Up and Running
AUGUST 21, 2018
This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Today, I want to introduce a new approach to business planning: Lean Planning. Lean Planning replaces lengthy business plans with a 20-minute planning process that focuses on increasing your chances of success in business.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 19, 2018
Time is too precious to waste trying to close a deal with the wrong investors at the wrong time. Luckily, not all investors are looking for the same thing, so it pays to know what type of investors are most interested in what your startup brings to the table. The key is understanding how potential investors see you, and especially how they view the maturity stage of your startup.
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YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 24, 2018
Outsourcing tasks to outside contractors is a smart move. There are endless tasks you can outsource to save time and money, but you need to proceed with caution. Outsourcing to get something off your plate is a strategy that will inevitably end in disaster. Choosing contractors carefully is as important as hiring the right employees. When you’re overwhelmed with work, it’s difficult to think clearly, and you might make the wrong choice.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 18, 2018
The main aim of any business is to grow and expand, achieve success and make as much money as possible. It’s therefore easily understandable why so many new companies push on to try and grow as quickly as they can. Yet fast growth isn’t always the best route. Source: Pixabay. Research from the Universities of California, Berkley and Stanford University found that a big problem for many failed tech start-ups was premature scaling, essentially businesses growing too fast.
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
Up and Running
AUGUST 20, 2018
This article is part of our “ Business Planning Guide “ —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! What is a business plan? In its simplest form, a business plan is a guide—a roadmap for your business that outlines goals and details how you plan to achieve those goals. In this article, I’ll explore the sections of a business plan, as well as: Who needs a business plan.
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2018
Ready to design a new website? Website expert Steve Benjamins explains summarizes the benefits and drawbacks of single page web design.
Start Up Roar brings together the best content for start up professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2018
If you have employees that work from home or from the road, the thought has probably crossed your mind: How can I be sure my people are working and not goofing off while billing my company? This issue is probably most prevalent for those who work with an outside or traveling salesforce or a team of people who work from home. Traveling is part of the job in sales, but how can you be sure they are out there selling?
Spencer Fry
AUGUST 20, 2018
There's a lot of advice out there for startups. Here are seven ways to think about your startup that will have greater impact on you and your business than any of the typical BS being passed around. #1: Don't take yourself so seriously. This is such a terrible problem with startups these days. Many startups take themselves so seriously that they won’t take a stand for anything and therefore, have no personality.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 19, 2018
It’s that time of year, when we all need to promote the panels we have submitted to the SXSW Panel Picker. It feels far away, but now is the time when SXSW really gets planned so if you don’t have an idea what you’re doing then you’re already behind the ball! Your votes really count?—?they account for 30% of the decision on whether or not a panel is accepted and can really help one stick out from others with the same topic.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 21, 2018
CEO of software crowd testing company, testIO, Phil Soffer. An early hacker in his teens and a Berkeley Ph.D. candidate in his 20s, Phil is one of the most charismatic and atypical CEOs that you will likely meet. He spent years working in the Valley and considers himself part of the rather undiscovered Plumtree Mafia (includes top execs at Redfin, Xoom, Atlassian, Zendesk and a number of VCs).
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 21, 2018
In running your startup, you could find yourself faced with many challenges that seem to keep stacking up. One particularly obvious one is cost. But you might also realise that your startup isn’t sufficiently flexible in structure to handle rapid growth that could be suddenly sparked. Source: Pexels. These are just two of the dilemmas which can be solved if you move more of your desktop operations to the cloud.
deal architect
AUGUST 21, 2018
This summer while researching for SAP Nation 3.0, I have also been reading plenty about the young nation of the US in the 1800s. The comparisons to the enterprise vendor market, two centuries later, in the 2000s are striking. In.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 23, 2018
How to Edge Out Your Competition by Being Uncopyable written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Steve A. Miller. Podcast Transcript. This week’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Steve A. Miller. Miller is a consultant, speaker, and author. His most recent book, Uncopyable: How to Create an Unfair Advantage Over Your Competition , is about how small business owners can create an uncopyable relationship with their clients to keep them coming b
Austin Startup
AUGUST 23, 2018
Let’s be real… I was raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia and I had a privileged upbringing. I went to private school and played on club sports teams. The people around me were very white and very conservative. My dad is Iranian, and I grew up thinking that was something I should be ashamed of because of the ignorant behavior I encountered. I remember cringing when my peers would ask me which college football team my dad preferred.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 18, 2018
A high-risk business is one that is considered to operate in a high-risk industry or one with a high risk of financial failure. Such business includes online gambling business, online dating, CBD business, medical marijuana business, online pharmacies and drugs stores and many others. These businesses regarding merchant services are those with a high propensity for chargebacks or customer fraud.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 18, 2018
As a startup investor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 exist ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). Startups which display real innovation, such as alternative energy sources and new medical treatments, are still rare.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 23, 2018
Transcript of How to Edge Out Your Competition by Being Uncopyable written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: You come up with this great, new invention or innovation, and you’d go to market, and then like within a week, somebody copies it. That’s a problem, isn’t it? What you need to do is learn how to be uncopyable, and that’s what we’re going to do on this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Po
Austin Startup
AUGUST 22, 2018
5 Recently Collected Stories from the Branding Trenches Patterns by my awesome team at In-House Int’l The ability to pick up on detail and nuance is great for building relationships; everyone appreciates being heard. In work relationships, active listening is a trust machine partly because the picking up on detail signals that you care. When it comes to the world at large, the bombardment of stimulus is enough to pull most of us into autopilot mode.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 20, 2018
When you are running a small business in today’s competitive climate, you will need to get as much good press and publicity as possible. A key to achieving this is by getting your business online but, like most things in life, it is not as simple as just throwing your companies hat in the ring and hoping you get some more customers through your door.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 24, 2018
Most of the people I know in business are just plodding along, working hard, and hoping that their natural talent, with a little random luck, will somehow keep them ahead of the crowd, and let them enjoy their life as well. They don’t realize that you can make your own luck as an entrepreneur, start your own business, and get an unprecedented opportunity to achieve your highest potential.
