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Five Ways To Maintain A Smooth Manufacturing Process  

YoungUpstarts

by David Estrakh, Senior Vice President at Express Trade Capital. Even though your manufacturing facility is up and running, that doesn’t mean you can forget about it and turn your attention to other aspects of your business. Manufacturing requires constant attention to ensure that costs remain low and quality and productivity stay high. Here are a few ideas for keeping your operation running smoothly: Manage the Product Lifecycle.

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As a product manager, you need to do just two things

Street Smart Product Manager

One of the biggest lies in product management is agile. That may sound like heresy, but hear me out… I actually love agile. It’s a great approach to reducing the risk of developing and shipping software. It’s a better software development methodology. But on its own it doesn’t solve the problem of providing a capital […]. The post As a product manager, you need to do just two things appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

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The State of Manufacturing: A conversation with Jason Blessing, CEO of Plex Systems

deal architect

I enjoy spending time with Jason Blessing, CEO of Plex. We share a passion for automation and other manufacturing technology and we enjoy sharing notes on outstanding plants and facilities we get to visit. With a new President about to.

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7 Keys To Teaming With The Right Mentor For Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Why is it that only the most successful entrepreneurs , including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson, admit to having a mentor and actually use them? Starting a new business is tough, and the last thing you need is to suffer the same mistakes that have killed businesses like yours before you. Yet many entrepreneurs I know are too proud or too shy to even ask for advice.

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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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Limited Budget? Guide To Getting More Visitors To Your Site Without Spending A Dime

YoungUpstarts

by Dario Senko, co-founder of Diversis Digital and Point Visible. In this digital age where the world has been transformed into a global village, you cannot wish away the need to get your business online. It thus goes without saying that a website is one of the first things you need to invest in when setting up a business. When your site is up and running, the next challenge that comes your way is how to attract quality traffic without any added costs.

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What a product manager really does

Street Smart Product Manager

One of the biggest lies in product management is agile. That may sound like heresy, but hear me out… I actually love agile. It’s a great approach to reducing the risk of developing and shipping software. It’s a better software development methodology. But on its own it doesn’t solve the problem of providing a capital […]. The post What a product manager really does appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

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9 ways robots are going to impact your job

The Next Web

While the World Economic Forum suggests that we may lose roughly five million jobs to robots by 2020, what does that actually mean for today’s workforce? Will they be out of work entirely, or will they simply need to learn new skills? To find out more about what this means for your average small business, I polled nine business owners from YEC on the following question: How do you see the rise of the robot affecting your company?

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3 Reasons Your Limited Company May End Up Requiring Debt Resolution

YoungUpstarts

If you are a business owner in today’s often volatile and constantly fluctuating marketplace you are already fully aware of the challenges that you and many other business owners like you face on a daily basis. Managing a business enterprise is not something that is a walk in the park and there are competing priorities that you need to know how to deal with all while ensuring your business is profitable, your customers are satisfied, and everything is running full speed ahead.

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Leslie Samuel: Biology Professor Transforms Teaching Passion Into Full Time Blogging Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Leslie Samuel first came to my attention as a standout student of my Blog Mastermind 1.0 program way back in 2008. He also enrolled in my Become A Blogger video course, co-created with my friend Gideon Shalwick. The post Leslie Samuel: Biology Professor Transforms Teaching Passion Into Full Time Blogging Business appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com. [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RS

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Getting The Best Out Of The Internet In The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

What tools do you use for your business on a daily basis? The record books? The phone? A smart phone? Microsoft Excel? The cash register? What about the internet? It’s long past the year 2000 now and you really should be using the internet to further your business goals. Successful businesses succeed on the back of the tools that the internet can offer, but before we have a look at the tools, let’s talk about success.

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6 Online Marketing Myths That Are Completely Wrong

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at six online marketing myths that need to be permanently debunked.

