YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2017

by Robbie Kellman Baxter, author of “ The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue “ In recent years, the Membership Economy has been disrupting the old methods of doing business in a major way. Essentially, companies focus on long-term relationships rather than short-term profits, and customers respond with “forever transactions.” It’s all part of a major paradigm shift in which many businesses are rethi

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2017

What is an executive summary? An executive summary is the brief introduction to a business plan. It should describe your business, the problem that it solves, your target market, and financial highlights. What should an executive summary include? Who you are. Start with your business’s name, location, and contact information. What you offer and the problem your business solves.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 26, 2017

My favorite Onion article of all time (from 2010) is U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion. It starts off with some Bernanke brilliance. “Though raising interest rates is unlikely at the moment, the Fed will of course act appropriately if we…if we…” said Bernanke, who then paused for a moment, looked down at his prepared statement, and shook his head in utter disbelief. “You know what?

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 26, 2017

As a business owner, it can be easy to throw on the blinders and focus exclusively on profitability. But what if becoming permanently profitable and supporting the causes closest to your heart could come hand in hand? Social entrepreneurship can actually boost your employee retention rate and their productivity. Individuals, especially millennials, are increasingly expressing a desire to do meaningful work.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2017

by Drew Klebine, lead writer and co-owner of uxax.org. We live in an age of information. When applying this idea to how consumers shop online, it’s safe to assume that they already know everything about you and your company. Even if they don’t know everything, they can do their research to figure out whatever they want, and they will. Remember the olden days when consumers chose to simply trust whatever marketers and salesmen were saying, even the shady stuff?

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

Website, web app, or a mobile app—what would be the right “form” for your business idea ? Since the release of the very first iPhone, everyone has been treating the mobile-first business model as the new gold rush. Some, on the contrary, say that the modern user is already experiencing app fatigue and that people tend to use just three apps at most , so competing for desktop attention still remains easier.

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ConversionXL

JULY 25, 2017

Software businesses have a conversion problem that’s both getting worse and going mostly unsolved. And that problem is mobile. Though the topic of mobile conversion rates of ecommerce websites is often broaches, it’s rare we talk about SaaS or B2B. It’s mostly been written off. “People don’t buy on mobile,” we say. However, this is often a problematic view (if you care about your business or the customer experience, that is).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2017

by Pravya Pravin, product marketer at iZooto. In 2017, with 5X times faster growth than traditional software market, SaaS finds itself outrunning traditional software product delivery. Cloud software model will account for 1 dollar for every $4.59 spent on traditional software by 2019. A mammoth decline in traditional software can be seen in the coming future.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2017

Are you thinking of launching your business this year? How do you know when it’s the right time? It’s a personal decision, one that should be based on your market research and trends within your industry, but there are some larger market forces at play too. You’ll have to make the final call yourself, but here are a few resources that lend some perspective on small business and startup funding trends that relate to the economic landscape.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2017

Waccal has officially launched its social community platform which startups and investors can use to compare ideas, seek funding and manage portfolios and due diligence processes. The company has kept the product in testing, while receiving backing and sign-ups from investors, VCs, Angel Groups, international funds and US universities. Waccal joins the ranks of companies like Angel List and Crunchbase, which aim to democratize and simplify startup investing.

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ConversionXL

JULY 25, 2017

Software businesses have a conversion problem that’s both getting worse and going mostly unsolved. And that problem is mobile. Though the topic of mobile conversion rates of ecommerce websites is often broaches, it’s rare we talk about SaaS or B2B. It’s mostly been written off. “People don’t buy on mobile,” we say. However, this is often a problematic view (if you care about your business or the customer experience, that is).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2017

The World Wide Web is a minefield to navigate, due to its sheer vastness. It’s no wonder online marketing can be such a daunting task. If your online marketing campaigns haven’t been going as planned, maybe it’s time to re-evaluate what you’re doing. Now, mistakes are inevitable – it’s the only way we can learn sometimes. But acknowledging them when they first occur will help you make improvements the next time around.

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2017

Back in December 2016 I had the idea to develop a startup pledge for diversity and inclusion here in Austin and since have informally been working with some folks to develop the idea. Yesterday, Mary Ann Azevedo wrote an article in Crunchbase that mentioned the work I’ve been doing so I decided to write this short piece more fully explain my thinking.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2017

Influencer marketing is dividing people a lot like marmite; they either seem to love it – or hate it. Perhaps it’s the approach that has led them there; there have been many tales of successful small, independent businesses that have been approached, essentially for freebies in return for a post or a mention, usually on social media. However, while of course – this approach increases exposure, it isn’t always aligned with the businesses target audience, and there is little to no return see

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2017

by Robert Schulte, founder and CEO of LumaTax . Making it past the just-getting-started phase of building a business and being able to focus on how to grow and scale is so rewarding. But for most small business owners, getting there means experiencing a few growing pains, especially when it comes to sales tax compliance. Keep reading to learn five sales tax tips that will help you avoid audits and stay fully compliant with small business tax laws: 1.

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Austin Startup

JULY 28, 2017

38 CEO’s across Texas and across industries are speaking up about how the so called “Bathroom Bills” currently going through the legislature are bad for business and bad for Texas. Dear Gov. Abbott, Speaker Straus, Lt. Gov. Patrick, and Members of the Texas Legislature: As leaders of Texas’ successful and growing tech and startup community, we write in opposition to the proposed “bathroom bills” currently being considered in the Texas Legislature.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 24, 2017

Now, companies are investing in digital marketing because it is a major business tool to promote their brand awareness and reach their target customers. However, the world of digital marketing, including the field of social media, is always changing. Algorithms are being updated continually to respond to the changing behavior of the market. Technology plays a significant role in how they are managed.

