Wed.Jul 29, 2015

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Crowdfunding is painful. With standard conversions, people receive value immediately. They buy your product. Then they receive your product. Done and done. That’s not crowdfunding. With crowdfunding, the end product doesn’t even exist. You need to convince people to give you money for something that they won’t receive for months (and possible longer).

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Should You Combine Professional And Personal Social Networks?

Brandanew

Two Social Accounts: A Wise Thing To Do? Maybe. Maybe not. As social media is becoming increasingly popular for both work and play, there is one question that haunts the professionals these days. Do you need to run separate accounts for living their professional and personal lives? What happens when you are a Startup owner and your Startup brand gets starkly impacted by your personal brand?

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Digital Myopia

deal architect

I saw this 1986 photo of Steve Jobs by Doug Menuez. “He is outlining what remains to be converted from analog to digital.

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[Infographic] The Ideal Musicians For The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

You cannot book world class musicians to play in your office. For one thing, they would never turn up! But, that doesn’t mean you cannot bring them into the office period. All you have to do is a bit of research to find out who are the ideal musicians for the office. Robbie Williams. Robbie Williams is a pure entertainer, and Rock DJ is one of his most entertaining tunes.

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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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19 Funding Resources for New and Existing Businesses

Up and Running

Whether you’re looking to start a business or want to expand an existing one, finding the cash to do so can be tough. While the most traditional option is to go to the bank for a loan, there are many other choices that you may not know about. To help you secure the capital you need for your business, we’ve compiled a list of the funding resources that every entrepreneur should look into.

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How To Safeguard Your Business Against Counterfeit Money

YoungUpstarts

You would agree that counterfeiting money incidences have enormously increased in the recent past. If you are working in a bank, restaurant, casino, groceries’ store or anywhere else, then you may have come across a fake note that may have changed hands undetected. One way or another, you must have heard of incidents where people have been arrested for making or handling fake cash.

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Tips For Conducting Business Across Continents

YoungUpstarts

By Benoit Gruber, Vice President of Corporate Communications, Sage Enterprise Market & Sage X3. If you’re looking to conduct cross-continent business, know that you can, but the task is not easy. Managing one location has it’s own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. Now, think about doing that, but all over the world where there are different time zones, cultures and expectations.

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12 Stress Busters And Health Tips To Help Entrepreneurs Thrive

YFS Magazine

Coping and healing your body and mind from stress is freeing. It allows you to finally breath and take the time to pause, reflect and create.

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Taking Advantage Of New Bank Account Deals

YoungUpstarts

Current accounts are not where banks are making their money and they don’t look at these accounts as profitable in and of themselves – but they do consider them to be a gateway to more profitable interactions with their customers. That is why many banks offer plenty of incentives for customers to switch from their account at a competitor’s bank to a new current account at their bank.

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Giving up the ghost early

David Cohen

There is four times as much seed capital in the venture market this year as there was 1 year ago. Because of this, it’s easier to attract seed funding than it has been in the past. I’ve noticed a disturbing new trend and I think it’s related. Startups are “quitting” when the first year doesn’t go as planned. The founders shut the business down, and either take a job or go out and start a new company with more of that plentiful seed funding.

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How To Invest In Technology And Beat Your Competition

YoungUpstarts

Managing a start up business is extremely challenging. You’re required to make dozens of decisions. Those decisions will have a huge impact on the success of your start up. If you make smart choices about technology, you can grow your business and outperform the competition. Building an attractive website. It’s very likely that your firm will use technology to promote your start up’s product or service.

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eRelevance Creates DocWithMe App and Plans to Expand to Other Industries

SiliconHills

By HOJUN CHOI Special Contributor to Silicon Hills News Robert Fabbio and his band of seasoned entrepreneurs at eRelevance first envisioned a mobile application that would help doctors better interact with their patients after treatment, but, around this vision, developed a marketing strategy that could make ripples beyond just the healthcare industry.

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How To Form A Watertight Business Plan To Attract Investors

YoungUpstarts

A business plan is essential for every company, whether a brand new one looking to set out its aims or an established one presenting its changing strategy for the future. This could be as short as a few paragraphs laying out what you plan to do and how, or a one hundred page document going into plenty of detail. The more in-depth the better if you want to provide investors and clients with the confidence that your business is onto something.

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Selling Your Goods In-Store Versus Online: Legally, What’s the Difference?

Up and Running

This is Part 1 of our article, “Selling Your Goods In-Store Versus Online: Legally, What’s the Difference?” Look for Part 2 coming soon! Legal agreements and store policies. When you set up shop, legal considerations may be the last thing on your mind. Not only are there legal considerations involved in setting up your storefront—when you set up the online arm of your business, there are additional considerations that you need to keep in mind as well.

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ePatientFinder is a Matchmaker for Patients and Clinical Trials

SiliconHills

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News According to a study by Tufts University in 2014, 60-to-80 percent of the cost of any new drug or treatment goes to clinical trials, and most of that is money is channeled into luring in, then weeding out patients to test the drug. They have to have […] The post ePatientFinder is a Matchmaker for Patients and Clinical Trials appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Fresh from the SPRING: Imagician

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for Imagician. Check out more great work on Imagician ’s profile page. Nicely done, Imagician, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: SUJITHFAB. Fresh from the SPRING: uniquemind.

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Survivors

Both Sides of the Table

Failure. It smells. People are afraid of it. It’s like cancer. When you have it you find you who your true friends are because they’re the ones who double down on helping, on being available, on listening, on understanding. Most people run from failure or disease because they’re hard to handle. Hard to know how to deal with. But I am attracted to those who have had severe set-backs in life because it tells you something about the mettle of the person with whom you’re deal

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The top reasons why my friends have an Apple Watch

Jeff Hilimire

I month ago I wore the Apple Watch for a few weeks. I’ve done the same with an Android watch. The smartwatch that I wore the most was the Pebble Watch. So I have some experience with smartwatches. Now that I’m back to using an iPhone ( why I switched back ), I’m very curious about the Apple Watch. Even after wearing it for a while I still am not sure if I should get one.

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The One Thing Every Entrepreneur Must Have

Duct Tape Marketing

The One Thing Every Entrepreneur Must Have written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mark Winters. Most true entrepreneurs are dreamers, hustlers and some might say visionaries. They see the world differently, constantly look for new ideas and find innovation kind of a hobby. The also drive people that work for them a little crazy.

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Crisis Management for Lion Killers

Venture Chronicles

The story of the Dr. “Lion Slayer” Palmer is all over the internet and people are outraged, for good reason. His dental practice is in limbo and he is in hiding after receiving death threats. Well done Internet… you have already surpassed the attention span of a #hashtag with this one. I am conflicted on this story for many reasons.

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How To Build Your Resilience To Be An Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

You can’t survive as an entrepreneur without resilience, because you are going to fail at least once, maybe multiple times. That’s the nature of trying something that’s never been done before. Resilience means not giving up, and being energized by what you have learned. As Thomas Edison said, "I have not failed. I have just found ten thousand ways that won't work.