Mon.Dec 05, 2016

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How to Build a Startup Marketing Team from Zero [Traction #33: Mike Volpe, Cybereason]

View from Seed

So much of digital innovation has changed the way people communicate and create or access content. As a result, few departments in business have changed how they work quite like marketing, and few functions look so fundamentally different today than a decade ago. So hiring your first marketer as a startup founder can be a daunting task. What’s the profile of the candidate?

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7 Ways To Think Outside the Box To Grow Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Too many entrepreneurs put their best creative thinking into the startup idea, and believe that the business implementation simply requires following tried and true business practices. In my experience as a startup advisor, nothing could be further from the truth. To win, you need to think outside the box to deliver a better customer experience, business model, and new positioning.

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Joining the Kauffman Fellows Board

Feld Thoughts

In September, I joined the board of Kauffman Fellows. If you aren’t familiar with the Kauffman Fellows Program, it recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. I was around at the beginning, spending a day a month in Kansas City with the Kauffman Foundation as an entrepreneur-in-residence when the program was originally created by a team at the Kauffman Foundation to identify, develop, and network the next generation of global leaders in the venture capital industry using a two-year apprentic

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Building A Loyal Customer Base Starts With A Simple ‘Thank You’

YoungUpstarts

By Jay DesMarteau, head of small business and government banking distribution for TD Bank. The holiday season has begun, and small business owners in the retail and hospitality industries are operating in what is often their busiest time of year. In fact, the National Retail Federation states that the months of November and December alone may account for 30 percent of a retailer’s annual sales.

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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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Why Every Entrepreneur Must Find Their Purpose

YFS Magazine

Why do entrepreneurs do what they do?
 Why do they decide to start businesses, and what makes them stick 
with it?

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Why Your Startup Needs To Add Exhibiting To The Marketing Mix

YoungUpstarts

As a startup business, every marketing channel that you choose is new and can seem a bit daunting. After all, each channel will have its own nuisances to learn in order to maximise your output and make sure that everything is working to increase your ROI and not be a drain on your resources. You may now be at a point of thinking whether exhibiting is a worthwhile investment in order to grow your business.

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How We Hire People: The Background Story Behind The Entrepreneurs-Journey.com Team

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript Coming Soon | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Welcome to the first episode of the Entrepreneurs-Journey.com Podcast new ‘Solo Sessions‘ What is a ‘Solo Session’ you ask? Well it’s me, talking to you, explaining how I do something behind the scenes in my. The post How We Hire People: The Background Story Behind The Entrepreneurs-Journey.com Team appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com. [ Download MP3 | Transcript Co

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Don’t Worry: The Future Won’t be Filled with Robot Overlords

YFS Magazine

There will be changes – but it won’t be war. What will exist in the revolt’s place?

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Monday Motivation: Lion Attitude

Hearpreneur

Share. This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. A lion leads. Everyone has the heart of the lion inside of them. Real lions are hungry when the time comes for their mission.

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How We Hire People: The Background Story Behind The Entrepreneurs-Journey.com Team

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Welcome to the first episode of the Entrepreneurs-Journey.com Podcast new ‘Solo Sessions‘ What is a ‘Solo Session’ you ask? Well it’s me, talking to you, explaining how I do something behind the scenes in my business. Don’t. The post How We Hire People: The Background Story Behind The Entrepreneurs-Journey.com Team appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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JAMB Extends 2016 Admission Deadline To 9th December

Transformify

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB has extended the deadline which was stated for all tertiary institution with Nigeria for the completion of all admission activities to 9th December, 2016. The earlier date was 30th November deemed it fit to extend it so as to enable institutions who have not yet completed their admission processes to do so.

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Changing the Way we Pay

Austin Startup

How Gane.io changes consumer’s shopping behavior Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Embracing the Beauty of Earth

Transformify

Working remotely allows people to see many beautiful sights. It enabled me to see the beauty of Iceland!

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My First 6 Months at Praetorian

Austin Startup

This year I turned 30. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Work = Fun

Transformify

Multitasking with my friends from the coffee shop in Toronto, Canada. Loving this mood!

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Why We Are Joining a Startup Accelerator

Austin Startup

And Why You Should Too Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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You either ROI or die

Street Smart Product Manager

Let’s face it: Accounting is boring as isht. Assets. Liabilities. Cost basis. Accrual. GAAP. Cost principle. Double entry system… Finance is not much funner… In fact, it can downright make your head spin… Liquidity. Risk tolerance. Asset allocation. Dollar cost averaging. Capital asset pricing… Eh? As a product manager, why in the world would you […].

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The History of Lean Planning

Up and Running

Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. The traditional business plan just wasn’t fitting the needs of modern, fast-moving companies and it was time to bring more of a scientific approach to business planning. There’s nothing wrong with planning—it’s just that the tools and methods for planning needed to evolve.

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Episode 125: Have Even More Fun with Nick Gianoullis

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. On this episode we interview Nick Gianoullis, The Godfather of Fun. He explains how fun in your office drives profitability. Simple techniques to make your business be a fun place to work, have employees come in excited to be there and drive profit the whole time. Welcome to Episode 125 of the Profit First Podcast!

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The Truth About the Post-Truth World (And Why Businesses Should Care)

crowdSPRING Blog

Continuing with a longstanding tradition, the Oxford Dictionary has chosen 2016’s word of the year: post-truth. Sound nonsensical? That’s actually kind of the point. Post-truth, according to Oxford, is, “an adjective defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.’”.

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Small Employers; Big Savings: Self-Funding Health Benefits Is An Option

YoungUpstarts

by Ron E. Peck, senior vice president and general counsel at The Phia Group, LLC. Small businesses are educating themselves on their health insurance options – and they’re realizing self-funding may be the way to go. Before assessing self-funded health insurance for your business, you need to understand the two pillars of health insurance: funding and risk.

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