YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2019

by Hardik Shah, Tech Consultant at Simform. According to Capgemini’s World Quality Report 2018-19 , Companies are now spending an average of 35% of their IT budget on QA and testing — a 9% year-on-year increase. The report was based on a global survey of IT executives and testing leaders from different countries. It’s actually good that the companies have started realising the importance of the testing phase in the software development life cycle.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. The type of disruption most companies and government agencies are facing is a once-in-every-few-centuries event. Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors – it’s all of them, all at once. And these forces are completely reshaping both commerce and defense.

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Rembrandt Communications

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Do You Use SEO On All Of Your Content? If you aren’t optimizing your content with search engine optimization, or SEO, why not? When your content appears at the top of Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines, you will get more site traffic. After all, when was the last time you clicked on the second or third pages of your search results to see what else was there?

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YFS Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Are you a leader worth following?

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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

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Throughout my career in small companies and large, I’ve always been appalled by the number of people who have a negative attitude or complain all the time. These people don’t seem to realize that they are hurting themselves, as well as other people’s productivity, and jeopardize the future of the company they are working for. I’ve always thought that I might be overly sensitive, until I saw an article about bad bosses a few years ago by The Business Journals , which claims that many employees sp

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. As I was trying to figure out the role I wanted to play in the VC world I decided I wanted to focus on businesses that were building deeply technical products to solve problems for business users.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

When you’re working at growing your business , you need some role models to follow and great examples to emulate. It’s a hard grind when you’re just at the beginning of the process, so you need a little inspiration. There are few better choices than Neil Patel. Neil Patel is an outstanding, globally revered marketer who can teach you plenty about content marketing, PPC, SEO, and other digital marketing channels to help your business thrive.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This article previously appeared in VentureBeat. I just had a coffee with Mei and Bill, two passionate students who are on fire about their new startup idea. It’s past the “napkin-sketch” stage with a rough minimum viable product and about 100 users. I thought they had a great insight about an application space others had previously tried to crack. But they needed to convince investors that they are Facebook not Friendster.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 3, 2019

One of my first seed investments was in a company that was looking to disrupt the textbook publishing space. The team was terrific, and the premise was to develop a digital textbook product that was 20x cheaper, better, and more convenient than traditional textbooks. The team brought an amazing product to market but the business just didn’t work. The core mistake we made was misclassifying the kind of business we were building.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In the entrepreneur world, it’s still a popular misconception that the “idea” is everything. Even though investors, like myself, have long made it clear that we invest in people, not ideas, new venture owners insist on talking about their latest “ million dollar idea ,” rather than their “ million dollar team.” The power is in the people, their business relationships, and their connections.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Amazon is becoming the world’s go-to place for purchasing goods. According to a survey done by BloomReach , more than 55% of people start on Amazon when they do their online shopping. Because of Amazon’s large scale, some business models may experience less success than others. If you’re just starting out as Amazon seller, here are some tips on how to drive up your profit margins.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We are very excited to announce our investment in Nexus , an Ethereum-based insurance mutual. The concept of a mutual insurance (an insurance company that is owned entirely by its policyholders ) is one of the earliest insurance organizations and goes all the way back to England in the late 17th century to cover losses due to fire. Over time, capital requirements for insurance companies became quite large and most insurance companies have adopted the model of a “stock insurance company” (an insu

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Team building is a term that has a bad reputation in workplaces. Whenever a supervisor says ‘We’re going to do some team building activities today,’ you can see the resentment on the faces of the employees. Even though it has a bad reputation, team building is one of the most important investments you can make for your people. It doesn’t matter if you have a great product or the most innovating idea.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2019

’ Tis the season for businesses across the world to see the bottom line on their income statements (profit and loss, or P&L) go from red to black! Black Friday is just around the corner, and this is a great time to review your sales forecast goals and develop a strategy to meet them through your holiday campaigns. So what will your business do to make sure your products are top of mind as your customers make spending decisions from Black Friday and Cyber Monday through the end of the year

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Every industry is plagued by myths, misunderstanding, and half truths. This is especially true in digital marketing, and conversion optimization is no exception. Why do they persist? In part because content marketers are rewarded for producing highly shareable and linkable content—not always 100% accurate content. Myths create misunderstanding among practitioners and confuse beginners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Perhaps sparked by the now forgotten recession, I’m seeing a new era of the entrepreneur, with startups springing up all around. Based on my own mentoring and investing experience, the best entrepreneurs are pragmatic problem solvers. They have an uncanny ability to find elegant, easy, and fast solutions to pain points in the marketplace, as well as their own challenges.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Data analytics is a crucial component of any business’s success today, thanks to the mountains of data available from hundreds of touchpoints with consumers. IDC predicts that by 2025 , the amount of data produced across the globe will expand to 163 zettabytes, with 60% of that data being created and managed by enterprise organizations. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

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.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2019

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then just imagine the impact of a video. The marketing industry has understood the significance of conveying story through a video; that’s why video marketing is spreading its wings everywhere. Digital media is a whole new world for marketers, and they are living it to the fullest. From the realm of website development and SEO marketing to social media promotion, now digital marketing has added personalized video marketing in this game.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2019

As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time to take steps to start your business in 2020. Like many fledgling entrepreneurs, you might be thinking that you’ll need to wear not just multiple hats , but all the hats, when you’re first starting out. It might seem easier to put off thinking about your first essential new hires. What’s the problem with this approach?

