Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
by Seyran Dalipovski, Social Media and Content Manager at Simpliday. TED Talks touch on a large amount of topics and we decided – why not add our favorite productivity talks for you? TED which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design was started back in the 80s as a private nonprofit organization. They had a simple message and that is “Ideas Worth Spreading”.
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Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
The great thing about starting an online business is that it’s one of the more affordable business options, and for the most part, can be started from home. Beyond making sure you’re registered as a business entity, all you really need to get going is a home office (and even that isn’t a strict requirement), a good internet connection, and some great entrepreneurial follow through.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
by Jonas Lim, Director, Solution Engineering (Asia), Salesforce. Based on data released by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) , there will be more than 6,000 open programming positions and a need for around 30,000 technology specialists over the course of the next two years. This technology skills gap will surely affect Singapore’s vision to be a Smart Nation in the years to come.
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
K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
A couple of years ago I was talking with a company that wanted to build robots. Their proposed price point for the robots was about $20K per unit. It would be a brand new product, that people had never really seen or experienced before, and it would replace some amount of human labor. After thinking about this some, I was extremely puzzled. Putting myself in the shoes of the customer, here’s how I would think: “So, you want me to pay you $20K cash up front, for a product that has nev
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
There is one big secret about the restaurant business that would give most diners a shock. If a person buys a restaurant, they can employ anybody that they like as a head chef. Technically, you do not require any special qualifications. The good news is that the vast majority of restaurants don’t work like this, they look for industry recognised qualifications and recruit talented chefs with a real hunger for food.
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YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
If your business does not offer plastic gift cards to Holiday shoppers, you need to start thinking about introducing them. This is because of the fact that Gift card spending is now reaching a new record high, having grown from $40bn dollars in 2003 to $100bn in 2015. However, it is not only during the holiday season alone that the cards are needed.
YFS Magazine
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Here's an overview of the major social media platforms, along with quick stats, so you can choose which ones are best for your business.
SiliconHills
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
The Department of Defense on Wednesday officially launched a Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, known as a DIUx, at Capital Factory in Austin. The defense department already has DIUx offices in Silicon Valley and Boston. The Austin office will focus on national security challenges and cutting edge technologies to help the nation’s warfighters.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post How should I choose a location for my store? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
SEO for Growth written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Doug Burdett, John Jantsch & Phil Singleton. In my book SEO has risen beyond the tactic level to the strategic level – in fact, that’s precisely why I teamed up with SEO pro Phil Singleton to write a new book on the topic called SEO for Growth – The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers, and Entrepreneurs.
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Everyone has heard a horror story about a website redesign. But there are still times when they are necessary or beneficial. Deciding when is the right time is one important aspect of doing a redesign well. The other aspect lies in the process itself. We can dramatically improve the performance of website redesign projects when we used a structured approach and we start testing all our assumptions.
Street Smart Product Manager
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
When I announced my new product management course, Idea To Revenue Masterclass, I asked the folks who manage product teams — Directors, VPs, SVPs of Product — what they’re looking for in their product managers. The responses I got were eye openers. Here are some of the replies I got, with certain parts bolded by me that […]. The post The one skill your boss wants you to have (and how to do it) appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. I spent a bunch of time thinking about this position — especially since Beezer is an investor in Upfront Ventures. There are a lot of things I think entrepreneurs should care about when raising from a VC: How big or small their fund is?
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
More than likely you hear the hype regarding Instagram and might even have an account for your business. If your account is doing well, you are making frequent posts, but you may have a difficult time finding your audience. Much like any new account on a social media platform, it takes time to grow your audience. The following information includes tips to help you grow your Instagram audience quicker: Promote Your Business Account.
Transformify
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Talent maybe spread equally around the world, but what about opportunities? Has it crossed your mind that getting a job increases the purchasing power, helps send children to school and may completely change the life of millions of people around the world? For many, getting a job is a routine exercise involving a few calls to recruitment agencies or submitting a dozen of CVs.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Anyone who has ever had to buy a gift on a busy schedule knows how great gift cards are. They are a quick and easy way to thank someone for a good job or wish them a Merry Christmas. It also allows the person receiving the card to get what they really want, and is as simple to use as cash or a debit card. That may be why in 2015, sales of gift cards in the US hit 130 billion dollars, an increase of 6 percent over the previous year.
Reid Hoffman
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Inspired by The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, we decided that satire that reveals the absurdity of our current situation is the only fitting response to these times. Thus was born Trumped Up Cards: The World’s Biggest Deck, a multi-player card game where players need really big hands to win. Initially, we made Trumped Up Cards for friends, family, and anyone else who seemed like they had a healthy sense of humor and happened to be in the vicinity when we were giving them out
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