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Do You Need a Business Plan? Scientific Research Says Yes

Up and Running

Should you spend some time developing a plan for your business, or just dive in and start, figuring things out as you go? There has been plenty of debate on this topic, but no one has pulled together the scientific evidence to determine if planning is worthwhile—until now. With the help of my friend Jeff, from the University of Oregon, I’ve been looking at academic research on business planning—the actual science around planning and how it impacts both startups and existing businesses.

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The Willingness to Learn and the Pressure to Be Confident

This is going to be BIG.

Being a founder means showing confidence. It’s nearly impossible to fundraise, hire, or lead without it—but at the same time, founders don’t know everything. There are many things they’re going to be doing for the first time that are ridiculous to expect them to know how to do right off the bat. Just because you start a company doesn’t necessarily mean you’re automatically a good manager, a good recruiter, or good at PR.

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7 Push-Backs That New Venture Founders Must Overcome

Startup Professionals Musings

In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way. In fact, leaders are not remembered for their dreams, aspirations, or intentions – they are remembered because they achieved results.

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9 No-Nonsense Social Media Tips Your Business Can’t Ignore

YoungUpstarts

by Rachel Strella, founder of Strella Social Media. With social media a marketing staple for businesses in all industries and across all parts of the globe, it has become more competitively critical than ever for brands to get their acts together. You’ll find no shortage of online articles that offer social media tips, but many of them don’t cover the foundational necessities that are at the core of a successful social media brand presence.

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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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How Your Law Firm Should Market To Millennials

The Startup Magazine

Millennials are now the largest living generation in the history. These savvy consumers that are now in their ages 16 to 36 are determined to define the economy as we all know it. Law firms are quite alarmed about the changes happening and how to catch up and market to this often misunderstood population. Source: Pixabay. There are two things that are certain.

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Focus on Existing Assets to Generate Better Marketing Results

Duct Tape Marketing

Focus on Existing Assets to Generate Better Marketing Results written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Louis Gudema. Podcast Transcript. My guest this week on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Louis Gudema. He is the founder and president of Revenue & Associates and the author of the book Bullseye Marketing: How to Grow Your Business Faster.

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3 Things To Consider To Deal With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome In Your Business

YoungUpstarts

According to a report by the Orthopedic Center of Arlington, more than eight million individuals suffer from varying degrees of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) on a yearly basis. Carpal tunnel syndrome occurs when the tendons and ligaments surrounding the median nerve are inflamed. This inflammation creates swelling in the area, and the median nerve gets pinched, leading to a “pins and needles” sensation in the fingers, wrists and even the whole arm.

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AI in the enterprise: a reality check with John Sumser

deal architect

John Sumser, aka HR Examiner, has been focusing on "intelligent technology" including AI and machine learning as it morphs the HCM function. Trends in that function are a forerunner of what we will see across the enterprise. I recently caught.

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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – Before the Meeting

VC Adventure

All good board meetings start well before the meeting itself, so let’s start there for this series on board meetings. Timing – how frequently should you meet? Most boards plan meetings a year at a time. That makes sense given busy schedules, but leads to the question of when and how often should a board meet. As a good rule of thumb, most startup boards meet quarterly (in fact, most boards of any kind meet about this frequently).

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6 Story Attributes Will Highlight Your Business Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

The biggest challenge for every entrepreneur and every startup today is to get noticed and remembered in today’s information overload. The number of entrepreneurs worldwide is huge, starting an estimated 50 million new businesses per year, or 137,000 per day. Every one of these probably has a unique story, but in my years as a startup advisor I only remember hearing a few who capitalized on their story.

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Best Big Data Tools And How To Use Them

YoungUpstarts

In this competitive world, it is important to have robust tools which can effectively analyze the organization’s data. When these tools are used, it will reduce the burden over the employees who are working over there. This will help them to focus over the jobs which are more important and requires serious attention. If you need help in this area, then contact a big data consulting company.

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SAP CX Live better afternoons than mornings

deal architect

I was asked about the couple of days I spent at the SAP CX event in Barcelona this week, and my response was “afternoons were better than mornings”. True enough, given the body was jet lagged.

