Up and Running
AUGUST 1, 2018
Jujitsu is the martial art whereby you use your opponent’s strengths or your own (oft-perceived) weakness to your advantage. Hmmm. Sounds like a technique entrepreneurs might want to apply to know where and how to carve out a specific market niche. Many would use it to figure out specific points of friction where your larger competitors struggle, and focus there to compete with them.
David Cohen
AUGUST 1, 2018
We’re living at a time when valuations are very high, as Fred Wilson and Ari Newman have both recently pointed out. When valuations rise, so do the caps on notes, which are upper limits on valuation at conversion. In many cases the caps are very high because the entrepreneurs are telling the investors that they’re super confident they’re about to raise a larger round and they just need to “bridge” the company to that larger round.
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YoungUpstarts
JULY 30, 2018
Congratulations, as a college graduate, it’s time to take that degree and put it to use in a lucrative job, right? College graduates spend hours applying for jobs only to be told they don’t have enough experience. This is a reality many college students face when making the transition from college to the workforce. How can recent graduates gain experience if no one is willing to take a chance?
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 3, 2018
The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Cash isn’t always the scarcest resource startups have to invest – more often it’s the leadership capital of under-experienced and over-stretched entrepreneurs and co-founders.
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
Hearpreneur
JULY 29, 2018
The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it. Even still there are some people who study foreign words for the perfect meaning behind their chosen business.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 2, 2018
It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a chunk of time that has both whizzed by and felt like I’ve been doing this my whole life. In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. It’s like that warm belly feeling after a full bowl of ramen. But with a couple sleepless nights and many, many Trello boards.
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Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 31, 2018
How Cloud-Based Accounting Software Can Benefit Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As a business owner, you are all too aware of the many moving pieces it takes for a business to run smoothly. One area that business owners know is important is accounting and bookkeeping, although it’s often the last area they want to spend time on.
Start Up Blog
AUGUST 2, 2018
One of the most common questions I get asked is, ‘What technology or companies should I invest in? You study technology everyday and spend time large companies, so you must have an opinion’ And you guessed it – I sure do. While I’m not an investment advisor, there are some interesting things which we can be sure of when it comes to investing and technology.
Austin Startup
JULY 29, 2018
Raising funding from Angel Investors can feel like a catch-22. It’s easy to figure out who the active angel investors are but it’s hard to find the right time to pitch them. Most of them don’t seem like they want to to be “pitched” at all! How do you convince them to invest without pitching them? You need to get them to fall in love first. Not all investors are the same.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 29, 2018
American business has been at forefront of establishing creative new technologies and innovations that streamline productivity and make work more effective and efficient. Every American city embodies this concept of newer, faster, and better, and this is very apparent in the leaps that the American office space has made in the last few years. As the progenitor of the coworking space movement, Americans have also taken on remote working and fined tuned it for the American business palate.
thebarefootvc
AUGUST 3, 2018
The big news this morning is that Intercontinental Exchange, parent of the New York Stock Exchange, announced the formation of a new company, Bakkt, a global platform to allow consumers and institutions to buy, hold and store digital assets. Its first use cases will be for trading and conversion of Bitcoin versus fiat currencies. Partners include Microsoft, Starbucks and BCG: “ ‘In bringing regulated, connected infrastructure together with institutional and consumer applications for digital asse
deal architect
AUGUST 1, 2018
This is the third in my midsummer updates around cloud computing, renewables and digital transformations. Over the last few months, I have been collaborating with my colleague, Brian Sommer as he works on a book titled “Digital with Impact”. Both.
Austin Startup
JULY 31, 2018
Image Description: Background image includes blue and green squares of varying sizes. The word “SOLUTIONS” is in the foreground in white capital letters. How to foster dynamic civic participation, ignite citizen co-creation, and leverage human-centered urban design Lessons learned in the 20-year history of Smart Cities are testaments to the truth that successful and sustainable Smart Cities cannot be built solely upon the technology mainframe.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 30, 2018
by Abhijit Shanbag, CEO of Graymatics. The possibilities of facial recognition have placed it at the forefront as both a security measure as a means of biometric identification, as well as a reliable means of gathering data for analytical purposes. In a world with greater reliance and threats presented to our sensitive information and data, basing our security solely on a password isn’t enough.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 2, 2018
How to Transform Your Company Into an Inbound Organization written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Todd Hockenberry. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Todd Hockenberry. He is the founder of Top Line Results , a management consulting firm, and the co-author of the book Inbound Organization: How to Build and Strengthen Your Company’s Future Using Inbound Principles , which we discuss today.
Version One Ventures
JULY 31, 2018
VC is an apprenticeship industry. When I joined Version One five years ago, I would have never guessed that I would be where I am today. So much of who I am today has to do with the fact that Boris spent a ton of time teaching and mentoring me, despite our different locations. From Day 1, he was dedicated to my personal and professional development.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 1, 2018
While spending years in a big company as an employee and an executive, I heard many people talking about jumping the corporate ship, dreaming of being an entrepreneur, and totally in charge of their own destiny. Fortunately for many of them it was all talk and no action, saving them from a world of grief, since some simply didn’t have the attributes and mindset to be an entrepreneur.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 30, 2018
Arshad Madhani knew from a young age that his future was in marketing. As a kid, he used to create things and then try to convince friends and family to buy them. He didn’t realize that marketing was an actual job until he got older, but his heart was always in the field. Today, Madhani leverages over a decade of experience as a digital marketing expert to provide valuable consulting services to a variety of entrepreneurs.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 2, 2018
The Startup Magazine caught up with Tsewang Wangkang and Frederick Szydlowski , co-founders of the Embargo App, an app that helps both venues and patrons enjoy their bar and restaurant experiences with an effective loyalty and customer engagement program. TV Presenter Naomi Isted Reviews Embargo App Features. TSM: Who are the founders of Embargo App?
