deal architect
MARCH 17, 2016
I first met Paul Wright, CIO at Accuride at the Plex User Conference last year. I was struck by the level headed, low-hype way he approached technology, and also how much time he had invested with the user community around.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 17, 2016
By Ellen R. Auster and Lisa Hillenbrand, authors of “ Stragility: Excelling at Strategic Changes “ In our wired world, we’re always on, flipping from task to task, and struggling to keep up with a burgeoning to do list. And we’re not alone. Everyone we work with seems to be in a frenzy of activity all the time, focusing on firefighting while juggling multiple deadlines in between a whirlwind of meetings, emails and conference calls.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 17, 2016
Neither people nor computers can really help you as a personal assistant unless you are willing to share data about what you like, what you feel, and who and what’s important to you. Even the best technology can’t read your mind, which is why a simple Google search often gives frustrating and irrelevant results, and online advertisers bombard you with opportunities of no interest.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 17, 2016
To make your startup a success, be it an IT consultancy or an online jewelry business, presenting your brand in a professional way is crucial. The problem is that when you’re running your small business from home, giving your brand that professional vibe can be tricky. If you have any chance of success, you need to convince the rest of the world that your business is reliable and trustworthy.
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
ConversionXL
MARCH 17, 2016
When you’re trying to boost revenue and the number of paying users for a SaaS, your website and signup page are only one piece of the puzzle. Optimizers tend to forget that the entire funnel requires optimization. Focusing on your signup page will help you increase trial signups upfront. But the major questions are: Are paid signups significantly going to go up?
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 17, 2016
It’s often been said that in order to make money, you have to spend money. But there’s an oft-forgotten caveat that should accompany any such statement. And that is that you should spend as little money making money as possible! There are plenty of places businesses are going wrong in the modern world when it comes to their fixed costs. These are costs that are necessary to keep their operations alive , but that don’t vary depending on output.
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Feld Thoughts
MARCH 17, 2016
My dad – Stan Feld – turned 78 years old today. He’s one of my closest friends and a life-long buddy. He always rocks a wild green outfit on his birthday. In honor of him turning 78, following are 7 things I’ve learned from him: Be kind to everyone. Treasure you wife. Never lose your anger in public. If you aren’t standing on the edge you are taking up too much space.
The Equity Kicker
MARCH 17, 2016
We got an Amazon Echo in our house yesterday. It’s not for sale in the UK and geo-restricted to the US, so it was a bit of a struggle to get it working and there are still lots of things that don’t work as well as they could. It won’t play our UK Spotify account, for example. Despite this, the kids have taken to it. They have an appropriate dose of scepticism when I bring home new gadgets, most of which don’t work, but the Echo is easy and natural to use and they were qui
VC Adventure
MARCH 17, 2016
Earlier this week I gave the keynote address at the Colorado Angel Capital Summit. While the audience was Colorado focused, the overall message I delivered about the angel ecosystem is very relevant to all entrepreneurial communities. I thought I’d share both the presentation and the key thoughts here. The overall trend around angel investing is a pretty interesting one.
SiliconHills
MARCH 17, 2016
Q. What is BNB Shield LLC? A: BNB Shield LLC finds, reports on and challenges illegal, contract-breaking and unlicensed short-term rentals. We report these to the proper channels to ensure they are promptly removed from third-party rental platforms that include AirBnB, Craigslist, Home Away, Overnight, FlipKey, VRBO, VacationRentals.com, among others.
YFS Magazine
MARCH 17, 2016
Changing your business name is a risk. It can either generate a lot of interest in your work, or make people forget who you are and how to find you.
Start Up Blog
MARCH 17, 2016
Here’s my strategy playbook for any startup to get real and get in market: Step 1. . Think Big, Go Small and Respond to Evidence. Step 2. Make small thing bigger and or better, based on evidence. Step 3. Rinse and Repeat. (That’s the shampoo bit). Go!
YFS Magazine
MARCH 17, 2016
Often PR is an afterthought in the startup world. By the time a new business realizes they need PR or marketing help, it’s too late.
Austin Startup
MARCH 17, 2016
All of the tech giants are investing at virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). For players like Apple, the target business model… Continue reading on Medium ».
Jeff Hilimire
MARCH 17, 2016
Contuining my week of Dragon Army posts (Monday: vision, tenets, values ; Tuesday: what kind of company we are , Wednesday: our focus on mobile ), I thought I’d share some of the things we’re working on these days. Little Broken Robots (LBR). First off, as our fourth game, this was by far our most successful. LBR was featured in the Apple AppStore in January, and then listed as one of 20 “Best of January” games in February.
Austin Startup
MARCH 17, 2016
I’ll never forget the day that I raised my first outside round… Continue reading on Medium ».
Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 17, 2016
How To Determine Which Online Channels are Delivering Sales Online and Off written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Ashleigh Brown. The beauty of online advertising, unlike various other forms of advertising such as TV or radio, is that it is nearly completely trackable. When using Google Analytics as your platform, it is possible to see where website traffic has come from, whether it is from a paid ad on Google, Facebook advertising, an organic listing or referred f
The Entrepreneurial Mind
MARCH 17, 2016
TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Writer Finds Niche in Crowded Market appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.
Campus Entrepreneurship
MARCH 17, 2016
Like many, I’ve been fascinated by Peter Thiel for a few years, really hitting my radar with his Thiel Fellowship a few years back when he asked innovators to leave the campus and pursue their innovations (here are all the fellowship winners). I was fortunate enough to see him in Conversations with Tyler at George Mason University in 2015. His background, from founding PayPal ( PYPL | NASDAQ) and funding Facebook ( FB | NASDAQ) to his fellows and Zero to One (his book), its clear this guy
Berkonomics
MARCH 17, 2016
Dave’s note: This week, let’s welcome an expert in employment background checks, Chris Dyer, CEO of PeopleG2, to help us explore one dicey subject that gets lots of entrepreneurs and managers into trouble by being completely unaware of what they cannot ask a candidate in an employment interview. Here’s Chris… By Chris Dyer.
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