Feld Thoughts

JULY 20, 2020

I recently was in an email thread where a Black founder had a powerful and clear response to the question from one of her corporate partners. The question was: How can our (the corporate partner’s) team better support diversity in our work, particularly in our sourcing, diligence, and onboarding efforts? The entrepreneur responded with a long explanation that was a brilliant and extremely helpful perspective for me.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2020

Starting an online business is probably the best decision you can make in 2020. Following COVID-19 and massive job losses throughout the world, this is a choice that just makes sense. . Even if you have been able to hold on to your permanent job, an internet-based business will bring in an extra income. Following financial losses, almost everyone can do with extra money to see them through this period and beyond.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2020

Legal tech includes software and other tools that help attorneys and their support staff to provide legal services to clients. Many new applications empower reputable firms to improve their efficiency and adapt to mobile working environments. Here’s how legal tech companies are re-shaping the legal world. Legal tech also gives small firms and individual practitioners a chance to compete with larger competitors.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. Will they compete with me? what if they decide to enter my niche? What will they announce in the next Google I/O keynote? The same might be true for your view of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, etc.

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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

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Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright and the number of entrepreneurs will increase but others argue these changes are meant to work against budding or would-be entrepreneurs. Growing empowerment and embracing of individuality is motivating more people to begin their entrepreneurship journey.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2020

You’ve probably just started trading or are interested in joining millions of other people trading bitcoin. The best way to judge whether bitcoin trading appeals to you is by assessing the advantages associated with bitcoin trading. Bitcoin presents a novel way of trading using cryptocurrency. The introduction of cryptocurrency shocked the world since it developed a unique way of trading that didn’t rely on banks and monetary institutions.

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Up and Running

JULY 22, 2020

Whether you are selling goods, a subscription service, or online tools, finding ways to maximize your conversions is an ongoing task that you can’t afford to ignore. For a tech start-up or other online business, there are many smaller nuances to consider, including the wording of your pages, payment plan flexibility, and the navigation of your customers’ journey.

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2020

Sales and marketing misalignment reduces revenue, lowers the quality of customer service, and can even dampen company culture. So how do you get aligned? This post, based on our experiences, covers: What misalignment looks like—and what it costs; What alignment looks like—and what you get; Four steps to go from wherever you are now to greater alignment.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2020

by Caroline Eastman. By using the Internet and a few resources borrowed from different sources, people can make their ideas a reality. Keeping this in mind and by adding a little creative and innovative thinking people today have started their own businesses. For this, people need some extra capital to get things going. All you need to do is have an amazing business plan and the ability to present your business idea so well that it compels venture capitalists or banks so that they can issue you

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 23, 2020

How to Be Ready for What’s Next written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Chuck Swoboda. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Chuck Swoboda, author, speaker, podcast host, and the Innovator-in-Residence at Marquette University. He served as Chairman and CEO of Cree for 16 years where his team successfully led the LED lighting revolution not just by creating new products, but by focusing on solving old problems in completely

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2020

Online reviews are a vital part of running a successful online business. Good reviews can enhance credibility, trustworthiness, traffic and even conversion rates, so they should be a crucial part of your customer acquisition strategy. Here are some of our top tips on successfully managing your reviews online. TV Presenter Naomi Isted Reviews App Features.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2020

The reigning theory in business has long been that “alpha” leaders make the best entrepreneurs. These are aggressive, results-driven achievers who assert control, and insist on a hierarchical organizational model. Yet I am seeing more and more success from “beta” startup cultures, like Zappos and Amazon, where the emphasis is on collaboration, curation, and communication.

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2020

Austin, Texas is the “Live Music Capital of the World,” one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the US, and a hub of entrepreneurship and innovation. One distinctive feature of Austin is that its residents love wellness, fitness, and health. From running on the downtown trails to hiking the greenbelts to stand-up paddle boarding on Lady Bird Lake, Austinites lead active and outdoor-focused lifestyles all year round.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2020

Integrating Creativity in Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Sarah Avenir. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Sarah Avenir, writer, researcher, and partner and CEO at &yet , a design and software consultancy that’s kind of hard to describe. Sarah wrote Gather the People based on a decade of research and personal experience as she’s tried to figure out how we can get people to care about our work witho

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Start Up Blog

JULY 23, 2020

Work hard at anything and you’ll get results. Work hard on things where you have natural talents and your results will be amazing. Here’s the good news: every single one of us has unique talents. Talents that when uncovered, worked on and combined can give us extraordinary outcomes. But here’s the trick: we need to find a way to combine what seems like a normal human social gift or proclivity into economics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

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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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

"We knew that if we wanted immediate action, the only way to do that was with private money," Lenore Estrada explained to me as we talked about why she founded SF New Deal in the days after being forced to lay off most of the staff at her San Francisco bakery, Three Babes Bakeshop. SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 22, 2020

The Agency Growth Secrets Behind Design Pickle written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Russ PErry. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Russ Perry, CEO of Design Pickle. Russ Perry has been involved in branding and marketing strategy for over the last decade. He has worked to shift the status-quo with brands such as Apple, Morgan Stanley, Pebble Tec, LG, Botanicare and the Harlem Globetrotters.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 21, 2020

Nowadays, increasing numbers of people are looking into running their own business. This isn’t all too surprising. In general, people are growing tired of working long hours in fields of specialism they’re not all too interested in, in order to earn someone else’s fortune on their behalf. Instead, people would rather place themselves at the top of the pecking order, choose what field they operate in and keep the majority of profits earned by setting up their own company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI).

