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7 Reasons A Small Business Should Hire Advisors 

YoungUpstarts

by Jonathan Aspatore, CEO of ExecRank. The right advisor can have a greater impact on the success of your small business than any other hire you ever make. Here are seven ways that advisors can immediately help your small business achieve the next level of success: Assist With Strategies & Connections to Have Record Revenue & Profit in 2016.

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User Groups and Customer Advocacy

deal architect

Somebody asked me recently what was the toughest part to write in my SAP books. Without hesitation, I said Chapter 7 of the first book. It cataloged 20 years of project failures. I had forgotten about the steady drumbeat of.

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Startup advice should be strong on the ‘why’ and the ‘what’

The Equity Kicker

I just read a great post titled Dear startup advisors, you don’t always need to be right, but you have to be solid. Forward Partners is very much in the business of startup advice so I was keen to read what Phin Barnes from First Round had to say. As I say, it’s a good post and well worth reading in it’s entirety. What follows are the money quotes and the rest of the post is largely an example from when Phin was an entrepreneur that really brings the point home.

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How To Grow Your Business With Strategic Partnerships

YFS Magazine

If you’re a small business owner not benefiting from strategic partnerships, you should start thinking about how you can develop them.

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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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This may not be the bubble you’re looking for

VC Adventure

At great risk of wading into a debate where there’s no winning, I thought I’d present a few pieces of data that suggest that we’re not exactly in a market bubble right now. Massive caveat here: I’m not trying to predict the stock market. I’m just following my own advice. Plus I agree with my partner Brad, who said recently , “I think everyone will have an opinion and no one will have any real idea,” about what’s going to happen in the stock market

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7 Ways Travel Makes You A Better Entrepreneur

YFS Magazine

Pack that suitcase, sally forth, and see your travel as great on-the-job training!

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Are Your Case Studies Actually Turning Away Prospects?

Duct Tape Marketing

Are Your Case Studies Actually Turning Away Prospects? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Case Study Format. I’m a big fan of case studies as an important part of the content journey. The reason a well-crafted case study can be so effective is that if you strip away all the marketing talk and focus on telling the story of a real business getting real results you’ve got the makings of a pretty potent marketing asset.

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GTT Acquires One Source Networks in Austin for $175 million

SiliconHills

GTT Communications Tuesday announced it entered into an agreement to acquire One Source Networks, an Austin-based telecommunications company, for $175 million. GTT reports the acquisition extends its worldwide network, expands its cloud networking services and increases its multinational client base and adds talent to its sales force. The deal involves GTT paying $175 million including […] The post GTT Acquires One Source Networks in Austin for $175 million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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5 Ways to Keep Your Small Business Growing

Up and Running

Running a small business is a daunting challenge. Statistically, less than 50 percent of small businesses are still operational after five years. Globalization has increased the level of competition and introduced more turmoil to the business environment. If you want to take your business to the next level, you’ll need to be open to the current realities of the new global economy, and get more creative.

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How To Use Google AdWords To Boost Results

YoungUpstarts

If you are looking for ways in which to attract more, high quality traffic to your website or blog, Google AdWords is able to drive large amounts of good quality traffic, and even making small and simple changes to a Google AdWords marketing campaign can have a significant impact on the campaign’s profitability. If you’re looking to boost your results, Google AdWords is the perfect tool.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” For good reason: A tiny country of only 8 million people — 0.1% of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world.

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Datos IO: The Right People, the Right Market, the Right Time

Lightspeed Venture Partners

By: Will Kohler and John Vrionis. [link]. We are thrilled to be partnered with Tarun and Prasenjit, founders of Datos IO, who just announced their Big Data recovery solution for customers of scale-out databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB. Early stage investing always comes down to two things: people and market. Datos IO has both in good measure. People build products.

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How to Use SlideShare as a Content Marketing Platform

Brandanew

Most businesses are not necessarily looking at SlideShare immediately as they talk about digital marketing. Generally all our attention as well as our resources are grabbed by the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. But before you go on ignoring it, there are facts to be looked over. I’ll go through the reasons why your must consider Slideshare.

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