YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

by Steve Hartert, Chief Marketing Officer at JotForm. Payment forms are e-commerce’s most necessary evil. You know that shoppers don’t enjoy filling out the name, address, and payment boxes ad nauseum. At the same time, you’re probably not sure how many fields are too many, or how your conversion rates stack up against other e-commerce companies. At what point does a shopper look at a form and say, “This inflatable dinosaur Halloween costume isn’t worth it,” and is the problem actually your paym

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

In today’s world, managing a business has become an arduous task. With the advent of the internet and cloud technology, many businesses have opted to keep their business online. In order to organize their things online, there is a growing requirement for apps as well as software among the businesses. These apps help the businesses to increase their productivity by improving the operational efficiency of the business owner as well his employees.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

by Mark Latham, Product and Innovation Director of Handepay . The Government recently announced that retailers will be banned from charging fees for credit or debit card payments from January 2018. This comes as Visa revealed that it now takes all contactless transactions online as of last month. Let’s examine what these considerable changes to card payments could mean for the UK’s independent businesses.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Persuasive writing skills are among the few things in life that can give you massive returns. If you want to know how you can become better at writing persuasively, keep reading. I have analyzed examples of masterful copy, and identified the 3 core elements they all have in common. They are: What you say. How you say it. How you structure it. We’ll go through these one-by-one and define what you can do to ace them all, and get your reader to take the desired action.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

With the Christmas season fast-approaching, busy shoppers are on the streets and Internet shopping sites look for deals, presents and ways to soak up the festivities. Being a big family-oriented holiday, households like to make it that extra bit special which is no surprise that Christmas spending in the UK exceeded £77 billion last year. We take a closer look at some consumer borrowing trends during this busy season.

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OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

A couple of months ago, I was doing an internal lunch & learn for senior managers, and the topic came up as to “how do our VC firms work?” In the spirit of deeply understanding our customers’ businesses in order to better serve them, I thought the same would be true of our investors and Board members – that educating our team on the inner workings and economics of our investors would lead to greater empathy of one of our other key stakeholders.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The third edition of Venture Deals is now available on Audible. It’s the unabridged version read by me and my partner/co-author Jason Mendelson with guest appearances by Matt Blumberg. We’ve been getting requests for an unabridged audio version of Venture Deals since we first came out with the book in 2012. We like to think that it has now aged like a good wine.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

This is the third in a series of articles in The Startup Magazine discussing side businesses and some great advice on side business income opportunities. The featured book, Side Hustle: Build a side business and make extra money – without quitting your day job , is a great side business resource. We had the chance to get some additional insights directly with the Side Hustle author, Chris Guillebeau.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

7 Ways to PR your Personal Brand on a Budget written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. A personal brand is an essential business tool today. We work online, shop online, socialize online. Our profiles exist across a plethora of channels and each one is an opportunity to promote a professional and approachable brand. The idea of personal branding has become synonymous with online marketing in particular; as a way for smaller businesses and entrepreneurs to quickly grow their brands

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Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

I don’t want you to be me. you should just be you. —Chance The Rapper, “ Wanna Be Cool “ In 1993, the professional basketball player Charles Barkley famously said: “I am not a role model.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

We asked Austin entrepreneurs about business ideas and local resources. They answered. For our next BBQ, we’re raising the *steaks*. In late September, I was told by our office neighbors that there was a way to skip the line at Franklin’s BBQ — you know, the place that shut down Kanye for trying to cut ahead. As it turned out, Franklin’s did have an option for those who could think ahead: the pre-order.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Invisible Influences that Surround Us written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jonah Berger. Most of us believe we are in charge of the decisions we make throughout each day. To some extent we certainly are, but many of the decisions we make – what to wear, what to eat, what to buy, what to say – are driven by forces at the subconscious level.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

We all want to make a change, and something that helps enormously when a company is looking to implement behaviour change for their audience is narrative. A storyline. If your message is paired with a storyline that is compelling, relevant, engaging and believable (or even better, true), you’re more likely to hook someone and entice them towards a new behaviour; a potential behaviour change.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

…and Frequently Asked Questions Courtesy of Capital Metro One of the easiest ways to purchase a Single Ride or Day Pass is with cash upon entering the bus, but you can also purchase either of those passes, along with the other passes online. Both digital and paper passes are available for online purchase. You can also purchase a paper pass at places like H-E-B, Randall’s, or other local grocery stores.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

As a partnership evolves, you begin to formulate some basic rules and philosophies (whether formally or informally) to help guide long-term and short-term decision-making. It has been over four years since I’ve joined Version One, and just like any company, Boris and I need to continually take a step back and ask ourselves why we do what we do. It’s essential that our firm, our investors, our portfolio companies and our greater network are all aligned.

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