View from Seed
JULY 17, 2019
This is a post about raising a Series A from an investor that is not based in your home city. Let me preface this by saying that if all things were equal, you would probably prefer to have a local series A investor. Proximity helps, and you are more likely to get more time and attention from a series A investor that is in nearby. But, all things are not equal for many reasons.
Transformify
JULY 13, 2019
‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Our guest today is Lyneir Richardson , Assistant Professor of Professional Practice and Executive Director of The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CUEED) at Rutgers Business School.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 13, 2019
New entrepreneurs are always looking for a shortcut in getting their venture story and plan across to investors, and closing on the funding they need. An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. It forces you to bridge the gap between idea and execution.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 16, 2019
The tech job landscape across Canada has continued to grow. In 2018, Canada had a record-low unemployment rate and as a result we are seeing more companies, startups and online-based businesses dedicated to serving the niche-jobs industry. New emerging technologies have been the key catalyst for in-demand jobs. Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry.
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
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 17, 2019
Important Changes to the Google My Business Tool written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on Important Changes to the Google My Business Tool. Do you know about the Google My Business tool ? Google has been playing around with the idea of a local directory for years, but it seems like they’ve really settled into Google My Business.
crowdSPRING Blog
JULY 16, 2019
Whether you’re starting a new business or growing an existing business, you need a website. Today’s consumers expect businesses to have websites. They consider a website to be a sign of a reputable business. They want the convenience of learning more about a business whenever they want… and without having to talk to anyone. You simply can’t afford not to have a business website.
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YoungUpstarts
JULY 18, 2019
Running your own startup is a unique experience that prepares you like no other for an entrepreneur career path. Startup businesses are often the trailblazers of our times, daring to venture into niche industries and come up with new concepts. Yet being bold will not guarantee success on its own – and this is why most startups nowadays are bound to fail.
Where to Play
JULY 18, 2019
The post CompPair- Finding the way from the Lab to the Market appeared first on Where to Play. CompPair develops healable composite materials for extending the life-time of composite structures. Founded by Dr. Amaël Cohades and based on over 12 years of research at EPFL (Switzerland), this startup needs to find the best market opportunity for its innovation.
Austin Startup
JULY 15, 2019
You will coordinate and administer the most active venture capital fund in Texas and see an insane amount of dealflow. You’ll know the inside details about almost every deal that goes down. You’ll interact with every VC in Texas and those from Silicon Valley who are investing in Texas and every startup CEO who gets funded. Job opening: Fund Administrator at Capital Factory In two or three years you’ll gain a decade worth of experience and dealflow.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 17, 2019
One of the biggest challenges I find for new business owners is for them to move from working in the business to working on the business. You are so engaged in building and selling your product or service, that you “don’t have time” to focus on strategy and the next round of changes for the business to survive and grow. The result is a business plateau that hits you like a ton of bricks.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 18, 2019
Project management is one dynamic field that is perpetually morphing. Today, the application of Scaled Agile framework, Kansan, as well as Scrum has ensured improved productivity in software development in line with world-class project management techniques. Agile and Scrum are the best practices that have continued to transform work processes across different sectors and platforms in multiple industries across the globe.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
JULY 17, 2019
Becoming a merchant can seem like an obvious choice, especially if you target a niche in which the demand is high. However, not every merchant’s journey runs smoothly. High risk merchants, for instance, can suffer due to the nature of their business from severe financial setbacks. Building a profitable merchant business when you need to manage risks require a customer-focused strategy.
