Version One Ventures
AUGUST 26, 2016
There’s a lot of debate surrounding the right time to bring executive level hires into your start-up. But one thing is clear: how you build your team over the first few years can determine the trajectory of your company more than any other decision you make. There are no right answers here. Every start-up is unique so the same path won’t work for every company and management team.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 26, 2016
Three Reasons Google Analytics is Worthless for Small Business written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Pexels. If you own a small business that has a website, you probably want to know how many people are visiting your site. In fact, you probably want to know a lot more than that. You want to know how they got to your site, how much time they spend on your site once they get there, how many pages they look at, and lots of other things.
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YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 26, 2016
By Lea Schneider. It’s no surprise that everyone I know plays the “makeover game.” Take a walk or drive around your neighborhood and you can’t help but thinking of ideas for other people’s houses. You look at them and imagine updating with cedar shutters, trimming back old hedges and brightening things with new trim paint. You might be surprised to realize people do that with stores as well.
Brandanew
AUGUST 26, 2016
Implementation of innovative technologies is not the end of your enterprise digital strategy. Success of a digital transformation for a business depends on your overall vision. You need strategies that move away from solving just a few problems to embracing solutions that can improve the total performance of your company. In this age, it is important to adapt to the rapid business changes by fully incorporating digital solutions in future plans.
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 Professionals Musings
AUGUST 26, 2016
With today’s interactive social media and the real-time Internet, both customers and employees see inside your company easily, so you can’t hide your real company culture. At the same time relationship perceptions have become the biggest drivers to customer loyalty and employee engagement. Thus in every business, big or small, culture can make or break your success.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 26, 2016
Facebook can be a magical thing. I’m often frustrated about how to engage with it (I’m more of a Twitter person) but every now and then something happens that reminds me how awesome Facebook can be. For a variety of silly reasons, I had lost touch with my best friend in high school (Kent Ellington) about 30 years ago. Last year, when I was in Austin with my college fraternity gang – about 20 of us that span three years who go someone every few years (whenever someone gets their
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Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 26, 2016
I done a number of video interviews lately. This seems to be the norm for a live event today. I start with a short one from when I was in Adelaide, then a longer one from Sydney, and wrap it up with what is one of the most fun interviews I’ve ever done – this time in Minneapolis with my partner Seth. Enjoy! Beta.MN Talks: Brad Feld & Seth Levine pt.1 from TECHdotMN on Vimeo.
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 26, 2016
Being a mom isn’t easy. Being an entrepreneur is no walk in the park either. We put them together. What did we think?
Up and Running
AUGUST 26, 2016
If you run a small business that sends out invoices, you’ve probably already encountered this problem: Late-paying customers. If customers habitually pay off your invoices later than you want, you could very well end up with a serious cash flow problem on your hands. According to a study led by U.S. Bank, 82 percent of startup and small business failures can be traced back to cash flow mismanagement.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 26, 2016
Apollo Global Management Friday announced plans to acquire San Antonio-based Rackspace for $4.3 billion. Apollo plans to acquire the company for $32 a share in cash and will take the company private in the process. As part of the deal, funds managed by Searchlight Capital Partners will make a strategic equity investment in Rackspace. The […] The post Apollo Global Acquires Rackspace for $4.3 Billion appeared first on SiliconHills.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 26, 2016
You can divide SEO tactics into two general categories: the black hat and the white hat. I believe we can do a similar classification with conversion optimization. If we had two categories worth distinction they would be: BS CRO. Intelligent CRO. Perhaps using the same concept of Black Hat and White Hat for conversion optimization is a step too far.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 26, 2016
By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News A panel of Austin entrepreneurs talked about the integration of marketing, sales, and software yesterday at a Salesforce event for small business users of the monolithic Customer Relationship Management platform. Key takeaways included: Just because you can build your own solution doesn’t make it a good idea […] The post Salesforce Hosts Small Business Essentials Event in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 26, 2016
You’ve seen reports about how influencer marketing is “the next big thing.” You’ve read articles and case studies talking about how… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
SiliconHills
AUGUST 26, 2016
Austin is the top spot in the country for startup activity and San Antonio earns the 13th spot on the Kauffman Foundation’s latest Startup Index. The five metros with the highest startup activity in the 2016 index were Austin, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas. Austin ranked at the top spot in 2015 […] The post Austin and San Antonio Ranked Top Metros for Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 26, 2016
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Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 26, 2016
9 Tools to Outsource Your Content: Graphic, Text and Video written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Running a business takes a lot of hard work, time, and skill. You’re great at the business part, but how about your marketing? Social media is the best way to get the word out there about your business, but it may not be your strong suit.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 26, 2016
The journey continues Continue reading on Austin Startups ».
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 26, 2016
5 Ways to Organize Email Marketing to Achieve Higher ROI written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I like to say that email marketing is like a headed cabbage. It might seem like a simple concept, but it has many layers. In fact, the deeper you go into the email rabbit hole, the more you realize that there are more things you need to pay attention to and optimize than you had thought.
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