Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 24, 2020
As a frequent advisor to new entrepreneurs and startups, I often hear your frustration with being treated differently from other startups by investors, on expectations for valuation , traction, and market size. Of course, it could be your level of experience, or the quality of your team, but the difference is often more related to the lifecycle stage of the market you are trying to enter.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 21, 2020
Ringless voicemail or voicemail drop is a way of delivering voice messages to other people without even calling or ringing their phones. This method is often used by businesses to send voice messages to their prospects, clients, and customers without interrupting them. To put it simply, ringless voicemail is a type of software that allows you to send pre-recorded messages to other people’s phone voicemail.
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ReadWriteStart
JUNE 26, 2020
The world has changed… Two months ago, if I told you that remote work would be the global norm by mid-April, you’d have thought I was hanging out with Elon Musk too much. And, if I told you that by the beginning of May, you’d make every hire remotely, you might have laughed in my face. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19. …suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 24, 2020
If your website is starting to look dated or you find yourself wondering why your traffic is stagnant no matter how hard you work at your digital ad campaigns, it might be time for a reboot. Redesigning a website is a great way to drum up some new traffic, encourage users to give your new page a look, and re-establish yourself with the major search engines after an overhaul.
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
JUNE 26, 2020
As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. You may have heard that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley no longer read business plans. What you don’t realize is these famous investors only deal with entrepreneurs who sold their last company for a $100M dollars or more.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 20, 2020
Keeping track of your business’ finances will help you manage them effectively. However, not all business owners have a knack with numbers. According to Preferred CFO, 82% of businesses fail due to a lack of cash flow management skills and poor financial management in general. To address this issue, some business owners need to understand and record finances on their own.
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The Startup Magazine
JUNE 24, 2020
There are many factors that make or break a business. Whether external or internal, these factors should be evaluated and understood both from an owner’s viewpoint and an expert’s opinion as well. Mentorship has proven to be one of the most powerful tools that any business owner can have, especially if they are new to the journey of being an entrepreneur.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 20, 2020
Entrepreneurs need to be effective team leaders, since no one can transform an idea into a product and a business without some help. Unfortunately many founders I work with as a mentor are experts on the technical side, but have no insight into leading a team. But fortunately, team building is a skill that can be learned and practiced, for those willing to put in some effort.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 24, 2020
by Sharon Koifman, CEO of DistantJob. The rapid shift to remote work sent ripples through the business world. As quarantine orders were passed, businesses had to quickly modify their processes to make them compatible with a remote workforce. In total, about 20 percent of U.S. adults were able to work from home, with those in the service industry and essential workers unable to work remotely.
ConversionXL
JUNE 24, 2020
Click fraud occurs when a pay-per-click advertisement is clicked on by a user with malicious or disingenuous intent. Click fraud first came to light in 2005, when several major cases were taken to court. However, it continues to poison marketing campaigns—and find its way into more and more courtrooms. Juniper Research estimates that click fraud cost advertisers $42 billion in 2019.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 24, 2020
Even the most talented firms that have won awards can get stuck when it comes to growing their firm both digitally and physically. While being excellent lawyers is one skillset, getting the word out about how great you are is a completely different one. While you might feel that getting the word out is easy, it requires an entirely different marketing “mind” and skillset to generate lasting and sustainable growth for your business over the course of years.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 22, 2020
How to Build a Business as an Introvert written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Kim Beasley. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Kim Beasley. Early in life, Kim believed that making a difference in the lives of others was very important. Even when she experienced hardships in her life, she determined that these hardships wouldn’t stop her from achieving her dreams of creating a business.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 26, 2020
When running a business, there’s one element that is more important than any other: the customer. If you don’t have customers purchasing your products or services, your company will quickly cease to exist. It’s that simple. Due to the importance of customers, your communication with them should be a primary concern. Not only can this help to convince potential consumers into buying your wares, but it’s also a significant factor in ensuring current customers keep coming back for more.
ConversionXL
JUNE 23, 2020
Advertorials are long-form paid ads, presented as informative articles—hence the name, a blend of “advertisement” and “editorial.”. In past print and current online versions, they match the appearance, perception, and function of the media outlet where they’re hosted, so they don’t really look like ads. Executed well, advertorials provide value to the target audience while also selling a product or service.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 21, 2020
J. K. Rowling while responding to a tweet for CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen, tweeted : “I don’t understand bitcoin. Please explain it to me.” She sparked a debate that would last on Twitter for no less than 4 hours. Most probably, she was not aware that there is a crypto community on Twitter who tweet about bitcoin and cryptocurrency almost every day, and can’t wait for opportunities such as this to show their arguments why crypto is good for the world.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 25, 2020
Do You Have What it Takes to Become an Entrepreneur? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Gino Wickman. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Gino Wickman author of Entrepreneurial Leap: Do you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur? Gino has been an entrepreneur since the age of 21, he has had an obsession for learning what makes businesses and entrepreneurs thrive.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 20, 2020
Daily habits are an integral part of every entrepreneur. And the principal aim is to focus more and set out to achieve your goals. What works for another person may not necessarily work for you. Nonetheless, create a daily routine and develop better habits that can help you become successful. These include exercise, reading, and sleeping adequately.
