Work The System Book Review

What’s Hot: Work The System emphasizes how to engrain written processes into corporate culture, so they don’t become outdated the same week you write them. Provides substance and concrete examples of process hierarchy and a team approach to constant improvement

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Resonate by Nancy Duarate Book Review

What’s Hot: Resonate takes a systematic approach to what makes an effective presentation, blending storytelling with ways to motivate your audience to act. A major theme is juxtaposing the “standard world” (the past or present) with the “magical world” of

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Customer intelligence: Track website visitors and identify them

Sometimes it is hard for people to understand exactly how you can track website visitors and eventually associate their actions with a known person.  KissMetrics does a great job of showing how all the magic works in an infographic I

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Pirate Metrics for SaaS companies

I’m a huge fan of measuring businesses from the beginning and setting key metrics to keep you on track.  One model by Dave McClure of 500 Startups fame is called Pirate Metrics.  This is a no frills metrics system designed

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Common Angel Funding Concerns

I talk with a lot of people who need to start understanding how to think about either raising money from angel investors, or being an angel investor.  I consider anyone who is considering trading work for equity who is not

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