The Most Popular Articles on Startupist for June

Here you can find the top ten articles for the past month of June on Startupist and you can enjoy the retrospection of everything important that you need to know about entrepreneurship and your startup venture.

Steve Blank Will Be at Startup Istanbul on 03-05 October

It is very exciting to announce that Steve Blank will be attending Startup Istanbul 2015 event and will be member of the jury of Startup Istanbul Challenge.

Steve Blank is a California-based serial entrepreneur, author and academician. He has over 30 years of experience in the tech industry and have worked or founded eight startups, four of which have successfully gone public… continue here.

15 Inspirational Quotes on Wealth and Money

Some of the most successful people on the planet believe that money can’t measure success, but it surely is important. Achieving financial freedom is a driving goal for many people, yet so less of them take under consideration the price they are willing to pay for it. Even though most of the entrepreneurs, who start their ventures just to make money and who don’t have clear vision and business mission, fail, money still matters. This is why it is interesting to find out the opinion of some of the most influential people in the world about money and wealth… continue here.

The Biggest Reason Why Some Startups Succeed and Others Fail

Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab, a business incubator focused on new ideas, has founded and incubated many startups in his impressive career, which gave him the opportunity to monitor the success and/or failure of all of these companies. During all the years of work with entrepreneurs and different startups, Bill Gross managed to notice some of the biggest differences between successful and unsuccessful business ventures… continue here.

Three Great Platforms For Creating Online Stores

Undoubtedly, eCommerce is the future of retail. Let’s say that you’ve decided to launch your own online store. There are many things that you should take under consideration – the product, store policies, shipping, returns, the content and so on – but the first thing you should do is to choose your platform. Here you can find three great platforms that allow you to create awesome customizable online stores… continue here.

15 Market Research Tools You Should Know About

All entrepreneurs know that it is essential to know well their market and in order to get the information they need they must do the right market research. Market researching is not a piece of cake and does require a lot of efforts, time and specific attention. Luckily, there are many online tools that can help you understand better your market and here you can find 15 of them… continue here.

5 TED Talks That Will Help You Find Your Dream Career Path

Many people struggle to find their passion and are stuck in dead-end, time-consuming and exhausting jobs. Others want to start their own business, but there is always something that stops them – they don’t have time, they don’t have money, the timing is not right. All these excuses keep them away from achieving the success they wish to achieve… continue here.

The Right Way to Set Goals

Setting goals is important, especially when it comes to maintaining strong motivation and self-confidence along with providing the opportunity to monitor your progress by following your goal plan. Your business plan epitomizes some of your business goals and by following it you can still manage to measure your startup’s progress. But entrepreneurship goes far beyond the business plan because it is a state of mind which requires strong discipline and talent to achieve what is needed to be achieved in order to innovate… continue here.

Sunday International Column: Startups around the world #33

Startups around the world is Sunday column series created with the ambition to unite the entrepreneurial community around the world by introducing to the audience different startups on weekly basis. The purpose of this column is to improve our knowledge of what is being created by entrepreneurs around the world, to expand our network, to get informed and hopefully inspired… continue here.

Awesome Growth Hacking Tools #5

In this series, every Friday we will present to you three very useful growth hacking tools, which can help every entrepreneur in their way to achieving startup growth and success.

When back in 2010 Sean Ellis introduced to the world the term “growth hacking”, which is creativity and analytical-thinking oriented marketing technique, created and adjusted to the development of tech startups through growth, everyone was sure that this is the new obsolete approach that startups need to take up… continue here.

Business etiquette: Management lessons that don’t require an MBA

There are more books on business than can be named, on everything you need to know about management without getting an MBA. While the real business impact of these books is more likely for the profitability of the authors than for the readers, I do agree that experience – specifically from seeing everything right and wrong among peers, teams, and managers – is a far better instructor than a book. Indeed, there are some aspects of common sense – stemming from Victorian etiquette standards – that are applicable to the business case… continue here.