Wed.Nov 18, 2015

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The Top 5 Holiday Scams To Warn your Employees About

YoungUpstarts

by Stu Sjouwerman, founder and CEO of KnowBe4. This holiday season could be the most wonderful time of year for cyber criminals, accor ding t o digital identity company ThreatMetrix. In a new report, the firm reveals that it has detected a 25% jump in attacks. You should warn everyone in your organization that cyber criminals are going into overdrive this time of year: 1.

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Man-Machine equilibrium

deal architect

I am researching how automation – robotics, AI, 3D printing, process bots, drones etc – is changing every job category and the results may end up in a book, several blogs. In just the beginning stages of my research, I.

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6 Key Principles Drive Startup Change Leaders Today

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the business ironies that many entrepreneurs have learned the hard way in the past is that ideas which are truly disruptive carry the highest risk of failure, take the longest to gain traction, and thus are the least likely to get external funding. So some entrepreneurs stick with incremental solutions, avoiding more transformational or adaptive solutions implying disruptive change.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 11: Pat Sullivan and Sebastian Jackson

Steve Blank

Startup founders strive to turn their dreams into reality, and the mentors who guide them often learn as much as they teach. How startup ideas are developed and nurtured was the focus of conversations with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Pat Sullivan. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Pat Sullivan , CEO of Ryver , a team communication tool.

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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 World’s Central Banks And Their Respective Economies Are Junkies

YoungUpstarts

by Douglas Obey, author of “ Money & The Human Condition “. I can’t help but draw the comparison between a heroin addict and today’s worldwide economies. The world’s economies have become as completely dependent on monetary stimulus (Central Banks printing money and driving interest rates to near zero) as a junkie is on heroin.

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How to Create Remarkable Video Ads On Social Media

Brandanew

Facebook tells us that we need to create remarkable video ads. And I constantly have this nostalgic image in my head. Some of us might not remember the times when online videos suffered from buffering and time lags because the network speeds were so low. It does sound like a 80s geek movie now. We have a plethora of technology platforms from YouTube, to Facebook, Vimeo, Vine, Instagram where consumers are creating and sharing short videos effortlessly and directly from mobile devices now.

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How to lose 76% of your users

The Next Web

Imagine you work at a SAAS company and your funnel looks like this: We have a signup conversion rate of 10 percent. Pretty impressive, right? Our investors thought so too. How impressed? They gave us $9,000,000. However, there was a problem. A big, lurking problem that eventually neither us nor the investors could ignore. Only 30 percent of signups actually implemented Ptengine – our company – on their website.

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An Entrepreneur’s Inner Battle, What They Aren’t Telling You

YFS Magazine

Aspirations are great, but missing out on life around you isn’t. Severe startup burn out will occur; you will begin to feel so fried and tired of striving that you lose sight of your actual goals.

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5 ways to be productive as a part-time founder

The Next Web

Working on a start-up while doing 12-hour shifts as doctor is pretty gruelling. More often than not, I would come home completely destroyed and want to collapse into bed. Also, there are the night shifts, the weekend shifts, the unholy hours worked that was probably during a public holiday. Doctoring isn’t easy and start-ups isn’t easy. While my colleagues went home to Game of Thrones and a big tub of ice cream, I cracked open my laptop and continued to code through the night (with a big tub of

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Similarities between raising a venture fund and raising for a startup

The Equity Kicker

It’s becoming a cliché that read raising for a VC fund is like raising for a startup. I know this because fur much of this year I’ve been on the road for Forward Partners and when I tell entrepreneurs what it’s like they smile, give me a knowing nod like we’re insiders together, and say “it’s just like raising for a startup” The basic similarities are lots of meetings, unpredictable processes, lots of wasted time, and a feeling that there really ought to

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Managing Risk and Improving Efficiency of the Supply Chain

Up and Running

As a new startup, you’re likely well aware of how inventory costs money and how those costs can quickly add up the longer you go without orders. However, did you also know that it costs your company money when you encounter zero inventory counts? In fact, in many cases, the costs of not having products to sell can be higher than if you had too much to sell. “Industry Week” recently commented on how the impact of globalization on supply chain networks has made supply chain management

