Fri.Nov 28, 2014

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Focus On Profits Is Not Enough For A Great Business

Startup Professionals Musings

'It’s always been tough to start a new business, even when the bottom line was just making a profit to stay alive. A few years ago, a second focus of sustainability (“green”) was added as a requirement for respectability. Now I often hear a third mandate of social responsibility. Entrepreneurs are now measured against the “triple bottom line” (TBL or 3BL) of people, planet, and profit.

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Thank you, Amazon

deal architect

'As I release another book, I am reminded once again how relentlessly customer-friendly Amazon is. Amazon has a growing number of detractors – investors are unhappy with its losses, Europeans about privacy and its data locations, labor groups about the.

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Mompreneurs Magic – Tips To Create The Business Of Your Dreams

YoungUpstarts

'by Diana Ennen, President of Virtual Word Publishing and author of “ Virtual Assistant, The Series: Become a Highly Successful, Sought After VA “ A successful mompreneur is one who has taken her passion and what she loves to do and been able to make a successful business out of it. It’s not always about the money (although that helps) it’s more about having a business you are passionate about and one that helps others as well.

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“Life was better before Google Maps” and other fallacies of anti-tech nostalgia

The Equity Kicker

'It’s been said that we are always sceptical about things invented after we are 35. That contrasts with things invented when we are 15-35 which we embrace and sometimes make a career out of, and things invented before we are 15 which are so normal so as to be unremarkable. So the internet feels dangerous to my parents, was a career opportunity for me, and is so normal for my kids that their first words might have been “Ask Google” The result of this truism is that people are st

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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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10 Entertaining Things to Check out While You’re Waiting in Line Today

Up and Running

'These people need something to read. Good morning and Happy Black Friday! Another year, another Thanksgiving, followed by today – Black Friday – a major holiday shopping event in the United States (and outside of it), with most retailers featuring big discounts, crazy opening hours, and special offers through out the holiday weekend. Last year, Thanksgiving weekend saw 54.7 billion in retail sales and even more the year before.

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Why We Need a Neutral Internet, Exhibit A

Andrew Payne

'I received an email from Verizon a few days ago, stating several FOX channels are no longer available because “ Verizon refused to accept an agreement that contained rates that are not in our customers’ best interests “ Presumably, FOX wanted more than Verizon was willing to pay. (In cable TV, it’s customary for the cable TV operators to pay networks to carry their content.

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Always Have These 6 Contractors At The Ready

Mike Michalowicz

'You land a big new project and need expertise and staff that you don’t currently have. No small business can afford an army of employees just sitting around waiting for the next big project, so you need to scale. Fast. Your client won’t want to hear that you need to spend a month to advertise, interview, and hire employees to do the job that you’ve assured them you were perfect for.

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Twitter Link Roundup #245 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

'Shameless, I know, but couldn’t resist sharing with y’all a picture of our new puppy! Her name is Remy and, frankly, we’re smitten! But, no time for puppy-love – it’s time for our weekly roundup of the great links and articles we shared with you over the past week on our crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account ).