Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 16, 2022
One of the biggest myths in the business world is that startups are no place for Baby Boomers, that aging generation born between 1945 and 1964. They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Yet credible reports on current trends tell us just the opposite.
ConversionXL
OCTOBER 16, 2022
There’s more to ecommerce customer acquisition than increasing checkout conversion rates. For long-term, sustainable success, you must attract the right customers. The key is ongoing measurement and testing to understand which acquisition strategies work for your ecommerce business. In this article, you’ll learn how to gauge the effectiveness of any customer acquisition strategy.
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The Startup Magazine
OCTOBER 19, 2022
It’s always good to update your old product pages but it’s not always an easy process. You might be unsure how to write top-quality content writing or create eye-catching images of your products. Putting the time and effort into perfecting your product pages is important if you want to succeed as an eCommerce business. Your product pages are almost like an advert for your items and if they’re suboptimal, you’ll struggle to make sales.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 19, 2022
The Fastest And Least Expensive Way To Double Your Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Amanda Holmes. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Amanda Holmes. Amanda is the CEO of Chet Holmes International (CHI) which has worked with over 250,000 businesses worldwide. At age 24, she inherited her father’s multi-million dollar enterprise, which specializes in helping companies double their sales.
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
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. According to a classic article on Thrinacia , there were over 600 crowdfunding platforms in existence then, estimated to add more than $89 billion to the economy at a compound growth rate of 17% from 2019 to today.
Board Effect
OCTOBER 18, 2022
When we think of diversity in the nonprofit realm, we tend to think about it in terms of race, ethnicity, culture, religion, etc. However, not everyone considers the benefits of age diversity. Nonprofit boards are not well known for recruiting young people to serve on their boards. Yet, young people bring in fresh ideas and perspectives to everything they do.
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Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 20, 2022
How To Get What You Want By Helping Others Get What They Want written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Joe Polish. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Joe Polish. Joe is the Founder of Genius Network, one of the highest-level groups in the world for entrepreneurs. Joe has helped build thousands of businesses and generated hundreds of millions of dollars for his clients.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 15, 2022
As a startup mentor, I’m always amazed that some entrepreneurs seem to be an immediate hit with investors, while others struggle to get any attention at all. Finally I realized that venture capital and angel investors are actually humans, despite some views to the contrary. As with most business and personal interactions, first impressions tend to become lasting ones.
deal architect
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Oracle has its CloudWorld event this week. Gartner has its annual Symposium. I am at neither. I was not invited and I did not ask to be. Have missed both events for years now. I am taking a calculated risk.
Our Own Start-up
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Having a professional website is essential for the success and your business. If you're in the market for a new website, ask your developers these questions. The post 6 Questions to Ask Your Real Estate Website Developers first appeared on Our Own Startup.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 16, 2022
Share your TikTok videos on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook to attract more followers to your account and increase your reach. The post How To Share A TikTok Video On Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram appeared first on Young Upstarts.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 21, 2022
One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there are over 34 million registered developers in 2022. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit.
deal architect
OCTOBER 20, 2022
In the 78th episode of Burning Platform, we host Raju Vegesna, Chief Evangelist at Zoho, a repeat guest in this series Zoho One – also branded as “the Operating System for Business” - is a suite of 50 and growing.
Gust
OCTOBER 17, 2022
How has fundraising changed in the last few years? Between COVID, the evolution of the API economy, and a increase in second, third & fourth time founders who are seeking funding. Janelle van Deventer breaks down the options for raising capital through bootstrapping, dilutive investors, government subsides and various forms of debt. The post How To Raise Capital and How Raising Capital Has Changed appeared first on Gust.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 15, 2022
By identifying high-potential employees and investing in their development, talent management can help to improve the overall performance and retention of top talent. . The post What You Need To Know About Talent Management appeared first on Young Upstarts.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over twice as many companies, according to a classic Crunchbase article. A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 16, 2022
Last week it came out that a tech founder, who wishes to remain anonymous, makes about $200K a year ghost writing tweets for VCs … the creator economy at its best! Ghostwriting tweets for venture capitalists is my side hustle. Last year I made about $200,000. Some VCs will pay you per tweet. I’ve done $100,000 threads to announce a big funding round, and I’ve also done $100 tweets.
crowdSPRING Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Content is king for your small business. Drive results with your content marketing strategy with these ten creative visual marketing ideas.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Hussain Almossawi shares six tips that can help you to come up with creative ideas, even when you feel like you're stuck. The post Coming Up With Creative Ideas Is Not About Reinventing The Wheel appeared first on Young Upstarts.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 17, 2022
The post A former Spotify exec predicts podcasters who favor video formats will tap into more money and a bigger audience appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.
