Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 27, 2017
I started out in business as a techy geek, so I understand why technologists starting a new venture spend so much effort getting the product just right. Yet I’ve learned over time that building the business is all about having the right team members. Thus I’m frustrated when I see founders pushing off recruiting, or jumping to quick and cheap solutions, like Craigslist and free job sites.
Growthink Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2017
Are you looking to raise venture capital ? You need a good idea – and an excellent business plan. Business planning and raising venture capital go hand-in-hand. A business plan is required for attracting venture capital. And the desire to raise capital (whether from an individual “angel” investor or a venture capital firm) is often the key motivator in the business planning process.
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Up and Running
DECEMBER 28, 2017
This 2018, take some time out to refresh and recharge. For me, that often means stealing a few quiet moments with my book, hiding out…er…I mean, hanging out on my couch, or comfortably wedged into a window seat listening to an audiobook on a long flight. But it can be tough to fully disengage from the parts of your work that are exciting, or even stressful.
Hearpreneur
DECEMBER 24, 2017
The end of every year is the opportunity reflect on a 365 day journey. 2017 was a bad year for some and for some it was a great year. Many businesses were launched and others were closed. Pivots were made and goals were shattered. In the last few days of 2017, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and business what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- Top rankings.
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
DECEMBER 29, 2017
As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I often have to deal with people who are convinced that they must get me to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before they begin talks about their new venture. They seem shocked to learn that most professional investors and advisors, myself included, routinely decline such requests, due to costly litigation and administrative nightmares.
The Startup Magazine
DECEMBER 26, 2017
“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. It has changed the way people live, work and do business. Businesses can focus on two types of innovation: sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation.
Start Up Roar brings together the best content for start up professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Hearpreneur
DECEMBER 29, 2017
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.
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 26, 2017
I am so excited and honored to announce I will be speaking on a panel at SXSW entitled Sustainability and Ethics in Fashion Technology alongside 3 other incredible women. If you will be attending please stop by the panel, reach out, and say hello! SXSW? If you don’t know what SXSW is, take a minute to google it. It is attended by over 400,000 people and is notorious for helping to launch up and coming creatives into the mainstream.
The Startup Magazine
DECEMBER 28, 2017
Businesses today produce and utilize videos for a variety of different reasons, including for marketing or training. In most businesses that use digital products or produce them, one way to record the footage that is needed for videos is to do so directly from your screen. To accomplish that you will need to use a screen recorder, as it is the software that enables you to record video footage from your screen.
Duct Tape Marketing
DECEMBER 27, 2017
Transcript of A Systematic Approach to Creating Meaningful Goals written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Everybody loves to set new goals for the New Year. Depending upon when you listen to this show, I have got a very systematic approach, that might help you not only create meaningful goals for the new year, but also break them down into monthly, weekly, and even daily activities.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 28, 2017
8 of the Best Executive Assistant Conferences in 2018. Executive Assistants never seem to rest, let alone take time away from work to focus on themselves. That’s why these Executive Assistant conferences are perfect for all those powerhouses who love to work eight days a week. Why are these events perfect for motivated assistants? These Executive Assistant conferences: Let Executive Assistants take a breath without taking a break.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 24, 2017
As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, the most common question I get is, “I want to be an entrepreneur -- how do I start?” The obvious answer is that you need an idea first, but I’ve come to realize that the process is really much more complex than that. Many people with great ideas never make it as entrepreneurs, and true entrepreneurs can make a business out of anything.
The Startup Magazine
DECEMBER 23, 2017
Every business would be nothing without its employees. But people who work for startups are even more valuable, particularly during the first couple of years. As the boss of a startup, you know that trusting your employees and having a clear definition of what you want to be done are some of the most important steps to keeping employees and making them feel valued.
Jeff Hilimire
DECEMBER 29, 2017
I was honored to be asked back to guest host the Tech Talk Y’all podcast with Adam Walker ( Sanjay was out,) and once again we had a great time. We talked about, among other things: • Magic Leap: Founder of Secretive Start-Up Unveils Mixed-Reality Goggles. • This crazy new system can detect motion anywhere in your home using nothing but Wi-Fi. • REVIEW: Nest’s new $499 home security system is simple to install and made me feel a lot safer. • Apple: Yes, we’re slowing down older
The Next Web
DECEMBER 28, 2017
Imagine this. You’ve created an awesome product that has the potential to disrupt an industry and make a lot of money. You deliver a rock-solid pitch to investors. They say they love your product. It has the potential to deliver 10x returns. They say they want to invest in it, but there’s a catch: “I’d invest if only you had a cofounder on your team with a beard” “Come sit on my lap.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 25, 2017
Every entrepreneur has blind spots which limit their effectiveness and success, but due to ego, over-confidence, or deferential subordinates, many live totally in the dark. Some are smart and humble enough to assume that they don’t know what they don’t know, but lack an effective process for shining a light on their blind spots. Both are equally surprised by their every setback.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 26, 2017
Business leaders are beginning to realize the importance of having an engaged workforce, not just as a benefit to employees, but as a benefit to improved business performance.
Hearpreneur
DECEMBER 26, 2017
December 26, 2017 Here is a collection of some of the most popular TED Ed lessons we published this year. The talks cover different topics from self-development and motivation to how-to guides and.read more.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 29, 2017
Employees at big tech companies tend to frequently switch jobs, a recent Business Insider article noted. People working for Uber stick around just over a year. Employees at Airbnb, Twitter, Snap, and Apple stay almost two years on average. To me, these results reconfirm that job hopping in tech is a thing. In some ways, it’s a bit of a relief to know that I’m not the only CEO struggling with the hyper-liquidity of the Silicon Valley job market — and the enormous cost of short-tenure employees to
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 23, 2017
Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. The answer is yes to all, and the challenge is how to choose how much of each, and how to integrate them for maximum impact and the least cost. None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other.
YFS Magazine
DECEMBER 26, 2017
I knew I wanted to bootstrap my business. I achieved success without raising money or selling my soul (a.k.a. equity) to investors. Here’s how you can too.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 28, 2017
Everyone is aware of the stuffiness in corporate office spaces where cubicles separate you from others, sometimes the person you need to talk to is on another floor, and your supervisor or manager is positioned behind a closed door. Well, given the proliferation of the open office space seen in coworking spaces and startups, 2017 was the year that large media conglomerates and newly crowned tech giants started emulating several aspects of the startup MO.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 27, 2017
The company’s new distribution center in Longview, TX will serve approximately 1,000 Dollar General retail locations in Texas and the southeast. - Read: Dollar General Creating 400 New Jobs In Texas at BusinessFacilities.com.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 26, 2017
Check this blog for techniques that’ll help you get your instructional design on track.
The Startup Magazine
DECEMBER 28, 2017
With business and entrepreneurship, there is always a temptation to work in seamless ways without clear boundaries between work and social life. A focus on one part may work to the disadvantage of the other and hence produce an unhealthy situation. To lead a successful life, it is important to balance work and family. Many people don’t know how to work and be part of a family concurrently.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 26, 2017
If you’re reading this, you probably know that finding a co-founder can be tricky business. Some entrepreneurs are lucky enough to start their company with somebody they knew beforehand. It’s great having a friend by your side, but the most important thing is to have someone who complements your skill set and shares your vision and is willing to take the leap with you.
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 28, 2017
Forming business relationships at the highest level. As you follow these insights from ignition to liquidity event, you’ll detect a continuing theme, emphasizing the need for deep and wide relationships that the CEO and senior staff can call upon for advice and guidance. This is the time to elevate those insights to the level of highest value for the corporation, one that cannot be listed on a balance sheet nor included in an appraisal of corporate worth.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 26, 2017
I’m on day 8 of a cold, which in retrospect has been possibly the harshest cold I’ve ever had. I felt worse when I had salmonella poisoning in Adelaide in 2016 and I remember a childhood flu over the holidays that had me throwing up for days. But, on Friday, when I had some existential dread , I realized I was really sick and crawled back in bed for the rest of the day.
The Startup Magazine
DECEMBER 27, 2017
What is the SEO process anyway? If you have a website, its success depends on the number of its visitors. It also relies on whether it helps the business realized its goals. For instance, you may create a site to sell your products online. Thus, the success of the website depends on the number of successful sales. The more sales, the better the performance.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 28, 2017
If I told you that you could travel back in time, to the end of the nineteenth century, and invest in a country that was recently war-torn, and in great transition, would you do it? You’d need to know that the government was primarily one ethnic group, but immigrants with different languages, customs, and religions were arriving in that country, at unprecedented levels, crowding the cities and looking for jobs.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 26, 2017
With each passing year, we get another set of lists: Startups to Watch Founders Who Crushed It Bald VCs in NYC You Should Pitch When you're on the list, you're tweeting the heck out of it, very modestly of course, and getting all your investors in friends to do the same. When you're not on it, you tell yourself the list was b t for whatever reason, or that you don't have time to pitch yourself because you're too busy running a real company.
Duct Tape Marketing
DECEMBER 26, 2017
How to Create Local Content for Local SEO written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Pre-internet days, it didn’t take a lot for local businesses to notify a prospect that they are located in the same city. Handing them a flyer with business details and an address was pretty much a giveaway as to where you did business. Running an ad in the local daily newspaper or the Yellow Pages was how you got found in your town.
The Startup Magazine
DECEMBER 28, 2017
Finding the right way to invest your money is not nearly as easy as you may think. The world of investments is filled with options, which is why you have to do your homework when attempting to find the right fit for your needs. For many years, people have been using the world of currency to make money. The Forex market is filled with opportunities to make some money and grow your wealth.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 23, 2017
Everyone knows the importance of a data-driven decision making in business and it’s increasing in popularity every year. However, what tends to get lost in that obsession is whether or not the underlying data is trustworthy. It’s easy to say that inaccurate data leads to business problems. But what’s even worse is when a company runs on data that appears trustworthy, when in reality it’s flawed in ways that significantly impact critical decisions.
ConversionXL
DECEMBER 29, 2017
December 29, 2017 Here is another of our popular posts of 2017. This is a poster outlining the the different steps involved in doing digitally based research. ‘The poster features the 7 phases that.read more.
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