Board Effect
JULY 17, 2019
For nonprofit boards that don’t have information technology (IT) expertise on their boards, it can be like a foreign concept. Since some nonprofit boards simply don’t understand IT and all the issues that go along with it, they don’t typically know what their responsibility towards it is. That makes IT issues a little scary when they surface and creates significant concern over legal liability.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2019
How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” What entrepreneurs forget or don’t realize is that most customers are wary of all technology, educating the market on new technology is expensive, takes a long time, and people buy problem solutions rather than technology. Investors will likely wait for more traction.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 17, 2019
by Brett Shapiro, co-owner of GovDocFiling. It is no secret that loyal and satisfied employees are an invaluable asset to your company, whether you run a startup or a growing small business. Today’s employees are searching for peak work-life balance. A solid, fully developed and well-executed payroll processing strategy can help you attract, retain and motivate employees.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
JULY 14, 2019
We live in a digital age. Although the internet has brought some huge advantages to small businesses , it has also increased the risk of cyberattacks. A huge mistake that many entrepreneurs make is assuming their business to be safe from hackers. While there are larger corporations with bigger bank balances out there, it is typically the smaller enterprises that crooks target.
deal architect
JULY 18, 2019
I was in India last week and visited with a couple of outsourcing firms. In my travels, I got reminders of several due diligence visits I had helped clients with from 2003 to 2010. The Renaissance in Powai reminded me.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 14, 2019
Most people think innovation is all about ideas, when in fact it is more about delivery, people, and process. Entrepreneurs looking to innovate need to understand the execution challenge if they expect their startup to carve out a profitable niche in the marketplace, and keep innovating to build and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. Everyone thinks they know how to make their innovation into reality, but I can’t find much deep research on the subject.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 16, 2019
Well-thought and unique eCommerce business is a bottomless source of profit. No proves are needed until giants like Amazon , eBay , Alibaba and similar exist. Just take a look at one of the most impressive examples: in 2018, Amazon’s net profit exceeded $10 billion , which is twice as much as in 2017. Customers enjoy online shopping; their demands create enormous opportunities for eCommerce company’s growth.
Board Effect
JULY 19, 2019
Nonprofit executives often lament their boards’ limited engagement. Recognizing that volunteer board members will prioritize professional and personal obligations first, they accept whatever investment busy board members can make. When I heard a nonprofit leader recently acknowledge a disconnect between having the right professionals on his board and expecting their involvement, I was reminded that better board engagement requires better board recruiting.
deal architect
JULY 16, 2019
I excerpt 10% from every book in a series of blog posts. I posted several on SAP Nation 3.0 in April, then took a break after the Sapphire event. This is the final batch I am excerpting. The book is.
View from Seed
JULY 19, 2019
Like other investors, we at NextView have a number of frameworks which we use to evaluate decisions on making new investments. All early stage venture firms essentially look at some weighting of team, market, product, and traction. In the past, we’ve created and published a flowchart on how we think through these factors. And additionally, my partners and I use other, more differentiated, lenses like asking if a startup has an “ unfair distribution advantage.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 15, 2019
by Jessi Duffin, Director of Creative Operations for Big Leap. Whether your business is online or has a brick and mortar location, there’s no escaping the power of online reviews. Customers are turning to the internet to get advice on where to eat, where to shop, where to get their hair done, and even where to go to the doctor. Companies who have the strongest and most positive online presence will usually beat out the competition by a long shot.
Version One Ventures
JULY 16, 2019
A question I have been pondering for some time now, especially since a lot of our portfolio companies are now distributed organizations …. This tweet sparked a lot of thoughtful reaction and discussion. Here’s where things have landed at the moment: . According to the responses, entrepreneurs running remote organizations seem pretty happy with the current software stack.
ReadWriteStart
JULY 13, 2019
Though enterprises see the appeal of using blockchain , companies often don’t want to take on the challenge of working with their business partners to create a new blockchain solution. Last year, 74% of organizations in a global blockchain survey said they felt compelled to use a blockchain network to improve cross-enterprise efficiency, yet only 34% had taken steps to deploy one.
