Tue.May 24, 2016

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Introducing Snapstorms.com. Why, oh, why Snapchat?

Both Sides of the Table

For the past few months I’ve been doing nearly daily “Snapstorms” or short videos with startup advice released on Snapchat. Today I’ve made all of them available on Snapstorms.com. Among the most comical things to me in the past few years is just how much it annoys some people that I use Snapchat. Not since the initial popularity of Twitter in 2007 has a product so befuddled people.

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SAP, Apple and Microsoft

deal architect

I believe every vendor should be proud of successful customers. Both Apple and Microsoft use SAP in different parts of the enterprise. With recent partnering announcements with Apple, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella making an appearance at SapphireNow, I have.

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Why Most Startup Companies Fail Within the First Five Years

YoungUpstarts

What is an entrepreneur? The definition of an entrepreneur via Webster’s Dictionary is, “a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.” When beginning to start up a new company, one must further define what exactly those risks are. While these risks can be scary, they can also be very rewarding if properly handled.

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Thoughts from the road: building startups and collective ambition outside Silicon Valley

Version One Ventures

Just a few years ago, if you wanted to do something big, you needed to go to Silicon Valley. It meant frequent flights or moving your company to San Francisco to raise money from Bay Area VCs. Times are changing, and these geographical barriers are beginning to break down. Waterloo has another unicorn with Kik. Toronto has become a hub for the blossoming machine intelligence market.

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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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Tips On Promoting Collaboration In Your Executive Office

YoungUpstarts

One of the most important things in any office space is collaboration between employees, which can help to create community in your business. This sense of community that is spurred by this collaboration can help you to grow and expand your business beyond your wildest dreams. Most of the best ideas that you will have as a business will be done in collaborative think tank sessions where everyone has input on what is going on.

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Hiring A Business Coach Is A No-Brainer

YFS Magazine

Contrary to the suggestion that asking for help is a sign of weakness, hiring a business coach could be one of the best things you will do for your business.

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Taking My Running Up to Another Level

Feld Thoughts

I spent the day yesterday with Seth, Ryan, and Jason at our quarterly offsite. We finished, as is our tradition, with dinner at Frasca, which involved a lot of wine. I rarely drink wine anymore as I never feel good the next day (I’ve switched to mostly drinking scotch.) But Frasca is a special place and the wine choices I end up with when I’m with my partners are spectacular.

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Revealed: How To Get The Most Out Of Your Employees

YoungUpstarts

As any business owner worth anything knows, the employees are the most central part of any business. They are the backbone; as long as you are looking after them, they will take good care of your business. Even when all else fails, having the right kind of committed staff can make all the difference. That is why it is so important that you get this area of running a business spot on.

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What children can teach you about building a solid startup foundation

The Next Web

Businesses are a lot like children. Really, it’s true. Like children, businesses start off small and, as they grow, develop teething problems. Still not convinced? The metamorphosis from small to medium sized company – and the associated problems – is arguably the best analogy for those early years of development. Essentially, it takes a lot of time to get young businesses to a place where they are mature and capable of functioning well.

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Does Your Company Need A Service Overhaul? Eight “Red Flags” That Demand Action.

YoungUpstarts

by Joseph Michelli, author of “ Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way “. These days providing a great — heck, exceptional — product or service won’t keep customers happy (you can thank the hyper-connected global economy for their fickleness). No, we must also delight customers with an outstanding service experience.

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How you could be breaking copyright laws by using your own technology

The Next Web

You know how important it is to protect your intellectual property. But did you know it’s equally important to make sure you have the appropriate contractual paper trail to prove you in fact own all of the technologies you are building through third party contractors. Do you own the copyright to your own technology? That’s not as unusual a question as you’d think – many startup founders don’t.

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4 Tips for Choosing a Credit Card Processor for Your Retail Store

Up and Running

Opening a new retail store is a difficult and time-consuming process for any business owner. From selecting the right location to securing inventory, retail stores involve layers of complexity that determine the ultimate success of your business. Among the more important aspects of opening a new business is selecting a credit card processor. With hundreds (even thousands) of available processors to choose from, proprietors are often overwhelmed by the options.

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5 Global Cities For Adventure-Seeking Digital Nomads

YFS Magazine

The power of the Internet and the ability to work anywhere as long as you have a Wi-Fi connection has ushered in a new era of the digital nomad.

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Fresh from the SPRING: OlgiCh

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this logo project. Let us start the slow clap for OlgiCh. Check out more great work on OlgiCh’s profile page. Nicely done, OlgiCh, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: 5IVE_STAR_CREATIVE. Fresh from the SPRING: Janisa.

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Living Forever

Rob Go

I’ve been thinking about our lifespan recently. That sounds grim, but it’s actually not. One thing that spurred this thinking is that my wife’s great aunt just turned 100. She is essentially my wife’s grandmother figure and they are very close. I first met her over 10 years ago when she was turning 90, and I figured I realistically wouldn’t see very much of her.

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