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4 Failsafe Strategies To Help You Lead

YoungUpstarts

by Jason Scott, founder and CEO of 120VC , and author of “ It’s Never Just Business: It’s about People “ When you lead an organization, part of your job includes addressing critical problems and communicating new directives to your team. What’s the best way to do that? Throughout my career, I’ve found four failsafe strategies that prepare me to lead when moments like these arise.

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How To Create Conditions For Creative Breakthroughs

YoungUpstarts

by Hal Gregersen, author of “ Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life “ Creative breakthroughs come about when courageous entrepreneurs dare to reframe the most puzzling challenges by asking different questions. By reframing questions, they dissolve barriers to thinking, like limiting prior assumptions and they channel creative energy down more productive pathways.

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8 Key Disciplines Are Essential To Scale Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay As a mentor to many small business owners, I always caution them that you can never relax completely, just because your initial solution or product set appears to be getting traction, and the market buzz is positive. Unfortunately, your next stage of scaling the business is fraught with potential oversights that can lead to the downfall of even the best-laid business plans.

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First Impressions Matter: Why Great Visual Design Is Essential

ConversionXL

People make snap judgments. It takes only 1/10th of a second to form a first impression about a person. Websites are no different. It takes about 50 milliseconds (ms) (that’s 0.05 seconds) for users to form an opinion about your website that determines whether they’ll stay or leave. This number comes from specific studies. In the first study, participants twice rated the visual appeal of web homepages presented for 500 ms each.

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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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Curadebt Review – Should You Use Them?

The Startup Magazine

Before using the services of any company, it is always good to look at the consumer reviews. They can give you a glimpse into what to expect, and whether the service quality is worth your time and money. Reviews are especially important when looking to engage the services of a debt management company. If you are in financial distress, the last thing you want is to deal with a company that will only add to your misery.

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Why Your Business Needs A Company Travel Policy For Employees

YoungUpstarts

by Tahnee Perry, Vice President of Marketing at Deem. With your business growing, revenue flowing in, and your team beginning to expand, it makes sense to start looking to the horizon and sending your representatives out to spread the word about your small business. Whether you’re a consultancy hoping to offer your innovative thinking and solutions to other companies around the world, a construction company looking to expand operations into a new city, or a retail firm deploying buyers an

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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Spotlight on Engineering Team Building: Lessons learned from Algolia

Cracking the Code

Team building is top of mind for any start-up founder or exec. Recruiting and retaining top talent is even more challenging for software engineers. To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. Algolia is transforming the search and discovery experience that businesses can offer their users online, managing over 50+ billion search queries a month for enterprise cus

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Digital Transformations: Too little, too late?

deal architect

I find Frank Scavo a great sounding board. He has a way of simplifying things and pushing back when things are buzzword-y. I have quoted him in several books. He has introduced me to case studies I have profiled in.

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The Problem With Using Free Sharepoint for Boards of Directors

Board Effect

Using free Sharepoint for board director activities is a little like trying to flip a pancake using a spoon. You may eventually get it to work, but it doesn’t work that well, and it might make a bit of a mess. The buildup of free Sharepoint sounds great, and for some applications it is. Things always go easier when you use the right tools for the job.

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What You Need to Know About Starting Your Own Wedding Planning Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Wedding planning can be a profitable and exciting business. People who are interested in this business have a passion for the beauty and romance of weddings. You might have planned your own successful wedding. You need, among other things, a solid business plan to start a successful wedding planning business. Here are three important steps to get you started. 1.

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Transcript of How Reducing Friction Increases Revenue

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How Reducing Friction Increases Revenue written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by SEMrush. It is our go-to SEO tool for doing audits, for tracking position and ranking, for really getting ideas on how to get more organic traffic for our clients competit

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SAP Nation 3.0 Excerpts: Chapter 8 - Bystander Customers

deal architect

My new book is now available to buy here in print version, and in the Kindle eBook version. As with my earlier books, I am excerpting roughly 10% of the 400 page book in a series of posts on my.

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Why HIPAA Compliance Is Important for College Boards

Board Effect

HIPAA is a federal law that college and university boards should be familiar with because it falls under board oversight. Not all educational institutions fall under HIPAA laws. In most cases, college boards fall under the law. In those cases, board trustees should have a basic understanding of the law and be familiar with the many provisions that relate to compliance measures.

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How to monetise IOT – the bottom line

NZ Entrepreneur

IoT (The ‘Internet of Things’) has the potential to do some amazing things for New Zealand businesses, but at the very heart of it, people will want to know how it will help their organisation grow – or more to the point, bring in greater financial gains. So how can IoT be monetised? And how have some businesses already achieved this?

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6 Reasons To Overcome Your Fear of Talking Publicly

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Wikipedia As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. In fact, they often claim to be part of the survey group that fears public speaking more than death, but I’m not sure how anyone could validate that survey.

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How To Protect Your Business In A Divorce

YoungUpstarts

From the emotional point of view, many times couples never think that a time would come to consider divorce. When you have significant investments, beautiful kids and all of a sudden disagreements start popping in, marriages get shaken, and one of the partners may feel it’s time to call it quits. Research has proved that when couples are in love, have great plans for their marriage, and finances, they rarely debate on issues like divorce.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. In just the last month or so we’ve seen Lyft go public ( my analysis of the company’s S-1 here ) and more recently, Zoom and Pinterest. Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional.

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Top Considerations When Starting Your Own Business

The Startup Magazine

When it comes to starting your own business, it’s important not to put the cart before the horse. It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement and then miss a few critical steps that can come back to bite you if you wait too long. When you draw up your business plan, and you should, be sure not to forget these vital components. Photo by Clark Tibbs on Unsplash.

