Wed.Nov 25, 2015

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8 Myths That Can Inhibit Innovation In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Starting an entrepreneurial business, or maintaining the competitiveness of a mature business, requires innovation. Yet everyone I know seems to have a different perspective on what constitutes real innovation, and why is seems to happen so rarely. Another challenge is to debunk some of the common myths that seem prevent many from even assuming they can innovate.

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Website Building Checklist: Supporting Your Brand

YoungUpstarts

By JR Reichl, Senior Director, Marketing Communications at Hostway Services, Inc. Right now, there are more than 858 million registered websites for users to visit, according to Tech Made Easy. This means you have a lot of competition to deal with when creating and building out your brand’s online presence. A website is an essential piece of the business puzzle, helping a brand connect with its customers and offer potential for the organization.

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How To Generate Leads Through Business Blogging

Brandanew

Business blogging has been around for quite some time. Generating leads through business blogging has become key to accepted content marketing ROI. Yet, some companies maintain business blogs even without knowing what to do with them. As a “me too” strategy or just because it has become the norm. The good news is: business blogging is not a mere hygiene factor or a “good to have” It can not only be a major promotional tool but can also generate effective leads for your bu

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Smaller-Sized Service Businesses: What They Bring To the Table For Big Brands

YoungUpstarts

By Lindsey Groepper, president of BLASTmedia. Smaller to mid-sized service businesses are unmatched when it comes to agility and work ethic, and there is a growing trend of larger companies choosing smaller shops (marketing agencies, rep groups, financial firms, etc.) over their larger counterparts. While large businesses are still booming, the need for small to mid-size businesses that fit niche roles, is growing.

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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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Curtana Seeks to Cure Brain Cancer

SiliconHills

By EVA RUTH MORAVEC Special Contributor to Silicon Hills News Dr. Gregory Stein had never been to Austin when he relocated his fledgling drug development company here from San Diego, a city rich with life sciences and its related ecosystem. “Entrepreneurs will do whatever it takes to make it work,” said Stein, president and CEO […] The post Curtana Seeks to Cure Brain Cancer appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How To Keep Costs Low For A Startup Business

YoungUpstarts

Keeping costs low is important for any business, no matter how large or small. However, for startup companies, the need to keep costs down is even greater, especially if your business is not yet turning over a profit. Increasing costs spiraling out of control have become the death of many a small business, and if like most new business owners you want to prevent your startup from succumbing to this fate, you’ll need to work hard on keeping your costs to a minimum.

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Update on Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruption

The Equity Kicker

Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovators Dilemma , originally published in 1997, changed my understanding of innovation, the evolution of value chains and gave me a theory of disruption that has served me very well over the years. His theory of disruption states that large companies are most often disrupted by small competitors who release products which are cheaper and initially inferior but good enough to take the low end of the market, after which quality improves to the point where t

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The problem with Steering Committees

Start Up Blog

Is that they have too many hands on the steering wheel, and they try to determine their destination after they start driving. By the way, one set of hands always provides the best direction. You should totally read my book – The Great Fragmentation.

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You’re Not An Entrepreneur

Mike Michalowicz

If you work your ass to the bone, you’re not an entrepreneur. You own a business that enslaves you. If you’re constantly attracting different types of clients, you’re not an entrepreneur. You are a yes-man. If you have to hire people who come with skills they’ve gained elsewhere because you don’t have a system or structure that easily gives it to them, you’re definitely not an entrepreneur.

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Healthy Living And Its Surprising Benefits For Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

Small changes can yield big results. These seemingly little things add up to a transformed bigger picture.

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Your License To Steal My 10-Year Refined Podcast Formula, For In-Depth Interviews, ?Free Traffic AND Delivering Digital Sales

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

It was the year 2005. I just purchased an ‘iRiver’ portable MP3 player, shunning the more popular iPod at the time because I wasn’t on team Apple yet. My iRiver MP3 player had a built-in microphone. It was this little black dot you could speak into and record sound with. The post Your License To Steal My 10-Year Refined Podcast Formula, For In-Depth Interviews, 
Free Traffic AND Delivering Digital Sales appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Fresh from the SPRING: overmind

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 overmind. Check out more great work on overmind ’s profile page. Nicely done, overmind, nicely done! Related posts: Fresh from the SPRING: uniquemind. Fresh from the SPRING: ReesQ.

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When And How To Pick Your Next Launch Country

Cracking the Code

(This post was originally published on TechCrunch and has been enriched with a few quotes from the Blablacar founders) International expansion is a challenge any globally ambitious company will face — some sooner than others. As a long-time investor in both the U.S. and Europe, I often get asked by the venture community about the difference between the two.

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Episode 14: Be Your Own Boss, Restaurant Owners, and Friendliest Cities for Businesses | The Bcast

Up and Running

Peter and Jonathan discuss the pros and cons of being your own boss, interview Eric Cacciatore (creator of the Restaurant Unstoppable podcast) about what he’s learned from other restaurant owners, and examine Thumbtack’s list of the 10 friendliest cities for small business. Subscribe: Stitcher | TuneIn | Pocket Casts | PlayerFM | Soundcloud.

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There’s No Reason to Overpay Your Taxes

Duct Tape Marketing

There’s No Reason to Overpay Your Taxes written by Alex Boyer read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Pollack. One of the biggest expenses in any small business is taxes. Now, some would say small business owners pay an unfair share of the tax burden, particularly in light of the fact that every politician seems to be for the ”little guy” come election time – but that’s another story.

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How To Find A Great Keynote Speaker For Your Event

YoungUpstarts

By Sarah Lang, Ticketleap. Events are a valuable opportunity for businesses to expand awareness of their brand, position themselves in the market, and cultivate community around their product. However, it often feels like not a week goes by without an industry event of some sort. There is a lot of noise out there, and the fact is that today’s professional has a myriad of options for picking up tips, learning best practices, and networking in ways that are free and do not detract from their workd

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6 Things I’ve learned about careers in the last decade

Hippoland

I’ve been working full-time for the past decade or so, and here’s everything I’ve learned about careers. tl;dr Believe in your f ing self. That’s it. That’s all that matters. Everything else stems from this. img credit 1) Failure opens doors to success. My first job out of college was in customer support/sales in Tokyo. Getting that job was a total fluke.

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Emoji As Oxford’s “Word” Of The Year? 4 Business Takeaways.

YoungUpstarts

by Fabiola Stein, Sage’s Global Head of Marketing for Sage One. Last week, Oxford Dictionaries named their annual “Word of the Year.” While this announcement tends to create some noise on social media every year, this year’s word is even more buzzworthy because it’s not actually a word — it’s a pictograph. That’s right, an emoji — specifically, the “face with tears of joy emoji”.

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Love Him Or Hate Him, Donald Trump’s Brand Lessons Are Undeniable

YFS Magazine

What licensing lessons can you learn from Trump to extend your own brand? Like his signature hairstyle, there’s some major do’s and don'ts to take from The Donald.