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 3, 2018
Financial institutions and entrepreneurs have a historically complicated relationship. Entrepreneurs need ways to fund their companies and keep business moving, meaning they lean on banks for everything from business loans to checking accounts. And banks need entrepreneurs, too — without small businesses fueling the economy, there isn’t much banks can do.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 30, 2018
Having satisfied customers is no longer enough to keep you ahead of competitors. The bar has been raised to having “delighted” customers. Customer delight is defined as surprising the customer by exceeding his or her expectations, thus creating a positive emotional reaction. This emotional reaction leads to word of mouth and social media, resulting in many new customers.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 3, 2018
The word “plagiary” is familiar to any academician or a person who is engaged in creative activities. Hundreds of students are even afraid of hearing this word because they know how much they will pay for using the ideas or thoughts of others not mentioning the author’s name. The primary aim of this article is to hunt down the question of plagiarism, find out what it is and what software products to use in order to check the uniqueness of your research, review, article or blog
The Next Web
JULY 28, 2018
Amazon introduced Prime Day in 2015 as a way to celebrate its 20th anniversary as a one-day sale with the aim of overshadowing Black Friday. The sale was available only to Prime members and over the years has become a premier shopping day that grabs media attention and drives competitive brands to launch side-by-side sales. This year, Prime Day had several added elements to drive buzz like a concert and extended hours.
VC Cafe
JULY 28, 2018
We seem to have hit an inflection point as more VC funding went to China than the US in Q2 2018. Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are investing billions in innovation and have a play in seemingly every. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 29, 2018
In my years of working with entrepreneurs, I have heard many times the promise that their new idea will create the next Amazon or Apple, but I rarely hear the more important promise that the founder will practice all the good habits of winning entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs. You see, I’m convinced that the entrepreneur makes the company, not the other way around.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 2, 2018
by Tim John, Director of Business Development at Intrawelt. Creating the right strategy is one of the main ways to expand your customer base. Your strategy is an explanation of why you are creating content for your audience and how you can make a difference above every other company out there. It’s about building up your audience to get your desired outcome and a great return on investment.
ConversionXL
JULY 30, 2018
You are probably ending your A/B tests either too early or too late. The standard best practice in the conversion optimization industry is to wait until two conditions have been met before ending an A/B test. First, that a representative sample is obtained. Second, that the winner of the test can be declared with 95% certainty or greater. You can see the latter standard touted here and here and here.
VC Cafe
AUGUST 1, 2018
We live longer lives - the number of Americans over 65 will double by 2060, according to a report by the Population Research Bureau. But statistically, we will suffer from health issues, loss of. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 28, 2018
Every entrepreneur believes in their heart that their startup is more innovative and creative than their competitors. Yet none knows exactly where creativity comes from within, or how to pick and motivate the most creative people for the team. Most believe and follow one or more of the popular myths on business creativity, even though none of them have much scientific evidence.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 30, 2018
Everyone knows learning grammar rules and then implementing them is way too hard. Along with just being hard, it takes a lot of time to learn them and then use them to write perfect, error-free text. Even after these efforts you still have the chance to make errors such as grammar mistakes, spelling mistakes, etc. The IT experts have come up with an application that can ease this problem; it is the grammar checker.
The Next Web
JULY 28, 2018
GDPR — no other four letters are giving tech companies a bigger headache this year. So many articles have been written about it, you might wonder why you should read this one. It’s simple, really, you shouldn’t unless you are one of the 92 percent of marketers who according to a recent study by Evergage Inc use digital personalization. Instead of boring you with yet another generic explanation of what the GDPR is, I’d like to address the new regulations through the looking-glass of personalizati
Berkonomics
AUGUST 2, 2018
This week, we continue our series on marketing and positioning. There can be nothing more important in your business planning that selecting the proper pricing niche, making your story clear using that niche, and the defending your position against the competition. So, here comes the lesson and your challenge…. The five major niches. There are five major classes or niches a company should examine and make its own in calculating positioning in the marketplace.
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 3, 2018
We will continue to see a shift in how businesses utilize their core values as a way to drive their digital marketing strategy. Here’s how.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 3, 2018
Merriam-Webster defines entrepreneur as: “one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.” It’s come to mean someone who’s a go-getter, a visionary, independent and creative, an innovator. All of these characteristics and qualities can have their appeal. Individually, maybe. But many would-be entrepreneurs get lost at “innovate.
VC Cafe
JULY 28, 2018
I finished the book “Alibaba, The House that Jack Ma Built” by Duncan Clark. I recommend it. Its hard not to get drawn to Jack’s Cinderella story. Coming from a very humble background, his. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 2, 2018
For startups nowadays videos can be a tricky proposition. On one hand no startup can afford to ignore videos due its sheer effectiveness, but on the other hand the budget constraints most startups are saddled with makes creating videos for funnel marketing a painful affair. Because of that it is important that startups focus on the right types of videos.
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