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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. Because of the changes, you may have noticed new cybersecurity and privacy popups on sites when you land on them, or updates terms of use sent to your email.

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The True Costs Of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

When food and shelter are a freelancer’s two heaviest expenses, a conversation about “costs” sounds absurd, no? However, to have a sober conversation about freelancing’s costs, we must acknowledge these mental, physical and spiritual stakes. by Donovan Janus, founder of 17hats. My aim is not to scare anyone. Causes and Remedies.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

Subscribe by email. And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. I want a forecast that starts with specifics like channels or traffic and conversions or segments and builds up. Get Gust by Email.

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How Social Entrepreneurship Is Changing Businesses

Up and Running

In 1998, Gregory Dees explained social entrepreneurs are more likely to: Adopt a mission to create and sustain social value (not just private or financial value). Socially responsible companies also often reinvest profits into the business or use them to actualize their mission statements. Your employees can become your greatest asset.

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The Communication Secrets Of The World’s Greatest Salesman

Duct Tape Marketing

How do you feel like this book will bring structure to the conversation? [19:32] So he and I exchange emails and ideas, especially when it comes to storytelling and oxytocin and all that good stuff that he does the. If you'd like to have a conversation about billionaires and or income inequality, whatever it might be.

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Moneyball Design: Why the Research and Data Analysis is Critical to Getting Your Prospects to Convert

ConversionXL

” 46% of them said “improving conversions” Excellent. We were proposing to start with conversion research and usability testing, and then move on to conversion rate optimization based on the findings and do A/B testing. Now that we know where the opportunity lies, how do we go about doing it?

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Facebook’s Messaging Platform: Color me skeptical

This is going to be BIG.

I’ll ping someone via IM with a “Sup”, but I’d never do that over email. Back in like 1998? Conversation history by person really doesn’t make a lot of sense to me either. In a way, the “brokenness” of messaging actually makes it better. Where one person sees inefficiency, I see a communication spectrum.

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