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How Websites Are Changing And Why This Is Good News For Small Businesses

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by Jessica Shailes. If you’re a start-up, one of the first things you may be thinking about is getting a website – it can be one of the most confusing and time consuming parts of starting a business. Where do you start? How much should it cost? What functions should your website have? How much information should be on it? Do you need to be involved in social media etc etc etc.

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The Case For Web-Based Mobile Apps – An Interview With UR Mobile

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As small businesses increasingly look towards mobile applications as a marketing strategy to reach their customers, the question some of them are asking is this: Is it better to go with a native application (i.e. applications developed specifically for a particular mobile operating system), or to opt for a web-based application – accessed through a mobile browser – instead?

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What Corporations Can Learn from Coworking Spaces

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By Liz Elam, founder/curator of Link Coworking. I don’t have anything bad to say about my time in Corporate America. I will tell you that I now enter my work day excited to go greet my members and provide a place for them to get their work done, whatever it maybe. I like to call myself a Curator and I’ll tell you why – it’s because I’m a keeper of a collection.

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10 Economic Concepts Everyone Needs To Understand

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Whether you work as an economist or you try your best to ignore the bad financial news and your bank account, economics is at work in your life. It’s affecting your trips to the grocery store, your loan applications, and your paycheck, so you’d better at least try to understand some of the basics and most-used phrases. Knowing these concepts will benefit you whether you’re 18 or 80 and will help you be a better, more informed consumer and employee.

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Are You Committing the Seven Deadly Sins of Business Transformation?

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by Mohan Nair, author of “ Strategic Business Transformation: The 7 Deadly Sins to Overcome “ Every day millions of Americans arrive at work filled with low-level dread and resignation. Since the recession hit (or perhaps before), they’ve been overloaded, overstressed, and overwhelmed. The typical workday is a marathon of rushing from one task after another, with few breaks between these bursts of effort, and even fewer words of thanks from equally frantic managers and coworkers.

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[Singapore][Event] Startup Weekend Singapore 2012

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Startup Weekend Singapore is back! If you’re not familiar with Startup Weekends , it’s a conference- and workshop-type event where a creative and highly motivated bunch of people get together for 54 hours to come up with great startup ideas. First started in July of 2007 in Boulder, Colorado, the movement has since spread across the world.

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[Review] Corporate Entrepreneurship

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How do companies like 3M, Apple, Google, Xerox, Siemens and Grameen Bank continually generate game changing products and services? What can large organizations do to retain talent while building innovative cultures? The answer? “ Corporate Entrepreneurship: How to Create a Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit Throughout Your Company “, which is also the title of a book by Thunderbird School of Global Management’s Robert D Hisrich and Claudine Kearney.