Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 11, 2020
As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always surprised by the fact that some never seem to be able to that first startup going, while many others never seem to stop, starting their second or third initiative before the first one is fully hatched. I’m now convinced that serious entrepreneurs relish the startup process more than success. They enjoy the journey more than the destination.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 10, 2020
by Deb Boelkes, author of “ Heartfelt Leadership: How to Capture the Top Spot and Keep on Soaring “ Happy employees are the best kind. They work hard, keep customers loyal, and stick around to help your organization accomplish its mission. You definitely want them on your team. This is true in the best of times, yes, but also in the worst of times.
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View from Seed
JULY 6, 2020
Since we first opened our New York office back in 2015, we have steadily increased our presence over the years ( Melody joined us in 2017 and Dorothy in 2018), and now roughly 40% of our investments are in New York. We continue to believe that NYC is very underserved by seed investors who can lead with high conviction, and we are excited to double down our presence in New York by adding a new senior associate investment professional to our team. .
VC Cafe
JULY 26, 2020
“After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. (Most of the funds that started in the late part of the boom would be underwater). Angel investment, which was small to start with, disappeared, and most corporate VCs shut down. VC’s were no longer insisting that startups spend faster, and “swing for the fences”. In fact, they were screaming at them to dramatically reduce their burn rates.
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
Feld Thoughts
JULY 20, 2020
I recently was in an email thread where a Black founder had a powerful and clear response to the question from one of her corporate partners. The question was: How can our (the corporate partner’s) team better support diversity in our work, particularly in our sourcing, diligence, and onboarding efforts? The entrepreneur responded with a long explanation that was a brilliant and extremely helpful perspective for me.
Hearpreneur
JULY 1, 2020
The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made-up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it. Even still there are some people who study foreign words for the perfect meaning behind their chosen business.
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YoungUpstarts
JULY 6, 2020
People like easy money, right? . And when the usual person hears the word “cryptocurrency”, he thinks about this easy source of income. . But not everyone knows about pitfalls that are waiting for traders, and here’s a look at some of them. . Pitfall 1. The crypto market is full of scammers. They are waiting for you to steal money everywhere – crypto bots, wallets, exchanges, Telegram channels, etc. .
View from Seed
JULY 8, 2020
Today I’m excited to announce the relaunch of our most popular resource ever: board meeting deck templates for seed-stage startups, now in conjunction with an investor update email template. Download Board Deck Template . Download Investor Update Email Template. Investor Update Email Template and How & When to Use It. We first released a version of the board meeting deck template template back in 2014 and then a revised version a couple of years later.
The Startup Magazine
JULY 5, 2020
Content provides useful information about your products and services. Aside from that, it also helps draw in potential customers. It is no wonder that experts consider content as “king.” And indeed, as more and more people rely on the internet when it comes to shopping for the solutions they need, businesses will have to focus on building an effective content marketing strategy.
ReadWriteStart
JULY 23, 2020
Legal tech includes software and other tools that help attorneys and their support staff to provide legal services to clients. Many new applications empower reputable firms to improve their efficiency and adapt to mobile working environments. Here’s how legal tech companies are re-shaping the legal world. Legal tech also gives small firms and individual practitioners a chance to compete with larger competitors.
Hearpreneur
JULY 17, 2020
Understanding what industry stands a chance to succeed in future is helpful in making investment decisions. No one wants their hard work to do go down in the name of a shoddy investment. Technology has proved to have a great driver of the rise of ‘future industries’ and those that were previously seen to be tech-proof. Here’s the list of industries with the most optimist future as suggested by entrepreneurs. #1- Sustainability.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 13, 2020
The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Cash isn’t always the scarcest resource startups have to invest – more often it’s the leadership capital of under-experienced and over-stretched entrepreneurs and co-founders.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 5, 2020
Investor protection, low corruption, trade freedom, and low corporate tax are some of the benefits businesses enjoy in Canada. In addition to Canada’s stable economy, other perks include its proximity to the United States and its similar business ethics and culture with the U.S, which makes running your business in Canada smooth with less cultural challenges to deal with.
VC Cafe
JULY 21, 2020
If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. Will they compete with me? what if they decide to enter my niche? What will they announce in the next Google I/O keynote? The same might be true for your view of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, etc.
The Startup Magazine
JULY 9, 2020
If two decades back someone would have predicted that 20 years down the line people would be able to carry all the brands in our world in their little hands, they would have been declared crazy and laughed off. Today, it has become the marketing world reality. Every product, service, business, and person is just a click away! Exciting times for business owners!
ReadWriteStart
JULY 9, 2020
Trademark rights in UAE are based on the trademark’s use. Prior to using a mark in identifying a specific product or service, there’s a need to perform a clearance search. A clearance search or trademark search determines whether there’s an existing mark. If there is an existing mark that is already registered — it’s likely similar or the same as to what you want to use.
Hearpreneur
JULY 3, 2020
Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. Additionally, there’s growing empowerment and embracing of individuality which motivates more people to begin their entrepreneurship journey.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 1, 2020
Every entrepreneur I know finds it a challenge to balance the joys of entrepreneurship against a set of frustrations they never anticipated. Of course, most of you expect that raising money will be difficult, as well as staving off competitors, and handling that occasional toxic customer. What you don’t expect is to feel out of control , or to always be fighting the many demands for your time.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 29, 2020
Did you know that roughly 75 percent of all software projects fail? If you’re looking to develop some software, you may not know how to create a software project that will be successful. Do you need to have a good spec sheet? Maybe it all comes down to hiring the best developers? Read on, and you’ll learn the basics of developing a successful software project.