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Five Key Elements For A Big Analytics Driven Business Impact

Occam's Razor

There is, almost literally, an unlimited number of things you could focus on to create a high impact data-influenced organization. And, as if unlimited is not enough, nearly every month your analytics vendors release new features, you discover new analytics solutions, and as your business is more successful (hurray!) there is a new mobile app to track or a new digital experience to problem-solve or a crazy online to offline campaign that upends everything unleashes a new layer of tactical activi

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From College Dropout To 3x Entrepreneur: ‘Failure Paved The Path For Future Success’

YFS Magazine

Experience will beat the snot out of a "piece of paper" any day of the week.

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Geekdom has a Huge Impact on San Antonio’s Downtown Tech District

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Five years ago, Geekdom set up operations on the 10th floor of the Weston Centre in downtown San Antonio. Geekdom was the brainchild of Graham Weston, former Chairman and co-founder of Rackspace and Nick Longo, founder of CoffeeCup Software. They wanted to create a technology hub in […] The post Geekdom has a Huge Impact on San Antonio’s Downtown Tech District appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Relocating Your Business? Don’t Make These 7 Mistakes

YFS Magazine

Avoid these 7 mistakes to ensure your business move goes as hassle-free as possible.

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Shop Austin’s Best Social Entrepreneurs

Austin Startup

Austin has an amazing community of social entrepreneurs. We trade encouragement, recommendations (both software and Netflix), and lessons… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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7 Inspiring Books Every First-Time Entrepreneur Should Read

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at 7 must-read books for first-time entrepreneurs.

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7 Most Important Things Mobile Apps Can Provide to Restaurant Businesses

Austin Startup

In our previous article devoted to restaurant app development, we highlighted two types of restaurant apps on the market: 1) restaurant… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Leslie Samuel: Biology Professor Transforms Teaching Passion Into Full Time Blogging Business

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Leslie Samuel first came to my attention as a standout student of my Blog Mastermind 1.0 program way back in 2008. He also enrolled in my Become A Blogger video course, co-created with my friend Gideon Shalwick. The post Leslie Samuel: Biology Professor Transforms Teaching Passion Into Full Time Blogging Business appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Function of leadership vs. style of leadership

Jeff Hilimire

Quoting from the book, Beyond Entrepreneurship : Effective corporate leadership consists of two parts: leadership function and leadership style. The function of leadership – the number-one responsibility of a leader – is to catalyze a clear and shared vision for the company and to secure commitment of and vigorous pursuit of that vision.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

“Being in Silicon Valley, a lot of my friends want to work for Google or Apple, but this class showed me that the problems in public service were even more challenging and rewarding. I used to watch the news about Syrian refugees and feel that I was just a bystander to a hopeless situation. But this class helped me realize I can have an impact and be part of the solution.”.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

Both Sides of the Table

Today it has been announced that I’m leading a $15 million funding round in Tact , a new generation of Enterprise Software company along with other investors including Microsoft Ventures and previous investors Accel and Redpoint Rather than just waxing lyrically about how great the company is I thought I’d provide some context about why I invested and also about a fundamental change I see in the coming years in the way enterprise software is used.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

“Being in Silicon Valley, a lot of my friends want to work for Google or Apple, but this class showed me that the problems in public service were even more challenging and rewarding. I used to watch the news about Syrian refugees and feel that I was just a bystander to a hopeless situation. But this class helped me realize I can have an impact and be part of the solution.”.

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Startup Valuation Tips

YoungUpstarts

When starting a business, chances are you are mainly focused on trying to get everything together so you can make that first sale. Part of that is finding cash to fund your needs. In order to attract investors, you have to know the valuation of your company or how much your company is worth. This can be a hard figure to come to with a start up because the chances are really good that your company has little to no actual cash value.

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Episode 126: Navigate the Storms with Constance Moonzwe

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. On this episode with Constance Moonzwe we talk about that moment where everything in your life changes and your life’s future and your business’ future changes in a second, how do you navigate that. Constance shares that her husband passed away in a car accident in 2014 and the next morning she was the owner of a business and had to deliver services to her clients.

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16 eCommerce A/B Test Ideas Backed by UX Research

ConversionXL

Nothing works all the time on all sites. That’s why we test in the first place; to let the data tell us what is actually working. That said, we have done quite a bit of user experience on eCommerce sites and have seen some trends in terms of what generates positive experiences from a customer perspective. This post will outline 16 A/B test ideas based on that data.