Wed.Jul 31, 2019

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts. Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. It has become an established term in the software industry to indicate the short term fixes of quick and dirty coding that can create problems down the road — problems that come knocking at the door to collect with interest.

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Overcoming Objections in Sales

Duct Tape Marketing

Overcoming Objections in Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jeb Blount. Podcast Transcript. On today’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Jeb Blount , author of 10 books on sales, leadership, and customer experience. He is also a sought-after speaker, who delivers hundreds of keynote speeches, trainings, and workshops each year around the globe.

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Don’t Wait To Catch Up Until Your Customers Hate You

Startup Professionals Musings

After working in business at all levels, and consulting to entrepreneurs for years, I’m still surprised to see so many situations where things that should be easy are painful to customers, and lead to customers hating your business. How could any rational employee or executive fail to do his or her job, not realize there is a problem, or not care enough to even try to do the right thing?

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Why Product Packaging Important For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Starting a business goes beyond having an idea. There is a lot of research that needs to be done in terms of how to run the business efficiently as well as how to make profits. If you are planning to start a product line, it is imperative to know the basics and importance of product packaging. The same way people are identified by their names is the same way you need your brand to be recognized using their packaging.

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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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Reflecting On Parenthood & Entrepreneurship

View from Seed

*Disclaimer – although the above baby is very cute, I can’t take credit for making him*. When my husband and I welcomed our newborn son to the world this April, it was probably the most exciting and magical moments we have ever experienced. Thanks to my very supportive partners at NextView, I was able to focus on being a new parent and enjoying those early moments during my maternity leave.

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Superhero Mentality – Three Steps To Turn A Negative Into A Positive

YoungUpstarts

by Hernani Alves, author of “ Balanced Accountability: 3 Leadership Secrets to Win Hearts and Maximize Performance “ Steve Young, the former NFL player and MVP of Super Bowl XXIX, threw 202 interceptions in his career. That’s 202 opportunities he had to receive backlash from fans, critics, coaches, and teammates. No man is an island so he could have probably handed his teammates some strong notes on their own play, but that wasn’t Young’s style.

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6 Major Benefits Of Injection Molding In Manufacturing

YoungUpstarts

Injection molding is one of the most popular methods for manufacturing plastic parts. It is simple, versatile, and time tested. However, those are not the only reasons why injection molding remains one of the more common methods for making plastic parts. Here are six major benefits of injection molding in manufacturing. We’ll also explain how injection molding has improved over the years to further these benefits.

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New book: “Sell More Faster”!

David Cohen

Just the other day, I blogged about the second edition of Do More Faster that Brad Feld and I recently released. Sell More Faster! When Brad and I first wrote Do More Faster in 2010, our goal was to provide founders everywhere with some principles for building a venture backed business, a map to avoid common pitfalls and some tools to build their businesses faster.

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5 Advantages Text Messaging In Small Business

YoungUpstarts

To some small businesses, the owners will think that text message marketing is preserved for a larger corporation only. However, it shouldn’t be a limitation and therefore, they have to also adopt SMS campaigns that will help in growing the business. Besides, it will take advantage of the reliability and SMS efficiency. So, for small businesses, you should consider these benefits that will give a direction on what you decide to choose for a marketing campaign: 1.

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Ways to Give Customers Greater Confidence in Your Brand

Women Entrepreneurs Can

If customers are currently lacking confidence in your brand, that might be holding you back and stopping you from achieving all of the things that you know your business is capable of achieving. That’s why it’s time to address these problems and ensure that your customers and your target audience generally is capable of having complete confidence in your business going forward.

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Board Portal Comparison: Key Features and Criteria

Board Effect

Like many other industries, board management is becoming more complex than ever before. Board directors are also being held more accountable than ever before. While technology has brought some of the complexities to the forefront, technology also provides solutions that help boards to streamline basic processes. The more time and energy that boards can save on routine matters, the more time they have to spend on urgent or pressing matters.

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How to Increase SaaS Prices the Right (and Profitable) Way

ConversionXL

Have you ever gotten a bill that—inexplicably—is two or three times more than usual? What was your reaction? Probably something like this: [A SaaS vendor] pulled a massive price increase on us (over 300%!) and that was it. I don’t care how much I like their product, I’m gone. We use Drift now. I got that from a user who junked her paid account after a vendor jacked up their price by 300%.

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Transcript of Overcoming Objections in Sales

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Overcoming Objections in Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Today’s episode is brought to you by Break Through The Noise , the new book by Tim Staples, Co-Founder and CEO of Shareability. In his book Tim reveals his secret sauce for how to capture the attention of millions of people online, without spending millions of dollars.

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How To Make Your Products More Accessible To Online Customers

YoungUpstarts

There are over 25 million eCommerce sites worldwide and it is estimated that the business will be worth $4.5 trillion by 2021. In the face of such awesome figures it is perhaps understandable that the task of reaching potential customers can seem insurmountable; whatever it is that you market, there is just so much competition. The reality is of course that there are plenty of customers to go around.

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