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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. 4/ Global Trade Wars Are For Real. And, this goes well beyond the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And, this goes well beyond the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Entrepreneurs And Small Businesses Thrive With These 5 Tech Tools

YoungUpstarts

by Eyal Shinar, CEO & Founder of Fundbox. Fundbox leverages Big Data analytics, engineering and predictive modeling to give small businesses credit-on-demand that is accessed through its existing account software so that the point of workflow is never disrupted. Everything big must first be small.

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. Too often, managers demand diligence about the wrong things: filling out forms is one glaring example. The answer, of course, is that they are.

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. Too often, managers demand diligence about the wrong things: filling out forms is one glaring example. The answer, of course, is that they are.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. Now with CARES and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and a lot of programs that are coming out, but in addition to just in general, the increased demand on benefits, we're seeing a lot of systems get overloaded with record numbers of applications.

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Business Apologies: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Do

ConversionXL

Pete Fader, Professor of Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania, shares why in his book Customer Centricity : Not all customers deserve your company’s best efforts. It’s not always easy to identify instances when your business is at fault compared to times when a customer’s demands are unfair. What should you apologize for?

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Higher Ed Start-Up Teams With Top Universities to Offer ‘Free’ Courses

Campus Entrepreneurship

The one with a simple, clear business model that demanded payment up front is alive and pretty profitable (not Google, but a nice business that employees 25 people and provides value to customers). The company’s founders said they have limited their partnerships for now because Coursera is a small company, with about a dozen employees.