View from Seed
JANUARY 15, 2020
One of the fun books I read last year was “Paper Tiger” by Tom Coyne. I love to play golf, and Tom did what many golfers dream about – he devoted 100% of his life for 2 years to get as good as he possibly can and tried to make it on a pro tour. The book is a light-hearted, enjoyable read. But one thing that stuck out to me was his description of playing in mini-tour events in Florida.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 17, 2020
by Deb Boelkes, author of “ The WOW Factor Workplace: How to Create a Best Place to Work Culture “ January is the perfect time to start thinking about your workplace culture. A positive one produces happy, engaged employees who give their best efforts, challenge themselves to grow, and consistently meet goals and delight customers. A toxic one creates miserable, unmotivated clock-watchers and job-board checkers.
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ReadWriteStart
JANUARY 16, 2020
Being relatively a new service trend in today’s tech-driven world, CTO-as-a-Service (CaaS) is notably gaining its momentum. Though CTO as a traditional full-time position exists for decades, some companies do not feel they need a technology executive. Still, in some crucial stages of company growth, the CTO engagement turns out to be inevitable. CTO engagement mainly concerns startups and mature companies that have technologies at the core of their business.
YFS Magazine
JANUARY 14, 2020
Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart or the uninspired.
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
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 15, 2020
Valuing a business based on assets and financial performance is a well-understood process, but every investor knows the real value goes well beyond these parameters, either higher or lower. The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 14, 2020
When you run a business, it’s your job to ensure your employees are taken care of. Health and safety should be a main focus for the business, particularly workplace safety. If you’re looking to make your office a safer place to work, below you’ll discover 4 tips that can help. 1. Ensure you’re using an alarm system. When you own business premises, it’s important to secure it against theft.
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Transformify
JANUARY 13, 2020
Sean Weisbrot is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of SideKick. Having worked remotely for the last 7 years prior to starting his secure payments and messaging app, SideKick, Sean insisted on pursuing a remote-only work policy. He firmly believed that cultivating a decentralized workforce is key to making a company attractive in many ways. Sean, what are the benefits associated with remote work?
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 13, 2020
As a startup mentor, I’m always amazed that some entrepreneurs seem to be an immediate hit with investors, while others struggle to get any attention at all. Finally I realized that venture capital and angel investors are actually humans, despite some views to the contrary. As with most business and personal interactions, first impressions tend to become lasting ones.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 16, 2020
Kajabi is an all-in-one business platform that makes it easy for freelancers, solopreneurs, influencers and business owners to create online courses and launch marketing campaigns. The platform also lets users build landing pages and design a complete website for their business. Recently, Kajabi announced its all-new landing page builder, Kajabi Pages.
The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 15, 2020
Software development is an ongoing project. Applications are never “done” They are living, breathing entities that require constant feeding. However, sometimes they need makeovers to revitalize their customer value and impact. When leading online business platform Kajabi committed to a full redesign of their landing page builder, they went to straight to the source for inspiration.
Transformify
JANUARY 14, 2020
Sam Johns is a human resources specialist at Resume Genius. The company adopted a remote work policy several years ago allowing its employees to work from home several days per month. Sam, why did Resume Genius introduce work from home policy? Remote work is still seen as a perk by many employers who usually allow their employees to work from home a day or two per week.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 12, 2020
People who have been followers too long as an employee don’t realize how hard it is to be a leader. Every new entrepreneur has to initiate the right actions to be perceived as a leader in their chosen business domain by their team and by their customers, or the road to success and satisfaction will be lost along the way. Driving these actions are some basic principles that entrepreneurial leaders, such as Airbnb CEO Brain Chesky and LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, seem to have learned early.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 15, 2020
by Pamela Webber, Chief Operating Officer at 99designs. For a startup entrepreneur or small business owner, staying on top of the hottest trends in the design world is probably pretty far down the priority list. However, remaining current with your brand and all the assets used to communicate with your customers is a critical factor in success for a young and growing company.
The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 15, 2020
Are you feeling fed up with your dull and monotonous 9 to 5 job working for someone else? Do you have a business mind that you think you could utilize to run your own company? If so, then you should consider joining the thousands of people every year that decide to go it alone by launching their own startup. However, working for someone else means that you have a lot less responsibilities.
Board Effect
JANUARY 14, 2020
Board directors interact with groups and individuals that stem from many different facets of their board service. Board directors need to have good relationships with their peers, customers, vendors, executives, staff members, and other professionals and stakeholders. Relationships aren’t always easy. Difficult challenges and poor communication are just a couple of issues that make it difficult to keep relationships healthy and thriving.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 11, 2020
In my experience working with entrepreneurs, once they feel they have a winning formula for their business, they are often hesitant to change or update it. They forget that adapting their company and themselves as their customers evolve is the key to long-term survival. Think of Blockbuster and Toys ‘R’ Us , both of whom missed customer changes and the move to online.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 17, 2020
When we are young it seems as if the world is a fairly straightforward place. We are asked what we would like to be when we grow up and our answers tend to be very confident and simplistic, missing out the fear of failure that creeps up on us as adolescents. Finding and keeping a good job is difficult, especially in this day and age, but reclaiming some of this childlike confidence is a surprisingly useful strategy to becoming the person you want to be.
The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 12, 2020
We live in a world of feedback, comments, likes, reviews and social engagement. While these interactions occur mostly in our personal lives, it also makes sense to incorporate them into the company culture. Giving employees the opportunity to be heard and to feel valued is a great way to keep them engaged and grow your business from within. HR tools focused on employee engagement are just some of the many essential management tools that you should consider for your business.
