Sat.Apr 15, 2017

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How to run a Demo Day pitch event

Austin Startup

I’ve run more than 100 demo days and have learned the hard way what to do and what not to do. Follow these tips to make sure your event runs smoothly and your startups look their best! Participant Instructions Be draconian strict about the slide format. Make everyone follow it and don’t let them make changes at the last minute. Here are the instructions that I send to the people who are pitching: Be visual.

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4 Ways To Make Profits Part Of Your Growth Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

A question that I still hear debated often is whether a new startup growth strategy should focus on user count or profits. First of all, the glory days of “dot.coms” are gone, when investors “didn’t care” about profitability, and all the big money was focused on user count growth. In the long run, everyone wants both profitability and user growth, but the question is which comes first.

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How not to be as stupid as this brand

The Next Web

I’ve always wanted to own real estate. At one time, I owned a small property in Jacksonville Missouri. I bought it without ever seeing it, as an investment opportunity. Four years, a foreclosure, and a lot less money later, I learned my lesson. I’m now in the habit of picking up another kind of real estate; I’m what you might call a domainer. A domainer is someone who buys, for whatever reason, a domain name on the domain aftermarket or possibly even hand registers it.

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Programmatic Advertising Is The Future, But Here’s The Catch

YFS Magazine

The buy-sell side of advertising has become more efficient. Data-based, highly targeted, automatic ad buys are the current big thing. But here's the catch.

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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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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “They Showed-up Every Day”

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being a entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching your venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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Weekend Favs April 15

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs April 15 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.