Steve Blank
JUNE 23, 2020
The pandemic has upended the business models of most startups and existing companies. As the economy reopens companies are finding that customers may have disappeared or that their spending behavior has changed. Suppliers are going out of business or requiring cash-up-front terms. Accounts receivables are stretching way out. Revenue models and forecasts are no longer valid.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 25, 2020
Digital banking concepts are changing the way financial institutions engage with customers. One of these trends is banking personalization. The days of one-size-fits-all financial products are numbered. Here is why and how. Driven by data. Personalization with digital banking starts with customers’ data. Because of the nature of their services banks have some of the most intimate information on their clients.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 21, 2020
Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Both have worked. Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500M users into a $35B public company, and now growing revenue.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 26, 2020
by Monica Eaton-Cardone, Co-Founder and COO of Chargebacks911. The world is in a state of uncertainty. Cases of COVID-19 continue to spread and millions of people are experiencing upheaval in both their personal and professional lives. We’re in a period of rapid change, which can be a scary, confusing, and frustrating experience. Now more than ever, people look to leaders to encourage and support them through the turmoil and confusion.
Board Effect
JUNE 22, 2020
Despite everything going on in the world, there’s been no slowdown in cyberattacks. The increase in the complexity and sophistication of cyberattacks continues to plague cybersecurity experts. If your company hasn’t been victimized by a data breach, it could be that it’s only a matter of time before you will be. Cybercriminals have found many different ways to enter your system.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 23, 2020
Interested in starting a company in the UK? Of course, you are — why wouldn’t you be? The UK is a fantastic and lucrative market. A dynamic and ever-changing landscape, based around the international hub that is London, the UK enjoys one of the world’s healthiest and most stable economies for a UK startup, fed by both domestic consumers and a myriad of intercontinental interests.
View from Seed
JUNE 23, 2020
“Be formless, shapeless, like water.” – Bruce Lee. I was on a pitch video call the other day when the founder asked me what the guiding principle for product was at Blue Apron when I was leading the team there, and my response was that consumer product experience should be like water. At a first glance, that could sound pretty counterintuitive – isn’t the point of a product team to purposefully design and build?
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 24, 2020
HelixNano was founded to develop cancer vaccines. When co-founders Hannu Rajaniemi and Nikolai Eroshenko realized their work was applicable to a coronavirus vaccine, too, they changed direction immediately. It only took them a week to become fully committed to this new work. Just five weeks after that they had animal data on immune responses to their first vaccine candidates.
deal architect
JUNE 21, 2020
I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 20, 2020
Data science and AI have been more relevant to many companies in different industries now. Data science and analysis are indeed the solution for many different data issues. If your company is working with large data, there’s a chance that you and your team are now struggling to solve the big data problem. Data Science Inputs. There will be some points where you’d need to use data science for your business.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 22, 2020
A popular myth that most of you probably believe is that startups are only for the younger generations. In fact, I see more and more evidence that new entrepreneurs are coming from the older age groups (age 45-64), and success rates move up with age. Is it possible that age and experience are more of an advantage in this business than young passion and fearlessness?
Austin Startup
JUNE 20, 2020
When you pour so much time, energy, and investment into your health or wellness business, it can be disheartening to feel like your brand is blending in with the rest. After all, the purpose of a brand is to stand out and attract more customers! If you hit a plateau, there are several strategic ways to set your business apart. Think of it as a two-pronged approach of: Focusing inward on the elements that make your business, purpose, and offering so unique and irreplaceable, and Focusing outward
deal architect
JUNE 20, 2020
I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 23, 2020
Take the time to find out more about the moving companies currently serving people in your area. How large are these moving companies? What kind of services do they offer? Is there anything that you can do that will help you to differentiate yourself from your competitors? If there’s a high demand for moving companies in your area, it might not be difficult for you to place yourself among successful moving companies.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 26, 2020
A major incident has been declared in Bournemouth as crowds flock to the beach. Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images. My first reaction to this photo was “you’ve got to be f **g kidding me.” My next reaction was the title of this post, “Humans Just Don’t Understand Complex Systems.” The Covid crisis is a complex system. I’ve had my head deep in complex systems for the past year as I worked with Ian Hathaway on our new book The Startup Community Way.
View from Seed
JUNE 24, 2020
After operating quietly for the past year, our portfolio company Jumbo made a couple big announcements yesterday, including the launch of Jumbo 2 as well as their $8M series A financing led by Balderton Capital. We were proud to be investors in Jumbo pre-product and to be working once again with Pierre Valade, one of the founders of NextView I portfolio company Sunrise.
deal architect
JUNE 24, 2020
Even though I call myself a glass half-full optimist, like everyone, I have mood swings during this wild phase. I had a roller coaster of a day yesterday, but did two calls in the evening and went to sleep very.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 21, 2020
Youtube is one of the most popular platforms for promoting your business. More than 73% of U.S adults spend billions of hours watching YouTube content every day. Making your business reach such a huge audience will be a game-changer for your business. There are a lot of ways to make your YouTube videos connect with the target audience. For example, you can educate customers about your product with the help of product training videos.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 25, 2020
Podcasts are one of my favorite content mediums, and I know I’m not alone. Podcasts are inexpensive, typically free, they’re incredibly diverse, they’re usually updated on a daily or weekly basis, and you can listen to them while doing other things—like driving, doing chores, or exercising. Here are ten entrepreneur podcasts every founder should listen to.
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