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6 Ways Your Business Processes Could Be Hurting Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Nick Candito, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly. Time and time again, there’s one critical component that hampers productivity and efficiency: We are wired to work within the confines of organizational silos. Your prospects, customers and partners (and employees for that matter) do not see you as a series of disparate organizations.

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Where art thou female techies?

Austin Startup

There is a clear deficit of women on the tech scene especially those who code AKA the developers. This isn’t a new problem nor a problem… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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How The Marine Corps Builds an Innovation Culture

Steve Blank

Jennifer Edgin is the Chief Technology Officer of the Intelligence Division at the Headquarters of the Marine Corps. As the Senior Technical Advisor to the Director of Intelligence, she is responsible for building and infusing new technologies within the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE). Jennifer is one the “innovation insurgents” inside the Department of Defense driving rapid innovation.

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8 Keys To Getting Real Value From Business Networking

Startup Professionals Musings

There is no skill more vital to an entrepreneur than effective networking. You can’t build your business alone, and networking is the best way to open doors, professionally and personally. For introverts like me, it’s not easy to step out of your comfort zone and meet new people, but if you approach the challenge correctly, I have found that it can actually be fun as well as productive.

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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 Hire A Virtual Assistant To Grow Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Saqib Ayaz, co-founder of Hire an Assistant. A person who assists a professional/entrepreneur in carrying out his business’ operations without being present at the office is known as a virtual assistant. A virtual assistant is a self-employed person who is being hired on contractual basis for as long as the client needs his/ her services. Modern technological devices and apps, like computer, telephone, internet, Skype etc. are the tools of a virtual assistant for carrying out his/ her tasks e

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Optimize Your Next Design Project with A/B Testing

crowdSPRING Blog

We often say that good design helps your business stand out. This isn’t just a hunch, it’s backed by research that has proven the influence that visual appearance has on the decision-making process of customers. According to a widely-cited study on visual appeal , it takes about 50 milliseconds for customers to form an opinion about your design, and in turn, your company.

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8 Transformative Principles That Can Change The World

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level, or are not truly innovative. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements.

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Beauty On Demand

YoungUpstarts

by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs. Beauty is a much commented on subject – thousands of attempts have been made to define it. This elusive ideal, something that resides in the eyes of the beholder, the ghost of aesthetic perception – the physical and mental feeling that grips and does not let go, Beauty goes by many names. However, the business of beautification is much simpler, and much more straightforward.

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A gesture to welcome the next POTUS

deal architect

On Tuesday, the US will learn about its next President. While the next POTUS will inherit a number of challenges, one particularly vexing one will be about the growing pessimism about automation destroying tens of millions of jobs and a.

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Hacking for Diplomacy at the State Department – Breakthroughs, breakdowns and relentlessly direct critiques

Steve Blank

Time flies. We are already past the midway mark in our new Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford, and for both students and instructors, it’s an intellectually and emotionally charged period. Having logged more than 550 interviews of potential beneficiaries, the teams have delved deep into understanding the problems sourced from the State Department.

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Some Things Haven’t Changed In The Business Workplace

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor and advocate for entrepreneurs, I find myself almost always talking and writing about change. Yet there are many things about business and work that haven’t changed for a long time, and don’t need to change anytime soon. I’m always surprised when someone doesn’t seem to grasp these basics, or thinks it’s fine to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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Improving Customer Experience: How To Make Your Business More Interactive

YoungUpstarts

As a business owner, you should always strive to make sure that your customers enjoy a positive experience. Whether they’re visiting your shop, booking something online or simply calling to find out more, you need to leave a good impression. We live in an age where it’s easier than ever to communicate with clients around the clock. If you’re eager to improve your customer’s experience, here are some tips to make your business more interactive: Your website.

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Automation Amnesia

deal architect

Some of you know Denis Pombriant as a top-notch CRM analyst. I also know him as a historian. I look forward to meals with him where I can hear him talk about N. American history over the centuries. He recently.

