Mon.Oct 16, 2017

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Publication Day for "The Startup Way"

Startup Lessons Learned

Today, my new book, The Startup Way , finally hits bookshelves! It's a huge day for any author, but I also hope it can be a huge day for the future and growth of the startup movement and for the future of our country. I want people to use my book as a way to start conversations about the critical roles of innovation and sustainable growth everywhere from startups to large corporations to public policy.

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Top-Down Problem-Solving For Healthy Businesses

YoungUpstarts

by Robert Bethel, author of “ Strengthen Your Business: Fail-Proof Strategies from the Man Who Has Rescued 77 Businesses “ When I come into a new business, I know a good deal about what’s going, but I’m not arrogant enough to think I have it all figured out. To solve the problems plaguing the operation, I leverage the greatest asset any business owner has — the TEAM.

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6 Insights On Social Media Trends You Need To Know

Startup Professionals Musings

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore.

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The Importance Of Understanding Culture When Dealing With Global Business

YoungUpstarts

The success of a company comes from its capacity to grow and attract new customers. As a new business owner, you will constantly be looking to new areas and markets to sell your products. Although there are many different markets out there that you can move into, knowing how to conduct your business in a new country is a vital part of the process. Understanding the culture and the customs involved is often as important as knowing how to market in those areas.

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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 Ways To Become A Well-Rounded Entrepreneur

YFS Magazine

Here are a few ways you can become more well-rounded and gain the knowledge you need to succeed in business. without racking up student loan debt.

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6 Guerrilla Marketing Tactics For New Businesses

YoungUpstarts

by Nate Vickery, editor-in-chief of Bizzmarkblog.com. New businesses are usually strapped for cash, which means that they don’t have enough money for costly marketing strategies. Left to their own devices, they have to be as creative as possible and come up with some fresh, non-traditional approaches to promote themselves. This doesn’t have to be bad at all.

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What I Learned About Entrepreneurship by Diving Into a Saturated Market

Up and Running

I started my first business at eight years old, buying and selling Beanie Babies, to afford an electric guitar. I liked the feeling of buying something for a low price, then selling it at a markup at the right time. Little did I know, I’d just discovered my passion for growing young companies. Years later, I had moved beyond plush toys and into digital marketing.

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Digital Security Is Not Working Very Well

Feld Thoughts

We live in a digital world with a false sense of security. While watching Blade Runner 2049 I smiled during a scene near the end where Deckard says to K, “What Have You Done?!?!?” I expect that this false sense of security will still exist in 2049 if humans manage to still be around. The first big piece of security news this weekend was ‘All wifi networks’ are vulnerable to hacking, security expert discovers.

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3 Reasons Why You Need A Company Blog, Like, Yesterday

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at 3 effective ways a company blog can help grow your business.

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I Can Be Difficult

This is going to be BIG.

Last week, I heard the word "difficult" describing investors twice. Once was about me and once wasn't. The founder and investor relationship is, in fact, a difficult one to get right. Both sides walk in with a lot of cognitive biases and style differences unique to every pair. Meanwhile, the work of trust building is hard and takes a long time. In one instance, there was an investor holding up a round after agreeing to sign off on something verbally.

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Interview with John Monarch: How I Helped My Company Grow From a Startup

The Startup Magazine

John Monarch is a successful CEO and the Founder of logistics and fulfillment company Direct Outbound. He is a serial entrepreneur, launching a variety of ventures since graduating from Clemson University after studying physics in 2009. Monarch works as a small business consultant in addition to his work with Direct Outbound. His experience in logistics has helped numerous start-ups and e-commerce companies become more successful.

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Monday Morning Motivation: Relentless

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start the week off on the right foot. This Forbes video follows Karim Abouelnaga is the founder of Practice Makes Perfect , an organization that develops and operates summer learning programs in high-need communities. This is a typical day in his life.

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3 Key Factors for Evaluating the CHALLENGE of a Market Opportunity

Where to Play

The post 3 Key Factors for Evaluating the CHALLENGE of a Market Opportunity appeared first on Market Opportunity Navigator. Is This Market Opportunity Reachable? Not all opportunities are equal… in fact, understanding how valuable and attractive your strategic options are, is crucial for setting a winning strategy and choosing where to play. But what is an attractive market opportunity for you?

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Walker Twitter Highlights: September 16th – October 15th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and video clips relating to startups, entrepreneurship and legal issues. Below are my four most popular tweets for the past four weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 4 Tweets. Quora: “What was the biggest mistake you made in your startup?” A few solid responses: [link]. solid post: “…nearly every startup has deep, fundamental issues, even those that will end up being billion dollar companies.

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The Rebundling of Craigslist

A Crowded Space

For the last 7 years, we’ve seen this classic picture of the attack on Craigslist. Spark Capital analysts Andrew Parker and David Haber did a great job with this unbundling chart. I’ve always had a bit of an issue with this chart because it implies that the right way to disrupt Craigslist is to pick off tiny pieces and build a vertical marketplace.

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