Up and Running
JULY 1, 2020
Businesses start when their founders see a need for a product or service that they can provide. Businesses expand for the same reasons. You may grow to tap new markets or increase sales in your current markets. A good business plan is critical to starting a successful business. Creating a plan for business expansions is no less essential. And using your business plan template to develop an expansion plan increases your odds of success and allows you to avoid bad investments.
The Startup Magazine
JULY 2, 2020
Whether you are an existing ecommerce business, or a retail company forced to move to ecommerce due to the current outbreak, it is important to constantly evaluate the usability of your ecommerce store. A well-known rule in web design is the three-second rule, which CMS Wire notes is the amount of time you have to get a visitor’s attention on board.
ConversionXL
JULY 3, 2020
Are you a CMO who thinks accurate attribution is a pipe dream? Or a customer experience director who has to hack together data to create something resembling a customer journey ? This article is for you. We’ll show you how to: Assess your company’s current approach to data. Map your data strategy against overall business goals. Build a data roadmap to deliver on the strategy.
Hearpreneur
JULY 24, 2020
Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright and the number of entrepreneurs will increase but others argue these changes are meant to work against budding or would-be entrepreneurs. Growing empowerment and embracing of individuality is motivating more people to begin their entrepreneurship journey.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 23, 2020
How to Be Ready for What’s Next written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Chuck Swoboda. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Chuck Swoboda, author, speaker, podcast host, and the Innovator-in-Residence at Marquette University. He served as Chairman and CEO of Cree for 16 years where his team successfully led the LED lighting revolution not just by creating new products, but by focusing on solving old problems in completely
YoungUpstarts
JULY 7, 2020
Traditional menswear has been in a bit of slump in the previous decades with brands sticking to the status quo. A lot of brands even got to the point where they were repeating what had been done in the past, but that has started to change in recent times. There are four companies that have taken the market by storm and become popular among the masses.
VC Adventure
JULY 27, 2020
If you’re not familiar with Energize Colorado , I’d encourage you to check them out. Energize CO is a volunteer organization working to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 in Colorado. As part of this they just launched a pilot Resume Coaching program geared toward people whose jobs have been affected by COVID-19. This is a free resource utilizing volunteer recruiters from some of Colorado’s best companies and staffing agencies.
The Startup Magazine
JULY 31, 2020
Most factories and manufacturing processes generate wastewater. Therefore, it’s the responsibility of a corporation to understand wastewater treatability and develop an efficient treatment system. This includes startup manufacturers that need to understand the long term impacts of their business plans. Wastewater exists in two categories: greywater and blackwater.
ConversionXL
JULY 15, 2020
Each spring, the annual State of Agile Marketing Report sheds light on how Agile ways of working are being adopted within marketing. This year, for the first time in the report’s three-year history, Agile techniques overtook those maintaining traditional processes. Those who know Agile as a buzzword will likely tell you it’s a way for teams to go faster.
Hearpreneur
JULY 31, 2020
When the going gets rough in business, you’ll need motivation to keep moving. Motivating yourself can be hard but practicing consistent habits such as reminding yourself of why you started can be a major boost. A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. Here are the various ways entrepreneurs and business owners stay motivated in business. #1- A morning routine of checking my daily revenue.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
JULY 3, 2020
Depression and anxiety are mental health conditions that affect everyone at some point in their lives. Whether you’re a CEO in a company with lots to manage, or an employee down the chain, stress can mount if it’s not dealt with. This can lead to poor performance at work as well as suffering relationships and lack of happiness at home. Though some of us may have a better ability to deal with these factors than others, it’s important to recognize the symptoms.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 7, 2020
When starting a business, you will have many endeavours whether you have a small or large capital. Aluminium joinery business has been one of the most stable business for the past decade. With an almost ready-made business model, the cost and requirements are relatively low compared to other startup business which is favorable for aspiring business owner.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 16, 2020
Why Direct Marketing Is More Effective Than Ever written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Brian Kurtz. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Brian Kurtz, Founder and CEO of Titians Marketing. Brian is a true fan of direct marketing. Starting in the list business gave him a solid foundation in learning about audiences, demographics and database marketing; then, working in all media helping Boardroom as Executive VP sell millions o
The Startup Magazine
JULY 2, 2020
The coronavirus has shut down wide swathes of our economy, but that doesn’t mean that business owners can stand idly by and wait for someone to rescue them. Those commercial entities which survive this public health crisis will be those which leveraged SEO to ensure they remained popular with consumers who are now stuck within the confines of their homes.
ConversionXL
JULY 22, 2020
Sales and marketing misalignment reduces revenue, lowers the quality of customer service, and can even dampen company culture. So how do you get aligned? This post, based on our experiences, covers: What misalignment looks like—and what it costs; What alignment looks like—and what you get; Four steps to go from wherever you are now to greater alignment.
deal architect
JULY 30, 2020
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 3, 2020
Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. Even those things that worked yesterday may not work tomorrow, as the market matures, the culture changes, and competitors appear with new solutions.
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