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Creative Ways To Improve Your Customer’s Online Experience

YoungUpstarts

In e-commerce, retaining customers is essential to the survival of your business. It has long been known that keeping a customer is much cheaper than acquiring a new one, as those customers tend to be far more receptive to sales and promotions after they have made an initial purchase with you. Retaining a customer involves keeping them engaged, anticipating their needs, and making sure your brand stays at the top of their mind whenever they are thinking about purchasing again.

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3 Things Online Retailers Can Learn From Brick And Mortars

YFS Magazine

Online retail is the future — we all know that. But don’t count traditional brick and mortar stores out just yet. Here's why.

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4 Ways To Trade Effectively Online

YoungUpstarts

If you have ever considered beginning to trade stocks online, now is perhaps the best time to jump on the band wagon. The global stock markets have been performing well for the least decade. The array of technology tools at your disposal is rather impressive, putting a wealth of information right at your fingertips. In fact, you can become a trader in the comfort of your own home, setting your own hours to monitor potential buys and sells.

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Building Product in a Saturated Niche [Traction Podcast #39: Ellen Chisa, Lola]

View from Seed

Ellen Chisa is VP of product at Lola , a travel company combining the human element of travel agents with smart technology. While some entrepreneurs build their products in markets that feel wide open for the taking, travel is one of those industries with tons of noise and competition. So how does one gain a foothold? How do you break through, build something BIG and DIFFERENTIATED?

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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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5 Key Ingredients Make A Happy Content Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Building a startup is hard work for low pay, it’s risky, and it requires total responsibility to make it work. Yet, many entrepreneurs are the happiest people I know. On the other hand, I know many unhappy individuals who are always partying, have minimal commitments, and little responsibility. I suspect the real parameters of happiness have eluded these people.

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Four Habits To Help You Make Better Decisions Now

YoungUpstarts

by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, author of “ Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and Conviction “ We all grow up to be decision makers. Yet somehow there’s no well-established way to make high-stakes decisions well. But it can be messy and overwhelming to figure out how to solve thorny problems.

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It’s Time For You To Learn How To Market Yourself

YoungUpstarts

If you are the proud owner of a brand new business, you’ll need to market it. However, one thing that many new business owners completely fail to pick up on is the need to market not only their business but also themselves. In today’s increasingly social media driven world, businesses are not merely cold, impersonal corporate entities. Even some of the world’s largest and most multifaceted conglomerates have recognizable names and faces at their head.

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Startup Xpenditure turned down 20 VCs, but for what?

The Next Web

In the startup world, venture capitalists can find themselves treated as demigods. Feted by startup founders, by the media and by government, VC’s wield power, influence and, most importantly, money. Alternatives to VC rounds are rarely considered. It’s expected that Series B follows A, and A follows seed. For a young startup ‘VC-funded’ is seen as a badge of honour to attract new employees and investors.

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6 Tips For The New Lawyer

YoungUpstarts

Are you a new lawyer? Then there’s a good chance that you still need some advice on how to become the best lawyer that you can be. Not all lawyers can be as cool, calm, and collected as Jeremy Diamond. There’s a lot of things to learn even after you finish law school and begin your practice full-time. The stress of the job can hit you and there are even the occasional sleepless nights as you turn information over in your mind.

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Introducing Our New Partner – Chris Moody

Feld Thoughts

We are excited to announce that Chris Moody is joining Foundry Group as a partner. When we started Foundry Group in 2006, we were very clear that we were not going to build a legacy venture capital firm; one meant to outlive its founders. There would be no generational planning, no transitions to younger partners, and no senior partner hold-outs who would hang onto economics well after they had stopped working.

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5 Things To Consider Before Applying For A Bank Loan

YoungUpstarts

by Meredith Wood, Editor-in-Chief at Fundera. When most of us imagine applying for a business loan, we probably think of driving down to the local bank where we’ve done business for years, speaking with a loan officer, and going through the loan application process with that known and trusted lender. Unfortunately, though, brick and mortar banks have undergone a lot of changes since the 2008 recession — one of the biggest ones being their willingness to fund small business loans.

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Strong Leaders Always Play The Blame Game

YFS Magazine

Whenever a business experiences consistently high employee turnover, strong leaders understand that the key to success is to always blame someone else.

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Starting A SEO Consulting Business – What Should You Know?

