Fri.Aug 15, 2014

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Is It Time to Hire an Employee?

Up and Running

'Overwhelmed? It could be time to hire some help. If you own your own business and find that you simply don’t have enough time on your hands to be able to do all the things you need to do, you may be asking yourself should you hire an employee? . If you’ve already got employees, your question will be similar, when is the right time to hire another employee?

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Negative Maintenance

Feld Thoughts

'I had a fun email exchange with an investor I’ve worked with for almost 20 years in response to something a CEO send out from a board we are both on. I said “f **g awesome.” He said “that’s an understatement.” I said “CEO is such a delight.” He said “CEO is negative maintenance.” I loved this.

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Picasso worked to make things simple

The Equity Kicker

'Apple apparently shows this picture to employees at the secretive Apple University. It’s a great illustration of working to make something simple. The first panel is a bull with horns, hoofs and texture, the last is an abstraction, but sill a bull. That’s what Apple is about and what a lot of good design is about.

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All In?

Mike Michalowicz

'All In? If not you, then who? If not now, then when? If not all in, then why? The post All In? appeared first on Mike Michalowicz. Break to Fix Strategies Culture Persistence when Who?

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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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Spot On Sciences Makes Taking Blood Samples Easy

SiliconHills

'By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News The most remarkable thing to Dr. Jeanette Hill about the evolution of her company, Spot on Sciences, is the myriad ways her blood collection device, HemaSpot, is being used. It has proven invaluable in research being done in Spain that shows taking blood pressure medication at night […] The post Spot On Sciences Makes Taking Blood Samples Easy appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Things that Fall Down

This is going to be BIG.

'The other day, I found this neat inbox stats tool from Front App called Inbox Checkup. (Thanks Product Hunt !) I''ve been wanting something like this for a while. Apparently, I respond to 18% of my e-mails, way above the average of 11%, and was #62 out of over 4,000 in terms of e-mails sent. It was happy to know that I''m getting to a lot of things.

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The Future of Mobile Search Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

'The Future of Mobile Search Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. It’s guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest post is from Justin Emig – Enjoy! Just a few short years ago, smartphones were reserved for those bleeding edge consumers willing to spend half of their paycheck on a device double the size of their existing ‘feature’ phone that allowed you to replicate an experience historically reserved for

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What Nike.com (and Others) Can Teach You About Building Persuasive Product Pages

ConversionXL

'With product pages, it’s often way too easy to lose sight that the goal is to actually persuade people , and instead, at least from what I can tell on 99% of the eCommerce sites I see, the pages are treated with a very clinical approach. “Here’s the product sir, I sure do hope you buy it.”. I mean, this page hits the right notes; discounts, large product photos, reviews & testimonials, recommended products… But is there anything particularly persuasive about this page?

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Twitter Link Roundup #230 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

'Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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The common pitfalls in naming a tech company or product

The Next Web

'Aaron Hall is the Associate Director of Naming at Siegel+Gale. While naming your new tech product or company can be a lot of fun, it certainly isn’t easy. When approaching naming for the first or tenth time, there are some common pitfalls and traps in which companies tend to get caught. While it isn’t practical (or possible) to address every naming pitfall in a single article, there are a few easy ones to avoid when you jump into your next tech-naming project. 1.

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