Tue.May 26, 2015

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4 Habits To Bring In Content Originality

Brandanew

If you’ve been in the loop and thinking about how to bring in content originality , then perhaps you have already heard of the latest couple in digital town. If you’re not in touch, make sure you spend the next thirty minutes finding out – or not, because I don’t like not gossiping about Digi-town ! Content and marketing- the inseparable couple in digi-town.

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Spring Clean Your Startup: 5 Tips For Removing The Clutter

YoungUpstarts

by Rick Martinez, CEO and founder of Project BINK. Clutter is a drag. It slows us down, distracts us, and can send the wrong message about our work habits. Worse yet, it can have the same effect on an organization as a whole. For startups that are always pushing forward, it’s only natural that they’ll leave a mess in their wake. After all, a little clutter is simply the byproduct of productive teams, right?

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SAP Customer Paths

deal architect

To me, the most enjoyable part of writing a book is the initial research/interviews phase. In the last few weeks working on the sequel to SAP Nation, I have had invigorating conversations with several professionals in SAP world and beyond.

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Finding The Best Commercial Storage Facilities

YoungUpstarts

If you are a business owner, thinking about how to keep any items off site safe will be a main concern. One way to achieve that is by working together with a commercial storage facility. These allow you to keep your belongings protected from the elements, as well as often being fireproof and waterproof. Indeed, if for whatever reason, you do not have the space to keep your belongings safe, then storage rooms and storage bins can be a fantastic option.

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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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Measuring the Immeasurable: Evaluating Startups Qualitatively

Gust

At Hyde Park Angels, we evaluate startups based on quantifiable metrics related to traction, market size, and more. But that’s not all we consider. In fact, sometimes the most important factors in determining whether we should invest are qualitative. While these can vary from deal to deal, there are a few that remain the same. Understanding of the Pain Read more >.

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How To Select A Franchise Attorney

YoungUpstarts

A lot of people choose to launch a new business as a franchisee. This is because it works on proven business plans and models and, therefore, has a greater chance at being successful. However, it also means having to deal with a set of particular circumstances that are very different from those faced by other startup businesses. In order to be guided through this process, you must work with an attorney who is specialized in dealing with franchise transactions.

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The Tedium of Being a Founder

This is going to be BIG.

We glamorize the life of a founder--the big picture idea person who creates something big out of nothing. They lead a team with vision and bold thinking, guiding a ship from the helm. Right? That certainly seems to be what people believe--because I can't tell you how many founders are surprised when they find out how much of the job is. well. Mind-numbingly tedious.

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Measuring the Immeasurable: Evaluating Startups Qualitatively

Gust

At Hyde Park Angels, we evaluate startups based on quantifiable metrics related to traction, market size, and more. But that’s not all we consider. In fact, sometimes the most important factors in determining whether we should invest are qualitative. While these can vary from deal to deal, there are a few that remain the same. Understanding of the Pain Read more >.

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The Complete Guide to Registering Your Business Name

Up and Running

When I was a child, my family and the other families in our neighborhood held annual summer garage sales. It was a great way to get the community to work together, and of course weed out a little of the inevitable clutter. For every yard sale, I’d buy bottled lemonade, bake several batches of cookies and brownies, and set up shop. A few minutes consideration, half a day’s preparation, and I was set to go.

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Biological brains will be a sideshow: Prediction from the Royal Astonomer

The Equity Kicker

Richard Rees , the UK’s Royal Astronomer finished a recent article in the Telegraph with the following paragraph: Abstract thinking by biological brains has underpinned the emergence of all culture and science. But this activity – spanning tens of millennia at most – will be a brief precursor to the more powerful intellects of the inorganic post-human era.

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This is still everyone’s favourite radio station

Start Up Blog

It’s not Rdio, Pandora, Spotify or iTunes – it’s still Wii-Fm. What’s in it For Me? I was reminded of this fact just the other week. I was talking to someone before I delivered a keynote speech. They told me they’d like to stay and listen as they needed a speaker for an upcoming event. We had a great chat, and exchanged details.

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Get Happy About Your Work Again! Here’s 8 Ways To Do It

Mike Michalowicz

Hate your work? Do you know why? It’s because you’ve lost your purpose. I mean you could happily carry a load of rocks on your back for 100 miles if you knew it would save the people you loved. The load would be a lot lighter because you knew what your purpose was. It’s the same with work. So here are the 8 steps for rediscovering your purpose and getting happy about work again: 1.

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Austin-based Knowingly Buys GigaOm Assets

SiliconHills

An Austin startup, Knowingly Corp. announced its acquisition of some of the assets of the now defunct technology news site, Gigaom. Knowingly acquired the website, Gigaom and its content library. Byron Reese, who founded Knowingly Corp. last year, described Gigaom as “second to none in what it does.” Om Malik founded Gigaom in 2006. The […] The post Austin-based Knowingly Buys GigaOm Assets appeared first on SiliconHills.

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4 Tips for a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign

Early Growth Financial Services

This guest post by Geri Stengel was originally published on Forbes. Women-owned businesses start life with significantly less capital than those owned by men. How can a business grow if it starts life undernourished? Yet, if you’re a woman business owner, your business will start with less and raise less as it grows. If you settle for that situation, you’ll likely end up with less to show for your trouble — a smaller, less successful business than if a man had come up with the same idea an

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Tradition Can be a New Innovation Killer!

Small Business Force

"Tradition" is the opening number of the classic Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof , about villagers trying to continue their past customs as the world around them changes. Webster's defines it as an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior. But tradition, while it tries to emphasize the past, often suppresses the future.

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Boost Your Productivity with 10 Time Management Tips

Up and Running

Have you experienced too many days of mind-numbing work, only to be faced with the realization that you haven’t accomplished a fraction of what you’d intended? Of course, this happens to everyone occasionally, but if it is becoming a routine occurrence in your life, it’s time to do some sober introspection so that you can make the necessary changes.

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Boost Your Social Media Engagement With These Tips

Duct Tape Marketing

Boost Your Social Media Engagement With These Tips written by Alex Boyer read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Everyone wants more likes, RTs, pins, favorites and shares on their social media posts. Isn’t that the point of social media, to spread your business and personal influence to as many potential followers and customers as possible?

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19 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Business Quotes

Hearpreneur

André Gide wrote that,”Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” Quotes are an important part of motivation, though many of them are repeats of another turn of phrase. Business owners are particularly partial to famous quotations. Reading a motivational speech from a business legend or famous creative mind can give you a spark.