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5 Steps On The Success Path For Every Small Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. But the reality is that sellers are no longer in charge of the customer buying process. Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision.

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Why “If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It” Isn’t A Smart Payments Strategy

YoungUpstarts

by Lauren Ruef, Research Analyst for Nvoicepay. Henry Kissinger once said, “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” This can’t be done without the discomfort of change. What works now probably isn’t going to work in the future, and the sooner it’s accepted, the faster team’s can innovate.

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How to Choose Digital Marketing Channels for Long Term Growth

ConversionXL

How you decide to invest in marketing channels can make or break your business. That sounds like an obvious statement, but not a lot of people think about it critically. Rather, marketers get trapped in the fervent anxiety of needing to be everywhere at once. This is both ineffective and stressful. It doesn’t help that there’s a new blog post out every day about how you’re missing out on [X] and this company is killing it by doing [Y].

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Tips for Greater Job Satisfaction Among Employees

The Startup Magazine

Creating greater job satisfaction is so important and can really help your workers to be the best they can be. Here are some good tips to do so. Create An Environment Of Trust At All Levels Of Your Organization. Senior management has to establish trust with all other employees. People have to trust their leaders. Employees in authority positions should earn this trust by demonstrating credibility, honesty and integrity in all their actions.

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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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Why Small Businesses Have the Social Media Marketing Advantage

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Small Businesses Have the Social Media Marketing Advantage written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As a small business owner, you’re constantly looking for new ways to get your company’s brand on the radar of potential customers. If you don’t already, using social media in business is a great way to engage with current customers as well as attract new ones.

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A Look At Some Popular, Trending Business Ideas

YoungUpstarts

It’s never business as usual. With the 2009 economic crash, entrepreneurs and startups flooded the market (for better or worse!). Even though over 90 percent of startups fail, there are more startups than ever before. Technology has also dramatically shifted how we do business as virtual offices, telecommuting and “the cloud” are moving us towards a global market as the norm — not the exception.

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The Founder, Innovation On Film

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc in The Founder. The Founder, Lessons in Innovation. The Founder , starring Michael Keaton as McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc , is the best film about innovation since Moneyball in 2011. Between the two of them there is enough marvelously illustrated content to teach a masters course in innovation. Unlike Moneyball , which had the surface covering of a baseball story, The Founder is actually about how innovation happens.

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Introducing Gotham Voices: An Email Newsletter for NY Tech

View from Seed

TL;DR: We’re launching a newsletter highlighting the best content from the NYC tech community. Fill out the form below to get Gotham Voices in your inbox each week, and read on to learn why we’re excited to launch this today. Subscribe to Gotham Voices. * indicates required. First Name. Last Name. Email Address *. As a seed-focused venture firm with offices in New York and Boston, we believe there’s a responsibility for us to not just be participants in the local entrepreneurial comm

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5 Tips For Effective Networking

YoungUpstarts

by Amanda Lambert, Marketing Manager at City Breaks in Newcastle. The term ‘networking’ can sometimes feel like a curse word, with most people dreading the idea of actively engaging in busy face-to-face events. However, in the modern age, networking can be essential – particularly for small businesses who are looking to get the ‘word out’ and make contacts in their industry.

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7 Keys to Positive Results Utilizing Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches.

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14 things you better love before becoming an entrepreneur

The Next Web

Imagine somebody asked you to write on a piece of paper the things you love doing. If what came to mind was “partying, hanging out with friends, going to the beach, meeting new people, traveling,” you might ready to go on vacation or spring break. If on the other hand, you wrote “learning, making decisions, listening, risk, selling, working hard and building something from nothing,” you might be ready to be an entrepreneur.

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5 Productivity Tips When You’re Working From Home

YFS Magazine

Working from home is the new normal. If you are serious about your business want to get more done from home, here are 5 ways to be more productive.

