Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2017

A key ingredient of Techstars accelerator programs is our experienced and engaged mentor community. Mentors embrace the Techstars “Give First” philosophy by offering founders their time, advice, and connections. We treat mentorship seriously – you can read about it in our Mentor Manifesto and my blog series on the mentor manifesto. And, my book Give First, coming out at the end of 2017, will cover mentorship in depth.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2017

by Scott Anderson, Small Business Services Partner-in-Charge at Sensiba San Filippo. If you’re the leader of a growing organization, you probably understand the need to set aside your strategic priorities for the sake of day-to-day tasks. You understand that many daily duties simply need to get done, and more often than not, that means little to no time for strategic visions.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 20, 2017

2017 is ON and I’m so excited to begin this year with inspiration and creativity. If you’re on our email list , you already got our postcard last week. Each week, I’ll be covering awesome brands that inspire us with sheer creativity, brand experience and storytelling. This week we cover brand email journeys. The example comes from home decor giant, Crate and Barrel.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2017

When you’re building a business online, a top priority as an industry newcomer is to build awareness around your personal brand.

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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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Up and Running

JANUARY 20, 2017

Business owner, please: If you have any doubt about the value of planning your business, at least take this simple first step. Just do a sales forecast, which means you aren’t doing text, editing, or a document, just good management. Follow it up monthly and you’ll have planning—and the planning process—without the formal plan. You might even call it a Lean Plan , or a one-page business plan , if you like.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 20, 2017

5 Local SEO Mistakes to Avoid in 2017 written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As you begin to gear up for a successful 2017 for your business, one very important thing you need to address is your local SEO. Here are a few key local SEO facts you should know: The Google 2-pack (which is Google’s organic listing of two local businesses) appears at the top of 93 percent of all searches with local intent. 60 percent of American adults search for local product and service information.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 20, 2017

Ok, well, Anand Sanwal, quotable founder of the tech market research firm CBInsights, didn’t actually say this…at least not in public. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 20, 2017

How to think about business policy and top-of-mind issues for the tech industry, given a new president? From what agencies matter for startups and VC to what the first 100 days (and next two years!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

Starting and running a business is hard. Don’t believe the old myth that with a few hours of work a day and a great web site, you can get rich while you sleep. I have found that the most successful entrepreneurs and business executives have an impressive work ethic, and they surround themselves with a team of comparable commitment. Business is more about people than product.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 20, 2017

Some years ago, throughout the poorer parts of Grand Bahama, inland from the beaches and resorts, you’d pass scraggly plots of land featuring sad-looking, half-collapsed houses, all a jumble of bare cinderblock and rebar. At least, that’s what it looked like to me. But what’s actually happening is magical. At birth, each Bahamian citizen has rights to an empty plot of land.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 20, 2017

With the inauguration of the new President in the USA today, and what seems like isolationist policies creeping into the western world (Brexit) I thought it would be worth exploring something most people tend to forget. Any government is only all powerful as long as the system it operates under is stable, and the people allow it to continue to control its market.

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