YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

by Lewis Robinson. Starting a business on a budget is a formidable challenge, but it certainly is possible. It’s much easier when you don’t require lots of space or expensive equipment. Even so, there are some strategies you can employ to avoid breaking the bank. Here are some tips for bootstrapping your business. 1. Work in a Spare Room. One of the best ways to save money is to run your business out of your home, at least during the startup phase.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is very much the dream occupation of the jack-of-all-trades, not-necessarily-master-of-any individual who possesses “raw intellectual horsepower.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2018

“Every company is a media company,” Tom Foremski, ex-FT journalist and the editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, said a decade ago. He meant that increasingly, even companies that aren’t concerned with news or journalism must be able to make meaningful connections with customers with the written word. Given the growth of content marketing, blogging, and social media, it seems pretty clear that the demand for good writers will remain high.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s no secret that email is the most effective acquisition channels for any marketer. In fact, according to Campaign Monitor , for every $1 spent, email marketing generates $38 in ROI. But with all the noise today, it’s getting harder to get noticed. Today, it’s not enough to send the right emails; you need to send the right emails at the right time.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

We live in an online world. The Internet has evolved from a useful tool to a necessary component of everyday life, whether personal or professional. That’s why so many entrepreneurs no longer have a traditional office to host their business operations. Having a virtual office reduces the limiting overhead costs associated with starting and running a business, including rent and equipment.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Every employer wants to get the best out of their employees. After all, the more productive they are the better your profit margins will be. And productivity and profitability build on each other. Getting to profitability allows you to reward them for their efforts. Though it may not be conventional, one way to enhance productivity might be to purchase all your staff a mattress to help them with their sleep.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Internet users are turning to online shopping more than ever before. Thinkover , the fastest growing digital shopping platform known for revolutionizing and streamlining the art of online and mobile shopping, has announced the release of its first-ever Android version alongside the release of new social features that will enable users to discover, share, explore and follow others on the app.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2018

Looking to grow your contractor business? Whether you have plans to stay small or scale your business over time, it’s important to find effective ways to bring in new customers. Here are 6 tips for growing your business. 1. Perform an Internal Review. Start by performing an internal review of your company. There are a few key areas you want to focus on: Financial stability.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 31, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event , 50 diverse startups will face off before a panel of industry experts. Half will pitch on Saturday, March 10, and the remaining 25 will pitch on Sunday, March 11. Winners in 10 categories will be honored at the Accelerator Award Ceremony at 7 pm on Sunday, March 11, at the Hilton Austin.

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deal architect

JANUARY 31, 2018

My favorite vendor event format is the analyst summit. A close second is the annual Sales Kick Off. That is where the vendor gets the entire sales and marketing team offsite to prepare for the new year. This time of.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 31, 2018

A fun interview at Stanford about some old things and new ones. [link]. Founders. 2:15: Founders and dysfunctional families. 3:55: Operating in chaos. 7:18: Mentorship is a two-way street. 11:50: Founders are artists. 14:03: Failure=experience. 17:27: Rules for raising a family if you’re a founder. Startups. 19:25: Startups are not smaller versions of large companies. 22:03: How I-Corps and H4X were born. 26:25: Your idea is not a company. 31:19: Why the old way of building startups no lon

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2018

Being an entrepreneur is a tricky job. While it’s fun and exciting, it can also bring many difficult challenges. You’re up one minute because you launched a new product and down the next because you can’t figure out why no one’s responding to your call to check it out. Luckily, there are a variety of handy techniques and strategies that will help you reach the next step and build a solid customer base.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 30, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event , 50 finalists from around the world will make their pitches before a panel of judges. Half will pitch on Saturday, March 10 and the remaining 25 companies on Sunday, March 11. A winner in each of 10 categories will be announced at the SXSW Accelerator Award Ceremony, 7 pm Sunday, March 11, at the Hilton Austin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2018

Most aspiring entrepreneurs are convinced that the strength of their initial idea somehow defines them as a leader, as well as the success potential of their derivative business. In my experience, it’s a lot more complicated than that. It takes leadership ability, as well as a good idea, to make a successful entrepreneur, and great leaders evolve from key leadership decisions along the way.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Five years ago, TapCommerce CEO & Co-Founder Brian Long had a vision of helping brands deliver customers, revenue, and ROI across mobile devices. A lot has changed since then, but one industry megatrend has remained constant: consumers’ radical adoption of mobile commerce and retailers’ desire to reach them on these devices. More recently, Brian started a new company, Attentive , with a remarkably similar vision and problem-set, but with a different solution: personalized mobile

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

According to the latest statistics released by the Small Business Administration , there are just under 29 million small businesses in the United States that employ more than 56.8% of the workforce. Those are impressive statistics when you stop to consider small businesses account for approximately 99.7% of all businesses in the United States. With figures like those, you can see why startups are so important to our future economic stability and growth, and this is why startups are closely monit

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2018

It’s 10pm on a Wednesday evening and your phone starts buzzing. No, it’s not one of your friends sending a nice and cheesy “Sleep tight!” text that will make you smile. It’s the owner of the new business that you’ve taken up as a digital consultant. You know the best choice right now would be to ignore that message because it’s too late, because it’s not the way you agreed to communicate and because you have other, better things to do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2018

