YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 4, 2017
Better app development isn’t hard, in fact it just takes the right mindset and some well thought out planning. Here’s how to do so: 1. Start With A Clear Goal. Any strategy for successfully creating and promoting a new app relies on setting up clear goals for your new software. One of the best ways to think about this need is by concentrating on the problem your app is going to solve.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 27, 2017
Customer service has traditionally been a support function to respond to customer initiated requests, meaning someone waits for the phone to ring or for a website support request form. Today’s customers definition of service is the sum total of their “experience,” covering all aspects of their relationship, including the shopping and buying process, as well as ongoing assistance.
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Up and Running
JANUARY 11, 2017
Mobile marketing is the promotion of one’s business on mobile and smartphone devices through websites, apps, and social media. It is a sophisticated, technology-driven marketing tactic that fully takes advantage of the increasing mobile trends by designing, targeting, and advertising to the millions of individuals who use their smartphone every single day of their lives.
Occam's Razor
JANUARY 31, 2017
Ten years, and the 944,357 words, are proof that I love purposeful data, collecting it, pouring smart strategies into analyzing it, and using the insights identified to transform organizations. In the quest for that last important bit, I am insanely obsessive about 1. simplification and 2. pressing the right emotional buttons. The reasons are that we all like complexity, it gives us energy :), we tend to be logical, and we often treat data output as the end when in reality the data output is jus
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
Version One Ventures
JANUARY 10, 2017
Back in 2009, Bitcoin became the first decentralized cryptocurrency. The prevailing thinking then was that the cryptocurrency market was going to be a winner-takes-all race due to the strong network effects around mining. And, most thought that Bitcoin would emerge as the winner in this race. What happened? Bitcoin, and the underlying blockchain technology, never developed a strong use case besides storing value.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 22, 2017
Share The idea of exactly what your business is going to be usually comes 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.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 30, 2017
Entrepreneurs are people who dream up new ideas, and then commercialize them into new businesses. Most people believe that the hard part is coming up with the idea, and the easy part is turning it into a business. Yet, in my experience as a mentor to entrepreneurs, the majority of failures I see are related to starting and growing the business, not developing the solution.
Up and Running
JANUARY 30, 2017
Here at Palo Alto Software, I interview a lot of successful entrepreneurs. Sometimes, I learn how they hit upon a great business idea. Other times, I learn about their experiences with startup culture , or how they conquered a challenging new industry. Sometimes they’re a LivePlan customer , and I get to hear how LivePlan helped them start and grow their business.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 12, 2017
2017 Predictions. “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” Niels Bohr. Hope your 2017 is off to a great start. With more VCs blogging, it’s great to see the plethora of predictions being shared. Below is a selection of themes and predictions for startups/venture/tech in 2017. This doesn’t include the various lists of ‘hot startups to watch’ (where normally there’s a correlation between the startup and the recommending VC’s portfolio), but
ConversionXL
JANUARY 26, 2017
A common mistake ecommerce store owners make is accepting the sale as the end-goal. It is easy for brands to think in such a transactional way; looking beyond each purchase can prove challenging. A 2014 survey by Econsultancy revealed , “Just 42% of companies are able to measure customer lifetime value.” Though the remaining 58% understand the importance of customer loyalty and retention, they may find it difficult to execute and analyze customer happiness and conversion campaigns.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 21, 2017
Share It’s always a special time when you take the “leap of faith” and start your own business. But it’s rare that an entrepreneur or business owner doesn’t leverage their background in some way to launch their business. It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 24, 2017
Starting up your own business can be a stressful process, with business plans, accounts, company registration and loads of time consuming administrative tasks that seem never-ending. Then there is marketing, which can be as big or small a task as you want it to be. However, your marketing strategy will have a huge impact on the success of your business, so it is definitely worth investing a lot of effort into.
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 2, 2017
When the WSJ and the NYTimes write the same trend story you can assume it’s a narrative that is being pushed by people who want it to be true! And the narrative for 2017 is OLD ECONOMY COMPANIES WANT TO BUY YOUR STARTUP. So, is it true? Largely yes, but the pot of gold might be more modest than some of 2016’s notable transactions suggest (Jet, Cruise, Dollar Shave Club).
Up and Running
JANUARY 9, 2017
Strategic planning is a management tool that guides your business to better performance and long-term success. Working with a plan will focus your efforts, unify your team in a single direction, and help guide you through tough business decisions. A strategic plan requires you to define your goals, and in defining them, enables you to achieve them—a huge competitive advantage.
Rob Go
JANUARY 10, 2017
I get asked a lot about how to get one’s start in the VC industry. I have a somewhat standard response, but realized that I never put it into a blog post. So, here it is. FYI – this is tuned towards an individual who is still in the relatively early stages of their career. There is really only one thing that a VC is thinking about when evaluating a person to add to their their team.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 24, 2017
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” – Yogi Berra. Digital marketing moves at a fast pace. One year something works, and the next year it is obsolete. Similarly, conversion optimization moves quickly. Sure, there are some core skills that seem foundational and everlasting, but year to year there are also some new skills that crop up.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 8, 2017
Share 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 16 entrepreneurs to share what’s new in their business in 2017. #1 – Expanding My Empire.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 4, 2017
An angel investor who also has experience in the start-up world has a much greater understanding of how businesses work, what fears and concerns the start-up owner or owners have and much more. They have gone through many of the experiences and situations that people in the businesses they are helping are going through at the moment or will go through in the future. 3 Great Examples of Entrepreneurs Turned Investors. 1.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 5, 2017
6 Tactics for Turning Your Website into a Lead Generating Machine written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Photo Credit: Shutterstock. Anybody can create a website, but not everybody can create a conversion machine. Your website should be a mechanism in your business that allows you to convert prospective visitors into interested leads who will later become customers and advocates for the products and services that you sell.
