Fri.Jul 22, 2016

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Why You Should Start Your Entrepreneurial Career In Restaurants

YoungUpstarts

By Anthony Lye, President & CEO of HotSchedules. In the 1980s, as a teenager in Weymouth, England, I spent summers working in beachside restaurants. In our vacation town, that was the best way to make money and get a tan. I progressed from washing dishes to waiting tables, but I never considered restaurants a long-term option. From at least that era into the present, Western societies have construed restaurants jobs as temporary work – something you do before you get a “real job.

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7 Steps To Turning Business-As-Usual Into A Moonshot

Startup Professionals Musings

In this era of accelerating change, business-as-usual is the enemy of every business, new and old. Yet it’s an easy rut to fall into, and a tough one to break out of. Every business needs to “reach for the stars” on a regular basis, in much the same way the President Kennedy challenged a nation to put a man on the moon in an impossible timeframe more than fifty years ago.

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The 4 Best Reasons You Should Start An Online Business

YoungUpstarts

Many budding entrepreneurs are deciding to dive into the online business world. These days, you’re seeing more and more online companies springing up. However, some businesspeople are still pondering whether it’s the right venture for them. So, to help you decide, here are the four best reasons you should start an online business: Sell To A Global Market.

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6 key tips to taking your business global

The Next Web

If your business has seen successful growth in the US, it most likely will see success in other countries as well. And, you may want to lock up those markets, before some other company does. I recently met a startup that had successfully tripled its revenues – largely from the results of a successful international expansion effort and wanted to share those learnings with all of you.

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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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Founder Fights in Boulder

Feld Thoughts

The final event at Boulder Startup Week a few months ago was Founder Fights. A bunch of founders got in a boxing ring for a real, USA Boxing sanctioned event (three rounds, two minutes each). To see a two minute version of what played out, take a look at this great video montage from the event (I make a startling entrance at 0:52 in the video.) It’s worth clicking through to Vimeo if the security settings don’t let it play in your browser.).

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Evolving “openness” at marketplaces

The Equity Kicker

I just read the following quote in a post about platform failures: Because platforms depend on the value created by participants, it’s critical to carefully manage the platform’s “openness” – the degree of access that consumers, producers, and others have to a platform, and what they’re allowed to do there. If platforms are too closed, keeping potentially desirable participants out, network effects stall; if they’re too open there can be other value-destroying effects, such as poor quality contr

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This Riding Suitcase Will Change Your Travel Life

YFS Magazine

MODOBAG is the world’s first motorized, smart and connected carry-on that aims to get travelers, tech enthusiasts and day-trippers to their destination up to three times faster than walking.

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Convenience is Here to Stay

Mike Michalowicz

While price and quality are two important factors that customers desire, nothing beats convenience. Whatever you offer, you need to seek ways to improve its convenience. Home used to be a treacherous mountainside climb up to a cave. Water used to be a river one mile away. Dinner was a hunt for meat, or a collection of berries. Now…. Your home is a quick drive down a well lit street.A river is now a aucet, mere steps away from where you sleep.

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9 Sure-Fire Ways To Sabotage Your First Client Meeting

YFS Magazine

Unfortunately we can’t hit the “delete” button on first impressions and you could inadvertently ruin what should have been the start of a professional working relationship.

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KUKA Opens Robotics Center in Austin

SiliconHills

KUKA ATX is a new robotics research and development center in Austin focused on industrial robots for factory production. The German-based company established its newest center of excellence at 11921 North Mopac Expressway. The center will focus on web, cloud and mobile software platforms to augment KUKA robotics, customer experience and overall productivity.

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5 Frugal Startup Tips That Make Bootstrapping Way Better

YFS Magazine

One thing I have learned about entrepreneurs is that there are no set rules. Every entrepreneur has a unique story to tell.

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Measure your Thinking Against other Models

Austin Startup

This is the second article in a series on creating consistent growth over a long period of time. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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5 Ways Content Marketing Can Benefit PR

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Ways Content Marketing Can Benefit PR written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit PicJumbo. With the advent of social media, the tables turned for professionals working in the PR industry. All of the sudden, everyone was a publisher. What took weeks to organize – in terms of promotion for businesses and causes – now happened in a blink of an eye.

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Can You Trust the “Science” of Optimization?

ConversionXL

Fact: offering customers more choices kills conversion rates. A scientific study proved it. Fact: you can prime customers to behave in certain ways with certain phrases, images or ideas. Researchers have shown it’s true. Fact: if you give potential customers a small gift, you’ll create a debt that customers will eagerly repay. Robert Cialdini wrote about that years ago in his popular book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.

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Weekend Reads: Get Outside the Box

crowdSPRING Blog

As another Friday draws to a close, the time has come to relax. But if you’re not going to be doing anything, you might as well let your mind wander. Sometimes it’s in those moments of stillness that the next big thing hits us head on. To inspire you towards such revelations, here are a few reads to tickle your mind: Take a gander at these well designed and insightful “How to Manage” infographics.

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