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“You don't get a PaaS just because you're SaaS."

deal architect

Apologies to Frank Scavo for twisting his quote “You don't get a pass just because you're SaaS." but this is a reaction to the trend that every cloud application vendor is offering a platform and actively recruiting developer communities. I.

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The Average Startup Overnight Success Takes Six Years

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. So once in a while it’s good to look at some facts to temper our imagination. I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”.

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Implicit Gender Bias in Startup Funding

Feld Thoughts

While there have been many words written about gender bias in the context of entrepreneurship and funding, I thought the following TED Talk from Dana Kanze presented one of the best frames of references, supported by a real research study, that I’ve seen to date. In addition, she has some clear, actionable suggestions at the end of the talk to help eliminate the bias.

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How To Build A Sustainable Small Business

YoungUpstarts

by Joseph Brady, Senior Director of Digital Marketing for Reliant Funding. Starting a business, growing it and sustaining in the market are the three chapters of a small business story. Usually, small business owners don’t think beyond their quarterly or annual plans and they forget their long-term goals due to everyday hurdles. Building a business needs strong strategy and value proposition.

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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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12 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Maintain Boldness in Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners on how they maintain boldness while running a business and here are the responses. #1- Being open. Photo Credit: Nela Dunato. When I started my own design consultancy in 2013, I knew for sure that I wanted to be 100% myself in all my business relationships, and didn’t want to hide behind a corporate entity and we language.

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How to QA Ecommerce Email Campaigns to Increase ROI

ConversionXL

I don’t have to convince you that email is important: Email is a cost-effective way to get sales. Converting customers from your mailing list costs less than converting the same number via advertising. Email includes your most-interested customers. The majority of your list is composed of people who’ve already placed an order, so you know that they’re willing to buy (though it still takes effort to win back customers.

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No Such Thing As A Free Meal? Employers May Be Prohibited From Offering Free Food To Workers

YoungUpstarts

by Anet Drapalski and Melissa Shimizu, attorneys at Fisher Phillips. As free meals have become the norm at technology companies, an unexpected byproduct of such a perk is the decreasing customer base for local restaurants. In an attempt to thwart this trend, Mountain View and San Francisco have proposed local rules and ordinances aimed at putting an end to employer-provided free meals.

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Are you hiring a cultural fit? Do you actually want to?

David Teten

Who should you hire: the superstar with great skills who feels like a poor fit with the culture, or the person with weaker skills but who fits in culturally? Even though I believe in hiring the stranger , cultural fit really matters. I once had an interview set up with a candidate who looked strong on paper. Within one minute of meeting him, it was obvious that he was too crude in his language and thinking for the culture I was building.

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The shape of the future

Start Up Blog

Reviewing visuals from the first ever television programme is interesting. You’ll notice that they were basically radio shows, which happened to be filmed. A couple of people. In a room. With a camera. A few years earlier, they would have been in the exact same setting, doing audio recordings. Early TV was essentially still an audio programme with pictures.

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The Three Elements of an Effective Total Online Presence

Duct Tape Marketing

The Three Elements of an Effective Total Online Presence written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on Total Online Presence. Business owners today understand that being visible online is important. But what does having an online presence really mean? It’s a lot bigger than just having a website and a Facebook page.

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6 Leadership Habits To Develop In 2019

YoungUpstarts

by Mark Green , author of “ Activators: A CEO’s Guide to Clearer Thinking and Getting Things Done “. Bad habits can be hard to break, and for business leaders who have them, they can be deal-breakers. In a survey by Leadership IQ, an online training firm, the primary reasons CEOs were fired – mismanaging change, ignoring customers, tolerating low performers, and not enough action – were often related to unproductive habits.

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Emergent See Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Innovation Emergencies Happen. Emergent See Innovation from GFi Available February, 2019. I advise pro-active, and continuous, innovation. It’s always easier to work with a challenge when you have time and the leisure to incubate, think, and in general work the clay of research insights, trends, prototypes, paper-based concepts, or a business model canvas.

