Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2017

Over the past decade, ecommerce has enjoyed explosive growth. Retailers everywhere, large and small, have their pick from a range of tools to create an online shopping presence that attracts customers and increases revenue. But for today’s hair salons, spas, car repair shops, and other service- or appointment-based businesses, the technology needed to enhance the customer experience requires a slightly different set of features.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2017

Parents, it’s never too early to start nurturing entrepreneurial talents in your kids! As an active business advisor and angel investor, I’m convinced that we are rapidly entering a new age of the entrepreneur, and those who are best prepared will be the first to reap some big rewards. You may think you need more entrepreneurial courses in school, or more advanced degrees, but in my experience it’s more of a mindset, some good coaching, and learning by doing that separates the winners from the l

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For Entrepreneurs

JUNE 28, 2017

I have the great pleasure in introducing you to a new writer, Jared Sleeper, who will make regular contributions to this blog. We were very excited to have Jared to join Matrix Partners recently as he is a truly exceptional individual. Jared grew up in Maine working in his family’s grocery store. He had a.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2017

Many people have difficulty creating a successful online business, whether it is selling their own product or affiliate marketing, or because they have poor writing skills. This inability to communicate clearly through the written word is not a problem unique to the online world. It is, in fact, common to all businesses, including corporations. An Inc. article by Kaleigh Moore, Study: Poor Writing Skills Are Costing Businesses Billions reveals, “A study from CollegeBoard, a panel established b

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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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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2017

I woke up to an email from a close friend of 25 years that his wife had passed away unexpectedly last night. She’d been fighting cancer for several years, had made progress, then had setbacks, and then made progress again. While I knew them both, I’d spent many hours over the years with my friend, so I immediately felt his sense of loss because I know how central his wife was to his life.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2017

When you’re setting up a new business , it’s always important to keep costs under control. The problem is that costs can commonly balloon and that’s particularly true when it comes to marketing. You might think that you have enough money in your budget for marketing. But before you know it you’ll be trying to pay for SEO, content creation, content management and possibly even an ad service for your site.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2017

Keeping a positive relationship between you and your clients is absolutely vital. If there are any issues here, you’re going to run into problems like bad reviews. You might not be too worried about bad reviews, but that’s probably because you’ve never had one that could kill your business. A one-star review stands out to potential new clients. In fact, research shows they’re more likely to pay attention to this than the five-star review.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2017

So you’ve decided to go into business. Congratulations! Getting a business up and running requires a lot of elbow grease and excitement, but also requires a lot of hard work, especially when it comes to organising the paperwork and working through all of the dull – but necessary – things that you need to do. From registering with the Australian Government through to sorting out your social media platforms and branding, we have got a good start for you here.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2017

At some point in most people’s lives, the temptation to start their own business dangles before them like the proverbial golden apple. After all, working your own hours, being your own boss and (best of all) the unlimited earning potential, can be a tempting combination. Before you open the doors to a new life as an entrepreneur and long before you start picking out your first BMW, experts agree that a solid business plan is a vital platform for any aspiring business.

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YFS Magazine

JUNE 28, 2017

Prioritizing something “fuzzy” like customer love is often viewed as a nice-to-have because ROI is too vague. We beg to differ.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2017

by Vartika Kashyap, Marketing Manager at ProofHub. “The energy you’ll expend focusing on someone else’s life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.” – Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS. For all girls out there, do you feel motivated by reading the above quote? It puts an insight over how you should consider your life as important as you consider someone else’s life.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 28, 2017

The fight has been underway for some time by hardware and platform companies to get into homes for more data, more control, and more share of wallet. The attack vectors have been things like home entertainment systems (think Xbox or Playstation), smart appliances, smart TVs, IoT (think smart light bulbs), and now voice assistants ( Amazon , Google , Apple ).

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The Next Web

JUNE 28, 2017

The first year is always the hardest. The first year of trying to get back into shape. The first year of learning a language. The first year of learning a new skill. For us, it was the first year of launching our company. While this wasn’t my first time starting a new business, I’ve learned that it doesn’t get any easier. You make same sacrifices of time away from loved ones, face internal doubts at 3 am in the morning, and you burn the midnight oil with faith that what you’re building will make

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 28, 2017

So there is a guy who owns a candy store. One day, while some of his customers are browsing around, a little boy walks inside. The store owner turns to one of his customers and whispers in his ear, “watch how dumb this kid is.” The store owner calls the boy over and in his hand places a dollar and in the other, fifty cents. The man asks the boy, “which one do you want?

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 28, 2017

Bijan@Spark is writing again and I’ve enjoyed his return to blogging. One recent post, “ Consensus driven ,” covered Spark’s decision making process for making an investment. One often hears stories that the VC investments which were ultimately the most valuable for a fund were also the most contentious. That is, some partners wanted to do the deal and others didn’t.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 28, 2017

In the first ever Austin WeWork Creator Awards, seven Austin entrepreneurs won $845,000 in financial grants and now head to New York City fo the final event. The biggest winner, GrubTubs, took home $360,000 in the scale category, the top prize at the event held at Austin City Limits Live at Moody Theater Tuesday night. […] The post Seven Austin Entrepreneurs Win Big at WeWork Creator Awards appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2017

Can great salesmanship enable athletes to perform at a higher level? Can it get businesspeople to do the same? Readers of this column know well my great love of sports, and of the many powerful and usable business analogies I find from it. My sports heroes are many, but as a born and bred New England boy they certainly include iconic Boston greats like Ted Williams , Larry Bird , Tom Brady , and Bill Bellichick.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 28, 2017

Austin-based Mood Media Corp. announced Wednesday its acquisition by several investors including Apollo Global Management and GSO Capital Partners. Mood Media, the parent company of Muzak, is now privately-held and its stock will no longer trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The investors paid 17 cents per share Canadian for Mood Media’s stock.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2017

The Key to Success? Taking Care of Your Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Brian Clark. Podcast Transcript. Community building is a big deal – so are a lot of things, but there’s no question that building and taking care of a large community of folks that trust you is a great way to build a business.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2017

by Meenakshi Venugopal, co-founder of Hashtag17. You could be a new entrant to the world of entrepreneurship or a seasoned veteran; you need your business to communicate with your audience and reach them in a way that is effective and makes them your loyal followers. Instagram is highly popular amongst today’s social networking audience to share images and pictures of people, their hobbies and their passions.

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Bryce Dot VC

JUNE 28, 2017

Around this time last year, Christopher Mims at the Wall Street Journal did a profile on the experiment we were running with Indie.vc. Buried in the piece was a mention of a new fund we’d closed to continue iterating on the experiment. That’s the only mention of the new fund. In the proceeding months since his piece, it has become clear to me that there’s still some confusion around the relationship between OATV and Indie.vc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2017

The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast All-Star Team written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Summer is a great time to kick back, relax, and listen to a podcast (OK, even if you don’t end up reading this post until December, it’s always a good time to listen to one). Whether you’ve been listening to the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast for awhile, or haven’t gotten started and want to binge on a new podcast, we’ve put a list together of our top 10 episodes of

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