YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

by Elaine Biech, author of “ The New Business of Consulting: The Basics and Beyond “ The gig economy is roaring right along, and that means consulting work is more popular than it’s ever been. And the truth is there are many great benefits to becoming a consultant. In fact, you may even be thinking about taking the leap yourself. But before you hang up a shingle, know a sobering truth: Consulting sucks.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2019

’ Tis the season for businesses across the world to see the bottom line on their income statements (profit and loss, or P&L) go from red to black! Black Friday is just around the corner, and this is a great time to review your sales forecast goals and develop a strategy to meet them through your holiday campaigns. So what will your business do to make sure your products are top of mind as your customers make spending decisions from Black Friday and Cyber Monday through the end of the year

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The internet is considered as one of the most important inventions mankind has ever made. It has provided something that can surpass distances and situations. People would marvel at it like it was some art from a long gone artist. Even if when we get older, the internet stays because it is now considered as a necessity to have access to it anywhere.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Bringing Marketing and Product Development Together written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jill Soley. Podcast Transcript. On this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I visit with author and product and marketing executive Jill Soley. Soley has been developing, launching, and nurturing products for nearly 20 years; she’s currently the Chief Product Officer at the agile project management software firm Obo.

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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

With over half a billion small businesses opening their doors every year and eCommerce increasingly becoming a retail juggernaut, one industry has benefited tremendously. Shippers. Shippers/logistics services companies are worth over 10 billion dollars today and will grow to over 12 billion by the year 2023. While that’s good news for shippers, that’s bad news for small business owners like you that are fueling that growth with the rising cost of shipping inventory.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I know many people that are dyslexic: entrepreneurs, close friends, family members. And almost all of them have suffered from the general perception that dyslexia is a learning disability. Most of them had a terrible time with a school system that generally doesn’t recognize that dyslexic individuals learn differently – which usually results in them struggling with reading and writing, and losing a lot of self-confidence in the process.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This article previously appeared in VentureBeat. I just had a coffee with Mei and Bill, two passionate students who are on fire about their new startup idea. It’s past the “napkin-sketch” stage with a rough minimum viable product and about 100 users. I thought they had a great insight about an application space others had previously tried to crack. But they needed to convince investors that they are Facebook not Friendster.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Your business is movin’ on up, and you couldn’t be more thrilled to see it grow from a thought seed to a flourishing venture. The question is, how do you keep your growing business lean? Many companies today realize the importance of being lean. In fact, a recent survey showed that 80% of responding companies said they were using Agile practices in one way or another.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Deciding to start your own business is anxiety-inducing, yet admirable and rewarding. Aside from the idea of being your own boss and the freedom to work passionately, there are other points you should first consider as you commence your startup journey. Photo by: Alex Talmon. 1. Do You Feel as Though You Have Enough Business Knowledge? You may have a strong work ethic with a fantastic business product or idea in mind.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Machine Learning is considered to be an invention in Artificial Intelligence that allows the computer-based systems to learn from its experience instead of being programmed with every decision it should make for every condition. It’s being implemented in many algorithms such as facial, speech, and object recognition, natural language processing and predictive analytics.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Commercial interior design is a unique classification of interior design for your office space that has quite a few differences from home interior design. Image by Pexels from Pixabay. What many people don’t realize is the importance of commercial interior design in the overall success of a business. Commercial interior design projects can include offices, hotels, restaurants, and multi-family property design.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Sure you’re better than the competition, but how are you different? This really hit home while I was walking in San Jose and came across a Tesla storefront. Yup. A retail storefront for their cars. Talk about standing out. What a different marketing strategy to increase customers. No wacky waving balloon man or salesmen in a parking lot. Just a retail storefront on a retail block.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Investing in property is popular among people looking to diversify their investments or cash in on the hot real estate market. However, the average investor starts their search by looking at investment homes that they can buy. Investing in real property doesn’t have to mean buying houses it’s not even the best route to take. Right now, land investing is where you want to put your money.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Sana announced Tuesday that it has received an additional $3.6 million in seed funding, bringing its total seed funding raised to date to $6.3 million. The Austin-based healthcare insurance startup reported that the seed funding was led by Gigafund and Trust Ventures. Other investors include Greenlight Re and Mark VC as the other major institutional […].

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Most software has bugs, and some of these bugs can be exploited to allow an attacker to have unauthorized access to the software, its data, or the system that it runs on. Many of these vulnerabilities are simply the same few programming errors repeated in new contexts. However, the same mistakes keep getting made, and, in the right (or wrong) software, can have serious implications.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The post The future of cybersecurity VC investing with Lightspeed’s Arif Janmohamed appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Why Obtaining Backlinks is a Lot Like Networking written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Obtaining backlinks is an important part of building out your SEO strategy. When you have a fair number of backlinks from reputable sites, it signals to Google that your site is reputable, too. By establishing yourself as a trustworthy presence on the web, you’ll find your pages getting prioritized in Google’s rankings, ahead of your competitors that are relative unknowns in the

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Any small business owner knows that developing and maintaining a smart marketing strategy is an essential part of the growth and development of their organisation. However, where things often fall down is treating that strategy as a static document, rather than recognizing that it needs to be something dynamic which changes and develops as your business does, and responds to shifting trends in the marketplace and the wider macroenvironment.

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Our Own Start-up

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Short-term rentals have become extremely common these days as they are a good source of income.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Beyond IMTS Interview – The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Steve Miller chats with author and marketing expert John Jantsch about his latest book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur. The book is structured as 366 daily meditations; centered around a reading from a transcendentalist author, each entry is designed to help guide entrepreneurs through the highs and lows of the entrepreneurial life.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Phil Strazzulla is the Founder of SelectSoftware in the HR software space, as well as NextWave Hire in the employer branding arena. Phil started his career working in venture capital before getting into employer branding. He is a graduate of NYU and Harvard Business School. Phil, you are the founder of a few companies in the HR space. What goals are you looking to achieve by leveraging Employer Branding ?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Transcript of Bringing Marketing and Product Development Together written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: This episode of The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Klaviyo. Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager have limitations. Often, these limitations are outside your control (e.g., technical aspects of a website that can’t be changed). Fortunately, many issues—such as updating a user status from your CRM or sending refund data—are solved by using Google Analytics’ Measurement Protocol : The Google Analytics Measurement Protocol allows developers to make HTTP requests to send raw user interaction data directly to Google Analytics servers.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager have limitations. Often, these limitations are outside your control (e.g., technical aspects of a website that can’t be changed). Fortunately, many issues—such as updating a user status from your CRM or sending refund data—are solved by using Google Analytics’ Measurement Protocol : The Google Analytics Measurement Protocol allows developers to make HTTP requests to send raw user interaction data directly to Google Analytics servers.

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