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10 Tips For Rising Above The Crowd In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Everyone knows that that startups are risky, but they also expect that the job will be exciting and potentially very lucrative (think early employees at Facebook and Google). Yet we have all heard stories about the high turnover, unstructured work environment, lower base pay, and unpredictable expectations from the top. Assuming you are lucky enough to get hired, what can you do to survive, and even stand out above the rest in this environment?

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Infor: a fork in the road

deal architect

Congratulations to Infor for the new funding and potentially more when they go IPO. Here is today’s announcement: “Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, today announced an agreement to receive a $1.5 billion investment from.

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Why Your Startup Needs To Monitor Who Can Access Your Network

YoungUpstarts

There’s a fundamental difference between the sensitive data that your business stores, and the publicly accessible information that you hold. For hackers, that difference could be the key to gaining access to everything that you store, and your business will be at major risk of disruption. Access is one of the most important factors to consider when looking at online security, and monitoring who can access certain levels of data sensitivity can go a long way to boosting your security levels.

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Do Highly Intelligent People Make Bad Leaders?

Women Entrepreneurs Can

There are various qualities that define a good leader. They include: Decision-making skills. Critical thinking. The ability to negotiate and understand issues. Drive. An expectation of success. The question of whether a leader should be a super-brilliant intellect have spurred a heated debate in online and offline platforms, however, with some studies asserting that intelligence could be a hindrance to good leadership.

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6 Leadership Insights To Inspire New Venture Founders

Startup Professionals Musings

Starting and building a company is all about leadership – formulating an idea, building a unique plan based on vision and experience, and forging a path over and through all obstacles. Yet the image of leadership in business is at an all-time low, according to national leadership experts, considering the political debacles, record business bankruptcies, and executive fraud cases.

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Oracle's stretch goal for its applications?

deal architect

Mark Hurd tells Bloomberg “In fact, the highest application percentage of any company in any segment is sort of mid-20s. This generation will see a leader that’s much more material than that, and I volunteer us to do it.” I.

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Every Brand Name Sucks: How To Choose A Great Brand Name Despite Its Flaws

YoungUpstarts

by Grant Polachek, Director of Marketing at Squadhelp.com. As you chug through the arduous process of creating a brand name, you may experience frustration. Have you come up with some great ideas, but you keep rejecting them because you are finding problems with every name? We’ll let you in on a little secret. You’re not alone. In fact, when you look close enough, you’ll see that virtually every brand name sucks.

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Techstars Studio and the Studio Model

Feld Thoughts

Today, Techstars announced a new initiative called Techstars Studio which will allow Techstars to source new company concepts from Techstars alumni founders, community leaders, venture capitalists, mentors, and corporate partners. The Techstars Studio will then build prototypes, test market adoption, and select the most promising concepts for launch.

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Creating the Next Big Startup Takes More Than Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

Every aspiring entrepreneur I know is convinced that his or her idea could be the next big startup, blossoming into a billion dollar unicorn. Yet I find that only a few are able to put their passion aside for a moment, and compare their solution to the attributes that really attract a large market of new customers. Investors, on the other hand, make it their business to look for these attributes.

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3 Ways To Become An Innovative Entrepreneur

YFS Magazine

The potential for disruption is always there in any marketplace. Every entrepreneur can become a disruptor. Start by mastering the disruptive disciplines.

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5 Benefits A Cloud Contact Center Can Bring Your Business In 2019

YoungUpstarts

You might have heard by now about the amazing benefits of cloud-based software and services, but haven’t yet tried them for yourself. Many business owners are implementing cloud contact centers to improve their operations. Indeed, a cloud contact center can transform the way you do business by helping you manage all your customer contacts in one place as well as providing a seamless communications experience for live agents and customers alike.

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How Do You Determine Which Partners Will Fuel Your Success?

ReadWriteStart

Most leaders have been bombarded by the idea that business partnerships are vital to their success. Partners can extend a company’s reach, add new audiences, enhance its value, expand its capabilities, and even boost its reputation by association. Marketing Week pointed out that behemoths like Amazon and Adidas have grown larger as a result of […].

