December, 2017

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10 Questions To Ask Before Selecting A Search Firm

Startup Professionals Musings

I started out in business as a techy geek, so I understand why technologists starting a new venture spend so much effort getting the product just right. Yet I’ve learned over time that building the business is all about having the right team members. Thus I’m frustrated when I see founders pushing off recruiting, or jumping to quick and cheap solutions, like Craigslist and free job sites.

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The Peculiarities Of Working For An Essay Writing Service As A Student

YoungUpstarts

If you’re a college student, chances are you’re short of money. Even if you’re not, I bet you’d like to have a little more of it. There’s a mistaken belief among young people that they cannot get a well-paid job due to the lack of experience and qualification. But there’s something college students can do well. They write academic papers regularly. If you’re lucky to have brilliant writing skills, you may get a job at an essay writing service like EssayPro.com.

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How to Write a Business Plan for Raising Venture Capital

Growthink Blog

Are you looking to raise venture capital ? You need a good idea – and an excellent business plan. Business planning and raising venture capital go hand-in-hand. A business plan is required for attracting venture capital. And the desire to raise capital (whether from an individual “angel” investor or a venture capital firm) is often the key motivator in the business planning process.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2017

Hearpreneur

The end of every year is the opportunity reflect on a 365 day journey. 2017 was a bad year for some and for some it was a great year. Many businesses were launched and others were closed. Pivots were made and goals were shattered. In the last few days of 2017, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and business what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- Top rankings.

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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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Why Fleet Management is Important for Your Business

The Startup Magazine

Many small businesses are continuing to multiply the number of vehicles and equipment they rely on to serve their clients and deliver goods and products to customers. This has seen a sharp increase in the reliance on fleet management systems to efficiently manage their fleet and get critical data that will help them make informed decisions. [link]. Without a fleet management system, it’s hard for businesses that use vehicles within their services to achieve the level of efficiency needed to grow

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Tripwire Marketing: From Bankruptcy to Over 1 Million Dollars in Profits in One Year

ConversionXL

In 2015, 9-figure apparel retailer Karmaloop.com filed for bankruptcy. The company had been bleeding cash, losing six figures per month. That summer a private equity fund acquired the assets of the company. They brought me in as CMO. Within three months all marketing KPIs had improved. Within a year-and-a-half the PE fund sold the company to a strategic buyer.

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17 Secrets To Keeping And Engaging Top Talent

YoungUpstarts

by Brent Proulx, Talent Plus Leadership and Management Consultant. There is nothing more important for the long-term health and success of your business than to ensure you have the right employees to help you succeed. Retaining good employees alone is not enough, a good leader needs to learn how to engage with their best employees by nurturing, motivating, recognising and rewarding them.

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Buying Your Way Into Entrepreneurship: What You Need to Know

Up and Running

Entrepreneurship. Startup. These are buzzwords for many Americans that aspire to start a business of their own—and there are indeed many. In fact, the 2016 Kaufman Index on Startup Activity reported that 550,000 new businesses are started every month in America. The trend shows no signs of slowing, but the traditional path to accomplishing the entrepreneurial dream is beginning to shift.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The idea of exactly what your business is going to be usually comes 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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Product Review – Movavi Screen Recorder for Mac

The Startup Magazine

Businesses today produce and utilize videos for a variety of different reasons, including for marketing or training. In most businesses that use digital products or produce them, one way to record the footage that is needed for videos is to do so directly from your screen. To accomplish that you will need to use a screen recorder, as it is the software that enables you to record video footage from your screen.

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4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Learn 4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018. Alignment, Team Diversity, Knowledge & MoshPits. The challenges facing innovation leaders, facing 2018 is — how do you integrate new digital capability? This is not innovation as we once knew it. This is not your Dad’s innovation. It’s not even Your Innovation of five years ago?

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6 Reasons Startups Need All Angels Plus Crowd Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). The many crowd funding platforms on the Internet, led still by Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , and the latest stages of the Jobs Act , were expected by many to put regular people in charge of funding new opportunities, and kill the need for angel groups.

