Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2016

The Local SEO Playbook – Your Guide to Local Rankings written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Look, if you’re a local business, meaning most or all of your business comes from customers living in your community, you must get very serious about local SEO. Don’t worry, ranking locally for the kinds of things your prospects are looking for isn’t rocket science, but it does take a serious commitment to a handful of things.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2016

by Sean Blanks, Marketing Director at cartridgesave.co.uk. When calculating how long a project will take, it’s received wisdom to triple the cost and double the time. We’re currently re-platforming our site and I’m taking all predicated deadlines with a pinch of salt. I am full expecting the deadline to come and go, and the final site to be delivered a couple of months after originally quoted.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 21, 2016

This cliche, which has uncertain attribution (Winston Churchill, Rahm Emmanuel, M. F. Weiner) is a priceless line that gets tossed out periodically, especially in the middle of a crisis. Over the years I’ve been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2016

By Rachel Craig, Rapid Formations. There is no requirement to live in the UK to set up a business here. Non residents are eligible to register and manage a UK limited company as long as they can satisfy the following three conditions: Are at least 16 years old. Are not going through the process of bankruptcy. Have not been disqualified from company directorship.

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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

Startup

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 21, 2016

I met with a family office investor yesterday and we were talking about his family's interest in diversifying their investments into early stage companies. They mostly participated in real estate transactions--an asset class where actual due diligence is conducted, deals take months, even years to close, and assets are sometimes held for decades. It's an asset class built on relationships.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 21, 2016

ValueWalk have reported on new data out from Prequin that shows continued growth Micro-VC fundraising. Micro-VC growth has been going on long enough now that I’m hearing LPs question whether we’ve reached saturation point and this segment of the market would benefit from some contraction. Certainly that’s the argument Samir Kaji is making.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 21, 2016

Stage-by-Stage Change in US Venture Capital Deployed (Deal Value) – Mattermark. Stage-by-Stage Change in US Venture Capital Deal Volume – Mattermark. Mattermark just released data for deal volume and value in the US in May. As you can see the trend is down, particularly in Seed and Series A. Moreover, as they point out these are lag measures because they report announced deals and deals are often announced 6-12 weeks after completion.

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Europe Venture Capital Marketing 81

Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2016

With mechanization representing 25 percent of operating costs on a farm, choosing the appropriate agricultural equipment is a key factor for successful farming. A profitable business simply cannot function without machinery! Thousands of different machines and brands are currently available to choose from and they all differ in quality, functionality and price.

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 21, 2016

The difference between people who take action and those who are capable but don’t take action is the power of differentiating awareness from self-awareness.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 21, 2016

I received this note, in the mail last year. It did its job – she got the meeting with me immediately. While I was always willing to meet with her, I never it made it a priority until I got this letter. If you are struggling to get a key meeting with someone, I encourage you to use this letter as a template. It’s funny, sincere, engaging and surely unique.

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 21, 2016

Here's a look at the best blogs, created by entrepreneurs, that contain insight to help you work smarter.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JUNE 21, 2016

I recently was a guest blogger for Gibson Insurance and I wrote this piece about the risk of Not Innovating. I’ll make the point again here — with fewer words. For more detail, read my post over at Gibson. Risk Aversion is a Risk Itself. Many leaders pull back on innovation programs because of expenses, and, fear of change. They settle for small changes and improvements and continue to look at innovation as if it’s extra work.

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 21, 2016

Timelines are a fundamental aspect of business. If you look at it the right way, you can use this to your advantage.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 21, 2016

Austin lost its bid to become the winner of $50 million in prizes in the Smart City Challenge from the U.S. Department of Transportation and Vulcan Philanthropy to Columbus, Ohio, according to a report in The Columbus Dispatch. Columbus beat Austin, Denver, Portland, Oregon, Kansas City, Missouri, Pittsburgh and San Francisco to win the first […] The post Austin Loses $50 Million Smart City Challenge to Columbus appeared first on SiliconHills.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2016

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for ezequielsantos. Check out more great work on ezequielsantos’ profile page. Nicely done, ezequielsantos, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: 5IVE_STAR_CREATIVE.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 21, 2016

NSS Labs, an information security research and advisory company, announced it has raised $16 million in new equity and bank financing. The Austin-based company plans to use the funds to finance the growth of its security products and cloud-based security and risk management platform. Delta-v Capital led the round with participating from LiveOak Venture Partners. […] The post NSS Labs Raises $16 Million in Funds appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 21, 2016

I’m currently reading the book, Shoe Dog , by Phil Knight. If you don’t know that name, he’s the guy that started Nike. And apparently, he’s a terrific writer. He was a runner growing up, and ran track for the University of Oregon. In the book he has this great quote when talking about running (he was referring specifically to drafting ): “Front runners always run the hardest, and risk the most.” I believe this also applies to people in leadership, and particu

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2016

Is it Possible to Eliminate the Need to Sell? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If the idea of leveraging your expertise to skyrocket your position in your industry while also virtually eliminating the need to sell ever again – all without spending big money – sounds appealing to you, then you need to read on. About six months ago I launched an initiative to help members of the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network write and promote books they have written – this i

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ConversionXL

JUNE 21, 2016

Most people stick to one end of the testing spectrum, which is where iterative testing falls. Why? Likely because it’s the most talked about, the most publicized. However, there is another end of the spectrum to explore, which is where innovative testing falls. Understanding one without the other is a disservice to yourself, your colleagues and your boss / clients.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 21, 2016

At Version One, we take a thematic approach to investing and are very focused on start-ups with strong network effects , like marketplaces and social platforms. This year, we’ve been writing about the power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and the potential for strong data network effects to emerge with these companies – particularly when start-ups can build proprietary data sets.

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