Steve Blank
APRIL 3, 2018
I just received a thank-you note from a student who attended a fireside chat I held at the ranch. Something I said seemed to inspire her: “I always thought you needed to be innovative, original to be an entrepreneur. Now I have a different perception. Entrepreneurs are the ones that make things happen. (That) takes focus, diligence, discipline, flexibility and perseverance.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 5, 2018
Good B2B Content Marketing is not new in the world of marketing, especially with the emergence of more and more distribution platforms, each needing signups, and consistent postings to become a relevant source in your content strategy. However, marketing nowadays is not a one-man show, and in most cases requires an entire team that operates behind the scenes, from different time zones, ensuring constant project attention and management.
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ConversionXL
APRIL 3, 2018
CXL Live is our flagship conference about growth and optimization. The 2018 edition of CXL Live brought together 400 practitioners from 22 countries and everyone was “locked in” at a beautiful resort for a full three days. The event had returning attendees… Again wow’d by #CXLLive — plenty of knowledge to bring back to the team.
The Startup Magazine
APRIL 1, 2018
You’ve developed a great product. You’ve taken it to the market and have seen strong sales and rave reviews by customers. Yet, you do not have enough cash to scale it in order to reach its full potential. This is the point where a venture capitalist (VC) can make all the difference in realizing your dreams. Source: Pixabay. There are numerous startups chasing after a comparatively small number of VCs.
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
David Cohen
APRIL 1, 2018
When each of my kids is 12, I take them volunteering on a dad/kid trip with Globe Aware. This spring break it was Delaney’s turn. We just returned from a week in the Orisi Valley of Costa Rica. Like when I did this in China in 2013 with Andrew , who is now 16, I wrote a daily email home and am just posting them all here chronologically with a few photos.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 4, 2018
by Glenn Elliott and Debra Corey, coauthors of “ Build It: The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement “ Companies are innovating and changing at a rate previously unimagined. Product lifecycles are shorter, links between manufacturing and the customer are closer and the demands for process improvement and process change have never been greater.
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BeyondVC
APRIL 4, 2018
Consumer companies are the ones that drive the headlines, that generate the most clicks on Techcrunch, and are top of mind for many in the tech industry. So I’d like to celebrate this brief point in time where the enterprise strikes back. While one of the darlings of the last 10 years, Facebook, is getting pummeled, the enterprise market is back in the spotlight.
Up and Running
APRIL 3, 2018
I started my first business out of the trunk of my car 33 years, ago with my (our) wedding money. Over the next 13 years, I made good money in my business, but I worked 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Then, I learned two secrets that changed my life. I learned that the one and only reason your business exists is to be a vehicle to achieve your life goals.
The Startup Magazine
APRIL 4, 2018
Virtually everyone who uses social media is aware of the existence of Twitter. Millions of Americans have their own Twitter accounts, whether they use them regularly or not. With more than 300 million “ monthly active users ,” Twitter generates billions of impressions every day. Yet, as a company and platform, Twitter has a lot of issues. It’s only belatedly coming to grips with its bot problem, which may be far worse than commonly assumed.
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 3, 2018
Your company’s website is often the first place a prospective customer visits to learn about your company. And while many different things influence people’s buying decisions, there’s a single common factor that drives nearly every purchasing decision: can the customer trust your business? Over the last decade, crowdspring and our 210,000+ designers have helped entrepreneurs, small businesses, agencies and Brands around the world with website design.
Austin Startup
APRIL 2, 2018
I was meeting a friend for coffee and we were talking over our businesses. I was still finding myself after a brutal re-organization of our company. My confidence was low and I felt like Homads was failing. About 20 minutes into our conversation, two guys interrupt us to ask about our companies. Question after question, I watched myself talk down on my background and business.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 3, 2018
by Alan Yong, author of “ Improve Your Odds – The Four Pillars of Business Success “ Over 60% of new businesses go bust within five years. 70% fail within in ten years — and those are conservative estimates. The truth is, too many were doomed to fail from the start. What kept them upright was likely a combination of luck, momentum and dogged tenacity.
