Tue.Jan 10, 2017

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7 Surprising Truths About Guessing Your Way Out Of A Problem

YoungUpstarts

by Nat Greene , co-founder and current CEO of Stroud International and author of “ Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers “ Sherlock Holmes said, “I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty.” But most of us guess all the time. When something breaks, our frontal cortex lights up with dozens of ideas of what might be wrong and how to fix it.

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Cryptocurrency’s second act: the rise of Ethereum and what’s in store for 2017

Version One Ventures

Back in 2009, Bitcoin became the first decentralized cryptocurrency. The prevailing thinking then was that the cryptocurrency market was going to be a winner-takes-all race due to the strong network effects around mining. And, most thought that Bitcoin would emerge as the winner in this race. What happened? Bitcoin, and the underlying blockchain technology, never developed a strong use case besides storing value.

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A Better Way to Analyze Session Replay Videos

ConversionXL

Session replays are a common conversion research technique. And they can provide a lot of value. Still, the process is amorphous. I haven’t seen a structured way to approach session recordings other than just sitting down to watch a bunch of them and inferring your qualitative findings, somehow lopping them into the rest of your research stack. But what if there were a better way?

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This Is Why Dogs Would Be Better At Workplace Engagement

YoungUpstarts

by Val Matta, vice president of business development at CareerShift. There’s nothing more rewarding than coming home to a wagging tail or having a best friend working right beside you. Dogs understand what it means to create meaningful relationships with their owners – so why not take a few employee engagement ideas from our furry friends? Engagement is one of the key factors driving a workplace to success – at least that’s what 50 of the best places to work reported to Quantum Workp

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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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Live Course: Google Tag Manager Fundamentals

ConversionXL

Announcing our next live online course: Google Tag Manager Fundamentals with Chris Mercer. Learn GTM to 10x your effectiveness as a marketer. by giving you power and control over your data measurement. Our 4-week, 8 live class intensive training program will give you. A knowledge of how to use Google Tag Manager to deploy third party tracking scripts.

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5 Healthcare Startup Ideas The Industry Needs Today

YoungUpstarts

The healthcare industry has seen steady growth and is ripe for disruption. And everyone knows it. In fact, venture funding deals in health technology grew nearly 200% between 2010 and 2014. Will your startup disrupt the industry in 2017 and beyond? Let’s start by thinking about where healthcare stands compared with other industries. Retail, for example, always seems to be ahead of the curve, deploying technologies like drones and virtual reality.

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Confederacy of Creative Effectiveness

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Creative Effectiveness 2017. What if 2017 turned out to be the most creative year of your life? More than creative, what if 2017 was the most creatively effective year of your life? There’s a difference. You can be incredibly creative in terms of self-expression and ideas — without being creatively effective. What good is creativity if it doesn’t get done?

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Entrepreneurship Stress Causes Hair Loss — 5 Ways To Prevent It

YFS Magazine

One of the most unfortunate side effects of stress and anxiety is the thinning or loss of your hair.

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6 Essential App Marketing Tools

Austin Startup

Are you leveraging the right tools and tactics to assess the marketing of your app, and keep users engaged once you’ve acquired them? Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Body By Orsini: Does Body Image Impact Your Personal Brand? (Review)

YFS Magazine

Body image, how you see yourself when you look in the mirror, is closely linked to your personal brand.

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The Awesome Power of Daily Rituals

Duct Tape Marketing

The Awesome Power of Daily Rituals written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Habits are a powerful force of human nature – for good or for bad. Much like animals in the wild, our habits cause us to behave in instinctive ways, often overriding the knowledge that we should act otherwise. A lot is asked of you as an entrepreneur, and it’s amazing how easy it is to get knocked off course.

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Running An eCommerce Store? Here’s How To Make Google Love You!

YoungUpstarts

With the massive range of platforms out there, it’s now easier than ever to set up a fully functioning ecommerce store and start selling your product online. Now, while it may be simple enough to get a business off the ground, that’s certainly not the only step you need to take towards commercial success. Your ecommerce store needs to be backed by a strong marketing campaign to ensure it expands and flourishes at a healthy rate.

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Getting A VC Job

Rob Go

I get asked a lot about how to get one’s start in the VC industry. I have a somewhat standard response, but realized that I never put it into a blog post. So, here it is. FYI – this is tuned towards an individual who is still in the relatively early stages of their career. There is really only one thing that a VC is thinking about when evaluating a person to add to their their team.

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What to do when you get screwed

The Startup Toolkit

The most common (and emotional) screwing you’ll get in a startup is via your cofounders. A solution at the end. First, some examples: A buddy of mine had done the hard work of finding two excellent tech cofounders. Unlike the much maligned case of a clueless business guy searching for indentured servants, he delivered real value and had secured a shocking number of customer commitments before the thing was built.

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Using Invoice Factoring to Safeguard Your Cash Flow

Up and Running

If you own a small business or are planning to start one, you may find yourself jumping through some hoops to build your client base. Competition is tough and businesses have to find ways to differentiate and create opportunity. One way that smaller B2B businesses try to compete is by offering great credit terms to their customers. Since many large corporations negotiate and push their credit terms to net-60, 90, and beyond, small businesses have to accept the terms in order to maintain large ac

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