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Jordan Gray: How This Writer Turned His Passion For Relationships Into A $100,000+ A Year Online Blogging Business, Selling Digital Courses And Books On Amazon 

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] You’re going to be amazed as you listen to this interview with Jordan Gray, to hear how technically un-savvy he was, yet built a fantastic online business despite the technological handicap. Jordan is a relationships coach. He. The post Jordan Gray: How This Writer Turned His Passion For Relationships Into A $100,000+ A Year Online Blogging Business, Selling Digital Courses And Books On Amazon appeared first on En

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Austin’s International Accelerator Pitch Event Features 10 Startups

SiliconHills

The International Accelerator in Austin is holding its second pitch event featuring ten international startups from nine countries Thursday and Friday. The accelerator received 350 applications from around the world and narrowed the selection down to the ten finalists, said Phil Pompa, Managing Director of International Accelerator. On Thursday morning, the startups will pitch for […] The post Austin’s International Accelerator Pitch Event Features 10 Startups appeared first on Silic

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One Accountable, Many Responsible

Mike Michalowicz

If there is one thing that is absolutely guaranteed when working with a team, if multiple people are made accountable to an outcome it is unlikely to happen. It is the ultimate game of passing the buck, which usually ends with a triumphant finger pointing. Whenever a specific outcome is needed, make one person (and only one person) accountable to the outcome.

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The Open Cloud Academy Moves to new Headquarters at the Rand

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News San Antonio taxi cab driver Abdirahman Jama used to drop passengers off at the Weston Centre to attend the Open Cloud Academy. He found out that for $3,500 he could take classes through the academy and receive his Cisco Certified Network Associate credentials. He taught himself the […] The post The Open Cloud Academy Moves to new Headquarters at the Rand appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How to not kill your SaaS: How I overcame my dangerous addiction to PGH (Premature Growth Hacking)

The Next Web

Do you work for a startup? Are you a marketer? If so, you may be addicted to PGH–Premature Growth Hacking. What is PGH addiction? The “P” stands for “premature.” Growth hacking by itself is fine, when done at an appropriate moment in a startup’s development. It gets you more users and revenue by using creativity–rather than relying too heavily on paid advertising.

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Project Manager

Transformify

Looking for a remote job? Then this job may be just right for you. We are looking for a Project Manager experienced in managing remote teams and virtual projects to join our virtual team. You’ll have worked with waterfall and agile project management methodologies. You’ll know the strengths and limitations of each approach. Ideally, you have experience with Jira.

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Fresh from the SPRING: decenu

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 logo project. Let us start the slow clap for decenu. Check out more great work on decenu ’s profile page. Nicely done, decenu, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: uniquemind. Fresh from the SPRING: Bekk.

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Want to get more done? Get yourself a system.

Jeff Hilimire

I have a few friends, who shall remain nameless as they’d be embarrassed for me to say this, that are huge nerds like me when it comes to figuring out how to get things done. Recently we got together for lunch with the only topic of conversation being how we all use Evernote to manage our emails and tasks. Does that sound boring? It was probably my most interesting lunch that month :).

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3 KPIs to Track For Your Social Media Success

Duct Tape Marketing

3 KPIs to Track For Your Social Media Success written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you’re in business and you’re not harnessing the power of social media you need to jump on that bandwagon now. If you are using social media marketing as a channel to grow your business, awesome! But do you know how it’s working for your business?

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The Secret Weapon to Scaling: Sales Operations

Seeing Both Sides

I was speaking at an event last night and met a young woman at a large public tech company that was thinking of moving into startup land. She wanted to know whether her skills would be valued in a smaller, growth company. I asked her what role she was currently playing and my eyes widened when she replied, "sales operations". "Holy crap!" I exclaimed, "You'll be the most valuable hire a growth stage company could ever make.

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The Science of Marketing with Neil Patel

Duct Tape Marketing

The Science of Marketing with Neil Patel written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Neil Patel. If you’re not following pretty much everything that comes out of Neil Patel’s Quicksprout , well, you’re missing one of the richest veins of pure gold online. Patel founded, operated, sold, and recreated several very successful ventures and shares a ton of lessons learned in what amounts to a university level course in online marketing.

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