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Even the Best Startup Solutions Need Modern Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time advisor to aspiring entrepreneurs, and a technology fan myself, I still meet dozens of techies with great solutions who assume they don’t need marketing to change the world. They subscribe to the myth that “if we build it, they will come.” In fact, with today’s information overload, modern marketing is the key to raising even the most innovative solution above the crowd.

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How Minnesota Became the Land of 10,000 Startups

ReadWriteStart

Minnesota is no stranger to big business. It’s home to such names as Target, Best Buy, General Mills, and Ecolab — all of which have made their homes in Minnesota for generations and have become a source of pride. But a new industry — technology — is taking Minnesota by storm, boosting the local economy […]. The post How Minnesota Became the Land of 10,000 Startups appeared first on ReadWrite.

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The Rich Kids of Venture Capital

Babbling VC

After having had a similar conversation a couple weeks ago with some Scandinavian VC's and now again yesterday with an old VC friend from Germany, I thought it was time to write something about it here. The title may be a bit misleading. This isn't about some new meme on Instagram. It's about the fact that if you look at the European landscape of startup founders and VC's, you tend to see some similarities.specifically a background of wealth.

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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

by Ryan Gerhardy, CEO of Pitchly. I gave a presentation at a legal technology conference last week. Afterward, I met the CIO from one of our law firm clients who was in the audience. He wanted to thank me for the work that we have done with his firm over the past two years, which I greatly appreciated. He also shared that, initially, he was leaning toward building an experience management solution in-house, and that it was only at the insistence of the firm’s CMO that he relented and engaged ou

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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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7 Strategies To Create Your Own Market And Win Bigger

Startup Professionals Musings

New technology markets and paradigm shifts have traditionally been bad bets when seeking investors, since these were known to take decades to develop, and cost lots of money. For example, consider how many years it took for the market to move from radio to television, or fully accept personal computers on every desktop. The leading edge was too often the bleeding edge.

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How Your Startup Can Compete With the Tech Giants

The Startup Magazine

Startups often have a hard time finding their footing in the global marketplace. With so many established brands and enterprises all around us, covering a vast network of niche industries, how can a small startup compete? Studies have also illustrated a high failure rate of startups, with 90% of them failing to find a footing in the industry. A combination of risky ideas and a competitive marketplace often proves to be too much for small teams to endure, especially against the tech giants.

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Escaping The Advertising Void: How Blockchain Can Help Us Stop Spending Billions On Digital Ads

YoungUpstarts

by Melanie Mohr, CEO and founder of YEAY. Google parent company Alphabet booked more than $54 billion in ad revenue in the first half of 2018. Meanwhile 30% of US internet users turned on ad-blockers – and that’s a conservative estimate for younger users. So how much reach do those targeted ads really have? Are they pushed to the full demographic pools promised across platforms, or are budgets disappearing into an advertising void where extra ads are served to the same people over and over

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7 New Venture Scenarios That Rarely Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. If you need investors, it’s important that you understand their filters, and even if you are funding your own efforts, you need to recognize the red flags.

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How to Successfully Rebrand: Everything Your Small Business Needs To Know

crowdSPRING Blog

Many business owners believe that a company’s brand identity is nothing more than that company’s name and logo. A brand is much more than the name and logo of a business. Your company’s brand is the sum total of the experience your customers and prospects have with your company. A good brand communicates what your company does and how it does it.

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MobilityX HR Hackathon: Digital Ideas for Employee Wellness

Austin Startup

Thirty-five developers, programmers, and entrepreneurs joined together for a hackathon to compete for the top prize of $10,000. All with the goal of improving the professional personal wellness of Daimler employees through digital innovation. The event was sponsored by Daimler Financial Services in collaboration with the Digital Transformation Office for HR at Daimler.

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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

Toronto’s Mark Attanasio has spent some 20 years advising businesses at various stages in their development on what it takes to position themselves for growth – whether it’s through traditional transactional activities like management buyouts and mergers and acquisitions or via a public listing on a Canadian stock exchange. It’s taken the Toronto executive from the world of Big 3 Accounting (as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers in his early career) to Investment Banking(National Bank Financial)

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Applications at Oracle Open World: a conversation with Steve Miranda

deal architect

Oracle OpenWorld kicks off this morning. I am not going this year but I checked in last week with Steve Miranda, Executive Vice President, Oracle Applications Product Development about what we can expect to hear about applications. I did not.

