Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

I was having coffee with the CEO of a new startup, listening to her puzzle through how to communicate to potential customers. She was an academic on leave from Stanford now selling SAAS software to large companies, but was being inundated with marketing communications advice. “My engineers say our website is old school, and we need to be on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, my VP of Sales says we’re wasting our marketing dollars not targeting the right people and my board keeps giving me their op

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2017

by Lauren Ruef, Research Analyst for Nvoicepay. Henry Kissinger once said, “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” This can’t be done without the discomfort of change. What works now probably isn’t going to work in the future, and the sooner it’s accepted, the faster team’s can innovate.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 5, 2017

Creating greater job satisfaction is so important and can really help your workers to be the best they can be. Here are some good tips to do so. Create An Environment Of Trust At All Levels Of Your Organization. Senior management has to establish trust with all other employees. People have to trust their leaders. Employees in authority positions should earn this trust by demonstrating credibility, honesty and integrity in all their actions.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2017

It’s never business as usual. With the 2009 economic crash, entrepreneurs and startups flooded the market (for better or worse!). Even though over 90 percent of startups fail, there are more startups than ever before. Technology has also dramatically shifted how we do business as virtual offices, telecommuting and “the cloud” are moving us towards a global market as the norm — not the exception.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2017

Even small business have a global reach these days, thanks to the Internet. Thus every entrepreneur and business owner needs to see their market in that context, understanding the global forces that will impact them sooner or later. This impact can be positive, as a huge untapped opportunity, or negative as a global competitor invades your local space.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2017

by Karen Burns, an Assurance Partner at Sensiba San Filippo and the President of the East Bay Manufacturing Group. It’s tough being a midmarket business. Accounting and reporting requirements can be a significant burden for start-ups and companies without the vast human and financial resources of larger enterprises. Luckily, one organization is hard at work trying to make things more manageable for these middle market companies: The Private Company Council (PCC).

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YFS Magazine

APRIL 5, 2017

Ready to attract leads that convert into sales? Try these 10 simple techniques to drive more conversions and boost the effectiveness of your website.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 5, 2017

In the fall of 2007, my friend Phil Weiser, Executive Director of CU Boulder’s Silicon Flatirons Center, convened 25 leaders from CU Boulder and the Boulder / Denver startup community. We spent an afternoon talking about the idea of an entrepreneurial university. Phil called the meeting a Roundtable, even though the table was long and rectangular. The discussion that day was heated.

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YFS Magazine

APRIL 5, 2017

When it comes to public speaking, success has as much to do with your personal brand style as it does with content of the speech.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 5, 2017

This year’s CU NVC Championships is happening on April 6 at 5:30 pm. This is CU Boulder’s best entrepreneurial party. My partner Jason Mendelson will be there to help judge. Go. You’ll have fun. Registration is free. The post CU New Venture Challenge 9 Championship – 4/6/17 @ 5:30pm appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 5, 2017

Every practice feels the pressure from reduced insurance payments, and the rise of corporate dental practices, but there are untapped opportunities in your office right now that you can turn into revenue and growth. Check out these great profit hacks, that you can put in place today, this week and this month. TODAY. Mine the untapped resource of inactive patients currently within your practice management system.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2017

FINALLY, we can talk about this one. a16z just led a $10.5 Series A in Shield AI , with supporting participation from existing investors. We were fortunate to lead Shield’s earlier seed round and it’s been such a pleasure working on behalf of this team. Shield sells autonomous robotics into the public sector, initially the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2017

There’s no better time than now. Silicon Valley is on a tear, so it might seem like the US is teeming with startups. But, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research , the number of high-growth startups has been declining since the 90’s. New firms make up about eight percent of companies, versus 13 percent in the 80’s. After the turn of the century, startups created fewer jobs than they did before the year 2000.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 5, 2017

By LAURA LOREK Publisher and Reporter with Silicon Hills News Host of the Ideas to Invoices Podcast Next Coast Ventures might be able to afford to lose $1 million on an investment, but can an entrepreneur afford to lose five to ten years of their life working on a startup that doesn’t hit it big? […] The post Next Coast Ventures’ Founders Give Fundraising Advice appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 5, 2017

Try these latest measures of business and consumer confidence: Last week, the National Association of Manufacturers released its Manufacturer’s’ Outlook Survey , showing 93 percent of manufacturers feel positive about their economic outlook. This is the highest in the survey’s 20-year history, up from 56.6 percent one year ago and 77.8 percent in December.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 5, 2017

Zilliant, founded in 1999, just landed $30 million in funding from Goldman Sachs. The Austin-based company, which created a customer relationship platform with built in artificial intelligence, plans to use the funds for global growth opportunities in the business to business enterprise industry across multiple sectors, according to a news release. “We have selected Goldman […] The post Zilliant Lands $30 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2017

How to Produce Content with a Limited Budget written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Chris Moody. Podcast Transcript. Yes indeed, it’s another show and post on content. Most businesses have a limited amount of budget and time for content production, so it’s crucial that you get very good at producing and repurposing everything you produce.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2017

Transcript of How to Produce Content with a Limited Budget written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Transcript provided by Verbatim Transcription Services. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John: We all need content but what does it take to produce content when you have no budget and no resources and no time. We’re going to talk to Chris Moody about producing content with little budget.

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