Sun.Jan 19, 2014

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5 effective networking strategies in the digital age

The Next Web

'Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, a freelance writer and a social media enthusiast. This post originally appeared on AdKnowledge. Networking will forever be the lifeblood of a professional’s career. No matter how old you are, what year it is and what technology is used, networking will continue to affect an individual’s professional growth, in addition to skillset and experience.

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

'The technology age has brought with it a long list of business related success stories. There are plenty of cases where a small startup has managed to grow into a billion-dollar company. While most people will think of companies such as Facebook and Amazon, GoDaddy.com is actually one of the greatest successes in recent history. What started as a small company has since grown into an easily recognizable brand which owns a significant portion of its own market.

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Not your Dads GoDaddy

deal architect

'I requested an introduction to Arne Josefsberg, the new CIO at GoDaddy. I have profiled innovations in the Microsoft Azure, the Facebook Prineville and Google’s data centers in my books. I wanted to learn more about the infrastructure at the.

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Entrepreneurs Must Not Confuse Action With Results

Startup Professionals Musings

'Too many entrepreneurs confuse actions with momentum and results. We all know someone who repeatedly tells us how “busy” they are, when it’s hard to see what they get done. Momentum is moving things forward (mass x velocity). Founders or employees in constant motion, but with no momentum, will never get off the ground. It is true that motion in any direction is often better than no motion at all.

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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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Entrepreneurs Relish The Challenge More Than Money

Gust

'Image via Flickr (Creative Commons). Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the best entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. On the average, the entrepreneurs I know are living on Ramen noodles. But one thing they all seem to have in common is a love for learning and change. They rush in with a passion to better the world, and money is just an indication of their progress.

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The Revenue Formula

Mike Michalowicz

'Revenue is influenced by two factors: 1. The number of people you impact and, 2. How deeply you impact them. Serve millions and you will make millions. That’s what some authors have done. Serve few deeply and you will make millions. That’s what some doctors have done. Find the way to serve millions deeply, and you will make billions. That’s what some life saving drugs have done.

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How to lose a customer

Start Up Blog

'I’ve been using a certain weather app on my phone for some time. It is called Pocket Weather AU – Lite. It is the free version. A few times when I have clicked in to check the weather, it has given me this pop up screen below: This time in good faith, I thought I’d click through and see what the offer was. To my disappointment, it was a simple ‘ buy our paid version ‘ of the app.

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Entrepreneurs Relish The Challenge More Than Money

Gust

'Image via Flickr (Creative Commons). Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the best entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. On the average, the entrepreneurs I know are living on Ramen noodles. But one thing they all seem to have in common is a love for learning and change. They rush in with a passion to better the world, and money is just an indication of their progress.

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The Future of Transportation

Feld Thoughts

'William Hertling is one of my favorite science fiction writers. If you are in the tech industry and haven’t read his books Avogadro Corp , A.I. Apocalypse , and The Last Firewall , I encourage you to go get them now on your Kindle and get after it. You’ll thank me later. In the mean time, following are William’s thoughts on the future of transportation for you to chew on this Sunday morning.

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Want to start a company? Here’s the best time to do that.

Jeff Hilimire

'This is going to be really simple. Want to know the best time to start a company? NOW. That’s right. If you start a company now, there is a 100% chance you’ll start a company. If you don’t start a company now – you need to do more market research, you need more savings, you need more nods of approval from your friends, you need to wait for that end of year bonus, you need more <insert excuse> – then the chances of you starting a company goes down every sing

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Seven Rules For Making The Sound Of Silence Work In Your Favor

YoungUpstarts

'by Geoffrey Tumlin, author of “ Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life “ These days, it’s difficult to watch the evening headlines or scroll through a news website without seeing that a politician, celebrity, athlete, or business leader is in the spotlight for saying something stupid.