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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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.
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.
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.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 13, 2018
by Xavier Musy, Chief Architect of Swiftpage. CRM platforms are already firmly ensconced within the sales technology and strategies of most small and midsized businesses. Sales teams have been using their CRMs for basic, day-to-day-functions — such as managing customer information and tracking purchase history — for decades. In that time, CRMs have faithfully served as a place to store data, log notes, and manage contacts.
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.
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.
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.
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 20, 2018
Ready to design a new website? Website expert Steve Benjamins explains summarizes the benefits and drawbacks of single page web design.
crowdSPRING Blog
AUGUST 7, 2018
Is your small business website helping or hindering your business? If you’re like most small businesses, your website is outdated, and not helping you to increase revenues and sales. Even worse, your website might be completely disconnected from the brand you’ve been building. Here are 7 key reasons why you should consider redesigning your website.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Spencer Fry
AUGUST 20, 2018
There's a lot of advice out there for startups. Here are seven ways to think about your startup that will have greater impact on you and your business than any of the typical BS being passed around. #1: Don't take yourself so seriously. This is such a terrible problem with startups these days. Many startups take themselves so seriously that they won’t take a stand for anything and therefore, have no personality.
Up and Running
AUGUST 30, 2018
Times of rapid growth are especially exciting and challenging for new startups. Obviously, it’s a signal that things are headed in the right direction—but it can also be a critical turning point that determines long-term success. Failing to keep up with a sudden increase in demand for your product or service can lead to an equally sudden downfall. Take the recent example of the company MoviePass as a cautionary tale.
crowdSPRING Blog
AUGUST 13, 2018
“…it looks cold in there…” 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.
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.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 2, 2018
It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a chunk of time that has both whizzed by and felt like I’ve been doing this my whole life. In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. It’s like that warm belly feeling after a full bowl of ramen. But with a couple sleepless nights and many, many Trello boards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
crowdSPRING Blog
AUGUST 29, 2018
People like to think they’re in control, especially when it comes to their behavior. Science has proven otherwise. Most human behavior can be at least partially attributed to deep-set psychological traits or triggers. We may have control over our actions, but science has shown that we have cognitive biases and can be persuaded to take specific actions.
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.
Kodorra
AUGUST 14, 2018
They say Millennials are the food truck generation , where 47 percent of them have eaten from a food truck in the U.S. As the world consumes this ongoing gourmet trend, you shall be seeing more trucks lining up outside our office or your school. On the flip side, food truck entrepreneurs are trying to make a living serving specialty foods on wheels and competition can get pretty tough these days.
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
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.
Transformify
AUGUST 9, 2018
Being a digital nomad, who manages a 100% remote company , I face daily the perception that the digital nomads are people privileged enough to travel the world, work from anywhere while sipping a cocktail and building a business of their own. Very few realize the fact that the digital nomads have many faces and work from anywhere because there is a valid reason for not being able to work from an office.
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