Rembrandt Communications
AUGUST 22, 2018
Are you overwhelmed with all the publicity data out there? If you want some small business PR help, you are in the right place. I know how it is. You get bombarded with emails and marketing messages about getting your name to the top of the search engines, distributed to hundreds of media sites, and […]. The post Small Business PR Help For Free appeared first on Small business PR and content strategy that boost sales, awareness and credibility fast!
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 20, 2018
To expand your wealth and achieve specific financial goals, you’re going to have to make some investments. However, those investments come with the significant risk of potential loss. Fortunately, the investment world has grown to offer more investment options and ways to assess those options. This includes more opportunities for individuals and companies to get […].
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 19, 2018
Venturing into a particular business is in the hope of getting profit. Knowing the type of business that will thrive in a specific area is a challenge for most potential entrepreneurs. So decisions should be made most effectively. Failure to make clear choices leads to collapsing of enterprises after being established. A collapsed firm which had not survived for long may lead to a considerable loss to the owner.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 22, 2018
Market opportunities for your new venture are now immediately worldwide, thanks to the pervasive access to the Internet and social media communication. But this doesn’t mean that you can treat the world as one big homogeneous market, ignoring the vastly different geographic cultures, economic, and political realities. Scaling worldwide is like hyperlocal on steroids.
VC Cafe
AUGUST 20, 2018
Direct-To-Consumer, or DTC in short, are products or services that are financed, designed, produced, marketed, distributed and sold by the same company. They bypass the middleman and connect. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!
Rembrandt Communications
AUGUST 22, 2018
Are you overwhelmed with all the publicity data out there? If you want some small business PR help, you are in the right place. I know how it is. You get bombarded with emails and marketing messages about getting your name to the top of the search engines, distributed to hundreds of media sites, and more. You spend the time and effort to review some of this data, but it can be even more overwhelming.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 21, 2018
When you’re first setting on your start-up journey, one of the key challenges is going to be making a mark in the market. Your business planning should have thrown up how many competitors you have working against you and what they’re offering, so hopefully you have adapted your approach to give clients something unique, a reason to want to come to you.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 20, 2018
Every business executive and entrepreneur I know believes they are good or even great leaders, but as an advisor I often hear a different story from their team. You probably have a few stories of your own about a least favorite boss who was always too busy to listen, gave nothing but critical feedback, was prone to emotional outbursts, or simply was not really present in body and spirit.
Up and Running
AUGUST 22, 2018
Maybe you’re ready for a career change. Maybe you’re still unsure what career to pursue in the first place. Maybe all you really know is that you want to run your own business, but are fresh out of small business ideas. While looking at the booming industries year by year can be tempting, it’s also a good idea to look to your strengths. What is your skill set?
Version One Ventures
AUGUST 24, 2018
Our first investment in healthcare was five years ago in Figure 1 , a platform for viewing. and discussing real-world medical cases with healthcare professionals. This investment shaped our original thesis in the category. Figure 1 plays outside the healthcare care system; it’s permissionless innovation, like Yammer or Slack in the enterprise. As we wrote in our Digital Healthcare blog series , “ Even more complex than the enterprise, the healthcare market is muddled by byzantine incumbency, l
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 21, 2018
When you’re starting or about to start a new business, there are a million and one things to think about; staffing, products, budget, salaries, vacations, customers, and so much more. However, the one thing that all businesses have in common is that as a business owner, you are obligated to ensure that your premises is safe, your staff are safe, and also your customers too.
K9 Ventures
AUGUST 18, 2018
I last ordered business cards in 2009. I think I ordered a thousand of them. And I haven’t run out of them yet — because most times when I need them, I don’t have them on me. They’re either at the office, or in my car, or in my backpack; but never with me where/when I need them. Handing someone a piece of paper in 2018 to exchange contact information just seems archaic and mind-numbingly dumb to me.
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2018
Managing people is one of the hardest things to master as an employer. Every member of your staff has different motivations, personal goals and behavior.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 20, 2018
By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News Building a startup is like riding a roller coaster of emotions for most founders. Monday it was a particularly difficult ride for more than 15,000 founders because of a technical glitch by Y Combinator. The Mountain View, Calif.-based accelerator created a free online Startup School to pair […]. The post Y Combinator Informs 15,000+ Startups: You’re in, You’re Out, You’re All Accepted to Startup School appeared first on Silic
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 20, 2018
Do you have a car that hardly leaves the garage area on most days? Most insurance providers offer a standard low-mileage discount to car owners who sustain yearly mileage under a specific edge, for example, 7,000 miles annually. Generally, in most states, the discounted price cuts down on the insurance costs on a full insurance coverage plan by 3 %.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 21, 2018
A few weeks ago I wrote about the launch of the Looking Glass , a desktop holographic display made for 3D creators. Since then, over a thousand people have purchased a Looking Glass for their desks. I think part of the reason for this attention is that the Looking Glass is filling a much-needed hole in the REPL for Hardware flow alongside additive and subtractive desktop 3D printers and laser cutters.
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