Tue.Dec 01, 2015

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4 Key Assets For Any Successful Website

YoungUpstarts

The online arena plays a crucial part in our daily lives on both a personal and professional level. Websites are a fantastic resource for companies to increase profits. Additionally, they offer individuals a chance to express opinions and maybe even form a career. However, creating a successful website is easier said than done. There are several steps to establishing a strong online presence.

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

This is a guest post by Libby Kinsey , a former VC with an Msc in Machine Learning from UCL (bio below). Machine Learning and AI are fast becoming ubiquitous in data driven businesses, that is to say, an awful lot of businesses. Here I choose a few areas where it’s possible that big corporations haven’t already eaten everybody’s lunch. It’s not uncharted territory?

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5 Companies That Could Become The Next Apple

YoungUpstarts

by Lewis Robinson. With an impressive product lineup of new iPhones, Apple watches, iPads and an all-new Apple TV queued for shipment this week, 2015 is the most successful year of revenue growth for Apple , according to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. Apple’s sales increase of close to $234 billion reiterates its commitment to quickly release superior devices to the consumer.

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Ditch Brochure Websites And Create Living, Breathing Brand Experiences

YFS Magazine

There’s a pervasive myth out there that far too many businesses assume is true. It goes something like this: Having an online presence is enough to achieve your marketing goals. You can create a brochure site, then set it and forget it.

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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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Should You Offer Equity Compensation to Employees?

Up and Running

In 2005, David Choe was invited to paint a number of murals at Facebook’s HQ in Palo Alto. At the time, Facebook wasn’t the goliath it is today and so, Choe was given a couple of options: he could have $60,000 in cash, or stock (equal to the equivalent amount of the cash back then). Choe may have lost out and made nothing if the company had gone under, but because it was a monumental success, he is now worth approximately $200 million.

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How Hardware Startups Gain Initial Traction [Episode #14: Ben Einstein]

View from Seed

The NextView podcast Traction explores the clever, creative, and atypical things entrepreneurs do to make initial progress against the odds. If startups should do things that “don’t scale,” then this podcast asks a simple question: What ARE those things? Past episodes include stories from founders of LinkedIn , DraftKings , General Assembly , Mattermark , Duck Duck Go , InsightSquared , and more.

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Embrace the good side of new comms technologies

The Equity Kicker

Change often feels threatening and new technologies are always feared by some people, but the successful ones eventually get integrated into society and become normal. I love the way this cartoon above makes the argument succinctly and with great examples, but there are many others. At different times people have been similarly afraid that chess, cinema, mobile phones and Facebook will destroy society.

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SMB’s Cut Costs And Boost Operations With Cloud-Based Phone Systems

YFS Magazine

Cloud-based solutions unite the entire organization from sales to customer service. This saves small businesses time and money, as well as produces more efficient calls, which leads to happier customers.

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CPA Global Buys Austin-based Innography

SiliconHills

CPA Global, based in Saint Helier, Jersey, announced it has acquired Austin-based Innography, a patent search and analytics software provider. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Innography, founded in 2006, raised $16.5 million in four rounds including participation from Austin Ventures, according to its CrunchBase profile. CPA Global reported that the acquisition […] The post CPA Global Buys Austin-based Innography appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Introducing Duct Tape Publishing

Duct Tape Marketing

Introducing Duct Tape Publishing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Over the years I’ve produced a lot of content – maybe you know that. In fact, I’ve written four full-length books and posted over 3,000 blog posts in the last ten years or so. Today I’m entering the content game in a slightly different way – publishing.

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Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

Steve Blank

This is the second in a series about the changing models of corporate innovation co-authored with Evangelos Simoudis. Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Read part one on the Evolution of Corporate R&D. —— Innovation and R&D Outposts. For decades large companies have set up R&D labs outside their corporate headquarters , often in foreign countries, in spite of having a large home market with lo

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Introducing Duct Tape Publishing

Duct Tape Marketing

Introducing Duct Tape Publishing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Over the years I’ve produced a lot of content – maybe you know that. In fact, I’ve written four full-length books and posted over 3,000 blog posts in the last ten years or so. Today I’m entering the content game in a slightly different way – publishing.

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Women Who Launch: 7 Missteps To Avoid When Starting A Business

YoungUpstarts

By Joanna L. Krotz, author of “ Being Equal Doesn’t Mean Being The Same “ In recognition of the annual WED or Women’s Entrepreneurship Day, and its follow-up pledge on Women Wednesday or #WomenWOW to promote women-led businesses, it’s high time we updated our notion of what an entrepreneur really looks like. The popular image may still rely on risk-taking, egocentric, take-no-prisoner males, but it’s actually women who are more likely to be starting a business these days.

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