Mon.Sep 26, 2016

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The Importance Of Blogging For Startups

YoungUpstarts

by Nate Vickery, editor-in-chief of Bizzmarkblog.com. If you are starting a new business you must have heard a million times already that building up your reputation is one of the most important keys to success. A great way to tell others about your brand and about what you have to offer is to start blogging. Blogging is your gateway to communicating with the outside world and reaching out to potential customers.

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How $10 and the iPhone 7 Earned This Startup 1.5 Million Visitors in a Day

crowdSPRING Blog

Image credit: Apple. When Apple held their Special Event keynote on September 7th, their live video stream garnered the highest-ever video traffic for an Apple event. In the days following the announcement, almost every technology publication, blogger, and influencer posted some kind of content related to the new iPhone. The phone’s release took over the news cycle again 9 days later, with reviews, guides, and commentary dominating the front page of most news outlets and technology websit

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Join me at Terrapinn Trading Show New York, October 6, NYC

David Teten

I’m honored to chair the quant and big data stream of the upcoming Terrapinn Trading Show, New York, October 6, NYC. This is a large conference focused on quant and automated investing, big data, and High Performance Computing. We expect over 400 people. Among the speakers are: Aaron Brown, Chief Risk Officer, AQR Capital Management. Fabio Mercurio, Head of Quantitative Analytics, Bloomberg LP.

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How $10 and the iPhone 7 Earned This Startup 1.5 Million Visitors in a Day

crowdSPRING Blog

Image credit: Apple. When Apple held their Special Event keynote on September 7th, their live video stream garnered the highest-ever video traffic for an Apple event. In the days following the announcement, almost every technology publication, blogger, and influencer posted some kind of content related to the new iPhone. The phone’s release took over the news cycle again 9 days later, with reviews, guides, and commentary dominating the front page of most news outlets and technology websit

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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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Add A Personal Story To Make Your Business Memorable

Startup Professionals Musings

The biggest challenge for every entrepreneur and every startup today is to get noticed and remembered in today’s information overload. The number of entrepreneurs worldwide is huge, starting an estimated 50 million new businesses in the past year, or 137,000 per day. Every one of these probably has a unique story, but in my years as a startup advisor I only remember hearing a few who capitalized on their story.

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How $10 and the iPhone 7 Earned This Startup 1.5 Million Visitors in a Day

crowdSPRING Blog

Image credit: Apple. When Apple held their Special Event keynote on September 7th, their live video stream garnered the highest-ever video traffic for an Apple event. In the days following the announcement, almost every technology publication, blogger, and influencer posted some kind of content related to the new iPhone. The phone’s release took over the news cycle again 9 days later, with reviews, guides, and commentary dominating the front page of most news outlets and technology websit

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Why we moved our team 1,500 miles away for a month

The Next Web

Last year when Johan and I founded The Things Network, Johan was in Barcelona at Hacker Paradise and I was in Amsterdam during the most crucial time of it’s existence. Hacker Paradise is a community that moves around the world and offers a good opportunity for a workcation. You join a group of like minded developers, designers and entrepreneurs and have a good time while you do your freelance gigs or do your normal job remotely in a place where you otherwise would go on holiday.

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5 Reasons Why Customer Satisfaction Is Vital To Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

As a start up, you can easily get caught up in essential start up considerations such as creating a business plan, choosing a company name and researching your market or niche. However, if you want to create a successful business with a long-term future, make sure not to neglect your customers. No matter what kind of service or product you offer, your customer or client base should be at the centre of your business.

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I Walked Away From Wall Street To Startup — This Is What I Learned

YFS Magazine

The transition from a white shoe Wall Street firm to the near absolute freedom of entrepreneurship required huge life adjustments.

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Retro Motorcycles Signal Innovation In Goshen, IN

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Manufacturing in America — Using the Past to Create an Innovative Future. It’s heartening to learn about a small USA manufacturer who’s doing something creative, new, and intere sting. Janus Motorcycles in Goshen, Indiana is creating hand-crafted, small batch motorcycles. These are simple, accessible, easy-to-work-with bikes. They are throwbacks in a certain way, but don’t get me wrong they’re elegant.

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Venture Debt 101

Up and Running

For startups and high-growth businesses, as you scale and encounter new milestones and obstacles, you will be faced with the question of how to finance and plan for that growth. Luckily for founders, the ways in which you can finance your startup are varied based on your business model, your preference, your goals, and timeline, and so on. There are a wide range of options for finance, but one of the more common choices is venture debt.

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WP Engine Expands to Limerick, Ireland

SiliconHills

There once was a startup in Austin WP Engine grew lickety-split like Boston It set out to expand to Ireland’s land of opportunity Its website hosting business grew with such unity And now it’s part of a bigger European economic community – Anonymous The big news for WP Engine Monday is it has expanded to […] The post WP Engine Expands to Limerick, Ireland appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Here’s How We Raised $1.1 Million For Our Custom Clothing Startup

YFS Magazine

For context, my co-founder dropped out of college, and I’m from inner-city New York.

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Monday Motivation: Love or Fear [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

Share. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start the week off on the right foot. Choose Love or Fear.

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Social Trends: What does it take to create a remarkable industry blog?

Brandanew

Many small businesses and startups are out there to solve the content puzzle. How do they create a remarkable industry blog that positions them as thought leaders? It’s neither easy, nor coincidental how some blogs take off and carve in niche in their industry. If you’re wondering about this for your brand and business, this episode of the Social Trends Show is for you.

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Episode 115 – Skyrocket with Jorge Morales and Jose Pain

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Today we interview Jorge Morales and his business partner, Jose Pain. Their’s was one of the first companies to implement Profit First, over eight years ago. Their business went from $80k to $800k over that time and profitability has skyrocketed. Learn how Jorge gets to go on one vacation a month because of the profitability of his business and how Jose has built his dream house and is now looking to see it to build an even bigger, better one.

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Being a solo founder

Spencer Fry

Much has been written about the disadvantages of being a solo founder. Paul Graham was certainly one of the first to write about it publicly in 2006 when he published his article, Startup Mistakes , with “Single Founder” as the first in a long list of mistakes. That article came just at the start of the Y Combinator accelerator, which had its first class in Summer 2005.

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This is Not the Trump You are Looking For

This is going to be BIG.

Early on in this election, my dad was a Trump supporter. He was tired of politics as usual and decided that he wanted to vote for an "outsider"--someone who speaks from the heart, who isn't burdened by special interests, and who could shake things up. When shoot from the hip Donald Trump stepped up in the election, he appreciated his style. Trump ran circles around a really awful field of Republican contenders who didn't know what hit them, gaining popularity with a lot of people who felt the sa