Mon.Dec 29, 2014

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Lose Weight and Get Strong Without Leaving Your House

David Teten

'My family and I are in the process of moving to another apartment, and we are thinking through how to design it to promote movement for us and our children. At ffVC, we’ve done this with our “ fitness office ”, which has received great reviews. Both at work and at home, we’re trying to make it as easy and natural as possible for people to raise their fitness level while going about their daily life.

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8 Keys To Creating A Memorable Customer Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

'Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their employees can and do deliver memorable experiences to their customers. The result, according to a recent Gallup survey , with 70 percent of workers not fully engaged, is unhappy workers and poor customer experiences.

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A McDermott Dream Team?

deal architect

'I first met Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP, when he did a brief stint at Gartner in the late 90s. He was charismatic, showed good grooming and paid attention to whoever was in the room in an environment where analysts.

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Payment Predictions For 2015

YoungUpstarts

'by Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay. In the far future, when someone sits down and writes the definitive history of payments (riveting), 2014 is going to be a big year. Bitcoin reached historic highs but then went sideways. We had the introduction of Apple Pay, which was a major step forward for mobile wallets. The sheer scale and variety of data breaches finally got the public focused on security problems that have plagued the industry for years.

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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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Identify Leaders By Giving People Assignments

Feld Thoughts

'As the Boulder Startup Community evolved, I started to become inundated with people who wanted to get involved. Some of these were locals while others where people looking to move to Boulder, or who had recently moved here. Some where people known to me while others were new relationships. As the momentum, size, impact, and reach of the Boulder Startup Community grew, I found myself overwhelmed by the amount of requests I was getting to get together, meet, explore ways to work together, and jus

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Real Time Bidding In The European Market

YoungUpstarts

'by Frank Vitetta. Since the beginning of the internet people have been looking for the easiest and quickest ways to make money online and this is one of the main causes of the prevalence of online advertising in recent years. Lately however a new form of online advertising has been causing storms as a result of its effectiveness and efficiently compared to the old system.

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Risky Business: Reasons Learning On-The-Go Doesn’t Work For Successful Startups

YoungUpstarts

'by Bruce Richards , full time trainer at Best STL ( microsofttraining.net ). For most small businesses, employees do on-the-job training, but that can spell disaster for startups that need to get workers out there in a hurry. Even the larger, more established businesses need qualified workers to represent them in a positive light, so they struggle with training techniques to get new hires on board quickly and effectively.

Arizona 154
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Top 10 Most Popular Stories on Silicon Hills News in 2014

SiliconHills

'These are the top ten stories with the most views on Silicon Hills News in 2014. 1. Dropbox to Expand in Austin and Hire 170 employees 2. Zach Dell’s Startup Thread is a Dating Site Just for College Students 3. Billionaire Mark Cuban “Likes to Party Like a Rockstar” and Invest in Startups (this story […] The post Top 10 Most Popular Stories on Silicon Hills News in 2014 appeared first on SiliconHills.

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2014 in Review of IthacaVC

ithacaVC

'The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Check it out. Nothing earth shattering – just some fun and interesting facts. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 13,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Episode 8: Profitable Business Growth With Kim Pollard

Mike Michalowicz

'Show Summary . Kim Pollard, founder of Bookkeeper Girl, joins Episode 8 of the Profit First Podcast. Kim explains the importance of business growth and money management. Our Guest. Kim Pollard launched Bookkeeper Girl with a laptop, a loyal client and a Vision to have her company known as America’s Bookkeeper. Through the use of technology, a team full of talented women, and a foundation of faith, Bookkeeper Girl continues to open new locations & serves small business owners across the nati

CPA 148
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Hm, feels like time for some resolutions

Jeff Hilimire

'Yep, Christmas is over and New Years is fast approaching, so it feels like the right time for some resolutions for 2015. Side note: This drives my wife nuts, but I get equally as excited about the holiday season coming as I do with the holiday season ending. And not because I don’t completely enjoy the holidays – I love the time with family and the ability to unwind – but because I get excited about what the new year is going to bring.

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