Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Almost every early-stage startup who has approached investors for funding has heard the innocuous sounding rejection “I love your idea, but come back when you have more traction.” What does traction really mean to investors, and how much is enough? Let me try to clarify the rules, and what it takes to win at this game. First of all, a definition. Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model,

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Ever thought about setting up your own business in the UK from abroad? This simple guide can help you navigate the pitfalls. The post Starting A Business In The UK As A Non-Resident: 5 Things You Should Know appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Customer trust is crucial for driving sales and revenue, but it’s also near an all-time low. Look no further than the approximately 40% of Americans who don’t trust the last presidential election results. COVID-19 vaccine skeptics are choosing to ignore healthcare advice because they don’t trust public health bodies, elected leaders, or scientists, in another prime example of today’s trust crisis.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

GenXComm, a telecommunications startup spun out of the University of Texas at Austin, announced it has raised $20 million in funding. Motive Companies led the Series B round with participation from Rain Next-Gen Communications and existing investor BMW iVentures. The Austin-based company plans to use the funding to accelerate its product development and commercial launch of […].

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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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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Customer trust is crucial for driving sales and revenue, but it’s also near an all-time low. Look no further than the approximately 40% of Americans who don’t trust the last presidential election results. COVID-19 vaccine skeptics are choosing to ignore healthcare advice because they don’t trust public health bodies, elected leaders, or scientists, in another prime example of today’s trust crisis.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Delivering Happiness At Work And Beyond written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jenn Lim. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jen Limm. Jen is the CEO of Delivering Happiness, a company she and Tony Hsieh (the late CEO of Zappos.com) co-founded to create happier company cultures for a more profitable and sustainable approach to business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The Unstoppable CEO – The Ultimate Marketing Engine written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Any business can grow and scale in good times. Can your business thrive and survive through tough times? Modern marketing isn’t about tactics anymore, it’s about transformation over transaction. Learn how to create happier customers by helping them transform, and then watch as those customers drive your referral engine to new heights.

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