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The Young or Old Michael Jordan, Which is Your Business?

Growthink Blog

For so many very important reasons - pursuing capital to grow, positioning a business for a sale, recruiting new executive talent - the vast majority of business owners seek to have their companies judged and valued on its future prospects, and not its past results. The truism of this for any business, and the executives that lead them, should be obvious and freeing.

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SAP has its hands full

deal architect

A CIO in an email congratulating me on my new book, Silicon Collar, wondered if SAP was relieved this one is not on “the Nation”. They don’t need to worry about another book. They have their hands full. Several mid-level.

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7 Face-Saving Reasons To Quit Your Business Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Rather than quitting, there are always alternatives, like pivoting the business model or merging with new partners for support. Either could improve the statistic that most startups fail within the first five years.

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Does Your Brand Have A Social Media Etiquette Policy?

Brandanew

Social Media channels like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter etc. have become important channels of direct communication between brands and consumers. The applies in the case of both passive & active seekers of new product and brand experiences. It’s equally true for your B2B customers. While you already have external social media policies, look inwards.

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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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Startup Business Myths You Should Know

YoungUpstarts

We all know that starting a business is not that simple. Other than thinking about the things we need to know and to prepare, there is the constant anxiety that maybe you might not get to start the work on time. It is even made worse when you are suddenly thrust with paperwork. For instance, contracts and documents you need to prepare to register your company as a legitimate business.

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Reason for Reform: Join the Movement for Immigration Reform

Feld Thoughts

As an investor, I’m always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow’s Twitter, Facebook, or Google? Today it is just as likely to be someone born in Beijing or Jaipur as it is to be someone from Boston or Boulder. In 2016, you no longer have to be in Silicon Valley to launch a successful startup. Colorado is home to many.

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Strategies to Increase Your Construction Business Revenue

Up and Running

In the construction industry, there are a number of ways to increase your profit margins, even when you are new to the business. So, if you’re interested in maximizing your profits and getting the right amount of profitable jobs, the seven tips in this construction profits guide should give you insight into what you can do to run a highly profitable construction business.

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Can You Really Make Money From e-Commerce?

YoungUpstarts

E-commerce websites are hugely popular, and a lot of people who want to generate passive income or who wish to establish themselves as online business owners will think about diving into the world of e-commerce. But is it really all that people make it out to be, and can you really make money from an e-commerce platform? There Are Costs Involved. Running an e-commerce store doesn’t come free or cheap.

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Embrace Mistakes

Mike Michalowicz

I texted my wife years back with “I love you” but accidently typed “I live you.” We embraced it and it has been what we say to each other ever since. My sister wrote me a letter and signed it “Your Big Sid” instead of “Your Big Sis.” I embraced it and her nickname ever since has been Sid. My first book was supposed to be titled Launch , but a college student thought the lead story about toilet paper was in fact the title of the book.

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Commercial Fleets: How You Can Maximise Efficiency

YoungUpstarts

When you first started managing an automotive fleet for your company, the chaos of having such a big responsibility was probably a lot to take in. Now that you’ve gotten used to it, you may feel like you’ve got into a fairly comfortable routine. Still, when you’re in charge of a vehicle fleet, you should always be looking for new ways to improve efficiency.

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How to Design a Fantasy Football Team Logo

crowdSPRING Blog

With the 2016 NFL season not far away if your in a Fantasy Football league your team is getting excited. But does your team logo inspire excitement? While your office colleagues might be excited about the team name the logo is a powerful source of pride that shouldn’t be forgotten. . Picture your team sitting down at your favorite wing bar ready for the Fantasy Football draft.

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What Your Marketing Team Needs From You

YoungUpstarts

As the owner of an up-and-coming startup, there is no doubt that you are keen to get everything right. And that is just as well. After all, businesses like yours thrive only when the people in charge work hard to achieve the proper results. The fact of the matter is, there is much involved in the process of setting up a business. One of the main factors in any startup venture is the marketing.

