Sat.Jan 20, 2018

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5 New Venture Deliverables Put You Ahead Of The Crowd

Startup Professionals Musings

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. People cite sources like this recent Inc.com article “ 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a Business Plan ,” or my own blog discussion on this subject, “ Situations Where A Business Plan Does Not Add Value.

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How To Create A Brand Story That Delivers Real Results

YFS Magazine

What makes brands successful? Relationships. But they're not made overnight. In order to build strong relationships, brands need to tell their story.

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AKA: Adolescence Kills Aspiration

Austin Startup

Today I spoke to friends about life paths, journeys to success. It’s something we agreed isn’t defined, but now there is a survival of the fittest rhetoric here. Uncle and Nephew time in Houston, TX My nephew is going be growing up in a generation more fierce than mine. He is someone who will go through greater struggles while the world thinks we’re moving forward.

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5 Digital Marketing Trends To Watch In 2018

YFS Magazine

From new bells and whistles launched by social networks to changes in customer needs, there’s a lot to review before you put pen to paper.

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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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Weekend Favs January 20

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs January 20 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.