Sun.Jul 23, 2017

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6 Ways User Interface and User Experience Design Can Help Your Business

crowdSPRING Blog

A smooth, visually appealing experience with your business’s website or mobile app is an important element in creating happy, loyal customers. Big businesses may have an advantage because of their existing brand awareness and their larger marketing budgets, but that doesn’t mean small businesses and startups can’t compete with them. In some ways, smaller companies have an unfair advantage when it comes to design because their sites and apps don’t have to be so bloated.

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4 Startup Survival Lessons Lead To Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

The good news is that the rate of new entrepreneurship leveled off a bit last year, although it is still rising, according to the latest Kauffman Index of startup activity. The bad news is that it’s back to pre-recession highs, the opportunity for change is huge, and the cost of entry is at an all-time low. It’s a jungle fight for survival for aspiring entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics.

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Coaching The Uncoachable?

YoungUpstarts

by James G. Ward, MA, PCC, author of “ New Directions: Successful Strategies for Career, the Workplace, and Personal Growth “ “ It’s hard to help people who don’t think they have a problem. It’s impossible to fix people who think someone else is the problem.” – Marshall Goldsmith. Politics aside, recent behavior by a certain inhabitant of the White House got me thinking about the topic of coaching the uncoachable: the know-it-all, the egomaniac and the alpha male or female.

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Middle East and North Africa aren’t the next big hotspot for tech… yet

The Next Web

In the past, people didn’t give much thought to the startup climate in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). But after Careem’s massive funding and Amazon’s acquisition of Souq, people are finally realizing the potential of the region. I’ve been fortunate enough to meet with entrepreneurs and help startups all over the region through my work for the US-based Hidden Founders.

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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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The Importance Of Keeping Your Startup Lean

YoungUpstarts

Startup companies are fragile. They’re fickle and often influenced by what’s happening in the market more than someone whose already established themselves in it. This is prevalent when you look at the numbers of success vs. failure rates among startups. According to Forbes, on average nine out of ten startups fail. This is scary business if you’re thinking of launching your own.

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How app developers can avoid TV’s advertising mistakes

The Next Web

Over the past twenty years the number of entertainment channels available to the public has increased dramatically from simple television and radio, to streaming on-demand, mobile apps, TV catch up, and many more. Business models vary, but many remain heavily reliant on advertising and in a world where consumers increasingly tune out and block ads, getting it wrong can kill your business.

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