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5 Steps To Align Your Core Values With Your Daily Practices

YoungUpstarts

by Michael Manning , chief relationship officer at Rocksauce Studios. No matter your age, just about everybody loves the Beatles. But can your company learn from the Fab Four’s success? Of course, John, Paul, George, and Ringo had the swinging outfits and the screaming fans. But up until the very end, they also shared a key element that helped them stay together as a collective.

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Darwin on demo: Workday Rising

deal architect

I saw Panera Bread present eye-popping stats at Workday Rising - 65,000 hires a year with rapid growth and 90% staff turnover and yet, on-boarding expectations of less then 24 hours.

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Manufacturing A Business: The Factors Involved In Becoming A Manufacturer

YoungUpstarts

If you’re looking for a startup idea that’s not often done, consider becoming a manufacturer. Manufacturing is a commonly outsourced operation for businesses selling all kinds of products. If you set up a factory to handle the work for them, you could potentially make a lot of money. It can be challenging. Making complicated parts and products requires a lot of expensive machinery and equipment.

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Were This Year’s Most Controversial Logo Changes Effective? [Original Research]

ConversionXL

What’s the value in a logo? It’s a question that’s been asked a lot lately, especially with companies like Instagram, Uber, and Google drawing both ire and admiration from their new logo changes. We all have an opinion (some have strong opinions) on these changes, but no one really measures their effectiveness – which is what matters really. How do we answer the question: is your logo actually working?

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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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Starting A PCB Business Could Be The Right Move

YoungUpstarts

With 3D printing becoming more accessible every day, you might have been considering different 3D-printing related business opportunities for your startup. Of them all, there are some strong reasons why you should consider PCB (circuit board) printing and manufacturing. We’ll walk you through all the perks and benefits of starting a circuit board manufacturing business, covering everything from competition to potential profitability.

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Analysing cohorts made easy

The Equity Kicker

I’ve been asked how to analyse cohorts by a couple of companies recently, so I thought I’d distill my thinking here into a blog post. Most companies show their cohort analysis in the form of a table like the one below. This is the format that comes from most popular analytics packages. Whilst these tables are helpful (and believe me, I’ve read a lot of them) they are a lot more useful if combined with margin data and shown in a chart like the one below: CM1 in the chart title s

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Our Best Resources to Help You Find a Business Idea

Up and Running

Whether you’re someone who can fire off ideas in your sleep or someone who has to work long and hard before you settle on a good one, you’re still going to need to figure out if you’ve got a good business idea or a dud. In this article, you’ll find some of our best idea-related resources on Bplans, including links to articles that list dozens of business ideas.

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Top 5 Realities Of Being An Early-Stage Entrepreneur

YFS Magazine

There are five realities about being an early-stage entrepreneur that no one can escape.

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Eye of the needle? Why worry over your bottlenecks.

Berkonomics

Think for a minute whether there is any process or person that could be classed as the eye of the needle in your organization. Is there anything, process or person, that stalls the flow of work from start to finish? A CEO once told me that she was ‘the eye of the needle’ in her organization, purposely controlling quality of service and making sure all of her direct reports let her know of each . decision and action they undertook.

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Don’t Respond To Another Bad Online Review Before You Read This

YFS Magazine

Although we’d like to think that we would see a bad review coming, the truth is that most negative reviews blind side us.

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Fresh from the SPRING: kantar

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for kantar. Check out more great work on kantar’s profile page. Nicely done, kantar, nicely done!

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Caringo Receives $8.8 Million in Funding

SiliconHills

Caringo announced Thursday that it has received $8.8 million in additional funding. The Austin-based company closed on its Series B round of funding and reports that so far the company, founded in 2005, has raised $33 million. The company plans to use the funds for development, marketing and distribution of Caringo Swarm, software used to […] The post Caringo Receives $8.8 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Can I Support Myself with Funds Raised for an Early-Stage Startup?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Can I Support Myself with Funds Raised for an Early-Stage Startup? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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5 Visual Storytelling Trends That are Shaping The Future of Communication

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Visual Storytelling Trends That are Shaping The Future of Communication written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Pixabay. Visual storytelling is one of the most potent forms of communication in existence today. From films and virtual reality experiences to interactive games and data visualizations, visual stories are revolutionizing the way we persuade audiences with our messages.

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Announcing the 2016 Lean Startup Week Program

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. The Lean Startup team has been hard at work finalizing the details of this year’s Lean Startup Week. Each year, we bring you new case studies from Silicon Valley startups (and beyond), government agencies, and global enterprise companies, along with expert advice from seasoned entrepreneurs and newcomers alike.

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Fresh from the SPRING: kantar

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for kantar. Check out more great work on kantar’s profile page. Nicely done, kantar, nicely done!

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projekt202 Austin Hosts Corporate Innovation with the Internet of Things

Austin Startup

projekt202 recently hosted our Austin tech community for a “Corporate Innovation with the Internet of Things” panel. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Fresh from the SPRING: kantar

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for kantar. Check out more great work on kantar’s profile page. Nicely done, kantar, nicely done!

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E-Commerce Essentials: 5 Tips For Your New Website

YoungUpstarts

by Sam Wheeler, Digital Business Consultant with Inseev Interactive. With more e-commerce websites popping up on the Internet than ever before, you might be thinking it’s time for your own company to strengthen its digital presence. While there’s never been a better time to start creating the website of your dreams, it’d be wise to get informed on some industry-leading tips and recommendations your new online marketplace should employ.

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Saudi Vision 2030 and The Women

Transformify

It is no secret that the countries in the Middle East are keen to limit the dependency on oil production. However, it is a public secret that these countries are losing a major portion of their GDP due to the low inclusion of women in the workforce. A public secret as everyone knows about it, reads about it, but hardly anyone acts on it. The Saudi Vision 2030 aims to diversify the production base and support employment plans to secure employment for millions of Saudis by the year 2030 under the

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Two Ways User-Generated Content Can Keep Your Brand Relevant

Duct Tape Marketing

Two Ways User-Generated Content Can Keep Your Brand Relevant written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In today’s digital age of marketing, brands are focusing on User-Generated Content (UGC) campaigns to improve their web performance and increase organic responses. User-Generated Content refers to any form of online content such as a Tweet, Snap, Facebook status, Instagram post, or blog that contain authentic opinions about a service or product as experienced by a non-professional