The Startup Magazine

MARCH 27, 2019

Explore the benefits of company core values, as well as the ways in which business leaders can further integrate already-existing values into their organizations. Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels. Core values represent a company’s heart. While some organizations understand their core values intimately, others struggle to put them into practice. No matter what a company’s relationship to their core values looks like, leaders can always work to improve their understanding and utilization of this

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

by Matthew Neill Davis, Esq., author of “ The Art of Preventing Stupid: How to Build a Stronger Business Strategy through Better Risk Management “ A recent Internet search for “problems in business” on Google produced 1.76 billion entries, often a list of the top 20 or 10. Rightly so, business leaders are obsessed with solving problems.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV). Great! Before you start dumping money into customer acquisition, you’ll want to make sure that you’re prepared for all of the issues that can arise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2019

Image via Max Pixel Startup investors tell me they invest in a new venture with a higher caliber of people, rather than the product or service, and I agree. In my role as a business advisor, I see successful businesses most often emerging from great teams rather than great products. Yet I find the people building teams are usually product experts, often with no experience in team building.

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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

MARCH 27, 2019

Music can change your spirit. If you’re having a bad day and listen to your favorite song, it can change your entire mood. Music can also help you to get through difficult moments in life. One of the hardest things anyone can ever do is start and run a business. We knew that entrepreneurs have the best playlists and we decided to ask them their favourite tracks. #1-Break on Through to the Other Side.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2019

Want more traffic to your business’s site? Give your visitors a better experience. Here’s how to improve a website by redesigning the user interface. Your website is your right-hand man for boosting your online marketing efforts. When you have a bad user interface, it can cost you major blows. So how do you improve user experience and make your customers happy?

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2019

Technology has influenced every aspect of modern life and the construction industry is no exception. Breakthrough technology is being developed to provide new techniques and materials for construction. While we can’t fully predict what the future looks like, a few trends in construction technologies are emerging that give us a glimpse of what the future may hold.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

Craft beer is a growing field. Between 2012 and 2017, the number of craft breweries in the US jumped from 2,420 to 6,266 – that’s an increase of 159%! That growth doesn’t include microbreweries that produce fewer than 15,000 barrels of beer per year. And, the number is still growing. It’s no wonder craft beer is so popular.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

“Innovation is widely regarded as the single most important ingredient in today’s economy ,” according to entrepreneur Faisal Hoque at Fast Company. Innovation not only impacts global economies and business models, but the quality of life of people. Innovation has changed the way people live, work and do business. Businesses can focus on two types of innovation: sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2019

Transcript of Erasing Limits to Find Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast is brought to you by Klaviyo. Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused e-commerce brands drive more sales was super targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook, and Instagram marketing.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2019

In a world full of 500-word blog posts, long-form content is a refreshing break from the norm, a way to really engage with your audience, and a chance to show off some professional skills. Photo by Perfecto Capucine on Unsplash. Long-form content is also favored by Google’s search engine bots and prioritized over shorter, fluffier content. Content-rich websites are ones that Google loves to promote and also appeal to human viewers who are sick of being flooded with articles stuffed with

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2019

Central Texas startups should enter the Austin A-List Competition before the April 8 deadline The Forrest Four-Cast: March 25, 2019 50 of the world’s top startups came to Austin for SXSW 2019. Click here to read more about best of show winner Nebula Genomics and the other amazing young companies that distinguished themselves at this year’s event. As for the top startups that are located in Central Texas, many of these will be honored at the annual Austin A-List Awards , which are co-presented by

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

by Rory Whelan, marketing manager for eReceptionist. Over four million Brits work from home, lured by the promise of a flexible and balanced lifestyle. Benefits like removing the stressful commute, avoiding countless distractions from your co-workers and working on your terms make remote work a no brainer. This type of work should be easy, right? But sometimes it’s not that simple.

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Board Effect

MARCH 29, 2019

We rely upon history to learn from our mistakes and not repeat them. The Enron scandal and the other major corporate scandals that followed it taught us many things. Corporate boards have learned that they need to stay on their toes. Boards also learned that fraud and corruption can happen to any company where boards fail to practice good governance.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

Photo by ROBIN WORRALL on Unsplash Several members of your executive taken hours to prepare board materials so that you can inform your board of how things have gone since you last met 3 months ago and you have 3 hours together to make sure they have an accurate picture and to make sure you have their input into how to proceed in the months ahead. Given how seldom you come together you’d imagine you’d have the boards’ full attention during this time.

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deal architect

MARCH 27, 2019

Many of you may know Denis Pombriant as a CRM analyst. He is way deeper than that as his bio says "Denis Pombriant lives in the Boston area and writes about the enterprise software market. Denis specializes in disruptive innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2019

On hearing the word ‘customer helpdesk’ we tend to visualize a person addressing customer queries via emails. But things have actually changed now. Most people would rather prefer going via self-help software or instant messaging to resolve their queries. Of course, there are more ways than one in this regard. If you run your own startup then scoring high on customer support will help you stay ahead amidst tough competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2019

Image by Origa via Wikipedia I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company. To check out the Google founders, and because I still see so many business plans that are modeled after Google (more search engines, and more billion dollar growth models), I had to

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 25, 2019

As an engineering firm, your reputation is everything, but at the end of the day, you’ll only ever be as good as the quality of your staff. Your reputation isn’t just important for attracting clients, it is critical for attracting the talent into your firm as well. You need talent to build a great reputation, and you need a solid reputation to get the engineers at the top of their game onto your payroll.

