August, 2018

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16-49-81

Feld Thoughts

What do these numbers mean to you? At a recent offsite, during our conversation about evolving our communication patterns (which I refer to, in my head, as “the Matrix”), Ryan said “16-49-81.” Everyone stared at him and I responded “4-squared, 7-squared, 9-squared.” Then, everyone nodded their heads but were probably thinking “these guys are numerology goofballs.” But then Ryan said, “ Metcalfe’s Law ” and everyone immediately und

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7 Lead-Generation Tactics Thrive On Limited Budgets

Startup Professionals Musings

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI).

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5 Ways Your Sales Team Can Get More Out Of The Company’s CRM

YoungUpstarts

by Xavier Musy, Chief Architect of Swiftpage. CRM platforms are already firmly ensconced within the sales technology and strategies of most small and midsized businesses. Sales teams have been using their CRMs for basic, day-to-day-functions — such as managing customer information and tracking purchase history — for decades. In that time, CRMs have faithfully served as a place to store data, log notes, and manage contacts.

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24 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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4 Ways To Design A Website That Attracts Your Ideal Customers

YFS Magazine

No matter the aim of your small business, a crucial component to attracting your ideal customer is to help them find your brand via your company website.

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4 Ways to Urge Your Startup Toward Rapid Growth

Up and Running

The startup stage of a business is grueling. Chances are, you are overworked, understaffed, and functioning on a shoestring budget. Taking into account the statistic that only half of businesses survive the first five years, even the downtime can get stressful. Achieving rapid growth after a few tough years in the startup stage can be one of the most exciting (and relieving) times in the life of an entrepreneur.

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8 Steps To Starting A New Venture With Limited Funds

Startup Professionals Musings

Now is the time to be an entrepreneur and create a business from your passion. The cost of rolling out a business has never been lower – it only takes a few hundred dollars to incorporate a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) online, create your own website, use social media to get attention, and you are in business. In the early Internet days, it would cost a million dollars to get this far.

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Businesses and Essential Services

YoungUpstarts

Businesses require all sorts of diverse services in the modern world. It can be hard to keep a business running well without them. If you’re a business owner, you have to take all sorts of service requirements into consideration. Businesses often require interior design service, first and foremost. A business that lacks an attractive and inviting interior space may flounder in its competitive industry.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it. Even still there are some people who study foreign words for the perfect meaning behind their chosen business.

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Startup advice you haven't heard before

Spencer Fry

There's a lot of advice out there for startups. Here are seven ways to think about your startup that will have greater impact on you and your business than any of the typical BS being passed around. #1: Don't take yourself so seriously. This is such a terrible problem with startups these days. Many startups take themselves so seriously that they won’t take a stand for anything and therefore, have no personality.

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Tips and Tools for Keeping Your High Growth Startup on Track

Up and Running

Times of rapid growth are especially exciting and challenging for new startups. Obviously, it’s a signal that things are headed in the right direction—but it can also be a critical turning point that determines long-term success. Failing to keep up with a sudden increase in demand for your product or service can lead to an equally sudden downfall. Take the recent example of the company MoviePass as a cautionary tale.

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7 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Redesign Your Small Business Website

crowdSPRING Blog

Is your small business website helping or hindering your business? If you’re like most small businesses, your website is outdated, and not helping you to increase revenues and sales. Even worse, your website might be completely disconnected from the brand you’ve been building. Here are 7 key reasons why you should consider redesigning your website.

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7 Growth Choices That Can Make or Break Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of you new venture founders I meet as an angel investor seem convinced that starting the business is the hardest part. You look forward to the day when your business becomes self-sustaining, and settles into a long-term growth curve, ensuring financial success. Unfortunately, sustainability is proving to be a more and more complex challenge in this era of rapid change.

