Both Sides of the Table
JULY 17, 2018
One thing that comes with being a venture capitalist is you see hundreds and hundreds of businesses. You get to have interesting conversations with founders and review business plans and then see how these businesses evolve over the years. A firm like ours has almost 100 different investments across all the various partners so we get to see some businesses very intimately.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 19, 2018
As of May this year, Denmark ranks 6 th in the top most competitive business nations, according to the World Competitive Yearbook 2018 , and this growth really comes as no surprise, considering that the Nordic country has been a destination for young entrepreneurs for a while now. However, the latest moves on the Danish business scene also reveal another key strength: the eagerness of local startups to embrace the circular economy model.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 18, 2018
I’m sure you know a few people at work who are always “too busy,” but never seem to get much done. For many of these, it’s an excuse to decline new work, impress others, or gain sympathy. For others, it’s a legitimate complaint, indicative of being out of control or not managing their time. If you find yourself in this category, you need to focus on techniques to improve your productivity On software teams, for example, a detailed study published years ago shows differences as great as ten to on
ConversionXL
JULY 19, 2018
The robots are taking over. They’re going to be better than us, and then steal our jobs, and eventually turn on us and conquer the world. That’s the kind of hyperbolic language you’re probably hearing everywhere today. But some of it is true. Will the skills you’re learning today be obsolete by tomorrow? Is there a point to learning new things if artificial intelligence (AI) is going to do it better?
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
The Startup Magazine
JULY 20, 2018
If you need to hire a marketing agency to promote your startup, how do you choose one? Pick an agency that has a good process for coming up with a marketing strategy. Source: Pixabay. How do marketing agencies come up with marketing strategies? If a marketing agency is good at what they do, they will create a viable strategy and then come up with tactics to execute that strategy.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 20, 2018
by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. A great business name identifies your business, tells your customers and prospects something meaningful about your brand , and helps to differentiate your business from your competition. But what should you do if the name you’ve been using for your business isn’t effective at accomplishing those goals? Here are 4 reasons to consider renaming your business… and 7 tips to help you pull it off successfully. #1 Trademark Issues.
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crowdSPRING Blog
JULY 17, 2018
Your company’s logo is the visual figurehead of your brand. It’s important to get it right. Whether every detail of a logo is intentional or not, every detail will influence people who see that logo. Nothing should be arbitrary. It’s in your best interest to make sure that every logo design choice is intentional and communicates the message you want to convey.
Austin Startup
JULY 18, 2018
2017 Capital Factory Accelerator Diversity (out of 61 companies) We know that there is a systemic discrimination problem in the tech industry caused by hundreds of years of institutional racism. We know that the facts show that businesses perform better with diverse teams. We know that we want to work in a place full of diverse people that is welcoming of many different viewpoints.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 19, 2018
by Vin Clancy , growth hacker. Envy. That’s what a lot of you feel when you look at brands and influencers who generate huge amounts of traffic and sales from social media. Don’t worry, I get it too. Now a lot of these people are either: extremely talented, have a lot of money for ads, or have grinded their way to the top of the newsfeed. And I have the utmost respect for the vast majority of them.
The Startup Magazine
JULY 18, 2018
France is one of the world’s leading global powers, but what is it like to conduct business there? The following are 10 things you need to know about conducting business in France. France Has A Very Large Market. The market in France is 65 million consumers. The country also has access to the European Union market, which has more than 500 million consumers.
Haystack
JULY 15, 2018
Recently on this blog, I’ve been attempting to unpack how an investor can sort through deal flow and potential investment opportunities. After writing about “ the quick kill ” to discard of inbound flow, next I wrote about what actually captures my attention and graduates to a meeting. So, now, what happens in the actual meeting? This is hard to explain, actually, because I can have a range of reactions to a meeting.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 17, 2018
Small Business Guide to the Google Universe 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 how to use Google for small businesses. While Google has a lot of different products and services, to me, the following are what truly make up Google’s Small Business Universe for marketers and small business owners: Google My Business.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 18, 2018
by Ben Gold, President at QuickBridge. A strong personal credit profile demonstrates your business’s creditworthiness to a potential lender. According to data from the National Small Business Association, more than 70 percent of small businesses seek financing. And more than a third of companies who have been in business for at least two years that apply for a loan get denied, as stated by recent data from the Federal Reserve.
deal architect
JULY 16, 2018
This continues a new series of interviews with tech executives who have seen the industry evolve over a minimum of two decades. They have helped analyze, envision, develop and take to market some of the most influential technology the world.
crowdSPRING Blog
JULY 17, 2018
Your company’s logo is the visual figurehead of your brand. It’s important to get it right. Whether every detail of a logo is intentional or not, every detail will influence people who see that logo. Nothing should be arbitrary. It’s in your best interest to make sure that every logo design choice is intentional and communicates the message you want to convey.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 19, 2018
How to Feel Less Busy and Get More Done written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Laura Vanderkam. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Laura Vanderkam. She is the author of several time-management and productivity books, including the one we discuss in this interview, Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 19, 2018
As finding right partner is very necessary and in the reciprocal link, or in the link exchange it is also very important. Now exactly matter is how structured or designed partner directory if it does not include valuable web site and won’t get much from the visitors or Google. Actually Google appeared with the pagerank algorithm and all of the sudden those as linked sites received a great additional bonus into the availability traffic and their success was then certified with lots of important a
deal architect
JULY 17, 2018
We ran yesterday Part 1 of the interview with Bruce Rogow. Part 2 below focuses on his time and learning at Gartner and since As I mentioned, he is a throwback to the time of really big IT thinkers and.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 20, 2018
As a business advisor, I have long been surprised by the large number of industry stalwarts, including Blockbuster, Kodak, and General Motors, that have been dealt major setbacks, or even total failure, by upstart young companies, with a fraction of the resources or industry experience. The stalwarts should be making the big leaps to be competitive, rather than the other way around.
