Sat.Jun 20, 2015

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10 Recommendations For Entrepreneurs Who Hate Norms

Startup Professionals Musings

Every culture and community puts pressure on its members to follow the norms. Even young people who start out wanting to be different are called “freaks,” and most are slowly bent back into the norm by the time they “grow up.” Maybe that’s why so many entrepreneurs struggle with building a disruptive new business, where breaks from the norm are the key to success.

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How to Choose Content Marketing Tools

Brandanew

There are tons of social media and content marketing tools available in the market. And routine tasks in the marketing/ branding departments are being replaced by intelligent systems. These could include, automatic curation, scheduling, image edits or any such functions. Tools can be a big addition to your Content Marketing costs. Thus it’s important to know how to choose Content Marketing tools for your brand.

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I launched a startup with my mom

The Next Web

It was August 2013 when my co-founder at SportsManias called to tell me that we had raised $1 million in angel funding. I was a second-year in college on my way to the library at the University of Chicago; she was back in Miami, where our company is based. This moment confirmed that our vision for sports journalism wasn’t crazy after all. The investors believed in our mission to blend social media with the reporting of sports beat writers.

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Hire A Mobile App Developer That Is Both Crazy And Qualified

YFS Magazine

While most entrepreneurs think their mobile app idea is game-changing, a successful app takes collaboration.

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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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Near Zero Employee & Customer Churn? That’s ManagedByQ (Now Fueled With $15m Series A)

Hunter Walker

Stay objective Hunter, stay objective. I CAN’T STAY OBJECTIVE ON THIS ONE, I F’IN LOVE MANAGEDBYQ! Ok, now that I got that out of the ole’ system, it was great to see ManagedByQ launch in SF this past week (previously just CHI, NYC) and announce a strong $15m Series A by Steve Schlafman at RRE. We put a short note on the Homebrew blog.

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6 Ways To Gain A Competitive Advantage In Business

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at six smart ways to multiplying gains and make money work for you in business.

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What Disney, Google And Maslow Can Teach Your Business About Purpose

YFS Magazine

We all know business is not about transactions any more, it’s time to live and do business with purpose.