Blog #4.0: What eSports Business should I launch? So you’re ready to step up to the plate and begin growing your own eSports career.
Awesome! Before you take too many steps, allow me to stress a couple of lessons I wish I knew before I started! Lesson #1: Unique ideas don’t mean much. I get a million emails at Day[9]TV in which people mysteriously allude to a brilliant idea that they just had. “We need to meet and talk,” they say. They would like to tell me more but first require that I execute a non-disclosure agreement. My response to this is generally to roll my eyeballs. So this blog is intended to challenge the notion that a start up is all about the “idea.”
I see too many people in eSports who have a fantasy that if they could just come up the “winning idea,” they could have a business empire. These folks often cite the pet rock business or the hula hoop business or PlentyofFish.com as examples of a “winning idea.” 7 Ways to Help Startup Workers Innovate. Being innovative is part of the DNA of a tech startup - or at least it should be.
But when your employees are working 18-hour days, unleashing their inner innovators can be a challenge. These 7 tips can help get the ball rolling: 3 Rules You Must Follow If You Want Your Company to Be Exceptional. Michael Raynor Image credit: Michael Raynor, The Three Rules.
If you want your company to be the best, there are three rules: 1. Be better. 2. And 3. That's according to a recently released book co-authored by Deloitte director Michael Raynor and strategist Mumtaz Ahmed, The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think (Portfolio/Penguin, 2013). Defining "exceptional" was a project in and of itself, but it began with one question: "How much of a difference is enough to make a difference? " Related: Life Advice From 18 of the Wealthiest People in History (Interactive Graphic) Raynor and his team also developed a mathematical algorithm that corrected for age of business, date, amount of debt, size and industry, among other variables.
After identifying 344 top performers, Raynor and his team, who officially started working on the project in 2007, looked for common traits to define how those exceptional businesses acted. The team largely came up empty. How To Set Up Your Own Ebay Store - Infographic. Online auctions are one of the marvels brought about by the internet connected world we live in today.
Only a decade ago, just a handful of people used online auction sites, but today millions use them each day. Ebay store is the original and most popular online auction site, having been around for more than 15 years. It’s so popular in fact that many people now make a living from it, setting up dedicated shops for ebay-only sales. Enjoyed that? PLease Share! 21 year old designer, blogger and front-end developer. love to share creative design and inspiration. Is This the Best Startup Launch Video Ever? A dollar a month for razors, shipped to your door?
Most thrifty guys and gals who wield a blade in the bathroom won't need much convincing that that's a good idea for a startup. But how to ensure that they hear about it, and that they have enough confidence in the company to sign up? Simple: create a funny YouTube video — one with so much swagger, sight gags and bear costumes that it seems poised to go viral. That's the apparent strategy behind Dollar Shave Club, a startup from LA-based Incubator Science. The company just scored its first $1 million in funding from heavyweight VCs including Andreesen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins.
Dollar Shave Club is the brainchild of Michael Dubin, the suave guy explaining the concept. If there's one lesson we'd like CEOs to learn from the Dollar Shave Club, it is this: don't take yourselves and your product so seriously. Dubin isn't the only entrepreneur to find success solely on the basis of a well-crafted video. 5 Startups Improving Society Through Technology. In our social entrepreneurship series, The World at Work, Mashable interviews the faces behind the startups and projects that are working to make a global impact.
These companies have harnessed technology to empower people all over the world, whether it's rewarding volunteers with prizes or empowering travelers to deliver much-needed aid while visiting developing countries. While the companies are diverse, they are all on a mission to change our lives for the better and improve society. Here's a roundup of featured projects from the past week, including exclusive video interviews with the founders of these innovative startups. To read more and watch the videos, click through to the full story, and follow the series to learn about more breakthrough companies. 1. Big Idea: Cause.it is a gamification-based mobile app that rewards volunteers' hard work with discounts or other deals at local businesses.
Read the full story here. 2. Read the full story and see the video here.