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Productivity Tips For Small Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

by Ana Grasic , cofounder of WeGrowth. Starting your own business takes a lot of courage and determination, but it can also be very rewarding. That’s why the majority of small business owners will tell you that they would do it all over again, even though it is hard work. Being your own boss has its ups and downs, just like any other part of your life, really.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Competitive Analysis

ConversionXL

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” —Napoleon Bonaparte. When your competitors make mistakes, it makes winning so much easier. But what if it’s you who is making a mistake, while your competitors are off to the races? You won’t know until you figure out what your competitors are up to. Knowing what the competitors are doing – how they are thinking about the market, what tactics they are using, how they are crafting messages and design – can make all the differen

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What’s our NPS as investors?

Version One Ventures

A few weeks ago, Forbes released their annual Midas List of Top Tech Investors , recognizing those investors who have backed unicorns and seen strong returns for their funds. For these investors, their success is partly due to the fact that they are good pickers and can see opportunities like Uber and Airbnb. But there’s more to it than that. Great investors are at the right place at the right time by being thought leaders and generally solid and helpful individuals.

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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

645 Ventures 645 Ventures makes deeply-researched investments in institutional Seed to Series A rounds for exceptional companies who demonstrate stellar early results in the areas of market validation, product differentiation, team strength, and brand narrative. We focus primarily on software and Internet companies in areas such as SaaS, application software, financial software, consumer internet, and online marketplaces.

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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

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4 Onsite SEO Tips You Can’t Put Off in 2017

Duct Tape Marketing

4 Onsite SEO Tips You Can’t Put Off in 2017 written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Chances are you have more SEO opportunities than time in 2017. If you’re having trouble prioritizing your SEO needs for the year, read on for four onsite SEO tips that will have the most impact on traffic and sales from organic search this year. 1 – Optimizing Mobile SEO & User Experience.

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The Journey From $1m MRR to $2m MRR

Feld Thoughts

There’s a long-standing cliche concerning SaaS companies that once you get to $10m in ARR you are unkillable. As Jason Lemkin says in his post from early 2013: Inevitability in SaaS comes around $10m in ARR, plus or minus. Once you hit this point, you have a brand, you have a fully baked team, you have a robust product, and you have a self-generating stream of new leads and new business.

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The Final Copywriter’s Secret

Rembrandt Communications

Here it is. The final secret in my series on “4 Secrets About Running Your Own Copywriting Business You Rarely Hear” Secret #4: You need to have a good grasp on finances. What is this equation called? a2 + b2 = c2 (Hint – It’s used to identify the length of the sides of a […]. The post The Final Copywriter’s Secret appeared first on Boost sales fast with content marketing strategy and PR here.

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Business Surveillance: 5 Creative Ways To Hide Security Cameras

YFS Magazine

Security cameras can protect your company's most valuable assets. While security cameras are commonplace for many businesses, not all cameras are hidden.

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Please map your goal and USE that map!

Berkonomics

It’s time to speak of some sort of business plan. As a professional investor in early stage companies, I have long discounted long, detailed business plans in favor of a concise “executive summary” followed by a believable spreadsheet-based financial forecast projecting three to five years into the future. Yes, everything does change between drafting that plan and its successful execution.

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Selecting An Exhibition Stand For Tradeshows And Events

The Startup Magazine

Attending tradeshows can be a great way to get the word out about your products or services. Of course, like any other part of your business, making a good impression on people attending these tradeshows relies on creating a high-quality presentation. If you really want people to see your business in the best light, you need to choose a well-designed exhibition stand that helps set your company apart from its competitors.

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Techstars’ Jason Seats Recounts Lessons From his Entrepreneurial Journey on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast

SiliconHills

In 2006, Jason Seats joined his college friend Matt Tanase to found Slicehost in St Louis. Two years later, they sold Slicehost, a cloud computing hosting provider aimed at developers, to San Antonio-based Rackspace for millions. This week on the Ideas to Invoices podcast, Seats recounts how he built Slicehost with Tanase into a thriving […] The post Techstars’ Jason Seats Recounts Lessons From his Entrepreneurial Journey on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast appeared first on SiliconHill

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Why the Practices Of Great Leadership Stay the Same As The World Changes Around Them

YoungUpstarts

by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, coauthors of “ The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations “ What do leaders do when they are performing at their best? It’s an interesting question. And here’s a more compelling one: Do the practices that made a leader exemplary in the (pre-Internet, pre-globalization) 1980s produce the same effect here in 2017?