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Transcript of Focus on Existing Assets to Generate Better Marketing Results

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Focus on Existing Assets to Generate Better Marketing Results 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: We all want to go out there and chase that new customer, get those new leads but the truth of the matter is for most businesses, some existing assets, existing traffic, existing customers, existing email list, thatR

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Businesses Need Employee Engagement More Than Process

Startup Professionals Musings

The days of leadership without engagement are gone. With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. Soon you won’t be able to name a business as one of your favorites if you can’t personally visualize and relate to company leadership.

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4 Practical Insights For Creating A Profitable Cryptocurrency Investment Portfolio

YoungUpstarts

If you’ve been paying any attention to Bitcoin and the general cryptocurrency markets; you’ll have observed that the market has suffered huge losses in the year-to-date period. The price of Bitcoin has declined about 53% and the market capitalization of the entire cryptocurrency market has been slashed by almost 60% in the same period. 2017 appeared to be the height of the last bull run in cryptocurrencies – all you had to do was to buy a decent coin, sit back, relax, and watch the value of your

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Passport Raises $3m to Build the Modern Shipping Carrier

ReadWriteStart

Ecommerce brands have seen innovations spring up for all parts of their business to help them compete more effectively with Amazon. Shopify makes it seamless to launch a great storefront. Instagram helps you build your audience (and even sell directly!). Whiplash and Shipmonk handle your fulfillment. Fuse Inventory and Stitch Labs manages your inventory with […].

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Announcing Version One Fund III

Version One Ventures

We are very happy to announce the launch of Version One Ventures III with $45M USD ($57M CAD) in commitments. With Fund III, we’re doubling down on all that has worked in our previous funds – our strategy, geography, investment thesis and philosophy. It’s an exciting time to be launching a new fund as our focus on network effects and broad geography are driving opportunities in both existing and emerging markets.

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SaaStock Dublin 2018: Get inside your Buyer’s Head – Improve Conversion Rates

For Entrepreneurs

At this year’s SaaStock, I presented on one of my favorite topics: how to improve your marketing and sales funnel conversion rates using a deep understanding of what is going on in your buyer’s mind as the navigate through their purchasing process, and experience your marketing and selling.

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3 Tips For Overcoming ‘Hidden Growth Killers’ That Harm Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Mark Green , author of “ Activators: A CEO’s Guide to Clearer Thinking and Getting Things Done “ A key part of any CEO’s or entrepreneur’s role is to make the “right” decisions, and then ensure they are enacted to advance the business. Yet their decisions and actions often miss the mark, frustrating the achievement of their aspirations.

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Killer Marketing Plan For Startup Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Why break the bank for your marketing needs when you can brainstorm your way to a killer marketing plan? The best marketing ideas come simple and cheap but these ideas do not come out of the blue. Your actual business plan will require an out-of-the-box, innovative thought process. You’ll want to get your marketing wheels […]. The post Killer Marketing Plan For Startup Entrepreneurs appeared first on ReadWrite.

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How Asking Someone How to #GiveFirst to Them Undermines #GiveFirst

Feld Thoughts

I got an email this morning from a close friend who asked how I reconcile a particular issue around the concept of #GiveFirst. Following is the setup from the email I got. “I was thinking of you yesterday. I recently met with someone in town who was looking to connect. I took the meeting because, well, I always take such meetings. I’m just wired that way and you never know what good things can come from such random meetings.

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Take advantage of the good times to build stakeholder loyalty.

Berkonomics

Loyalty is a hard-earned commodity. There are several times when stakeholder loyalty is tested to the limit. For employees, a late or missed payroll is the ultimate test of corporate loyalty, divorced even from an employee’s ability to make do without a paycheck. For investors, a subsequent down round at a lower valuation than the last, or an exit opportunity at a loss are all opportunities for the affected stakeholder to show a side that can sometimes shock an entrepreneur or CEO.

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A Deep Insight Into Currency Pairs

YoungUpstarts

If you are looking to trade in a market that never closes, has the biggest volume of the world’s trading, with individuals from all nations of the world partaking in it each day. Then you must definitely choose the Forex trade. The market has emerged from the requirement for a framework to encourage the trading of various monetary forms far and wide with a specific end goal to exchange.

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Funding the Business

The Startup Magazine

A lot of people are choosing the entrepreneur life right out of college instead of finding a traditional job. People have ideas, and these startups are what fuel much of our economy. They’re important, but in order to propel these ideas forward, entrepreneurs need business funding. Unless you happen to have a lot of extra cash lying around, funding is your ticket to the top.