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3 Keys To Winning New Customers

YoungUpstarts

by Rich Allen, author of “ The Ultimate Business Tune Up: A Simple Yet Powerful Business Model That Will Transform the Lives of Small Business Owners “. One of the most critical activities within a business is to define, without hesitation, the process used to win new customers. Without new customers, any business is doomed to a slow death as their current customers fade away for any number of reasons.

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Q1 2017 Round-up: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

Another quarter has flown by and we’re quickly moving into spring. Q1 was a busy time for our firm and portfolio companies, and here’s a brief recap of some of the various news clippings, fundraising announcements, and other happenings across the V1 community. As we’ve said before, we’re just writing about the things that have been announced publicly.

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Growth Story: What CornerJob did to become Spain’s fastest growing tech startup

The Next Web

Growth Story is a new 4-question format we’re doing about the moment startups found a defining metric that they could influence to really grow their company. To kick this new series off, we had an inspiring chat with David Rodriguez, CEO and co-founder of CornerJob, a startup that runs a two-sided app for employment. CornerJob just landed the title of Spain’s fastest growing start-up in our Tech5 competition.

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Marketing Communications

Steve Blank

I was having coffee with the CEO of a new startup, listening to her puzzle through how to communicate to potential customers. She was an academic on leave from Stanford now selling SAAS software to large companies, but was being inundated with marketing communications advice. “My engineers say our website is old school, and we need to be on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, my VP of Sales says we’re wasting our marketing dollars not targeting the right people and my board keeps giving me their op

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Six Tips To Help Businesses Fix Their Broken Hiring Processes

YoungUpstarts

by Scott Wintrip, “ High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant “ Everyone knows that hiring within an organization can be a stressful, confusing, and tedious process. Business owners, organization leaders, and hiring managers all want to choose the best job candidates so their companies can experience more productivity and less turnover.

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Renew Your Mind, Banish Mediocrity And Detox Your Life

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at 6 practical suggestions to help you move from unconscious mediocrity to conscious empowerment and detox and declutter your life.

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Lean Startup Conference Comes to New York & London

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Melissa Moore & Jennifer Maerz of Lean Startup Co. Over the last eight years, we’ve learned that our Lean Startup community members are constantly searching for better ways to build and scale products. Whether you need advice on how to design a good experiment, how to get buy-in from your boss, or what key metrics to track to hold your team accountable, we’re here to help.

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iOS Border Crossing Mode

Feld Thoughts

Now that US Border agents are aggressively asking for your cell phone and passwords when you cross the border , it’s time for Apple and Google to add a new feature to iOS and Android. The feature is needed because it’s not enough to just lock your phone, or turn it off before you go through the border. A while ago, to make it easy to comply with FAA regulations, which many believe to be unnecessary , iOS airplane mode and Android airplane mode were created.

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Moving At The Speed Of ‘What’s Next’: Subscription Business Models Spur Continuous Innovation

YoungUpstarts

by Jason Bissell and Calvin Hoon, Talend. With the immense success of cloud platforms and S oftware – as -a- Service (SaaS) models on one hand and the increase of subscription services on the other, it’s clear that software offered as a subscription is becoming the new standard. In fact, Gartner forecasts that the Asia Pacific public cloud services market will grow 17.7 percent in 2017 to total $10 billion.

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10 Easy Tips To Improve Your Website And Convert More Leads

YFS Magazine

Ready to attract leads that convert into sales? Try these 10 simple techniques to drive more conversions and boost the effectiveness of your website.

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Vision for your future success is EVERYTHING!

Berkonomics

I love absolute statements. And this is one of my favorites. You’re at the ignition stage of your newest business venture. Of course, you have a vision for what you will do to change the world. Let’s stress test that vision and sharpen it further to help insure your success. First, if your vision is limited and you will be happy with a successful local dry cleaning enterprise or small restaurant around the corner, you are not the target for this effort to help entrepreneurs build great busine

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How to Use Social Media to Find the Perfect Employee for Your Business

Up and Running

Whether you run a well-established company or are a budding entrepreneur, you’ll likely experience growing pains while building your team. At Bond Street , we’re experts in term loans , but we cover just about everything related to small business, including how to hire the perfect employees for your new company. For small business owners, committing to a new employee’s salary is daunting.

