Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 15, 2017
Many board meetings are bored meetings. Management teams whisk through slides trying to get through a presentation to share how great things are going and they are eager to get through the meeting so they can get back to their real jobs. This is a shame since the value that the right board could add is immense if you select the right board members and manage them effectively.
Up and Running
AUGUST 15, 2017
“The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.” ― Robert L. Schwartz. It takes guts and gumption to leave behind the familiar and secure 9 to 5 job, start something new from scratch, and be completely accountable for its fate. Having said that, entrepreneurship continues to attract a large number of millennials, especially those thirsting to carve a niche for themselves in the crowded b
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The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 15, 2017
According to Christopher Penn , the Director of Sales at the Princeton Review, their sales team recently saw a significant increase in closed deals following the implementation of a new lead scoring sales tool. How significant? Almost 200 additional deals in under 6 weeks, representing $170,000 in additional revenue. Christopher Penn- Director of Sales at The Princeton Review.
Gust
AUGUST 15, 2017
So you’ve developed a game-changing product, formed a business with a killer team, quit your job, and are rolling the product out to market. Your business is the next unicorn, and all is good in the world. Fantastic. Now only one thing is inhibiting your company’s growth: you have no money. For many founders of high-growth startups, bootstrapping has limits.
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
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 15, 2017
by Maurice De Castro, founder of Mindful Presenter. Businesses owners and entrepreneurs have a story to tell and must think strategically in order to tell it. Yes, pitching your business idea to a prospective investor can be nerve-wracking, but there are ways to make it easier – for yourself and for the person listening. The audience – the investor – is the centre of your universe for those few precious moments in which you have their undivided attention.
View from Seed
AUGUST 15, 2017
Today, Samantha Howe of Grove Collaborative shares her in-depth knowledge of a massive trend in marketing: working with influencers. You’ll hear how to get started, approach influencer in your space, and measure impact. Jay and Samantha also rant against some of the less effective but common tactics permeating this approach to marketing. Channel Links: Apple Podcast , SoundCloud , Stitcher , Google Play.
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YFS Magazine
AUGUST 15, 2017
Raising money for a boutique startup fund was new for me. Here are four lessons that can make fundraising less challenging.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 15, 2017
Chris Treadaway doesn’t chain smoke or drink cocktails all day at his office at WeWork at the Domain. But he is living a Modern-Day version of Mad Men, the AMC TV series that dramatized the lives of ad men in the 1960s at a fictional New York advertising agency. Today, Treadaway is involved in the […]. The post Polygraph Media is Disrupting the Advertising Industry through Data and Analytics appeared first on SiliconHills.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 15, 2017
I took the last two weeks off from blogging. It was a nice vacation. While I try to blog every day, I don’t have a daily ritual like Fred Wilson does. Fred and I have talked about this a few times – for him, it is meditation, discipline, and ritual. I’ll let him say it in his own words. “But I’ve come to realize that the daily post, and its quality or lack thereof, is not really the thing.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 15, 2017
In 2016, Preston James, Ashley Jennings, and Dana Callender founded DivInc to bring greater entrepreneurial diversity to Austin’s technology industry. The 12-week accelerator program, based at Capital Factory, has graduated two cohorts so far and made a big impact on providing women and minorities with greater access to mentors, funding, partnerships and the overall inner […].
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 15, 2017
5 Copywriting Tips That Will Explode Your Sales written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Regardless of size and stature, all businesses have one thing in common: they all rely on words to sell. No matter what your product or service is (or how good it is), you’ll need to communicate the value of what you’re selling effectively if you are to make money.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 15, 2017
The Austin CityUP (ACUP) Consortium is leading the effort to turn Austin into a smart city that uses technology, data, and analytics to improves services, infrastructure, policies, and quality of life. One priority is modernizing the mass transportation system, turning it from a means for getting from Point A to Point B into a real-time news and information delivery system.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 15, 2017
Why Podcasting Is Still a Great Way to Grow Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The term podcasting is quite buzzworthy these days and interest in this medium is on the rise and in my opinion, rightfully so. Not only is it convenient for listeners who want topics that they’re interested in on demand, it’s also valuable for the person or business hosting them.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 15, 2017
Knowing how to measure content marketing ROI, like measuring optimization ROI , is hard. And complicated. Or is it? Andy Crestodina, founder of Orbit Media Studios , and I did some digging to figure out the easiest way to measure content returns. Here’s what we found: Measuring content ROI is really as simple as knowing your conversion rate. That is, you need to know which channels cause clicks to which articles, which articles convert visitors into leads, and which leads convert into customers
Austin Startup
AUGUST 15, 2017
Photo by Daniel Funes Fuentes on Unsplash If you understand software, you would recognize that open source software is continually pushing our limits for innovation. Bitcoin, Chromium, Git, just to name a few. We wouldn’t be where we are today without open source. Some open source software are run by nonprofit entities (such as Mozilla Foundation running Firefox) while most open source are just publicly hosted online.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 15, 2017
Knowing how to measure content marketing ROI, like measuring optimization ROI , is hard. And complicated. Or is it? Andy Crestodina, founder of Orbit Media Studios , and I did some digging to figure out the easiest way to measure content returns. Here’s what we found: Measuring content ROI is really as simple as knowing your conversion rate. That is, you need to know which channels cause clicks to which articles, which articles convert visitors into leads, and which leads convert into customers
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