Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 11, 2019
One of our favorite VC firms to work with is True Ventures. I’ve made many investments over the years with both Jon Callaghan and Tony Conrad, and I love being a co-investor with them. Recently, Tony told me a great Jon Callaghan quote. “Money Doesn’t Solve Problems. People Solve Problems.” I’ve learned this lesson 7,345,123 times.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 11, 2019
A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. You need all these before you start looking for funding.
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YFS Magazine
JANUARY 2, 2019
History is replete with setbacks, comebacks and people who started at the bottom only to claw their way to the top of their respective fields.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 19, 2019
Launching a startup is not easy – at any phase. Founders have many things to think about and decisions to make, most of which need to be made on a dime. It is not rare for entrepreneurs to buckle under the pressure and start to make poor decisions, some of which set their plans back or critically hurt the company’s potential. There is not some magic solution to obtaining small startup success.
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
JANUARY 9, 2019
Website redesigns are a huge risk. You can throw away years of incremental gains in UX and site performance—unless you have a battle-tested process. But what does that process look like? And how do you know if your team—or the one you’ve hired—is focusing on the most important things ? Many areas yield minor improvements, but to make a real difference, and protect past progress, you need a repeatable, evidence-based approach.
Up and Running
JANUARY 3, 2019
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! Here’s the simple truth of business: Without customers to buy your products, you’re not going to make any money. Almost every decision you make—what you sell, how much you sell it for, where you’re located, who you hire—is made with the intention of bringing in the maximum number of customers to your store, and to optimize the likelihood that they’ll buy your products
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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 7, 2019
Contrary to what you might guess, the highest rate of entrepreneurial growth over the last few years is not Gen-Y upstarts, but Boomers over the age of 50, now called encore entrepreneurs. In fact, according to the latest Index of Startup Activity by the Kauffman Foundation and recent press reports , these Baby Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom.
crowdSPRING Blog
JANUARY 28, 2019
As an entrepreneur, you have to work on your business as well as in it. Working on your business means constantly seeking new ideas for improvement – which means keeping the big picture in mind at all times. And, as all business owners know, marketing is an important part of your business. So, when you’re looking at the big picture, marketing is bound to come up.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 2, 2019
by Danny Iny, author of “ Leveraged Learning: How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners, and Experts with Something to Teach “ The way America prepares its young people for the workforce is shifting. And it’s not just a small shift; it’s a huge, culture-shaking one. If you doubt it, just keep your eyes open. There are trends to watch for in 2019 and over the next few years that signal a recalibration of everything we thought we knew.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 23, 2019
Your current customers will never be excited about paying more. But that’s not why raising prices is so difficult. Instead, poor planning is to blame: Companies neglect to plan a price increase until there’s a financial squeeze or, for the thirtieth time, a customer confides that, “You know, you really ought to charge more.”. What typically follows is a hasty price bump that’s detached from product value and communicated incoherently.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 4, 2019
It’s a new year and right after the ball drops, it’s time to go to work. Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. We asked 20 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2019. #1- Recruit female executives recruitment.
The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 8, 2019
A survey conducted in 2017 by Planview revealed that 49% of companies witnessed a project fail. At this rate, businesses may be thinking of lasting solutions to ensure their projects remain successful. At the centre of all this are the Solution Architects. They combine business acumen, technical skill and project management expertise into successful project solutions.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 5, 2019
Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. The reality is that if you build a business you love, you may in fact make big money, but if you start a business to get rich, you will probably fail.
Up and Running
JANUARY 8, 2019
The basic idea of a sample business plan makes perfect sense. If you haven’t done a business plan before, a sample plan gives you an instant idea of what you should include, how to structure it, and even what to write. Bplans offers a library of more than 500 sample business plans across a wide variety of industries. Here’s how to get the most of any sample business plan.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 15, 2019
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.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 21, 2019
You start your day with a check-in on social media. You spot a negative review on your Facebook page. Do you: Ignore it and hope nobody sees it? Respond? Spoiler alert: Your answer should be the latter. And it’s not just because 88% of consumers are less likely to purchase from companies that leave complaints unattended. Apologizing is a human behavior that acknowledges and resolves an issue.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 13, 2019
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.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 23, 2019
“TechBikers are a unifying force in the London tech start-up community and a testament to the power of purpose in bringing together a community to do good. In 2018, TechBikers helped to fund 9. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 21, 2019
Image via Wikipedia From the advice I hear these days, if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be in Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, or one of the few other financial hubs around the world. What does that mean for the rest of us, who reside or grew up in the thousands of small towns that cover most of the landscape? Is entrepreneurship ever viable or recommended in a small town?
