Fri.Jul 25, 2014

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Case Study: Resolving Airline Engineering Issues Using Videoconferencing

YoungUpstarts

'Airline engineering issues arise due to lack of oversight; methods used for risk management and the use of temporary employees and outsourced specialists. An annual conference is held each year in London to discuss the latest trends, allow key players to meet, adapt new business strategies, understand challenges and solve issues, build relationships and learn best practices for the airline industry.

Engineer 229
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Gatorade and the Kings of Cool

Up and Running

'Nike’s successful marketing means that everyone will buy their product—even when it isn’t the best. When you are developing a marketing plan, it’s important to focus on the aspect of your product that you mean to be the selling point. You have to have that thing that makes you stand out from the pack, and that’s what you focus on.

Florida 89
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30 Tips for Great Digital Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

'30 Tips for Great Digital Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Tara Banda – Enjoy! A man walks into a bar/restaurant/hotel/car repair shop. Chances are, he found it online. That’s because today’s consumers, 80% according to Google , rely more on the Web to find and choose local businesses.

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Bad Boys and the Fab Five: Business Lessons from Basketball History

Up and Running

'Costly mistakes in basketball history reveal important lessons for your business. In 2009, to commemorate their 30th anniversary, ESPN released a new sports documentary series called “30 for 30.” The series included 30 full-length documentary features that highlighted sports history’s most memorable moments and personalities. The series was so popular that ESPN decided to release a second volume of 30 more documentaries, produce 30 new digital shorts, and even released a ̶

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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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Shame on who?

deal architect

'You have heard the expression “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me”. But if you get fooled 6-7-8 times, who do you blame? As I go through every nook and crevice of the SAP economy.

Software 262
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Transparency Doesn’t Have To Be Just Another Buzzword

YoungUpstarts

'by Bobby Emamian , co-founder and CEO of Prolific Interactive. Synergy. Scalability. Disruption. It’s amazing how quickly an idea can go from buzzworthy to buzzword. Sometimes buzzwords originate because they’re great ideas. But all too often, they become irrelevant once they’re branded a buzzword. The term “transparency” has struggled with this distinction in the business world for the past few years, but it’s time to clarify the role of transparency and the implications it can have for you

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6 Tips For Surviving The First Five Years In Business

YoungUpstarts

'by Frances Kweller, founder and CEO of Kweller Prep. A new business venture is like a new marriage: it’s really exciting and fun; then it’s a lot of work and fun. Then it’s a lot of work and not so fun; and then it’s just a ton of work mired with headache after headache and you are learning way too many hard-earned lessons and wondering how you got here.

France 237
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11 of the hottest startups from Tech Open Air Berlin 2014

The Next Web

'Ah, Berlin. The city that wears its history on its sleeve, yet allows ample space for new culture to thrive. Its creative scenes, tech companies and weekend-long dance parties have made headlines in recent articles in Vice, Fast Company and The New Yorker. All eyes seem to be on Berlin. But don’t let its Brooklyn vibe or the Freikörperkultur (FKK) get you too relaxed.

Europe 162
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The 7 Ways To Make Your Clients Love You

Mike Michalowicz

'Love is love is love. The same things that you used to woo your spouse or boy/girl friend with, work with clients too. Why? Because you’re showing them you appreciate them, care about them and are truly interested in developing a long-term relationship with them. I’ll try not to get too syrupy here, but I’m trying to make a point: 1. A rose by any other name wouldn’t smell as sweet.

Naming 103
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Why I'm Short $CRCM

A Crowded Space

'How’s this for a checkout page: . This is terrible and distracting design, but it’s worse than just that. . My biggest issue with Care.com is one of misaligned incentives. Care.com makes the bulk of their money from paid memberships of customers and caregivers. The average lifetime of a paid subscriber is 7 months according to their S-1 filing.