Up and Running

JANUARY 10, 2018

When you look back over this year, how happy are you with your business’s performance? Are you patting yourself on the back, having nailed every goal? Smiling as you look over your long list of milestones achieved? Resting on your laurels? If the answer is no, then you’re like many business owners who struggled to hit their business targets. You know exactly what you want—a bigger business, larger per-customer sales, more leads, higher profits—but you struggle to meet your goals.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2018

by Ryan Gould, Vice President of Strategy and Marketing Services at Elevation Marketing. As an entrepreneur, when you started your business, you most likely had dreams of rocket-speed growth and a multi-million dollar exit to a huge conglomerate, like Google or Facebook or Amazon. You nailed the first part — lightning-fast growth — but you’re struggling on the profitable exit.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2018

A global accelerator program is taking applications from any startup offering innovative solutions to multiple product and service challenges. Drive with Belron, powered by investor and innovation partner L Marks, is back, launching a ten-week startup accelerator running from April to July 2018. Belron and L Marks will make available a total fund of £200,000/$270,000 to invest in winning startups.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2018

by Basil Elotol, founder and CEO of Triphop. Long checkout lines, sold out hotel rooms and redeeming unused travel points before they expire, are all too common for business travelers during the holiday season. In fact, the holiday season can bring so much stress, that according to the results of a recent survey conducted by Accountemps, 35 percent of the nation feels more work related-pressure this time of the year.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2018

Transcript of How to Apply the Principles of Aikido to Entrepreneurship written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Michael Veltri. He is a keynote speaker, serial entrepreneurial, leadership expert, and author of the book “ The Mushin Way to Peak Performance: The Path to Productivity, Balance, and Success.” I might also add be

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

“Look, I’m incredibly thankful for this industry. It made me a millionaire.” The person seated across the table from me went through a series of facial microexpressions as I said this — surprise, disgust, analysis and finally, calm. We don’t really talk about money in Silicon Valley. At least not in public in a personal way with near strangers.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2018

How well do you know your audience? The better you know your customer, the easier it is to implement a successful marketing strategy and connect directly.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2018

When it comes to having and running a business, it is quite difficult to do so since there are many tasks that will have to be done that require a wide range of attributes and skill sets. Also, it is extremely important to have good financial management and you will need to hire an experienced and qualified accountant. This is one of the most important hires you will have to make as the owner of a small business.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2018

At some point in your life as an entrepreneur, you’ll need a business plan. In fact, any time you need to raise outside funding, you’ll need to present a plan for investors or lenders.??.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2018

The amount of work that goes into a job at a growing startup is insane. As soon as you put one project to bed, three more pop up. However, the most difficult aspect of the work isn't necessarily the effort required, but the emotions, with fear perhaps being the greatest one of all. When you're part of a small team, you're indispensable. You are literally doing three jobs at once--three jobs that should probably be done by two people each.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 10, 2018

“I’ll do it tomorrow,” and variations of that excuse echo through the minds of entrepreneurs everywhere. It’s a form of procrastination that often goes undetected, delaying success and preventing us from developing productive habits. We just started 2018 and already our inboxes, newsfeeds, and brains are flooded with resolution posts. Such posts promise us a better version of ourselves, tomorrow, ignoring what made us stuck, today.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2018

The blogosphere has transformed entrepreneurship. Twenty years ago there were precious few resources available for founders and most either had to find an advisor who had done it before or rely on trial and error. That increased the power of the network effects at the heart of startup hubs where it was easier to find those conversations – especially Silicon Valley.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 10, 2018

Customers may fall in love with your product, but product packaging often provides the first touchpoint between your customer and your product. Investing in good packaging design (the packaging for your product) and package graphics design (the graphics/content on the product packaging) is critical to your company’s success. As a product’s first impression, packaging has to fulfill the “three W’s of good packaging design”: What is this?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 10, 2018

Handcrafting Community The concept of S.L.O.W. Tech came out of my experience creating Community Renaissance Market (CRM) , a community-based micro-incubator in a former grocery store in South Austin. Back in 2010, I watched an interview with the editor of the Austin Business Journal in which he dismissed the value of the CRM concept as ‘low tech’ and, therefore, not important to the future of Austin as it was envisioned by the people with money & power.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

Each business has a story. No matter if the business is a Goliath like Wal-Mart, or a local business owned by a couple or family, the business has roots in an idea. For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each and brand.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 10, 2018

Did you catch the end of the Alabama-Georgia College Football Championship game on Monday? It was incredible (unless, of course, you’re a Georgia fan). The game provided an awesome wisdom for business executives and entrepreneurs seeking to progress their organizations from good to championship caliber. Alabama, the betting favorite, fell behind early, and then at halftime benched their starting quarterback for 18 year old freshman Tua Tagovailoa , who made himself an Alabama and schoolyard lege

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

Social media and the need to rank higher on search engines continues to grow in importance with U.S. residents loving their social platforms more each day. So why aren’t citizens of other countries as enamored? For instance, in India, none of the current platforms attract more than 34% of the population (which is 2 nd highest in the world). The answer is simple – India’s social platforms aren’t really built for anyone outside of the U.S. or those who may settle in the U.S. after living ab

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 10, 2018

My goal in 2018 is to blog every weekday of the year. For those that are interested in creating a blog or wondering what my process is, I thought I’d share: What do I write about. I think one of the keys to blogging is writing about things that you’re interested in. If you’re writing for someone else, for an audience that doesn’t share your common interests, then you’re likely not going to keep up with it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2018

How to Apply the Principles of Aikido to Entrepreneurship written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Michael Veltri. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Michael Veltri. He is a keynote speaker, serial entrepreneur, leadership expert, and the author of the book, The Mushin Way to Peak Performance.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 10, 2018

My partners and I just announced that our long-time friend and LP – Jamey Sperans – has joined Foundry Group. We’ve been working with Jamey since the beginning of Foundry Group in 2007 (he was one of our first LPs via Morgan Stanley AIP) and have become extremely close friends. Jamey and his family have moved to Boulder, so in addition to working with us, he’ll become a part of the extended Boulder/Denver startup community.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 10, 2018

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield, Keith Burnett, writes in the Times Higher Education that China will take a dominant position in higher education. He appears to be making this statement based on pure size, scale, holding now place for academic practices and campus norms in national systems of higher education. He makes valid points in some cases (china is now the 4th most popular destination for overseas students!).

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