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deal architect

MARCH 25, 2019

My new book is now available to buy here in print version, and for pre-order in the Kindle version. As with my earlier books, I will excerpt roughly 10% of the 400 page book in a series of posts on.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2019

You may be thinking to yourself that because your business is only a small, starting one, you do not need a credit card machine. But no, this is false. Whether you are operating a small or big business, it is always to your advantage if you will have a credit card machine readily available. More and more buyers are drawn towards using credit cards, also primarily due to the convenience that it brings, where you no longer have to carry with you so many chunks of money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2019

Image via Pixabay One of the things I have learned the hard way over my years in business, and in advising others, is that it takes more than passion, creativity, and hard work to start and grow a business. A key skill that many of you don’t appreciate is the ability to effectively manage the negotiations that come with every business. The results are lost opportunity, poor contracts, or a failed business.

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The Next Web

MARCH 29, 2019

There’s little arguing that artificial intelligence is one of the hottest sectors of the tech industry. From recommending personalized content in your YouTube feed to translating text, diagnosing cancer and driving cars, the number of domains that the AI industry is touching is constantly expanding. With so much hype and money surrounding the AI industry, it’s as good a time as any to be an AI company.

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deal architect

MARCH 28, 2019

Vinnie’s readers might not know that he and I frequently team up on larger client projects. Yes, we’ve been arch-enemies at times but have done lots of deals and even launched a dot-com together. About two years ago, we noticed.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2019

Nowadays, as we all know that the world is moving so fast and mobile devices are the most prominent object for increasing the interest of consumers to your product. As we get to know after some research that 95% of the people living in the United States have a mobile phone and 77% of them are a smartphone. Due to this reason, marketers are having a prime platform for connecting with their customers and gaining more customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2019

Image via Pixabay Many entrepreneurs are not prepared for conflict, or actively avoid it. Their vision, passion, and focus are so strong that they can’t imagine someone disagreeing, much less fighting them to the death. But the reality is that startups are composed of smart people, with emotions as well as intellects, working in close proximity under much pressure, so conflicts will occur.

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YFS Magazine

MARCH 26, 2019

Learn how Alen’s career path took an unexpected detour into entrepreneurship and why artistic expression can become the genesis of your next right move.

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deal architect

MARCH 24, 2019

It's no secret. I have written in several posts that to me the highest value vendor event is an analyst summit. I feel like I am intruding on customer time at user conferences and similar events. Workday started off the.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

by Manish Dudharejia, President and Founder of E2M Solutions Inc. Building up a reputation and presence as a new brand is difficult. However, there is a right way to do this and a wrong way. Unfortunately, many new businesses make quite a few mistakes as they start to build their brand on social media. These missteps could stand in the way of growth and success – both in the immediate future and a long way down the road.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 29, 2019

Outdated technology practices will keep your company mired in competitive quicksand. To remain competitive, address these five tech mistakes. The post 5 Tech Missteps That Are Killing Your Company’s Potential appeared first on ReadWrite.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 25, 2019

As a small business owner, you may think that SEO is unnecessary or even not worth your time and effort. The naysayers argue that this marketing discipline is dead or at least ineffective while advocates believe that it is very effective. SEO optimization is constantly growing in importance and a few years back, it played a crucial role for midsize and large businesses.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 26, 2019

Life often involves tough tradeoffs. I love running marathons but I’m less happy about the body soreness and longer recovery cycles as I age. I’m excited about every investment Foundry Group makes, but I know not all of them are going to pan out. Entrepreneurs talk about “changing the world”, but the companies that emerge often ring hollow against this backdrop.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2019

According to eMarketer research, mobile-device users spend two hours and 11 minutes per day using mobile apps, but just 26 minutes browsing the web on a mobile device. App time made up nearly 20% of total media time in 2017. According to ThinkWithGoogle , 81% of the users search for a product or a service online and 26% of them search for the apps related to that product.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2019

We all dream of coming up with the next ingenious idea that redefines and industry, or creates one from scratch. Netflix opened the floodgates to the world of streaming content, and they benefited enormously from being the only players in town (at least, for a few years). Uber capitalized on an existing need–transportation–but provided a […].

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SiliconHills

MARCH 28, 2019

Austin-based argodesign announced this week it has expanded to Europe with the opening of a new office in Amsterdam. The team heading up the new Amsterdam studio is known to Rolston. He worked with them previously at frog design. Tjeerd Hoek and Joe Fletcher, who are leading the argo studio in Amsterdam, previously held leadership […]. The post Austin-based argodesign Expands to Europe with an Office in Amsterdam appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 28, 2019

A Simple, a Complicated, and a Complex system walk into a bar. Simple says to the bartender, “Can I have a drink?” The bartender gives Simple a glass of water. Complicated says to the bartender, “Can I have a Rum Martinez?” The bartender does the following: Complex says to the bartender, “Can I have a Startup Community?” The bartender escorts Complex to the spot behind the bar where the bartender was previously standing and says, “You now have all the tools to make your own drink.”.

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