Sat.Oct 18, 2014

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Omni-channel this!

deal architect

'We are one step closer to release of my book on the SAP economy. The edit is done, the next steps are the inside layout, eBook conversion and prep for printing. Assuming all moves well, the media review PDFs should.

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How To Save The Life Of Your Startup With Proper Financial Planning

YoungUpstarts

'Every startup has its ups and downs and only someone who has never tried to start a business can say that it is not difficult to make something work in the beginning no matter how small or huge the business idea might be. Startups are difficult especially when those handling them have never worked in the business environment before. Hard truth time: Most Startups Fail !

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How publishers and brands can measure the value of native advertising

The Next Web

'Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, speaker and a freelance writer. This post originally appeared on the Skyword blog. There’s undoubtedly widespread interest in native advertising among publishers and brands as a new way of reaching audiences with engaging content that brings more value to a reader than traditional ads. According to Shareaholic, 70 percent of people want to learn about products through content rather than through traditional advertising—a statistic that further stresses

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Should I give my seed investors anti-dilution protection?

Gust

'What this investor is seeking is called “permanent, full-ratchet, anti-dilution protection”, and that is neither (a) in line with the market, nor (b) practical. Even if you were willing to give it to him, it is highly, highly unlikely to stand up beyond the next financing round, because there’s no way your next investor is going to take a dilution hit for this first one.

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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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How To Maximize Your Odds With A Part-time Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

'Many experts will tell you that you can’t succeed as a part-time entrepreneur, as any good startup will require a 100 percent commitment of your time and energy. But not many of us have enough savings to live for a year or more without a salary, fund the startup, and still feed the family. Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue.