ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 29, 2018
With multibillion-dollar tech companies and growth startups making headlines left and right, it’s natural to want to get a piece of the action. Ant Financial, for example, recently closed a ridiculous Series C funding round of $14 billion — one of the largest VC funding rounds in history. The China-based fintech company pushed its value to $150 billion with the latest […].
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 29, 2018
As a long-time advisor to small businesses and startups, I still find many who think marketing is still primarily broadcasting your message to as many customers as possible, hitting them again and again, until it sticks. They don’t realize that customers today are looking for relationships, meaning two-way conversations with your business. They ignore all else as just plain noise.
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 28, 2018
Before social media, it could take a lot of time and effort to be able to get your business noticed. Social media has given the online marketplace numerous individual platforms for advertising and marketing. The challenge of growing your business, building an online presence and establishing trust with new customers has never been easier. By taking advantage of the ability to reach a wider audience than ever before, you can launch your business with a bang.
View from Seed
OCTOBER 31, 2018
A home is arguably the most important asset both financially and emotionally for a family. As a result, the unnecessarily complex and manual process one experiences today with traditional real estate brokers and agents can cause selling that home to be an emotional and stressful experience. Today, it takes an average of 72 days to sell a home and costs the average seller $15,000.
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
The Startup Magazine
OCTOBER 29, 2018
If you want to take your business to the next level, you should consider app development. Are you are a startup that needs to market your products and services ? Or, are you an established business that wants to secure your future? Either way, custom software development is an effective way to build brand awareness and give your business a competitive edge.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 31, 2018
So, you’ve built a website for your business and you’re up and running. But, do you know what’s actually happening on your site? Do you know which pages people are visiting most, and which pages are most likely to encourage a purchase? What are your best traffic sources? Trying to sift through all of the data that your site is generating can be a frustrating and confusing process.
Start Up Roar brings together the best content for start up professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
TechEmpower
OCTOBER 30, 2018
We're happy to announce that Round 17 of the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project is now available. Since the adoption of Continuous Benchmarking , the creation of an official Round is a fairly simple process: Try to reduce errors in framework implementations. We want an official Round to have a solid showing by as many frameworks as feasible given limited personnel bandwidth.
The Startup Magazine
OCTOBER 29, 2018
Sometimes you have the entrepreneurial spirit and skill, but you just don’t have a revolutionary business idea worth pursuing. If you are ready to launch a startup but lack direction or inspiration, you might consider one of the following concepts, which many accelerators, incubators and venture capitalists are eagerly awaiting. They have great growth potential.
deal architect
OCTOBER 31, 2018
This continues a series of interviews with tech executives who have seen the industry evolve over a minimum of two decades. They have helped analyze, envision, develop and take to market some of the most influential technology the world has.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 28, 2018
Smartphone buying is simple enough, right? Wrong! Despite how simple of a choice it may seem, savvy shopper know a few tricks of the trade when it comes to making large tech purchases like smartphones. Here are 5 tips that will help you find the best deals on the market, with payment plans that fit your paycheck. 1. Create a List of Every Smartphone on the Market You Like.
VC Adventure
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
This is the 4th post in my Designing the Ideal Board Meetin g series. I hope this series so far has helped you think a bit differently about how you approach the lead-up to your board meetings. By the time you walk into the meeting you should have a clear agenda that everyone has agreed to, one or two areas of the business that you plan to dive more deeply into, prepared materials that are of a style, length, detail and consistency that efficiently and effectively brings your board up to speed o
The Startup Magazine
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Are you thinking about opening an online fashion dropship store, or do you currently run one? Dropship businesses are not only easy to launch, combining them with the clothing industry is a surefire way to find at least some customers. The ecommerce landscape is already saturated with similar businesses, though, so how do you make yours stand out, especially if someone is selling the same products as you?
deal architect
OCTOBER 31, 2018
We ran Part 1 of the interview with Rob Enslin yesterday. Part 2 below continues with how he sees tech and its impact today compared to his perspective in past decades. He also talks about his leadership style and his.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 28, 2018
by Manish Dudharejia, President and Founder of E2M Solutions Inc. Being a small-to-medium sized online business is not easy. You often have to compete with national and international e-commerce organizations with better resources and more manpower. As the online retail sector grows, smaller entities must stay at the top of their game if they are going to remain relevant and competitive.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
I received a Silicon Flatirons email from Phil Weiser this morning in his role as Silicon Flatirons Founder and Executive Director. My partners and I, especially Jason Mendelson, have been very involved with Silicon Flatirons over the past decade. I have a chapter in Startup Communities that uses CU Boulder – and specifically Silicon Flatirons – as an example of a much better way than the traditional approach (circa 2012) for a university to engage with the startup community.
The Startup Magazine
OCTOBER 29, 2018
When you’re trying to grow your startup, there are all sorts of things to concentrate on, such as marketing effectively, providing excellent customer service, streamlining processes, thinking about new products or services to offer and more. However, for ultimate growth, it’s essential that you and your team focus on the sales side of things too. In particular, be sure to use the sales leads you get in the most effective way, so you enjoy a higher conversion rate.
deal architect
OCTOBER 29, 2018
I have certain core IT values. I like customers to buy versus build systems. Have long been a buy cheerleader. But in return, I expect vendors to build not buy. So, I have never been a fan of big.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 28, 2018
Branching out and doing things alone can be stressful, but it can also be immensely rewarding. You might have worked in someone else’s practice for a number of years but recently made the decision to start your own. You’ll already know how big a decision that has been but it’s also one with a huge upside that could see you helping more people, providing more of the care that you want, and also making a lot more money.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 28, 2018
A popular myth these days is that finishing college only dilutes your entrepreneurial instincts, and the best of the best, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out early to hasten their success. I agree with Robert E. Litan, former VP of research at the Kauffman Foundation, that these are exceptions to the rule, rather than a model to emulate.
