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10 Shortcuts To Startup Success I Don’t Recommend

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad quality. These things outside your control do happen, but based on my years of experience as a startup advisor and angel investor, I still see too many shortcuts leading to failure that are inside the entrepreneur decision realm.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Share The idea of exactly what your business is going to be usually comes first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it.

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Interview with Malcolm Frank of Cognizant: Davos and Digital

deal architect

Malcolm Frank is, in my opinion, the best "analyst" on the outsourcing sector. He is not an analyst per se, but as EVP of Strategy and Marketing at Cognizant, he has a ringside view of trends in the sector. I.

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Hassle-Free Incorporation Services With IncParadise

YoungUpstarts

Whether you’re a thriving small and medium enterprise, a growing start-up or even an established commercial business, one of the smartest decisions you can make is to incorporate your company. Incorporation is, essentially, the creation of a corporation, in this case, your business, enterprise, or even an organization. While you may be comfortable with operating your business just the way it is, taking it to the next step – incorporation – can bring you more rewards in the long-run.

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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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Infor: an inflection point in the software market

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Just before I had flown up to New York for the Infor Innovation Summit, I had interviewed Malcolm Frank, EVP of Strategy at Cognizant about trends he is seeing in the outsourcing and software markets. Malcolm talked about what he.

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The real reason why investors say your market size is small

Hippoland

It’s super annoying when investors say your market size is small. So, you do all this extra research – you look for Gartner’s excerpts and articles about projected market sizes, etc, and you come back with research to argue that your market is much bigger. Unfortunately, it’s ineffective. The investor passes. And you walk away thinking he/she’s a dimwit.

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Selling a Vision or Blowing Smoke?

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I sat in on a pitch practice with a company who, by all accounts, is the leader in its category. They are doing things no other company like it has been able to do, on relatively little capital compared to their peers. When they focus on sales, they crush it. When they focus on making product improvements, they make great strides. Consumer buzz in their market has been off the charts.

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The accidental startup

Start Up Blog

Solve a real problem for real people, don’t turn up with an idea in your head. Find the smallest most passionate audience you can locate with this problem. The size of this audience is not important, their attention and feedback is. Don’t worry if the solution doesn’t use tools you created or even end up as a business. The solving is what matters, solve often enough and good things will happen to you.

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Q&A with CTAN: the Most Active Angel Group in the Country in 2015

SiliconHills

The Central Texas Angel Network, known as CTAN, was the most active individual angel group in the country in 2015, according to the HALO Report recently released by the Angel Resource Institute and PitchBook. Members of CTAN, a nonprofit organization of more than 150 accredited angel investors, invested more than $13.3 million into 43 startups […] The post Q&A with CTAN: the Most Active Angel Group in the Country in 2015 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Learning and knowing for sure

Start Up Blog

If we’ve done something – we’ve most likely learned about it as well. If we’ve learned something – we can’t be certain we know how to do it, yet. We could still be in theory land. When in doubt, have a crack at it and find out for sure.

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Texas-Squared Startup Newsletter #33

Austin Startup

Texas Startup & Tech News, Opinions & Events in the Lone Star State Continue reading on Medium ».

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Updated Blog - Seeing Both Sides

Seeing Both Sides

I've moved out of the dark ages and (finally) shifted from Typepad to WordPress. I will keep this blog site up, but all new posts can be found at Seeing Both Sides. Enjoy! .

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Don’t Let Slow Load Times Limit Your Potential

YoungUpstarts

By Josh Hatfield, Senior Manager, Digital & Cloud Sales at Hostway Services, Inc. An e-commerce website earns or loses business in part based on how quickly it responds. Kissmetrics’ thorough studies on this subject tell us that 40% of online shoppers abandon a site that takes more than 3 seconds to load. As the Aberdeen Group puts it, customers are won or lost in a single second – it was true 10 years ago, and it’s true today.

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Updated Blog - Seeing Both Sides

Seeing Both Sides

I've moved out of the dark ages and (finally) shifted from Typepad to WordPress. I will keep this blog site up, but all new posts can be found at Seeing Both Sides. Enjoy! .

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