Rembrandt Communications
JULY 15, 2019
Tips For a Successful Product Launch. As a Chief Product Officer for a B2B, promotion may not be top-of-mind when you are in the conception and development stage. But, this is a good time to talk to your public relations’ (PR) team members. Sure, they will take your product and promote it once it’s ready to launch, but it’s important to share data with them from the beginning.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 16, 2019
by Ryan Moore, Director of Client Management, Peak Sales Recruiting. Artificial intelligence (AI) already plays a significant role in plenty of industries, from medicine to transportation to agriculture. We use AI to successfully manage traffic patterns, track critical patient diagnostics, make financial predictions, and even increase farming productivity.
Eric Friedman
JULY 19, 2019
Many early stage investors look for financial models for 3+ years from founders to make an investment. Entrepreneurs often don’t have this information, don’t know how to put it together for the first time, and often are confused by the request. Like most posts, this request/conversation has come up enough to turn it into my thoughts + the best resources I have to help founders.
ReadWriteStart
JULY 19, 2019
Pitch decks are underestimated and overestimated. Some founders dismiss the deck as pure “show” and cobble together a few slides for their venture capital (VC) audience. But I suspect that most founders spend tens of hours perfecting their deck. I worry that their efforts are concentrated in the right place but on the wrong problems. Pitch decks are powerful because they reflect on your brand and style.
ConversionXL
JULY 16, 2019
Lurking beneath every goal are dangerous assumptions. The longer those assumptions remain unexamined, the greater the risk. – Jake Knapp, Sprint: How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just 5 days. Imagine this scenario. You’re a marketer, and you’ve just launched a marketing campaign that you spent weeks or months building. You checked all your boxes: You assigned roles and responsibilities.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 19, 2019
by Gui Costin , author of “ Millennials Are Not Aliens: …but they are 80 Million Americans Who Are Changing How We Buy, Sell, Vacation, Invest, and Just About Everything Else “ Each generation has unique experiences, lifestyles, and demographics that influence their buying behaviors, financial experts say. And studies show these distinguishing factors often lead to different spending habits between generations.
Mike Michalowicz
JULY 15, 2019
“What? I’m sorry were you saying something? I wasn’t listening. I was supposed to be, but my monkey brain trailed off somewhere between real revenue and gross profit”… Now, while you won’t actually admit this out loud, let’s face it, we’ve all been there – at a meeting or presentation and all of the sudden…Where were we? The fact is that overall, unless you’re a trained expert, listening for long periods of time is one of the hardest things for people to do.
The Startup Magazine
JULY 17, 2019
A dependable source of new leads for your website, product, and service can set you up for success in more ways than one. Lead generation ideas and strategies you decide to pursue today could make a difference in the future of your company. As GetResponse states, you should always be aiming at creating a great first impression. If you don’t make a great first impression, your lead magnets will likely not work.
This is going to be BIG.
JULY 14, 2019
“I didn’t want to bother you.” “I didn’t want to impose.” “I didn’t want to show up with my hand out.” “I feel like if you were interested, you would have said something already.” “I wasn’t sure if it was ok to ask.” “I haven’t spoken to that person in a while—it might be too random now.” Do any of these lines sound familiar? Too often, I meet founders that need something, and feel awkward about asking for it for a variety of reasons.
YoungUpstarts
JULY 15, 2019
Forex trading is happening at a faster pace than ever before, and for traders, the internet is at the heart of high-speed trading decisions. Just recently, forex traders were anticipating a weaker dollar, as it seemed that the Fed was going to cut rates by at least half a basis point. Due to a rallying economy, however, unemployment rates are at an all-time low, which gives the Fed less reason to cut the rates.
Up and Running
JULY 16, 2019
Shrinkage—or loss of inventory due to employee theft, error, shoplifting, or fraud—is an issue no small business owner can afford to ignore. In fact, a 2018 survey from The National Retail Federation found that shrinkage accounts for 1.33 percent of retail losses every year. It might not sound like much, but all together, it accounts for a whopping 46.8 billion dollar loss across the retail industry annually. .
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