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Hacking for Diplomacy at the State Department – Breakthroughs, breakdowns and relentlessly direct critiques

Steve Blank

Time flies. We are already past the midway mark in our new Hacking for Diplomacy course at Stanford, and for both students and instructors, it’s an intellectually and emotionally charged period. Having logged more than 550 interviews of potential beneficiaries, the teams have delved deep into understanding the problems sourced from the State Department.

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How NextView Makes Our Atypical Startup & VC Podcast, Traction

View from Seed

In this episode, we mix things up. Jenny Jao of Harvard Business School digs into the making of Traction with host Jay Acunzo. How does it fit into the overall strategy behind NextView Ventures? How should other entrepreneurs produce winning podcasts or content in general? What caused Traction to find early, well, traction…appearing high on the lists of Forbes, TechStars, and elsewhere, all after just a few episodes?

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[ADV] Advantages Of Commercial Glazing And Blinds

YoungUpstarts

Every company must have a modern, elegant and branded office space. Glass doors are often a preferred choice for many office spaces due to the fact that they add the illusion of having an additional space. Moreover, they provide the workspace with a fantastic appearance. Designers can provide you with some incredible ideas about commercial blinds & glazing , that will suit your workspace.

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Tech was a big loser in this election cycle

deal architect

There will be plenty of post-mortems from this highly unusual election season. As a technologist, we should face up to fact we did not do well in this election cycle Neither campaign really talked about science and tech futures and.

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BtoB Owners, Not Ready for Holiday Marketing?

Rembrandt Communications

No Problem. 3 Quick Tips to Make Sales Soar! It’s already November, and holiday marketing time is here for BtoB owners. But, as an entrepreneur, you may have been dealing with core business responsibilities, and this season just kind of “snuck up on you.” Well, don’t sweat it. There is still time to get your […]. The post BtoB Owners, Not Ready for Holiday Marketing?

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Great Entrepreneurs Work ON the Business, Not Just IN It [Traction #30: James Reinhart, thredUP]

View from Seed

What does the evolution from founder to CEO look like? And how does an entrepreneur balance working IN the business early to tinkering ON the business as it grows? How early does that mentality need to start? Today, we talk to the co-founder and CEO of thredUP, one of the largest and fastest-growing companies in the NextView portfolio (and in general).

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3 Tips For Entrepreneurs Entering The B2B Industry

YoungUpstarts

by Robert C. Johnson, co-founder and CEO of TeamSupport.com. The B2B (business-to-business) industry can be challenging. It is unlike the B2C (business-to-consumer) industry many of us interact with on a daily basis – be it through grocery shopping or buying a gift for a friend – and there are several unique distinctions between the two industries.

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Help Make Pioneer In Skirts A Reality

Feld Thoughts

One of my core values is diversity of everything. I’ve been involved deeply in several organizations, such as National Center for Women and Information Technology , that have been focused on increasing gender diversity in computer science and entrepreneurship. More recently, I’ve expanded my lens a lot to include many other dimensions of diversity.

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Did Facebook and Twitter Make Us Better or Worse in 2016?

This is going to be BIG.

Yesterday, I got caught up in letting my frustration over the election boil over onto Twitter, and it's definitely not the first time. It made me ask the following question: Were we better off in 2016 having Facebook and Twitter around? I talked about it with a few people. One brought up #blacklivesmatter and while I hope some important issues were highlighted, I really don't see these platforms bringing about positive change in the real world.

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In defence of liquidation preferences

The Equity Kicker

I just read a New York Times article that led with the sentence “Deep inside a Silicon Valley unicorn lurks a time bomb”. It turns out that ‘time bomb’ is the much maligned and, I suspect, little understood, liquidation preference. To be clear, liquidation preferences are sometimes used badly and founders should generally turn away from investors who ask for multiple liquidation preferences.

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Want the Ultimate Business Power? It’s Called Motivation.

YoungUpstarts

Motivation is incredibly important in the world of business. And people often forget just how important it is. We tend to think about sports stars when we think about motivation. But it’s important to remember that motivation is what keeps all your business endeavors going strong. All the personal elements you need have their roots in motivation. Good business requires patience.

