Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 8, 2018
What do these numbers mean to you? At a recent offsite, during our conversation about evolving our communication patterns (which I refer to, in my head, as “the Matrix”), Ryan said “16-49-81.” Everyone stared at him and I responded “4-squared, 7-squared, 9-squared.” Then, everyone nodded their heads but were probably thinking “these guys are numerology goofballs.” But then Ryan said, “ Metcalfe’s Law ” and everyone immediately und
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 17, 2018
Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI).
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Hearpreneur
AUGUST 10, 2018
Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 28, 2018
by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. A prospective customer looks to your business to provide something they need or want. This is the beginning of a very important story for your business. And, starting with your very first interaction, this story can develop in one of three ways: You fail to meet their expectations. You meet their expectations. You exceed their expectations.
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
AUGUST 30, 2018
In many organizations, user research creates friction. It directly challenges the intuition of others, often at the highest levels. It slows product development. It costs money. It has no clear ROI. But it’s also essential— 89 percent of customers stop doing business with a company after a bad experience. User research delivers the quantitative and qualitative insights to improve those experiences.
Up and Running
AUGUST 20, 2018
This article is part of our “ Business Planning Guide “ —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! What is a business plan? In its simplest form, a business plan is a guide—a roadmap for your business that outlines goals and details how you plan to achieve those goals. In this article, I’ll explore the sections of a business plan, as well as: Who needs a business plan.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 25, 2018
Now is the time to be an entrepreneur and create a business from your passion. The cost of rolling out a business has never been lower – it only takes a few hundred dollars to incorporate a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) online, create your own website, use social media to get attention, and you are in business. In the early Internet days, it would cost a million dollars to get this far.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 31, 2018
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.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 28, 2018
Businesses require all sorts of diverse services in the modern world. It can be hard to keep a business running well without them. If you’re a business owner, you have to take all sorts of service requirements into consideration. Businesses often require interior design service, first and foremost. A business that lacks an attractive and inviting interior space may flounder in its competitive industry.
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 15, 2018
No matter the aim of your small business, a crucial component to attracting your ideal customer is to help them find your brand via your company website.
Up and Running
AUGUST 21, 2018
This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Today, I want to introduce a new approach to business planning: Lean Planning. Lean Planning replaces lengthy business plans with a 20-minute planning process that focuses on increasing your chances of success in business.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 18, 2018
The main aim of any business is to grow and expand, achieve success and make as much money as possible. It’s therefore easily understandable why so many new companies push on to try and grow as quickly as they can. Yet fast growth isn’t always the best route. Source: Pixabay. Research from the Universities of California, Berkley and Stanford University found that a big problem for many failed tech start-ups was premature scaling, essentially businesses growing too fast.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 31, 2018
Most of you new venture founders I meet as an angel investor seem convinced that starting the business is the hardest part. You look forward to the day when your business becomes self-sustaining, and settles into a long-term growth curve, ensuring financial success. Unfortunately, sustainability is proving to be a more and more complex challenge in this era of rapid change.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 8, 2018
Does investing in employees marketing skills pay off? Or is it just a waste? Businesses spent nearly $94 billion on corporate training in 2017—a 33% increase over 2016. Per employee, expenditures ranged from $399 at large companies to $1,886 at smaller organizations, according to the same report from Training magazine. Within marketing departments, an estimated 4.2% of the total marketing budget now goes to training programs, up from 2.7% in 2014.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 6, 2018
The Forex Market is the largest financial market with a turnover of over 3 trillion dollars in any given day. Going with the best forex platform, for forex trading, is of utmost importance if one is to have a precise balance between the high risks and rewards on offer, in the trillion-dollar marketplace. A forex platform is a software suite that allows one to access and interact with the market.
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2018
Ready to design a new website? Website expert Steve Benjamins explains summarizes the benefits and drawbacks of single page web design.
Up and Running
AUGUST 15, 2018
The startup stage of a business is grueling. Chances are, you are overworked, understaffed, and functioning on a shoestring budget. Taking into account the statistic that only half of businesses survive the first five years, even the downtime can get stressful. Achieving rapid growth after a few tough years in the startup stage can be one of the most exciting (and relieving) times in the life of an entrepreneur.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 28, 2018
Facebook and Google Ads – The Keys to Small Business Paid Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you want to run a business today, you need to be advertising on Facebook and Google. These two tech giants dominate the online advertising market, and their reach is so incredibly broad (both have billions of users each month) that to leave them out of your strategy is to not have an online strategy at all.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 8, 2018
Strategic decisions set the overall direction for your business, whereas operational decisions set day-to-day operations. Unfortunately, most of the entrepreneurs who contact me for guidance only seem to work on strategic issues when they are in a crisis, such as losing a major distributor or being swamped with customer complaints. It’s a bit late when strategy becomes operational.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 22, 2018
Technology tycoon Steve Jobs, Vogue Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour, media mogul Ted Turner, and business magnate Bill Gates all have something in common aside from their unparalleled success – they lack a college degree. Despite what today’s youth are convinced to believe, college isn’t the only path to success. Steve “The Hurricane ” dropped out of college to build his multimillion-dollar company, Hurricane Marketing Enterprises.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 29, 2018
There are a lot of factors that go into running a business, but money is by far at the top of the list. Without enough capital, entrepreneurs don’t have the means to invest in the development and growth of their brand. Though you may not have much to work with now, if your startup is to succeed, you must work consistently at finding and executing plans to increase your revenue.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2018
If you have employees that work from home or from the road, the thought has probably crossed your mind: How can I be sure my people are working and not goofing off while billing my company? This issue is probably most prevalent for those who work with an outside or traveling salesforce or a team of people who work from home. Traveling is part of the job in sales, but how can you be sure they are out there selling?
