YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2018

When starting a new business, one thing quickly becomes clear – everyone else is doing it too! Here’s how you can make your startup stand out from the rest of the crowd. Have a Clear Ethos and Message. At the heart of every great business, there is some kind of message or ethos. Many businesses use this extensively when they are orienting and training new members of staff, but it is also something for the customers to see.With respect to your staff, even if you still only have a handful of emplo

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

One of the hardest things about the fund-raising process for entrepreneurs is that you’re trying to raise money from people who have “asymmetric information.” VC firms see thousands of deals and have a refined sense of how the market is valuing deals because they get price signals across all of these deals. As an entrepreneur it can feel as intimidating as going to buy a car where the dealer knows the price of every make & model of a car and you’re guessing at how much to pay.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2018

by Keith Martino , head of CMI and author of “Expect Leadership”. Matt took great delight in our mentioning that his sales team was effectively dysfunctional. He praised their competitive, “take no prisoners” mentality. He beamed each time a winner taunted a struggling teammate. He stoked the notion of “beat your brother’s brains out.” In short, Matt rationalized how this fierce, aggressive, individual pursuit of success was healthy within a world class sales organization.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 30, 2018

High performers—the ones who lead companies and teams to success—are not born better than everyone else. Instead, they've cultivated some very powerful traits.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2018

Before we start, let us open our minds to other banking systems not only Malaysia. Cash advance is very common for people of the middle class, the majority of the population. Maybe you are one of them and in this article, we going to teach ourselves about cash advance credit. What is cash advance credit? What does it entail? Let us systematically list information for you.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2018

My first company, Digital-Tutors , grew from a startup in my living room with $54 of my own seed money into a multi-million-dollar business with customers around the world. I was proud of the fact that we never used any outside investment money to grow the company. When my wife and I sold the business for $45 million over 14 years later, I told my tribe who were staying on with the new owners to call if they needed anything.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 30, 2018

Follow the five techniques and create an entrepreneurial lifestyle that leads to more productivity and motivation.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2018

While consumers have quickly come to love the idea of having furniture, mattresses, appliances and other assorted bulk items delivered to their door, the people doing the delivering are far from smitten with the direction of this relationship. But there’s not a whole lot businesses like FedEx and UPS can do about it. Yes, it can bog down routes and truck space, increase fuel costs transporting heavier packages and put a crimp in their networks, but it is the direction the industry is going.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 30, 2018

Today, the 36-year-old embarks on a new chapter as entrepreneur, with the debut of her e-commerce site Serena by Serena Williams – a venture 15 years in the making.

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Austin Startup

MAY 30, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 30, 2018 Startups that are developing products, services or concepts related to 21st century civic problems are encouraged to enter the United States Conference of Mayors Civic Tech Pitch event. Hurry the final entry deadline for this competition is Thursday, May 31. The First Place winner of this competition will receive $10,000 and a chance to demonstrate their product at 9:30 am on Sunday, June 10 during the 86th Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of May

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YFS Magazine

MAY 30, 2018

Many entrepreneurs, while they have great ideas and plenty of drive, freeze up when it comes to basic finance or accounting tasks.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 30, 2018

Last week, I wrote about how successful companies are led by entrepreneurs and executives highly skilled at getting big deals done. In it I shared 3 factors you must embody to become a great dealmaker [ if you missed that post, you can read it here ]. Now, great dealmakers get deals done for companies with " dealable " qualities. Those qualities include financial health , scalability and companies that compete in hot markets.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 30, 2018

I’ve heard it said that ‘grit’ is the #1 indicator of future success many times, most recently at a talk given by Jesse Itzler. And I have a hard time debating it. Sure, I’ve talked in the past about the importance of focus , the power of passion , and the need to get super organized if you want to achieve your goals. But by and large, I can’t see anything that would surpass grit as a “must have” for success.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 30, 2018

My friends at FullContact are having their 2nd annual FullContact Connect Conference. If you are interested, you can get a 50% discount on the ticket price by using the code “Foundry” on the registration page. Connect ‘18 is bringing together thought leaders and experts – from across industries and verticals – who are experts in the world of data-driven customer intelligence and marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2018

If you don’t have a referral marketing strategy in place, you’re giving up a substantial amount of revenue. Referrals from happy customers represent your best opportunity to grow revenue and profits in your business. In fact, customers referred to a product are more valuable. A Wharton School of Business study found that referred customers have a 16% higher lifetime value and are more loyal.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2018

How to Build Trust With Your Audience written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In my content, I often refer to the customer journey, or what I like to call The Marketing Hourglass , which includes the following stages: Know, Like, Trust, Try, Buy, Repeat and Refer. All of these stages are important for moving customers closer to the sale (and beyond), but today I really want to focus on the Trust component of the journey as there are so many businesses who are lacking in this ar

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