Tue.Mar 29, 2016

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Five Recruiting Metrics Every Founder Should Track

View from Seed

Ask a founder of a growing startup what they need most, and you’ll often get an answer along the lines of, “We need great people, and we need them fast.”. But even well-prepared startups that have laid out strategies for scaling can find themselves scrambling in the face of a fast-growing customer base. Founders need to make sure the quality of the startup’s offerings remains high and provide adequate sales and service support for prospective customers and new users.

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How To Choose A Web Design Agency

YoungUpstarts

For most people looking to build a website for their startup or small business, outsourcing is the only way to go. Without a knowledge of coding , you just won’t get the results you need with template design or DIY methods. However, it’s not just as easy as phoning your local web design agency and getting them on board. There are a few things you need to know about them first – and in this guide, we’re going to go through each of them.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley

Steve Blank

The U.S. government is discovering that Lean innovation can help them serve the country better and faster. The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help entrepreneurs build successful companies and the 21st century digital government. The guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show explained how they’re working to do that.

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The Power of “Old School” Service: Four Reasons Your Business Should Bring It Back

YoungUpstarts

by Joseph Michelli, author of “ Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way “. As the tech industry has exploded over the past couple of decades and millennials have risen to power, companies have innovated wildly to keep up with relentless customer expectations. Better, faster, easier! is the battle cry. Oh, and make sure there’s an app for that!

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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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How will self-driving cars change society?

Version One Ventures

Over the past few years, self-driving cars have received a lot of attention and the buzz has intensified this month with the announcement that GM plans to acquire San Francisco startup Cruise Automation for reportedly more than $1 billion. When people talk about self-driving cars, the discussion typically centers around a few important topics: 1) When will we see self driving cars on the market (e.g.

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When Security Can Become Your Business Differentiator, Everybody Wins

YoungUpstarts

by Mark Seward, VP of security solutions at Anomali. Many of the most innovative companies are small to medium sized businesses (SMBs). These businesses are full of new ideas for services, new products – and improvements to existing ones. And this is certainly true in the cyber security sector. Many of the most exciting and innovative solutions to current cyber security problems are being produced by small and medium sized businesses.

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Why Storytelling Is So Important To Business

YoungUpstarts

Image credit: pixabay.com. Why is it that some people just seem to be able to get their message across , when others can’t? What it is that sets them apart from the rest of the crowd? And why is it that they appear iconic, and others utterly forgettable? If you ask most marketing managers, they will tell you that it all comes down to your business persona.

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Becoming A Solopreneur Is Like Childbirth: Painful, Messy And Vulnerable

YFS Magazine

Expect bringing your solopreneur business into the world to feel just as painful, dangerous, and vulnerable as childbirth. And don't even try to look good at this stage of the process.

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The Core Aspects Of Digital Marketing In 2016

YoungUpstarts

Digital marketing is a fantastic way to promote a small business to a large audience. There has never been a better way for startups and entrepreneurs to get off the ground. Best of all, it’s affordable and highly effective. You can target a specific audience and create a small community. However, the world of digital marketing is always changing. There are always new trends and techniques to latch onto.

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MIT Media Lab’s Leadership in Open Source Software

Feld Thoughts

Over the weekend, Joi Ito (the director of the MIT Media Lab among a long list of other awesome things) announced that the MIT Media Lab Changes Software Default to FLOSS*. As someone who disdains software patents and is appalled by universities, especially publicly funded ones, acting as patent trolls, I applaud the MIT Media Lab’s move. Eric von Hippel , my PhD advisor at MIT (I didn’t finish) and one of my early mentors, co-wrote two of the seminal papers on how free and open so

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6 Neuromarketing Stimuli That Speak to the Old Brain

ConversionXL

Many modern psychology researchers have suggested that the human brain has three (figurative) parts: The new brain – thinks (rational data). The middle brain – feels (emotions and gut feeling). The old brain – decides (takes input from both and pulls the trigger). Until fairly recently, many fields of study (notably economics) believed that our decisions were largely rational.

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Want leaders – look for competence and warmth

The Equity Kicker

Few people in the UK remember Tony Blair with fondness, but my view is that in his first two terms was a great leader. When I think back on his Prime Ministerial career the first the thing that comes to mind is an interview he did after John Prescott, his Deputy Prime Minister punched a protestor (picture above). In that interview Blair looked a bit pained and contrite, but simply said “John will be John” I could see he was upset, but he didn’t over react.

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Most Startups Aren't Crap

Bryce Dot VC

VCs say the darndest things. Mostly, their jabs and knocks against founders and others VCs are kept behind closed doors. But, occasionally, they’re aired publicly. In the national press. Like this little gem: Right now, most of the things VCs have funded are mostly crap and largely worthless. The cynical reading of this might be that every other VC, save for Chamath’ s, is funding crappy startups.

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The Most Important Digital Marketing Advice You’ll Ever Hear

YFS Magazine

To many small business owners, digital marketing is deceptively simple. You go in thinking you need something simple, but leave feeling like you’ve emptied your savings account with no obvious effect on sales.

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Flavr Wins International Accelerator Pitch Competition at SXSW

SiliconHills

South by Southwest Interactive not only showcases Austin’s technology scene to the world, but it has also become a global stage for international startups to showcase their products and services. This year, International Accelerator, based in Austin, held its first FastPitch competition at SXSW at the Mexican American Cultural Center. Flavr, a food tech app […] The post Flavr Wins International Accelerator Pitch Competition at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Fresh from the SPRING: loginstudio

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for loginstudio. Check out more great work on loginstudio ’s profile page. Nicely done, loginstudio, nicely done! Related posts: from the SPRING: airborne. Fresh from the SPRING: cre8it.

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A little story about “A” players

Start Up Blog

No doubt you want your startup to be filled with ‘A player’ hackers and hustlers. This is the common reason why we people talk up the importance of so called A players: A Players attract A Players. while, B Players attract C players. Personally, I think we are all A,B and C players. What determines our quality of play is the culture we are immersed in.

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How to Confidently Buy All the New Customers You Can Stand

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Confidently Buy All the New Customers You Can Stand written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. While the title of this post may seem a little odd or even off-putting, when it comes right down to it a lot of sales and marketing involves purchasing business. When you advertise, you invest in the opportunity to generate customers.