Sat.Nov 03, 2018 - Fri.Nov 09, 2018

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Six Reasons Why Startups Fail And How To Avoid Them

YoungUpstarts

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. After spending a good amount of time researching about the benefits of having a startup, you are ready to open your own startup. WAIT! I have got a shocking statistic for you, startup enthusiasts. Almost 90 percent of startups fail within the first five years of their inception. There are a good number of published research studies that back this claim.

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8 Ways To Ensure Team Accountability In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Maybe it’s just me, but I sometimes feel that accountability is a rare talent in business today. In big businesses, people are quick to defer with “that’s not my department,” and even startup founders too often blame failures on the economy or the lack of investors. As an investor and advisor to entrepreneurs, I see accountability, or lack of it, as an override to even the best idea.

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Nobody Reads Powerpoints

Babbling VC

Bear with me as many generalisations are to follow. . . via GIPHY. "Nobody reads Powerpoints anyway!" I heard this from a business acquaintance recently and was initially taken aback by that comment. The brunt of what I have done over the past twenty years in business has involved Powerpoints (or more recently Google sheets but you know what I mean.

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5 Tips for Starting a Successful Clothing Brand: The Definitive Guide (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

Many people want to start a clothing brand or clothing line. After all, how difficult could it be? The truth is that successful clothing brands become successful in part because they’re created by people who are passionate about clothing. But, a clothing brand needs more than just exquisite apparel design to create a lasting business. It needs all the trappings of a successful business as well.

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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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Protect Your Business From Data Breach With VPN

YoungUpstarts

The data breach always costs a company a lot of money. Still, many businesses don’t even think about the protection. Most owners believe that it is complicated and hard to secure the information. But in reality, you just need a good VPN. Small business owners tend to think that they are safe just because their company is not that big. But that’s a misconception – they all are vulnerable regardless of the size.

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Start Early With a Solid Product Management System

The Startup Magazine

Who are we? Why are we here? Where are we going? These are the questions we ask ourselves when feeling philosophical. For startup owners, similar questions need to be asked about their company – particularly the product (or service) they’re providing their consumers. Only by developing a deep understanding of the product lifecycle can a startup have the endurance necessary for long-term success, and this can only be achieved via solid product management.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. startup ecosystem for many decades. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Best startup city rankings have reflected this truth for a long time. But this is becoming less true today, as more and more entrepreneurs find their way across the U.S.

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5 Things To Look For In A High-End Supplier

YoungUpstarts

No business works without competent suppliers to keep the firm fuelled. This might be as fundamental as the electricity provided to a building, but of course is mostly emphasized with stock ingredient deliveries, tech suppliers and even your food inventory for the daily canteen operation. However, some suppliers are perhaps more valuable to your firm than others.

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Startup Opportunity: Volvo iLabX Accelerator – Capital and Mentors

The Startup Magazine

In an effort to support startups looking for capital and mentorship, The Startup Magazine is supporting Volvo Financial Services in its launch of its iLabX global innovation program for technology entrepreneurs. We encourage all startups to consider applying to this rewarding startup accelerator. Corporate accelerators are one of the best ways for startups to access capital, advice, and markets. iLabX Technology Accelerator.

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20 years ago Raj and I started a little company together in our dorm room…

Jeff Hilimire

It’s funny how life works, isn’t it? My wife and I started dating junior year of high school, just after I convinced her to let me “borrow” her Ray Kroc presentation (we were in different classes but had both chosen Ray Kroc to do our history report on.). Fast-forward a few years later and I followed her to Charlotte, her attending Davidson College and me at UNC-Charlotte.

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CEO Behind Multi-Million Dollar Escape Room Business

Hearpreneur

The entertainment concept remains evergreen due to creativity and innovations that surrounds it. Akos Gabossy’s idea for his multi-million dollar company, PanIQ Escape Rooms, came to him while he was participating in his high school’s foreign exchange student program that landed him in LA. Completely amazed by the indoor family amusement concepts like Dave & Busters and Chuck E Cheese, Akos decided that he wanted to establish a similar family entertainment concept in his homeland of Hungary.

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How to Build an Effective Referral Program

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Build an Effective Referral Program written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. You spend a lot of time and energy winning over new business, and once you’ve gotten that prospect to convert, you work hard to create a positive customer experience. Rather than going out and trying to find brand new customers all over again, it’s much more time- and cost-effective to turn to the customers you already have, not only for repeat business, but to create a steady stream of referrals

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Boost Your New Venture By Teaming With An Incubator

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,200 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley.