The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 8, 2019
Many people say that no one gets rich working for someone else all their life. They continue that starting a new venture business is the way to go, and this is indeed what many of them do. While starting a business is not at all bad, it’s something that must be done with caution. Wanting to get rich is not enough reason and motivation to keep the entrepreneurial fire burning within.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 3, 2019
No matter the industry that you are operating in, every startup business will need a few things in order to succeed. This will, of course, include excellent products or services but there are also a few other assets that are required in today’s technologically advanced age. The business world has changed drastically in recent times, and every entrepreneur needs to have their finger on the pulse in order to set up and run a successful business.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 31, 2019
Good user research asks the right questions to the right people. If you fail on either account, you may make million-dollar decisions on bad data. Leading questions are an easy way to poison your data. A leading question is “a question asked in a way that is intended to produce a desired answer.”. If you’ve worked in marketing or sales, you know leading questions well: They’re wonderfully effective at guiding consumers toward a “yes” for a product or service.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 11, 2019
Entrepreneurship and decision making go hand-in-hand. Some decisions like firing employees require boldness which is not always a walk in the park. The decisions you make can make or break the future of a business hence due diligence is necessary before making bold decisions. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they make bold decisions and here are the responses. #1- Not allowing indecisiveness due to fear.
Up and Running
JANUARY 24, 2019
I understand that many of you are in startup mode or still contemplating whether to embark on the risky business of becoming an entrepreneur. My goal for the next few years is to encourage waverers to start their own business, and to mentor some of those who are on their way to become millionaires. This article will include examples of the risks I took and how I overcame them as presented in my book, “ Raise the Bar Change the Game.” I hope you can get some benefit from some real-wor
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 2, 2019
Most of you aspiring entrepreneurs have no idea how dramatically your own role has to evolve as you develop a solution, start a business, and expect it to scale into a successful self-managed company. You may have a strong product development background, but typically have minimal experience in hiring and leading team members and groups, or managing financials.
The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 27, 2019
Startups work hard all week, and the weekend offers some extra escape time to explore other opportunities. The Internet is truly interesting and an exciting place where even the most outstanding events are possible. Many people buy things on the Internet. It has become as common as eating. The classic format is outdated and not innovative. But there is an interesting way to get an incredible gamut of fun and a valuable prize.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 13, 2019
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.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 2, 2019
As a SaaS company, both your product and service are unique solutions, and your pricing page should reflect that. It’s tempting to model your pricing strategy on successful companies. But by simply copying what your competitors are doing, you do your product and customers a disservice. You are falling in line with other options instead of communicating what sets you apart.
Start Up Blog
JANUARY 17, 2019
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.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 22, 2019
Transcript of How Installing a Marketing System Serves Consultants and Their Clients written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: Marketing is a system, you’ve probably heard me say that before, but maybe you’ve never heard me talk about the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 28, 2019
If you listen primarily to the popular press, you could easily be convinced that all successful startup businesses are built by one smart person, such as Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, or Jeff Bezos at Amazon. In reality, it takes a collaboration of many good people to build and run a business, even though the original idea probably did come from that innovative entrepreneur.
The Startup Magazine
JANUARY 8, 2019
The new recruits that you hired are sitting in a room, facing a screen. The instructor is literally reading out from a Powerpoint presentation projected on that screen. The facial expressions of the new recruits have changed from that filled with a nervous energy and excitement to that of a dull mundane look; ideally reserved for an employee in the same dead-end job for 5 years.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 3, 2019
by Ken Rutsky, author of “ Launching to Leading: How B2B Market Leaders Create Flashmobs, Marshal Parades and Ignite Movements “ In today’s hyper-competitive, global and instantaneous market, where buyers have nearly unlimited access to information and each other, the fight for their attention is like a crowded treadmill constantly gaining speed.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 9, 2019
Most hurricanes that reach the United States start off the coast of West Africa. Those storms join and split with other minor systems as they move across the Atlantic. Some dissipate into a mild breeze; others devastate coastal areas along the Eastern seaboard. So what does an afternoon rainshower over Cape Verde tell you about the next Category 5 hurricane?
Transformify
JANUARY 7, 2019
The gig economy is on the rise and more people than ever are freelancing. Especially in the US, some 60% of the population are either freelancers or grab freelance gigs from time to time to add extra money to their pay cheques. Add to that the uncertainty surrounding BREXIT and the changed visa rules in the US that push the employers to hire remote workers.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 15, 2019
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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