Wed.May 09, 2018

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You had an amazing meeting with an investor. Your product demo crushed. The dialog was great. They told you how much they loved your space. The meeting was only supposed to last 45 minutes but you ran 90. The assistant tried to end the meeting twice but was shoooshed away. You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence.

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6 Effective Branding and Marketing Strategies for Your Beauty Business

crowdSPRING Blog

The global beauty market is predicted to grow from $432.7 billion in 2016 to $750 billion by 2024. Online growth has been especially strong. If you’re building or growing a beauty business, you have a lot of competition and it’s tough to stand out. To help you, we’ve assembled useful branding and marketing tips to help your beauty business reach and connect with customers.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Business Plan Writing Service

Up and Running

Starting your own business is an amazing journey and one of the most empowering, positive decisions you can make. It is the culmination of everything you have learned, created, and overcome throughout your career. It is also can be terrifying. What if you don’t have the right information to get investors interested? What if you forget to prepare for an important step in the process?

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My Water Pilgrimage:

Austin Startup

What spending 10 days in a remote village in Nepal has taught me about the role of technology in water sustainability and independence The Origin Story At an early age, my parents instilled in us a sense of empathy for the less fortunate and taught us to be mindful custodians of the world and its precious natural resources. Whether it is volunteering at the local convalescent home, sponsoring families in Nepal, or finding novel and creative ways to save water at home, we wanted to leave the worl

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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 Reasons To Use Video Marketing

YoungUpstarts

About 51% of marketing experts believe that video marketing has the best ROI when compared to other means of marketing used to market businesses on the web. However, there are still many businesses that tend to shy away from using this strategy. The Vice President of Youtube, Robert Kyncl, has stated that by next year, videos will account for driving more than 90% traffic.

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The Customer Is Always Right, Until They’re Not

YFS Magazine

The cornerstone motto of customer service has forever been, “The customer is always right.” Those of you who have worked in the field know this is untrue. But to earn a positive business reputation, it’s better to treat them as if they are.

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Make Better Decisions: Measure Your Site’s Data (& Ask The Right Questions)

ConversionXL

What is the most common problem with websites? What should you change? Make better decisions by making sure you are measuring everything on your site. You can use analyze the data you track in tools such as Google Analytics, to understand how your customers are converting. [This post contains video, click to play]. The post Make Better Decisions: Measure Your Site’s Data (& Ask The Right Questions) appeared first on CXL.

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Here’s How Long It Will Take Your New Business To Succeed

YoungUpstarts

by Toby Nwazor, founder of www.mystartupceo.com. Let’s face it, the question of “how long before success” must have crossed your mind a couple of times in the past since you started thinking of starting a new business. You want someone to give you a guarantee that you will experience success after some a particular time frame. You may have bought a couple of books on business success principles and even gone for one or two business seminars and trainings.

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Alex Iskold Startup Hacks

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been friends with Alex Iskold for over a dozen years (I was an angel investor in GetGlue, which USV funded.). Alex has been the Managing Director of Techstars NY for a number of years and I think he’s now run seven programs and built an impressive portfolio of around 80 companies. I’m a huge Alex fan and love his writing. Recently, he put together a bunch of great blog posts on his site under a heading Startup Hacks.

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Set Your Business Up For Tax Season Success

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin Miller, CMO at Neat. Unless an extension has been filed, most small businesses have finally made it through another hectic tax season. While there is a sense of relief for all small businesses, many owners and managers barely made it past the Tax Day finish line because they had to frantically collect expense receipts, customer invoices and other important business documents for the IRS.

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Travel Tech Company Stay22 Raises $750K As Event Travel Industry Calls for Change

ReadWriteStart

Stay22 , a travel tech company based in Montreal, announced it raised $750K in its first round of funding. The company has also amassed a growing roster of partnerships – including Pearl Jam, France’s Weezevent and Canada’s Evenko. Along with a growing team and a breakout amount of gross bookings in Q1 2018, totaling $600K, Stay22 is setting the stage for major changes in the event travel industry.

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4 Things To Consider Before Developing A Mobile App

YoungUpstarts

Mobile apps are expected to generate $189 billion in revenue by 2020. Google Play had 2.8 million apps on their store in March 2017. It’s a big business, and it’s one that solo developers and large businesses alike can enter. The problem is that a majority of apps fail. And then you’ll have an app that seemingly comes out of nowhere and is a huge success.

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The Daily Huddle at Profit First Professionals

Mike Michalowicz

Every day at 8:34am Eastern Time our small company of eight people conducts a daily huddle that is 15 minutes or less. All employees attend. We meet both in person and virtually. This is the recording of one of our huddles. Yeah… we are a little bit weird (but we have FUN!). ?. The post The Daily Huddle at Profit First Professionals appeared first on Mike Michalowicz.

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Exclusive: ThoughtSpot Gets Huge Funding to Expand its Google-Like Search For Corporate Data

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The post Exclusive: ThoughtSpot Gets Huge Funding to Expand its Google-Like Search For Corporate Data appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Schrödinger’s Start-Up — Why VCs Don’t Sign NDAs or Non-Compete Agreements

Austin Startup

Every so often, I get an email from an entrepreneur that starts something like this: “By reading further, you agree to the terms of our non-disclosure and non-compete agreement” My immediate reaction is to delete these emails with prejudice. I am not alone. VCs get inundated with pitch decks and proposals for new technology. NDAs or NCAs destroy our ability to freely invest in good ideas, so it is almost impossible to get a VC to sign one.

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This Simple Formula will Change Your Business Forever

Growthink Blog

The potential of any business can be calculated by its “Idea Formula,” namely: The quantity of new ideas a business generates X its probability of successfully executing upon the best of them. Let’s start with quantity - disregarding how good or bad an idea might be, the fact that a company culture is vibrant, accepting, creative, optimistic and ambitious enough to contemplate "new stuff" is one of the most powerful indicators of a future-focused, and thus high value , business.

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If You Don’t Eliminate This Habit, You Will Never Grow #blindpost

Jeff Hilimire

This is a blindpost from the Medium article, “ If you don’t eliminate this habit you will never grow. ” Blindposts are when I read a headline and think, “Hey, I have a thought about that,” and I write my thoughts without reading the original article. Here goes… Very specifically, “growth” to me means improving both personally and professionally.

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28 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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