YoungUpstarts

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it refers to a technique in Internet marketing that helps websites reach higher ranks both in organic and in paid online searches. This domain is quite a dynamic one, so things change pretty fast. As an SEO expert, you might want to keep up with the new stuff and work on your own, instead of offering your services to a company.

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Sales Forecasting: A Curated List of Our Best Resources

Up and Running

When it comes to starting and managing a business, forecasting your sales is essential. Having a sales forecast can help you budget and manage your business’s funds, create a plan for expansion, and avoid unpleasant surprises. However, if you’re not a “numbers person,” you might feel understandably intimidated by the process. To that end, here are our best resources on sales forecasting, starting with the basics and moving on to industry-specific examples.

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Ten Tips For Your Next Law Conference

YoungUpstarts

If you’re keen on keeping up to date with the latest in law and on making strong connections through networking with fellow peers, then the best way to do this is by attending law conferences. There are a number of notable conferences that happen across the US & Canada each year, but you want to make sure you pick the right ones for you so that you can gain the most out of each trip.

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Optimizely Buys Austin-based Experiment Engine

SiliconHills

Optimizely, based in San Francisco, announced Wednesday it has purchased Austin-based Experiment Engine. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Experiment Engine, a graduate of the Austin Techstars program, creates tools and services that help companies test products online. Claire Vo, Experiment Engine’s CEO and Founder, will join Optimizely and continue to manage […] The post Optimizely Buys Austin-based Experiment Engine appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Top 3 Essentials for Your Startup Business

The Startup Magazine

So, you are done with school and are now ready to venture into the world of business. You are interested in being an entrepreneur, and you have no idea of where to start or how to go about it. Starting a business has its challenges, but once you get a starting point and some direction it gets easier by the day. Here are the top 3 essential things you need for your startup business.

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The Impressionist Art of Conversation

Mike Michalowicz

I still don’t have a Kindle, and don’t think I want one. I love the feel of physical books. I love the subtle cracking sound of the spin when I first open a new one. And most importantly I love writing my thoughts on the pages as they come to me. I envision the authors ideas and my own blending together. Strengthening. A mastermind of sorts.

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Public testimony in support of Short Term Rental Bill HB2551

Austin Startup

I testified in support of Short Term Rental bills SB451 and HB2551. Here is my testimony in support of HB2551 from April 18, 2017. Members of the committee, My name is Josh Margolis. I have been an Airbnb Host in Austin for almost five years. We live in our home and the guests stay with us. We have hosted people from all over the country and the world.

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The Fall of American Retail: Don’t Let This Happen to Your Business

Growthink Blog

The retail industry's woes have crossed the tipping point. Already in 2017, we’ve seen these store closing announcements: JCPenney (138 stores to be shuttered), Radio Shack (552 stores), Payless Shoes (400 stores), Macy's (68 stores), Sears and Kmart (150 stores), The Limited (250 stores), American Apparel (110 stores), BCBG (120 stores), and Staples (70 stores).

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Splitting vs. Expanding the Pie: Thoughts on the New Early-Stage VCs in Boston

Rob Go

Recently, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time with a number of the new early-stage investors in Boston. There are a lot of new folks in the space. Just last week, Axios announced that Stephen Marcus is raising a fund called Riot Ventures and Term Sheet announced that Nilanjana Bhowmik from Longworth will be joining Converge. In addition to these firms, others that have launched relatively recently include: Hyperplane.

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What Personality and Poker Have to Do with Innovation

Duct Tape Marketing

What Personality and Poker Have to Do with Innovation written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Stephen Shapiro. Podcast Transcript. Getting sales and marketing on the same page is an age-old problem for many organizations. While they may actually have objectives that are at odds, there’s also a good chance the people and personalities could be mismatched as well.

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5 Things Every Property Business Startup Needs To Know Before Starting

YoungUpstarts

A successful property business requires a lot of active work and strategic decision making. And maybe you already prepared for this. But you still have a lot of consideration and planning to do before you put a large chunk of your hard earned cash into a property business startup! Here are 5 things you need to know before you invest a single cent into the property market: #1 Property Tech Is Exists and You Need to Know About It.

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Transcript of What Personality Poker Has to Do with Innovation

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of What Personality Poker Has to Do with Innovation written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Transcript provided by Verbatim Transcription Services. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: What do personality and poker have to do with innovation? Well, that’s what we’re going to find out when we talk to Stephen Shapiro on this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.

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