Up and Running
JULY 29, 2019
Are you wondering how to land funding from angel investors? Of course, any real answer depends on where you are and the specifics of your business. This article focuses on angel investors in the U.S., and the process of raising angel investment for high-tech or high-growth startups. It’s different in most other countries—and almost impossible for established businesses without high potential for growth. .
YoungUpstarts
JULY 31, 2019
by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts. Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. It has become an established term in the software industry to indicate the short term fixes of quick and dirty coding that can create problems down the road — problems that come knocking at the door to collect with interest.
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Growthink Blog
JULY 30, 2019
Probably the top objection that smaller companies hear when raising money is… …“you’re too early.” As in the business’ current financial performance is just… ….not all that impressive. The investor usually accompanies the objection with the euphemistic send off: “Come back when your company is more financially impressive and we can we can talk then.” […].
The Startup Magazine
JULY 27, 2019
With the launch of the GDPR in 2018 came an increase in the maximum fine amount that can be imposed against companies that are non-complaint with privacy regulations. The fine shot up to £17.5 million or 4% of the total global turnover of the affected company. Barely a year after the regulation’s introduction, British Airways became among the first offenders and was slapped with a fine of £183 million following a breach of their customer’s data.
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 Professionals Musings
AUGUST 2, 2019
A refrain I often hear from technology entrepreneurs to investors is that their product or solution is so innovative that it will cause a “paradigm shift” in the industry. Their assumption is that customers and investors will be wowed by this into buying, ignoring the evidence that large-scale change takes a long time, most often fails, and scares away customers and investors alike.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 30, 2019
by Kedma Ough , MBA, author of “ Target Funding: A Proven System to Get the Money and Resources You Need to Start or Grow Your Business “ Is it possible to have your cake and eat it too? If there was a way to find your ideal job and build your dream business, would you consider both? Most people see this dichotomy and feel that they need to choose one dream over the other.
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The Startup Magazine
JULY 29, 2019
When it comes to branding, most people think only of what they see in terms of color and logo. While these are a part of branding, there are many other elements that makeup branding as a whole. As a company, your brand is not only about your visual identity but also about your personality. It is how people perceive you. Think about it as an individual person.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 29, 2019
A common complaint I hear from my startup clients and many entrepreneurs is that rapid growth is more difficult than ever anticipated. The assumption usually is that more money is needed for marketing, or another round of new development is needed on the product. Yet I find in digging deeper, the challenge is just as often getting the right people and culture , rather than money.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 29, 2019
Starting an online business is not hard. All one needs is an idea, product/service developed from the idea, a website, and proper marketing. Out of this four, except for “idea”, the other three demands time and money – and that’s what one tries to save when in initial stages of a business. One of the element (of the process) where both can be saved is in the website development.
Start Up Blog
AUGUST 1, 2019
Innovation doesn’t have to include a microchip, be a consumer gadget, come from private industry, generate profits, or even be a physical thing. If we can agree on these truths and what innovation is, then we can usher in a long over due, different type of innovation. So what is innovation? . Here’s the Sammatron definition: The implementation of better solutions to meet existing market desires, new market requirements, and even unarticulated needs.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 1, 2019
Prototyping is that critical step between concept and mass production. Your product prototype is what will often be used to sell the product to retailers. It is also regularly used to promote your business to investors since it is easier to imagine consumer interest in the item you’re currently holding. The lessons you learn from the prototype shape the processes you use to mass produce it.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 30, 2019
Why Reviews Matter to Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Aaron Weiche. Podcast Transcript. My guest on today’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Aaron Weiche, CEO of GatherUp. GatherUp is a platform that helps businesses capture customer feedback, testimonials and reviews.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 30, 2019
by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. The top 5 retailers in the US made nearly $230 billion dollars in 2018. ( $228.4 billion to be exact.). They must be doing something right. Walmart, Amazon, Costco, Walgreens, and Home Depot have each built strong brand identities and all benefit from powerful household recognition and strong brand equity. As we wrote previously : A brand is the sum total of the experience your customers and customer prospects have with your company.
Hearpreneur
JULY 28, 2019
We live in an era where technolgy goes hand in hand with business. It impacts the pace at which businesses grow and it remains interesting to see trends that will emerge from some of these technologies. A good example is the emergence of chatbots that help in instant messaging of customers/clients. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the technologies that will have the biggest impact on technology and here’s the responses. #1- Virtual reality.
The Startup Magazine
JULY 29, 2019
Surviving in the Forex trading industry is a very challenging task. The majority of rookie traders fails to make money since they don’t know the proper way to protect their trading capital. They simply risk a big portion of their investment and lose their money within a short period of time. Having easy access to the high leverage trading account doesn’t mean you will start taking excessive risk in each trade.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 30, 2019
Transcript of Why Reviews Matter to Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Today’s episode is brought to you by Break Through The Noise , the new book by Tim Staples, Co-Founder and CEO of Shareability. In his book Tim reveals his secret sauce for how to capture the attention of millions of people online, without spending millions of dollars.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 27, 2019
In their busy life entrepreneurs get very less time to sleep, hence it is important for them to know the right type of mattress and sleeping position. While many factors affect the quality of sleep, we have, such as outside noise, a spinning spouse or simply not having time to get enough sleep, surprisingly there are some simple ways to improve the quality of sleep to improve our sleep.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 28, 2019
It’s always been tough to start a new business, even when the bottom line was just making a profit to stay alive. A few years ago, a second focus of sustainability (“green”) was added as a requirement for respectability. Now I almost always hear a third mandate - social responsibility. Entrepreneurs are now measured against the “triple bottom line” (TBL or 3BL) of people, planet, and profit.