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Instead of seeking venture capital, Joyce Durst, Co-Founder, and CEO of Growth Acceleration Partners decided to bootstrap the software development company. Growth Acceleration Partners, known as GAP, offers analytics, cloud, mobile and QA services. Before co-founding GAP, Durst served as CEO of venture-backed startup Pinion Software, a security software company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2019

By default, every one of you who owns a business or manages a team has the title of leader, but in my consulting experience, I find that just having the title doesn’t make most of us a leader. I also find that leaders are made, not born , meaning that we all can grow into leadership, if we learn from experience. I find also that if you fail as a leader, your team will likely fail with you.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Too many leaders are complacent and feel that they have gained the highest level of skill in their fields. Leaders who are not in learning mode can cause stagnation in the workplace, maintaining the status quo rather than forging into new territory. It is vital for leaders to continue to enhance their leadership skills in order to foster company growth.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2019

While it may not seem like a dangerous profession, the safety of real estate agents is often at risk. According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) 2017 Member Safety Survey, 44% of female agents and one in four male agents have experienced a situation in the past year that made them fear for their safety or the safety of their personal information.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The best thing about marketing your business today is that when done right, you can achieve desired results for free. And who doesn’t want to become successful without spending some marketing dime? Self-marketing may sound ideal, but in the grand scheme of things, it sucks. If you still think handling your marketing needs on your own will save you time and money for your tourism business, you’re wrong.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Do you really need a business plan? Is it worth the investment of time and resources? Can’t you just wing it and skip the whole planning process? Good questions. Here’s everything you need to know. 1. It’s essential if you’re seeking a loan or investment. If you’re asking a bank, angel investor, or venture capitalist for funding, they’re going to want to know that you have a good handle on your small business’s trajectory. .

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Transcript of What All Businesses Need to Know About Website Design written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hello. Welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Chris Martinez. He is the current CEO and co-founder of DUDE Agency , dudeagency.io.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Prominent news organizations, ranging from The Economist to Wired ( multiple times ), have been describing WeWork as an example of blitzscaling. New York Magazine offers a vivid example , writing in a WeWork profile: “The [Softbank] Vision Fund began making enormous bets on Uber, Slack, DoorDash, and dozens of other companies, employing a strategy that has come to be known, with some derision, as “blitzscaling”: pumping up a company to a market-dominating size as fast as possible, without worryi

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

If you’re looking for a much-needed notch up your sleeve in your current job, then you should definitely consider obtaining a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. As the name explains it, PMP certification is a relevant credential granted by the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA, and is therefore recognised the world over. Interested to get one yourself?

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This past week, two companies within the token ecosystem announced settlements with the SEC. The SEC has been pursuing enforcement action for the past couple of years in wake of the ICO boom and bust of 2017. Neither of the companies who settled admitted fault, but both have paid fines. Block.one (EOS creator) paid $24M on its unregistered $4B offering while Nebulous (SIA creator) paid $225K on its unregistered $120K offering.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2019

LaddersFree is not only one of the largest national window cleaning service providers in the UK but possibly the most successful. Established in 2002 and operated for the first few years from a small single bedroom at their mother’s home, Justin and Jason Korinek have managed to increase their turnover every year for the last 17 years… they are clearly doing something right!

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Do you really need a business plan? Is it worth the investment of time and resources? Can’t you just wing it and skip the whole planning process? Good questions. Here’s everything you need to know. 1. It’s essential if you’re seeking a loan or investment. If you’re asking a bank, angel investor, or venture capitalist for funding, they’re going to want to know that you have a good handle on your small business’s trajectory. .

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Finding Stillness in the Modern World written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Ryan Holiday. Podcast Transcript. On today’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I sit down with writer and media strategist Ryan Holiday. Holiday is the author of 10 books, including The Obstacle is the Way , Ego is the Enemy , and his latest, Stillness is the Key.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The ‘’Gig Economy’’ series sheds light on the future of work and the pros and cons of hiring freelancers and gig workers. Our guest today is Jake Rheude, VP of Marketing, Red Stag Fulfillment. Some early-stage startups rely on freelancers to optimize costs and extend the time until the next funding round. Why do you hire gig workers and freelancers?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Most entrepreneurs plan to scale their business eventually. If scaling your business is a long-term goal, VoIP technology is non-negotiable. Using traditional phone technology will work short-term, but eventually you’ll need a more capable technology. You could wait until the need arises, but at that point it will be more difficult to make the VoIP phone switch.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Over the past few years, “pre-seed” as a distinct category has emerged within the early stage fundraising landscape. To some degree the best way to describe a pre-seed round is that you know it when you see it, as the definition is squishy… but most pre-seed rounds are characterized as relatively small ($750K or less), early in company formation (pre-product), and typically followed by a larger “seed” round ($1M-$3M) within 12 months.

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