Fri.Jul 15, 2016

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Doing Business in China: Lessons from an Expat Entrepreneur

Up and Running

Today, China is without a doubt one of the most exciting places in the world to do business. Despite the recent economic downturn, the market potential is enormous, the entrepreneurial spirit in China is high, and the country is inevitably going to increase its global influence thanks to its economic vitality. Of course, politicians, business leaders, and the media in the West have all taken notice.

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6 Ways To Start Learning For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the simplest questions I get from aspiring entrepreneurs, and ironically one of the hardest, is “How do I start?” I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is. They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me how to learn to be an entrepreneur. It takes more than passion and a course on business basics.

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Five Ways To Make Your Nonprofit Brand Stand Out

YoungUpstarts

by Julie Cottineau, founder and CEO of BrandTwist and author of “ Twist: How Fresh Perspectives Build Breakthrough Brands “ The world of non-profit marketing has become much more challenging than it ever was. No longer is competition coming from other established non-profit organizations; now, it’s also from individual fundraising resources like Gofundme.com pages and requests on Facebook from friends for support in cause-related marathons, walkathons, etc.

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FAQs on Blogging- From Our Ann Arbor Workshop!

Brandanew

As you know, yesterday, we conducted a workshop in Ann Arbor for a bunch of writers. It was very well received and we had great feedback from the crowd with a ton of questions. For those of you who were unable to attend, here were a a few FAQs on blogging that I answered in the workshop, which I feel could be helpful to everyone beginning with it! Learn how to use content marketing like a pro.

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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 Three Pillars Of A Winning Marketing Campaign

YoungUpstarts

Starting a business ? Any successful company owner will tell you that marketing is key here. Without marketing and promotion, your new business will be dead in the market. In 2016, you should focus most of your efforts on the online marketing platform. Even if your business functions offline, this is still going to be a massive part of your campaign.

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Reflections on Nice Going Into The Weekend

Feld Thoughts

I woke up feeling subdued this morning. I didn’t know why but after talking to Amy I realized that the emotional impact on me of the horror in Nice is weighing on me. Amy described her connection to it to me – she’s been physically in the same spot that the tragedy happened – and even though we are far away, something very personal hit home about the whole thing.

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Boulder Tube to Work Day

Feld Thoughts

Many cities around the world have bike to work day. We take it up a level in Boulder and have an annual tube to work day which occurred today. The gang at Sphero went all in and decided to make it a Raft to Work day. They tried hard, but ended up with a classic FAIL blog experience. Enjoy a laugh at the end of the week after a troubling few days in the world.

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From malaria to plant diseases –this accelerator is tackling the world’s real problems

The Next Web

“We make the world a better place” – this is what most startups promise. They use this term, describing how they make life easier, more convenient, less stressful for all the “work-hard and play-hard” Western populations: Apps, gadgets, smart tech solutions enhance the day to day life. One could also say: The best technology available is often used for lifestyle products and services rather than life changing solutions.

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Adjust Accordingly

Mike Michalowicz

I saw a random sign, at a random location, at a random moment. I paraphrased what it said: Step 1 – Write a list of things you love to do. Step 2 – Write a list of the things you are doing now. Step 3 – Compare the two. Step 4 – Adjust accordingly. So true. So true.

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Make Your Marketing More Persuasive With Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs

YFS Magazine

The ability to make consumers take action is a main competitive edge any marketer should offer, and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a good place to start.

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Weekend Reads: Impressions

crowdSPRING Blog

It’s that time of the week again: time to begin the commute home on your journey towards the bliss of the weekend. As you make your way toward the luxury of downtime, we thought we’d give you some reading material to keep you entertained. Your brand has a personality. Is it a good one? Here’s how to be a more attractive character to your customers.

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10 Common Mistakes Fashion Startups?? Make

YFS Magazine

Here are 10 of the most common mistakes I have watched fashion entrepreneurs make again and again.

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Austin Enshrined Racism In New Ridesharing Rules

Austin Startup

I pledge that I will not allow myself to be fingerprinted as a requirement to drive for a ridesharing service. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Breaking the Block

Bryce Dot VC

I’ve been wrestling with a serious case of writers block of late. Between raising the new fund, winding a couple companies down and the soul sucking headlines filling my feeds its been tough to muster the creative energy to put thoughts that I’d want to have down, down. When you have an audience there are expectations that come along with that.

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Things PR Pros Hate to Hear from Clients

Duct Tape Marketing

Things PR Pros Hate to Hear from Clients written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Media Maven and More. When I was a TV reporter, I worked with many public relations firms. Coming from news, joining “the other side”, and becoming a publicist was pretty seamless. I was doing the same thing, storytelling, but instead of for an audience watching the 6 o’clock news, I was doing it for a paying client.

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Vision vs. Strategy

SVPG

Overview. In recent articles on keys to product success and the alternative to roadmaps I have highlighted that if you want the benefits of product team empowerment and autonomy, then you need to provide each team with the necessary context in which to make good decisions. I’ve explained that the context typically needs to be the product vision, and a specific set of outcome-based objectives for each team (OKR’s are an effective way to do that).