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Transcript of Building Accountable Leadership to Transform Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Building Accountable Leadership to Transform Your Business 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: You know, leadership might be the hardest job for an entrepreneur. You’ve got to decide that you want that job, you have to understanding that it’s an obligation, and let’s face it, it is hard work every

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Floods, Water Quality in Central Texas/NC/FL and Crowdfunding A Solution.

Austin Startup

‘Never Waste A Crisis’ Stages of Varuna Development In the last few months flood related water quality issues have ravaged Austin (more below), North Carolina , Florida , and many other states/countries outside the US. Turbidity has been an issue due to flood carrying debris and taking the impurities in the water to levels higher than the water cleaning and filtration systems in these cities/regions can handle.

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The Economics of Automation & You

Start Up Blog

It’s true that many tasks people do in their work will be automated in the future. It’s also true that the only reason for a company to it is to save money. So where does the saved money, and do the displaced people go? Firstly, we know what happens, because it has already happened a number of times. It happened when agriculture was automated.

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The 90s calledthey want their ERP back

deal architect

Eric Kimberling shared with me his post Top ERP Systems for 2019. His top 5 are Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP S/4HANA, NetSuite, Workday and Salesforce (more its partners like FinancialForce). The post made me wonder what my application analyst colleagues.

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Why Founders Need a Moral Compass

Steve Blank

I’ve been thinking why the ethical boundaries of todays founder/VC interactions feel so different then they did when I was an entrepreneur. I’ve written about the root causes in an HBR article here and an expanded version here. Worth a read. Stanford eCorner captured a few minutes of what I’ve been thinking in the video below. If you can’t see the video click here.

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Everything Austin’s tech sector needs to know about the 2018 general election

Austin Startup

As part of Austin Tech Alliance’s TechVotes program, here’s everything Austin’s tech sector needs to know for the November 6, 2018 general election. REGISTER To vote in Texas, you must be registered. You can find out if you’re registered here. If you’re not registered yet, it’s too late to do so and vote in the November 6 election?—?but you should still register to get prepared for the next election, the runoff on December 11.

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How Nils Grossberg Fueled His Mission Of Community Service Through Dagcoin

YoungUpstarts

Dagcoin is a new name in the cryptocurrency sector. Developed by the software company Dagcoin which is founded by Nils Grossberg , Dagcoin cryptocurrency is entirely based on Nils’ vision to serve the community. According to Nils Grossberg , cryptocurrency must not be considered merely as an investment option. Cryptocurrency is not something that you buy and hold, waiting for its price to rise and selling it thereafter.

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8 Key Skill Sets Required For Success In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience in large businesses as well as years of advising startups, I see far too much focus on product skills, and too little on people and process skills. In my view, this focus on the wrong skill set is the primary reason why over half of new businesses fail in the first five years, and only one out of a hundred startups get their requested funding from professional investors.

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Oracle OpenWorld: Thoughts from afar

deal architect

I was not at OOW this week, but glad I got a sneak preview from Steve Miranda. I also got to watch several of the keynotes on my iPad – from the home office, from a café in NYC, from.

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How to Open a Company Bank Account for Your Startup & Avoid the Pitfalls

ReadWriteStart

Congratulations on registering your new business! Or if you’re still contemplating forming your business, and just trying to better understand the steps required for having a bank account under the company name, you’re in the right place. Be sure you have seen our Lloyd & Mousilli guide on incorporation here for a step by step analysis. […].

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5 Secrets From A TV Producer To Make Your Pitches Irresistible

YoungUpstarts

by Wes Dening , senior vice president of development and programming at Eureka Productions. Whether you’re a creative or an entrepreneur, a pitch is your Olympic moment, an opportunity to show your best in front of the ultimate audience: your buyer. Take the gold or else be forgotten with the pack. Countless ideas abound — and many are fantastic — but the difference between an idea and something of value is putting the muscle in.

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7 Keys To Timely And Compelling New Venture Progress

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the most important skills for every entrepreneur is timely and effective decision making. In a startup, any decision is better than no decision. One of the primary roles of every founder is to solve problems, make a decision, and manage the decision to results. The best entrepreneurs relish this role, while others struggle mightily and ultimately lose their health and their company.

