Tue.Jul 02, 2019

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A Start-Up’s Digital Checklist

YoungUpstarts

If you are starting out on a new venture, chances are you won’t have a website or digital platform from which to help propel your business forward. With everyone using the internet for research of all types, especially mobile that makes up over 50% of global searches. There is now a longer and longer checklist that your company website needs to comply with to give it a chance of finding the public.

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How to Create a High-Performing Analytics Team

ConversionXL

Every company dreams about creating high-performing teams. For us at OWOX , that dream centered on our analytics department, which included 12 specialists—junior analysts, mid-level analysts, senior analysts, and QA specialists. Collectively, our analysts were responsible for consulting clients on data analysis and improving our marketing analytics tool.

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Q2 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

Happy Canada Day to our friends and colleagues north of the border, and Happy Fourth of July to those of you south of the border. We hope everyone is having a great start to summer. Here’s a quick recap of the key activities and announcements from this past quarter. . Welcome to the V1 family! We welcomed Dolly (same -day retail delivery service) to our portfolio, after participating in a $7.5m Series A round , alongside Unlock Ventures Partners and Maveron.

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Funding for Women-Owned Businesses

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Female entrepreneurship has been on a steady rise in the United States, with the number of women-owned businesses nearly doubling between 1997 and 2017. Today, almost 40 percent of the nation’s privately held companies are owned by women, and women launch an average of 1,000 businesses per day. Not only are women-owned businesses increasing at two and a half times the rate of all US businesses combined, but both the revenue growth and employment growth of women-owned businesses have also outpace

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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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First LGBTQ+ in Tech Forum Gathers DFW Community for Inspiring Conversations

Austin Startup

“First, we know that promoting diversity is just the right thing to do. We’re all better when surrounded by diversity of thought, culture and identity. Second, since we help grow startups, it’s important to note that diversity makes business sense. We know that diverse companies with supported, happy teams perform better,” noted Joshua Baer on June 25th, at Capital Factory’s inaugural Dallas/Fort Worth LGBTQ+ in Tech Forum.

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Understanding Pro Forma Financial Statements

YoungUpstarts

A typical financial statement is based on past transactions that actually happened and the details are well documented, and a pro forma financial statement is a particular set that is typically based on certain projections and assumptions. Financial reports that are issued by a business use hypothetical conditions or assumptions about occurrences that may have taken place in the past or have the potential to pop up at some point in the short-term or long-term future – this is the essence o

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Disconnect From Email And Enjoy The Summer Season

YoungUpstarts

by Aye Moah, Chief of Product at Boomerang. Whether heading to Lollapalooza or just spending a long weekend barbecuing with friends and family, young entrepreneurs should take advantage of the summer season to disconnect from work and enjoy a well-earned vacation. While the idea of signing-off sounds amazing, in today’s world where we’re “always on,” it can be especially tough to completely shut off and step away from growing your startup or business.

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5 Things You Should Do With Consumer Data

Up and Running

The more you can learn about your customers, the better equipped you are to sell to them and build a positive relationship. However, gathering consumer data is only one part of the equation. What matters the most is how you use the information you collect. Customers are increasingly concerned with privacy—as they should be. So, start with being a responsible steward of their data.

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Change Or Die!

YoungUpstarts

by Adriano Pianesi, author of “ Teachable Moments of Leadership ”. Whether you embrace change to improve your organizational effectiveness or to pursue “blue ocean” innovation, change is sure to generate unsettling feelings for the person leading it. Behind the scintillating promise of new beginnings, the journey to reach breakthroughs on the other side of the status quo is not always smooth, linear or uneventful.

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The Hidden Secrets To a Successful Startup Business

The Startup Magazine

Today, it is easier than ever to start a small business thanks to all the resources that are available to the small business person. However, starting a business takes a certain amount of preparation and dedication to the business. Don’t strike out thinking that the business is just a hobby. It will never take off with that type of attitude. Start out thinking about your startup business like a true professional business.

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The Bounce Back Mentality

Jeff Hilimire

This is Kai (from my Instagram ) when he learned that he was not done with his races at the last swim meet. My 7-year old son, Kai, was having a moment. He drew a birthday card for his grandfather that he was very proud of, and (although I’ve warned all my kids against this a thousand times) he left it on the counter near the sink. And, as expected, it ended up getting wet.

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The Importance of Promoting Your Brand

The Startup Magazine

Why promote your brand? A simple answer is that brand promotion helps to inform and persuade your target market that your company’s offer has value. Is that really all it does, though? In its elementary form, an advertisement might say, “Hey, this product exists and solves this problem. You should buy it.” But outside of corny infomercials, we don’t see such straightforward marketing these days, do we?

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Having Work-Life Balance: Why You Can and Should

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Work-life balance, or the ability of an employee to allocate time and energy reasonably between their work and other aspects of their life, has become a luxury in the U.S. In one report, the U.S. ranked 30 th out of 38 countries in terms of work-life balance , noting that 11.4% of American employees work 50 or more hours a week. The negative impact this has on employee life has made it urgent for both employers and employees to make reforms in work systems and environments.

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Top 7 B2B Business Ideas for 2019

The Startup Magazine

In this day and age, almost anyone can start their own business. This is why we got to see so many new small businesses in every industry. However, most of them don’t have a budget that allows them to bring in-house experts for every aspect of their work. Instead, they usually turn to B2B businesses that can help them keep their operations running. So, if you’ve been thinking about entering the corporate arena, starting your own B2B business makes a lot of sense.

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Street Level Startups: A 5-Part Series Celebrating Colorado Entrepreneurship

Feld Thoughts

I’m lazy blogging this week as I get ready to go on vacation for the July 4th holiday. So, here’s another set of videos to watch, which is the entire Street Level Startups series from Colorado Public Television. I’ve watched them all now and they are a great history of how the entrepreneurship scene in Colorado has evolved recently, along with a bunch of fun highlights of people and companies.

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7 Common Mistakes Businesses Make With Facebook Advertising

Duct Tape Marketing

7 Common Mistakes Businesses Make With Facebook Advertising written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Facebook advertising, when done correctly, can be a major asset to your marketing efforts. Facebook offers businesses a wide variety of advertising options to choose from, and with a network of billions of users, it provides the potential to reach tons of prospects.

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Response Rate is a Quality Signal

A Crowded Space

I’m sure everyone here has received several hundred of these emails: “How would you rate this book / freelancer / coffee maker /_etc_, on a scale of 1 through 5 stars?” If you know me, you know that I’ve ranted about how these questions don’t get to a true understanding of high quality. They might help identify some bad actors, but they are terrible at identifying the highest quality in a marketplace.

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Transcript of How to Win Your Clients in Bulk

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Win Your Clients in Bulk 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 e-commerce brands drive more sales was super targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook, and Instagram marketing.

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How to Win Your Clients in Bulk

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Win Your Clients in Bulk written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jeanna Pool. Podcast Transcript. Today’s guest on the podcast is marketing expert, speaker, and author Jeanna Pool. She owns her own marketing firm, Marketing for Solos , and has worked with clients such as Apple, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, and Benjamin Moore Paints.