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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

The greatest challenge of the social media age isn’t to grow the largest fan or follower base. Nor to achieve the greatest “virality” in our digital campaigns. Rather, it is this: “How can we better reach prospects, convert them to customers, and serve their interests through social media?”. While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have found ways to monetise their platforms, many are still figuring out ways to connect one’s communities on social media with the corporate wallet.

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Build Your Business By Accentuating Your Positives

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of the entrepreneurs I know realize they have some bad habits, like maybe procrastination or not listening well, so they focus on dropping these. New studies indicate that a more productive approach would be adopting new good habits and behaviors that clearly move your business forward, like good time management and implementing customer recommendations.

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SAP Nation 2.0 Excerpt: Make the problem bigger

deal architect

As with previous books, I have been excerpting 10% of the contents. You can buy the book at several stores (online in paperback at CreateSpace and ebook at Amazon). 2.0 looks at the prospects of S/4HANA which SAP launched in.

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Deal Certainty

Feld Thoughts

We’ve seen several M&A deals collapse unexpectedly in the past two months. Each was at the signed LOI stage. There was no warning or evidence of an issue until the moment the CEO got the phone call from the acquirer saying the deal was off. In both cases, the explanation was vague. I’ve also seen several financings fail to close recently.

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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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Working to Walk: Designing my Walking Desk

K9 Ventures

It’s Sunday. I could have stayed home and worked from home for a couple of hours (while the kids are in language school), but instead I chose to come in to the office and work here instead. There were two driving factors for me to come in to work rather than sit on the couch or at the kitchen counter working on my laptop: 1) Big monitor: I like working with two browser windows side by side.

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13 Top Picks for Austin Startup Week

SiliconHills

Are you ready for Austin Startup Week? Five days of fun events for the technology community to learn and celebrate its uniquely Austin culture. There’s definitely something for everyone. Here’s just a few of the top picks on our list for this week. (It’s a busy week in Austin tech since South by Southwest Eco […] The post 13 Top Picks for Austin Startup Week appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Get Set to Rock at the ATC Battle of the Bands at Austin Startup Week

SiliconHills

Tech and music go together like smartphones and selfies. And fresh off the first weekend of the Austin City Limits festival comes one of the biggest tech band battle showdowns of the year. This year, six bands hailing from the offices of local tech companies will compete at the Austin Technology Council’s Battle of the […] The post Get Set to Rock at the ATC Battle of the Bands at Austin Startup Week appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Pictures from #FriendsOfK9 2015

K9 Ventures

Pictures from the #FriendsOfK9 event on Thursday, September 17th are in! Check them out by clicking through to the album on Facebook… #FriendsOfK9 2015. The post Pictures from #FriendsOfK9 2015 appeared first on K9 Ventures.

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“Your Excuses Are Nothing More Than the Lies Your Fear Has Sold You”

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching your venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.