Fri.Jul 20, 2018

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Why You Should Consider Renaming Your Business (And How To Do It Right)

YoungUpstarts

by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. A great business name identifies your business, tells your customers and prospects something meaningful about your brand , and helps to differentiate your business from your competition. But what should you do if the name you’ve been using for your business isn’t effective at accomplishing those goals? Here are 4 reasons to consider renaming your business… and 7 tips to help you pull it off successfully. #1 Trademark Issues.

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Promote Your Startup with the Right Marketing Agency

The Startup Magazine

If you need to hire a marketing agency to promote your startup, how do you choose one? Pick an agency that has a good process for coming up with a marketing strategy. Source: Pixabay. How do marketing agencies come up with marketing strategies? If a marketing agency is good at what they do, they will create a viable strategy and then come up with tactics to execute that strategy.

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How Some Ventures Continually Stay Ahead Of The Crowd

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor, I have long been surprised by the large number of industry stalwarts, including Blockbuster, Kodak, and General Motors, that have been dealt major setbacks, or even total failure, by upstart young companies, with a fraction of the resources or industry experience. The stalwarts should be making the big leaps to be competitive, rather than the other way around.

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Glowforge Plus Launches on Amazon Exclusives

Feld Thoughts

Glowforge recently launched their 3D laser printers to the public , making their product line available within 10-day delivery. As an early investor (and a huge fan) this was an incredibly gratifying moment, as Glowforge is now shipping – in volume – the product from one of the most popular pre-order campaigns in history. We’ve been a part of Glowforge’s journey to production since even before their record-setting crowdfunding campaign.

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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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4 Ways a Startup Consignment Shop Can Increase Revenue

The Startup Magazine

It’s important to do research on successful consignment businesses when creating your own business plan. What are the common denominators among the businesses that you admire? Which are most like the business you would like to run? When determining how you can maximize revenue, consider these suggestions for optimizing your potential. Don’t Get Stuck in an Online Rut.

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Twitter Link Roundup #341 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

That sound you hear is George Orwell peering incredulously from his grave as he rolls over. As science races ahead, people continue to search for ways to more deeply integrate technology into humanity. The questions this raises, both in benefits and in long-term consequences, are as fascinating as they are portentous. Rohit Talwar, futurist and CEO of the think tank Fast Future, sees chipping (adding technology to the human body) becoming widespread very quickly – especially as companies c

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Twitter Link Roundup #341 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

That sound you hear is George Orwell peering incredulously from his grave as he rolls over. As science races ahead, people continue to search for ways to more deeply integrate technology into humanity. The questions this raises, both in benefits and in long-term consequences, are as fascinating as they are portentous. Rohit Talwar, futurist and CEO of the think tank Fast Future, sees chipping (adding technology to the human body) becoming widespread very quickly – especially as companies c

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it. Even still there are some people who study foreign words for the perfect meaning behind their chosen business.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Well, that time has finally come. As a warning, this post will have more subheading than usual, and it will be packed with lots of links — please click through and read them.