Top 10 Ways Entrepreneurs Pivot A Lean Startup
The popular view of a real entrepreneur is someone with a big vision, and a stubborn determination to charge straight ahead through any obstacle and make it happen. The vision...
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Oracle To Acquire RightNow (Cloud-based Customer Service) For $1.43 Billion
Oracle has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire RightNow Technologies, Inc. a provider of cloud-based customer service. Under the terms of the deal, which is expected...
14 Tips On How Startups Can Deepen Customer Loyalty
Attracting the right customer, getting them to buy, buy often, buy in premium offers and bring you even more customers is an art. Today’s customer has so many options that...
12 Things Your Startup Should Focus On Right Now
For anyone interested in starting, growing, or investing in a new business, it is important that your startup focuses on what will drive the business to achieve its goals and...
Top 6 Business Growth Strategies For Bloggers
Every serious bloggers wants to growth above the level he’s today. Such growth may include earning more money, building a responsive list, becoming an influence in your niche, becoming popular...
The NEW Customer Service Strategies For Startups
Customer service is a crucial and an integral part of any business. The importance of customer service and best practices including ringback tones cannot be overemphasized. “If you make customers...
17 Principles For Building Web And Mobile Products
Figure out what’s important and focus almost entirely on that. Develop the minimum viable product to test your hypothesis about what the market needs. Measure things from the beginning and...
12 Things Your Startup Needs To Blog About
As a startup, what you can do RIGHT NOW to improve your business is to start blogging. There’s no hiding the fact that blogging takes work, creative energy, consistency, and...
Your Startup Is About To Scale. Now What!
Scaling refers to the period in a startup’s life when management and board feels like they can systematically accelerate growth Scaling normally happens after (1) product-market fit has been found...
How You Can Master Your Business Presence On Facebook
Commit to the idea: Know that connecting with customers can sometimes be hard work and take time, but it will pay off. Manage your expectations: Set realistic goals for your...
HubSpot Acquires Performable, A Marketing Automation Company
Three months after receiving a $32 million Series D financing round, led by Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, and Salesforce.com, inbound marketing software company HubSpot has announced its acquisition of Performable....
10 Things Every Startup CEO Must Do Every Week
Spend time cultivating your team. Bring in people who are better at their jobs than you could ever be. As CEO, your job is not to do everyone else’s job....
How To Provide Value To Your Startup As A Non-technical Co-founder
As a non-coding founder you can contribute excellent product management skills. You can specialize and add huge value in areas like feature definition, UI, metrics and interaction design Don’t try...
Startup Lessons In The First Year of Operation
# Focus, focus, focus. Don’t chase every good idea that comes along, focus on a core product or service and, iterate around it. Simon Olson # Don’t hire in anticipation...
You are on Facebook, but is your business?
Businesses can use social media tools to help them increase their monthly or yearly business leads, bring more traffic to their website, target the right audience, and promote special sales...
Your Sprint Mobile Number Soon To Be Your Google Voice Number
Google has partnered with Sprint to deliver Google Voice to Sprint customers. Sprint customers will be able to use their existing Sprint mobile number as their Google Voice number and...
10 Revenue Models for Startups You Should Know
Martin Zwilling( Startup Professionals Musings). Martin Zwilling is a veteran startup mentor, executive, blogger, author, tech professional, and angel investor One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how...
Business Model Canvas: 9 Business Model Building Blocks
The Business Model Canvas is a strategic management tool, which allows you to develop and sketch out new or existing business models. It is a visual template pre-formatted with the...
7 Questions To Ask When Starting A Business,Part 2
Guest Post by Andreea Chiriloiu. Passionate about the social media environment and has discovered in herself a pathologic tendency to love smartphones. Her time is devoted to mobile web apps....
20 Business Uses Of Twitter
Improve brand awareness Manage company/blog/business brand Correct the course of conversation Unveil a cutting-edge feature Track consumer feedback Ability to directly engage with customers one-on-one Post an inquiry for assistance...