Sun.Dec 07, 2014

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If You Don’t Respect Your Customers You Won’t Be Successful

Both Sides of the Table

'I spend a lot of time with startups and thus hear many companies talk about their approach to sales and their interactions with customers. From these meetings you can really tell the leaders that care deeply about their customers and those the look down on them. Given customers & sales are the lifeblood of any organization you’d imagine everybody would respect their customers.

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Entrepreneurs Needed To Deliver Big Data Solutions

Startup Professionals Musings

'Even though “Big Data” has now been around for a few years, the opportunities for startups seem to keep growing, just as the amount of data keeps growing. According to IBM, companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere.

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Customer, customer, customer.

deal architect

'Most authors hate to use a word repeatedly in a sentence, or a page. Few editors allow it. But till Sadagopan pointed it out in his Amazon review of the book, SAP Nation, I did not realize the editors and.

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Components of International Business

YoungUpstarts

'International business has long been the sphere of large corporations, but, today, with Internet access, even small businesses can sell products and services worldwide. According to Shahram Shirkhani , international finance and law expert, it’s important to have an understanding of the practice of law in the global business community with a focus on economics.

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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 Incentives For Entrepreneurs To Bootstrap Their Startup

Gust

'Image via Pixabay. I’ve always wondered who started the urban myth that the best way to start a company is to come up with a great idea, and then find some professional investors to give you a pot of money to build a company. In my experience, that’s actually the worst way to start, for reasons I will outline here, and also the least common way, according to an authoritative survey of new startups.

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A Successful Start-Up Is All About Putting The Right Team Together

YoungUpstarts

'Starting a business is never going to be an easy and straightforward task, even if you have planned meticulously and ticked every box along the way. For even the most diligent individuals, unexpected issues occur every now and then, and these can soon develop into major problems if you don’t give them your full attention. It makes sense to surround yourself with the right team when starting your own business, and this group needs to include a qualified accountant, a sympathetic bank manager and

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Why is it hard to get what you are worth?

Life Beyond Code

'You or someone you know are struggling to see how to fill the gap. The gap I am refering to is the difference between what you earn currently and what you are worth. There is an outside chance that you are in a situation for personal reasons where you can’t positively influence how much ever you try to reduce the gap. I say it’s an outside chance because those situations are rare.

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10 Incentives For Entrepreneurs To Bootstrap Their Startup

Gust

Image via Pixabay. I’ve always wondered who started the urban myth that the best way to start a company is to come up with a great idea, and then find some professional investors to give you a pot of money to build a company. In my experience, that’s actually the worst way to start, for reasons I will outline here, Read more >. The post 10 Incentives For Entrepreneurs To Bootstrap Their Startup appeared first on The Gust Blog.