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Vertical Software: One Industry which has bucked the trend

deal architect

Readers know I have been hounding software vendors on why they are not investing in vertical functionality. After two decades of cloud computing we have very few choices in books of record for industry after industry – utility billing, retail.

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Underemployment: It’s On You

YoungUpstarts

by Marissa Waldman, President at Brainard Strategy. Unemployment is at a significantly low level in the United States. While seemingly good news, a marketplace oversaturated with underemployment across all demographics is slowly but surely beginning to negatively impact this widely publicized spike in statistics. For example, according to a report on NPR.com , “around 33 percent of college graduates are underemployed.

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2018 SAAS Private Survey Results- Part 1

For Entrepreneurs

For the seventh year in a row, we’re proud to work with KBCM Technology Group (formerly Pacific Crest Securities) to share results from a survey of ~385 private SaaS companies. Thank you to the readers of forEntrepreneurs who participated in taking the survey! Thank you also to David Spitz (@dspitz) and the team at KBCM Technology Group for their.

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Apply Hospitality-Driven Thinking to Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

I just finished a new book by Stephen J. Cloobeck, “ Checking In: Hospitality-Driven Thinking, Business, and You ”. As a self-made entrepreneur and former chairman of Diamond Resorts International, he asserts that the five biggest companies by market value today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, aren’t really tech, but hospitality companies.

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Estimating Realistic Startup Costs

Up and Running

This article is part of our Business Startup Guide —a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! What will it cost to start that business? Of course, you can’t know for sure, but you can work with reasonable estimates. You can break down the problem into simple lists and work through the lists. It’s always a guess—but you can make it a good educated guess.

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How Startups Can Convince Young Professionals To Join Their Fledgling Sales Team

YoungUpstarts

by Keith Johnstone, Head of Marketing of Peak Sales Recruiting. With the U.S. economy growing at a rate of over 4% , it is an exciting time for startups looking to scale up. It is also an ideal time for young professionals to secure outstanding jobs. High-growth startups in the software sales space need to hire adept salespeople to be competitive.

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8 expert predictions on what will define tech in 2019

The Next Web

If you’re a tech junkie, you’ve inevitably thought about what it would be like to run into your future self, even just a year from now. What apps would be on your phone? How would your user experience change? What’s the next big thing you won’t be able to imagine your life without? To find out we went to this year’s EIT Digital Challenge where some of Europe’s finest deep tech scaleups and late-stage startups were pitching cutting-edge solutions that will innovate everything from online security

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WebSummit Presentations

For Entrepreneurs

I presented on two topics at WebSummit 2018 in Lisbon on November 6th. The slides and videos of those two presentations can be found below. The videos are provided courtesy of WebSummit: 9 Secrets for Startup Success, A roadmap for B2B Founders Lean Startup taught the world how to find product/market fit, but in the.

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Finding new opportunities from second order effects

Version One Ventures

Over the past decade, new platforms have driven down the cost of starting a tech business. For example, you don’t need to buy servers anymore – you can just host your site on AWS. And distribution has become immediate, efficient, and highly targeted thanks to Google and Facebook. The impact extends beyond technology companies too. In just the past few years it has become a lot less expensive to start a new business in many other verticals.

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10 Questions to Help You Figure Out Where Your Audience Gets Their Information

YoungUpstarts

Think about where you get the most important news in your industry. Is it from long, obscure white papers? YouTube videos? Press releases on a random public relations website? In most cases, probably not. Instead, as business people and general readers, we employ much more sophisticated filters that help us decide who and what to pay attention to. This approach helps us determine the credibility of the source and its relevance to us and our interests.

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Why digital tools you use in your personal life should be on your CV

The Next Web

I entered the workforce in 1998 during the midst of the dotcom bubble. To stay relevant in a highly competitive and unpredictable market, I found myself constantly updating my resume with software proficiencies I thought companies would find desirable. However, none of the software proficiencies I included in my resume proved to be applicable or remotely useful in my personal life.

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Women Are Underestimated In Business – Here’s What You Can Do About It

YFS Magazine

You are not alone. Most intelligent and inspiring women have also been underestimated and they succeeded anyways.