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Creative Advertising For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Are you looking for innovative ways to advertise your business? There are seemingly endless ways to make sure that you get the advertising you need, even when you have a minuscule budget. What you lack in terms of capital has to be compensated for in creativity, effort, and tenacity. You will have to hustle harder than your competitors. Here are a few ways that you can make sure that your business gets advertised even when you don’t have a lot of money in the budget: Vinyl Stickers.

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5 Signs Your Business Technology Needs An Upgrade

YFS Magazine

Better tech isn’t a waste of money – it will help you keep your edge. Great technology can help you fill the gaps and accomplish more with less people.

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The $100K Award At The CU Boulder New Venture Challenge

Feld Thoughts

In the fall of 2007, my friend Phil Weiser, Executive Director of CU Boulder’s Silicon Flatirons Center, convened 25 leaders from CU Boulder and the Boulder / Denver startup community. We spent an afternoon talking about the idea of an entrepreneurial university. Phil called the meeting a Roundtable, even though the table was long and rectangular. The discussion that day was heated.

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The evolution of AI

The Equity Kicker

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you will have noticed there’s a lot of heat around AI as an investment theme right now. Octopus’s recent announcement of a £120m dedicated AI fund is one of many recent events I could cite as evidence. In that same announcement Octopus mention that they have had three AI exits (Swiftkey, Magic Pony and Evi) so this is not a new investment trend.

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The Private Company Council

YoungUpstarts

by Karen Burns, an Assurance Partner at Sensiba San Filippo and the President of the East Bay Manufacturing Group. It’s tough being a midmarket business. Accounting and reporting requirements can be a significant burden for start-ups and companies without the vast human and financial resources of larger enterprises. Luckily, one organization is hard at work trying to make things more manageable for these middle market companies: The Private Company Council (PCC).

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5 Style Rules Successful Public Speakers Always Follow

YFS Magazine

When it comes to public speaking, success has as much to do with your personal brand style as it does with content of the speech.

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CU New Venture Challenge 9 Championship – 4/6/17 @ 5:30pm

Feld Thoughts

This year’s CU NVC Championships is happening on April 6 at 5:30 pm. This is CU Boulder’s best entrepreneurial party. My partner Jason Mendelson will be there to help judge. Go. You’ll have fun. Registration is free. The post CU New Venture Challenge 9 Championship – 4/6/17 @ 5:30pm appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Public Sector Drone: Our Investment in Shield AI

Hunter Walker

FINALLY, we can talk about this one. a16z just led a $10.5 Series A in Shield AI , with supporting participation from existing investors. We were fortunate to lead Shield’s earlier seed round and it’s been such a pleasure working on behalf of this team. Shield sells autonomous robotics into the public sector, initially the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security.

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10 Tips To After-Hours Professional Gatherings

YoungUpstarts

by Sharon Schweitzer, author of “ Access to Asia: Your Multicultural Guide to Building Trust, Inspiring Respect, and Creating Long-Lasting Business Relationships “ From office-wide after-hours events, to anniversary parties and corporate retreats, work events are often characterized by a more relaxed, yet professional environment. Many times, these casual work parties include chats with colleagues and clients, as well as alcoholic beverages.

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5 Online Apps To Manage Freelancers And Outsourced Teams

YFS Magazine

Whether you're a solopreneur or a small business, access to the right online tools will help you manage freelancers and outsourced teams with ease.

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What Is Boulder Like?

Feld Thoughts

I spent the last month in Arizona. I missed Boulder and thought I might need a refresher on what it’s like. The post What Is Boulder Like? appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Attend the Austin Forum on Tues, April 4

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: April 2, 2017 Next-generation, technology-enhanced approaches to health emerged as one of the biggest trends at SXSW 2017. In addition to dozens of panels and presentations on this topic, two of the event’s most impactful speakers covered this topic: CRISPR co-founder Jennifer Doudna and Joe Biden of the Cancer Moonshot project.

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