Mon.Nov 23, 2015

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Framework Benchmarks Round 11

TechEmpower

Round 11 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is now available! We'll keep this blog entry short and sweet. The highlights for Round 11. Three new languages are represented in Round 11: Crystal , D , and Rust. Meanwhile, the total number of frameworks has increased by 26. The new frameworks are: silicon (C++). aleph (clojure). pedestal (clojure). crystal-raw (crystal). moonshine (crystal). vibed (d). jawn (java). mangooio (java). koa (js). sails (js). clancats (php). limonade (php). a

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7 Criteria For Selecting an Entrepreneur-Confidant

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs are too stubborn to seek a mentor for guidance: They have so much confidence in themselves and their ideas that they don’t see the need to ask anyone for advice. The best entrepreneurs, however, actually claim multiple mentors : Mark Zuckerberg relied on Steve Jobs at Apple and Washington Post chief executive Donald Graham, almost 40 years his senior.

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Why Small Businesses Can Take Up the Content Marketing Opportunity

Brandanew

The Content marketing opportunity is here. It is going to be an inherently strong marketing trend in the 2016 and beyond. Production of quality content, distribution and return on investment are aspects many small businesses and startups struggle with. This does lead to disenchantment and the question, if all small businesses should join the bandwagon.

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5 Tips For Marketing Your Store For Small Business Saturday

YoungUpstarts

By Nicole Larrauri, President, The EGC Group. Now in its sixth year, Small Business Saturday, the holiday shopping day that falls between seasonal icons Black Friday and Cyber- Monday , is finally coming into its own. This November 28 th , an estimated 88 million consumers will shop locally – and inject some 14.3 billion dollars into their community economies.

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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 evolution of the online marketplace: six big changes since Ebay

Version One Ventures

It has been twenty years since Ebay arrived on the scene and showed what happens when you bring people together over the Internet to do commerce. Since then, there has been tremendous innovation within online marketplaces. Startups have honed in on every vertical imaginable, branched out from product to services, and tested out new paths to profitability.

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How Startups Can Build a Recruiting Machine (Webinar)

For Entrepreneurs

The competition for hiring the best top talent in startups has never been higher. The best people are almost never on the market, so it’s imperative to develop recruiting processes to find and sell passive candidates. It may take months or years of relationship building with these candidates to find the right moment when they are open.

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The modern management mindset

The Equity Kicker

I’m a keen follower of Steve Denning and his writing on strategy, leadership and the future of work. He writes in what might be described as ‘strategy speak’ and is rarely a quick read, but there’s a lot of insight in his words for those that take the time to look for it. In a post earlier this month he wrote a list of ‘common characteristics of the modern management mindset’ which emerged from a study by the Learning Consortium for the Creative Economy : Goal

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Do you know what you’re really selling?

Start Up Blog

I’ve become convinced the reason businesses get overthrown, is that they get confused with what they actually sell. They define their business by what they make, instead of the problems they solve. The problem with defining a business by outputs instead of solutions, is that companies can fall in love with their infrastructures. Which makes it nearly impossible to transition to new solutions which come from different systems.

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3 Tools That Will Turn You into a Designer

Up and Running

I’ll admit that before we started PrestoBox, the best designs I created were colorful Excel graphs in Powerpoint. So non-Millennial. But today, everything has changed. We founded PrestoBox with the belief that good design—combined with technology—could create powerful results. And it does. Over the last few years, I’ve had the good fortune of working with some of the best designers in the country.

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Say Goodbye To These Soon-To-Be Obsolete Business Technologies

YFS Magazine

Innovative new devices are making work activities more efficient, but unfortunately, they are taking the place of technologies. Find out which technologies are in danger of soon becoming obsolete.

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“The Core Value of a Good Leader is Humility:” Sam Schillace, Box Engineering SVP

Hunter Walker

I first met Sam Schillace when we were both product leads at Google. It was clear that Sam was a builder – and one who combined maker chops with thoughtful management. Now as SVP of Engineering at Box, he’s had the chance to scale their engineering team and help take the cloud collaboration company public. Earlier this month, I was at an event where Sam mentioned he writes a letter to his Box engineering team every Sunday.