Every entrepreneur believes that their product or service is memorable, and that every customer will quickly see the advantage over competitors. Yet true product differentiation in the eye of the customer is rarely achieved. According to an old survey by Bain & Company , 80% of businesses believe they have differentiated offerings, but only 8% of customers agree.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

I just read book – Janesville – that reminded me again of life outside the bubble. Janesville, tells the story of laid-off factory workers of a General Motors factory that’s never going to reopen. It’s a story about a Midwest town and the type of people I knew and worked alongside. When I got out of the Air Force after Vietnam, I lived in Michigan and I installed process control systems in automobile assembly plants and steel mills across the industrial heart of the Mid

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2018

Most investors from different parts of the world look at Singapore as a great location to open a business startup or open a foreign branch. Further, most surveys have voted the country as one of the best business hubs in the region. If you are planning to start a business in Singapore, all you need to know is that it has a conducive business environment.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

At 5pm today, Berliners get the get the chance to try a brand new carpooling service. 25 shuttle cars will hit the streets, offering shared rides to up to five passengers at a time. Oh yeah, and it’s free. Carpooling offers the same features as conventional ride-sharing, but is often vastly cheaperThe initiative will run for three months, and is from mobility platform startup Door2Door, and Germany’s largest automobile club, Allgemeine Deutsche Automobil-Club (ADAC).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Winning customers as an entrepreneur in a startup has many parallels to a young army trying to penetrate some formidable new and unfamiliar territory. You need a strategy as well as a goal, and you need to pick your battles well. Even in this age of purpose before profits, a business won’t survive by pretending there are no competitors out there to worry about.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Understand your hourly wage, explore your options, and soon you can outsource your way to more time, more money, and a more valuable company.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2018

In order to run a successful business, there are many things that need to be kept in mind. The product or service that is being sold to customers needs to be of the highest quality possible, but the business cannot stop there. In addition to making sure that they are satisfying their customers, the business also needs to make sure that the logistics of the company are running well.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2018

When foreigners think of Switzerland, romantic images of beautiful snow peaked mountains, chocolate, watches, and cowbells come to mind. But startups and technology? Not so much. Despite Switzerland being ranked the most innovative country in the world by the Global Innovation Index, our country’s startup and tech scenes are more often than not overshadowed by more the established hubs in Berlin and London.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2018

I’ll never forget that great sense of excitement I felt when I incorporated my first business, and realized that I was now the proud owner of 10 million shares of common stock. Of course, initially these founder’s shares were worth essentially nothing, but it doesn’t take much of an imagination to grasp the possibilities. It’s great motivation for every entrepreneur to get that value up quickly.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 31, 2018

Clothes, Will Make Or Break The Man. Mark Twain was right about a lot of things, but one of my favorite truths was what he had to say about clothes: “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” While we’d all like to think that what we wear doesn’t have much influence on what people think about us, the truth is that’s like saying Apple pie would taste as great whether it smelled like last week’s garbage or not.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Health, safety, and security must be a primary concern for every business, regardless of its size. You must proactively take steps to find and implement the best onsite security practices, otherwise your business may pay the price. Learn more about the importance of building a secure workplace. Secure Your Assets and Business. You will likely have invested much time, money, and effort into developing your company, which is why you must secure your premises, equipment, and sensitive data as much

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2018

You have a story. It may be intentional and carefully-crafted. Or, it may be construed from the interactions and bread crumbs you leave. Just because you aren’t actively telling your story doesn’t mean you don’t have one. If you’re in the world, the world has a story about you. 2017 was a momentous year. From political upheavals and protesting to shifting social landscapes, the year saw many historically defining moments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2018

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. How an entrepreneur answers this question speaks volumes about their knowledge of business realities, customers, confidence, and their ability to handle investor funding.

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Do you manage a remote team? If so, you know they are only as productive as your ability to manage them. And let’s face it, losing track of your remote team or managing them ineffectively is pretty easy to do.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2018

Earning a doctoral degree in education is one of the best ways to position yourself as an eligible candidate for a variety of administrative and managerial positions within the field of academia. Whether you choose to pursue a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) or a Doctor of Philosophy in Education (Ph.D.), both degrees provide the skills and credentials need to land high ranking positions at schools and universities across the country.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 29, 2018

In the software world and perhaps beyond, it has become increasingly popular to implement an “all hands” approach to customer support. The thinking goes that if everyone on a team spends some time at the support desk engaging with customers and solving their problems they will better understand how the customer uses the product and what they’re actually trying to accomplish.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 30, 2018

I just read ‘Need More Time’? Guideposts For Tech Founders Going To Market When No Market Exists which is full of great tips for what they call ‘pre-chasm’ enterprise startups. The term ‘pre-chasm’ is a nod to Geoffrey Moore’s 1998 classic Crossing the Chasm and refers to companies that may have sold to early adopters, but haven’t yet found a way to sell to the mainstream.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2018

It wasn’t until I asked myself if I was successful that I was able to realize all the great things our company could still accomplish.

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Operations 121

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2018

Online marketing is essential for businesses of all sizes. But digital marketing is critical especially for startups because the world wide web offers the opportunity to get in front of more people while using less budget. Leveraging various online marketing strategies is critical to an overall successful campaign. A strong online presence will help your brand by creating awareness, engagement with leads and customers, converting more buyers, and word-of-mouth sharing.

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