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Why That $1 Million Doesn’t Always Mean Your Crowdfunding Campaign Was A Success

YoungUpstarts

by Hannah Sieber, co-founder and COO of EcoFlow Tech. Crowdfunding has become common place for new products and new brands. Kickstarter companies alone have raised more than $786 million in funds ( Forbes ) and while many companies still use this method for raising money for production, others are recognizing the marketing value running a campaign can have.

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Why Link Building is the New Networking

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Link Building is the New Networking written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch About Link Building. Despite what you may have heard, link building is not some technical SEO-type of under-the-hood tactic. It is the new networking, and no matter what Google does to try to devalue backlinks, they remain an important factor in terms of your site showing up when people search for the things that you want them to find you for online.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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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Software For Startup Computers: Essentials For Your Employees

The Startup Magazine

Every business would be nothing without its employees. But people who work for startups are even more valuable, particularly during the first couple of years. As the boss of a startup, you know that trusting your employees and having a clear definition of what you want to be done are some of the most important steps to keeping employees and making them feel valued.

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The other technical debt

deal architect

The CEO of a manufacturing company expresses frustration his plant employees have to key entries into the shop floor system. Why not a voice interface? And anticipating the objection, says don’t tell me they cannot use noise canceling technology to.

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6 Guidelines On How And When To Use Non-Disclosures

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I often have to deal with people who are convinced that they must get me to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before they begin talks about their new venture. They seem shocked to learn that most professional investors and advisors, myself included, routinely decline such requests, due to costly litigation and administrative nightmares.

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How Attending Seminars Can Help Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Businesses are continuously changing and evolving, making it extremely difficult for consumers to keep up. These improvements are extremely important and without them, businesses with a high level of competition would fail. Owners must do whatever is necessary to ensure their business is successful, but how do they do this? One thing is for sure, they will need to monitor their competitors’ activities, learn about new technology and listen to their customers along the way.

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Beyond VC: Funding Options for Early-Stage Startups

Gust

It’s that time of year when we’re all staring down the end of the December, wondering where the months have gone. This is also the time when a lot of entrepreneurs wrestle with their plans for the next year, asking themselves: Where should I bet big? Are the growth targets right? How am I going to pay for all these. Read more >. The post Beyond VC: Funding Options for Early-Stage Startups appeared first on The Gust Blog.

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15 Entrepreneurs Reveal What They Look Forward To in 2018

Hearpreneur

Happy New Year! Every new year brings with it a new form of excitement and anticipation. The reason is that every new year brings about a “newness” for lack of a better term when we are able to start fresh and erase those things that we did bad or things we have been thinking about doing. For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. So that’s why we are excited about 2018 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses.

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A fun conversation on the Tech Talk Y’all podcast

Jeff Hilimire

I was honored to be asked back to guest host the Tech Talk Y’all podcast with Adam Walker ( Sanjay was out,) and once again we had a great time. We talked about, among other things: • Magic Leap: Founder of Secretive Start-Up Unveils Mixed-Reality Goggles. • This crazy new system can detect motion anywhere in your home using nothing but Wi-Fi. • REVIEW: Nest’s new $499 home security system is simple to install and made me feel a lot safer. • Apple: Yes, we’re slowing down older

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Tone down your AI expectations

deal architect

We have had many previous hype cycles around AI. As I wrote in Silicon Collar : “Since the 1950s! That is when Alan Turing defined his famous test to measure a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that.

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7 Groups Of Difficult Customers Test Every Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Have you ever noticed that some of your business owner friends get all the bad customers, and yours all seem fairly reasonable? Or is it the other way around? I’m always amazed that, in my role as a business advisor, bad customers somehow seem to gang up on certain businesses. I long ago learned that the customer is not always right, but you can turn most around to be great.

