Sun.Jan 15, 2017

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3 Reasons Why The Big Apple Is Perfect For Revolutionary New Media Startup VIDGO

YoungUpstarts

There is nowhere quite like the Big Apple when it comes to looking for something to do and something to see. Millions of travelers come to New York City each and every year and a great number of them are here to see a Broadway show or just to get a place in the audience of television shows like the ever-popular ABC daytime news/weather/entertainment show, Good Morning America.

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“Stay away from just making what the market is asking for” – How SF Gear Company DSPTCH Thinks About Design

Hunter Walker

I’ve got a backpack problem. In the sense that I buy too many. My current bag is one that Charles Hudson turned me on to from DSPTCH , a local SF company. DSPTCH founder Richard Liu saw me talking about the bag online (I love it!) and reached out. We had a blast covering all things gear and tech – while drinking coffee from Ritual , a few blocks from DSPTCH’s first store. .

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The best fiction books I’ve read over the last two years

Jeff Hilimire

I’ve recently wrote about the best biographies and the best business books I’ve read over the last two years. I don’t read a ton of fiction, but here are my favorites since 2015: Mr. Mercedes , Finders Keepers , and End of Watch by Stephen King (Kindle). Crushed this series, really well done. The Yard , suggested by Steve Swanson.

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Sales Success Comes from Making It About the Customer And 6 Sure-Fire Ways to Make It Happen!

Small Business Force

Get an email or go to most websites of a product company and they’re, usually, telling you how great their technology is. Or how many bells and whistles their latest product has. In a small minority, there might be a company here or there who gets it and tells you how they can make life easier by providing solutions to your most pressing problem or need.

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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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6 Elements Of Every Message Stand Out Above The Text

Startup Professionals Musings

Effective communication is an absolute requirement for successfully starting a business, but it doesn’t come naturally to many entrepreneurs. Communication is considered a social skill, and inventors and engineers, for example, are not known to be social butterflies. Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team.

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Innovation – something both parties can agree on

Steve Blank

On the last day Congress was in session in 2016, Democrats and Republicans agreed on a bill that increased innovation and research for the country. For me, seeing Congress pass this bill, the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act , was personally satisfying. It made the program I helped start, the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) a permanent part of the nation’s science ecosystem.

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