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The SAP X Factor

deal architect

Last February, SAP launched S/4HANA to plenty of optimism – CEO Bill McDermott called it “the biggest product launch in the last 23 years and perhaps the company's history”. I was certainly excited and started to write Volume 2 of.

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3 Steps To Being A Master Of Motivation

YoungUpstarts

By Susan Fowler, author of “ Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work. and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging “ Entrepreneurs are known for their energetic and passionate work ethic. But often, their employees don’t share their enthusiasm. So, where is the disconnect? Consider this example: Billy Yamaguchi of Yamaguchi Salons has worked on the likes of Jennifer Aniston, Lady Gaga, Deepak Chopra, and Phil Jackson.

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5 Strategies For Leading Breakthrough Market Changes

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur realizes that change is now the norm, and they have to adapt their business quickly to survive and prosper. In fact, the best entrepreneurs seem to see breakthrough changes coming even before they really happen, and are able to turn them into huge new opportunities. In the trade, this rare capability is called the ability to see around corners.

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You should have 4 fundraising plans.

Hippoland

When I was raising money for LaunchBit, sometimes my conversations with investors would go something like this: Investor: So how much are you raising? me: We’re raising $750k. Investor: Really? Why so little? You should be raising $2M+ or even a series A. Of course, the first thought in my head was, “Wtf? I’m struggling here to just raise anything!

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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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Inclusivity, Mentoring and Entrepreneurship Help to Create a More diverse Austin Startup Scene

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Austin has got a problem, said Michael Henderson, founder and CEO of Developers Doing Development. The city’s black population is now around 8 percent, and city projections show it could fall to as low as 5 percent in coming decades, according to an article last summer in […] The post Inclusivity, Mentoring and Entrepreneurship Help to Create a More diverse Austin Startup Scene appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Advertising is tax for the boring

Start Up Blog

But this product, ‘ Lily ‘ got to me for free, no advertising was required. What is particularly interesting about this product is the little iterations which make a giant difference. There’s a zillion drones for sale, and we all love the footage they create, but I’ve yet felt compelled enough to buy one, until now. Two things stood out for me: It follows you around – it makes it easy to get the images you want.

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Austin Startup Twitter Digest for Mar 14

Austin Startup

Curated by Joshua Baer and edited by Luke Brown Continue reading on Medium ».