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
So, you are close to selling your company, and counting the profits a bit early. Well, that’s human nature. Here’s a thought for you to recall later when and if the event happens. Remember those who got you there. And for tax reasons, remember them before the closing of the deal, so that you can do so by sharing a bit of your proceeds without paying personal income tax upon those amounts.
deal architect
OCTOBER 29, 2018
I was at a Cognizant event last week where they introduced 21 jobs they are predicting for the next decade. Last year, they had announced their first batch of 21 jobs. See here for details. The day before, Mark Hurd.
thebarefootvc
OCTOBER 29, 2018
The past couple of weeks have seen a flurry of activity in the blockchain and crypto markets: Yesterday, the WSJ published an investigative report that looked at money laundering in the crypto world. Of over $88M of illicit funds it tracked, $9M went through Swiss based exchange Shapeshift. Perhaps related to this investigation, Shapeshift announced a few weeks ago that it would require registration on its exchange.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 27, 2018
Does your business have a visible positive strategy, or do your customers and employees still see your primary focus as closing more sales and killing competitors? Certainly that has been the strategy of many companies, and has worked in the past, but today’s customers and workers are looking for more. They want relationships, positive experiences, and a win-win for society.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 29, 2018
by Judith Nowlin, Chief Growth Officer with Babyscripts. Just the other day, on the flight home from a four-day roadshow, I found myself in conversation with my seatmate. The talk quickly turned from conventional preliminaries to more engaging topics, as we discovered a shared experience in the medical field — he in clinical trial research, me in health tech software.
Babbling VC
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
We're so misled by what we often read in blogs and press stories or see on TV shows. One way or another, we tend to react to drama and they who produce content feed on this. In reality, there is often very little drama or noise when things go terribly wrong. This is why people are so often surprised to see things fail.marriages, businesses, venture funds and so forth.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 29, 2018
If you haven’t gotten a new car in a while you may not have noticed that the future of the dashboard looks like this: That’s it. A single screen replacing all the dashboard gauges, knobs and switches. But behind that screen is an increasing level of automation that hides a ton of complexity. At times everything you need is on the screen with a glance.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 31, 2018
The most successful entrepreneurs and business owners I know are humble, and they don’t have an inflated sense of self. When you have some success behind you as a manager, executive, founder, or CEO, it’s easy to become less open to the advice and signals around you, and believe you should just continue doing what you are doing to keep climbing. It’s a recipe for disaster.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
by Roe Patterson, CEO of Basic Energy Services and author of “ Crude Blessings ” I regularly get asked how I have accomplished so much at a young age. I don’t feel that young. I’m 44 and feel like I’m 75 in CEO years. But I see their point. I have run multiple businesses, created startups, sold companies and have been a public company CEO for 5 years.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Why Partnerships Are Your Secret Weapon to Building Referrals written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Generating referrals is the key to securing your business’s long-term success, and it can feel like a pretty massive undertaking. One way to lighten the load and help you to create a more sustainable stream of referrals is to build partnerships.
YFS Magazine
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Company retreats allow your team to come together strategically and leverage group intelligence to cultivate communication, commitment, and excellence.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 29, 2018
One of my favorite Bezo-isms is “Disagree and Commit.” I’ve seen it in articles a handful of times recently as the adulation around Amazon and Bezos’ management reaches a fever pitch. Notwithstanding the disappointing forecast for Q418 , Amazon’s recent operating performance has been spectacular. But, more interesting is that it has been “spectacular at scale” and across a very large and complex business.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
Video Animation is a concept whereby a chain of images or pictures is put together in a frame to create an illusion of non-stop motion. A classic example of video animation is cartoons on the TV. However, truth be told – video animation as we see today has advanced over the past years, all thanks to the number of tools and applications that animators have on disposal today.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
The Egyptian government has had a busy time of late, shutting down taxi app mergers, taxing e-commerce platforms, and enforcing digital media regulation laws. Rumors have been swirling that Uber and regional equivalent Careem might be set to merge in Egypt, but it’s not going to happen. That’s because regulators have insisted they would fine each of the parties involved $28 million USD if it went ahead.
YFS Magazine
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Select the business metrics that really matter depending on your particular industry, monitor them consistently, and improve results over time.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 28, 2018
Amy and I are proud executive producers of the upcoming movie Pioneer In Skirts. It has been part of our activity supporting independent documentaries about gender diversity, especially in science and tech. The daughter/mother leadership of Ashley Maria and Lea-Ann Berst along with their team has stayed after it and are close to the finish line. Watch the trailer and then if you are inclined toss a little money into the GoFund Me campaign to help finish off the film.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
by Mike Kappel, founder and CEO of Patriot Software. When you own a small business, you might feel like you barely have time to do anything except work. Although that might be true, you’re going to dig yourself (and your business) into a rut if you don’t make time for your health. Work-health balance is a lot like work-life balance, but the priority is on balancing work and self-care.
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