Fri.Feb 17, 2017

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This could be mutually assured destruction in SAP world

deal architect

One of the most toxic contractual terms in SAP world is that of “indirect access” where users exchange information with the SAP software in dialog or prompt mode. The issue is not with licensed users who access the software using.

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How to Optimize Your Referral Program and Boost Your Sales

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Optimize Your Referral Program and Boost Your Sales written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Referral marketing looks like the elixir of marketing. You are making your customers refer their friends to your business at no extra cost. Doesn’t that sound great? If you are a business owner, I know it does. But here’s the thing: creating a referral program isn’t hard.

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7 Rules For Maintaining A Creative Business Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

Within the startup realm, there is a big difference between having an innovative product versus an innovative business. Some startups have a new technology, but stick to a tried-and-true business model. Others take an existing product, and give it new life with a creative business model. The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time.

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Defending Groundbreaking Ideas From Killer Competition

YoungUpstarts

by Lewis Robinson. It’s finally happened. After years of brainstorming, of tossing out bad ideas, of beating your head against the wall in frustration, you’ve finally done it. You’ve come up with your Big Idea. It’s going to revolutionize the world, and the idea is 100 percent your own. This is what you’ve been working for your entire life. Congratulations!

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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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Do Less And Delegate More: How Leaders Learn To Let Go

YFS Magazine

As a leader, you’ll never help your business reach its highest potential if you’re drowning in daily minutiae. Try a few of these tips and learn to let go. This article Do Less And Delegate More: How Leaders Learn To Let Go appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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Entrepreneur Helps Businesses Focus on Passion Points Instead of Pain Points to Get Results

Hearpreneur

Share. “Content is King.” It’s a popular phrase that has been used over and over again. Especially with changes from Google and the introduction of platforms like LinkedIn Pulse, content has a lot of value for entrepreneurs and business owners when leveraged correctly. Lisa Manyon through her company Write On Creative provides coaching, consulting and copywriting services for entrepreneurs and business owners helping them to communicate accurately and effectively to be success

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Why Are Austin’s Ridesharing Providers Purposefully Excluding People With Disabilities?

Austin Startup

KXAN Interviews Austin Mayor About Ridesharing Issues In Austin But Somehow Forgets To Ask The Most Important Question It all started with a simple interview During a rather benign interview by KXAN News with Austin City Mayor Steve Adler much was said about ridesharing services — issues pertaining to national background checks and fingerprinting were the main topics — which is understandable since those issues gained major public attention in 2016.

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The Mom & Dad Marketing Plan For Profit First

Mike Michalowicz

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Small “i” Insights or Large “I” Insights Yield Different Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

World’s first ATM at Charring Cross in London, 1968. Qualitative Consumer Verbatims Lead Directly to New and Improved Ideas. Disruptive Innovation Requires Reframing of Consumer Words and Need States. Working with Fortune 1000 companies I’ve found cultures rich in respect for qualitative research. The term “Focus Groups” really doesn’t do the method justice, it’s more sophisticated than that.

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Which wolf will win?

Jeff Hilimire

An old Cherokee told his grandson: “My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, and resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, and truth.” The boy thought about it, and asked, “Grandfather, which wolf wins?

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Top 5 things we learned from our first million RideAustin rideshare trips

Austin Startup

By Andy Tryba & Marisa Goldenberg Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Blue. In a Red State. Pete Buttigieg’s Outlook for America.

Both Sides of the Table

One of the most talked about Fireside Chat’s of the 2-day Upfront Summit was the talk between my friend Joe Green and Pete Buttigieg , the mayor of South Bend, Indiana aka “The Happy Warrior” currently in a bid to become the new head of the DNC ( you can learn more here ). Joe and Pete went to college together at Harvard. Joe went on to create Causes with Sean Parker, then Nation Builder, Fwd.us with Mark Zuckerberg and more recently another startup, which I’m not sure whether it’s public so I w

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