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DonorsChoose.org Book Match Day

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I love to read. Growing up, one of my favorite places in the world was the hammock in our backyard with a book. As an adult, one of my favorite places is our living room, on my couch, with Amy on her couch, and the dogs laying on the floor between us, while we read. I also love DonorsChoose. Whenever I’ve had a crummy day, I often go online and fund a project or two.

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Yes, Entrepreneurs Can Thrive in Corporate Environments

ReadWriteStart

These entrepreneurs are the ones that work in corporations while working on their innovation. These are they who toiled furiously day and night in their garage, or took out a second mortgage on their home. We’ve all heard the romantic anecdotes of entrepreneurs. How often does this really happen? Is this a requirement for a […]. The post Yes, Entrepreneurs Can Thrive in Corporate Environments appeared first on ReadWrite.

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‘Wide Niches’ Exist – How To Find Them

YoungUpstarts

by Nicky Bowers, director of LetLoos. You don’t often get into a niche market by casting a wide net, but there are broad service requirements in almost every industry. The key to developing an enduring business model is to find a market for your product that needs your input or expertise. In other words, you need to have an extremely niche product or service that is demanded by a wide — and most importantly, profitable — audience.

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Five Steps To Overcome Obstacles When The Going Gets Tough

YFS Magazine

Obstacles are inevitable. However, they are also significant and defining moments to the success of a leader and an organization.

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The Superhuman Change To My Current Email Tools

Feld Thoughts

It’s 2018. I’m still an incredibly heavy email user. It’s the primary tool in my workflow and has been since the early 1990s. I’ve tried a lot of different things over the years, but always come back to email. I’ve been a Gmail user for almost a decade. While I’ve tried client-side apps, Gmail in Chrome has been the only thing that has stuck for me.

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Make Your Restaurant Successful

The Startup Magazine

Starting a restaurant may seem like a huge leap of faith, but there are some very simple guidelines you can follow to make your restaurant a success. Food is a universal joy throughout most religions, cultures, and nations, so if you have the desire to work hard and create some amazing food then why not have a go? Below are some tips to starting a restaurant: Source: Pexels.

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Three Of the Most Common Customer Service Issues

YoungUpstarts

Working in customer service isn’t for everyone. However, if you are a business owner, this is one of the hats you must wear. Unfortunately, you never know when an issue may pop up and the way you handle it goes a long way in a person’s willingness to continue doing business with you. Not only that, but not handling customer service issues properly and promptly can lead to one customer telling others about their experience.

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Purpose, Passion And Profit: 3 Ingredients For Business Success

YFS Magazine

Invest in your business for the long haul. With the proper vision, planning, and determination, building the business of your dreams will become easier.

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“Smart SaaS” – the next generation of enterprise apps

Version One Ventures

When Angela and I were pitching our newest fund to investors, we started using the term “smart SaaS” to describe the kind of SaaS companies we like to invest in. Before the SaaS explosion, software and data were only “on premise.” Then, SaaS came along and moved everything to the cloud, boosting efficiency and collaboration since everything was now digitalized and easily accessible.

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Top 5 Live Streaming Software Solutions

The Startup Magazine

Videos have become easier and more powerful than they used to be a few years back. We can get evidence in the stats that say, “ Videos drive two-thirds of the whole internet traffic and is anticipated to grow to about 82% by 2020”. Businesses in 2018 have already anticipated the trend and have adopted this emerging tech for gaining a grip on their audience base.

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The All-New Innovation Culture: 6 Ways To Involve Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day

YoungUpstarts

by Doug Hall, author of “ Driving Eureka!: Problem Solving with Data Driven Methods and the Innovation Engineering System “ News Flash: Innovation is no longer just a specialist’s job. What’s needed to keep up in today’s digital and global economy is a culture in which innovation is the mission of everyone, everywhere, every day. . Most people think that innovative ideas are magical and only randomly reveal themselves to so-called creative people.

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7 Options For Small Business Accounting Software

YFS Magazine

Unsure which small business accounting tools are best for you? Perhaps you're ready for a change? Here's a quick look at 7 smart options.