YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2017

by Angela Leavitt, founder of Mojo Marketing. The end of the year is approaching but many businesses have yet to meet their end-of-year revenue goals. If you’re like many business owners or sales leaders, you may be sweating. Sales tend to slow down in the summer for many businesses and the impact lasts well into the last quarter, and with the holidays fast approaching, that doesn’t leave much time to make an impact.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Many times people are frustrated when something doesn’t exist. Most people become so frustrated but ultimately never do anything with their frustration. It is the true entrepreneur that takes that frustration and turns it into an opportunity which usually means creating a business and sometimes resulting in an empire. Felena Hanson has shown that she is a true entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I was mentoring some graduate students at a local university recently, and I sensed again that profit seems to be a dirty word these days to many aspiring entrepreneurs. I’m certainly not a fan of customer rip-offs, but even non-profits have to be cash-flow positive, or have deep pockets, to help anyone for long. Every business needs to develop a revenue model even before a product.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I had a great networking meeting yesterday along with Tami Forman, the CEO of our non-profit affiliate Path Forward , and Joanne Wilson , my board co-chair. It was a meeting that Joanne set up that the three of us had been talking about for over a year. Joanne made a great comment as we were debriefing in the elevator after the meeting that is the foundation of this post.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2017

10 Tips for Successfully Re-Launching Your Website written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. An outdated website sends a message that you aren’t up on the latest trends. There comes a time when every business needs to revamp and re-launch for maximum impact. For example, older websites might not be optimized for speed. About 40 percent of those who visit your website will bounce away if it doesn’t load within three seconds.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Are you in a music rut? If you are interested in branching out your Spotify playlist – but don’t want to stray too far from a genre you love – check out Music-Map. Music-Map allows you to plug in the name of an artist or band, and then provides a map of any artists that have a similar sound or styling. The closer two names are, the greater the chance that people will like both artists.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I had a great networking meeting yesterday along with Tami Forman, the CEO of our non-profit affiliate Path Forward , and Joanne Wilson , my board co-chair. It was a meeting that Joanne set up that the three of us had been talking about for over a year. Joanne made a great comment as we were debriefing in the elevator after the meeting that is the foundation of this post.

Early Stage 48

Early Stage Affiliate Startup Networking 48

Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Every once in a while, usually at the end of the year, I take an inventory on the things that I spend my time on. Looking at the below list, I’m pretty sure I’m doing too many things (which seems to always be the case.) In 2018, I’m going to try hard to make a BIGGER impact on FEWER things. What I look for in things that I spend time on: Does this move me closer to my Purpose ?

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VC Adventure

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Grumpy Cat always makes me laugh.

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