YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Everyone has to start somewhere, and while some people’s luck is undoubtedly significantly better than others, for the majority of people, startups are usually as bootstrapped and painful as possible. In today’s post our mission is to help you minimize, or altogether avoid, the painful traps a lot of startups get sucked into on their endeavor of future business success.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
In my experience as an advisor to entrepreneurs, business startup founders most often point to a shortage of funds as the primary cause of their startup failure. Yet I often see evidence that points right back at the founder or business owner, attempting to maintain excessive power and influence over of the effort, leading to a wide range of problems and a dysfunctional team.
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View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. Hopefully by this point in your deck, you have grabbed the investor’s attention based on your team, a crisp articulation of what you do, and some impressive proof points that things are working.
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
I love running growth teams. It’s everything I could want from a job. It directly impacts the company, is fairly autonomous, works great with a few high-caliber folks, and involves a ton of A/B tests. I’ve spent years running these teams—but I don’t know if I’ll ever build one again. I doubt that I’ll even have a growth team at any company I’m managing in the future.
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
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Rebranding a business is a marketing strategy wherein a new name, design, concept, term, symbol, and combination of these elements are created for a brand. The aim is to develop a differentiated and new identity in the minds of consumers, competitors, investors, and other stakeholders. If the execution of business rebranding is done poorly, you might end up suffering extreme consequences.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 8, 2019
Angel investors and venture capitalists don’t make equity investments in nonprofit good causes. The simple reason is that it’s impossible to make money for investors when the goal of the company is to not make money. Yet as an active angel investor, I still get this question on a regular basis, so I’ll try to outline the considerations in common-sense terms.
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Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
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.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Why should you be looking for the best cross-browser testing tool? If you own a website, then a cross-browser testing tool is very important for you. Cross-browser testing is a technique used in evaluating the functionality of your web application on different browsers before you add changes in production. For a website where the users belong to a specific group and use the same browser, you can test the changes manually.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. They have proven themselves unable to innovate, and they have lost more jobs than they create. My friends who “grew up” with lifetime careers in General Motors, Exxon Mobil, or even IBM, are now often too embarrassed to even mention it.
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Hiring a reputation management agency is a major step in growing your business. First of all, it means that you actually have the funds to outsource your reputation management tasks. Secondly, it means that you are developing some semblance of an online reputation for your brand. Hopefully, consumers are saying only positive things about your company, but one can only dream. .
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Webinars can establish a relationship with leads and teach them how your product can improve their lives. Some 75% of marketing and sales leaders say webinars are one of the most effective methods to generate high-quality brand awareness. But not every webinar is a success— 78% of webinars have 50 or fewer attendees. A major reason? Poor promotion. If you can promote your webinar the right way, you can gobble up more viewers and increase conversions.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
I am a nonprofit board member, and I will tell you: For the most part, I pull my hair out at board meetings when we get to the budget. Usually, there is a series of QuickBooks reports, presented as PDFs, in a teeny-tiny font. . The line items don’t always make sense, and it is often very hard to tell if a particular initiative is actually financially healthy for a nonprofit. .
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Transcript of Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Sell Their Companies written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is John Warrillow. He is the founder of the Value Builder System , a company that helps business owners improve the value of their company, and he’s also the author of the bestselling book, Built to Sell: Cre
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
Imagine this – you are cruising down the Interstate-5. You see another car pull up by your side. The car looks strange, with a claw-like fixture on top. As it passes by your car, you see it has no driver! The passengers are looking down at something and the car moves ahead. Congrats, you just saw your first self-driving car, a truly autonomous vehicle!
Board Effect
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Companies develop their leadership structure based on several things, including the company’s size, type of industry, geographical location, regulations and other criteria. The leadership hierarchy should be arranged so that the company has strong direction and accountability. Titles and ranks can be confusing since there is so much variance among corporate structures.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
I’m sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses that we should have taken. What’s more disconcerting to me is that I can name a few that aren’t usually even offered, resulting in more than a few students graduating ill-prepared for the real business world!
deal architect
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
I joined Gartner in 1995. I remember clients would call and say they were getting ready for next-gen applications, but that they felt they had "enough time". The deadline in their case was, of course, the Y2K "wall". By the.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
When you’re working hard to launch a business, one thing is for sure – you’ve undoubtedly got way too much on your plate. From preparing your latest pitch for funding , to improving your customer service , generating content for your website and even chasing up unpaid invoices, you’re likely to be doing a million different things yourself or with a very small team in place.