Up and Running
AUGUST 7, 2018
If it were possible to stay a small business forever to cut significant costs from hiring new employees and equipment, everyone would be doing it. However, enterprises with teams of hundreds and thousands of people exist. At some point, they realized the workloads were increasing due to increased demand, and so they adjusted accordingly. Regardless of the size of your business, there is a right and wrong time to scale.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 30, 2018
How to Create a Morning Routine That Breeds Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Benjamin Spall. Podcast Transcript. This week on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I chat with Benjamin Spall. Spall is co-author of the book My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired and co-founder of the website by the same name.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 3, 2018
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.
Haystack
AUGUST 7, 2018
Earlier this summer, my friend Michael told me about a small investment his team made up in Seattle in the Amazon ecosystem. We were about to move houses and with all the impending details that process was generating, I initially didn’t give it a proper look. As we were reviewing new deals, we flagged this one for being different in nature. And as we dug in more, we began to uncover how little we know about a new potential business line for Amazon.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 17, 2018
Medtech startups are big money in today’s marketplace, producing high-value solutions for healthcare, ranging from health records software to genetic testing and diabetes management devices. But medtech isn’t all money and innovation – it’s also an industry that’s responsible for people’s lives, and when things go wrong, startups can be liable, with serious legal and financial consequences.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 21, 2018
In running your startup, you could find yourself faced with many challenges that seem to keep stacking up. One particularly obvious one is cost. But you might also realise that your startup isn’t sufficiently flexible in structure to handle rapid growth that could be suddenly sparked. Source: Pexels. These are just two of the dilemmas which can be solved if you move more of your desktop operations to the cloud.
Up and Running
AUGUST 28, 2018
So you’re thinking about starting your own outpatient medical practice. You probably have many good reasons to open a private practice. Private practices can be lucrative, although it requires you to spend time building relationships with patients while also attending to all business processes that are part of running your practice. Maybe you want more autonomy over your practice and your workflow.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 14, 2018
5 Steps to Small Business Search Engine Optimization written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The video above is a replay of a recent live webinar I conducted. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for the steps necessary for small business SEO. If you’re looking for a highly technical post on search engine optimization (SEO), this is not the content for you, and honestly, that’s because I don’t believe SEO is that technical (unless yo
deal architect
AUGUST 21, 2018
This summer while researching for SAP Nation 3.0, I have also been reading plenty about the young nation of the US in the 1800s. The comparisons to the enterprise vendor market, two centuries later, in the 2000s are striking. In.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 12, 2018
You can’t survive as an entrepreneur without resilience, because you are going to fail at least once, maybe multiple times. That’s the nature of trying something that’s never been done before. Resilience means not giving up, and being energized by what you have learned. As Thomas Edison said, "I have not failed. I have just found ten thousand ways that won't work.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 6, 2018
by Ben Hoffman, co-founder of CityHUNT. Do you pay attention to your employee retention rate and whether your top employees are happy? There’s more to a successful business than making top dollar and having satisfied clients. It’s also important for your staff to enjoy their job and remain loyal to the company. If your employees are unhappy and continue to hand in their resignation, it makes it challenging to keep the business moving forward.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 27, 2018
As you prioritize your product rollout tasks, a mobile app, whether it is “the” product, or an adjunct marketing tool, is critical to the customer experience. Getting the right app design elements, the right experience, and the right development resources lined up will make your rollout much quicker and with fewer headaches. Market research, though, is required before you put development resources to work.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 24, 2018
Every year I head to the East coast for vacation. We live in a semi-rural area, just ~10,000 people in town, with a potato farm across the street and an arm of the ocean in the backyard. While they own tech, smartphones and computers, most of my neighbors can’t tell you about the latest trends in AI, Bitcoin or Facebook. In contrast, Silicon Valley is an innovation cluster, a monoculture of sorts, with a churning sea of new tech ideas, sailed by entrepreneurs who each passionately believe they&#
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 23, 2018
How to Edge Out Your Competition by Being Uncopyable written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Steve A. Miller. Podcast Transcript. This week’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Steve A. Miller. Miller is a consultant, speaker, and author. His most recent book, Uncopyable: How to Create an Unfair Advantage Over Your Competition , is about how small business owners can create an uncopyable relationship with their clients to keep them coming b
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