Mon.Mar 12, 2018

article thumbnail

3 Simple Tips From A CPA For Managing Your Online Business’ Finances

YoungUpstarts

by Dustin Pfluger, Partner at BKM Sowan Horan, LLP. Developing profitable products and services constitutes a major part of starting a business. However, other aspects such as forecasting and accounting are equally as important in ensuring that a business continues to grow. These tasks may seem secondary and overwhelming when starting out but the output from these activities serve as key indicators of the health of the business.

Finance 147
article thumbnail

Why Do Shoppers Abandon Their Carts—and What Can You Do About It?

Up and Running

Imagine this: Someone goes into a supermarket buy groceries. They fill their shopping cart with milk and eggs and everything they need for the week. They start heading for a checkout line, but that moment, their phone rings. They answer the call, get distracted for a few minutes and just wander out of the store and drive away from the supermarket leaving the full cart behind.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How To Effectively Market Your Small Dental Business

YoungUpstarts

Dental practices can be found in almost every town; however you’ll often find that your local dentist is reasonably small and well-hidden. If you’ve recently started up a dental practice of your own, you’ll want to ensure your marketing efforts are effective in order to build a sufficient client base and begin earning some profits. There are hundreds, if not thousands of different marketing methods available today, however there are a select few that will work perfectly for small dental business

article thumbnail

Selling Your Company? When To Say ‘No’ To An Acquisition

YFS Magazine

We knew if we could continue to double our sales, we could hold off, keep scaling the business, and in the end be in a much better place to sell. And we did just that.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

How TechXLR8 Forges Change Makers from Startups

The Startup Magazine

2018 is the year of TechXLR8, the flagship event of London Tech Week, the largest tech festival in Europe, and backed by the mayor of London. Project Kairos, the startup program, will take centre stage. The event is 12 – 14 June 2018, at ExCeL, London. Attracting over 55,000 attendees to 300 plus events, London Tech Week is a unique opportunity to gain exposure to the largest and most engaged tech audience.

article thumbnail

6 Business Travel Hacks For Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

While learning how to painlessly move through TSA or eat healthy on the road have made business travel much easier, nothing has beat my calendar.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Our Sexual Harassment Policy

Feld Thoughts

Last summer, when we made a statement about Our Zero Tolerance Policy On Sexual Harassment , a number of people asked us to publicly release our formal policy. We wanted to take our time and make sure we covered as many different elements of the issue as we could. We’ve done that, and as part of #MovingForward we’ve made the Foundry Group Sexual Harassment Policy public.

article thumbnail

Monday Motivation: Killer Startup Advice

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. This is advicce from the founders of TheSkimm.

Startup 75
article thumbnail

Mayor of London Calls for Regulation of the Tech Industry

SiliconHills

By Laura Lorek Publisher with Silicon Hills News London Mayor Sadiq Khan spoke during the afternoon keynote at South by Southwest on Monday about the need for technological advancements to benefit everyone in society. There’s an increasing disconnect and disillusionment across London and worldwide stemming from fear of globalization, he said. Technology is profoundly changing […].

Global 56
article thumbnail

Adding More Fuel to Take TripActions to New Heights

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The post Adding More Fuel to Take TripActions to New Heights appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Partner 60
article thumbnail

Your competitors don't matter

Spencer Fry

Startup competition is hard to ignore. From investors wanting to know who is in the market before investing -- and how they’re doing -- to your customers asking you how you’re different. The media won’t even write a story about you without mentioning a competitor or two. This is a shame and harmful to your business. On the one hand, I get it from the customer’s perspective: nobody wants to be the sucker to sign up for a product or service that’s not the best in the category.

Media 38
article thumbnail

Life goal complete! – Meet a President

Jeff Hilimire

One of my life goals has been to meet a US President (current administration excluded, of course.) And this past weekend I was able to make that dream come true! President Jimmy Carter has the distinction of being the only US President to teach Sunday School while in office. And luckily, he continues to teach even though he’s 93 years old! He teaches at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia (about 2.5 hours outside of Atlanta.

Georgia 28
article thumbnail

Find Success by Helping a Mom Find Success in Your Company

This is going to be BIG.

A few years ago, a friend of mine got hired by a company as a software developer. She was an early riser and liked to get into the office around 8AM. A diligent worker, she was super focused from the moment she sat down at her desk--and so by the time 6PM came around, she had gotten a lot of work done and ready to call it a day. Her young male colleagues had a different approach.

article thumbnail

4 Reasons Why Learning Beats Experience In Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s fast moving world of business startups, learning trumps knowing every time. What established businesses know through experience keeps them from looking for the new and innovative ways to do what they do better, cheaper, and faster. I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it.

Startup 129
article thumbnail

Irish Taoiseach Visits SXSW Before Meeting President Trump

SiliconHills

By Susan Lahey Reporter with Silicon Hills News In a session Sunday between Evan Smith and Leo Varadkar, Prime Minister of Ireland, Smith lumped the Taoiseach with leaders like Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau: young, progressive people, moving their countries forward in a world where many leaders seem to be peddling hard backward. Varadkar, at […].

Ireland 49