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More Innovation

deal architect

'On the New Florence blog Digital Marketing and Talent Infor-Art The Tesla Mobile app Google Now Big Data and story telling Ideo’s David Kelley Customized Crowdsourcing The future of on-demand marketing.

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7 Ways to Stop Treating Your Business Like a Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

'We’ve all heard the old joke “In a bacon-and-egg breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed.” This quote epitomizes the true essence of commitment. We all know at least one self-professed entrepreneur who claims to committed, but seems to treat it like a part-time hobby, won’t put any personal skin in the game, and is quick to give up when things are tough.

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[Infographic] Internships: Google Vs Facebook

YoungUpstarts

'Both technology giants Google and Facebook almost always top the list of choice employers for job seekers – career community Glassdoor ranks Google #1 for ‘Best Internship’, and Facebook as #1 for ‘Best to Work’ But for interns they get even more attractive – if you land a coveted internship at either company, you’re looking at a yearly salary of almost US$80,000.

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Rackspace Open Cloud Academy Graduates its First Class

SiliconHills

'By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News After eight weeks of hard work and not much sleep, 17 students graduated from the Rackspace Open Cloud Academy on Friday in San Antonio. The graduates are now certified in A+, Network+, Linux+, Apache, MySQL, Rackspace system administration, Red Hat system administration, cloud basics, and critical thinking. [.

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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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4 Simple Strategies for Getting New Customers

Growthink Blog

'Astute entrepreneurs and marketers understand that as much as 80% of their revenues come from repeat customers. Because once you transform a prospective customer into an actual customer and then give them a great experience, getting that customer to buy again is much easier. In fact, many times the next sale will be initiated by the customer; you won''t have to do anything.

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Who is your competition?

Start Up Blog

'If we ask any well know brand who their major competitors are the answers are reasonably predictable. It’s those brands who have that other part of the market share pie. This is what we all got taught during marketing class, and it made sense in the AC Nielsen TV ratings market share industrial era. The problem is that it makes a lot less sense as we transition to the digital age.

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The genius equation

Start Up Blog

'I truly believe that the perception of the genius is a problem. But rather than rant, I thought I’d give my own version of it. I call it the genius equation: Genius = Above average natural talent in specific area X sustained effort in that area. The clue is really in the word – the etymology of the word genius includes: person of natural intelligence or talent.

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The Internship’s Message is to Enjoy the Real World

SiliconHills

'The big takeaway from watching this summer’s buddy comedy, The Internship, about two middle aged laid off salesmen who become interns at Google, is it is easy to get caught up in the latest technology and gadgets, but nothing can replace real life. And Google, for all its glory, is just a tool that humans [.] The post The Internship’s Message is to Enjoy the Real World appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment

crowdSPRING Blog

'Driving to Bloomington a few weeks ago on my way to the older son’s graduation from IU, I was struck as I always am by the sight of a massive windfarm along I65 in central Indiana. Hundreds of gargantuan windmills line the fields in orderly rows almost to the horizon. Spinning slowly and in near-prefect unison, the farm is a hypnotic and surprisingly beautiful spectacle in an otherwise boring landscape.

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Happy Father’s Day – 2013

entrepreMusings

'Happy Father’s Day to all the great and dedicated dads out there. It seems to me the role of “father” has become much more complex in the first world. They have much more responsibility for parenting than they used to when I and my friends were growing up. I think that increased role will have a very positive impact on our kids.

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More than anything, I love being a dad

Jeff Hilimire

'Greatest job in the world.

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[Singapore] Exploit Technologies To Collaborate With Asia News Network On Media Solutions

YoungUpstarts

'With the knowledge that advanced technology stuck in labs is next to useless if not utilized for commercial use, Singapore-based Exploit Technologies – the technology transfer arm of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) – last week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Asia News Network (ANN) to collaborate on projects and solutions built for the media and advertising industries.

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