Tue.Aug 26, 2014

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Gamification For Better Project Management

YoungUpstarts

'by Monica Wells, BizDB . It’s safe to say that enterprise gamification is one of those increasingly popular trends for management that are simply bound to explode in the next few years. Great project management is all about fostering worker engagement and motivation – and what better way to this than through specifically designed games? Gamification of everyday activities can also pave the way to building a creative and passionate team.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

'As further market proof of the power of Drupal in the enterprise, Acquia has received about $100 million in funding in the past 3 months, which puts its valuation at over $1 billion. [link]. There’s a lot of buzz about the Amazon acquisition of TWITCH this week. As a personal friend of the original investor, I’m very happy for this transaction – after 7 years of work, repositioning, and sticking to it their vision has paid off.

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7 Tips To Follow When Hiring Start-Up Employees

YoungUpstarts

'by Nicole Davies, online content executive at ShortCourseFinder.com.au. One bad employee in a big company will probably not influence the well-designed mechanism in any way, but in a small start-up this effect can be devastating. For this reason it is of utmost importance to choose candidates wisely, check their background, qualifications and select only those who meet your requirements.

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Are You Missing Errors in Your Content Strategy?

Rembrandt Communications

'Something sneaky in your copy may be ruining sales! I get in the car and rush to my next appointment. Freeway traffic brings everything to a halt, and I sit and wait. My stomach starts growling so I eat the fake-chocolate protein bar I have in my briefcase. Finally, traffic lets up, and I get […]. The post Are You Missing Errors in Your Content Strategy?

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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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[Infographic] Differences Of US Legal Business Forms

YoungUpstarts

'The first step in starting up a company – registering a business – may sound easy, but aspiring entrepreneurs need to understand that opting for a specific business legal form over others can mean specific unique advantages relevant for the business you intend. Whether you opt for a sole proprietorship, a partnership, or an S corporation, each have their advantages – as well as limitations – that will affect your business and business growth in time to come, so it is cri

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Snapchat – The Next Great Advertising Platform (guest post)

VC Cafe

'How valuable is ten seconds of Millenial mindshare? Brands like McDonalds, Taco Bell, Audi and the NBA are ramping up their advertising efforts with Snapchat , the photo and video app that disappears in 10 seconds. Although there are many skeptics , I am not one of them. Snapchat is poised to become the next great advertising platform. Brands crave scale, demographics and engagement.

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506(c) Offerings and Crowdfunding: What’s the Difference?

Up and Running

'Which type of funding should you seek for your business, 506(c) offerings or crowdfunding? In the last two years, regulations set by the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) have undergone several changes. These changes were the result of the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. The JOBS Act, as it is more commonly known, was intended, in part, “to reduce barrier to capital formation, particularly for smaller companies.” In other words, the JOBS Act is meant to help companies

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The average success story

Start Up Blog

'While success is in the eye of the beholder, I heard an interesting fact recently about intelligence and financial independence. And that fact was that the vast majority of financially independent people have average or below average intelligence. We are talking here about raw intellectual capability. This would seem counter intuitive to everything we are taught to believe in school, the corporate world and life.

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Austin-based Green & Grow Lands $6 Million in Funding

SiliconHills

'Green & Grow, an agriculture technology startup, has raised $6 million in Series B funding and struck a new partnership with Otter Capital. “Since our first meeting, we have been impressed with Otter Capital’s knowledge and commitment to the biological product space,” Alan Sobba President and CEO of GGI, said in a news release. “We […] The post Austin-based Green & Grow Lands $6 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Announcing Sweat The Product

Spencer Fry

'Today is the day that Sweat The Product is live, and I couldn’t be happier. It’s an idea that’s been kicking around in my head for well over two years. Before STP, I ran another content site, a photography blog called Burstoid that I shut down after three years. Burstoid had thousands of readers and was quite successful, but in 2012 everyone and their mother had a photography blog and it just wasn’t as exciting to source new photographs as it had been.

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AirStrip Closes on $25 Million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

'AirStrip announced Tuesday that it has raised $25 million in venture capital. The San Antonio-based company received the funding from the Gary and Mary West Health Investment Fund, Sequoia Capital and Wellcome Trust. Airstrip, founded in 2004, has raised $65 million in four rounds of investment, according to Crunchbase. AirStrip’s main focus is taking all […] The post AirStrip Closes on $25 Million in Venture Capital appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Healthcare Full of Interesting Niche Markets

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Chris Redhage talks about the niche his company is exploiting in healthcare. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Healthcare Full of Interesting Niche Markets appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Cornell Alums Ranked #6

ithacaVC

'A just published PitchBook ranking puts Cornell #6 for number of alumni who founded companies that received a first round of VC funding. See link here. Great result!! And our eship ecosystem at Cornell and upstate NY as a whole continues to grow. Go Cornell and go upstate NY!

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3 Frameworks To Help Prioritize & Conduct Your Conversion Testing

ConversionXL

'Here’s something scary, according to MECLabs & Magento’s 2014 eCommerce Benchmark, only 13% of those studied base their testing on extensive historical data. The sad part is, the same study found that in almost every revenue group – with the exception the $0-10k group – companies that test changes based on extensive historical data were proportionally the most likely to be more successful.

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How to Choose the Best Advisors For Your Startup

Early Growth Financial Services

'Originally published in Business on Main. While the specific dynamics of each relationship will be different, great startup advisors help entrepreneurs in a myriad of ways: from giving direct advice on tactics to high level business strategy. It’s worth it to be thoughtful in assembling your informal “board” of advisors. The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) posed the following question to members: Q: What’s one quality you should look for in a potential advisory board me

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25 underrated books on persuasion, influence and understanding human behavior

The Next Web

'Gregory Ciotti is the marketing director at Help Scout. This post originally appeared on the Helpscout blog. Reading good books remains the supreme “life hack”—knowledge that often took years to assemble can be consumed in mere hours. I can’t think of a single better way to empower your learning (and yourself) than that. And as a professional, executive, or entrepreneur, the more you know about how people tick, the better.

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Is Your Desk Destroying Your Productivity?

Mike Michalowicz

'I just got back from a run/walk/jog thingy I do about three times a week. It feels good to get the blood flowing and since I have a track about a quarter mile from my home office, I have no excuse to not do it (although I found I am crafty at making up excuses. like going to my normal office where it would be very awkward to throw on a pair of shorts and run around the parking lot).

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Why Dark Posts Are the Best Facebook Advertising Approach Right Now

Duct Tape Marketing

'Why Dark Posts Are the Best Facebook Advertising Approach Right Now written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Let me preface this post by highlighting the words in the title “right now.”. photo credit: windy_sydney via photopin cc. As with all things in this fast changing digital world, a killer tactic today may soon be worth very little when, for example, the network you’re using it on decides to change the rules or it simply becomes diluted d

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Accelerating Accelerators

VC Adventure

'I spent the day on Thursday last week in a small classroom on the Georgetown campus reviewing finalists in the SBA’s Accelerator Competition. Announced a few months ago, the Accelerator Competition is a program of the Small Business Administration through which they are awarding $ 50k to each of 50 accelerators across the country to promote entrepreneurship (that’s $2.5M in total for those of you w/o a calculator handy).

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Accelerating Accelerators

VC Adventure

I spent the day on Thursday last week in a small classroom on the Georgetown campus reviewing finalists in the SBA’s Accelerator Competition. Announced a few months ago, the Accelerator Competition is a program of the Small Business Administration through which they are awarding $50k to each of 50 accelerators across the country to promote entrepreneurship (that’s $2.5M in total for those of you w/o a calculator handy).

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