YoungUpstarts
APRIL 25, 2019
by Matt Shealy, President of ChamberofCommerce.com. When it comes to app builds, there are three key components that will drive success: People. Tools. Automation. It starts with assembling the right team of developers and IT operations into a collaborative DevOps operation. Adding the right tools and automation, teams can design, test, build, and deploy software more agilely.
The Startup Magazine
APRIL 22, 2019
Communication is a big part of the vast majority of jobs in this world. It doesn’t matter if you are at a startup, or work in public relations, in graphic design, in the medical field or in the culinary arts. There’s a strong chance that you have to interact with others on a regular basis. Meetings are a significant aspect of many positions as well.
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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 24, 2019
Jeff Bezos via Flickr by jdlasica These days, the influencers at the top of your business make your brand, rather than a brand making influencers of your leaders. Consider Jeff Bezos at the top of Amazon, or Howard Schultz at the top of Starbucks. They were influencers before they were a brand. You too can become an influencer through social media, videos and blogs, and people will follow you on what to buy, what causes to support, and who to vote for.
ConversionXL
APRIL 23, 2019
Your ecommerce checkout flow is where the money is at. Think about it. Random visitors leave the site before ever entering the checkout funnel. Motivated buyers come here to finish their order. Any small design improvement in your checkout UX usually has a direct impact on how much money your site makes. An ecommerce site that I analyzed recently had a payment page in which 84.7% of the traffic proceeded to buy.
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
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 22, 2019
by Vadim Katcherovski , CEO of Easy Projects. Much like a GPS plans the best route to guide you to your destination, KPIs help project managers stay on track for successful completion. It’s no secret that projects are made up of many moving parts, and these parts need to be monitored in order to establish the health of the project at any stage. Successful, in-budget project completion is still a mammoth task for many organizations.
The Startup Magazine
APRIL 22, 2019
Good customer service is based on a basic fundamental principle: Meeting customer needs efficiently and effectively. While that underlying concept doesn’t change, customer needs and requirements do, and businesses have to understand those evolving needs in order to meet them. Photo by Victoria Heath on Unsplash. That requires understanding customers’ habits and preferences, which, in today’s digital economy is a critical to good customer care.
Start Up Roar brings together the best content for start up professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
ConversionXL
APRIL 23, 2019
The number of people browsing and shopping on mobile devices continues to grow. During the past 10 years , smartphone and tablet browsing has increased to more than 50% of all web traffic. As for ecommerce, projections forecast mobile sales to reach 54% by the year 2021. And, for their part, Google has switched to mobile-first indexing, pulling ranking signals from the mobile version of websites.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 22, 2019
Time is college is a great opportunity for those who want to start their own business. Of course, students are usually low on a budget, but there are many opportunities that do not require huge investments. Why is it a great time to start? Well, first of all, students do have time and energy. Secondly, if you don’t succeed with the first try, it is not a big deal – you still have college and can start over with a new idea again.
K9 Ventures
APRIL 20, 2019
In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones , came by to visit us at the office. Don was totally a people person and just an all around great person to talk to. In fact, I can hear the intonation of his voice in my head as I type this. Our company was at a stage where we were recruiting, building product, and trying to find product market fit.
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 25, 2019
Symbols are one of the earliest forms of written communication. From cave walls to hieroglyphics to the printed word as we know it today, symbols are a powerful way to communicate concepts at a glance. The ability of symbols to convey information, culture, and identity has made them an invaluable part of our shared visual language. This is true not only in popular culture but also when it comes to business.
ConversionXL
APRIL 24, 2019
The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage. The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors. Economic moats remain tethered to investing: A bigger moat makes a stock a better bet.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 22, 2019
In case you’re wondering which File Transfer Protocol software to use for your work, you’re at the right place. With an array of software available in the market, you’re bound to get confused. Today, we’re going to delve into details of an FTP software that is just perfect. Why Commander One? Why Should I use FTP software at all? The first question that will definitely pop into your head is why should I use a Commander One software?
Hearpreneur
APRIL 21, 2019
Anyone can be an innovator, but it takes special traits to lead in innovation. It’s about how you implement the lessons you gain along the way and dare situations as they come. It’s about being future-oriented, paying special attention to details and putting yourself in vulnerable situation when you think it’s worth the risk. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the traits they admire in innovators and here are the responses; #1- Ability to move forward amidst diffi
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 24, 2019
How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jules Pieri. Podcast Transcript. Today’s podcast guest is Jules Pieri. She is the founder and CEO of The Grommet and the author of the book How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas Into Products That Build Successful Businesses.
ConversionXL
APRIL 23, 2019
What kind of content should you have on your site? How should you structure the menu? What should be the first-level menu items? One or two menus? What should the menu links be called? This post gives you answers. Website information architecture is no joke, yet the overwhelming majority of businesses structure their site using the IMO method (“In my opinion…”).