Up and Running
JANUARY 4, 2017
If you feel restless working for someone else and have come up with your own idea for starting a business, you should consider the challenges that you will face ahead of time. Owning and running a business is incredibly rewarding—but it comes at a price. Stress, painful mistakes, and sacrifice all accompany the pride, excitement, and sense of accomplishment that comes with creating your own money making machine.
deal architect
JANUARY 19, 2017
Three presentations really stood out during the Oracle Cloud analyst day in NYC this week.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 2, 2017
“You must be so proud of what you created” — the reflexive conclusion delivered by visitors to our building at WP Engine, struck by a beautiful place teeming with energy and activity, coming upon the little office of the founder. “What we created,” I always respond. It’s not false humility. I didn’t create this.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 7, 2017
Share Each business has a story. No matter if the business is a Goliath like Wal-Mart, or a local business owned by a couple or family, the business has roots in an idea. For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each and brand.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 4, 2017
There are multiple benefits in switching from traditional web hosting to cloud hosting. We will talk about the most important ones below. Business owners should read them very carefully since making the right decision now will help them save money and get more value for their money. If you decide to do that step make sure to choose an SSD cloud server.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 27, 2017
Augmented Reality Will Put Local SEO On Steroids written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Augmented reality has recently grown from the far-flung corners of geek world to become a surging phenomenon that is threatening to burst into popular culture. Pokemon Go, an AR based gaming app, generated huge traction subsequent to its July 2016 launch.
Up and Running
JANUARY 23, 2017
In the last few years, remote work has become an attractive solution for many employees and employers. Around 67 percent of companies allow some employees to work from home on occasion, and 38 percent allow employees to work remotely on a regular basis. The perks of a remote working situation are pretty obvious for employees, but there are also several amazing perks for their employers, too.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2017
Our goal was to scale Hacking for Defense classes across the US – giving students the opportunity to perform national service by solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanista
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 8, 2017
Starting and building a company is all about leadership – formulating an idea, building a unique plan based on vision and experience, and forging a path over and through all obstacles. Yet the image of leadership in business is at an all-time low, according to national leadership experts, considering the political debacles, record business bankruptcies, and executive fraud cases.
View from Seed
JANUARY 11, 2017
In recent years we’ve seen more and more corporations become more active or establish strategic VC arms. When there are many waves of innovation (AI/ML, voice, IoT, genomics, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, etc) propagating across many industries, it’s natural for corporations to use strategic investment as one way to harness that innovation for their own purposes.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 10, 2017
by Nat Greene , co-founder and current CEO of Stroud International and author of “ Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers “ Sherlock Holmes said, “I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty.” But most of us guess all the time. When something breaks, our frontal cortex lights up with dozens of ideas of what might be wrong and how to fix it.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 13, 2017
Lately, I’ve been stewing over increased complexity being generated by companies around their organization approaches. While this activity varies by stage, in many cases the leadership team expands to a large (greater than six) number of people, there become two executive teams (the C-Team and the E-Team), the CEO gets sucked into endless distractions and working “in the company” rather than “on the company”, and I could go on with a 1,000 word rant on the challenge
The Startup Toolkit
JANUARY 6, 2017
I’ve felt financially secure ever since my first company failed. While I suppose that could be a sign of ambitious embezzlement, in this case it’s thanks to the byproducts of working on a startup: skills, network, insight. One benefit is that a couple years plodding away on a startup transforms you into an incredible freelancer[1]. While freelancing isn’t the goal for most founders, it’s a safety net that allows for big risks with small stress[2].
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2017
Our goal was to scale Hacking for Defense classes across the US – giving students the opportunity to perform national service by solving real defense/diplomacy problems using Lean Methods. In exchange our government sponsors benefit from 1) access to talent that most likely would never have served the country, 2) getting solutions as minimum viable products/prototypes in 10 weeks, 3) exposure to a problem solving methodology used in Silicon Valley and battle tested in Iraq and Afghanista
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 21, 2017
Until the recession a few years ago, market research indicated that as many as 90 percent of the roughly 20 million American small business owners were motivated more by lifestyle than growth and money. More recently, the desire for extra income has become the key driver in new startups, according to a 2015 study. It seems that more people are focused on money today.
The Next Web
JANUARY 16, 2017
In the lead-up to Tech5 2017 – the annual competition organized by TNW and Adyen which celebrates Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies in The Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Sweden– we’re launching a series of remarkable stories of businesses that experienced extreme growth. We asked these companies to tell us the data backed story on how key decisions were made, which growth hacks led to the much loved hockey stick curve, and how this impacted their company.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 10, 2017
With the massive range of platforms out there, it’s now easier than ever to set up a fully functioning ecommerce store and start selling your product online. Now, while it may be simple enough to get a business off the ground, that’s certainly not the only step you need to take towards commercial success. Your ecommerce store needs to be backed by a strong marketing campaign to ensure it expands and flourishes at a healthy rate.
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