Sat.Jun 13, 2020 - Fri.Jun 19, 2020

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5 Reasons Two Founders As A Team Are Better Than One

Startup Professionals Musings

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. In reality, I’m one of the majority of investors who believe that startup success is more about the execution than the idea. Thus, unless the visionary highlights a cofounder who can take the vision and execute, I assume the worst.

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Benefits Of Documentation Management In Remote Working

YoungUpstarts

by Mahendra Gupta of Saviom Software. Organizations are trying to switch to remote working with the help of technologies and work culture to obtain similar or better operational efficiency than before. There are many factors that help remote working cultures to thrive. This post will dive into an aspect whose importance often goes unnoticed i.e. documentation management.

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Enterprise SEO: Don’t Outsmart—Out Execute

ConversionXL

Enterprise SEO has been my topic of choice for extracurricular “thought leadership” over the years. Last year, I gave a presentation on how we generated 40% year-over-year organic revenue growth by focusing on out executing the competition, not outsmarting them. While my presentation focused on the in-house side of enterprise SEO, I’ve also experienced (and written about ) getting things done—or trying to get things done—at an agency.

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Announcing our investment in DemandStar, a marketplace for government procurement  

Version One Ventures

Today we’re excited to announce that we led DemandStar ’s $2m seed round. The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce – it connects local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. . It should come as no surprise that government procurement is riddled with inefficiency. $1.5 trillion is spent in the local government procurement market, but billions are wasted due to scarce competition and outdated processes.

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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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8 Effective Strategies to Improve Your Brand

The Startup Magazine

Brands are the drivers of business strategists and effective branding can be a game-changer when it comes to your sales. A brand isn’t just your logo, packaging, and slogan. Rather, a brand is your consumers’ perception of your company and your product or service. A great brand will lift you above your competitors and make you the most desirable consumer option.

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Why Animated Video Is The Way To Go In This Pandemic Era

YoungUpstarts

The world as we know it has irrevocably changed after 31 st December 2019. The novel coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) quickly spread throughout the world, infecting almost 7.9 million people, and claiming 435000+ lives so far. There is no vaccine yet. There is no definite cure yet. The only way to manage this disease is by prevention through the practice of social distancing.

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New Normal: A conversation with Bob Stutz of SAP

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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Product Review – CPL One Affiliate Marketing Platform 

The Startup Magazine

The popularity of cost-per-lead advertisements, or CPL ads, is on the rise, and many businesses and companies are incorporating this type of advertising campaign into their digital marketing strategy for a good reason. CPL One, at cplone.com, is one such affiliate marketing platform that helps people, even with no previous marketing background, carry out cost-per-lead ad campaigns through a unified software interface.

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Franchise Business: An Option For Millennial Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

If you don’t think there’s a millennial behind your favorite business or franchise, think again. Millennials are increasingly becoming sought-after and successful entrepreneurs. That follows the data. Believe it or not, millennials—defined as anyone born between 1981 and 1996, or ages 24–39 — have launched twice as many companies as baby boomers, according to a report by BNP Paribas Global.

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5 Ways To Validate Your Technology As Market Driven

Startup Professionals Musings

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Don’t create solutions looking for a problem , since investors ignore these, and customers other than early adopters will be hard to find.

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How COVID-19 is Impacting Higher Education

Board Effect

One of the industries that’s been hit from all angles due to COVID-19 is colleges and universities. Study abroad programs have been affected. Graduations have been canceled. Students can’t access labs or complete board exams. Research programs have had to stop. Hiring for grad students will be more challenging than ever. Student loans will be affected.

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SapphireNow Keynote: Professional, but in synch with the times?

deal architect

I listened to Christian Klein's keynote from the virtual Sapphire event today - watch replay here. It was his first as CEO and he came across very well. Energetic, professional and very comfortable in a digital setting. His keynote focused.

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Carsten Thiel: How To Navigate The Role Of A Young Leader

YoungUpstarts

For many young professionals, reaching a leadership stance within their respective professional trajectory is an accomplishment worth celebrating. After garnering an extensive education, working diligently to gain pertinent experience, and proverbially cutting their teeth to rise amongst the ranks of a particular company, these young professionals prove to be the most worthy of leadership roles, promotion, and management titles.

