Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 29, 2017
How to Use Your Website to Convert Consulting Leads into Clients written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing and selling consulting services can take weeks, months, and in some cases — years. As a consultant who must balance delivery versus sales, not having enough leads can lead to the dreaded feast-or-famine cycle. Nurturing and educating your leads is time-consuming work.
Version One Ventures
JUNE 29, 2017
Blue Apron went public today. It was not the easiest road for them as they had to cut the originally proposed price range of $15-17 to $10 and closed the first day just around that at $10.01. As one can imagine, the media commentary was not pretty, calling the IPO a disappointment , the stock stale out of the box , and lamenting that the stock forgot to pop.
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Feld Thoughts
JUNE 29, 2017
In October 2015, Pioneer Square Labs launched. We led the financing, and I joined the board to work more closely with Greg Gottesman, Geoff Entress, Mike Galgon, and Ben Gilbert to build a long-lasting and enduring startup studio in Seattle. Today, Julie Sandler joined Pioneer Square Labs as the fourth managing director. Julie previously was a partner at Madrona Venture Group and is deeply involved in the Seattle startup community.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 29, 2017
by Dr. Christian Marcolli, author of “ More Life, Please!: The Performance Pathway to a Better You “ Everyone has a Melting Point, that critical psychological threshold we face when under massive stress and pressure. Despite knowing the risks, we can’t stop ourselves from melting down. We start to lose our grip and internally derail, performing badly.
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
YFS Magazine
JUNE 29, 2017
Since 93% of online experiences begin with search, any business that wants to build a thriving brand online must be familiar with SEO.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 29, 2017
Did you know that the average American creates 4.5 pounds of trash in a day? That’s a staggering statistic when you take into account that there are around 321 million Americans. This number becomes even more astronomical when you take into account the amount of waste businesses produce. If you’re looking to make your business as eco-friendly as possible, the major corporations in the waste management industry are not the solution.
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The Equity Kicker
JUNE 29, 2017
I just read Andrew Chen’s Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation. His argument is that we are at a point in the cycle where distribution is controlled by a small number of companies who limit the opportunities for differentiation via marketing. He mentions Google, Apple, and Facebook, and I agree wholeheartedly.
YFS Magazine
JUNE 29, 2017
Earning influencer status can be a long journey. These 6 methods can earn you credibility and authority in your industry.
Berkonomics
JUNE 29, 2017
If you have been following our recent insights, you’ll be up to speed knowing that professional investors negotiate tough terms, from provisions of control over asset acquisition, eventual sale of the company, future investments, forced co-sale when others attempt to sell their shares and more. And yet, in an earlier post, we spoke of the problems that come when taking unstructured investments from friends and family.
Start Up Blog
JUNE 29, 2017
It is said that we become the thing we are immersed in. I feel like we are starting to merge with the technology we have become so reliant on. From the world’s most connected human, to a gentleman named Mr Meow Meow who recently had an NFC chip installed in his body to make catching public transport. Continue reading → The post The inevitable merger of our species with machines appeared first on Steve Sammartino.
OnlyOnce
JUNE 29, 2017
My dad (one of my main CEO/entrepreneur role models) and I team-teach a business school class in entrepreneurial leadership every year at USD where a friend of his is the professor. Sometimes I go in person, usually I just do it by video. We did this a few weeks ago, and my dad talked through a decision-making framework that I’d never heard him mention before.
Austin Startup
JUNE 29, 2017
I’m focused on solving a problem I’m passionate about and delivering venture sized returns for my investors without a VC firm, but it wasn’t always that way. The photo below is from early 2014 when things were much different, especially my dependency on the idea of what VCs represent. Looking back, I can genuinely say that I was always jealous when I read about these massive venture-backed rounds for competitors like Sosh ($10m+ raised from VCs), YPlan ($35m+ raised from VCs), Foursquare ($230m+
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 29, 2017
When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize a gem submitted in this logo project: The challenge of this project was to create a magical Steampunk style logo for a comic book series that follows the adventures of an autistic boy and his older sister. Let us start the slow clap for AuraDesignStudio.
Austin Startup
JUNE 29, 2017
I spend all day, every day, talking about money. As both a personal finance freelance writer and the founder of a company that hosts financial literacy events in Austin for women, money is sort of my life. I started my company, Bravely, in January of 2017. Bravely has no investors, no grants, and no partners. Bravely is 100% funded through money I have personally saved.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 29, 2017
How National Companies Can Get Friendly in Local Markets written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Megan Hannay. Podcast Transcript. I’ve long been a big fan of partnering with not for profits in your community. (I wrote about this in The Referral Engine.). There are so many organizations that need and deserve our support and by partnering you further cement your business as a community asset.
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 29, 2017
Every company has a brand. This is true for your company whether you’ve made a single conscious branding decision or not. And that’s why it’s vitally important to make conscious, consistent branding choices. The decisions left unmade, and a brand left untended may hurt your business. As we previously explained : A brand is the sum total of the experience your prospects and customers have with your company.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2017
I am so proud and humbled to be able to formally announce that Upfront Ventures has raised its 6th venture capital fund in the past 21 years. Upfront VI is our latest core fund and is $400 million to invest in early stage entrepreneurs. This brings our combined funds under management to nearly $2 billion. A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 29, 2017
by Keval Padia , co-founder and CEO at Nimblechapps. What makes aspiring small businesses different from their big brothers is that they have an insufficiently small budget to fulfill big dreams. But interestingly, such dreams are worthy enough in the level playing field of content marketing. Yes, when it comes to effectively reaching an audience with quality contents, even big budget marketing teams can fall short of the achievement of many smart content marketers in startups.
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