Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2021

Customers and employees are the new stakeholders for every business. Going green doesn’t always hurt the bottom line, and investors now look for startups with sustainability. The best startups also see these as opportunities for brand recognition and viral marketing, to simultaneously benefit people and boost the bottom line.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

They want to hire employees who care about the environment and are committed to sustainability. Here are some organizations committed to being green: World Wildlife Fund. Their office space is green. It values employees who are willing to learn as they go and want to make a positive difference in both the office and the world.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

To overcome these challenges, leaders will need to keep people at the center of our conversations, and organizations will need to help their employees build emotional intelligence and expert people skills. Thanks to Sarah Jameson, Green Building Elements ! #12- Thanks to Jenn Denfield, Emergenetics International ! #5-

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

The Energy Internet Emerges: We will be trading energy with each other through a new type of distributed energy grid. Freelancers Overtake Employees: There will be more freelance workers selling their time and skills on projects for companies than people who are full-time employees.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Restaurant owners and employees are being treated extremely poorly by many customers since service has changed with the lack of staffing. These operations learned during the last 18 months they could operate in a remote or distributed environment. Additionally, they better have a good handle on the well-being of the employees.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Take the subset of metrics that actively drive action, and change the font color for them to green in the Impact Matrix. For a large European client with a multi-channel existence, here’s what the Impact Matrix looked like after this honest self-reflection: More of the digital metrics are green, because there are more digital metrics period.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Cyber-Physical Systems Working with government and industry to create standards for a new generation of interoperable, dynamic, and efficient “smart systems” – an “industrial Internet” – that combines distributed sensing, control, and data analytics to help grow new high-value American jobs and the economy.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 25, 2017

The different teams often share technology platforms which can be managed by a central team, but the usage of technology and the practice of CRO is distributed. Alternatively, organizations could start with an agency, putting someone more green in charge of the engagement to learn from the pros.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

As we continue to grow as a company, we will strive to remain a great place where our employees love to work. We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc. Photo Credit: Rune Sovndahl.

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David Teten

AUGUST 8, 2013

For example, whether the data shows consumption of soft drinks, vs. amount of soft drinks entering distribution channels, will affect the interpretation of the numbers. Be careful of color combinations such as red on green; about 7% of all men are color-blind to some extent. Indicate for what time periods the chart is appropriate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Customers and employees are the new stakeholders for every business. Going green doesn’t always hurt the bottom line, and investors now look for startups with sustainability. The best startups also see these as opportunities for brand recognition and viral marketing, to simultaneously benefit people and boost the bottom line.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

It applies to the production, distribution, marketing, sale and consumption of goods and services. By treating employees and customers well, businesses can gain the community’s support. False or discriminatory advertising, negative treatment of employees and ignoring safety concerns in products can undermine consumer confidence.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Specifically, they wouldn’t give up their stranglehold on distribution and the value they placed on owning the recording. Siebel—Tom Siebel.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Apple employees before a product launch) or a subset of consumers (e.g., For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. asks Nick Greene. Insiders, Aspirants, and Outsiders. Image source ). The moment a secret exists, it creates Insiders.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Apple employees before a product launch) or a subset of consumers (e.g., For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. asks Nick Greene. Insiders, Aspirants, and Outsiders. Image source ). The moment a secret exists, it creates Insiders.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2019

Thanks to Penny Bauder, Green Kid Crafts ! #14- I set up my business to be distributed, so although my company is based out of Scottsdale, Arizona, I live in Thailand most of the time. I know that if I slack off or grow complacent, Fracture, and all the employees whose livelihoods depend on it, will directly suffer.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2013

Many companies need to distribute their promotional material, and they often employee students to do it for them. Perhaps you’ve got a slight green tinge to your thumb? On that note, who wouldn’t pay a few quid for a McDonald’s meal to be delivered to them on a Sunday morning after a heavy night? Leafleting agency.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Rise of Conscious Capitalism: I’ve been involved with social entrepreneurship for years through my involvement with organizations such as Echoing Green and the Unreasonable Institute , and this is the year that I saw massive growth and interest in the sector from the mainstream. What’s Next in 2012….

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

5 Ways To Help Employees You’re About To Lay Off | Fast Company – crowdspring.co/159KAQE. More Magical, Turbulent History of The Color Green | Print Magazine – crowdspring.co/1qN6Vrm. How to Make an Infographic: Data, Design, Distribute | My Design Shop – crowdspring.co/1xb7aTa. 6 Visual Design Principles. 1xb7aTa.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year. Image Credit: Bryan Miles.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

million kids, and 135,000 employees. And the urgency stems not from an agile competitor, a first-mover market, or a power-law distribution of reward, but rather from the need to achieve enough velocity to overcome the tremendous gravitational pull of business-as-usual. Our annual budget is $25 billion.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

To be successful in your own company requires a diverse knowledge that just isn’t afforded to you in the age of hyper-specialization as someone else’s employee. Image Credit: Dan Green. Thanks to Dan Green, Growella ! #10 Thanks to Mike Catania, PromotionCode ! #2 2 – Creating Things from Nothing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. The green arm is the best. ;) October 2, 2008 10:27 PM Andrew Badera said. Great piece!

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Their average employee growth in the past 12 months was north of 40% and they’ve raised $6.7 The emergence of low code/no code platforms is changing this paradigm, enabling a growing number of employees to automate their business processes. billion of combined funding. An impressive list!

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

BHAG is one day be able to truly focus on what is ahead and its achievability and aim to change my goals always to stay relevant to my customers, employees, market, partners, investors and the society. Thanks to Brad Leahy, Green ! #7- Setting up a publishing company to internationally distribute the book, initially in 3-4 languages.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Secondly, they had an owned & operated (O&O) website – Google.com – and Overture had shut down GoTo.com at the request of their very profitable and large distribution partners. Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. But they have no clue about how to design, make, distribute and service products that enable them to have experience, that's the company's competence. You have to pick carefully.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

free, distributed source code control management system. BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. Bethnal Green Ventures. green tech. Virgin Green Fund. Github -Â Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs. Mercurial â??

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create. Is social media having much of an impact on what you do? Absolutely. I like to attend events with presenters or panels, and themes that interest me. Highly recommend.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Similarly, 72% of people feel more connected to a brand when its employees share information on social media, with almost two-thirds saying it helps them feel like there are real people behind the brand. Cultivate an identity separate from your brand, and encourage your employees to do the same.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sure, in some ways it’s made it easier to have distributed staff and have clients all over the world, but we’ve lost the emotional impact of our communication when we don’t have that face-to-face. Certainly, you couldn’t have an employee that wasn’t there kind of sitting at a desk. I’m here.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 27, 2020

How often are you ingraining the reason into the hearts and minds of your employees? We have announced collaborations with Green Circle, Neill Distribution and Intercoiffure America Canada. What reason are you giving to potential customers to pick you over another product? companies. Thanks to Tom Kuhn, Qnity, Inc. ! #26-

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun. What you find is that ongoing development, as with any legacy system, is much slower than green field development. 34 comments ↓ #1 Sean Tierney on 11.18.08

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

You can't go to Spirit Rock or Green College. And as we looked at that and had discussions and examined what that meant, it really meant distributing the sense of ownership, just pushing it out and opening it up and trying to enable anyone else to do this as well. Wait, this is incredible. Maybe I should switch industries.

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ConversionXL

JULY 12, 2017

Investing in user experience instead of further ad spend, promotion, or distribution. Zappos flipped this idea on its head a while back, training its customer support employees to go above and beyond expectations (and therefore, gaining a Guinness World Record for the longest support phone call ). Why Care About Ecommerce UX?

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