The Next Web
JULY 14, 2018
To the layman UX and SEO (if they even understand what they mean) sound like two entirely unrelated things. The one is about some plumber jabbing away at their phone, while the other is about satisfying the algorithms of a company in Silicon Valley. But we know better. At its core they’re down to the same thing. That’s because the layman doesn’t realize that what Google cares about is ultimately what will satisfy that plumber.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 18, 2018
Bookkeeping is often considered to be an ardourus and painstaking task. Regardless, it is vital for a business of any size to maintain impeccable financial records. These records are important for many reasons including keeping track of day-to-day spending and filing yearly taxes. This is, of course, only the tip of the metaphorical iceberg of uses for immaculate financial records.
deal architect
JULY 15, 2018
In November, I ran a 3 part series titled “Raising the Bar” around cloud computing, renewables and digital transformations. Over the next few days I will provide an update on each. Each post should benefit from the vendor event season.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 16, 2018
Starting a new venture and thriving in today’s economy is hard, but the best have figured out that customers and employees need to feel that you have a sense of purpose, to complement the company’s pursuit of profit. A higher purpose motivates people in a way that financial wins alone never will. For a company to thrive, it needs to find and broadcast its purpose in all that it does.
ReadWriteStart
JULY 18, 2018
What do Pied Piper and blockchain tools have in common? Both are always “coming soon.” By now most of us are familiar with blockchain, the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Outside of cryptocurrency, blockchain has many purported use cases in scenarios that require an immutable ledger. Rhetoric has elevated blockchain to godly status, […].
YoungUpstarts
JULY 17, 2018
This is an exciting time if you work in education or are a student. The wealth of new technologies available to universities is transforming the learning landscape. There are new and innovative ways to learn, a multitude of new resources and far better ways to access them. Even the design of universities is changing with technology inspired learning spaces and automated attendance monitoring being used.
deal architect
JULY 18, 2018
The new General Electric is a shell of its former self as it sheds most of its business units and its industrial coverage is down to its aircraft engine, renewable, and power plant businesses. GE CEO John Flannery has called.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 14, 2018
Knowing all too well how hard it is to start a single new business, I’ve always wondered how several well-known entrepreneurs, including Richard Branson and Elon Musk , have managed to successfully lead dozens of startups to success, and thrive on the process. These special people are called serial entrepreneurs, because they have figured out how to do it over and over again.
Hearpreneur
JULY 18, 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
JULY 17, 2018
One of the most appealing business opportunities for young entrepreneurs is starting their own e-commerce enterprise. The global connectivity, systems productivity, and increased affordability generated by the internet have made opening a store online easier than a brick and mortar alternative, not to mention cheaper and more likely to lead to success.
deal architect
JULY 16, 2018
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, then deputy director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff (he has since taught at Johns Hopkins and Stanford among other institutions) predicted the fall of Communism and the world beyond in an article titled “The.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 15, 2018
Every new business dreams of becoming the premier brand in their space, like Starbucks is to coffee, and Apple is to consumer electronics, but they have no idea how difficult that is to achieve. In fact, only 100 of the 10,000 multimillion-dollar consumer companies around the world can claim to be an “apostle brand” – one that inspires enduring trust, loyalty, and endorsement.
Rembrandt Communications
JULY 18, 2018
It’s Summer. Stop and Smell the Roses… and the B2B Success! As a B2B owner, it’s likely that you rarely stop working. Even when you are at the gym, in the shower or watching your kids’ softball game, you are probably thinking about work. Heck! That’s probably where you get some of your best ideas! […]. The post Reduce Small Business Stress This Summer appeared first on Small business PR and content strategy that boost sales, awareness and credibility fast!
YoungUpstarts
JULY 19, 2018
by Iliyana Stareva , author of “ Inbound PR: The PR Agency’s Manual to Transforming Your Business With Inbound “ If you work in PR, you know there’s been a sea change. The old “push” tactics our industry once relied on no longer work well in the digital age. Today’s media people increasingly reject top-down, interruptive messages trying to sell a story.
The Next Web
JULY 14, 2018
In the competitive world of startups, founders should focus on core business operations without distractions. But at the initial stages of business expansion, funds, and staff are limited. It’s the problem that drives most startup owners to wear too many hats and try to do it all as a way of saving money and time. As a startup founder, you must be careful.
Up and Running
JULY 16, 2018
If you’ve been putting off writing your business plan, you’re not alone. Writing a business plan can seem like a daunting task, and lots of entrepreneurs avoid it for this reason. But it doesn’t have to be. An easy way to start is with just one page. There’s really not a lot of difference between a “ one-page business plan” a Lean Plan, and a good executive summary.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 19, 2018
In addition to our own funds, we are investors in a number of other early-stage VC funds as part of our Foundry Group Next strategy. Yesterday, in one of the quarterly updates that we get, I saw the following paragraph. “Historically, the $10 million valuation mark has been somewhat of a ceiling for seed stage startups. But so far this year, we’ve seen that a number of companies, often times with nothing more than a team and a Powerpoint presentation, have had great success raising capital
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