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Your 2015 guide to summer reading for startups

The Next Web

Summer has unofficially begun here in the U.S. And I don’t know about you, but there’s nothing I love more than relaxing with a great book on the beach or laying in the grass at a park. And if I can get better at my job in the process? That, my friends, is a win-win. Or double win, as I like to call it. Since our previous reading lists ( here and here ) were so helpful for me personally as a reader, I want to pay it forward.

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[Review] Jabra Evolve 80

YoungUpstarts

The modern workplace – and especially those incorporating the open concept office design that’s supposed to combat the evils of cubicles – can be an exceedingly bustling and noisy environment. Between team conversations, people movement and that annoying colleague who keeps stopping by for a chat, there is a decidedly lack of privacy that can keep you from concentrating on your work.

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5 Principles That Lead To More CleanTech Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of entry for an aspiring entrepreneur has never been lower, and the total wealth of opportunities has never been larger. You can start a new web site business on the Internet for as little as $100, with cheap smart phone apps, new technology innovations, or tapping the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources.

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Four Tips For Small Businesses To Increase Brand Awareness Fast

YoungUpstarts

By Pamela Webber, Chief Marketing Officer at 99designs. When it comes to raising brand awareness, small businesses have options. Here are a few of the best ways to accelerate brand awareness for immediate and profound results. 1. Engage in Social Media. Small businesses can use social media to build a brand fast. Done right, you can reach many users quickly with relatively little direct monetary cost.

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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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The leadership secret no one ever talks about

Start Up Blog

And it is this simple maxim: If you want to be leader of many, then you must first be faithful with few. One of the most important sentences I learned from the late great Jim Rohn. And it matters in all walks of life and business regardless of our ambitions. The picture above is from an after dinner talk I did recently at a local Rotary Club. One of the things I have done a lot lately is deliver speeches on the technology revolution we are all living through.

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Key Insights from Elite Camp 2015 Speakers

ConversionXL

Elite Camp is a 3-day traffic and (mainly) conversion event. It’s among the very best CRO events in the world, and of course in Europe. This year was already its 6th year – and the format has proven to be so successful that the event has been replicated in many other countries. Elite Camp 2015 had an enviable line-up of heavy hitters and rock stars.

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