Fri.Apr 08, 2016

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S/4HANAthe anti R/3

deal architect

I recently heard from the Price Waterhouse partner who was instrumental in our moving to Tampa in 1990. It was nice to catch up and it took me down memory lane. In many ways, my group was at the epicenter.

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WordPress Plays a Key Role in Improving Reviews and Ratings

Duct Tape Marketing

WordPress Plays a Key Role in Improving Reviews and Ratings written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit: Pixabay. Blogging is a great way to let your inner author awaken. The best part about blogging is that you don’t have to stick to a set of topics or even a theme. Even if you own a food blog, you can create a post or two about travelling.

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A Digital Assistant for the Enterprise

deal architect

Business Insider has a nice article on how the Echo has become a huge success for Amazon. Its Alexa is the digital assistant in many a household as she helps them play music and with new extensions like Dot and.

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6 Key Risk Factors When Scaling A Business To Global

Startup Professionals Musings

With the availability of high-speed Internet and social media access around the world, it’s easy for entrepreneurs to assume that the world is just one big homogeneous market, and project their business will scale accordingly. Nothing could be further from the truth. Large businesses, as well as small, still fail often by not addressing the very real cultural, economic and political differences.

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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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Music Meets Video Launches in Austin

SiliconHills

Music Meets Video, a new user generated content platform for emerging music artists, launched this week in Austin. The startup has partnered with We Are the Hits, a leading music publisher, that allows it to host content from Universal Music, Sony/ATV, Warner/Chappelle and Kobalt Music Group’s song catalogs with more than six million hit songs. […] The post Music Meets Video Launches in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills.

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6 Effective Marketing Tactics Taken Straight From The Fortune 500 Playbook

YFS Magazine

Here are six smart marketing ideas gleaned from my experience running a company that teaches small firms how to compete with big ones.

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a16z Podcast: The Why, How, and When of Sales

Ben's Blog

The hallmark of many great technical founder/CEOs is that they envision a better way of doing things, and that’s why they’re building a company that delivers on that better way, often disrupting the way things have always been done before.

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LiveOak Adds Venture Partner Focused on the Dallas Market

SiliconHills

LiveOak Venture Partners announced Friday it has added Ram Velidi of Dallas as a new venture partner. Velidi has had extensive experience as a venture investor over two fund cycles at Sevin Rosen Funds. He also has experience working with entrepreneurs as an executive with Net.Orange/NantHealth and Xybridge/ZHNE. Velidi will focus on investments in the […] The post LiveOak Adds Venture Partner Focused on the Dallas Market appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Low tech jobs in a high tech world

Start Up Blog

The robots are taking over. Seriously, they are. They are taking a lot of the crappy and dangerous jobs we’ve done in the past. They’re taking a few of the good ones too. So here’s a thought, why not try and own some robots? Maybe save some money with your robot – oh, like your phone which saves you buying music… Here’s another thought experiment: If a person has $100 in their wallet, and instead of spending 30 of those dollars on a CD, where does the money go

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Kinda feels like Audible has been reading my diary with the introduction of Channels 

Jeff Hilimire

I’m a huge Audible (audio books) fan. It’s the only way I was able to crush my 2015 # of books read goal. I primarily listen in the car or when I’m on a run. I’ve often wanted a way to listen to short bits of news content. I’m a big podcast guy as well, but podcasts are usually 30+ minutes, so it’s hard for it to be true “snackable” content.

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The Remarkable Cost Of Poor Customer Support On Your Bottom Line

Brandanew

Very many new and established businesses set up marketing, but rarely pay attention to customer support- in the way that it deserves. Poor customer support seems to be an epidemic, despite our progress in other areas. In the current digital world with customers having access to so many different media where they can share their opinions. It’s important to pay attention so that the escalation or amplification effect is reduced.

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Do You Regret Failed Investments?

Feld Thoughts

This weekend I’m co-hosting the Reboot.io VC Bootcamp at my house in Boulder. It starts tonight and goes through mid-day Sunday. It’s an experiment with Jerry Colonna and about 15 other VCs to see if the Reboot.io bootcamp construct , where the tag line is: Practical Skills + Radical Self-Inquiry + Shared Experiences = Enhanced Leadership + Greater Resiliency.