Fri.Nov 13, 2015

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8 Ways To Enhance Your Work Performance With Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur and most professionals wish there were more hours in a day to get their work done. These days, with all the new technology, including smartphones and social media, many are convinced that multi-tasking is the answer. Yet there is more and more evidence that jumping tasks on every alert for a new email, text, or phone call actually decreases overall productivity.

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Startup stories: inDinero’s Jessica Mah on knowing when to stop being a stubborn CEO

The Next Web

This is the third episode in a video series profiling startups and their founders, hosted by Julian Shapiro (@shapiro). Jessica Mah thought she had the next big thing in Silicon Valley when she and her co-founder launched inDinero – but soon, her company was rapidly losing money and she couldn’t understand why the business wasn’t attracting customers… or revenue.

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Parallels between data science and traditional scientific observation

The Equity Kicker

Reading The Art of Observation and Why Genius Lies in the Selection of What Is Worth Observing on brainpickings (which seems to be the source of much inspiration for me at the moment) I was struck by the parallels between what data scientists do at tech companies and the traditional scientific observation. Hence these descriptions of scientific observation are relevant for data scientists and their managers.

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3 Ways To Overhaul A Painfully Boring Company Blog

YFS Magazine

Infuse every sentence of your writing with your unique personality and brand in order to forge emotional connections with readers.

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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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1 Dream, 84 Steps to Make It a Reality [Free Startup Checklist]

Up and Running

So, you want to start a business? The problem is, it seems like a task of epic proportions: You have to think about writing a business plan. You have to determine where the money to fund your idea will come from. And then, if that all works out, there are the legal considerations. It’s just too much. Before long, you’re thinking of scrapping the idea; you’ll come back to it later when you’ve got savings, when you’ve learned more, or when your children are older.

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5 Ways Accounting Can Help Startups

YFS Magazine

I once heard of accounting being referred to as the “language of business”. There’s some truth to that.

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Acknowledging Priveldge

Bryce Dot VC

Sunday night my daughter was moaning and rocking back and forth in her chair wrestling with a question staring back at her on the computer screen. “What is the greatest challenge you’ve faced in your life?” the college application pointedly inquired. As her dad, I had some ideas. But her? Sut she was stumped. As her dad I was torn between being terrified that I’d sheltered her from character defining trials and grateful that I’d been able to provide her a fairly carefree childhood.

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Dream big, then get to work

Jeff Hilimire

Yesterday I had the privilege to speak to an audience of 350 members of the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce at the 755 Club at the Braves Stadium. I was asked to tell my entrepreurial story, talk about doing good in the community, and get them pumped up. #nopressure. Thankfully, I had a topic that I’ve wanted to talk about for a while so this was the perfect setting for it.

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Andy - Introduction to High Output Management

Ben's Blog

Over the years, I have come to consider High Output Management a true masterpiece, and there are at least three core aspects to its genius. First, in as little as one sentence, it lucidly explains concepts that require entire books from lesser writers. Second, it consistently uncovers brand-new management ideas or finds new insights in old standards.

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From Confused to Expert Tracker: How to Use Metrics to Grow Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

From Confused to Expert Tracker: How to Use Metrics to Grow Your Business written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Calculating Financial Figures Video via photopin (license). New coaches and entrepreneurs are often freaked out by tracking and metrics, but it’s the best way to grow quickly. Here’s how to easily track your success.

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How To Increase Your Productivity As A Storyteller

Brandanew

It is demanding, lonely and often times a tough ask to constantly keep writing. The online world has opened new opportunities for creative pursuits and brought in new challenges too. Quality is now seen through clicks, likes and comments, and instant gratification rather than the piece in itself. This automatically demands that storytellers churn out more, faster, quicker putting them under an all-time high pressure-opportunity pedestal.

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5 Ways To Kick Start Mobile Marketing For Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

b y Gary Cowan, senior vice president of DataSphere. It’s easy to see we’re in the midst of a monumental technology revolution. Just look around any airport, waiting room or coffee shop and you’re bound to see the majority of people looking at their smartphones. Today, 64% of Americans and a whopping 80% of online adults now own smartphones. And for some, smartphones have even replaced PCs, as these devices have become the sole way they access the Internet.

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The Lost, Ancient Guide to Better Copywriting

ConversionXL

In Ancient Greece, public speaking was the main channel for political debate and decision-making, legal decision-making, and even philosophical discussion. As it became more and more important to society, so did rhetoric, which is the art of persuasive speaking and writing. Ancient philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero studied and practiced rhetoric… essentially boiling it down to a do-it-yourself guide.

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Episode 12: How to Define Your Target Market, Guest Eric Siu, and the #MinimumWage | The Bcast

Up and Running

Peter and Jonathan discuss how to define your target market, competitive analysis with Eric Siu (The Growth Everywhere podcast), and whether or not the federal minimum wage should be increased. What’s your opinion? Share your point of view on Twitter, or email us to let us know! Subscribe: Stitcher | TuneIn | Pocket Casts | PlayerFM | Soundcloud.