Sat.Jan 11, 2020

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7 Key Strategies To Ensure Long-Term Customer Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience working with entrepreneurs, once they feel they have a winning formula for their business, they are often hesitant to change or update it. They forget that adapting their company and themselves as their customers evolve is the key to long-term survival. Think of Blockbuster and Toys ‘R’ Us , both of whom missed customer changes and the move to online.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

What tech stack should a microinfluencer use? Many investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in our job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. However, being a “microinfluencer” is now part of the job description. . In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers. Traditional celebrities or influencers with millions of followers have a large service industry and tech stack to serve their needs.

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6 Reasons Why Digital Marketing Is Not Helping Your Business

YoungUpstarts

In today’s modern times, digital marketing is the most effective way of increasing ROI and pushing into the forefront of competition. Even so, when your business has done all it can to apply digital marketing to its overall scheme of things and you see little to no results, it’s only natural to ask why. When your marketing results are less than stellar, it may be tempting to conclude that digital marketing just doesn’t work, but the reality is that there is more involved than you might realize.

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How to Incorporate a Company in the Cayman Islands

The Startup Magazine

For entrepreneurs, setting up a business is one of life’s goals. By building your own brand, you can effectively be your own boss, creating the lifestyle you want around a business which is your passion. Where to do this is a tricky decision, however. The Cayman Islands, in particular, have long been a popular place to start and run a company, but why is Cayman Islands incorporation attractive?

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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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5 Cost-Saving Ideas For The Workplace You Should Implement This Year

YoungUpstarts

20% of small businesses fail within the first year, and each year after the first year, the percentage goes higher. One of the reasons businesses go under is because they run out of money. Learning cost-saving ideas for the workplace is a good way to keep your business alive longer. Continue reading this article to learn cost-saving ideas you can use at work. 1.

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Saturday Startup Spotlight: TaxTaker

Austin Startup

Capital Factory’s Saturday Startup Spotlight series, where we chat with an exciting new startup and get to know their story, returns this week with the co-founder and CEO of TaxTaker : Ari Palmer. With extensive industry knowledge and experience serving hundreds of Certified Public Accountant (CPA) firms and clients nationwide, TaxTaker can provide your firm or startup with a reliable research and development (R&D) Tax Credit program.

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Kick off 2020: How to Host Your Own Panel Events

Austin Startup

Happy New Year Austin! Let’s kick off this year with talking about events. Event hosting is like content marketing?—?it doesn’t result in ROI in 30 days, but ramps up over time to build a solid foundation of authority, market penetration, and customer engagement. The first panel we ever hosted for The Fire Show podcast was in December 2018, and since then hosting events has led to running a 3,600+ entrepreneur meetup, emcee stages on conferences, and selling our online course 2 Week Content Boot

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Austin’s Televet Lands $2 Million in Funding

SiliconHills

Telemedicine has come to the pet market. Austin-based Televet, an online platform that connects veterinary clinics to existing clients, announced that is has raised $2 million in seed-stage funding. Dundee Venture Capital and Mercury Fund, co-led, the round with participation from GAN Ventures. Founded in 2015, TeleVet has raised $2.3M to date. The company plans […].

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16 Bio Myths and Misconceptions

Ben's Blog

Tech and biotech just don’t mix. At least that’s the conventional wisdom—which is, in part, why tech and biotech broke up in the early 2000s. Venture capital firms that housed both split their firm into two practices, or wound down … The post 16 Bio Myths and Misconceptions appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Weekend Favs January 11

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs January 11 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.