Spencer Fry
AUGUST 2, 2019
This article is inspired by a tweet I made back on July 16th. Gregg Blanchard on Twitter asked if I could turn the tweet into a post and elaborate more on each stage of our process at Podia , so that's what I've done. Thanks for the inspiration, Gregg! Yearly roadmap. Between Christmas and New Years, I take a little downtime, but I also spend it writing up a Yearly Product Roadmap for Podia to present to the team during the first week back.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 31, 2019
Overcoming Objections in Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jeb Blount. Podcast Transcript. On today’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Jeb Blount , author of 10 books on sales, leadership, and customer experience. He is also a sought-after speaker, who delivers hundreds of keynote speeches, trainings, and workshops each year around the globe.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 30, 2019
Software project managers have it rough: from fulfilling the interests of stakeholders with limited resources and time, constantly-updating technologies – it seems like a never-ending battle. To keep yourself from drowning in the project management swamps of despair, here are several tips for making sure your team and organization is as efficient as possible. 1.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 27, 2019
One of the first harsh realities that every entrepreneur has to learn is that most of the things that are critical to startup success are outside of their direct control. Just because you dream it and build it, doesn’t mean they will come – that encompasses not only customers, but also investors, partners, team members, and even your own family. They won’t come if they don’t trust you.
View from Seed
AUGUST 2, 2019
It’s a 2 for 1 day today at Friday Fun-isms. Both are phrases that often come up, but often together. The first is the idea of an authentic company. Before we start any pitch, we try to uncover what the underlying motivation was behind the business. More often than not, the companies that get us the most excited are ones where the founder has some strong, deep rooted connection to the customer problem.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 1, 2019
5 Ways to Get More SEO Bang for Your Buck written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on the 5 Ways to Get More SEO Bang for Your Buck. Every business needs SEO. If you’re a consultant or marketing agency, every single one of your clients is looking for you to get them results. They want to show up in search engine rankings—and not just show up anywhere, but rank competitively so that they get noticed by new audiences.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 2, 2019
As a society, when we think about someone sitting in their home slaving away at a website, our initial thought is something negative along the lines of ‘maybe they should get a real job’ or ‘that’ll never work’. It’s a toxic attitude, but one that is still rife due to it being something fairly new and away from what has always been the norm. The ‘normal’ way of earning a living has always traditionally meant getting up, heading to the office/warehouse/yard, and tiring yourself out all day.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 31, 2019
After working in business at all levels, and consulting to entrepreneurs for years, I’m still surprised to see so many situations where things that should be easy are painful to customers, and lead to customers hating your business. How could any rational employee or executive fail to do his or her job, not realize there is a problem, or not care enough to even try to do the right thing?
View from Seed
JULY 31, 2019
*Disclaimer – although the above baby is very cute, I can’t take credit for making him*. When my husband and I welcomed our newborn son to the world this April, it was probably the most exciting and magical moments we have ever experienced. Thanks to my very supportive partners at NextView, I was able to focus on being a new parent and enjoying those early moments during my maternity leave.
Version One Ventures
JULY 30, 2019
We raised our first fund in summer 2012. It was a $15m early-stage fund that we invested in 20 portfolio companies over the course of two and a half years. We’re now seven years in and the portfolio is maturing. I plotted the return multiples (as of June 30, 2019) for all 20 portfolio companies in the chart below. The return multiple for a company is calculated by dividing the current net asset value (unrealized and realized dollar amounts) by the invested capital in that company (often invested
YoungUpstarts
JULY 30, 2019
Imagine a situation where you wanted to recreate the most popular Instagram application, and the problem is that you don’t come from an IT background. So, what you do now is that you basically approach a development company, you put up your requirements to them and then after discussions the company promises you to deliver the app one year later. Finally, when you get your app delivered, do you really think you would have recreated what you wanted to?
Up and Running
JULY 30, 2019
Today we’re sharing what we call “ideas to steal.” They are all real-life ideas from successful businesses—action steps you can pick up and run with right away, without having to research, test, or otherwise delay implementing. And, you don’t need to spend money to do them. . Pick three that you can sink your teeth into, and don’t hesitate to contact us if you want more information or help implementing them—these days we all have to work together. 1.
ConversionXL
JULY 31, 2019
Have you ever gotten a bill that—inexplicably—is two or three times more than usual? What was your reaction? Probably something like this: [A SaaS vendor] pulled a massive price increase on us (over 300%!) and that was it. I don’t care how much I like their product, I’m gone. We use Drift now. I got that from a user who junked her paid account after a vendor jacked up their price by 300%.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 2, 2019
When the going gets rough in business, you’ll need motivation to keep moving. Motivating yourself can be hard but practicing consistent habits such as reminding yourself of why you started can be a major boost. A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. Here’s the various ways entrepreneurs and business owners stay motivated in business. #1- Regular vacation and self-care.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 29, 2019
There is a stereotype that the education after the Master or Doctor of Philosophy program is necessary only for those who are engaged in research of the science field and going to teach at the academy. However, the business sector no less needs specialists who have received a doctoral education. Especially such experts are in demand in business consulting, analytics, financial sector, and the stock market.
YFS Magazine
JULY 30, 2019
In Latin America, over half of adults don't have a bank account and even more don't have access to financial services. Uulala is filling a persistent gap.
The Startup Magazine
JULY 29, 2019
You’ve likely heard the saying many times before, but when it comes to running a business, your customers come first. Without customers, your business is more or less non-existent. The golden question then becomes what you can do to keep your customers interested and happy. The answer is likely to be different for every business as your customer base varies.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 2, 2019
Hypergiant Industries, which is focused on creating new products using artificial intelligence for businesses, announced Friday that it has hired two key senior executives in Austin. Mark Arnold, who previously worked as vice president of corporate development for Forcepoint, has joined Hypergiant as its vice president of corporate development. And Marc Katz, who previously served […].
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