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How To Choose The Best Forex Platform

YoungUpstarts

The Forex Market is the largest financial market with a turnover of over 3 trillion dollars in any given day. Going with the best forex platform, for forex trading, is of utmost importance if one is to have a precise balance between the high risks and rewards on offer, in the trillion-dollar marketplace. A forex platform is a software suite that allows one to access and interact with the market.

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Entrepreneur Builds Multimillion Dollar Company after Dropping out of College

Hearpreneur

Technology tycoon Steve Jobs, Vogue Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour, media mogul Ted Turner, and business magnate Bill Gates all have something in common aside from their unparalleled success – they lack a college degree. Despite what today’s youth are convinced to believe, college isn’t the only path to success. Steve “The Hurricane ” dropped out of college to build his multimillion-dollar company, Hurricane Marketing Enterprises.

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Facebook and Google Ads – The Keys to Small Business Paid Search

Duct Tape Marketing

Facebook and Google Ads – The Keys to Small Business Paid Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you want to run a business today, you need to be advertising on Facebook and Google. These two tech giants dominate the online advertising market, and their reach is so incredibly broad (both have billions of users each month) that to leave them out of your strategy is to not have an online strategy at all.

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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

Up and Running

So you’re thinking about starting your own outpatient medical practice. You probably have many good reasons to open a private practice. Private practices can be lucrative, although it requires you to spend time building relationships with patients while also attending to all business processes that are part of running your practice. Maybe you want more autonomy over your practice and your workflow.

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An Austin Primer for Female Entrepreneurs— Follow These Leaders & Join These Groups

Austin Startup

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a chunk of time that has both whizzed by and felt like I’ve been doing this my whole life. In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. It’s like that warm belly feeling after a full bowl of ramen. But with a couple sleepless nights and many, many Trello boards.

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10 Tips To Strategic Decisions Made Without A Crisis

Startup Professionals Musings

Strategic decisions set the overall direction for your business, whereas operational decisions set day-to-day operations. Unfortunately, most of the entrepreneurs who contact me for guidance only seem to work on strategic issues when they are in a crisis, such as losing a major distributor or being swamped with customer complaints. It’s a bit late when strategy becomes operational.

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The Story Behind My Investment In Downstream

Haystack

Earlier this summer, my friend Michael told me about a small investment his team made up in Seattle in the Amazon ecosystem. We were about to move houses and with all the impending details that process was generating, I initially didn’t give it a proper look. As we were reviewing new deals, we flagged this one for being different in nature. And as we dug in more, we began to uncover how little we know about a new potential business line for Amazon.

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Who will claim the Enterprise Western Frontier?

deal architect

This summer while researching for SAP Nation 3.0, I have also been reading plenty about the young nation of the US in the 1800s. The comparisons to the enterprise vendor market, two centuries later, in the 2000s are striking. In.

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How to Create a Morning Routine That Breeds Success

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Create a Morning Routine That Breeds Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Benjamin Spall. Podcast Transcript. This week on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I chat with Benjamin Spall. Spall is co-author of the book My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired and co-founder of the website by the same name.

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5 Best Indicators That It’s Time to Scale Your Business

Up and Running

If it were possible to stay a small business forever to cut significant costs from hiring new employees and equipment, everyone would be doing it. However, enterprises with teams of hundreds and thousands of people exist. At some point, they realized the workloads were increasing due to increased demand, and so they adjusted accordingly. Regardless of the size of your business, there is a right and wrong time to scale.

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5 Online Tips For Food Trucks to Grow Their Business

Kodorra

They say Millennials are the food truck generation , where 47 percent of them have eaten from a food truck in the U.S. As the world consumes this ongoing gourmet trend, you shall be seeing more trucks lining up outside our office or your school. On the flip side, food truck entrepreneurs are trying to make a living serving specialty foods on wheels and competition can get pretty tough these days.

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8 Challenging Employee Styles Test Every New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Cash isn’t always the scarcest resource startups have to invest – more often it’s the leadership capital of under-experienced and over-stretched entrepreneurs and co-founders.

