YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

by Catriona Harris, CEO of Uproar PR. Can the number of windows in your office be affecting employee morale? Does a second computer monitor have a direct connection to an employee’s overall happiness? Over the years, many studies have demonstrated the significant impact that office environment can have on employee productivity. As Millennials inundate the workforce, business leaders must begin to consider office space as a physical representation of their company culture in order to attract top

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This is the third in a series of posts summarizing our speakers’ insights from the V1 marketplace meetup on October 20. Check out other posts detailing Andrew Chen’s (Uber) fireside chat on growth strategies and Anthony Marino’s (ThredUp) talk on managed marketplaces. When we talk about marketplaces, we’re usually referring to B2C companies – eBay, Uber, Etsy, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

If you’ve been paying attention lately, you’ve probably noticed that explainer videos are becoming increasingly common all over the Internet, including on websites and on their social media pages. So if you run a startup business right now, you should be looking into hiring the right team, like the pros at Spiel , to create high quality explainer videos that you can post and allow others to share to help promote your brand.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

One of the podcasts in my regular rotation is Turnpikers. Luke Beatty and Danny Newman – both long time friends – are doing an awesome job interviewing interesting people in the Boulder – Denver startup community. If you don’t know the area, Turnpikers stands for U.S. Route 36 (known locally as “36” or sometimes “Highway 36”).

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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 15, 2016

By Ron Faith, president and CEO of Datacastle. Earlier this year, my company acquired another company’s assets. The process, if you’ve never been through it, can be quite exhilarating. Yet, even though our team had experience with several previous successful acquisitions, after the initial rush of excitement, the hard reality of bringing together two separate entities set in.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

When we talk about conversion optimization , much of the strategies remain the same across industries. After all, the goal is to systematically improve the success of a business, whatever that means metric-wise. That said, there are some key differences in how experts approach SaaS conversion optimization. This won’t be a complete guide (hardly anything that bills itself as “complete” actually is), but I’ll point out links in each section for further reading.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

We’re big fans of the subscription business model here at Bplans—after all, our product LivePlan is subscription software that helps you write a business plan. That being said, as popular as the subscription business model may be, it’s not foolproof. It is still completely possible to come up with a subscription business idea that just doesn’t work.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

One of the biggest challenges that startups face is knowing how to get new clients on board. For most startups the picture looks a little bleak for the first six months or so. Most entrepreneurs know a basic marketing campaign which they are keen to follow, and they go for it with full effect. However, this is really only part of the battle. Sales and marketing gives you the revenue you need to continue, but you also need to think about long-term growth.

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

I’m not sure I’d believe any successful entrepreneur who tells me that sharing their work wasn’t a part of the reason why they succeeded.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As your business grows, so does your need to manage financial matters quickly and efficiently. Whether you are receiving payments from customers, or need to make outgoing payments to employees, vendors, or other suppliers, it is critical to have a financial payment plan in place. Bacs is a solution that is used throughout the UK for the quick and secure handling of financial transactions.

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

At Pledge 1% our mission is to encourage entrepreneurs and companies to give back to their communities through the donation of equity, product, profit and time to non-profits. We launched this program less than a year ago we already have over 1,000 members of our community. And it’s growing quickly. As entrepreneurs ourselves we’re always looking for new and innovative ideas that help us achieve our mission.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News At Austin City Hall, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Jay Williams Tuesday announced $15 million in grants for 19 states including $1.5 million earmarked for Texas with the bulk of that going to organizations in Austin and San Antonio. “The diversity in programs […] The post U.S.

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YFS Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Here are some helpful tips to avoid the pitfalls of eroding infrastructure under the weight of rapid growth.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News At Austin City Hall, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Jay Williams Tuesday announced $15 million in grants for 19 states including $2 million earmarked for Texas with the bulk of that going to organizations in Austin and San Antonio. “The diversity in programs […] The post U.S.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

I’ve had a couple conversations with other investors recently around what a seed stage company needs to achieve to raise a series A. This is something we think a lot about given that we are exclusively seed stage investors, and we’ve written a fair bit about it in the past (see here for a data driven post on the seed to series A dynamics in our portfolio).

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ithacaVC

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

I am on the board of a non-profit called Upstate Venture Connect. Nasir Ali, a good friend of mine, heads the organization. Here is a guest post from Nasir sharing summary findings from a recently completely survey of upstate NY CEOs. Enjoy! Seeds of Growth are All Around Us. This year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week follows an election season where economic anxiety weighed heavily on American voters.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

If you want your business to succeed, you need to make sure that you have the best employees working behind it. The right team of employees can take your business to the next level on the market. They’ll make it more competitive as well as being far more attractive to consumers and investors. Let’s look at some of the ways you can get the brightest minds in your business: Curb Appeal And Interior Design.

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