Tue.Feb 17, 2015

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Returning To The US After Being Deported – Impossible Or Difficult?

YoungUpstarts

'Returning back to the United States of America after having been deported is not only a difficult proposition but it’s also a complicated process. However, that doesn’t mean that it is impossible. Actually a foreign national who has been ousted from the US will find it difficult to get yet another green card or visa that will allow him to reenter the US.

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Getting development and business teams on the same page

The Next Web

'This post is brought to you by Jama Software – reinventing product delivery by changing how products are conceived, built and launched. Why is it that engineering and business teams have so much trouble syncing up? You would think that, within the same company, everyone is always aligned around the same goals. The reality, however, is that teams spend way too much time fighting each other for budget, resources, and leadership opportunities.

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5 Biggest Stumbling Blocks For Starting A New Business

YoungUpstarts

'Starting a new business is something entrepreneurs think about on a regular basis. For this group of people more than any other, it seems, the buzz and challenge of executing a new idea and making it profitable is more exciting than any other. So much so in fact, that it’s often hard to keep entrepreneurs and enthusiastic business people from jumping from one project to another.

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5 Benefits of Linking Job Descriptions to Performance Reviews

Up and Running

'Job descriptions are at the root of great employee management. Build a valid description and you’ve aced HR 101. To an experienced HR practitioner, this seems wholly intuitive: Job descriptions have the power to inspire positive employee engagement and solve a wide range of employee problems, even before they arise. These descriptions are the basis of job-content understanding between boss and employee.

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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 Year Of Customer Delight: In 2015, Rewire Your Culture Around Service

YoungUpstarts

'By Ron Kaufman, author of “ Uplifting Service: The Proven Path to Delighting Your Customers, Colleagues, and Everyone Else You Meet ”. For years you’ve tried to improve your customer service. You’ve trained and trained (burning through too many initiatives to count), but the results never seem to stick. You might see a surge of improvement with each new initiative — just enough to make you think you’ve finally figured it out — but something happens and you slide back to medioc

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Make Your Business Money While You Sleep In 7 Ways

Mike Michalowicz

'Think about the way your business runs: you attract prospective clients, convert them to customers, collect the money, cultivate repeat business, and encourage customers to refer other prospective clients. Each of these steps entails specific challenges, and one of your goals as an entrepreneur should be to automate as many of these steps as possible.

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Virtual Company

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Luke Stokes, co-founder of FoxyCart, talks about building a virtual company with a global reach. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Virtual Company appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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The New Sales Playbook

Duct Tape Marketing

'The New Sales Playbook written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Recently, I was asked to present my ideas on how salespeople can best compete in today’s sales environment. License: (license). A great deal about selling has changed over the last few years, but mostly what’s changed is the way people buy and that’s what you have to understand in order to thrive in the world of selling today.

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Will New Equity-based Crowdfunding Regulations Cool the UK Market?

Early Growth Financial Services

'This guest post was contributed by Richard Heap, Partner at Kingston Smith. New UK regulations for equity-based crowdfunding While the U.S. market waits for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to complete its rulemaking, new rules brought in by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have divided the opinion of its peer-to-peer lenders and crowd-funding websites.

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Making your weaknesses your strengths

Jeff Hilimire

'I was meeting with an entrepreneur recently and we were talking about tv shows, and he shared with me that because he has an addictive personality, he is very thoughtful about when he watches a tv show. For instance, if he started watching The Wire (on his list, and it should be on yours!), he wouldn’t start on a Monday night because he’d have trouble not binging on it all week long.

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25 Tricky Interview Questions And How To Answer Them

YoungUpstarts

'by Peter K. Studner, author of “ Super Job Search IV: The Complete Manual for Job Seekers and Career Changers “. Yes, it’s important to craft a strong, accurate résumé — but like it or not, most jobs are secured or lost in the interview stage. Don’t let your job search ride on a piece of paper. I never saw a résumé — and only a résumé — get a job.

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Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders? [New Data]

View from Seed

'Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. Others are more practical: If you want to start a company, they ask, does it make sense to go to business school and pay $120K in tuition, or should you save up and put that money directly into your company?

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How I Created 4 Startup Explainer Videos for $11

Software By Rob

'When I was writing the copy for the home page of Drip , I ran into a bit of a challenge: the idea of marketing automation is still new to a lot of people, so not everyone is aware of how email marketing (much less marketing automation) can help them. One of the easiest ways I’ve found to explain the value of Drip has been making screencasts, walking people through the product and pointing our very specifically how Drip can help in their particular use case.

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NUTANIX POWERING THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING, STORAGE & DATACENTERS

Lightspeed Venture Partners

'Prescient words from the CEO/Founder of Nutanix, Dheeraj Pandey. he wrote this almost 4 years ago and the future is turning to look a lot like what he predicted. __. Why Nutanix, and Why Now. Author: Dheeraj Pandey July 26, 2011. In the next few weeks, we will be talking about the why, what, and how of Nutanix, in that order. Network storage has many challenges today, but it wasn’t always like this.

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How I Created 4 Startup Explainer Videos for $11

Software By Rob

When I was writing the copy for the home page of Drip , I ran into a bit of a challenge: the idea of marketing automation is still new to a lot of people, so not everyone is aware of how email marketing (much less marketing automation) can help them. One of the easiest ways I’ve found to explain the value of Drip has been making screencasts, walking people through the product and pointing our very specifically how Drip can help in their particular use case.

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