Fri.Feb 03, 2017

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10 Keys To A Business Culture That Can Adapt Quickly

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur, you have to improvise and adapt quickly to survive and thrive in the face of the unpredictable challenges of the market. But this improvisation a not a comedy, although there are some distinct correlations, in relation to reacting, adapting, and communicating. In business and in comedy, you win most often with “Yes, and …” instead of “Yes, but ….

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A Last-Minute Football Play Shows How Great Teams Innovate For Results

YoungUpstarts

by Scott Levy, CEO of ResultMaps. Successful professional sports teams can be like lab experiments for business teams. And the findings from professional sports teams show that the winningest teams are disciplined, adaptable and creative and are the most fun to watch. The kings of improvisation and innovation may be the Green Bay Packers. They can improvise to destroy competition in seconds, which sucks for a Cowboys fan, like myself, but I am not above learning from them.

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9 Ways To Protect Your Business From Cyber-Attacks

YFS Magazine

Now is the best time to start thinking about the digital security of your business. Here are 9 smart ways to prevent cyber-attacks. This article 9 Ways To Protect Your Business From Cyber-Attacks appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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A few thoughts on inclusive hiring

David Cohen

BeVisible , Techstars , and Foundry Group hosted a wonderful event recently on the topic of diversity and inclusion. We were fortunate to have Mandela Schumacher-Hodge join us from Kapor Capital. About 50 Boulder area startup executives joined for a round table discussion on the topic. First, we talked about why we should care about inclusion. There are now numerous studies and enormous amounts of proof that more diverse teams make better decisions and generally perform better financially.

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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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3 Resale Businesses That Turn Pre-Owned Goods Into Profit

YFS Magazine

If you're thinking about starting a resale business, here are three examples of businesses that turn pre-owned goods into profit. This article 3 Resale Businesses That Turn Pre-Owned Goods Into Profit appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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How to Optimize an Affiliate Marketing Program for Profitability

ConversionXL

Bo Bennett once said, “Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.”. Of course, affiliate marketing has this mysterious aura about it. Many of the top search results for the term are focused on what it is and whether you can make money from it. The truth is that it’s not all that mysterious. It’s nothing more than another marketing channel for you to experiment with, analyze, optimize and grow.

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To Outsource or to Not Outsource – Now That is a Question

Duct Tape Marketing

To Outsource or to Not Outsource – Now That is a Question written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Content marketing has experienced a clear and sharp increase in popularity over the last few years and who can be surprised when content marketing costs roughly 62% less than traditional marketing and generates almost three times more leads?

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15 More Fascinating SXSW 2017 Speakers

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 3, 2017 Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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High stakes learning

The Startup Toolkit

I recently took a sailing course with 5 other people and they all came out of it worthless, whereas I learned to sail. We all had the same teacher and experiences. Why the different outcomes? Talking to them, each had an excuse as to why the course didn’t matter. One was just learning enough to accompany her son on his boat. One had a whole year to learn to sail, so this week was relatively unimportant.