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What Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Growth Hacking

YFS Magazine

Over the past few years, startups and scale-ups have been employing growth hacking to skyrocket growth. Here’s what entrepreneurs should know.

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5 Key Drivers For Creating A Board For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Flickr by MDGovpics Many entrepreneurs I know are confused by definition and need for an Advisory Board versus a Board of Directors. Some view both of these as a waste of time and burden on the CEO, while other founders surround themselves with insiders and cronies in an attempt to expedite and add credibility to their own interests. I suggest a few simple considerations will clarify the alternatives.

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Business Blogging: Why Are You Waiting To Start?

YoungUpstarts

Blogging. It’s become extremely popular in recent years, and while some business owners think blogging is a waste of time or “not for them,” there are plenty of business owners that are seeing the benefit in blogging for their business. When you are speaking to other business owners, you may hear it mentioned how there are many benefits to blogging for their business; perhaps it has even piqued your interest in the past.

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5 Tech Business Ideas You Can Start Fresh Out Of College

The Startup Magazine

If your graduation date is approaching and you aren’t sure what your next step will be, consider starting your own tech company. It’s one of the best business ideas that gives you the flexibility and the upside you want in a new career. The tech industry is booming, from energy-efficient vehicles to remote-controlled coffee machines. Many industries have a high demand for creative, motivated individuals to apply their talents.

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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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Is Your Business Making These 9 Common Website Design Mistakes?

YFS Magazine

Let's take a look at common website design mistakes which, when corrected, can be the driving force behind an increase in online sales.

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Why All Business Owners Should Become Authors

Duct Tape Marketing

Why All Business Owners Should Become Authors written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Dan Janal. Podcast Transcript. Today’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is author, speaker, and book coach Dan Janal. He is an expert in internet marketing and publicity, and wrote one of the first books on the subject more than 25 years ago.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Do you want to make America functional again ? Are you thinking of applying to Y Combinator without an idea? Do you have a great team at your seed startup, but your product just isn’t working? Would you like to have a salary from day one that you work full-time on your startup? Do you wish there was a product to help companies “Get things done” by leveraging your own employees, your employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around you?

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How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Steve Blank

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of this century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the b

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Transcript of Why All Business Owners Should Become Authors

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Why All Business Owners Should Become Authors written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Choosing the right domain name is critical to ensuring the success of your small business, but it’s got a little harder. But now you can choose a.us domain to help your business stand out, reserve your.us web address today, go to launchwith.us and use my promo code, podcast, for my special offer.

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Why You Should Choose Ethical Hacking As A Career

YoungUpstarts

For any tech-savvy young person looking for a career in a thriving field, it’s hard not to suggest ethical hacking. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it’s expected that the IT security field will grow by 18% by 2024, and that demand is outstripping supply. Furthermore, an IT security analyst in the US makes roughly $96,040 per year, even rising to $100,000 in some cases.

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How Small and Midsize Businesses Can Leverage Boardroom Technology

Board Effect

Large-cap companies are feeling immense pressure to adhere to good governance principles and engage more with shareholders. Small and midsized businesses face many of the same pressures. Somehow they need to deal with those pressures with full knowledge that they lack the finances and other resources that large-cap companies have. Compliance issues are always changing, and that’s another thing that gives smaller companies an unfair advantage when compared to larger companies.

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Sapphire 2019: A curtain raiser with Nick Tzitzon

deal architect

As I prepare to drive to Orlando for the annual SAP conference I had a chance to talk to Nick Tzitzon, EVP of Marketing and Communications about what we can expect on the main stage. If you think about the.

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Pros and Cons of Hiring a Remote Employee

View from Seed

Throughout human history, our working environments have gone through several huge shifts. From hunters and gatherers to farmers and traders, from farmers to industry factory workers, and from factory workers to the modern day office employee. Today, we are starting to see the next big shift in our type of work environments. With the click of a button, you can be face to face with someone across the globe and that’s impacting how we work with each other.