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Board Effect

JULY 20, 2020

So many duties, responsibilities, and characteristics fall under the umbrella of things that board directors should embody. Overall, the word that encapsulates the responsibilities of board directors is governance. Because governance runs like a vein through every decision the board makes, it’s vital that every board director understands what governance is and what constitutes good governance.

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deal architect

JULY 24, 2020

I interviewed Geoff Scott and Dave Wascom of ASUG (America's SAP User's Group) last week, and we talked about SAP customer heroics during the pandemic, S/4HANA adoption plans, remote implementations and other topics. The replay is here. This week, I.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 20, 2020

Doors are not something we take notice of in a day to day life. They’re simply things we lock and unlock to let ourselves in and out of places. The only interaction with doors is a brief moment when we hold the knob and push it open. We never really sit and ponder over the material used in it or its purpose in different places. Well, we are going to do that right here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2020

Brand loyalty is still critical for your business growth, but is becoming tougher and tougher to achieve and hold. According to studies , the alternative of acquiring new customers still costs you five to seven times more than retaining existing ones. But customers today are fickle, instantly aware of every new alternative, due to the Internet and social media, and not afraid to change.

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View from Seed

JULY 22, 2020

One phrase that I often say is that “traction creates opportunity”. We were talking about this today and realized that I’ve never written a blog post on the topic, although I’ve said it countless times over the years. So here we go. Early stage companies often debate what they ought to be prioritizing in the early days. Do you focus on team? Do you focus on learning?

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deal architect

JULY 22, 2020

In December, I wrote decade-end perspectives on enterprise software and services. You can read them again here and here. So, how has the pandemic changed the landscape? In many ways, it has exposed the weaknesses of many software and services.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 23, 2020

Recently, my fellow Greylock investor Saam Motamedi and I examined the question of how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected venture investing, and what entrepreneurs should do in response. This week, I’d like to turn to the question of how current market conditions affect the approach entrepreneurs should take towards their exit strategy. The fundamental choice that venture-backed entrepreneurs face is simple: M&A or IPO?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2020

When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Rather than quitting, there are always alternatives, like pivoting the business model or merging with new partners for support. Either could improve the statistic that half of startups fail within the first five years.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2020

Alessandra Torre is a New York Times bestselling author with 24 novels to her credit, and is also president and co-founder of Authors A.I., a tech start-up that uses artificial intelligence to help fiction authors write better books. In addition, she started an online community for authors that now includes online courses, an annual conference, and more than 10,000 authors.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 21, 2020

Technology changes. The startup market evolves, and so do we as VCs. Over the past few months, we’ve reflected on our journey over the past decade, who we are and what we invest in. We’ve quietly made changes to our website. And here’s the official unveiling, with a quick synopsis of our new messaging and the thinking behind it. . “Backing the next generation of mission-driven founders”.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2020

For the last several months, I’ve heard or read the phrase “the new normal” 7,354 times. I’ve steadily grown tired of it and now I believe it is an invalid concept. There is no new normal. We have move forward and get better. Steve Case wrote a great OpEd recently titled There’s no going back to the pre-pandemic economy. Congress should respond accordingly.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2020

As a newbie in the industry, you should be ready to work hard so that you can earn more profits with the help of the new thing called the internet. It is just like a factory for the newbies to learn how to run a business. The Best Digital Marketing Strategies for Startup Businesses. Do you know what marketing strategies are for your startup business?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2020

The value of the beauty industry as of last year is estimated to be around 532 billion dollars. That’s a lot of people and companies making a living off of makeup, skincare routines and products. If jobs in the beauty industry are something of interest to you and you don’t quite know how to get started, look no further. Here are seven helpful tips for a beauty career that will put you on track to success. 1.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 19, 2020

Driving under the influence (DUI), also known as driving while intoxicated (DWI), is one of the biggest causes of accidents across the world. If you’re a lawyer with extensive experience in defending or prosecuting drivers charged with DUI offences, you may consider setting up a DUI law firm that focuses on these cases. A DUI Lawyer law firm ensures clients have a strong defense team when they’re charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 21, 2020

We are in the midst of the most dramatic phrase transition I’ve experienced so far in my 54 years on this particular planet. Ian Hathaway and I talk about phase transitions (also known as a phase shift) in several parts of The Startup Community Way. P rogress is uneven, slow, and surprising. Complex systems exhibit nonlinear behavior, phase transitions (large shifts that materialize quickly), and fat-tailed distributions, where extremely high-impact events are more common than a normal sta

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Hearpreneur

JULY 22, 2020

We live in an era where technolgy goes hand in hand with business. It impacts the pace at which businesses grow and it remains interesting to see trends that will emerge from some of these technologies. A good example is the emergence of chatbots that help in instant messaging of customers/clients. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the technologies that will have the biggest impact on technology and here’s the responses. #1- Marketplace lending.

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