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Smartphones – The Crucial Thread In The Fashion Retail Marketing Mix?

YoungUpstarts

'by Malcolm Pinkerton, Senior Director and Senior e-Commerce Analyst from Planet Retail. With the proliferation of blog shops and rise of online shopping in Singapore – and in Asia – the casual observer might be forgiven for thinking the brick and mortar shops will go the way of the Dodo. That’s not the case. Yes, consumers enjoy the convenience and choice of online shopping, but they will always love the sociability of visiting enticing and compelling stores.

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Is Your Startup Moving Fast Enough to Stay Ahead?

Startup Professionals Musings

'In today’s business startup environment, if you don’t move fast, you get run over. Without a sense of urgency, people and businesses just can’t move fast enough. Speed is the driver because customers have a zero tolerance for waiting, and there are always competitors gaining on you. John P. Kotter, in " A Sense of Urgency ," delves into the how-to required of entrepreneurs on that first step, avoiding pitfalls along the way.

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More New Florence

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'On the innovation blog Topological Data analysis The Polymath Cancer Dream Teams Big Data infrastructure at Facebook Qualcomm brings more power innovations Mobile is Job 1 for MLB Lockheed and quantum computing The Big Data of SIRF The Railroad revival.

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Lean Market Research for Startups

VC Cafe

'Most startups will fail in their first two years of operation and only one percent of the startups that pitch to VCs will end up receiving funding. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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[Review] The Impact Equation

YoungUpstarts

'How do you create waves in a world filled with zillions of blogs, Facebook updates, and tweets? Why do some campaigns fly while others die? If you’re clueless about the answer, consider reading “ The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? “ Authored by social media savants Chris Brogan and Julien Smith , the book on content marketing reveals how you can generate attention, affection and action amongst the people you care about.

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Freelancing after graduation? Here’s what to expect

The Next Web

'First off, big shout out to all of the graduates who are graduating high school and college this month! While most high school graduates will be attending college in the fall, college graduates are now about to embark on the journey to find a full-time job in their field of study. So many decisions to be made; it can almost be overwhelming weighing your options.

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Retail Apathy: Target

Start Up Blog

'On the weekend I went into a Target store to purchase an Esky for a pitch presentation I was doing where the reference was brands becoming generic terms for a product. Rather than walk around a giant retail floor, I thought I’d ask a staff member where I might be able to find one. I approached a staff member and asked. He was friendly and attentive.

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Connecting the dots forward

Hippoland

'As graduation season comes around again, I’m reminded by accomplished entrepreneurs that you can only connect the dots backwards, not forwards. But, this isn’t always true. While others have published different stories on Startup Edition on why they were inspired to start a company , my story is all about connecting the dots forward.

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Happy Mother’s Day 2013

entrepreMusings

'Another year has passed and another Mother’s Day is almost over. Apparently my Happy Mother’s Day 2012 – Keep Up The Good Work post had several hundred views the last few days via google searches. I still find that “greeting” card I took a picture of and put in that post humorous in an ironic kind of way…not even sure that makes sense or not. small payday loans.

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Connecting the dots forward

Hippoland

'As graduation season comes around again, I’m reminded by accomplished entrepreneurs that you can only connect the dots backwards, not forwards. But, this isn’t always true. While others have published different stories on Startup Edition on why they were inspired to start a company , my story is all about connecting the dots forward.

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How to pivot away $34m: Israel’s Xeround shuts it doors with a lesson

The Next Web

'Editor’s note: This story was written by Henn Idan and Yaniv Feldman , and was originally published in Hebrew by Newsgeek , the largest tech blog In Israel. . Earlier this week, Israeli start-up Xeround , announced it will shortly be closing its doors. Xeround, which provides a cloud model database as a service solution (DaaS), informed users on its official company blog that free users will have just one week to move all their data to another database provider.

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