YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2016

By Leon Adato, Head Geek, SolarWinds. Software defined networking (SDN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are key technology trends sure to affect the future of networking. As such, they currently enjoy the lion’s share of broad industry attention. Now, there’s no harm in devoting time to thinking about and planning for cutting edge, on or slightly beyond the horizon trends such as these, and in fact, it’s smart to start doing so.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. I’m going to go over the approach that we followed and the most successful growth tactics that we implemented during this period. If you’re interested in figuring out how you can growth hack your way to success, keep reading! Just for reference, Slidebean is a SaaS presentation software where users can add content, and a finished presentation is designed automatically.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2016

Many first-time founders seek advice when thinking about what ideas would be great for a startup company and receive the wrong advice that you need to focus on a billion-dollar idea. There are very few ideas that are obviously a billion-dollar idea from the start. So what should you do? I advise founders to focus on what I call “basecamp,” which is the first level of success or validation at a startup.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2016

Ever since the first person made the first stone tool and someone else liked it, we have been an enterprising race. Business is something that has followed us and developed with us through the millennia. So it can be terribly frustrating to fall to what seems to be one of the more obvious problems in business. Here, we’re going to look at someone of those potentially fatal blows more businesses ought to prepare for: The market.

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Finance Stock Distribution Cloud 100

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

Startup

YFS Magazine

JULY 26, 2016

I told myself I needed to work harder and hustle more for new business and make more money. As a result, my business wasn’t fulfilling or fun anymore.

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Developer 84

YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2016

For years Mexico lagged behind a lot of other Latin America countries when it came to private equity. The country just couldn’t attract funding to this area of the financial industry and at one point, it took just 5% of the Latin America market. Now, things have been transformed. While the likes of Javier García Teruel Avila has been a prominent figure in private equity in his homeland for years, the market means there are even more opportunities for successful private equity investors su

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Private Equity Equity Mexico Brazil 100

YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2016

You may have often wondered, why do businesses hire consultants in the first place? Why don’t they just solve their own problems and work things out for themselves? It can seem puzzling to the untrained eye, but read on and you’ll see not only why businesses hire consultants, but why they need them. You can use this information to either decide whether a business consultant is right for you , or even if you would like to become one.

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Hiring Vesting Employee Cost 100

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

A traditional business plan includes a section that describes the business offering, which is the product or service. That description normally includes sections to describe the products or services, their main features and benefits, the technology involved, their competition, future products and services, and what I’ve always called “sourcing and fulfillment.”.

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YFS Magazine

JULY 26, 2016

Here's a look at four types of social media tools along with recommended apps that are user-friendly and can streamline your social efforts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2016

So you need some design work done. Maybe you need a logo. Maybe your website needs a facelift. Maybe you’re putting together an important presentation for a conference. In any case, you need someone to help make things look great. The first step is acknowledging the need. Bravo — you’ve done that! The next step? Letting the designers do their job.

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Design Aggregator SEO PR 56

Jeff Hilimire

JULY 26, 2016

I just finished Arnold Schwarzenegger’s autobiography, Total Recall , and he mentioned a speech that his father-in-law, Sargent Shriver, gave at Yale. There is one piece that really connected with me and I thought I’d share it here. It’s unequivocally how I attempt to live my life. And I have one small word of advice because it is going to be tough: Break your mirrors!!!

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JULY 26, 2016

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Should I hire family members to work for me? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Hiring 40

YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2016

by Art Neill and Teri Karobonik, co-authors of “ Don’t Panic: A Legal Guide (in plain English) for Small Businesses & Creative Professionals “ You’re ready to take your project to the next level but don’t know where to start. The first, and often the most important, step in making your project succeed is to formalize it as a business entity.

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Intellectual Property LLC Limited Liability Company Business Model 122

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2016

What to Do When the Dream Comes Dressed in Fear written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Pretty much anyone who has chased a dream – launched a product, opened a business, set a goal – has experienced moments of fear. In some cases fear so gripping it derails, but mostly feared cloaked in some form of self-doubt that’s just strong enough to keep you stuck where you are.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 26, 2016

It’s so disheartening to me. I don’t read newspapers or watch the news on TV deliberately to avoid the noise. Periodically I’ll get a little signal of value from somewhere, usually Amy, but generally I can focus on what I care about. Twitter has always been that refreshing place where I can quickly find out what is going on in my tech world.

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America Media Entrepreneur Government 71