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Your Passion Can Breed Biases That Kill New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m sure we have all seen entrepreneurs with high levels of passion and confidence touting an idea that seems to make very little sense to us. Of course, we never see ourselves in this mode, yet we need to recognize that all humans see reality differently through a built-in set of “cognitive biases,” based on their own unique background of experiences, training, and mental state.

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3 tips to turbo-charge your hiring

Version One Ventures

Hiring is key to the success of any business, but it can especially critical for startups. Most founders appreciate the importance of making good hires; however, when a startup is scaling rapidly, process often gets left behind. In our experience, successful recruiting is a combination of process discipline and checks and balances. Here are three things every startup should implement in their recruiting process: 1.

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Tips For Finding The Right Candidate For Your Company

YoungUpstarts

Finding the right people to fill out your positions at the workplace or your business can be a challenge, especially since you always need someone who is reliable and who will be good at the job. A lot of times, recruitment agencies run into problems trying to figure out who would be best for their positions, and these can be put a lot of pressure on the company has a whole.

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Production Quality Over Cost: What Really Generates Engaging Video Advertising

ReadWriteStart

Perhaps the biggest lesson that marketers have learned in the last few years is that throwing money at marketing tactics doesn’t necessarily deliver a relational return for the investment. Instead, even with the leanest of budgets, today’s marketing investments deliver a greater return when they are thoughtfully conceptualized and executed. That’s why many marketers have […].

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8 digital New Year’s resolutions to improve your personal and work life

The Next Web

Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can also get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! By now your New Year’s hangover should be over, and you’re finding out how difficult it is to maintain your New Year’s resolutions.

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Alternative ways to fund your startup

The Startup Magazine

It has been discovered that over 25 million Americans currently own a startup business and this number is expected to increase. Still, it can be difficult to encounter much-needed funding in advance. Let us look at five methods which can produce viable results as well as the unique benefits of each. Source: Pixabay. Free Grants. One of the advantages of starting a business in the United States is that you have access to dozens of free government grants.

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How To Build A Voice-Over Startup

YoungUpstarts

If you are skilled as a voice-over artist, you may eventually decide to set up your own startup business. Many artists are happy to work for a larger company but there are also many professionals who crave to be their own boss and who wish to be in charge of their own firm. This is a commendable goal, but there are many challenges involved with the process.

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3 Reasons Why Your Success Depends on More Than a Great Product

ReadWriteStart

Creating a high-quality product is just one part of building a profitable business. The reality is that a myopic focus on product development can ultimately prevent you from achieving your business goals. Unfortunately, this notion is one that many growing companies don’t understand until it’s too late. For most companies — and all early-stage startups […].

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The Parlay

Haystack

In gambling, particularly in sports, there’s a concept of “parlay.” The word can be used as a verb (“turn an initial stake or winnings from a previous bet into (a greater amount) by gambling”) or a noun (“a cumulative series of bets in which winnings accruing from each transaction are used as a stake for a further bet”).

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Some Poetry Ends

Feld Thoughts

Amy’s favorite poet, Mary Oliver , just passed away at 83. In her honor, following is Amy’s favorite Mary Oliver poem White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field. Coming down out of the freezing sky with its depths of light, like an angel, or a buddha with wings, it was beautiful and accurate, striking the snow and whatever was there with a force that left the imprint of the tips of its wings – five feet apart – and the grabbing thrust of its feet, and the indentation of what had been

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Why Your Small Business Should Use Prepaid Cards

YoungUpstarts

Half of the United Kingdom believes that cash is going out, to be replaced by alternative payment methods. Only one in five carry it on a daily basis according to a study by First Bus. Researchers polled 2,000 adults in the UK and found that instead of using cash they choose methods such as chips, pins, and smartphones to pay. Three quarters of the UK’s population expect all retailers to accept alternative forms of payment.

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How to Fail Your Way to Success

ReadWriteStart

“Failure is success in progress” ? Albert Einstein Entrepreneurs are enthusiastic and serial failers. Entrepreneurs seem to be constantly looking for solutions and alternative ways of doing everything. And crucially, they don’t give a damn about failure, because they know that failure is, in fact, discovery. Some have declared, “The only way I will know […].