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5 Ways To Kickstart Your Business Coaching Reputation

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay I’ve always been a bit confused about the difference in a business context between a coach and a mentor. According to many pundits , a mentor shows you the right way based on experience, while a coach brings out the best in you, then let’s you find your own way. Based on my own experience on both sides of the fence, we can all benefit from either, and need the best of both.

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Why Your Startup Needs To Analyze Data From The Beginning

YoungUpstarts

Unless you’re a serial entrepreneur well on your way with a 5 th startup, then much of the work involved with your new business is something you’re doing for the very first time. Indeed, corralling the many moving parts, activities and people to get the business up and running smoothly is tough enough. Doing so while taking all the right actions is near impossible.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

Agile VC

Reading Time: 3 minutes. This post also appears on NextView’s blog. 2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. In just the last month or so we’ve seen Lyft go public ( my analysis of the company’s S-1 here ) and more recently, Zoom and Pinterest. Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional.

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LinkedIn Learning: Raising Venture Capital and Validating Your Startup Idea

Feld Thoughts

I recently recorded two free courses with LinkedIn Learning. They are each under an hour long and broken up into a bunch of small segments. The first one is on Raising Venture Capital and is based on content from the book Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist that I wrote with Jason Mendelson. Amy tells me that this is her favorite shirt from my current rotation of Robert Graham shirts.

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8 Ways Blogging Can Supercharge Your Business Website

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay Now that the number of websites on the Internet worldwide approaches two billion, how do you expect anyone to find yours? Equally important, if someone does find your site, your content must stand out above all similar sites, to keep visitors engaged, close a sale, and get customers to return. I have found that publishing a regular blog can give you an edge in making all this happen.

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How To Write A Proposal Cover Letter

YoungUpstarts

by Aaron Beashel, Head of Marketing at Qwilr. Cover letters may seem insignificant, but they can make an impact in the event that you’re sending a business proposal. Make the right impression by crafting a great proposal cover letter. But how does one get started? What Are Proposal Letters, And Why Should You Use Them? Cover letters are, for the most part formal written introductions to a client you wish to do business with.

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5 Simple Ways To Test Your Business Idea (Before You Quit Your Day Job)

YFS Magazine

Ready to launch smart and build a sustainable business? Here are five ways aspiring business owners can test their idea while they hold down a job.

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Austin-based KERV Interactive Raises $11 Million in Funding

SiliconHills

KERV Interactive, an Austin-based video ad startup, has raised $11 million in funding. Vestech Partners, a private equity group, led the investment. KERV has created interactive video technology that helps brands engage with consumers. Its customers include eBay, Hewlett-Packard, LG Electronics, Fisher & Paykel, and Lamborghini. “KERV represents the next generation of consumer experience in […].

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Customer Journey Maps: A Step-by-Step Guide

ConversionXL

“How do we get our customers to do what we want them to do?” Digital marketers get asked this question all the time. But it’s the wrong question. What businesses should really ask is, “How do I help my customers achieve their goals on my website while still achieving mine?” Focusing on that question is the starting point for building a customer journey map.

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5 Ways To Increase Your Online Reviews From Customers

YoungUpstarts

Your digital reputation is more important now than ever before. Potential customers use local reviews to screen the businesses they are considering working with or buying from. In some cases, a lack of reviews can be just as harmful as negative ones. Consider the following ways you can increase your online reviews. 1. Automated Emails. Many customers will opt in to accepting communication from a business when they make a purchase.

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How To Financially Protect Your Freelance Business

The Startup Magazine

Are you a freelancer? Freelancing is a great way to provide extra work freedom and really start living the work-life balance you want to. But it isn’t all good news. Becoming a freelancer is a big step that has some major financial implications. Since 2009, the freelance economy has grown by 25%. It’s now a huge part of the economy and one more and more people are turning to every year.

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Bell Policy Center Helps Strike the Right Balance in Colorado

Feld Thoughts

Recently, Amy and I hosted a conversation with Scott Wasserman, the president of Colorado’s Bell Policy Center. For those not familiar with the Bell, it is a research and advocacy organization focused on economic mobility in Colorado. In his presentation, Scott presented a range of data about four major forces affecting our economy: demographics, public investment, technology, and inequality.

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6 Self-Discovery Steps To Turn Your Strengths Into Profit

YFS Magazine

Here are six simple steps to dig deep and discover a side of yourself you might not know about, which can be leveraged to create new income streams.

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How Female Entrepreneurs Can Create Stable Businesses

YoungUpstarts

In the world of capitalism success, the potential of female entrepreneurs unveils as exceeding rates of women entering the fields of businesses, whether on a small scale such as spas to retail outlets, can be prominently observed. SCORE analyses this as 28 percent of the businesses in United States are owned by women as well as the 55 percent of start ups annually.

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Common Bankruptcy Law Questions Answered

The Startup Magazine

Bankruptcy is an often misunderstood practice you don’t run up debts and then just magically go bankrupt it is much more complex. Going bankrupt means creditors can’t collect debts from you either for a temporary set amount of time or permanently. Photo by Tina Bosse on Unsplash. It is the financial equivalent of wiping the slate clean and getting a fresh start and a long-standing legal practice.

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Austin Tech Events to Attend in May

SiliconHills

May 1-2 FUND Conference When: May 1st and May 2nd Where: Fairmount Hotel in Downtown Austin Why: FUND Conference hosts an event in Austin annually to promote connections among entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts. It features panel discussions on a variety of topics, exhibits, and networking. For more info. May 2nd Austin Tech […].

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5 Most Common Accounting Mistakes First-Time Entrepreneurs Make

YFS Magazine

In this article, we will discuss five of the most common accounting mistakes that are frequently made by new business owners.