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Tips To Effectively Manage Remote Employees

YoungUpstarts

Due to the rise of latest technology and digital business trends, entrepreneurs are hiring remote employees from different countries and states not only to expand their business processes but to provide their overseas customers with quality services. As more and more businesses are hiring top talent from different territories to carry on their business processes efficiently, managing a virtual team could be little bit difficult for business owners and managers.

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7 Keys To Using Social Media to Kickstart Your Brand

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay After a frustrating meeting with a small business client recently who didn’t “have time” for social media, I was surprised to find evidence on the Internet that up to one quarter of small business owners are still hesitant to invest time, money, and effort into a social media strategy. They don’t realize that they are missing out on a great opportunity for “free” promotion, as well as taking a great risk by not listening to what customers are saying, and not monitoring or respo

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The Oracle Enigma

deal architect

Rimini Street recently conducted a survey of Oracle customers. Oracle and Rimini have long been in litigation, so I would read the results with a nuanced viewpoint, but it does not paint the picture of a very happy Oracle Nation.

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Bill Campbell, the trillion dollar coach

Version One Ventures

Bill Campbell has long had a legendary reputation as one of the best coaches of all time, but until now, only the people he worked with got to understand and experience the power of his approach. That’s why it is so great to see that Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle have written a book about Campbell’s leadership: Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell.

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Four Major Startup Stages That You Should Know About

YoungUpstarts

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. Life is not a box of chocolates and startups are not always easy to start. There is a complete process that governs the startup lifecycle including inception to exit. You must have heard about people who build startups, make them successful, sell them, and move on to start another startup. And, you must have wondered, ‘Man!

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8 Keys To Introducing Truly Life-Changing Innovations

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Flickr by UC Davis What sparks paradigm-shifting innovation in any business? It’s a special mix of entrepreneur and company, regular in every respect except for having the courage and foresight to make an idea happen that was supposed to be impossible. As an entrepreneur in a startup, how do you know if you have this potential, and what are the steps to get from an innovation to a revolution?

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"I have never been so proud to be part of this company"

deal architect

Said Hasso Plattner as we were wrapping up our annual Sapphire meeting with him. He told us he thought Bill McDermott's keynote this morning was the best he has delivered (I had walked up to Bill a few hours earlier.

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The Give First Podcast

Feld Thoughts

David Cohen and I are doing a podcast together called Give First. Readers of this blog likely know that this is the mantra of Techstars and the title of an upcoming book of mine that will be published in 2020. While I’ve been interviewed for many podcasts, I’ve never hosted one before. David and I have been massive fans of Harry Stebbing’s 20 Minute VC so we’ve modeled Give First after it.

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How To Build A Startup That Doesn’t Flop

YoungUpstarts

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ This is the first in a three-installment series that is designed to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step survival guide for startups – developed by myself and my partners at Wildcat Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital firm we founded in 2015.

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8 Steps For Developing Employees To Generate Loyalty

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Flickr by University of the Fraser It’s a whole new world out there in the workplace. Millennials want work that matters, and don’t care for hierarchies. Boomers are coming back to work, but because of their experience, they may be insulted by constant feedback. All prefer more flexible hours, the chance to work from home, and the traditions of lifetime loyalty to one company no longer apply.

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The Paradox of Selling Progress: a guest post by Mark Galloway

deal architect

Mark Galloway and I go back to our respective Lawson and Gartner days. I caught up with him recently - he is Co-Founder & CEO of OppSource, developers of next-gen sales engagement tools. He told me of an interesting use.

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Friday Fun-isms: “It Moves Slow Until it Moves Fast”

View from Seed

We are going to try to establish a fun new blog series every Friday called “Friday Fun-isms”. These are a collection of phrases and sayings that we often say internally at NextView or with the founders we work with. These posts aren’t meant to be super detailed, but a bit of a peak into our thinking and hopefully a reflection of something interesting or helpful.

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Ryan Bukevicz Passing On Online Marketing Strategies

YoungUpstarts

As one of the most successful entrepreneurs and an internet marketing genius, Ryan Bukevicz developed the idea of Bevo Media, which quickly became the top trending platform for internet marketing. He has achieved recognition and accolades for building the first interactive marketing platform. Even today, Bevo Media’s influence as one of the best management hubs for online marketers remains unparalleled when compared to other similar services.

