Wed.Feb 03, 2016

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

Change agents inside a corporation or government agency know how to build consensus and be a rebel at work. They are attuned to finding colleagues who think like they do. And they can figure out how to get new ideas adopted within their organization’s culture and framework. And oh by, the way my two guests did it while at the CIA. How to be a rebel at work was the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing week

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How Habits Are Sabotaging Your Conversions (and How to Fix It)

ConversionXL

You’re familiar with the phrase, “A creature of habit.” Yet, as we strive to disrupt industries, take out the competition and launch innovative new products, we forget the power of habit. Think about what dish soap is sitting by your sink or under the counter. When is the last time you put serious thought into what dish soap to buy?

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SAP: Help me help you

deal architect

Shaun Snapp writes “It is now common to hear about "HANA fatigue." For four years just about every SAP conference has been distinctly HANA flavored. One of my clients told me of her experience of at one SAP conference where.

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To Gain Traction, Some Entrepreneurs Think Content-First, Not Product-First [Traction #18: Joe Pulizzi]

View from Seed

When looking back at the seed stage of their companies, lots of guests on Traction will cite the same regret: “I wish I started content marketing sooner.” Today, we talk to the man who coined the term, Joe Pulizzi, founder of the Content Marketing Institute, an education and training organization serving thousands of customers and millions of readers a year.

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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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How To Turn A Struggling Business Around

YoungUpstarts

Owning and running a small or start-up business can be daunting, to say the least. After all, with so much to learn on the job, so many plans to put in place, and day-to-day operations to keep track of, it’s little wonder that so many people end up working every hour that they’re awake. While such an approach can pay off it also pays to step back and relax every now and again, because if a crisis should ever hit they must be prepared with every faculty that they possess.

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10 Tactics To Reduce Your Startup Success Timeline

Startup Professionals Musings

Businesses always seem to take longer to succeed than an entrepreneur expects. Seth Godin once said that overnight success in startups takes about six years, and Seth is an optimist. Thus we all look for shortcuts. Execution shortcuts would be hidden strategies to achieve the endgame sooner, without losing 40 to 60 percent of the financial potential along the way.

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The Right Time + The Right Team + The Right Technology

Eric Friedman

I have been working with a number of early stage teams going through various stages of fundraising and using this diagram to help explain my thoughts on some of the questions they will come up against. This is certainly not all inclusive, but it helps me outline the key points that I think must be overcome by an early stage team to convince an outside party to invest their capital in their company.

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Don’t Neglect Your Health: Fitting A Fitness Regime Into A Busy Schedule

YoungUpstarts

It can be so, so easy to fall into a terrible routine. Wake up tired from a hard day and evening’s work and you’re rushing out to work again, so you grab something quick and unhealthy and dash to your method of transport straight to the office and begin another long day. Another quick lunch full of refined sugars and little real nutritional value before you finish the day and unwind before heading to bed.

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Monthly Roundup: How Can You Get Ahead In Content Marketing?

Brandanew

It’s been a while since I wrote the last monthly round up , and frankly it hardly feels like we’re already in the second month of a very new year! I’ve honestly had no time to think through how time has been flying! The good news is that after having met many of our clients working on Content Marketing, my mind is buzzing with the new possibilities and also the challenges that 2016 is set for.

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4 Super-Hot Fin Tech Trends To Watch Out For In 2016

YoungUpstarts

by Kiara Medhurst, content strategist at My Gold Limited. Last year has been a great one for fin tech with close to $15 billion pumped into the young industry. There are small and bright companies that have come up in the past few years that have found out ways to manage virtually any service offered by big names in banking. The fin tech companies have disrupted the archaic way of functioning of banking behemoths.

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Is History A Guide In Business?

Feld Thoughts

I was at a fascinating dinner with a bunch of founders and investors last night. Until I was 35, I was often the youngest guy in the room. While this was a seasoned crowd, much of the experience – both around creating companies and funding companies – started around the mid-2000s. As someone who has been doing this since the late 1980s (I started my first company in 1987) I definitely felt like one of the old guys in the room.

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5 Trademarks of a Bad News Loan Broker

Up and Running

Searching for the right business loan broker can be similar to online dating. You spend hours scrolling through different sites and various profiles, all in the hope of finding your “best match.” But, when it comes to finding a loan broker for your business, you’re not just risking heartache—you’re also putting your finances on the line. In your quest for the perfect match, how can you make sure the company you eventually choose will put the interests of you and your business ahead of their own?

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How To Start A Tutoring Business And Tap Into A $102.8 Billion Industry

YFS Magazine

Private tutoring businesses are a great idea for first-time entrepreneurs. It is easy to set up, requires little to no startup capital, offers unlimited growth and provides excellent profit margins.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

“Be the change you want to see in the world”. . This is one of my life’s mantras. Words are not enough – action is what matters. . As I reflected on FPV’s first full year of operation, I thought back to my original thesis and reasons for starting the fund. New funds have popped up in increasing numbers over the last few years – but I saw gaps in the market that needed to be filled.

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The Problem With Regulatory Compliance And The Hourly Workforce??

YFS Magazine

Regulatory compliance is an absolute imperative for companies. But how companies communicate with their hourly workers may be unnecessarily exposing them to great risk and even violating regulations.

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Forbes ironically forgets Economics 101

Start Up Blog

A few times I’ve had friends link me to interesting articles from Forbes. The topic looks good, I’m excited, and click in and I get this: What Forbes are really saying is this: “Sorry Steve, even though you have an ad blocker, and you’ve taken definitive action to not see advertising, we want you to turn off your ad blocker, so we can trick our advertisers that your eyeballs are worth paying for.” And here is what happened.

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5 Best Email Apps For Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

Many free mail clients are so overwhelmingly clunky that they are taxing to use and a productivity killer of epic proportions.

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Google and HUD to Bring High Speed 1 Gigabit Internet to Public Housing Developments

SiliconHills

Google and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Wednesday plans to bring high speed Gigabit Fiber Internet to housing developments nationwide. The goal is to improve access to the Internet for the nation’s poorest residents and to help children get access to materials online to improve their education and help boost their […] The post Google and HUD to Bring High Speed 1 Gigabit Internet to Public Housing Developments appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Modern Selling: Challenge Yourself to be Great (4 Things to Do)

Growthink Blog

The stereotypes of what makes a great salesperson - a "silky charmer," a “smiler and dialer,” a “closer” etc. - are really not characteristics of top sales performers anymore. In fact, it probably makes sense to retire the term "salesperson" altogether, as it has become too corrupted with negative connotation to be useful to describe the kinds of professionals companies need to represent their products and services and drive top line results.

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How to Succeed at Facebook Advertising (or How to Fail)

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Succeed at Facebook Advertising (or How to Fail) written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Nicholas Kusmich. There are lots of experts and gurus out there telling you now is the time to get on Facebook advertising. While some are treating it like the next get rich wave most agree – to be successful you need to create to target precisely and create personal experiences.