Sat.Feb 11, 2017

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Alexa, what is the Alexa Accelerator?

David Cohen

The Alexa Accelerator , powered by Techstars , is a new program designed to support early-stage companies advancing the state-of-the-art in voice-powered technologies, interfaces and applications. Created in partnership with Amazon’s Alexa Fund , the program will focus on Alexa domains such as connected home and car, wearables and hearables, communication devices and more.

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This is what Florence must have felt like during the European Renaissance

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Florence was an incredibly wealthy and innovative place in the 1400s “The artists, architects, thinkers and political figures who led the Renaissance were all born on the fertile soil in and around Florence, within the same century: Masaccio, Donatello, Ghiberti,

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6 Reasons Your Business Needs A Website At Rollout

Startup Professionals Musings

These days, if your startup does not have an Internet home base up and running, you are not ready for business or potential investors. Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information.

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5 Smart Ways To Scale Your Business

YFS Magazine

Say you are ready to scale your business. You land. This article 5 Smart Ways To Scale Your Business appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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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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About those mountains you’re carrying…

Jeff Hilimire

When confronted with a difficult situation, there are two ways you can react. You can think about the worst outcomes and the tough times that are coming, and internalize those feelings and cover yourself in stress and anxiety. Or in other words, you can take the mountain and put it on your back. Or you can believe that life is a series of challenges, and all the hard work and experiences you’ve had so far have led you to this new challenge, and you’ve been presented with it because i

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Achieving the vision for your small business isn’t about the destination; it’s about the journey

Small Business Force

Most entrepreneurs and small business owners have a vision for what they want their company to become. But few understand how to effectively execute on that vision. They focus on the destination, when it’s really about the journey. Here are five critical ways for how to define and lead your team on that journey to be successful. NY Times writer Adam Bryant interviewed Todd Rovak, CEO of CapGemini North America and Fahrenheit 212 in Bryant’s weekly column “Corner Office,”