Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

If you’ve read any of my ongoing series on fund raising from venture capitalist (episode 1?— ?controlling your psychology ) you no doubt have heard me say that raising capital is a sales & marketing process. You company is the product and you’re selling an equity ownership in your company but much more broadly you’re selling trust & confidence that you’re going to build something enormously valuable and that you’re going to be enjoyable to work hand-in-hand with over the coming decade of

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

When we put the words “small business” and “business pitch” together in one sentence, do you have flashes of the famous reality TV show “Shark Tank?”. The show has been around for a while; entrepreneur contestants pitch their business ideas in front of a panel of investors—the “sharks”—in hopes that one of them will want to invest in their idea. As each episode ends, we cheer for the contestants who are able to impress the sharks and land investment deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Why you should never have a data room?—?the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. If you stick through to the end I’m guessing I can persuade most of you. Let me start out with my premise: “Data rooms are where fund-raising processes go to die.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

by Rebecca Stidham, Senior Manager – Tax Services at OUM & Co. LLP. In today’s business environment where innovation and technology converge and the modern day entrepreneur has more support and incentive than ever to begin their dream startup company, more often than not discussions about state and local business taxes have a similar tone: “The company is losing money; we don’t owe any taxes.”.

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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

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2018

“I didn’t even know who Mark Zuckerberg was back in October 2015. Eighteen months later, I’m keynoting at conferences and serving clients in London, Sydney, Singapore, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Vancouver, and 50 other cities,” says Logan Young, the co-founder of BlitzMetrics, a Facebook dashboard and advertising company. Learn, Do, Teach: Build Your Expertise First.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2018

How to Optimize Your Website for Voice Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As we are all aware at this point, voice recognition technology is continuing to get better and better, in fact, it is now believed to be 95% accurate. As users, we’re adapting to this new voice revolution rather quickly (almost 1/4 of mobile search queries are voice search), yet marketers and SEO specialists seem to be lagging behind a bit when it comes to optimizing for this new way to

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

[Image source: Pixabay]. Cloud storage services have become more popular than ever. This is because the level of data has increased over the years and so the hackers and other security threats. In order to keep your data secure, you have few options. The best alternative is to get a cloud storage service and keep all of your data in the cloud. However, there are a lot of benefits and some problems when it comes to these services.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 22, 2018

Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic across the board. Everyone from developers, to data scientists, journalists, and general user-bases of all profiles are talking about it on a global scale. Entrepreneurs have taken notice of the benefits of AI in most areas of everyday life, whether assistants, mobile, entertainment and even healthcare or insurance.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 22, 2018

Startups have only one way of thriving, and that is through growth. At this stage of a company, all employees of the company need to proactively focus on customers and their receptivity to the offering. Every startup company that grows very fast understands the complexity that comes when scaling operations. For these startup companies, the client success team does not falter as the company grows because they adjust to the changing expectations of customers as the request volumes grow.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

I recently raised a seed round and was in the process of working on a Series A before my company was acquired. Through that process I spoke with or met in person hundreds of investors. As Bryan stated below, there are no shortage of “How to pitch” or “How to behave” articles by VCs but really very little advice for VCs by founders. Anyone notice there's a ton of VCs giving founder advice, and almost no founder advice for VCs?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2018

Financial sector is one of the most rapidly growing markets in the world economy. It offers a great chance to interested traders and investors who are willing to invest their hard earned fortune in various sectors of the financial market. One of the most significant paltform in the financial sector is the Foreign exchange market. Trading in currency has gradually increased over the years all around the world economy.

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A Crowded Space

MAY 21, 2018

I recently finished reading Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. It’s easily one of the most engaging biographies I’ve ever read. Isaacson is a true master of his craft. 5 big hearty stars. Although I prefer the more signal-inducing metric, “would you read this book again?” or “would you recommend this book to a friend.” Yes and yes. The book goes into an incredible amount of detail about Leonardo, his entourage, and all the various cast of characters at that time of the Renaissance.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 25, 2018

Business documents are very important and should be stored safely. If you need to retrieve information from such documents in the future, it can be done easily. A firm should, therefore, have good records management. Confidential business document storage should be done in every firm to also avoid exposing important information to external parties. In fact, most competitors may use confidential information to their advantage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2018

How GDPR Highlights How We Should Be Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Ryan Urban. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Ryan Urban. He is the founder and CEO of BounceX , a people-based marketing consultancy that helps organizations increase their online conversion rates.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 25, 2018

You might say that Pat Mackaronis has never not been an entrepreneur. He got an early start as an entrepreneur at the age of 12 when he used to live near a golf course and would gather up lost golf balls from the players in the trees, ponds and lakes. Pat would then clean up the golf balls and set up a stand in the parking lot and sell the golf balls back to the original owners!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2018

I was recently with an entrepreneur and talking with him about his fund raising process. He was in a later-stage financing round and was talking with many investors. Some started asking him for very specific analyses to be completed on his data and wanted his company to crunch the numbers. I told him he shouldn’t bother and that it was likely a junior person at the firm whose job is was to find holes in the data / narrative.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 20, 2018

An ecommerce business is more of a challenge than a traditional website. At the basic level, you have to build the Web design and promote advertising. You also have to encrypt web pages, protect customer data and find the right payment processor. Review the following factors that are needed to run an ecommerce store successfully. Credit Card Processing System.

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deal architect

MAY 24, 2018

Us analysts like to ask vendors: what next? I am constantly asking them to verticalize. Very few vendors actually do that but transaction processing vendors are constantly claiming to add analytical capabilities. Analysts also love to create new market categories.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

When it comes to the business world, the advance of technology has seen many changes over recent times. Nowhere is this more evident than the online nature of business today. This digitally driven environment is also applicable to you on a personal level as a young business professional. Many employers and customers will interact with or review your online presence before deciding on whether to hire you, for instance.

