Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

There’s a quick litmus-test conversation any early-stage VC will have with the founder and it’s one that you should be as prepared for as your elevator pitch. It goes something like this … VC: “How much money are you raising?” Founder: “$8–10 million” VC: “What’s your current burn rate?” Founder: “$250k / month.” VC: “So at a constant rate of burn rate you’d be raising enough for 2.5–3 years.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 1, 2018

More often businesses are spending their time and resources in an effort to attract the right clients. Sadly, the anticipated results do not always happen. One of the reasons behind this is lack of mastery of the art of attraction. The current day customer/client is constantly looking at what’s in for them where a positive answer to this query is likely to attract them to your business.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2018

by Penny Garbus, co-author of ‘ Mining New Gold — Managing Your Business Data “ Every day, businesses across the country hum along efficiently, their operations supported by enormous reams of data that most employees – and bosses – take for granted. Need to check inventory? Want to make sure a customer paid a bill? That information and much more is stored somewhere in a computer, always at the ready in time of need.

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Up and Running

MAY 31, 2018

A certified, professional accountant can be a valuable partner to a small business at all stages, from formation, to financials, to the sale of the business. Handling your own accounting might seem like a money-saving strategy, but it may not be the best use of your time. Aside from that, do-it-yourself accounting can sometimes result in expensive mistakes.

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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

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

One of the hardest things about the fund-raising process for entrepreneurs is that you’re trying to raise money from people who have “asymmetric information.” VC firms see thousands of deals and have a refined sense of how the market is valuing deals because they get price signals across all of these deals. As an entrepreneur it can feel as intimidating as going to buy a car where the dealer knows the price of every make & model of a car and you’re guessing at how much to pay.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2018

Anyone wishing to join the digital marketing field needs some skills and prior knowledge to excel. Chris Rodgers is the founder & CEO of Colorado SEO Pros , where he develops company processes, innovating digital marketing practices, and supporting a full-time staff of SEO analysts and digital marketers. He has worked in the technology and digital marketing industries for the last 13 years.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 28, 2018

If you’ve ever built a business around a passing trend or fad, you know there’s only a short window of time for such a venture to survive. Knowing your product or service is a fad doesn’t make it easier. But it does give you a heads up regarding when to close shop and move on. Unfortunately, even when you successfully navigate your business ventures with fads, you still have to start over each time the bubble bursts.

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Transformify

MAY 28, 2018

This is a remote, home-based position. Start a career with the world’s largest virtual company. Flexible and stable hours - your own space to grow - competitive compensation. About us At Scopic Software, we have over 250 employees in over 30 countries all comfortably working from home/remotely. Though we’re a big team overall, each project is made up of small teams to remain agile and maintain good communication.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 27, 2018

Whether you’re advertising your product online or through print media, there’s the minimum price you should advertise the product. Pam, an expert at ORIS Intelligence have great insights on how companies can enforce minimum advertised pricing (MAP) policies and ensure manufacturers can better support trusted retail partners, while maximizing margins, increasing revenue and protecting their consumers.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2018

by Keith Martino , head of CMI and author of “Expect Leadership”. Matt took great delight in our mentioning that his sales team was effectively dysfunctional. He praised their competitive, “take no prisoners” mentality. He beamed each time a winner taunted a struggling teammate. He stoked the notion of “beat your brother’s brains out.” In short, Matt rationalized how this fierce, aggressive, individual pursuit of success was healthy within a world class sales organization.

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deal architect

MAY 31, 2018

Over the last few months I have been doing my research for SAP Nation 3.0 while going to countless industry events, and consulting with several clients. I sense the enterprise software and services market is at a pivot. More about.

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The Next Web

MAY 27, 2018

Today, 10 years after its public launch, GitHub sits at the center of all developer workflows. But reflecting on this first decade in business, it’s not unrealistic to think that it’ll be at the center of all workflows in the years to come. In fact, because of GitHub’s roots in the developer community — and the increasing centrality of developers in general — understanding GitHub’s trajectory may actually provide a glimpse of what the future of work holds for businesses everywhere.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2018

If you’ve ever toured the offices of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., you might notice a few commonalities. There’s the ubiquitous ping pong table, productivity-enhancing tunes wafting through the air, and an open, flexible workspace designed to support collaboration across teams. But the biggest commonality of them all? Their cupboards are almost invariably stocked […].

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2018

by Dori Sella, author of “ Business Meetings that Work: 6 Steps to Increase Productivity “ Starting a business, whether it’s based on technology, a new marketing concept or a product is always exciting. Once you have gone past the initial stage of developing your idea and clarifying what your business is going to be, you will have many business meetings.

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deal architect

MAY 31, 2018

Over the last few months I have been doing my research for SAP Nation 3.0 while going to countless industry events, and consulting with several clients. I sense the enterprise software and services market is at a pivot. More about.

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Software Marketing 150

YFS Magazine

MAY 28, 2018

When you realize how you’ve held yourself back by feeling unworthy, you have an opportunity to either work on it or keep your head in the sand. ??The former takes courage.

