Fri.Jul 08, 2016

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7 Common Staffing Mistakes That Doom Many Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

Business success is all about having the best team, yet the average entrepreneur has little prior experience with hiring people and building top-notch teams. It’s no wonder that half of startups fail in the first five years , and an even smaller percentage ever see a return for their years of effort. Most new entrepreneurs assume their passion will attract and motivate the right team members.

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How To Improve Employee Satisfaction

YoungUpstarts

Dissatisfied employees are a problem. Either they’ll quit and take their talent elsewhere, (leaving you with a gap to fill), or they’ll “quit and remain”, meaning that they’ll physically remain in your office but will have ‘mentally’ handed in their notice. Want to avoid both these outcomes? Try these methods for improving employee satisfaction: Give pay rises where you can.

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How to Learn Programming and Launch Your App in 3 Months—with No Programming Experience

Up and Running

If you’ve ever tried to start a software company or build a mobile app, you’ve probably come across these options for getting it out there: Find a technical cofounder. Hire a freelancer to build your app. Learn programming and build it yourself. When it comes to finding a cofounder, if you don’t already know someone with technical abilities, it’s going to be a very long, difficult process to find someone to work with you—if you can successfully do it at all.

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Ultimate Workout Room/Playroom for Crossfit, Parkour, and Gymnastics

David Teten

What is the best way to create maximum workout options in a New York apartment? I spent a fair amount of time researching the best system for the workout room/playroom in our new apartment, which we designed around fitness. (“Playroom” really means “room for adults to work out in and occasionally let children into”.) The solution we arrived at costs a lot less than a regular playroom and has dramatically more functionality.

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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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26 Things Every Young Female Entrepreneur Should Have In Her Life

YFS Magazine

Here is a list of 26 things every young female entrepreneur should have in her life to make the journey even better!

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What Is Machine Learning Anyway?

Feld Thoughts

One of the consistent characteristics of the tech industry is an endless labelling of technology and approaches. Some of it is foundational resulting from some entirely new. Much of it is re-categorizing something, either because it is suddenly trendy again or because a set of ideas have been organized in a new way. When I was in my 20s, I found this exciting.

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10 Must-Have Apps For Mompreneurs And WAHMs

YFS Magazine

10 mobile apps every mompreneur can use to make life livable, your kids happy and your business thrive.

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Weekend Reads: Besting Giants

crowdSPRING Blog

It’s gettin’ close to quittin’ time, folks. It’s been a long week, and we hope you get a chance to unplug and recharge over the next couple of days. That’s our game plan, anyway. But because we know you’re going to miss our sparkling wit and low key brilliance, we couldn’t leave you without a solid reading list to cuddle with in our absence.

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Dirty Martini Sunset

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Just for fun. Had a Dirty Martini on the deck at the Stray Dog in New Buffalo, MI. Good times.

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PR & eCommerce: A Match Made in Heaven and How to Leverage It to Help Your Business Grow

Duct Tape Marketing

PR & eCommerce: A Match Made in Heaven and How to Leverage It to Help Your Business Grow written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit licdn. Every business craves for publicity, irrespective of its size and stature. If done right, it is an absolute gold for any business, online or otherwise. However, it remains a mystery to most businesses.

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Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate

entrepreMusings

When will the human race truly understand, feel, and appreciate this profound, yet basic sentiment that Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and many others have known and stated so many times? My son was 5 miles from the senseless shootings in Dallas (Barack Obama in a White House update) last night. I haven’t posted in a long while for a few reasons, but mostly because I was not strongly motivated to do so until right now.

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Why Sites Are Getting Personalization Wrong (and How to Fix It)

ConversionXL

In his famous novel, 1984 , George Orwell wrote, “Big Brother is Watching You.” When you’re browsing around online, someone is watching you, too. Actually, a lot of someones. Sites collect plenty of data about each and every visitor that passes through. “The more data, the better,” they say. But you’re already well aware of that because all smart optimizers are watching their visitors (and customers) as closely as possible.

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Thoughts and Prayers: Social Media, Tragedy, and the Brand

crowdSPRING Blog

I distinctly remember the day my mother stopped watching the news. “It’s all bad news,” she said. “It’s sad. I don’t need to be sad.” Things haven’t changed much in that regard. Turn on any news program at any time of day, and odds are you’ll be inundated with headlines that hurt your heart. The age of the internet has amplified the depressing din ten fold.

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Resources for Small Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts

Up and Running

Before you get your hands dirty in the business side of things, you probably want to know as much about the hotel and bed and breakfast industry as possible. Because you’re clearly a planner—good for you—I’ve compiled a list of websites you should find indispensable. Here, you’ll find everything from the good forums to hit, through the sites you should read.