This is going to be BIG.
OCTOBER 18, 2022
So many times, I’ve heard founders ask me, “How do I find great engineers?” or “Do you know any awesome marketers?” That always struck me as the wrong way of looking at the problem—but I couldn’t quite figure out why. I realized that you’d never ask this question if you had built a consumer app and you were trying to do customer acquisition. No one ever asks, “Where do you find users for my dating app?
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 17, 2022
This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off inspired to become great. Here are some takeaways from the video: Don't allow your destiny to take a backseat because of excuses. If it's important to you, you will find a way. Excuses don't yield results. Life is too short to make excuses. Fear leads to excuses.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Implementing a proper SEO campaign can significantly improve your online traffic. Here are the key elements of a good SEO campaign. . The post What Makes A Good SEO Campaign? appeared first on Young Upstarts.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 17, 2022
The post Meet Fizz, The Social App Downloaded By “95% of Stanford Undergrads appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Venture capital is down 36% globally QoQ and a lot of startups face an uncertain future. We all know the adage: the best companies are built in down cycles. In this post, we’ll cover why this is true and how to take advantage of it. The nature of venture capital cycles. Venture capital is cyclical in nature, meaning that there are ups and downs in the market.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Yahya Mokhtarzada, along with two of his brothers, founded Truebill, which was acquired by Rocket Companies for $1.275 billion. We dived into Yahya’s background, exploring his first two companies, one started with his brothers that he left (but did enjoy a big exit of over $100 million) and an advertising company that was a true […]. The post Yahya Mokhtarzada, Co-Founder Truebill, Sold To Rocket Companies For $1.275 Billion (VC EP34) appeared first on Yaro.Blog.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Steve Weinberg, author of "Above Quota Performance" shares his insights in an interview about the new skills sales pros need to deal with the profound changes in today’s marketplace. The post [Interview] Steve Weinberg, Author Of “Above Quota Performance” appeared first on Young Upstarts.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 17, 2022
The post The 13 most promising cybersecurity startups of 2022, according to VCs appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Duct Tape Marketing
OCTOBER 15, 2022
Weekend Favs October 15 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but I encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.
Berkonomics
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Is your commission structure so complex that even you must have help understanding it – and calculating a commission on a pending bid? Salespeople are incentivized by the money. Of course. They usually can calculate what’s in it for them before they make the final presentation and ask for the order. But what if the commission plan is so complex that even the people who should be most excited cannot understand or calculate the winning numbers?
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Looking to reduce the amount of tax you pay on your own small business? Oumesh Sauba shares some money saving tax tips for the self employed. The post Money Saving Tax Tips For The Self-Employed appeared first on Young Upstarts.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 17, 2022
The post Fidu wants to be a full stack solution for LatAm private schools appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.
OnlyOnce
OCTOBER 20, 2022
( Post 3 of 4 in the series of Scaling CRO’s- the other posts are When to Hire your First Chief Revenue Officer and What does Great Look like in a Chief Revenue Officer ). If you’ve hired a “great” CRO (see previous post) you might think that you’re set for a long time and that the great CROs are also able to scale. Not always, and you’ll have to check to make sure that your CRO is scaling and growing as much as your company.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Starting a new business can be both exhilarating and daunting. It’s an exciting time, but there are also a lot of unknowns. So how do you get started? What are the most important things to do? This blog post will discuss five ways to jumpstart your new business and help you get off to a successful start! 1. Do Your Research. Before you jump into starting a new business , it’s important to do your research and understand the industry you’re entering.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 17, 2022
The right advisors can be a boon for your startup, taking you from idea to execution and staying with you as you scale and solidify your place as a market leader. The post The Benefits Of Having The Right Advisors When Launching A Startup appeared first on Young Upstarts.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 17, 2022
The post Xembly Raises Cash to Develop An AI Assistant For Corporate Meetings appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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