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Unintended Consequences of the Upcoming Drone Apocolypse

Feld Thoughts

On Monday, I wrote a post titled Look Up and Don’t Give Up that included the 2:48-second video of a mama bear and her cub struggling across a steep cliff covered with snow. 20+ million people have also looked at it and, I expect, found inspiration from it as I did. I didn’t think very hard about this until this morning when I read The Atlantic article titled The Problem Behind a Viral Video of a Persistent Baby Bear: What appears to be a life-affirming triumph is really a cautionary tal

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7 Reasons Companies Should Consider Third-Party POS Financing

YoungUpstarts

by Miron Lulic, founder and CEO of SuperMoney. Offering free access to credit at the point of sale (POS) is a powerful business-generating tool for companies of all sizes. However, not all companies have the working capital available to offer in-house financing programs. Partnering with a third-party POS financing platform is an attractive solution but finding a partner with competitive rates and reasonable implementation costs can be a challenge.

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Is print more powerful than email marketing for a business?

The Startup Magazine

There’s no doubt that the world we live in is becoming more digitally focused, but that doesn’t mean it’s always best. All around the world businesses are using email as one of their main focus areas for brand awareness and getting their product in front of consumers. However, it’s crucial to understand the thought process of the consumer, and this is often a challenge.

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Is Your Intellectual Property Protected?

YFS Magazine

In case your IP is stolen or used without your permission, there are a number of paths that you can take. Here's what every entrepreneur needs to know.

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Seth Levine’s Designing the Ideal Board Meeting Blog Series

Feld Thoughts

My partner Seth Levine is writing a blog series on Designing the Ideal Board Meeting. Seth and I have each attended over 27,367 board meetings. Ok, I don’t know the actual number, but it’s a lot. We’ve both been on good boards and bad boards. Boards that have helped companies and boards that have sunk companies. Boards that know how to resolve conflict and boards that have multiple passive-aggressive actors engaged in a complex dance that serves no one, especially the company

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The Most Important Thing I’ve Learned From Starting 3 eCommerce Companies

YoungUpstarts

by Jackson Cunningham, founder of Tuft and Paw. I’ve been in the ecommerce space for over 10 years. After starting 3 of my own successful companies, I’ve learned that it’s incredibly important to choose a category that you’re interested in. This isn’t revolutionary advice, but for newer entrepreneurs I don’t think the concept fully sinks in. Most of us are too focused on finding a “good opportunity” that we will sacrifice our passion in exchange and in many cases, the opportunity isn’t actually

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Energy Efficiency Ideas For Businesses

The Startup Magazine

Business people often say that it is necessary to spend money in order to make money. However, there are certainly some areas in which savings are especially appreciated and needed. In terms of the overall balance sheet, spending money on some green energy strategies can be hard to swallow in the short term, but beneficial in the long run. It is not surprising that numerous business owners feel nervous out making major outlays in this realm and question whether the instant hit to capital funds a

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A conversation about diversity, inclusion, and design with Lean Startup Conference 2018 speaker Liz Jackson

Startup Lessons Learned

Ragen Chastain, our Inclusion and Accessibility Manager for this year's Lean Startup Conference , spoke recently with Liz Jackson , an advocate and consultant and founder of The Disabled List , who will be presenting at the conference on Designing with Disability. We created Ragen’s role to further our long-standing efforts to make sure the conference is open to all.

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Look Up and Don’t Give Up

Feld Thoughts

This is how I think about my work and my marathon running. We could all learn a lesson from this baby bear: Look up & don’t give up. pic.twitter.com/nm0McSYeqY. — IM🍑HIM (@ziyatong) November 3, 2018. My spirit animal is a bear. Generally, I think of myself as a big polar bear, but I’m going to spend the day relating to my little friend.

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3 Things Every Entrepreneur Must Do Before Starting An LLC

YoungUpstarts

by Dustin Ray of Incfile. Maybe you woke up one day and decided to start a business on a whim. Or maybe you sat long and hard, mulling over your business idea in your head for years before finally taking action. Maybe you fell into becoming an entrepreneur by accident. However you got here, you did it for a reason. And if you haven’t already, you will soon experience the many (many!

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Picking the best rental management company

The Startup Magazine

To earn extra cash, many entrepreneurs list their property for rent online at various relevant sites. Some of the options you have include Booking.com, idealista.com or a quality site such as Airbnb Barcelona. Through a professional rental management company, your property can get higher returns. When choosing a rental management company, there are various factors to be considered.