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Not your fathers influencer relations

deal architect

I was reviewing Duncan Chapple’s latest influence quadrant and thinking how much the analyst relations world has changed since my days at Gartner in the 90s a) Vendor product portfolios have exploded Microsoft needs a “One Microsoft” initiative to bring.

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7 Must-Have Attributes of a Super Startup Team Member

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur realizes that building a great team is critical to the success of his or her startup, but many don’t realize that it takes more than multiple qualified employees to make an effective team. It’s possible, or even likely, that a set of skilled individuals can result in a dysfunctional team, where contention, jealousy, lack of communication or work habits jeopardize results.

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Not About You: Adopting A User-Centric Mindset For Marketing Success

YoungUpstarts

by Joey Wang, founder and Managing Director of Appiloque. Putting the user first is key to success online. Whether you are setting up a new website, releasing a new app or launching a new product, by putting the user at the center you will be setting yourself up for success. Many digital products fail because of this lack of focus on the user, so how can you go about making sure you put the user first?

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Network Effects in Marketplace, Communities and Social Platforms

Version One Ventures

These days, we’re hyper-focused on marketplaces, communities and social platforms. We love these platforms for many reasons, but the primary one is the power of their network effects and how they create a high degree of defensibility for startups. What are network effects? “Network effects” is a frequently used term and it is sometimes confused with having a large customer base.

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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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10 eBooks You Need to Read Before Crowdfunding

Up and Running

Crowdfunding continues to grow in popularity, and while it may be a great new way to fund your latest project, it’s easy to get wrong. In this article, I’ll go over how to give yourself the best chance of receiving funding—and the easiest way to learn how to do this is to look at those who came before you. See Also 10 Business Books Every Savvy Entrepreneur Should Read.

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Seeking High Tech and Low Tech Solutions to Low Voter Turnout

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Why don’t more people vote? Only about 36 percent of the voting population turned out for the 2014 midterm elections, the lowest turnout election since 1942, according to stats from the United States Election Project. That’s a big problem and a group of experts in technology, journalism, […] The post Seeking High Tech and Low Tech Solutions to Low Voter Turnout appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Small Business and Startups: Finding Your Match

crowdSPRING Blog

Last week I wrote about customer service and the importance of scheduling and allocating your support resources. Lots of small businesses find that they can deliver top-notch, high-volume customer support with very small teams of people as long as they have the correct tool and as long as they pay close attention to the kinds of problems their customers are trying to solve and (just as important) when those customers are trying to get their issues resolved.

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How To Become A More Compassionate And Human-Centric Leader

YFS Magazine

Real human-centric leadership goes beyond product and profit and dives into the heart of human connection.

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Monday Motivation – Lions Roar

Hearpreneur

This week we decided to share another motivational video. Everyone wants to be a “beast” until it’s time to do what beasts do. Be a lion in your life and in your business. #beastmode ON #business #hunger #drive #motivation #monday #gogetit #insatiable #ambition #entrepreneur #startup #building #quote #quotes #businessowner #business #ceoblognation #ceo #billionaire #Mindset #millionaire #success #opportunity #grind #fear #fearless #greed #success #.

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How Wedding Planning Taught Me How to Nurture Social Media Leads

Duct Tape Marketing

How Wedding Planning Taught Me How to Nurture Social Media Leads written by Alex Boyer read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. As a marketer, sometimes it ‘s hard to stop thinking about marketing and remind myself that I am also a customer. I’ll find myself during commercial breaks on TV analyzing the scripts and how I would change the copy.

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Monday Morning Motivation – Insistence

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. Insist on success in your life or in your business. This should make you uncomfortable. If you want it, you have to go get it. Stay focused. I’m trying to get it. It’s grind season. You can never shine by trying to sit on someone else’s sun. .

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Why startups are so hard to incubate within a corporation

Jeff Hilimire

Urgency. Stress. Moments of panic. The struggle to live another day. These are feelings that generally define most early-stage startups. No doubt, I’ve had several of these moments in the first year and a half of Dragon Army. Early on, startups are forced to figure out how to stay alive on a daily basis. This means they have to put all of their energy into getting customers and making sure their product fits a need.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: July 6th – 26th

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, posts and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets for the past three weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top 5 Tweets. Check out this solid presentation by @shellen re pitch deck do’s & don’ts (& great quotes from @brianalvey at 36:01): [link].

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7 Ways Form Accessibility Can Boost Conversions

ConversionXL

Inaccessible sites lose sales. Let’s look at the numbers: The UK music industry loses 2.5 million ticket sales per year due to inaccessible booking sites. US consumers with vision loss have an estimated $175 billion of disposable income. AbilityNet say that ecommerce is losing out £50 billion a year in the UK spending power due to poor accessibility [PDF].

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Top 5 Tips To Keep Your Business Information Safe from Hackers

YoungUpstarts

by Bill Carey , Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at Siber Systems Inc. . There’s been a steady drumbeat of news about massive data breaches over the past few years, including well-publicized hacker attacks at Target, Home Depot and Sony Pictures. Recently, the US Office of Personnel Management admitted that more than 21 million people were possibly affected by information stolen from its computer networks, including Social Security numbers and other sensitive data.

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10 Surprising Content Marketing Statistics You Must Know! (Even About That Whitepaper Of Yours)

Brandanew

What would you start your Content Marketing week with? We recommend a deep meditating look at 10 surprising content marketing statistics you must know. All this, clearly before you start with your tactics of the week. Content marketing is ‘the’ buzzword today and there is just no doubt about that. Every company out there is making use of content to market their products, yet, most of them are still struggling to execute one successful content strategy.

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Part 2 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Steve Weinstein and Venk Shukla

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs. Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. Part 1 of this post, here , was how Errol Arkilic and the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps changed the way the U.S. government commercializes s

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Episode 38: Gamification and Taxes with Adam Hollander and Tom Wheelwright

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Adam Hollander and Tom Wheelwright join us for Episode 38 of the Profit First Podcast. Adam shares his story of how FantasySalesTeam got started. Tom gets down to the nitty gritty about Taxes. Our Guests. Adam Hollander (left). Adam Hollander is founder and CEO of FantasySalesTeam. He’s considered an expert in the areas of B2B sales, marketing and gamification.

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