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Developer 128

Haystack

JUNE 1, 2018

Talk to any Bay Area VC in the last 24 hours, and the talk of the town among investors is universal : “ What do you think of the SV Angel news? ” Depending on your point of view, it is the perfect trigger for a conversation about the state of the Bay Area’s investment market. Let me be perfectly clear — I do not know anything about SV Angel’s inner workings, and in all of my own interactions with Kevin, Topher, Brian, and @pm (when he was there), SV Angel was extrem

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2018

When you launch a startup, getting the business off the ground is all-consuming. Insurance may not be top of mind. However, adequate business insurance is crucial, even in the early stages. A new business faces risks and things won’t always go as planned. If you’re not sure what insurance your startup needs, here are seven types of insurance every startup should consider. 1.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2018

No matter where you turn, you’ll find that most people are preoccupied with some form of technology. Whether it’s a desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone, consumers have really embraced this new digitally dependent atmosphere. If you’re a small business that wants to remain relevant, you’ll need to market your brand effectively using the most commonly used digital mediums.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 30, 2018

High performers—the ones who lead companies and teams to success—are not born better than everyone else. Instead, they've cultivated some very powerful traits.

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Developer Leadership 120

Feld Thoughts

MAY 31, 2018

I read Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup last week on my Q2 vacation. In my post talking about the various books I read , I wrote the following about it. “Every entrepreneur and VC should read this book. John Carreyrou has done something important here. Maybe this book will finally put a nail in the phrase “fake it till you make it”, but I doubt it.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2018

Research into the UK residential property market has revealed that there has been a considerable increase in the number of available properties on the market in the first quarter of 2018. Traditionally, the market does see a glut of new properties coming on to the market every January, but this year’s influx is markedly higher than usual with a recorded boost of up to 40% of new sellers coming into the market in January.

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Ireland Demand Stock Forecast 145

Up and Running

MAY 30, 2018

My first company, Digital-Tutors , grew from a startup in my living room with $54 of my own seed money into a multi-million-dollar business with customers around the world. I was proud of the fact that we never used any outside investment money to grow the company. When my wife and I sold the business for $45 million over 14 years later, I told my tribe who were staying on with the new owners to call if they needed anything.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 27, 2018

Being in love is great. Being in love with your business, when you’re the CEO, is even better. Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 30, 2018

Follow the five techniques and create an entrepreneurial lifestyle that leads to more productivity and motivation.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2018

Every business owner knows that they must have something extra that will make their business stand out from the rest. You do not want your business to be dull or to look unappealing to the crowds. One way to make the business more attractive is through applying wallpapers on the office walls. Wallpapers will add color, nice texture and extra charm to the business in question.

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Singapore Matching Restful Design 133

ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2018

If you just started an agency or became a consultant, where did your first clients come from? In the beginning, finding clients, let alone the right clients can be difficult. You can go to friends and family, but that gets old real fast. In this video, I give you my best advice on how you can not only get clients but form valuable relationships with industry leaders and peers.

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

It is tough to lose your best employees wanting to advance their careers. Sometimes you can be the coach, helping them even if it means losing them. And, as in today’s story, sometimes it can mean the beginning of an amazing journey leading to a story for the ages… We’d all like to retain our best managers and employees forever or at least for as long as possible.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 28, 2018

Every business wants more sales, it’s as simple as that. Yet the million-dollar question is, “How do we get there?” Demand generation is the answer.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2018

by Howard Ross, author of “ Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart “ Our need to connect with people like ourselves is increasingly placing us at odds with people we view as “the other.” Now, more than ever, this tendency is causing us to form unhealthy attitudes against those with different political, religious and cultural viewpoints than our own.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2018

Do you want to maximize your growth potential? If you are looking for a new job, do you know which job you should take? Definitely, not the easy one. In this video, I give you my reasons why you should not take the next “easy job” and what to look for during your job search. [This post contains video, click to play]. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 30, 2018

My friends at FullContact are having their 2nd annual FullContact Connect Conference. If you are interested, you can get a 50% discount on the ticket price by using the code “Foundry” on the registration page. Connect ‘18 is bringing together thought leaders and experts – from across industries and verticals – who are experts in the world of data-driven customer intelligence and marketing.

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YFS Magazine

MAY 29, 2018

Organic business growth is ideal and viable because it allows you to drive the company forward in a sustainable way. Here are three practical ways to get started.

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Operations 92

YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2018

As a business owner, your business will see many changes over the years. One question you might be curious about is whether or not you will need to apply for a new EIN. The short answer to that question is yes, you might, but only depending on the circumstances of the situation. Here are a few reasons why you might find yourself once again having to apply for EIN.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 29, 2018

Earlier this week a friend was asking me whether her fundraising chances would be improved if she started generating revenues. She’s a natural salesperson and she’s wondering if having small revenues would make it harder for her to sell a big growth story than if she has no revenues at all. When we unpicked it, the logic behind the question is that if there is a small amount of revenue, maybe with small month on month increases, then projections of much larger month on month increase

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2018

How to Build Trust With Your Audience written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In my content, I often refer to the customer journey, or what I like to call The Marketing Hourglass , which includes the following stages: Know, Like, Trust, Try, Buy, Repeat and Refer. All of these stages are important for moving customers closer to the sale (and beyond), but today I really want to focus on the Trust component of the journey as there are so many businesses who are lacking in this ar

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