Board Effect
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Much of what happens in board meetings is routine. There simply isn’t time to commit to all the legwork that needs to be done in each committee. It’s not necessary for all board members to be involved in all the details of every task, but it is important that they be informed of what is happening in committees and be provided an opportunity to ask questions about it before their work proceeds too far.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 7, 2019
An entrepreneur is literally “one who creates a new business.” The best new businesses are ones that have never been done before, so mastering creativity and recognizing creativity are key skills and mindsets. But how does one recognize and nurture creativity in a person or team? In researching this question, I reviewed a classic book by Bryan Mattimore, “ Idea Stormers: How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs ,” which details eight attributes of the most creative people, which seem to ma
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
by Nicole Lapin, author of “ Becoming Super Woman: A Simple 12-Step Plan to Go from Burnout to Balance “ I thought I was Superwoman. I’d wrapped up shooting for the second season of my TV show and had just finished touring the country promoting my second book. I was a badass New York Times bestselling author who preached badassery to other women.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
When it comes to building a business, it can be easy to lose sight of your initial goals and objectives, and become a slave to the daily grind of simply running it. Things like payroll , recruitment, IT support, buildings maintenance, housekeeping, and general administration all take a considerable amount of time, and can consume most – if not all – of the time required to grow and scale.
Board Effect
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Well-organized companies and organizations begin planning board meetings as soon as the previous meeting ends. Other boards fly by the seat of their pants and throw an agenda together the week before the meeting. Board meetings are serious business. If it’s important enough to have a board meeting, it’s important enough to plan appropriately for it.
deal architect
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
I am going to miss going to the event next week. My fault. I had a conflict that cleared up, but not in time for Oracle to register me. I have asked them for streaming info so will catch up.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 7, 2019
Printed t shirt’s have become such a staple part of the modern wardrobe that we rarely take a minute to appreciate what they really stand for. Be it a statement you stand for, a promotional piece, or your favourite band top that you just cannot part with. 2019 has been a big year for the growth of t-shirt printing and here is a rundown of what we believe to be some of the reasons why.
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. By now, you’ve described your team and the high level overview of what your company does. Now it’s time to set the stage with the early traction you have.
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
So you’ve started a business: you’ve made a great product, achieved product-market fit and have an extraordinary road map laid out. But to build a scalable business you need more than just product-market fit. There’s more to your business’s success than how great your product is. How your company works operationally, and the financial concepts that help you measure performance, greatly impact the ultimate success of your business.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Virtually every startup has to find funding somewhere. Although some founders take venture capital in exchange for equity, that’s not the only way to do it. To learn more about the pros and cons of venture capital — and founders’ funding alternatives — I caught up with Mark McKee. Before being named president and COO of OnPay , a growing online payroll solution for small businesses, McKee worked as managing director of The Lenox Group, where he advised growing companies on how best to raise and
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 8, 2019
We are living in a consumerist society. You will come across a variety of business startups selling different ideas. In this competitive stage, it has become difficult to start your own business. The main obstacle is capital. If there are problems having capital, there are many ways in which your startup can be funded. Money can be borrowed immediately from a number of sources in order to fund the business you are looking forward to start.
Hunter Walker
SEPTEMBER 8, 2019
God bless Gené Teare for now I have something which explains what I do all day in a format my parents can grok. As part of Seed Series for Crunchbase News , Gené wrote up an extended interview with me and Satya. She told us we were the first time in the series that two partners were interviewed together. That’s really emblematic of what Homebrew is – not one of us plus the other, but the combination of us both – and hopefully in a “sum greater than its parts” type o
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
If you’ve always dreamed of becoming the Chief Executive Officer of your very own company, you might not be far off in making that dream a reality. It doesn’t matter how small or large your business operations are, the best way to successfully run your own business is by putting together a kick-ass team. This isn’t a one-man show unless of course, you have a very small business that requires very little outside support.
The Equity Kicker
SEPTEMBER 8, 2019
A couple of weeks back I did an interview with Abadesi Osunsade from Product Hunt. We discussed a number of themes close to my heart, including the future of venture, Forward Partners culture and the power of mindfulness practice. Embed here, and more detail of what we discussed below. (Originally published on Product Hunt last week.). In this episode they talk about….
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 8, 2019
Technology has the potential to change the entire way we do business. This isn’t a secret: for years, companies have been holding video-conferences instead of meeting in person or using online tools to improve productivity. One thing that’s failed to keep up, however, is the workplace itself; despite 50% of US employees having a job that could be done at least partially remotely, telecommuters make up just over 3% of the workforce.
YFS Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Successful founders and CEOs utilize a few essential practices to help them push forward in the most difficult of times.
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
If you are planning to manage your own startup or business after being employed or working as part of a larger business, this can be a daunting process. Managerial skills take some study and practice. There are a number of different factors that you have to take into consideration such as finances and employees that you will not have had control of in the past.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Guest post by Lean Startup Co. Events Team ? This October marks the 10th anniversary of the Lean Startup Conference. We’ve come a long way over the last decade, but this year we also decided to go back to the fundamentals. This past spring, we used our own techniques to structure and plan a program that truly meets customer needs. Our team was deeply invested in the process and as Hisham Ibrahim , Senior Faculty at Lean Startup Co. described it, “The program you'll see at this year's conference
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