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Social Media Media Marketing Technical Review 79

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 23, 2017

A smooth, visually appealing experience with your business’s website or mobile app is an important element in creating happy, loyal customers. Big businesses may have an advantage because of their existing brand awareness and their larger marketing budgets, but that doesn’t mean small businesses and startups can’t compete with them. In some ways, smaller companies have an unfair advantage when it comes to design because their sites and apps don’t have to be so bloated.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2017

Banking systems have evolved in the last few years, and we all have witnessed a massive growth in our lifestyle. Apart from using the most comfortable user interface for clients, the banking organizations are using latest technologies to make almost everything efficient for the customers. The core banking solutions have proved to be a boon to customers across the globe because these solutions help them manage their bank accounts from any corner.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2017

Transcript of Is Podcasting for You? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Is podcasting for you? Well, the simple answer is yes, but maybe not for the reasons that you think. In this episode of The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast I speak with Rob Greenlee. He is a longtime podcaster and happens to head up content at Spreaker.com, a podcast publishing platform and we talk about the many reasons you might want to start a podcast that have

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 24, 2017

The Northwest Passage is located in northern Canada. It used to be frozen year round, making marine navigation impossible, but due to global warming, this region is beginning to melt. A decade ago it was unfrozen all year long for the first time, making regular usage and navigation possible. Sadly, that is not all good news, since it is not the point of contention between all the Arctic countries.

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deal architect

JULY 22, 2017

Let me start off by saying I am really pleased I went to SapphireNow this year. I saw what I called the “dawn of intelligent applications” with Leonardo. I liked CEO Bill McDermott promising to do more for customers about.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2017

I was at Stanford in the Graduate School of Business and was interviewed by Peter Gardner of StartGrid for his On The Road podcast. I shared my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies. It’s worth a listen. BTW, it seems every podcast has a trick last question. This one was, “if I was on a road trip what’s the destination and what’s playing on the radio?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2017

Is Podcasting for You? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Rob Greenlee. Podcast Transcript. Every now and then I have to get pretty meta on my podcast and use it to talk about podcasting. Podcasting, both appearing on them and producing your own, is a solid small business marketing tactic and I’ve been trying to spread that word for many years.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2017

by James G. Ward, MA, PCC, author of “ New Directions: Successful Strategies for Career, the Workplace, and Personal Growth “ “ It’s hard to help people who don’t think they have a problem. It’s impossible to fix people who think someone else is the problem.” – Marshall Goldsmith. Politics aside, recent behavior by a certain inhabitant of the White House got me thinking about the topic of coaching the uncoachable: the know-it-all, the egomaniac and the alpha male or female.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2017

Starting a new business is a long, hard process, and I can’t blame any founder for looking for shortcuts. I’ve taken a few myself, and I know how much work they can save, as well as how painful some can be in retrospect. When you are trying new things, there are plenty of new problems to go around, so why would you want to re-experience the pain of others?

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View from Seed

JULY 25, 2017

On the show today, Fareed Mosavat shares his experiences on growth teams for Slack, Instacart, and RunKeeper. We learn from his approach but also extract valuable lessons about where growth jobs actually fit into your overall organization. Follow Fareed on Twitter. Follow Jay on Twitter. Listen now or subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , Stitcher , or Google Play.

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The Next Web

JULY 27, 2017

The Copyright Reform that’s being discussed by the EU now, could crush certain type of startups when they reach the ripe age of three. “We know from entrepreneurs we spoke to that they would move their business outside of Europe if this law becomes a reality,” Lenard Koschwitz, Director of European Affairs at Allied for Startups, told TNW. The EU’s upcoming Copyright Reform is hotly debated, but most agree that the law needs to be updated and adapted to the digital age.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2017

Startup companies are fragile. They’re fickle and often influenced by what’s happening in the market more than someone whose already established themselves in it. This is prevalent when you look at the numbers of success vs. failure rates among startups. According to Forbes, on average nine out of ten startups fail. This is scary business if you’re thinking of launching your own.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2017

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on. These can trip up even the best, often at the cost of more than a good night’s sleep.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 27, 2017

Fundraising sucks. No one likes it. Founders don't start companies so they can spend half their time asking people for money and VCs don't love the dance either. However, it's a necessary animal, so the least everyone can do is act professionally, and most of all value each other's time. That's what I'm most frustrated by--the lack of respect for other people's time.

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The Next Web

JULY 25, 2017

Estonia is the first country in the world to offer an ‘e-Residency‘ to people of any nationality. If you become an e-resident, you get a governmentally issued digital identity like other Estonians, that you can use to set up your own company in Estonia — completely remotely. The program has steadily gained popularity since its inception, and it seems that it might even become more popular than making new baby Estonians.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2017

Are you or your employees operating at peak productivity? According to new research, the answer is likely no. Data reported by Forbes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that productivity is falling. And there’s a variety of reasons, ranging from distractions like loud coworkers or inefficient tools. In today’s workplace, productivity has a new definition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2017

When I hear executives and professionals in larger businesses talking about their dream of going out on their own to start a new company, I always cringe. I have been there and done that. They and I never realized how hard it is to break the big-company habits and conventions. If you are going to do it, don’t wait too long. The longer you wait, the more traumatic the decision will be.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 25, 2017

I’m scheduling my fourth knee surgery. But Ange… how is that possible when you only have 2 knees? Many years of playing Ultimate Frisbee…. As I’m heading into this surgery, it has occurred to me that personalized medicine cannot come soon enough. Below I’m going to share my own health story and struggles associated with navigating a health system where there’s too much onus on the patient and too little coordination within the medical community.

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