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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The idea of exactly what your business is going to be usually comes first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it. Even still there are some people who study foreign words for the perfect meaning behind their chosen business.

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Amazon in India: Lost in the noise

deal architect

Fortune has raised a firestorm with its cover showing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as Lord Vishnu, a revered Hindu deity. Others don’t like the word “invade” in the title because it smacks of colonialism. After Charlie Hebdo, it is surprising.

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10 Proactive Ways to Build Engagement From Your Team

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business wishes that all their employees were star performers, but wishing doesn’t make it happen. Some coaches and leaders seem to have the magic for bringing out the best in everyone. Research has shown that it isn’t magic, but a focus on engaging people in their work, so that their work triggers the same emotions as play does for you. Some of you cynics may think that such a thing isn’t possible, but Shawn Kent Hayashi, who has worked for years with entrepreneurs as well as Fortune 500

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uShip Wins the 2016 Austin Startup Games

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News uShip won the 2016 Austin Startup Games on Saturday afternoon at Fair Market on Austin’s East side. SpareFoot, a three-time champion, came in second, followed by LawnStarter, a new competitor to the games. More than 1,000 people attended the event, which raised $57,500 for local charities, said […] The post uShip Wins the 2016 Austin Startup Games appeared first on SiliconHills.

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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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5 Ways Remote Working Can Help Your Startup Thrive

YFS Magazine

With companies such as Buffer, Wordpress and Upworthy reporting numerous benefits after abandoning the office environment, an increasing number of startups are questioning whether a
 remote workforce is right for them.

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Free Live Training: A Step-By-Step Guide To Setup A Blog And Email List To Sell Your Product On Autopilot

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

This week on Thursday at 3PM EST USA Time (January 28th) I am running a live training webinar as part of the Blog Mastermind 2016 opening. It’s called – A Step-By-Step Guide To Setup A Blog + Email List To Sell Your Product On Autopilot To secure your seat at. The post Free Live Training: A Step-By-Step Guide To Setup A Blog And Email List To Sell Your Product On Autopilot appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Waldo Photos Launches in Austin and Raises $5 Million in Funding

SiliconHills

Where’s Waldo? Right here in Austin, Texas. And they’ve just raised $5 million in venture capital to create a new photo-finding platform. Southern California venture capital firm Upfront Ventures led the round. Rodney Rice and Michael Beaudoin, veteran entrepreneurs who co-founded HomeAdvisor and Einstein Bros. Bagels, founded the site to create a seamless photo-finding experience […] The post Waldo Photos Launches in Austin and Raises $5 Million in Funding appeared first on Si

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The simple marketing mistake that opens the door for climate change deniers

Start Up Blog

Here’s the headline from an article recently about climate change: Rising global temperatures: when will climate change deniers throw in the towel. Firstly, I’m not an expert, but I believe the experts – the 99% of scientists who informs us of the climate change reality. I also think it is an amazing startup and financial opportunity to decarbonise our economies and invent new revenue regimes around renewable energy sources.

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Fifth Annual Austin Startup Games Takes Place Saturday

SiliconHills

Has it been five years already? Silicon Hills News covered the first Austin Startup Games at uShip back in the day and every one since then. In the beginning, they called them the Austin Startup Olympics, but I think they had to change the name so as not to confuse everyone with the real Olympics. […] The post Fifth Annual Austin Startup Games Takes Place Saturday appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Sneakers – The age of the global niche

Start Up Blog

I came across this great TED talk – which is almost rare these days… about an underground economy for Sneakers. Yep, those things, runners, sports shoes… but mostly Nikes. It turns out that this market of buying and selling special edition shoes is not small fry. The secondary market for collectors edition shoes is estimated to be $1.2 billion a year.

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Weekend Favs January Twenty Three

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs January Twenty Three written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This week I found a free tool from Content Ideator that allows you to generate blog post topics and headlines from keywords, PicPlane a tool that lets you republish your fans and followers Instagram photos on your website and Survicate a tool that makes it easy to collect survey data right from your website visitors.