Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 5, 2019
Image via Pixabay The majority of business professionals I meet these days accept that we are now deep in the digital age, where mountains of data are gathered on everything we do, online and offline. Yet most executives are struggling with how to harness this data with artificial intelligence and machine learning, and use it to hone their intuition and improve their business leadership.
View from Seed
APRIL 3, 2019
Original research on gender diversity and fundraising amongst HBS founders. Historically, there has been a general bias against MBA founders — a skepticism around their grit and hustle. The taboo has largely faded, though, as many MBA-founded startups have bubbled to the top, and we at NextView even validated that there is no conflict between attending business school and founding a company with a previous blog post about Harvard MBA founders.
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ConversionXL
APRIL 1, 2019
Marketers are intimately familiar with their industry and product. But that familiarity isn’t always an advantage. Often, they unknowingly overwhelm or confuse the same visitors they seek to persuade (with long, jargon-filled product pages, for example). Your knowledge, in other words, can become a curse—a barrier that keeps you from communicating what customers care about in language they understand.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 1, 2019
by Scott Schulte , vice president and senior benefits consultant at Sonus Benefits. Gone are the days of absentee leadership or CEOs who operate out of sight or behind the scenes. No, today’s executives are highly connected and visible to their employees, due in large part to the ever accelerating pace of business. Leaders must make a growing number of decisions about the direction of their companies, and these decisions deeply affect their employees’ daily lives.
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
YFS Magazine
APRIL 1, 2019
Building a professional DIY business website has never been easier. Here's a look at six simple steps to keep in mind while creating your business website.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 2, 2019
What’s Included in a Perfectly Optimized Homepage? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When you’re trying to get your business noticed online, you need to create a website that stands out. While your site must have a great user experience and make it clear to visitors what your business does, you must also be sure it’s optimized to keep search engines happy.
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YoungUpstarts
APRIL 3, 2019
Digital Marketers can’t get enough of email marketing, and for good reason too. Reports valued the ROI of email marketing at 44:1 in 2016 – $44 dollars of value for every $1 spent. While the ROI has slightly decreased in 2018 to 38:1, it is still arguably the leading digital marketing strategy and an important focus of every successful business.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
APRIL 5, 2019
In a recent report, Frost and Sullivan found that live events are worth $500 billion. In case you are wondering, this is huge, and B2B marketers are investing 20-30% of their budgets on event marketing each year. The only problem with this is that while most marketers say that event marketing is their top strategy, businesses are still struggling to leverage profits and gain conversions post event.
deal architect
MARCH 31, 2019
My new book is now available to buy here in print version, and for pre-order in the Kindle version (will be released on Friday). As with my earlier books, I am excerpting roughly 10% of the 400 page book in.
Board Effect
APRIL 5, 2019
It’s often said that students are our future leaders. The origin of that statement dates back to the original purpose of establishing colleges and universities. During the days of the early settlers, the focus was primarily on farming and many young people weren’t able to attend college, or perhaps didn’t want to. In those days, colleges and universities were established to educate young men and prepare them to become leaders or elected officials.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 2, 2019
Your law firm website has been launched, but it’s not generating any new leads. So what happened? Shouldn’t the greater visibility a website gives your firm lead to more business? If it is a great website, then yes. But if it is a bad website that is not following the latest lawyer web design trends , then that could be just as bad as no website at all.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 3, 2019
Image via Pixabay Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches.
deal architect
APRIL 1, 2019
Bruce Cleveland, who many readers may remember from his Siebel days is now an investor and has a new book out, Traversing the Traction Gap. I had a long ranging conversation with him about the book and also about trends.
Board Effect
APRIL 1, 2019
One of the first duties of nonprofit board directors is to quickly get indoctrinated in the matters of governance, risk and compliance (GRC). GRC implies that boards should have strategies in place for managing nonprofit governance, risk management, and compliance with laws and regulations. To effectively fulfill their duties, board directors need information, tools and resources, including the implementation of a board portal system.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 1, 2019
by Keith Martino , head of CMI and author of “ Expect Leadership “. The sun baked down on the four door station wagon stalled on the side of the road. And the driver inside fumed and sizzled. “What do you mean you can’t help? I’m stranded,” she explained in haste. “Two hours?”. “Surely, you’re joking!”. The conversation screeched to a tense halt. You wouldn’t need a PhD to know that the driver of the car, Virginia, Ellen’s mother was out of sorts.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 31, 2019
Image via Flickr by Cabinet Office It’s easy to say to people on your team that they must be accountable for their actions, but it’s not so easy to tell them how to do it. It’s even harder to give them the mindset of wanting to be accountable. In fact, many business leaders forget that they are the role model for accountability, and don’t audit their own actions to make sure that they always practice what they preach.
deal architect
APRIL 4, 2019
I got excited this week when the Workday sent analysts a one hour video (sorry - don't have permission to share the video) which summarizes 500+ new features and 300+ new brainstroms in release 32. That release was delivered on.
