Fri.Jan 24, 2014

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How To Increase Self-Esteem And Success In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

'In my years of mentoring entrepreneurs, a problem I have seen too often is low self-esteem, and over-compensating through arrogance and ego. These entrepreneurs find it hard to respect customers or team members, and their ventures usually fail. As an employee, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Fortunately, both can be fixed.

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Why You Need Business Development w/ Hunter Boyle of AWeber

ConversionXL

'Today, I was fortunate enough to get Hunter Boyle – Senior Business Development Director of AWeber to talk with us about what exactly business development is, and the role it can play on conversions. Because this is a new feature for ConversionXL, I would love to get your feedback so we can keep making it better. In my interview with Hunter, we discuss: The key responsibilities of a business development professional.

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Twitter Link Roundup #209 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Industry breakdown of jobs subject to computerisation

The Equity Kicker

'I’ve blogged before that 45% of jobs are at risk from automation , and this morning our Senior Designer Peter Main tweeted a breakdown of which industries are most at risk: It is easy to think about automation in apocalyptic terms – e.g. all telemarketers will be replaced by computers in the next twenty years, but the way it works in practice is that computers make existing workers more efficient and only a percentage of jobs are automated.

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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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The UX dilemma

deal architect

'Workday showcased to a few of us yesterday Release 21 and the repeated and striking theme was the drop-dead gorgeous UI design in the screenshots we saw from a web screen (as in home menu below with move away from.

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9 Things That Take a Pitch From Good To Great

Up and Running

'I’ve seen hundreds of business pitches, and most of them—at best—are just okay. There have been plenty of pretty good ones that hit all the key components of a pitch , but only a handful of those took it a step further and were truly great. When I think about what set those excellent pitches apart from the rest, it turns out that they all shared some of the same qualities.

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San Antonio MX Challenge Seeks to Solve Problems and Realize Dreams

SiliconHills

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News The XPRIZE Foundation organized a four-day adventure trip to visit tech companies in California last February. XPRIZE Founder Dr. Peter Diamandis wanted to showcase space and ocean innovation to a select group of entrepreneurs. Part of the event involved a Zero G flight in which the passengers […] The post San Antonio MX Challenge Seeks to Solve Problems and Realize Dreams appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Impact in Angel Investor Decisions

VC Adventure

'I’ll be speaking at an Impact Angel Group event on February 12th. With a few other angel investors, I’ll be talking to other angel investors, along with prospective angel investors, about the role of impact investing the community, as well as in our own portfolios. Among other things, we’ll discuss our angel investment strategies and openly share things like the percentage of our wealth that we allocate to angel and impact investing.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

'Robert Verwaayen is a Dutch venture capitalist. He is currently setting up his own investment firm, RoBen, and was a principal with Prime Ventures. As a startup hub, Amsterdam grabs the same amount of attention as the girl with braces at the high school dance. Slowly but surely, however, we have a quietly emerging ‘ecosystem’ (as it is often called in tech lingo).

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Emotion Is Outside-In

Mike Michalowicz

'You can be having a great day, then you stub your toe. Now the day is not as good. But it’s not just a physical experience that will influence your emotion. It can be someone flipping you the bird, or someone giving you a bouquet of flowers. Someone smiling or scowling at you will shift your emotions too. You absolutely have influence over your client’s and prospect’s emotions.

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On Bubbles …

abovethecrowd.com

'Over the past few months, many journalists have begun to ask the question that no one really wants to hear; “Is Silicon Valley in another technology bubble?” It’s a dangerous question to ponder – especially out loud and especially hear at ground zero. Silicon Valley thrives on optimism, and anyone waving the bubble flag is auditioning for the title of nonbeliever or party pooper.

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10 Marketing Tasks You Should Be Delegating

Duct Tape Marketing

'10 Marketing Tasks You Should Be Delegating written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing It is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Amy Metherell – Enjoy! Photo credit: Krasimira Nevenova. If you’re running a business, there’s no doubt that you have a lot of marketing tasks on your plate.

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$30 million in 30 months

Scalable Startup

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My new and improved to-do system

Jeff Hilimire

'I’ve struggled with to-do lists for a long time. I’ve tried many of the popular apps (and blogged about those experiences ) and even used Evernote as a to-do list for a while. The problem was that over time I would check the app less frequently and the process would start to lose its effectiveness. Even Evernote, which I love, I don’t use every single day.

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“How we grew our daily sign-ups from 5 to 25 in six months”

The Next Web

'David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo. Twoodo helps you organize everything and anything using #hashtags, giving you headspace to focus on what’s important. Six months ago, we went from five daily sign-ups to 25. As a SaaS startup building a team collaboration tool we developed a cost-effective content marketing strategy, going through the mill of guest posting, social media marketing, content creation and applying various growth hacks.

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Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster-part 3 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

'Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. I visited Bend last year and caught up with his progress. Today with every city, state, country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino’s progress can provide others with a roadmap of what’s worked and didn’t.

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