Wed.Dec 30, 2015

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Year-end musings: The changing outsourcing landscape

deal architect

Second of year-end posts I am running this week. Yesterday I wrote about enterprise software trends. To me 2015 was about how three A’s – Amazon, Analog, and Automation – are changing the outsourcing landscape, and looking forward, how these.

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10 Leadership Traits That Can Damage Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Does it really take a few flaws to make a great entrepreneur, or are the rest of us just confused about what a perfect business person is all about? In the past I’ve written about the positive attributes of great entrepreneurs , so this time I thought I would focus on the negatives that I see often, and I challenge you to find someone that has all the positives and none of the negatives.

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Year-end musings: Of Marketwatchers and Sheep

deal architect

Third of year-end posts I am running this week. The other two were about enterprise software and outsourcing trends. I recently saw The Big Short. Well done, actually funny, adaptation of the book. With so many things in the movie.

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How To Make Your Company Cars And Trucks Last Longer

YoungUpstarts

By Michael Chotiner. Getting a new car or truck every two or three years used to be emblematic of prosperity — a status symbol of personal and business success. Status aside, in the 20th century it might have made sense to get a new vehicle every few years when you calculated car payments versus the cost of reliability risks and repair expenses. That was then, this is now.

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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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9 Common Mistakes to Avoid During Funding Rounds

Up and Running

When raising your first round of capital, there are a few common mistakes many entrepreneurs make. To help you become a savvy founder (and avoid these mistakes), we asked nine successful entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council to talk with us about the mistakes they’d made in the past, and to give a bit of advice on how others can avoid doing the same. 1.

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10 Golden Rules Of Millennial Leadership

YFS Magazine

Young entrepreneurs are often inexperienced and overzealous, which prompts the need for guidance and to foster leadership skills, by those more experienced and successful.

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Caveman Diet: Why The Paleo Lifestyle Might Be Ideal For Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

60 million years ago, the earliest primates subsisted on fruit, leaves and insects – a mainly vegetarian diet. Just 2.6 million years ago, early humans started using tools.

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How to Use eCommerce Email Marketing to Increase Conversions

ConversionXL

As an eCommerce site, you likely send emails regularly. Black Friday emails, Valentine’s Day emails, BOGO emails, confirmation emails, thank you emails, reminder emails… the list is endless. Are you getting real results or simply opens / clicks? Are you promoting the right products to the right people at the right time? Generating revenue via email marketing requires strategy.

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Using the “Eavesdrop Effect” to Get Ideal Clients

Duct Tape Marketing

Using the “Eavesdrop Effect” to Get Ideal Clients written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Dov Gordon. Marketing Podcast with Dov Gordon. Getting clients can seem like the hardest work an entrepreneur can do. Getting the right clients, well that can feel like scaling a mountain. But, working with clients that appreciate the value you bring, expect to pay a premium and see you as a trusted advisor and collaborator is the best way to build a business that serves your l

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Beer Industry Entrepreneur Finds Niche Cleaning Tap Lines

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Beer Industry Entrepreneur Finds Niche Cleaning Tap Lines appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Somewhere In The Middle

aweissman.com

Change, nothing stays the same - Van Halen 2015 was in some ways the year that the science of gene editing - or Crispr - came into the public consciousness. As part of that, large incumbent players made big moves. For example, this joint venture involving Bayer (a $40B company). There were other examples of the “incumbents” in the health and medicine space making significant investments into innovation in 2015: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center built a $300 million , state-of-the-art outpat

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

We live in strange times, and sometimes it seems that the world is spinning backwards. Donald Trump is a leading presidential contender and the North Pole saw December temperatures rise above freezing without any sunlight. As every year comes to an end, I marvel at all of the unexpected twists and turns of the year. One of my favorite parts of my job is interacting with brilliant people around the world –while speaking, emailing or via my blog.

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Leapfrogging into the Future

thebarefootvc

We live in strange times, and sometimes it seems that the world is spinning backwards. Donald Trump is a leading presidential contender and the North Pole saw December temperatures rise above freezing without any sunlight. As every year comes to an end, I marvel at all of the unexpected twists and turns of the year. One of my favorite parts of my job is interacting with brilliant people around the world –while speaking, emailing or via my blog.

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