Rembrandt Communications
APRIL 2, 2019
What Image Do You Convey Via Social Media? Research indicates that you can decrease loneliness and depression by limiting the amount of time you are on social media. For example, a study in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology found that by reducing the amount of time spent on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat to just ten minutes daily for each venue, respondents experienced a major improvement in their mental health.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 4, 2019
by David Zimmerman, CEO of LC Technology International . Today’s electronics feature considerable amounts of internal storage. The average laptop boasts between 500GB and 1TB of storage, which is enough to hold thousands of photos, videos, and documents. And even the average phone is now a capable storage device that allows people to locally store data.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 30, 2019
Image via Pixabay According to The Washington Post and WSJ, the economy has been slowing down around the world, and the US will follow suit before 2019 ends. Yet if you wait for an economy bubble before starting your new business, you will be making a comparable mistake to the people who thought during the dot-com bubble "all I have to do is a startup, and I'll be rich.
deal architect
APRIL 2, 2019
In Part 1, Bruce Cleveland talked about the framework in his new book, Traversing the Traction Gap. Here we talk about partnering and white spaces in the market. Most enterprise vendors now offer their own platforms. Could they use your.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 30, 2019
I’ve been open about my journey with depression and the importance of addressing and destigmatizing issues around mental health. So I was excited that one of our Techstars programs – the MetLife Digital Accelerator powered by Techstars – is looking closely at mental health startups for their 2019 class. If you’re a founder innovating in the mental health market, I encourage you to apply for this program.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 5, 2019
by Dan Abatte, co-founder of 81-c. “Making it” is relative. In my 20+ years of entrepreneurship, I’ve seen a big change in how success is defined. Entrepreneurs nowadays want to boast about brand-name investors, huge rounds of funding, and a team of high-skill employees. Are you fresh out of Y Combinator with $1 million in funding at a $10 million valuation?
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 1, 2019
Image via Flickr by Lyncconf Games Based on my own business experience of many years on both sides of the owner-employee role, I believe that one of the quickest ways to improve your employee career is to think like an owner. Conversely, the best owners are those who relate to the positions of their employees. I’m convinced that is why many great business leaders remember working their way up the ranks.
deal architect
APRIL 2, 2019
For a fleeting moment I felt guilty I am not at SuiteWorld. Mark Hurd was talking about shipments from Shanghai and inventory allocations while in transit. I perked up at the webstream. But just as quickly he was talking about.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 2, 2019
A friend from a long time ago, who I hadn’t heard from in a while, sent me an email with a wonderful nugget in it. I just got back from Oahu and had an interesting experience on Waikiki Beach. My son and I were boogie boarding and there were several people taking surfing lessons out in the waves with instructors. As the intrepid beginners got up on their boards and surfed one of their first waves, the instructors would invariably be shouting directives to them.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 3, 2019
Are you new to the Australian business world? Do you want to figure out a way to take your business to the next level? Well, the objective is now achievable provided you figure out the essential aspects that can strengthen your business. For example, you need to realize the force of social media. What you need to keep in mind is that social media has the ability to compel and convert.
Rembrandt Communications
APRIL 2, 2019
What Image Do You Convey Via Social Media? Research indicates that you can decrease loneliness and depression by limiting the amount of time you are on social media. For example, a study in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology found that by reducing the amount of time spent on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat to just ten minutes daily for each venue, respondents experienced a major improvement in their mental health.
deal architect
MARCH 31, 2019
Michael Simmons writes about the 5 hour rule of many successful executives "Over the last year, I’ve explored the personal history of many widely-admired business leaders like Elon Musk, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg in order.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 5, 2019
Peter Drucker (1909-2005), the late Austrian-born management consultant, once famously said that culture eats strategy for breakfast — i.e., while a sound business plan is excellent, nothing is more important than a company’s culture. That philosophy, later adopted by Ford Motor Company president Mark Fields, is still fully embraced by C-Suite denizens today.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 30, 2019
As an entrepreneur, you’ve created a product that you can be proud of. Unlike wannabe entrepreneurs, you took an idea from concept and executed it into a tangible item that you can sell. You’re already several steps ahead of entrepreneurs who managed to fail. Now that you’ve made a couple dollars selling your product, you might want to take that traction in another direction.
SiliconHills
APRIL 4, 2019
Quantum computing is still in its infancy. But in Austin, Strangeworks, founded by William Hurley, aka, Whurley, is spearheading a venture focused on making quantum computing applications accessible to everyone. It is one of a handful of startups around the world focused on tackling the really big problem of creating quantum computing applications. On Wednesday, […].
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 31, 2019
Did you know that The Average Consumer Attention Span Is 8 Seconds? Probably, Yes. Digital Marketing is everywhere and its knowledge is vital in this age of digitisation. This is the reason why so many companies have dedicated teams handling their digital marketing. Photo by Min An from Pexels. If you are the digital marketing manager of your company, then you would know all of the work that goes on behind developing and implementing the campaigns that change the market.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 5, 2019
In today’s rapidly changing world, we are in constant search of instruments and techniques that would make us more productive. We understand: do more, better, and faster if you want to succeed in business and life. Productivity influences our self-esteem. We believe: the more productive we are, the more others will respect us and consider […].
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 5, 2019
There are many types of home-based business, and not all of them need home security. But if you’re operating an active business out of your home where you’re housing inventory, clients come and go, or employees are working in your home, a security system is critical. A home-based business also comes with risks of personal injury or cybersecurity attacks.
Up and Running
APRIL 2, 2019
Having a worldwide audience at your fingertips is great, but if a social media platform is the gatekeeper of your contact list, do you really own that information? I would argue no. I understand why social media marketing is attractive to small businesses. You can set up a Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter page for free and instantly access nearly 3 billion people.
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