YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. What’s the hottest trend in business right now? Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? Sharing economy apps such as Uber and Airbnb? Apple, and its line of personal computing devices? Or Software as a Service for the enterprise, such as Salesforce? You could probably make a case for any one of these, but here’s the thing: Although on the surface these companies appear to have completely different business models, they al

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2016

It’s easy for an entrepreneur or a CEO to feel like a leader when things are going well, but the challenge is to keep that confidence and drive in the face of economic downturns, business turnarounds, and stressful personnel situations. Working twenty hours a day, losing your cool, and falling back to a no-risk strategy are not conducive to long-term success.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

By Steven D. Goldstein, author of “ Why Are There Snowblowers in Miami? “. Start-up companies obviously face many difficulties. Once they make the decision to start their business, they must operate at full throttle almost immediately. They know that if they do not build their business, and quickly, they’ll have nothing — so it becomes a fight for their life from day one.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2016

Tami Forman, the Executive Director of Path Forward (a new non-profit that I recently joined the board of ) just did a powerful five minute presentation on making space for moms in the workforce. I knew that Tami was a great speaker because of my interactions with her at Return Path, but she just totally blew me away with this talk. Making Space For Moms | Tami Forman | DisruptHR Talks from DisruptHR on Vimeo.

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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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The Next Web

APRIL 22, 2016

With the advent and proliferation of “growth hacking”, many products are launching with hopes of leveraging data, A/B tests, and viral loops to manufacture a hockey stick growth curve. It’s easy to think you can growth hack your way into an overnight success, but in practice it rarely works out that way. Instead, it looks more like this in the early days/months/years: Startups take off because the founders make them take off.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 22, 2016

I’ve just found time to read Bill Gurley’s On The Road To Recap. I won’t add to the volume of good posts saying that he’s right to point out that the unicorn financing market is entering a dangerous period where all manner of pressures and biases will cause people to behave badly and mistakenly put off adjusting to the new reality in late stage funding.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 22, 2016

Here’s a simple business model which should be built into every startup. Ways to make money using technology which is not available today. The possibilities of connection are changing so rapidly these days it is quite possible that the way we make money in a few years, is not even technically possible today. The startup may invent the technical possibility, or leverage an emerging possibility for the community they are building.

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YFS Magazine

APRIL 22, 2016

Are you a new business coach looking to get your brand out there on social media, but have no idea where or how to start?

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SiliconHills

APRIL 22, 2016

In Austin, startups do eventually become big businesses but that that doesn’t mean they still don’t like to have fun. And that’s the reason behind the second annual Startup Games: Level Up event, which takes place Saturday at Fair Market and features ten bigger companies competing against each other in games like ping pong, foosball, […] The post Startup Games: Level Up Kicks off Saturday at Fair Market appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YFS Magazine

APRIL 22, 2016

Free is great to hear when it comes to most things in marketing. Ths list of great no cost email templates is no exception.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 22, 2016

A nice post this week from Bryce Roberts of OATV – “ A Cap is Not a Valuation ” – covering one of the subtle impacts of notes. Bryce writes about his fund’s initial hypothesis that they’d find opportunity investing in “second seeds” – companies which needed a little more capital before raising a more robust A Round.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 22, 2016

The Art of the Ask: How to Ask for a Referral written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Pixabay.com. The main source of new orders for many small businesses is referrals. The reason is clear. When people are happy with a service or product, they tell others about it and new orders result. Referrals are a strong form of advertising because they carry an independent assessment from a user that your product or service is worth buying.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 22, 2016

A nice post this week from Bryce Roberts of OATV – “ A Cap is Not a Valuation ” – covering one of the subtle impacts of notes. Bryce writes about his fund’s initial hypothesis that they’d find opportunity investing in “second seeds” – companies which needed a little more capital before raising a more robust A Round.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 22, 2016

Written by Venu Shamapant (General Partner, LiveOak Venture Partners) Continue reading on Medium ».

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 22, 2016

Recap: I wrote a post entitled, How to build a great culture, from the troops , where I explain that I interviewed some past employees to find out what they thought made our culture great at Spunlogic and/or Engauge. I’m sharing their responses over a few posts in the hopes that you can learn from them the way I have: Response 3. I felt like I was contributing to something greater than myself.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 22, 2016

News from UC Berkeley and Georgetown University highlight what my research suggests: students are building some of the most innovative, impactful and valuable firms in the world and their experiences on campus matter (see Campus as Frontier ). From Gtown in DC: Ted Leonsis , billionaire owner of the Washington Capitals and active venture investor, made a $1 million donation to the Georgetown Entrepreneurial Initiative earlier this month with the funds dedicated to seed funding for student ventur

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Photo credit: Earth and hands from Shutterstock. by Chad Reid, Director of Communications for JotForm. Does your company do its part to celebrate Earth Day? If not, you’re missing not only an opportunity to help the planet, but also an opportunity to create a bonding experience for your employees by giving them a cause to rally behind. The great thing is making a big impact doesn’t ask for much additional effort from your company or employees.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 22, 2016

The business we are in is the problems we solve, not the product we sell. During times of great technological upheaval, problems get solved in new and unexpected ways. This is how companies get disrupted. The single way to ensure any business remains valid is this: We must always love our customer more than we love our infrastructure. . If we truly do this, then we’ll be able to endure the pain required during the inevitable transition.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

Any Digital Marketer living in today’s age will tell you that Content Marketing is a must, for not only promoting your brand to new prospects, but also to maintain a relationship with your existing customers. While we’ve often talked about organic Content Marketing, today we have guest blogger and entrepreneur, Garett Gan sharing his views on Content Marketing with paid advertising.

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