Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 22, 2021
Every entrepreneur tries to maximize his startup growth by building and selling more product and services for the widest geographic area that he can support. This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions).
View from Seed
MARCH 24, 2021
At NextView Ventures we have written many pieces about venture capital — how to raise it, build your business, engage with investors, iterate your product, navigate expanding industries, etc. As much as we love sharing thoughts and ideas, we’re aware how noisy the VC content ecosystem has become. VCs sure do love writing. That being said, there are benefits to learning from past reflections — especially as we near national re-opening, and the theoretical “end” of the pandemic.
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Hearpreneur
MARCH 21, 2021
Each business has a story. No matter if the business is a Goliath like Wal-Mart, or a local business owned by a couple or family, the business has roots in an idea. For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each and brand.
ReadWriteStart
MARCH 22, 2021
If you want your startup to stand a chance of achieving brand visibility and attracting new customers, you need to have a website. The majority of modern consumers will consult the web before making a purchase or working with a corporate partner; if your website isn’t there, they’re simply going to turn to one of your competitors. . However, just having a website isn’t enough to make your startup successful.
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
MARCH 26, 2021
As an entrepreneur mentor, my mission is to foster the attributes in you as a startup founder that I believe will lead to success. I know from experience that my friends who are angel investors are looking for the same indications, although none of us has a scorecard , or even know exactly what we are looking for. Sometimes good things are easy to see in others, but hard to see in yourself.
Up and Running
MARCH 24, 2021
If you’re looking to start or expand your business, you need to have a firm understanding of how to enter and grow within your chosen market. This requires you to take what you’ve learned during your market analysis to develop a market penetration strategy for your business. So, what exactly is a market penetration strategy and how do you develop one?
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Austin Startup
MARCH 22, 2021
Marketplaces are big business! In fact, many are now household names?—?just look at the likes of Airbnb , Uber and Etsy. They seem to be everywhere, solving problems for people around the world. Marketplaces are also catching the eye of investors. In recent years we’ve seen mega-rounds of investment and sky-high valuations. One of the highest we saw in 2020 was Ke.com , a Chinese platform for buying and selling properties.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 21, 2021
When someone introduces me to an “idea person,” I automatically jump to the down-side conclusion that this person doesn’t do follow-up. Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software.
Up and Running
MARCH 25, 2021
Most people think of financial audits as investigations carried out by a certified public accountant (CPA). That’s one definition, and you may require that if your company needs a loan, you’re getting ready to go public or the business will soon reach another milestone that requires financial transparency. However, a financial audit can also be something you do independently.
Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 24, 2021
The First Page of Your Google Search is Your New Business Card written by Sara Nay read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Agency Spark Podcast with With Dean Heasley. The Agency Spark Podcast, hosted by Sara Nay, is a collection of interviews from thought leaders in the marketing consultancy and agency space. Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today.
Mike Michalowicz
MARCH 23, 2021
I like a lot of things. Including the internet. And while I know technology will inevitably break down from time to time, we rely so heavily on the internet it’s hard to be patient. (Tap, tap, tap). Since I was temporarily sent back to days of yore, I thought I’d share an artifact related to the history of my business. Remember typewriters? Before computers, or word processors (man, remember those?
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 25, 2021
As a business advisor, I often talk to business professionals who are critical of their CEO, and are convinced that they could do the job better. Yet I suspect that few of you have seriously thought about the scope of problems that every CEO must face, and what capabilities are the key to success, whether your company is a small startup, or a multi-billion multi-national conglomerate.
deal architect
MARCH 21, 2021
In the 36th (yesterday) and 37th (today) episode of the series we have Dr. Robin Gaster, President, Incumetrics Inc. and Visiting Scholar, George Washington University Institute of Public Policy. We discuss various aspects of Amazon's growing empire from his new.
Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 26, 2021
The Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2020 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. 2020 was an unpredictably eye-opening year that brought forth swift change, lots of uncertainty, and a shift in perspective for many. Even though 2020 immediately conjures words like “challenge,” “hardship” and “crisis,” there are many lessons learned that will impact and shape the future of business and small business marketing moving forward.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
MARCH 24, 2021
Content marketing has become the bread and butter for quality website destinations and attracting traffic, especially with sensitive search engine algorithms like those being used by Google. However, there’s a basic question in a lot of minds as to what exactly is content marketing. Many feel like it is just a buzzword made up by salespeople trying to pitch another consulting gimmick for website development.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 20, 2021
Creating a startup, or managing any business, is all about problem solving. Some people are good at it and some are not – independent of their IQ or their book smarts (there may even be an inverse relationship here). Yet I’m convinced that problem solving is a learnable trait, rather than just a birthright. Entrepreneurs who are great problem solvers within any business are the best prepared to solve their customers’ needs effectively as well.
deal architect
MARCH 22, 2021
I wrote last week we would likely hear more detail around application modules and customers and subsidiaries to explain Larry Ellison's claim during his earnings call about Oracle snatching customers from SAP SAP's DJ Paoni's responded "Of the 100 or.
Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 25, 2021
Using Collaboration Tools To Transform The Way We Work written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Phil Simon. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Phil Simon. Phil is a keynote speaker and technology authority • An award-winning author of eleven business books and counting, most recently Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-COVID World of Work.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
MARCH 24, 2021
In January 2021, all Google sites ranked number one with 269 million visitors (mobile and desktop connections). Are you one of those who have wondered how websites are ranked? Each time you use a search engine, you may have realized that certain factors account for why some websites feature more than others. One reason for this is the adequate usage of keywords to make that significant difference.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 25, 2021
As the economy moves into recovery, your leadership muscles will be taxed in ways they never have been before, says Ed Hess. Here are nine skills you’d better start honing now. The post What Will The Post-Pandemic Leader Look Like? appeared first on Young Upstarts.
deal architect
MARCH 21, 2021
In the 36th (today) and 37th (tomorrow) episode of the series we have Dr. Robin Gaster, President, Incumetrics Inc. and Visiting Scholar, George Washington University Institute of Public Policy. We discuss various aspects of Amazon's growing empire from his new.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 23, 2021
Making decisions is one of the core competencies of entrepreneurship. When you’re in the thick of things, you may be making multiple decisions per hour. And even when they don’t seem like big decisions, the impact of each decision – however small – compounds rapidly. Let’s say that improving your decision making allows you to increase the utility function of each decision by 0.5%.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
MARCH 22, 2021
Running a business is something that anyone can do given the right amount of experience, knowledge, and assistance. However, there are going to be times where you’ll realize that something you’ve been doing is perhaps the slowest and most inefficient way to approach it. A great example of this comes in the form of software. If you’re a fairly modern business, then there’s a good chance that you’re already using a plethora of different software.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 25, 2021
The chance of someone stealing your idea is so low it's almost the same percentage as the chance you will win an Oscar, insists Samuel Sanders, author of "Your Next Big Idea". The post A Message To Covidpreneurs: No, They Won’t Steal Your Idea appeared first on Young Upstarts.
deal architect
MARCH 21, 2021
As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Stephanie Tilenius, CEO of Vida Health presents on their solution leveraging a network.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 25, 2021
Thanks to everyone who sent a note to me in the past few days about the shooting in Boulder on Monday. 10 people murdered in a city of 100,000 people, in a place that I love where I’ve lived since 1995, is an extremely difficult thing for me to process. On Monday, Amy and I were shocked. On Tuesday, we were both shaken and stunned. The emotions really hit us both on Wednesday.
Women Entrepreneurs Can
MARCH 24, 2021
It’s not easy being in sales at the best of times. The competition is, after all, extremely extensive and tough. However, if you have a product or service that’s good enough, then you’ll find that success is within reach. Providing, of course, that you have a sales team that’s capable of delivering the goods. Of all the departments, the sales department is probably the one that’s most difficult to get right.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 26, 2021
Investing in smart tech for your small business, however expensive, will help to cut costs on the baseline and pay for itself in no time. The post The Best Smart Tech For Small Businesses appeared first on Young Upstarts.
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 20, 2021
Small businesses start off simple and become complex remarkably fast. If you’re a small business owner, you’ve undoubtedly encountered a lot of complications regarding running your business, from taxes to bookkeeping. As The Balance SMB mentions, many people use bookkeeping and accounting as interchangeable terms when they aren’t. Bookkeeping is the physical act of recording business transactions, while accounting relies on using insights from those entries to improve the busin
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 24, 2021
Today’s book recommendation, for anyone interested in venture capital, is The Business of Venture Capital: The Art of Raising a Fund, Structuring Investments, Portfolio Management, and Exits by Mahendra Ramsinghani. A decade ago, I got a cold email from Mahendra. He was investing in Detroit and eager to write a book about the art and science of venture capital.
ConversionXL
MARCH 24, 2021
Ranking for those competitive keywords and optimizing your landing pages for conversions is undoubtedly an effective way to grow your traffic and increase sales. But what if I told you there’s something other than your site you should be optimizing that so many marketers miss? One of the most powerful ways to create a more effective sales funnel is to analyze and optimize your branded search.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 23, 2021
If you have found yourself wondering if you are truly fulfilled by your current career you are not alone. Holly Caplan shares five tips to re-evaluating, and turning your life experiences into a full-time career. The post Career Needs A Re-Do? Here Are 5 Tips To Turn Your Life Experience Into Your Full-Time Career appeared first on Young Upstarts.
VC Cafe
MARCH 22, 2021
When is the right time for a startup to bring on marketing? Are brand and storytelling important before product-market-fit? We asked Hila Shitrit Nissim*, an experienced CMO, to share her perspective on marketing in Israeli startups. Hila spent 12 years as the VP Marketing for Israeli venture capital fund Viola before embarking on an independent CMO career for startups.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 23, 2021
A mass shooting happened at a King Soopers on Table Mesa in Boulder Monday afternoon. Amy and I are safe. So are our friends and family. But 10 people in Boulder, including one police officer, are dead. The King Soopers was the one that Amy and I shopped at from 1996 – 2014 when we lived in Eldorado Canyon. I’ve been there hundreds of times.
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 23, 2021
An operations manager is one of the most important roles in any business regardless of what field it is in. These individuals help improve a business’s efficiency and productivity in a variety of ways, particularly through human resources. In addition to helping employees, they can also negotiate contracts, manage the business’s budget, and conduct whatever tasks are necessary for the business’s success such as registering a company. .
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 24, 2021
Extended stays have not only established themselves as a fantastic option for safety-concerned travelers but have shown potential for profit and growth while much of the hospitality industry have been struggling. . The post Here To ‘Stay’: Business Lodging Sector Finds New Life During Pandemic appeared first on Young Upstarts.
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