Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

In my role as advisor to small businesses, I often hear first-hand the challenges and failures of retail store owners who fear the advantages of online and feel the exodus to eCommerce, led by Amazon and Ebay. Ironically, the most common desire I hear from entrepreneurs selling wholly online, is the need for their entry into retail, as the next step in their growth strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

So, you’re ready to launch your startup, or perhaps you already have. You’ve come up with a great product that you believe solves a problem in your chosen niche. Your next question is: how do you get customers to see the value in what you’re selling enough to want a piece of the pie? Attracting new customers is a challenge every entrepreneur faces, but retaining their business is equally critical to the growth and survival of a business.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Two weeks ago I wrote about our Skill and Pace value. Another of our four values is Enjoy The Journey. This one is more axiomatic for me than the others. Everyone at Forward Partners is devoting a significant part of their life to the cause and if it’s not enjoyable, what’s the point? The journey is the destination. But what does it mean to live the value “Enjoy The Journey”?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

by Sue Hawkes, author of “ Chasing Perfection – Shatter The Illusion; Minimize Self-Doubt & Maximize Success “ “Work-life balance” is a running theme in this hectic world, but also an elusive goal. The phrase is plastered everywhere as people aspire to achieve ideal harmony between family life and professional career. The demands of both, however, make it difficult to pull off, especially for anyone in a leadership position – and maybe there’s a good reason for that.

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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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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Whether you’re a business owner looking to reach customers or an individual who wants to build an online personality, blogging and social media are two of the most important tools you can use. Utilizing these two tools in conjunction with one another is a key component of building a strong online presence, and creating an image for yourself or your company.

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ithacaVC

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Happy Thanksgiving!! Or as I like to say “GobbleGobble!!” A friend of mine just sent me this “all in one” resource published by the NYSE called “The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap – From Concept to IPO” I first saw that it was 321 pages and thought to myself that it would be indigestible to most entrepreneurs.

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