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8 Keys To Hooking Investors, Even If They Are Sharks

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and active angel investor, I often get questions about the realism of the Shark Tank TV series, compared to professional investor negotiations. The simple answer is that with all the staging of TV lights and billionaire investors, it’s nothing like Silicon Valley. Yet the process is eerily realistic, and every entrepreneur can glean some important lessons.

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Pitching in the Pandemic

View from Seed

We’re in a global pandemic. The simple truth is that all venture capitalists have told their portfolio Founder/CEOs that if they don’t absolutely need to raise capital now that they shouldn’t be out there attempting to do so. Wait. Wait until fall. Wait until 2021. Wait until the situation changes. So why should you follow a different approach?

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New Normal: A conversation with Brad Keywell, CEO of Uptake

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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How To Handle Your Business Remotely

YoungUpstarts

With the world becoming more interconnected through the internet; many business owners are embracing the concept of managing their companies remotely. The recent Coronavirus pandemic has exposed the demand for businesses to diversify or risk losing relevance. While it’s true that any business can adapt to running remotely, it’s nonetheless very different from managing a traditional office.

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7 Positive Ways To Highlight Your Competitive Clout

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs spend far too much time thinking negatively about competitors, and can’t resist making derogatory statements to their own team, to investors, and even to customers. This approach only makes these important constituents question your integrity, intelligence, and your understanding of business basics. Pointing out flaws in others does not give you strength.

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How to Write a Food Truck Business Plan

Up and Running

Starting a food truck business is an attractive alternative to opening a restaurant. The initial costs are significantly lower than opening a traditional restaurant and the popularity of food trucks only continues to grow. This doesn’t mean that food trucks are cheap, though. It can cost anywhere from $5,000 to over $100,000 to open a new truck, so you’ll want to make sure you understand the risks.

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The Book Benchmark’s Peter Fenton Recommends to Every Portfolio CEO

VC Cafe

In a recent series of virtual events organised by FirstMinute Capital, I got to hear Peter Fenton, partner at Benchmark and a fixture of the Forbes Midas List , since 2007. Peter invested in companies like Cloudera, Elastic Search, New Relic and Zuora, to name a few. On the chat, he mentioned a book he recommends to every startup CEO he invests in: The Five Temptations of a CEO by Patrick Lencioni.

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3 Reasons Why Your Elevator Pitch Will Never Work

YoungUpstarts

by Neil Gordon. The first time I ever went to a Chamber of Commerce meeting was also the last time I went to one. It was a fiasco. We started the meeting going around the table and were each given two minutes to share what we did – our elevator pitch, a way to present our work in such a concise way that it could be shared within the span of an elevator ride.

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Money. show me! If you want to change Venture Capital, focus on LPs. #openlp

This is going to be BIG.

There have been a lot of calls for VC firms to make more hires from the Black and Brown community, as well as to hire more women. Not all hires, however, are made equally. In venture, it’s all about getting an opportunity to make partner and being included in the carry—the economic upside of a fund. Not only is carry a means of economic mobility, but it’s also a reflection of where decision-making authority is within a fund.

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Fast-Forwarding to 2025

Feld Thoughts

I have a few minutes each morning between when I wake up and when I go downstairs to meditate. I do two things during this time: (1) basic hygiene stuff and (2) let whatever thoughts are in my head roll around. This morning I had the following thought. It would be nice to just fast forward to 2025. During some of my recent public talks, I’ve described how the Covid crisis has accelerated work and technology change in a dramatic way.

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Business Ideas Emerging in China During COVID 19

ReadWriteStart

The COVID-19 outbreak has dealt a huge economic blow to China. The country’s supply chains are collapsing, many manufacturing firms have closed down. There is minimal human interaction, and consumer behavior has changed in unprecedented ways. However, as in all known crises, a lot of new business ideas and opportunities have come out of the prevailing crisis.

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Research Shows These 5 COVID-19 Changes Really Can Help Brands Grow Market Share

YoungUpstarts

by Anne E. Beall, PhD, CEO and Founder of Beall Research, Inc and author of “ Strategic Market Research: A Guide to Conducting Research that Drives Businesses “ “We’re all in this together.”. “We’ll get through this and emerge stronger.”. By now, the entire nation is familiar with these COVID-19 era mantras that brands are repeating on the airwaves, social media and in stores.

