Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2020

Integrating Creativity in Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Sarah Avenir. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Sarah Avenir, writer, researcher, and partner and CEO at &yet , a design and software consultancy that’s kind of hard to describe. Sarah wrote Gather the People based on a decade of research and personal experience as she’s tried to figure out how we can get people to care about our work witho

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 21, 2020

Nowadays, increasing numbers of people are looking into running their own business. This isn’t all too surprising. In general, people are growing tired of working long hours in fields of specialism they’re not all too interested in, in order to earn someone else’s fortune on their behalf. Instead, people would rather place themselves at the top of the pecking order, choose what field they operate in and keep the majority of profits earned by setting up their own company.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

Technology changes. The startup market evolves, and so do we as VCs. Over the past few months, we’ve reflected on our journey over the past decade, who we are and what we invest in. We’ve quietly made changes to our website. And here’s the official unveiling, with a quick synopsis of our new messaging and the thinking behind it. . “Backing the next generation of mission-driven founders”.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 21, 2020

We are in the midst of the most dramatic phrase transition I’ve experienced so far in my 54 years on this particular planet. Ian Hathaway and I talk about phase transitions (also known as a phase shift) in several parts of The Startup Community Way. P rogress is uneven, slow, and surprising. Complex systems exhibit nonlinear behavior, phase transitions (large shifts that materialize quickly), and fat-tailed distributions, where extremely high-impact events are more common than a normal sta

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2020

Jennifer Kahnweiler, Ph.D., was named a certified professional speaker by the National Speakers Association, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Fortune. Her books The Introverted Leader, Quiet Influence , and The Genius of Opposites , have been translated into 17 languages. Her latest book is “ Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces: How to Unleash Everyone’s Talent and Performance “ We speak with Dr.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2020

As a business that runs a website, you should be aware of the content you have that draws users in. Metrics are useful in giving you hints as to what works and what doesn’t. These metrics should form the spine of your SEO strategy. Marketing Craft mentions that SEO will see a lot of evolution in the coming year. For now, however, a business interested in seeing how it can grow and utilize existing strategies needs to start somewhere.

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YFS Magazine

JULY 21, 2020

There is great value in learning these skills as a freelancer, starting a business that offers these specialized talents or upskilling your workforce.

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SiliconHills

JULY 21, 2020

The pandemic looks like it may have adversely affected venture-backed deals in the Austin metro area and Texas market. In the second quarter, Austin-based companies received $257 million invested in 35 deals, according to the latest MoneyTree Report from PwC and CB Insights. That’s down nearly 32 percent in dollars invested and nearly 26 percent […].

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 21, 2020

The post These 25 investors are hunting for the next big fintech unicorn. Here’s what founders should know before pitching them. appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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SiliconHills

JULY 21, 2020

The consumer packed goods industry is huge in Texas. It creates 1.7 million jobs and generates $87.8 billion in annual income, according to the Consumer Brand Association, which reports one out of every ten jobs in Texas can be traced back to the CPG industry. Now, that industry is getting a boost from Austin-based SKU, […]. The post Austin’s SKU Expands its Consumer Packaged Goods Accelerator to the Dallas-Fort Worth Market appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 21, 2020

The post 19 media startups that top VCs say are poised to take off in 2020, as the pandemic reshapes the industry appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Jeff Hilimire

JULY 21, 2020

I’ve found myself in the podcasting world for the first time, and I have to say…I kinda like it :). What led me here, if I’m really being introspective, is the feeling that most of the things that I write about on this blog – time management , building a great culture , leadership , etc. – aren’t maybe the most important things to be writing about these days.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. Will they compete with me? what if they decide to enter my niche? What will they announce in the next Google I/O keynote? The same might be true for your view of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, etc.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2020

You turn up the volume of your marketing efforts to meet quarterly KPIs—sending out more posts, emails, and ads. But instead of increasing leads, you see diminishing returns. What’s going on? Customer-focused content marketing can help you stand out from the din of competitor marketing and connect with audiences. But knowing your marketing needs to be customer-focused is one thing; producing it is another.

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