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The Next Web

MAY 24, 2018

For the fifth year in a row Adyen and TNW teamed up to find the fastest growing companies in Europe’s six hottest startup ecosystems: the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, and Sweden. The winner, mattress business Emma (Germany), was announced tonight at TNW Conference Founders Dinner in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. To search for the fastest-growing startup, TNW reached out to hundreds of companies identified as fast-growing based on their research and asked them to sign up

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 21, 2018

Starting your own business can be both daunting and exciting. Not sure how to properly set up your business or manage your business taxes? Set yourself up for success with these tax tips for startups and small businesses. Track Expenses. Diligently tracking expenses will help you at tax time, and put you in good graces with your tax attorney. Proper recordkeeping is crucial to keep your expenses in good order throughout the year.

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deal architect

MAY 24, 2018

Us analysts like to ask vendors: what next? I am constantly asking them to verticalize. Very few vendors actually do that but transaction processing vendors are constantly claiming to add analytical capabilities. Analysts also love to create new market categories.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2018

by Ben Gold, President at QuickBridge. We all tend to do our best at work when we experience encouragement from our superiors. Direct managers or supervisors are usually the most influential in this regard. However, many small businesses don’t have the benefit of larger department structures. So, the owner of the business and the manager are one in the same.

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The Next Web

MAY 20, 2018

Influencer marketing is a proven method that marketers use to promote their products and services. That’s because influencer marketing has the potential of generating eleven times higher ROI than outbound marketing. Because of this increased effectiveness, brands especially like to work with influencers when launching new and unknown products. They can significantly elevate your brand by building hype about the product and building trust among your target audience.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 25, 2018

Economic bubbles aren’t new. From the tulip bubble of the 1630s, to the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, to the big-tech mania we’re seeing today, overvaluations happen — but not all bubbles pose the same risks or offer the same rewards. Every few years, it seems we’re warned of another looming “bubble” about to burst. Most recently, pundits like Warren Buffett and George Soros have compared the rise of cryptocurrency to the dot-com bubble , wondering aloud if we’re on

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 23, 2018

Time and money. Both are scarce resources. Money depletes quickly. Time depletes, comparatively, more slowly. Before you spend your money, spend your time. Determine if your time is resulting in a loss or a gain. Then, when you discover where time is well spent, spend money on it, so that you don’t need to spend more time on it but other people or resources can.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2018

Most startups do not fail because they had a bad idea that could not find a market, but rather because the founders and startup teams got overwhelmed or were missing key ingredients to success. Finances are a huge part of startup success or failure, but while a lack of funds is a significant problem, it’s usually not the biggest problem. Often, there’s a disconnect between the decision-makers and what might be thought of as the dry, boring realities of successful management.

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The Next Web

MAY 20, 2018

The other day as I was putting new strings on my guitar, something interesting happened. As the sixth and final string slid up into tune, the other strings came alive; it’s a fairly normal occurrence called sympathetic resonance, and it made me think of the successful marketing teams that I’ve led or been on — those times when the team and marketing channels were working together in harmony, and the brand and product were resonating with consumers.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 24, 2018

As the founder of a content marketing agency, my career path was more accidental than intentional. Since my agency career wasn’t carefully planned, I ended up making a lot of mistakes.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2018

If you are just beginning your journey into the world of business, you face more competition than startups in previous generations. However, you also have more opportunity. Here are 10 ways to get your startup moving. 1. Get very comfortable making decisions without all the information at your fingertips. If you’re launching a startup, you are likely moving into territory that has not been completely cleared away just yet—there are a lot of unknowns.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2018

International trade market is very wide and there are various ways through which you can become a part of it. However, the market is also full of risk because of the fluctuating demands and market conditions. If you are not using verified market indicators and genuine brokers then international trading can turn out to be big mess for you. If you are thinking to step in international market or you are already a part of it and you are bearing loses…then it’s important for you to analyses the marke

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The Next Web

MAY 25, 2018

It’s no longer good enough to be in business for yourself alone — if it ever was in the first place. Corporate social responsibility is more important than it’s ever been, and consumers — especially younger consumers< — are much more cognizant of a corporation’s purpose than they’ve ever been. But don’t confuse the idea of corporate social responsibility with the idea of purpose.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 21, 2018

Offering a luxury experience as a small business is tricky. Your customers will have enhanced expectations as to the quality of your product or service, and you have to deliver. You also have to make it to the next quarter with a profit in order to continue operating and to succeed. While your customer base is still growing, the best way to increase your profit is to save money wherever you can.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2018

As entrepreneurs, we don’t want to spend any more money than we have to. But, in some cases, a little extra spending makes your life a lot easier. I’ve had to hire a wide variety of services and contractors to help with different aspects of my business, and I recommend you consider the same when you require special expertise in critical areas.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2018

When you have a small business, there are a lot of obstacles that you need to overcome to remain successful. When you don’t have a lot of staff to handle the daily needs of the business, it can become overwhelming and you might struggle to keep everything in check. We understand this and so we have come up with some ways for you to improve your small business and make things a bit easier for yourself.

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The Next Web

MAY 19, 2018

Sales are a puzzle game and even top sale champions are daily facing challenges of reaching out to potential customers, developing business cases, convincing different stakeholders, and closing deals. Things are even more complex when it comes to new entrepreneurs who worked hard to develop their product or idea and need to get their first contract signed.

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