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How To Use Social Media As A Sales Channel

The Startup Magazine

Over the past few months, businesses have realized how important social media has become to their marketing. Companies that previously didn’t have a social media marketing plan have embraced social channels for interacting with clients and offering products. However, social media companies want to go further than that. According to Forbes , Instagram intends to start providing shopping as part of their app experience.

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Book: The Blacker The Berry

Feld Thoughts

As I begin to work my way through the NY Times Antiracist Reading List (by Ibram X. Kendi), I thought I’d start with The Blacker The Berry by Wallace Thurman. I started with the Wikipedia page for Wallace Thurman. Langston Hughes described Thurman as “…a strangely brilliant black boy, who had read everything and whose critical mind could find something wrong with everything he read.” Thurman’s dark skin color attracted comment, including negative reactions from both

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3 Important Strategies for Increasing Brand Awareness and Recognition using Social Media

crowdSPRING Blog

Brand awareness and recognition are critically important if you want to grow your business. Today, the best strategy for most businesses to create brand awareness and recognition is to build an online presence and leverage social media. Social media is a direct line to interact with your customers on their turf. And, there’s no doubt that your customers and prospective customers are using social media.

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Assessing The State Of And Options For Your Business During COVID-19 Fallout

YoungUpstarts

by Joseph Pack, Esq., founder of Pack Law. Unprecedented times. Unchartered territory. There’s no crystal ball. So much uncertainty. A new normal. The calm before the storm. While these phrases are ingrained in the current-day vernacular of America hit hard by COVID-19, basic tenets of commercial law are still very much in place. Business owners and creditors should be proactive and arm themselves for the economic threats that are to come.

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Steps to Improve the Results of Google Ads

The Startup Magazine

Google AdWords could be a great addition to your marketing strategy. Not every brand is leveraging PPC marketing these days, meaning that it could be a great opportunity to gain an advantage over your competition. Those who have no experience might find it harder simply because it takes a bit of time to learn. But once you get the basics out of the way, you can move on to more complicated stuff.

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The Racial Equity Ecosystem Pledge

Feld Thoughts

Today, I participated in the Juneteeneth 4.0 Celebration that was hosted by OHUB , ThePlug , and Living Cities and led by Rodney Sampson. In addition to being part of a panel, I made several commitments as part of the #RacialEquityEcosystemPledge. Here’s the fact sheet released by OHUB today. I’ve agreed to: Do a monthly podcast called Equity.District with Rodney on racial equity in entrepreneurial ecosystems and other issues around racial equity in entrepreneurship.

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Make Juneteenth Meaningful

VC Adventure

I’ve always been aware of Juneteenth but I’ve never done anything in particular to mark it. I’m sorry about that and it’s not something I’m proud of. For me and clearly for a lot of other people this is changing. I hope it can be a part of what perhaps – finally – will be a movement to change the way people of color, and specifically black people, are treated in our country.

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Benefits Of Investing In Working Spaces For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Co-working spaces have disrupted the business world. They offer entrepreneurs, freelancers, and business owners a space to work together in a communal area. These innovative spaces offer business owners massive benefits. Apart from giving businesses a sense of community, small business owners get an opportunity to have a new approach for running their businesses.

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3 Reasons Why An Online Presence Remains Vital To Your Business’ Success

The Startup Magazine

For entrepreneurs looking to launch their startups successfully , the list of must-have tools is quickly expanding. Now, an online presence is seen as just as important as securing the right assets offline. In an Ipsos Mori and TripAdvisor study , 97 percent of business owners said they believed management of their online reputation was important in their business.

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Participating in the Juneteenth 4.0 Celebration

Feld Thoughts

I’m going to participate in the Juneteeneth 4.0 Celebration tomorrow from 1pm – 4pm ET. It’s being hosted by OHUB , ThePlug , and Living Cities. I’ll be part of a fireside chat with Rodney Sampson (CEO, OHUB) and Ben Hecht (CEO, Living Cities) where, among other things, we’ll discuss the introduction of Racial Equity Pledge.

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This Is An Entrepreneurs Surefire Weapon Against Burnout

YFS Magazine

Entrepreneurs are responsible for forging paths forward in business, but that can lead to burnout, fast. This is the best way to fight against it.