David Teten
JANUARY 11, 2020
What tech stack should a microinfluencer use? Many investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in our job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. However, being a “microinfluencer” is now part of the job description. . In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers. Traditional celebrities or influencers with millions of followers have a large service industry and tech stack to serve their needs.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 17, 2020
Although most people believe that being a successful entrepreneur is all about having the right idea, I’m convinced from my years of experience as a startup advisor and investor that’s it’s more about you as a person. If you can brand yourself as someone to remember, and someone who can deliver, I assure you that you will have no trouble finding investors, as well as customers.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 14, 2020
The trend of outsourcing tax preparations has been on the rise in the past few years. It is a good move for both individual and company taxes. Many tax practitioners, such as Taxfyle.com , have grown to embrace the rising demand for tax preparation services. There are many benefits of outsourcing tax preparation services. The first major advantage is the economic aspect.
The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 14, 2020
We are at a point in world history in which much of the current growth in the developed world is unsustainable. It is no longer stated that we have to be concerned for the future generations. Now, according to the Sustainability Management School , by the year 2030, it is expected that as many as 700 million people may end up having to move due to scarcity of water where they live if the current climate change issues continue.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
JANUARY 14, 2020
Technology has changed the landscape of almost every business around the globe. From changing how people can pay to revolutionize shipping and fulfillment. So, no matter what industry you are in right now, here are some of the ways that technology can improve your business. Customer Service. How you treat your customers can make or break your business.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 15, 2020
Incorporating Storytelling Into Your Sales Process written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Livesay. Podcast Transcript. Today on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I visit with sales keynote speaker, author, and pitch whisperer John Livesay. Livesay is a sales expert who coaches teams on how to become irresistible to their prospects.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 15, 2020
The cryptocurrency market is an industry with round-the-clock trading activities in contrast to the stock market. This can pose stressful challenges for traders and investors alike, as they can wake up everyday to a pleasant or unpleasant price market movement. Due to the market volatility rate, most traders have resorted to the use of trading bots built on certain algorithms to control their trades at all times.
deal architect
JANUARY 13, 2020
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft kicked off NRF 2020 Vision, the annual retail industry mega event in New York yesterday. He had some great sound bites "There’s death, there’s taxes and there’s ever-increasing online advertising spend. There’s not much we.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 14, 2020
In-house SEOs and consultants alike are routinely challenged to find new opportunities to expand organic traffic. But the classic approach of researching new keywords then writing articles for those that match your domain strength doesn’t work for all sites. Take Quora, for example. It’s one of the largest social platforms, with over 300 million monthly active users and nearly 54 million pages in Google’s index.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 16, 2020
Using AI with Human Touch to Create Great Social Content written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Kate Bradley Chernis. Podcast Transcript. Today’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Kate Bradley Chernis, co-founder and CEO of Lately. Bradley Chernis started her career as a radio DJ, then started a marketing firm, and it was there that she identified a unique problem: Businesses need to create tons of social media content to get noticed onli
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 16, 2020
The internet is full of articles about hacks; life hacks, time-saving hacks and more. However, if you are in business, these 2 tips could transform your working day, reduce stress and increase your productivity dramatically. 1. Speed-reading. When Bill Gates was asked by a student at Nebraska State what superpower he would want to have, Gates famously replied, “Being able to read super-fast”.
SiliconHills
JANUARY 17, 2020
Austin has become an eCommerce hub. And that’s thanks, in part, to homegrown startups like WikiBuy, which was acquired by Capital One for an undisclosed sum in November of 2018. Other major Austin players in the eCommerce industry include RetailMeNot, Bazaarvoice, BigCommerce, Dosh, Convey, H-E-B Digital, Black Locus/Home Depot, and Favor. And Austin is also […].
YFS Magazine
JANUARY 15, 2020
Examine your systems and processes to ensure they are focused on providing what matters most to your customers.
Haystack
JANUARY 12, 2020
For those following this blog and the seed market over the past decade, you may have noticed that every year, we see increases across the board — more investors, newer funds, and funds that get larger. Much has been written about the fact that traditional seed stage funds have grown in size and dollars under management. Here, I wanted to step back and consider “why” this has happened from my vantage point.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 14, 2020
December, as business winds down for the year is a good time to reflect on successes and failures from the previous twelve months and use those learnings to inform your plans for the next. This doesn’t hold true for some in the retail and hospitality industries, who should be enjoying their busiest time of the year, but in other industries, demand slows in the middle of winter allowing time for thought.
Up and Running
JANUARY 13, 2020
It is an incredible time to be a small business owner. Customers, now more than ever before, truly care about who they buy products and services from, and how those companies align with their values. From the shoes we wear to the dish soap we use, there are endless options for consumers to choose from. Pair that with internet access, and more power than ever before sits in the hands of the buyer.
YFS Magazine
JANUARY 13, 2020
Take a closer look at these proven marketing and branding opportunities to learn how each tactic works and why it makes sense for your business.
The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 15, 2020
If you want to grow your sales figures and expand into new, exciting markets, it’s time to investigate going international with your business. Before doing so, however, do not ignore the risks attached. Even massive organizations such as Starbucks and Walmart are not immune to flopping during an attempt at international expansion. Source: Unsplash. If you want to give your business the best chance of a successful expansion, take in the following four points: 1.
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