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Six Local Artists’ Designs Decorate Google’s Prototype Cars

SiliconHills

Google on Monday announced the winners of a design contest it held to to decorate its prototype autonomous vehicles. It chose six local artist whose designs will be featured on the side of the vehicles. The artists each received a $500 gift card and the opportunity to ride in one of the driverless cars. In […] The post Six Local Artists’ Designs Decorate Google’s Prototype Cars appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Graphene Application Challenge Prize?

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

The Graphene Challenge. Graphene is a new material that is just in its infancy in terms of commerical usage. It’s from graphite, the stuff in pencils. It’s magical stuff — 150 times stronger than steel, flexible like rubber, and potentially usable in electronics, water filtration, energy, building construction, medical, and more. It’s the thinnest material known to man at this moment.

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5 Quick Fixes To Attract Repeat Visitors To Your Website

YFS Magazine

Making these quick changes to your website will help improve customer engagement and convert casual visitors to regular customers.

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Monday Morning Motivation: What Do You Want? [VIDEO]

Hearpreneur

This motivational quote is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. Eric Thomas is a motivational speaker that is famous for the line “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe…” Stop just waking up like an accident. What do you want? And then once you find out what you want spend the rest of your natural life waking up and going after it.

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Austin-based Silicon Labs Buys Telegesis of the U.K. for $20 million

SiliconHills

Austin-based Silicon Labs announced Monday it has acquired Telegesis, a privately-held supplier of wireless mesh networking modules, for approximately $20 million. Telegesis, founded in 1998 in High Wycombe, England, outside of London, uses Silicon Labs’ ZigBee technology in its smart meters, USB adapters and other products. Other applications include home automation, connected lighting, security and […] The post Austin-based Silicon Labs Buys Telegesis of the U.K. for $20 million ap

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How To Use On-Site Surveys to Increase Conversions

ConversionXL

Show a landing page to a panel of experts and ask them what’s wrong with it – everyone will have an answer. Oh yes, everyone will have an answer. But how cohesive are these answers? How accurate? How actionable? Turns out, even if the panel consists of experts, opinions still aren’t worth the weight of solid research. And on-page surveys can be crucial to deriving insights for conversion optimization.

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“Joinership” Is The New Leadership

YoungUpstarts

By Nick Goode, Commercial Director at Sage One. It’s no secret that most companies value leadership over just about anything else. It’s an attitude reflected in our culture and on the surface, it appears to be the key to success. However, in my experience, there’s another component more important than strong leadership — an element that rarely gets the spotlight, because it’s all about not stepping into the spotlight.

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Episode 55: Digital Marketing and Profitability with Stephen Christopher

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Entrepreneur Stephen Christopher joins Mike Michalowicz, Chris Curran and Kristina Bolduc for Episode 55 of the Profit First Podcast! Stephen shares his experience with implementing Profit First on his business. Our Guest . Stephen Christopher is the founder of Seequs Marketing Technologies, a web marketing firm designed to help business owners achieve results they never thought possible.

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10 Ways to Tell if Your Content Marketing Efforts are Paying Off

Duct Tape Marketing

10 Ways to Tell if Your Content Marketing Efforts are Paying Off written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Content marketing is all the rage these days, and regardless of what industry you’re in or what audience you’re targeting, it’s becoming increasingly hard to be competitive without participating in what’s become a virtual content arms race.

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The Fascinating Implications for Autonomous Vehicles

Venture Chronicles

I absolutely love intersecting public policy with technology trends, and if one thing is clear in my years of covering this it is that public policy reacts rather than anticipates technology advances. Politicians and bureaucrats alike, no matter how well-meaning, rarely take into account the 2nd order consequences of technology innovation, which I define as those consequences that are not obvious but often have a bigger impact than the immediate ones.

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iPad Pro first impressions

Jeff Hilimire

For the past 2+ months I’ve used only the iPad 2 and a keyboard case. No laptop or other computer. I’ve been doing this to determine if, for me personally, the iPad Pro could replace a laptop in my life. The answer was a resounding, “YES,” so when the iPad Pro came out I jumped on it immediately. Here is my initial review: Let’s start with this: This review is probably a little premature, since I don’t have the keyboard case for the iPad Pro yet… WHAT?!

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