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5 Key Metrics You Should Be Tracking in Your Business

ReadWriteStart

There are many different ways that your business can establish a competitive advantage. Some of these methods will be much more accessible than others. For example, while some business strategies may require a large amount of capital up front, creating a competitive advantage through better accounting practices is something almost all businesses can immediately do […].

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Guide to Keeping on Top of Your Business Finances

The Startup Magazine

Keeping on top of your business finances is one of the most important parts of your daily operations that you can focus on, and here is exactly how you can do it. Source: Pixabay. Making a budget, and of course, sticking to it will always be one of your priorities as a business owner. This is the budget that you will use to further innovate your products and services, and that will allow you to expand as an organization slowly.

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Here’s Why Entrepreneurs Need To Make Fitness A Priority

YFS Magazine

If you’re looking for a fresh health and wellness start, or reset, why not make fitness, friends, and family more of a priority this year?

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5 Best Businesses That Motorcycle Owners Can Start

YoungUpstarts

Entrepreneurship is a type of business that is admired all around the globe. Sole proprietor mainly takes the risk of starting a business on a small scale and reserves all the rights and liabilities of the business. It is observed that well-established firms and successful businesses are indebted to hard working and optimistic owners. It’s not the capital that makes the business; in fact, it is the creativity, innovation, and uniqueness of ideas that transforms a small entity into a big gi

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How To Create a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign for Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

Crowdfunding is an excellent way for startups to raise capital and test the market for innovative ideas. However, crowdfunding is not easy, and there’s a lot that goes into making a crowdfunding campaign successful. From this article, you will find out: What crowdfunding is, what it isn’t, and how to launch a crowdfunding campaign that’s […]. The post How To Create a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign for Your Startup appeared first on ReadWrite.

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Oblong + Looking Glass 2D to 3D Magic

Feld Thoughts

In the super cool thing category, it’s always fun to see two companies we are investors in easily put together a demonstration of the integration of their products. Oblong is a master of spatially interacting with 3D data on a 2D display. Looking Glass lets you interact with 3D data in a 3D display with their product (the Looking Glass.). Together, you can move and interact with 3D images on either a 3D display or a 2D display.

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Facebook Marketing Strategies that Dominate 2019

The Startup Magazine

There is little doubt as to the power of social media on today’s market places. Put differently; the social media phenomenon has proven time and again to be a game changer in marketing campaigns for all manner of businesses and causes. With 1.32 billion daily active users, Facebook is by far the most used social media platform today. So it is no wonder that you would want Facebook marketing to be part and parcel of your marketing efforts for brand exposure, lead generation, and website tra

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How To Choose The Right Tools To Manage Your Remote Team

YoungUpstarts

by Karthik Sridharan, Co-founder & CEO at Flexiple. Thanks to the growing intervention of modern technology, remote work is not a fad anymore. It has become a mainstream company culture. According to a recent article on Entrepreneur , flexible work options have increased by 40 per cent over the last five years. Remote work not only benefits employees by cutting down on travel and helping them secure work-life balance but also has a big impact on a firm’s bottom line – companies direct

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Mapping The Haystack Portfolio Across The United States

Haystack

Hello. It has been a while since I’ve posted here, nearly 3 months. My fingers are well-rested, but my writing prowess is likely rusty, so please forgive any rustiness in this post. I do plan to write a lot more this summer, so stay tuned. In March and April this year, I was on the road a lot — all fun and productive work trips, but also distracting; if the past two months were about being out there and extroverted, I feel a huge wave of introversion coming as the summer comes into f

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The Long Arc of A CEO / Investor Friendship

Feld Thoughts

Last week, Return Path announced it was being acquired by Validity. My fellow board member Fred Wilson wrote a great history titled The Long Game and Matt Blumberg wrote a beautiful tribute titled OnlyOnce, Part XX. I’ve been involved in Return Path as an investor since 2001 when Return Path and Veripost merged as part of a funding done by Sutter Hill (Greg Sands), Flatiron Partners (Fred Wilson), and Mobius Venture Capital (me).

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