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 22, 2019
When thinking about how to start a private equity firm or a hedge fund, security should be on the list of priorities. Both financial service institutions have to handle a lot of sensitive data as well as monetary assets, which means that hedge fund cybersecurity or private equity cybersecurity is an area that needs a lot of attention. Agio is a New York-based cybersecurity provider, having 9 years of experience in the industry and servicing healthcare and payments industries as well as financial
Board Effect
APRIL 24, 2019
The terminology and pace of a board meeting can easily confuse meeting participants or observers who are unfamiliar with board meeting procedures. For some, it can be like learning a new language or a new technique. Both of those things come easier for some people than others. Boards must accomplish much during the space of a board meeting. It’s crucial for boards to prioritize board discussions and use board meeting procedures to handle board issues in the most efficient way possible.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 25, 2019
7 Reasons Why Proposal Software Will Boost Your Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. You’re probably well aware of how important business proposals are to getting clients and winning new business. If you’ve been writing a lot of them, you may have thought about investing in proposal software to make the process easier. However, is proposal software really all that great compared to writing the proposals yourself?
deal architect
APRIL 25, 2019
I kept thinking of Southwest Airlines while I was at the Workday Innovation Summit in CA this week. I had read this tribute to the legendary founder, Herb Kelleher on the flight over and it reminded me how revered he.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 22, 2019
Image via Pexels Every business needs repeatable processes to grow and thrive, but modern business processes need the right people to make them efficient and productive. In addition, today’s customers judge a company by perceived people relationships through social media, phone conversations, and sales experiences. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around.
Board Effect
APRIL 22, 2019
At one time or another, most of us have grabbed a flathead screwdriver when we knew that what we really needed was a crosshead screwdriver, simply because the flathead screwdriver was handy and within easy reach. It usually doesn’t take too long to figure out that the wrong tool just won’t work well. Just as in carpentry, board directors also need the right tools for the job.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
APRIL 21, 2019
Today, we stand on the brink of manufacturing revolution that has the potential to change the way we work, the way we live and ultimately the quality of life as we know it. We live in an age that is driven by information and automation, and it’s ushering us into a place where the established systems in manufacturing are shifting. Advancements in technology are changing the industry, and this is a great thing.
deal architect
APRIL 21, 2019
My new book is now available to buy here in print version, and in the Kindle eBook version. As with my earlier books, I am excerpting roughly 10% of the 400 page book in a series of posts on my.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 21, 2019
Image via Pixabay Building a startup is hard work for low pay, it’s risky, and it requires total responsibility to make it work. Yet, many entrepreneurs are the happiest people I know. On the other hand, I know many unhappy individuals who are always partying, have minimal commitments, and little responsibility. I suspect the real parameters of happiness have eluded these people.
View from Seed
APRIL 24, 2019
It is the one message-space on your phone that you always pay attention to: SMS text messages. Not just “messaging” broadly, as there are numerous apps where people send and receive communications & messages. Couple that noise with the flurry of AI/messaging startups from a few years back (set off by Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition), in conjunction with app developers’ notification euphoria… all of which have resulted in a state on our mobile phones where “ our brains being overloaded with
The Next Web
APRIL 23, 2019
Can you remember what you were doing on New Year’s Day, 2018? Celebrating or perhaps nursing a hangover? What happened that day created a significant change in global recycling. China, the world’s largest scrap importer, stopped accepting recycled plastic, unsorted scrap paper and significantly reduced imported cardboard from abroad. According to the World Bank, annual waste generation is expected to rise from 2.01 billion tons in 2016 to 3.40 billion tons in 2050.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 23, 2019
by Kevin Xu , CEO of MEBO International. The family-owned business is an important and dynamic component of the world’s economy. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , about 90 percent of American businesses are family-owned or -controlled and account for half of the nation’s employment. While many people cite the adage about separating business and personal matters, family businesses benefit from the linking the two.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 20, 2019
Image via jisc Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Equally often, I see startups who are on the road to implementing an idea, but haven’t figured out what problem it solves – the business plan waxes on eloquently for 20 pages about how great t
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 26, 2019
Most tech entrepreneurs get lost in the logistical plans for their businesses. You’re worried about the timetables and deadlines for your developers or how you’re going to stretch your initial capital investment to last a full six months. These are important considerations, especially for AI and IoT startups tinkering with revolutionary new technologies.
YFS Magazine
APRIL 23, 2019
Stop reacting in your business. Declare that money leaks are no longer acceptable and get off the feast-or-famine runway forever by taking action now.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 23, 2019
by Jonathan Musgrave, owner and chief digital marketer for Steep Digital Marketing. At one time, marketing meant using such tactics as buying commercial time on TV or radio stations, advertising in a newspaper or magazine, or sending your message through direct mail. All of those remain options today, but they are joined by a plethora of digital alternatives for reaching potential customers or clients, who spend a lot of time hanging out in the digital world.
ConversionXL
APRIL 22, 2019
Color is an essential part of how we experience the world. But do colors really matter for conversion optimization ? Can a button color guarantee better performance for a call to action (CTA)? No single color is better than another. Ultimately, what matters is how much a button color contrasts with the area around it. This post explains what really matters for website CTAs and button colors.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 26, 2019
More often than not debt consolidation has proved to be the best option for the startups to manage their debts, stay away from further obligations as well as be more organized in their finance and business management. Ideally, the workload on startup businesses is much more as compared to the established business and given the […]. The post Focusing On Debt Consolidation Helps Startups To Be More Organized appeared first on ReadWrite.
YFS Magazine
APRIL 24, 2019
We are meant to live in community—in relationships with others that encourage us to move toward maturity and are valuable at every stage of business.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 25, 2019
Credit score is the number assigned to a person that indicates their capacity to repay a loan. Simply, it indicates how creditworthy you are in the eyes of bankers and lenders. Add to that, it is the basis of certain services such as telecommunications, broadband, and even apartment renting. This affects your financial status in ways you cannot imagine.
SiliconHills
APRIL 24, 2019
By LAURA LOREK, publisher of Silicon Hills News Homes are increasingly becoming smarter with devices like Nest thermostats, Ring doorbells, voice-activated assistants and more connecting them to the Internet. And Austin-based Affinegy, a 13-year-old company that creates software to manage Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things, has been at the forefront of the industry.
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