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Cristal Glangchai, Author of Venture Girls, Says an Entrepreneurial Mindset is key to Success

SiliconHills

Cristal Glangchai, Ph.D., was the founding director of the Blackstone LaunchPad and the director of the Texas Entrepreneurship Exchange at the University of Texas in Austin. She’s also the founder and CEO of VentureLab, a non-profit that runs experiential learning programs in youth tech entrepreneurship. And she is the author of the bestselling book: Venture […].

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How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

ConversionXL

When I last checked, there were 987,119 “thought leaders” on LinkedIn. Soon, there’ll be more than a million. How many of those do you trust? “False expertise” is misidentified competence: We perceive expertise where there is none or evaluate expertise based on irrelevant factors. False experts include legions of self-appointed “gurus” and “visionaries” who saturate social media with bad advice.

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Top Tips For Entrepreneurial Success

YoungUpstarts

No matter how much you might want it, success doesn’t happen overnight when you’re an entrepreneur. There are bound to be bumps in the road, the key is to be able to cope with these and stay on track. Here are some top tips to help you weather any storms that might come your way as you strive for success. Be clear about what makes you unique. We live in a competitive business environment – with companies from right across the globe competing for customers thanks to the joys of technology.

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What Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Worker Safety

The Startup Magazine

As an entrepreneur, one of your top-most priorities ought to be ensuring that your workers are safe when they are working. Worker safety entails providing an environment that is risk-free and conducive for work. Part of it includes engaging in safe activities and using equipment that is not dangerous. If it is, there should be safety measures put in place to make sure that no harm befalls them.

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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting

VC Adventure

This is the first of a multi-part series on Board Meetings. The question of what the ideal board meeting looks like comes up quite a bit in my world and I’m hoping to add my voice to the debate through a few posts (with what I hope will be clear and actionable advice). We’ll cover the creation of a board agenda, the board deck, pre-board communication, how to best run a board meeting, decision topics vs. discussion topics and post meeting follow-up, among other ideas in the coming we

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What Every Entrepreneur Should Know About B2C E-Commerce

YFS Magazine

Knowing the basics of business-to-consumer e-commerce will help you market and sell more effectively. Here's what you need to know.

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How Hashtags Can Supercharge Small Business Marketing

YoungUpstarts

by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. Hashtags can boost impressions, improve the searchability of your content, and encourage more people to talk about your brand. But to use hashtags effectively, you must do more than just plug them into your tweets on Twitter or posts on Instagram, Facebook or another social network. Here’s what you need to know to use hashtag marketing better as part of your overall small business marketing strategy.

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A Decade of Disruption – Future Scope at Uttishtha 2018

The Startup Magazine

The Startup Magazine was proud to be a media sponsor at this year’s E-Cell, IIM Kashipur flagship entrepreneurship event , Uttishtha’18, on 6 th October, 2018. The theme of this year’s event was, A decade of Disruption – Future Scope. In the past decade we have seen several start-ups disrupting the way we see and conduct businesses. The Olas, Facebooks and Airbnbs of the world have shown us how start-ups can become unicorns without investing in actual assets.

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Get inside your Buyer’s Head – Improve Conversion Rates

For Entrepreneurs

At this year’s SaaStock, I presented on one of my favorite topics: how to improve your marketing and sales funnel conversion rates using a deep understanding of what is going on in your buyer’s mind as the navigate through their … The post Get inside your Buyer’s Head – Improve Conversion Rates appeared first on For Entrepreneurs.

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Why More Brands Are Investing In Live Events

YFS Magazine

Today's most successful brands are investing in live events. Here's a look at four reasons why event marketing is on the rise.

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What Are Reputation Management Services?

YoungUpstarts

In the past, a business’ reputation was formed through word of mouth communication and referrals. But in today’s digital age, reputation is deeply rooted in online reviews, Google searches, and mentions on social media. With so many consumers making their purchasing decisions online, the health and state of your business’ reputation can make or break your success.

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Why Entrepreneurs Should Look At Offshore Banking

The Startup Magazine

Global diversification is a great move for your investment portfolio, but you might want to start with a savings account in your home country before venturing offshore for greater investment or lending. However, entrepreneurs should consider establishing an offshore savings account instead. It is important that you know what the benefits of an offshore savings account will be before you make any decisions.