Wed.Mar 18, 2015

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Marketers Focus More Attention on Mobile Gaming

YoungUpstarts

'by Jessica Oaks. Video games used to come with a stigma. The idea that rather than getting out, being active and interacting with others, gamers stayed locked away in their basements, engaging only in virtual relationships and developing a Vitamin D deficiency. Those stereotypes have quickly been shattering, however, with the emergence and immense popularity of mobile gaming.

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8 Signs Of Change That Good Entrepreneurs See First

Startup Professionals Musings

'When the economy tanks as it did in the last recession, that’s a strong signal that things have to change, and it’s hard to miss. But most of us in business have to deal most of the time with weak signals, or change that is happening in a far more subtle way. These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world.

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9 Best Practices For Consultants To Improve Their Client Relationships

YoungUpstarts

'by Sona Jepsen , vice president of consultant relations at Fidelity National Information Services. Have you ever noticed how much a consultant’s life is like a never-ending episode of “The Bachelor”? You put your best foot forward to woo your clients, promise them the moon in the form of a huge ROI, and hope each whirlwind romance ends with a big consulting contract proposal.

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How to Use Patreon to Start a Business from Home

Up and Running

'Thanks to Patreon, CEO Jack Conte doesn just run the business, he also uses it to pursue his own hobby! Finding information online on how to make money from your hobbies, or on how to start a business from home , often leads you to the same solutions: start a service business, offer your skills as a consultant, sell things on Ebay, blah, blah, blah.

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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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UK and Germany driving growth in European venture

The Equity Kicker

'I’m sure there are lots of reasons for this, but an important one is political support. The UK government has done a great job of supporting the UK startup ecosystem over the last few years, most notably through tax incentives for investors.

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Capital Factory Partners with Dublin Incubator at SXSW

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Cian O’Cuilleanain, co-founder of Gravity Centres in Dublin, fell in love with SXSW three years ago when he first attended Interactive. “Everybody was so welcoming, there were all these opportunities opening, there was the energy of the town. I went back home and started pitching Austin all […] The post Capital Factory Partners with Dublin Incubator at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Kindle Unlimited Teaches Us 5 Critical Lessons

Mike Michalowicz

'My most recent book, Profit First , launched on July 8 of last year. Ten days later, on July 18, Amazon launched its new subscription service, Kindle Unlimited. Publishing a book is always a roller coaster. It’s constant checking of sales and reviews, hoping that readers find value in all the hard work you’ve done. Now sales of hard copy books are updated daily or weekly, but Kindle sales are updated hourly, giving me the opportunity to watch selling trends, and a prime opportunity to see t

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Great Quality of Life: The Undercurrent of the Dallas Startup Ecosystem

The Startup Lawyer

'There has been a lot of talk lately that Dallas is a great environment for tech startups because of (1) the very low cost of living (especially in comparison to the California or New York) and corresponding high quality of life and (2) the very.

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How Much Could Your Business Be Worth?

Growthink Blog

'Last week, I shared the depressing statistic on how less than 1 out of 5 companies marketed for sale are able to find a buyer and to consummate a successful sale transaction. And how even this depressing statistic vastly under-estimates how few companies are able to attain a successful exit, as the great majority of the over 6 million U.S. business owners because of how they are structured and run can’t even contemplate commencing a “business-for-sale” process.

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Fresh from the SPRING: GoldBug

crowdSPRING Blog

'When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for GoldBug. Check out more great work on GoldBug ’s profile page. Nicely done, GoldBug, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: 5IVE_STAR_CREATIVE. Fresh from the SPRING: SUJITHFAB.

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The Art of the Start 2.0

Duct Tape Marketing

'The Art of the Start 2.0 written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Guy Kawasaki. Officially a startup is any business just getting started but over the last few years the term startup has come to mean a certain kind of business just getting started or perhaps even a certain mindset no matter how old the business is.

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Starbucks As Race Uniter: P**s Everyone Off Equally

Venture Chronicles

'Starbucks found itself in hot water this week after encouraging baristas to write “racetogether” on coffee cups and discuss race relations with customers. And of course their is a #racetogether hashtag campaign. Sigh. I give you Starbucks leadership team… you can’t blame them for being so white, there aren’t many sunny days in Seattle.

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My Day Job

Bryce Dot VC

'A funny thing happened on the way to the Indie.vc application deadline… I started receiving A LOT of emails from founders saying they loved the idea of the program but it wasn’t a fit for them for one reason or the other. This compliment was then followed by a sheepish pitch for what they were doing as if they had to apologize for asking if OATV might still want to invest.

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My Favorite Patreon Profiles

Up and Running

'How many creators today would love to have the modern equivalent of a court patron, a wealthy benefactor such as a king who supported their work as a musician, writer, or artist, while they continued to create? It sounds like an ideal situation—the artist receives enough funding to work creatively, and the patron is rewarded with something they truly enjoy.

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