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Contribute to @KVUE’s study on gender equality in #Atx #tech workplaces

Austin Startup

If you live in Austin and work in the tech industry, KVUE’s Shawna Reding wants to hear what you have to say about gender equality in… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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How Crowdsourcing Can Supercharge Your In-House Brainstorming

crowdSPRING Blog

Advertising executive Alex Faickney Osborn was frustrated. The storied firebrand of world renown advertising agency BBDO, he was less than impressed by the creative ideas his team had been bringing to the table. So in 1939 he began working on a process he believed would inspire his team and others to think outside the box and push each other to dream big.

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Reinventing the Delivery Experience for Residential Freight

Austin Startup

We are excited to announce NextGen’s investment in Austin-based Convey. Convey is an application software platform simplifying online… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Austin-based Sizmek Aquired for $122 Million

SiliconHills

Private Equity Firm Vector Capital announced Wednesday it has entered into an agreement to acquire Austin-based Sizmek, an advertising technology company, for $3.90 a share, valuing the deal at $122 million. San Francisco-based Vector Capital, founded in 1997, has invested $1.6 billion in more than 40 technology companies. “We believe this transaction provides Sizmek with […] The post Austin-based Sizmek Aquired for $122 Million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Can You Launch A Quality Mobile App On A Tight Budget?

YFS Magazine

If you are looking for namely cheap mobile app development, be prepared to face some hidden pitfalls.

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A Beautiful New Rabbit Den

Austin Startup

Jackrabbit Mobile’s brand new office! Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Effective Online Marketing Starts With Writing Copy That Sells

YFS Magazine

You have a great product so it should be easy to describe, right?

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Why the Austin economy needs highly-skilled immigrants

Austin Startup

Originally posted in the Austin Business Journal Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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The Result of Installing a Marketing System

Duct Tape Marketing

The Result of Installing a Marketing System written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Arena and Bryan Zarnett. For the last decade, I’ve been extolling the virtues of thinking systematically about marketing. Today I want to share a conversation I had with two entrepreneurs and their experience with the Duct Tape Marketing System.

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Compensating Your Employees

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Compensating Your Employees appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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“We Made Sure We Got Our Asses Kicked Regularly” – Accompany Founder Amy Chang on Building a Polished Product

Hunter Walker

It’s been a blast to see my Google peers go off into their next adventures over the years. Amy Chang , who ran Google Analytics, departed a few years ago and has been quietly working on Accompany , a product she calls your “virtual chief of staff,” blending calendar, CRM, news and more into a single mobile app. Amy is starting to talk more broadly about her company and open up the beta, so I asked her to do a Five Questions with me.

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Two Things To Know About Forex Charts

YoungUpstarts

Too often in the world of trading, new investors rush into a trading system without having the basic skills, like reading forex charts, mastered. Maybe they heard about forex trading as an exciting new way to turn a quick profit, or maybe they are just trying out different investment options as they learn how trading works in general. But in order to get the most out of forex trading, it’s important to gain an understanding of things like reading forex charts , so that you can accurately use the

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“We Made Sure We Got Our Asses Kicked Regularly” – Accompany Founder Amy Chang on Building a Polished Product

Hunter Walker

Update: if you want priority on the beta test list register at https://www.accompany.com/ with my code HWCHIEF. It’s been a blast to see my Google peers go off into their next adventures over the years. Amy Chang , who ran Google Analytics, departed a few years ago and has been quietly working on Accompany , a product she calls your “virtual chief of staff,” blending calendar, CRM, news and more into a single mobile app.

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Getting Started With Paid Facebook Ads

YoungUpstarts

by Joanna Mastrocola, Content Marketer at Alignable. I bet you never thought peaches could go viral. Well, tell that to the The Peach Truck, a food truck that sells peaches at pop up events across the South. Although peaches are delicious and nutritious, they aren’t necessarily the type of goody you would expect snackers to go bananas for. However, the Peach Truck, which also runs a peach delivery service, understood that by advertising what made their company so unique (a completely fresh

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