The Next Web
APRIL 1, 2018
“Would you rather be smart, or kind?” For most of us, this would be a difficult question to answer. Both characteristics are valued highly in our society. Which do you choose? If you’re leaning toward smart, you’re not alone. It’s easy to associate intelligence with wealth and success. Meanwhile, kindness and its cousin — empathy — is often associated with passivity and weakness, especially by self-proclaimed diehard business people.
The Startup Magazine
APRIL 4, 2018
There are a lot of different elements involved in the process of running a business. But, there is no doubt that the financial side of things ranks as one of the most important. Without funding and financing, it’s pretty much impossible to get your business off the ground. There is a lot to think about when it comes to financing your startup. It’s important to look at the experience and advice of gurus like Simon Arias when exploring the best way to finance the business.
Up and Running
APRIL 4, 2018
When my husband Josh and I launched our business Pagely in 2006, we had just been married a few months. We soon learned that coupling the demands of marriage with a brand new startup is exhausting—but it’s also rewarding if you commit to work together and push through all the growing pains. Our business was founded on a simple idea that has developed into a major website hosting platform, but our success didn’t just materialize.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 2, 2018
If you’re just entering the market with your startup, you’ll probably already be getting a little frustrated by your small budget. This is always the way when you’re beginning to create a new business. There is always a shortage of cash for a business like yours, but maybe that’s not such a disastrous thing after all. Your business can still succeed without big money backing it up.
The Next Web
APRIL 1, 2018
Latin American startups haven’t had the same valuations as Silicon Valley startups. This frustrates many Latin American entrepreneurs seeking investment, as they don’t understand why Latin American VCs aren’t doing deals at Silicon Valley valuations. There are important reasons why Latin American early-stage investment valuations are lower. For one, there are few acquisitions in Latin America, and when acquisitions do happen, they tend to be at lower valuations than their counterparts in other p
YFS Magazine
APRIL 4, 2018
While SMS marketing is not a new marketing tool, you still have plenty of time to benefit from the industry’s new wave. There are now more ways than ever to make text marketing a powerful component of your marketing mix.
Mike Michalowicz
APRIL 4, 2018
Think about the way your business runs: you attract prospective clients, convert them to customers, collect the money, cultivate repeat business, and encourage customers to refer other prospective clients. Each of these steps entails specific challenges, and one of your goals as an entrepreneur should be to automate as many of these steps as possible.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 3, 2018
Being a business owner isn’t easy, but it’s important that you make sure you avoid the pressures and pitfalls of business ownership. There are a lot of things that can be bad for your company, and if you lack experience it can be really difficult to avoid these errors and opportunities. That’s why we think it’s so important to know about these mistakes and do as much as you can to avoid them where possible.
The Next Web
APRIL 2, 2018
Seventy-six years ago, sci-fi author Isaac Asimov wrote his initial three laws of robotics as part of his short story, “Runaround.” With visions of physical robots living alongside humans, Asimov’s universal maxims were designed to be programmed into robotic DNA, thus preventing them from harming the very beings that brought them into existence. Later, in an effort to modernize those laws, Asimov drafted fourth law that preceded the other three.
YFS Magazine
APRIL 3, 2018
The financing process can be long, hard and not the right path for most businesses. However, if you have the right strategy coupled with the right capital and partner, an amazing growth business could be the storybook outcome.
The Startup Magazine
APRIL 4, 2018
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YoungUpstarts
APRIL 2, 2018
by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. In 2010, the Time magazine listed the sharing economy among the 10 ideas that would change the world. 8 years later, it is clear that the prediction of the influential publication has, to some extent, come true: it is hard to imagine modern life in developed or developing countries without collaborative consumption.