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Getting Back To Work

Feld Thoughts

Yesterday morning I woke up and said out loud “I accept whatever the outcome of this election is.” I decided that whatever the outcome, I had spent all the emotional and functional energy I wanted to on the election. I was public about my point of view. I advocated for my perspective. And I voted. In our democracy, I accept the outcome. I’m a long term optimist and hold that value front and center.

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Should you move to a managed marketplace model?

Version One Ventures

On October 20, we hosted a marketplace meetup in San Francisco. More than 75 founders and investors joined us for the event – and for those of you who couldn’t make it, we will be sharing some of the key insights and discussions from the event in a series of posts (check out our first post on growth strategies for marketplaces ). Anthony Marino , CMO of ThredUp , gave a very interesting and well-received lightning talk on managed marketplaces.

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"About Last Night." The note I just sent to my portfolio.

This is going to be BIG.

In 2008, I tried to fundraise for my startup the week that Lehman Brothers went under. You can imagine how well that worked out. Basically, VCs told us that they were going to wait and see how the election turned out--and things didn't really thaw out until the following September. Extreme uncertainty slows the VC market to a crawl--that's what I learned.

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4 Ways Small Businesses Can Improve Their PPC Game

YoungUpstarts

by Andy Beohar, VP of SevenAtoms . As a little guy in the PPC game, going up against the big boys can be a bit daunting. However, you don’t have to have a massive budget or a 24/7 team of expert marketers in order to set up a solid PPC strategy that will deliver a healthy ROI. In this post, we’ll go over some of the best methods you can use to improve your PPC game that will get you in the ring with some of those bigger competitors.

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We Quantified the UX of 5 Bike Websites. Here’s What We Learned.

ConversionXL

Your design team likely thinks your website is number one compared to your competitors, but a quantified UX benchmark might tell you differently. We all have our opinions on what good design looks like, but quantifying that and comparing it to competitors, really shows where you stand. Once you know that, you can take action based upon the insights.

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Why Your First Blog Post Should Be A “Life Story” Article

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

One of the key techniques I’ve taught Blog Mastermind members since 2007 is the value of a ‘Life Story’ post or series. In simple terms, a Life Story post is your background story as it relates to the topic of your blog. If you blog about collecting colonial stamps, your. The post Why Your First Blog Post Should Be A “Life Story” Article appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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How Being A Parent (Of 4 Kids) Has Helped Me Grow My Business

YFS Magazine

I am still in the early stages of my business and I am still learning so much as a parent.

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7 Rules For Better Data Protection Compliance

YoungUpstarts

In a world where corporations and businesses are trusted with people’s data, better data compliance is a must. Check out these tips to improve it in your business: 1. Consent. Gain consent before you acquire, use, or hold any personal data wherever possible. All Staffordshire University forms designed to collect personal data, whether web-based or paper should always have a statement that explains how the information is to be used and those it may be disclosed to. 2.

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The Anatomy of a Promotion: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Successful Company Literature

Up and Running

I’ll never forget my first client, shouting at me in frustration, “C’mon! It shouldn’t be this hard to make a decent advert! Anyone can do it!”. Twenty years down the line and hundreds of marketing promotions later, I’m no longer frustrating people so much because I’ve learned to take apart the meat and bones of promotions to better understand how to produce effective ads and literature.

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Rinse and repeat: revitalizing your business

Berkonomics

Here’s a statement that you never thought would apply to your business planning. Sometimes we get stuck in the muck with our marketing, product, management focus, and in keeping up with trends. It is natural for executives and entrepreneurs with lots on their plate and little extra time – to just keep up the same activities that have made the company a success.

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When You’re Not A ‘Techie’: 3 Things To Look For In A Great Developer

YFS Magazine

If you don't have a strong technical background or history of hiring and working with developers it can be frustrating when you're ready to hire one.

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What To Know Before Purchasing A New Business

YoungUpstarts

The Canadian job market has undeniably sunk to the lowest level in many years. This has forced Canadian citizens to seek alternative forms of employment. Since the jobs market is unlikely to recover anytime soon, it is essential to find a steady stream of income elsewhere. Thankfully, the Internet has made it possible for many consumers to make an honest living online.

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