Wed.Nov 29, 2017

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4 Tips To Help Startups Grow Your SEO Client Base  

YoungUpstarts

by Itamar Gero, founder and CEO of SEOReseller.com . Each day is an opportunity for SEO agencies and experts to peddle their services to businesses who aim for online marketing success and have the money for it. If you’re about to embark on growing your SEO agency, you’ll quickly find yourself in the thick of this competition. First, let me point out that there are many ways to get ahead.

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Beyond “One Size Fits All” A/B Tests

ConversionXL

If you’re invested in improving your A/B testing game, you’ve probably read dozens of articles and discussions on how to plan and run A/B tests. In reading advice about how long to run a test or what statistical significance threshold to use, you probably saw claims like “Always aim for XX% significance” or “Don’t stop a test until it reaches YYY conversions” – where XX% is usually a number higher than 95%, and YYY is usually a number higher than 100.

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5 Tips To Build A First Website That Will Grow Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Kristy Campbell, Chief Operating Officer at Rev1 Ventures. You’ve validated your market and designed a minimally viable prototype. You’re in discussions with strategic partners and potential beta customers. Advisors agree your startup is on the right track. Now is the time to get your web site up. Here are five tips to help build a first web site that will help your business grow. 1.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.

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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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Getting Paid 101: How Startups Should Accept Payments

YoungUpstarts

You’ve stressed about your startup’s name; you’ve fretted about funding; you’ve worried and worried about your workplace and workforce — but not until now have you even thought about how you’ll get paid. The primary goal of any business is to make money, but if you don’t have a system for accepting payments, there is no way you can be successful. Fortunately, it doesn’t take much work to receive payments, which means you haven’t yet made a massive, startup-destroying mistake.

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Resilience in Business: What I Learned From Failing My Way Into a Six-Figure Freelance Startup

Up and Running

I’ve learned a lot in my twelve years in business. Practically 90 percent of that time was spent starting and closing one startup or another. I had to fail for 10 straight years to be prepared to scale a six-figure freelance business. Entrepreneurship looked bleak to me and failure unavoidable. But I didn’t pull the plug on myself. I learned resiliency in business through multiple failures, and I matured quickly.

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Apple Platform Layer Bugs

Feld Thoughts

The word “platform” used to mean something in the technology industry. Like many other words, it has been applied to so many different things to almost be meaningless. Yesterday, when I started seeing stuff about the MacOS High Sierra blank root password bug , I took a deep breath and clicked on the first link I saw, hoping it was an Onion article.

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

Austin Startup

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. My primary mission was to learn from the impressive entrepreneurial ecosystem in Austin and draw lessons for developing the entrepreneurship education program for Beetroot Academy.

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Dont write off SAP yet

deal architect

It would be easy to be pessimistic about SAP when you read Dennis Howlett’s recent blog “It’s a hot mess and everyone, whether that is SAP, customers, partners or User Group people want it to go away. The issue comes.

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Culture?

Austin Startup

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. My primary mission was to learn from the impressive entrepreneurial ecosystem in Austin and draw lessons for developing the entrepreneurship education program for Beetroot Academy.

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4 Steps To Prepare Your Business For A Required Pivot

Startup Professionals Musings

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. You can count on it and plan for it, or you wait for the next survival crisis brought your way by this rapidly changing world. You can even give it a more elegant name, like “market-focused reinvention,” but it won’t be graceful if you don’t take the lead.

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Capital?

Austin Startup

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. My primary mission was to learn from the impressive entrepreneurial ecosystem in Austin and draw lessons for developing the entrepreneurship education program for Beetroot Academy.

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The Perfect Working Environment Might Very Well Be Your Home

YoungUpstarts

Finding the perfect working environment is not as easy as it should be since there are so many distractions that can affect us on a day to day basis. If you want to be really good at your work and be as productive as possible, you may want to consider all available options. This does include working from home. Modern workspaces have evolved and there are various businesses that allow workers to do their tasks remotely.

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For VCs, “What Could Go Right” Is More Important Than “What Could Go Wrong”

Hunter Walker

You ever notice how when someone leads off by saying, “Now, I don’t mean to overgeneralize but…” they almost always are overgeneralizing? Now, I don’t mean to overgeneralize but I want to tell you about something that reporters and pundits frequently get wrong when evaluating the venture-worthiness of a failed startup. They focus on the answer to the question “what are all the things which could have gone wrong here” versus “how valuable would this

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What You Should Cover When Employees Travel

YoungUpstarts

Most travelers forgo the option to purchase travel insurance. But, as a business owner, if your employees are routine travelers, having travel insurance offers peace of mind in the event that travel plans don’t go as intended. With travel insurance, there are all sorts of coverage options. Want to provide coverage for your employees but don’t know what should be part of the insurance you select?

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Choosing Your First Office Space – 6 Things To Keep In Mind

YFS Magazine

Choosing a great office space involves careful consideration. It's also a time to celebrate your business taking the next step.

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The Digital Doctor @ JSV Book Club

A Crowded Space

Jackson Square Ventures is excited to be hosting the next installment of the JSV Book Club. When : December 13th, 2017 @ 5:30 - 8 pm. Where : The Whiskey Room, 100 Vallejo St, San Francisco, CA Who : Bob is a renowned UCSF internist, founder of the hospitalist movement, and former chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a national leader in the fields of patient safety and healthcare quality.

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Is Cash Still King

Austin Startup

Photo by Freddie Collins on Unsplash Peer-to-peer payments are nothing new, yet they’ve somehow taken on a host of new challenges in the digital age. Early solutions like PayPal and Dwolla appeared in an attempt to translate the simple action of handing money to your friend into the distance agnostic medium the internet promised. We’ve come a long way since the barbaric 5–7 days between transfers with arbitrary fees and platform fragmentation.

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Will “Rapid Demonetization” Kill Your Business?

Growthink Blog

Have you heard of renowned futurist Peter Diamandis? Or what he describes as “rapid demonetization?” If not, you need to, as we now have many examples of businesses getting killed by it, like: Videoconferencing - today available for free via a wide number of mobile apps (Skype, WhatsApp, Hangouts, etc.), but was sold in 1982 by Compression Labs for $250,000 ($598,000 in today’s dollars).

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How National Companies Can Get Friendly in Local Markets

Duct Tape Marketing

How National Companies Can Get Friendly in Local Markets written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Megan Hannay. Podcast Transcript. I’ve long been a big fan of partnering with not for profits in your community. (I wrote about this in The Referral Engine.). There are so many organizations that need and deserve our support and by partnering you further cement your business as a community asset.

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Good churn

Street Smart Product Manager

Our primary job as product managers is to drive sustainable business growth for our products. In my post on unit economics, I talked about customer lifetime value (LTV) as a critical driver of your SaaS product’s growth and success. I talked about the importance of increasing LTV and especially making sure LTV is way more […]. The post Good churn appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.