The Next Web
MARCH 31, 2018
How many websites are you familiar with that are truly global? You can probably think of a few, and some of the largest online companies will likely come to mind including Facebook, Amazon, eBay, a couple of travel sites and maybe a few others. There’s a lot of potential in specific local markets throughout the world, but expanding it to a global scale can help you reach a much wider audience and grow significantly faster.
YFS Magazine
APRIL 2, 2018
Going fast might give you some instant gratification, but it’s much less satisfying when you do it alone. We all want someone to high-five at the finish line.
The Startup Magazine
APRIL 1, 2018
Getting your startup or business up and running is an exciting time, but it’s not without some nerves and apprehension. You’re likely concerned as to whether you’ll be successful and if you will run into any setbacks along the way. However, go forward with your new venture with confidence once you’re sure you’ve got every element covered and you’re confident your business can make it.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 3, 2018
by Colleen DeBaise, author of “ Start a Successful Business: Expert Advice to Take Your Startup from Idea to Empire “ Sure, you want to be an empire maker. But first you need an idea. A really good one. Some might say brilliant. Startup ideas can come from just about anywhere – truly. Let’s look at the most common sources: A theme or problem from your daily life.
The Next Web
APRIL 1, 2018
For most companies that have been around for a while, rigidity and corporate processes eventually creep into the system. They slowly start to see innovation as simply the next iteration of an existing product or service. Resulting in just iterative ‘innovation’ which isn’t a sustainable way for a business to stay ahead. The way I see it, if someone is working on something that could potentially disrupt your business, it better be you.
Up and Running
APRIL 2, 2018
As a content marketing and SEO consultant , if there’s one thing I’ve learned from starting (and working with) several businesses, it’s this: If you’re not learning, growing, and innovating, you’re dying. That said, not all information is created equal. And while I love the well-known business books—like “ Good to Great ” and “ The Lean Startup “—there are books with more immediate actionable takeaways you can and should implement the day you start your business.
The Startup Magazine
APRIL 5, 2018
While it’s not the most fun or exciting part of starting a business, it’s also incredibly important: online marketing. The success of your business will not be an overnight event. Rather, it will be a slow but gradual process that is dependent on how well you can build word-of-mouth about yourself. While you’re probably aware of the critical importance of marketing yourself effectively online, there are also likely some highly effective strategies you’ve overlooked…at least until now.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 6, 2018
Starting a dental practice is hard work. But then, dental school was pretty hard too. If you made it through that, you can make it through opening a dental practice and marketing your dental business. You will definitely have better odds at success if you learn from the mistakes of others who have went before you though. Find out how to start a dental practice on your own and navigate the first rocky year of business using the entrepreneur tips down below.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 3, 2018
The market has become flooded with customer relationship management ( CRM ) solutions, making it incredibly difficult to narrow the field enough to find the right CRM software for your needs. If you have a good idea of what you’re looking for, however, the sheer number of options can be beneficial, allowing you to zero in and find the perfect fit. Every business — theoretically, at least — has customers, but that doesn’t mean that every business needs a CRM.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 4, 2018
Tonight, the New Venture Challenge at CU Boulder is having its 10th anniversary. It’s happening at the Boulder Theater from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm and is open to the public. Register here to attend if you are interested. My partner Jason is leading the judging panel, which includes: Abby Barlow, partner and director of Investment Research at Crestone Capital.
The Startup Magazine
APRIL 6, 2018
More and more people are opting to use a mortgage broker, rather than directly approaching the bank when seeking funding for real estate. Property owners who have already used a mortgage broker in the past can testify to how valuable the service can be, whether you are a first-timer or you are having your mortgage renewed. Particularly for entrepreneurs financing via a home mortgage, a broker’s expertise can be critical.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 4, 2018
by Robert Harden , founder of PDX SEO. Content marketing is a broad term. It includes all of the digital assets that a business owner uses to put their brand on the radar of potential customers. It can include everything from blog writing to video content, podcasting, social media posts, and Google ads. But what a lot of people miss is that it must work hand-in-hand with SEO (search engine optimization).
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