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The 11 Bad Habits Killing Innovation in Your Company

Steve Blank

Alexander Osterwalder invented the Business Model Canvas , co-founded strategyzer.com and was the lead author of Business Model Generation which sold a million copies in 30 languages. Alexander and I often collaborate on new ideas for corporate innovation. Here’s his guest post on what bad habits to avoid inside of a company. Big companies have great execution habits to manage and improve successful business models and value propositions.

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Do Your Customers Hate Your Brand? Here’s Where You Are Going Wrong

YoungUpstarts

Building a thriving brand is nothing short of a challenge for most of us. It takes a lot of time, effort, and indeed money to grow a business. The trouble is, some entrepreneurs are in danger of alienating their brands. What’s worse is they don’t even know why or how they are doing that! What might be the reasons customers hate your brand, I hear you ask.

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The 11 Bad Habits Killing Innovation in Your Company

Steve Blank

Alexander Osterwalder invented the Business Model Canvas , co-founded strategyzer.com and was the lead author of Business Model Generation which sold a million copies in 30 languages. Alexander and I often collaborate on new ideas for corporate innovation. Here’s his guest post on what bad habits to avoid inside of a company. Big companies have great execution habits to manage and improve successful business models and value propositions.

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5 Liability Risks You Should Know About Starting A Company

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin Faber, founder of Silver Summit Capital. Liability is an element that any entrepreneur has to consider when starting a business. The level of liability that different professionals have to deal with differs widely. Experts such as physicians, hoteliers, day care owners, and therapists have high levels of accountability, which they must consider when starting a practice.

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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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3 Business Lessons From Cult Hit Show ‘American Ninja Warrior’

YFS Magazine

The skills that make an American Ninja Warrior a cult hit are the same ones that lead to business success.

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How to battle the dragon AND avoid the encounter.

Berkonomics

Sometimes a competitor is just too entrenched, too strong, too well equipped to directly face in battle. At least that is the conventional wisdom. Yet, there are constant examples of new entrants into a niche that grow, prosper and sometimes even become dominant. So when do we know which course to take? Quietly abandon a niche? Refuse to engage?

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Fresh from the SPRING: rudyy

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 clothing project. Let us start the slow clap for rudyy. Check out more great work on rudyy’s profile page. Nicely done, rudyy, nicely done!

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How do we decide who we need to hire?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post How do we decide who we need to hire? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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7 Ways Brands Can Connect with Social Media Messaging

Duct Tape Marketing

7 Ways Brands Can Connect with Social Media Messaging written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Photopin. If you have limited your social media participation promotional content only, you are missing the point. There’s nothing inherently wrong with using social media as a place to share announcements about new products, upcoming sales, and specials, or boost flagging sales.

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Startup Chica Spotlight: Erin Lynn Young, Slide UX

Austin Startup

Erin Lynn Young is the Founder and User Experience Architect of Slide UX, an Austin-based consultancy that helps product teams and… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Fresh from the SPRING: rudyy

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 clothing project. Let us start the slow clap for rudyy. Check out more great work on rudyy’s profile page. Nicely done, rudyy, nicely done!

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5 Effective Tips to Beat the Founder Burnout!

Austin Startup

You are working 18-hours a day, burning both ends of the candle and firing every cannon you’ve got! Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Fresh from the SPRING: rudyy

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 clothing project. Let us start the slow clap for rudyy. Check out more great work on rudyy’s profile page. Nicely done, rudyy, nicely done!

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Your Users Are Frustrated – Here’s a Way to Fix That and Make More Money

ConversionXL

Ever scroll through a website and get irrationally angry? Maybe it was the slow loading time, the poor design, the frustrating lack of clarity – no matter the case, I’m sure you can relate. Though you might not like to hear it, a substantial amount of your customers are going through the same thing on your site right now. This is inevitable.

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Obama Tackles Artificial Intelligence

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: October 13, 2016 Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Psychographics: The Key to Effective UX Design

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Flickr. Marketing has long been a space dominated by conversations about demographics. Ask someone in the field to describe their target audience, and the most consistent elements will be rather general and ubiquitous delineations we apply to people: gender, age, income, career, and the like. This information is, undoubtedly, important, if only because data on such groups and their behavior is far more readily available.

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A Simple(ish) Guide to App Marketing

Austin Startup

This is cross-posted from my blog Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Psychographics: The Key to Effective UX Design

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Flickr. Marketing has long been a space dominated by conversations about demographics. Ask someone in the field to describe their target audience, and the most consistent elements will be rather general and ubiquitous delineations we apply to people: gender, age, income, career, and the like. This information is, undoubtedly, important, if only because data on such groups and their behavior is far more readily available.

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Brexit: Why the EIF must remain

The Equity Kicker

The European Investment Fund (EIF) is an EU institution that exists to stimulate the startup ecosystem by investing in venture capital funds. They have made a huge contribution to the UK scene, backing 37% of UK based venture funds between 2011 and 2015. Moreover, they are often the first investor to commit to these funds making their role even more important than the headline figure suggests.

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Psychographics: The Key to Effective UX Design

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Flickr. Marketing has long been a space dominated by conversations about demographics. Ask someone in the field to describe their target audience, and the most consistent elements will be rather general and ubiquitous delineations we apply to people: gender, age, income, career, and the like. This information is, undoubtedly, important, if only because data on such groups and their behavior is far more readily available.

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