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ICE Heats up the Sector

thebarefootvc

The big news this morning is that Intercontinental Exchange, parent of the New York Stock Exchange, announced the formation of a new company, Bakkt, a global platform to allow consumers and institutions to buy, hold and store digital assets. Its first use cases will be for trading and conversion of Bitcoin versus fiat currencies. Partners include Microsoft, Starbucks and BCG: “ ‘In bringing regulated, connected infrastructure together with institutional and consumer applications for digital asse

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Why we all need to draw bigger circles

deal architect

A few days ago, I wrote about Bill Joy’s advice “If you cannot solve a problem, make the problem bigger. If you draw a bigger circle, you start to see several systems you can work on.” Reading James Farrar’s post.

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5 Steps to Small Business Search Engine Optimization

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Steps to Small Business Search Engine Optimization written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The video above is a replay of a recent live webinar I conducted. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for the steps necessary for small business SEO. If you’re looking for a highly technical post on search engine optimization (SEO), this is not the content for you, and honestly, that’s because I don’t believe SEO is that technical (unless yo

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How to Run a Productive Monthly Business Plan Review Meeting

Up and Running

This article, which originally appeared on our LivePlan Blog , is part of our “Business Planning Guide” —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Most people think that meetings are a waste of time. They’re right. Too many meetings are run poorly, have no real objective, and waste employees’ time—which kills productivity.

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The 5 Tools I Use To Stay On Top Of Everything

YoungUpstarts

by Yiannis Gavrielides, CEO of Covve. I have always been organised and I don’t like to let anything drop; I am an 80:20 person and I look for efficiency in everything I do; I love gadgets and technology and I am an early adopter. I need all the help I can get to manage the combination of: (i) running a startup, (ii) being a board member in a few young and fast-growing companies, (iii) remaining close with my family consisting of a demanding wife and 3 kids, and still having time to spend with my

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10 Venture Realities Will Position Your Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are one of the new age of entrepreneurs who hates the thought of doing a business plan as a first step in starting your new venture you will love this message. More and more professionals agree that a better strategy is to explore and fine tune your assumptions before declaring a specific plan with financial projections based only on your dream and passion.

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Small Business PR Help For Free

Rembrandt Communications

Are you overwhelmed with all the publicity data out there? If you want some small business PR help, you are in the right place. I know how it is. You get bombarded with emails and marketing messages about getting your name to the top of the search engines, distributed to hundreds of media sites, and […]. The post Small Business PR Help For Free appeared first on Small business PR and content strategy that boost sales, awareness and credibility fast!

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Nothing permanent about Oracle-Rimini

deal architect

I cannot believe I am writing about another legal matter this week. I wrote earlier this week about litigation cases involving Oracle, SAP and Workday. Judge Larry Hicks of the US District Court in the District of Nevada has had.

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How to Edge Out Your Competition by Being Uncopyable

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Edge Out Your Competition by Being Uncopyable written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Steve A. Miller. Podcast Transcript. This week’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Steve A. Miller. Miller is a consultant, speaker, and author. His most recent book, Uncopyable: How to Create an Unfair Advantage Over Your Competition , is about how small business owners can create an uncopyable relationship with their clients to keep them coming b

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How to Use Cornerstone Content to Kick-start Automatic-SEO?

ReadWriteStart

Businesses today have no time when it comes to creating a website and putting in the right effort to rank in local search. It is perfectly normal since you all know that cost of retaining a customer is way cheaper than acquiring a new one. Similarly a business would rather pay for a lead that […]. The post How to Use Cornerstone Content to Kick-start Automatic-SEO?

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How To Choose The Best High-Risk Credit Card Gateway For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

A high-risk business is one that is considered to operate in a high-risk industry or one with a high risk of financial failure. Such business includes online gambling business, online dating, CBD business, medical marijuana business, online pharmacies and drugs stores and many others. These businesses regarding merchant services are those with a high propensity for chargebacks or customer fraud.

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