, 2019

By LAURA LOREK, Publisher of Silicon Hills News HOUSTON – The astronauts get all the glory, but hundreds of thousands of people worked behind the scenes to put the first men on the Moon. “It took around 400,000 people to land humankind on the Moon from engineers to computer programmers to the people who sewed […]. The post The RocketStar Engineers Behind the Apollo 11 Mission appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 20, 2019

While this hasn’t happened to any of our portfolio CEOs in a while, there’s one reason for a VC passing on a funding round that just sets me off: “I wanted to do the deal but couldn’t convince my partners.” This isn’t an explanation, it’s an excuse. Photo by Andre Guerra on Unsplash. If you are a check-writing partner at a venture fund and you offer up this sentence to a startup CEO it means one of three things: a) You blew the process by not enrollin

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 20, 2019

Weekend Favs July 20 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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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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ConversionXL

JULY 20, 2019

As an ecommerce site, you likely send emails regularly. Black Friday emails, Valentine’s Day emails, BOGO emails, confirmation emails , thank you emails, reminder emails…the list is endless. Are you getting real results or simply opens and clicks ? Are you promoting the right products to the right people at the right time? Generating revenue via email marketing requires strategy.

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