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7 Ways To Inspire Creativity In Your Employees

YoungUpstarts

Fast-forward a few years, and MyLocker.net now sells customized gear all over the nation out of our Detroit headquarters. One of the most frustrating structures you see in monolithic, global corporations is when employees never interact with people from other departments. Interdepartmental communication. Pretend there’s no budget.

Employee 100
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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. The market had tanked.

Stock 305
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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Yes, the concentration of entrepreneurial founding and management talent is here in the Bay Area, but so too is lots of private money, more and more large platforms which continue to grow in market share. Global and Local. The global story is undeniable, but what about what’s going in the USA outside the Bay Area?

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Why There’s A Startup Boom In The US Midwest

The Startup Magazine

We can trace the Midwest’s renaissance to Sprout Social’s successful initial public offering (IPO) , which saw the company debut on public markets at a price of $17 per share and rise to over $120 per share today. The Global Fight for Talent. Similarly, the fight for global talent has gone global. Today, Sprout is a $6.6

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Social Trends Podcast: We Are Storytellers Weaving Stories With Customers

Brandanew

I mean, what we really hope for this Podcast to do is to reach more of you while you listen to Detroit 105 or whatever your true north is. Shikha Pahwa, the branding super-girl was in her 20s when she decided to flip this effect and creating something Indian that would stand globally tall and firm. Okay, I’m kidding.

Customer 150
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Your Customers Don’t Need Better Products. They Need Better Stories!

Brandanew

Steve Jobs had just launched the iPhone, and many analysts were dissing Apple for bringing a sub-par product to the market. Phones with better features and technology options were already in the market. And this wasn’t because Apple had released the best product in the market. How will you win the market?

Detroit 100
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10 must-attend tech conferences in 2014

The Next Web

Velocity Web Performance and Operations. Every year I go to Velocity , and I trade notes with some of the smartest operations guys around on the latest Web performance and operations, which results in huge savings and performance increases for my company. It delivers top-notch information in the marketing automation sector.