Sun.Sep 01, 2013

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On Labor Day: A note about robots and jobs

deal architect

'Hillsborough County, where we live, is about to introduce an automated garbage collection process. Households are being issued new roll carts with RFID chips to monitor if any were missed on collection routes. Trucks with robotic arms will lift and.

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Customers Remember Experiences, Not Your Brand Logo

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 U.S. workers not fully engaged, is unhappy workers and poor brand experiences.

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How To Decide: Start Up – Join Up – Grow Up.

YoungUpstarts

'by Richard McMunn, founder of How2become.com. The new kids on the block are the next generation and are relied upon to bring new ideas and thoughts to the world. Older generations are often heard stating the young have no idea. The young do have ideas. They were born into the micro-chip era while the older generations are still getting to grips with the internet and still afraid to sign-up to online banking facilities in case they get ‘robbed’.

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What to write about on your startup’s blog

The Next Web

'Kostas Papageorgiou is Paymill ’s resident blogger and a professional blogger and content creator who helps startups grow their online presence through content marketing. This post was originally published on Paymill’s blog. Whether you’re bootstrapping or have just secured a round of funding – chances are you want to attract as many customers to sign up for your product/service.

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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 Toxicity of Arrogance

Feld Thoughts

'Last night Amy and I saw Closed Circuit. We both walked out of there completely bummed out. It was a good movie, but the arrogance of some government agencies (in this case British MI-5) was overwhelmingly real and upsetting. We went to bed when we got home and I tossed and turned for awhile, thinking about nasty government s**t. I had a crazy dream that seemed to go on forever about being tangled up in some kind of spy related thing with old college buddies and woke up with it completely unres

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When Is The Big Payoff

Mike Michalowicz

'When is the big payoff? It will occur way later than you ever expected. It will require more effort than you ever knew you had. It will happen because no one else stuck it out as long as you have. And because no one cared nearly as much as you. When you refuse to ever quit. That’s when the big payoff happens.