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Six Ways To End The Last Quarter Strong To Meet Revenue Goals

YoungUpstarts

by Angela Leavitt, founder of Mojo Marketing. The end of the year is approaching but many businesses have yet to meet their end-of-year revenue goals. If you’re like many business owners or sales leaders, you may be sweating. Sales tend to slow down in the summer for many businesses and the impact lasts well into the last quarter, and with the holidays fast approaching, that doesn’t leave much time to make an impact.

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Men Say …

Both Sides of the Table

Men use similar tropes on why #MeToo may go too far. It’s time to break these down. It’s time for more men to start saying, “enough is enough,” “I believe her,” and “I will step out of my comfort zone and speak up so that others feel empowered to follow me.” Men will make mistakes. But mistakes are much better than silence. Mistakes are better than condoning misconduct, harassment, bias or abuse.

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Bitcoins & Benjamins: The Future of Work & Money

View from Seed

As you may know, NextView now has a thematic investing focus on the redesign of the Everyday Economy. We’ve shared our thoughts on how the internet and associated digital technologies are creating massive shifts in home , apparel , and other categories. Next up is the topic of work and money. What we call “work and money” covers a broad range of areas.

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The Customer Centricity Debate: Who Is Your Real Customer?

Brandanew

At a recently held creative round-table in Walled lake, Michigan, we entered into a good conversation around design and creativity. Many of us tend to believe that our businesses or brands exist to meet the needs of customers that we serve. Customers are people who use or need your products/services. The customer centricity debate wants you to put them at the heart of your work.

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The Future of Workin an automated world

deal architect

This time, last year I felt very lonely. In writing Silicon Collar, I was one of the few voices who is not pessimistic about automation killing masses of jobs. I kept getting asked, how can you ignore the rapid pace.

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10 Top Revenue Models Drive Viable Businesses Today

Startup Professionals Musings

I was mentoring some graduate students at a local university recently, and I sensed again that profit seems to be a dirty word these days to many aspiring entrepreneurs. I’m certainly not a fan of customer rip-offs, but even non-profits have to be cash-flow positive, or have deep pockets, to help anyone for long. Every business needs to develop a revenue model even before a product.

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5 Ways To Integrate HR And Technology In 2018

YoungUpstarts

by Jessica Thiefels, owner of Honest Body Fitness. Technology makes a lot of things in business more efficient and engaging, especially HR, where you can lost in stacks of papers for days if you don’t stay on top of organization. There are many ways to use technology in HR, recruiting process to organization. PWC’s 2017 Global HR Technology Survey found that the areas HR finds technology most valuable include recruiting, learning management and performance management.

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How to calculate your total addressable market and make a great TAM slide for investors

For Entrepreneurs

I’ve seen hundreds of startup pitch decks in my time at Matrix, and have found total addressable market (TAM) slides to be among the most frequently mis-executed. I get the sense they are often included as a formality in an attempt to get VCs to check a mental box and continue on hearing about other.

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Bigger isn’t better: Smaller engineering teams are the key to innovation

The Next Web

We used to make scientific leaps. Engineers, scientists, and manufacturers once made bold steps and drove the human race forward. Less than 10 years passed from developing jet engines to launching a supersonic aircraft into the sky and 20 years from the first fully automatic computer to one that took us to the moon. Now? Most engineering teams make progress by the inch, despite their relatively vast resources.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Expect to read a new story each week straight from our keynote and breakout stages. In an interview with GE’s Culture Transformation Leader Janice Semper during Lean Startup Week, Eric Ries remarked, “Listen, that's our specialty here.

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2017 Flyover

deal architect

Facebook generates an annual collation of “memories” for every member. I looked at mine and felt it was too shallow. Google Search summarizes the most common queries across its user base at the end of each year in video below.

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7 Plan Elements That Separate Businesses From Hobbies

Startup Professionals Musings

Unless you are a serial entrepreneur with a string of successes behind you, you need a business plan to convince investors that you can build a business out of the dream that has been driving your passion to change the world. Don’t believe that Silicon Valley myth that all you have to do is sketch your idea on the back of a napkin, and investors will line up to give you money.