Thu.Aug 11, 2016

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Plex doubles down

deal architect

I had a chance to catch up with Jim Shepherd, Group VP of Strategy for Plex about the recent acquisition of DemandCaster.

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The Art Of Negotiation – 5 Steps To Getting The Salary You Deserve

YoungUpstarts

By Lindsay McCutchen, CEO of Career Start. Salary negotiation early on in one’s career has the potential to gain them anywhere between $500,000-1M throughout their working life , and yet only 37% of millennials report ever asking for a raise. Whether that’s because they got a raise before they asked for one, were uncomfortable negotiating, or don’t want to seem pushy – there’s a ton of money millennials are leaving on the table simply because they just didn’t ask for it.

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The 4 Keys to Building Brand Loyalty with Millennials

Up and Running

In the thirty seconds it takes to read this introduction, a commercial will run on TV. It will be for a brand peddling a product or service and it will claim the highest of quality for said product or service. It may even offer a special discount or rebate with a fast approaching deadline. The commercial will look great, be well organized, and have the fingerprints of catchy marketing all over it.

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Millennials Aren’t Crazy About Investments But Tech And Social Media Can Trigger A Change

YoungUpstarts

Millennials are the biggest generation in the economy now and they represent an important demography in the socio-economic landscape. Millennials loosely refers to people between the ages of 18 and 34 years. Pew Research maintains that millennials are about 75.4 million in number, beating the Baby Boomers (51-69 years) who are about 74.9 million in number.

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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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Love and Venture Capital

Feld Thoughts

If you’ve missed me, it’s because I spent a week in Australia. Ten days ago, after being there for a few days, I came down with salmonella poisoning. I’m finally starting to feel normal again although I’m still exhausted. This has easily been the sickest I’ve ever been. While I was gone, the gang at Reboot put up the Reboot Podcast #45 – What’s Love Got to Do with It?

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Affordable Additions Your Office Needs

YoungUpstarts

There are some things that every office can do with, and they don’t have to cost a lot of money either. You can make changes to your office and the way it functions in simple and cheap ways. Keep reading to find out more: Desk Planners. Every office in your workplace should have desk planners that allow employees to make notes and reminders. When people are busy in your office, they can get about meetings and deadlines.

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11 promising opportunities for startups that want to make a big impact

The Next Web

Partnering with another prominent company is a great way to fast-track your growth and can lead to opportunities you couldn’t achieve on your own. From creating content for high-tech wearables to disrupting otherwise “boring” businesses — laundry, anyone? — opportunities for strategic partnerships abound, if you know where to look.

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Chiron Health Lets Doctors Get Paid for Telemedicine Services

SiliconHills

By HOJUN CHOI Reporter with Silicon Hills News When Charlie Kolb, co-founder of telemedicine startup Chiron Health, made the decision to enroll in classes for his master’s degree at the University of Texas at Austin, he did so with the dreams of one day starting his own company. “I wasn’t interested in investment banking, or […] The post Chiron Health Lets Doctors Get Paid for Telemedicine Services appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Least Expensive Business to Start

Mike Michalowicz

Inevitably a service based business is the least expensive business to launch, because the primary asset is you. You can immediately start a car cleaning business, consulting business, or a programming business – if you do all the work. Yes, there will be supplies, materials or equipment that you need. But you can limit them, rent them, or start with used ones.

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Careful with terminations. Don’t disparage.

Berkonomics

It happens all the time when you’re a CEO. Somebody important leaves or is let go, and you worry over the impact upon remaining employees and customers. You worry that the person leaving will begin to unload all the pent–up garbage from the past, perhaps damaging the company and causing customer defections and even employee unrest. Your worry is real.

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Making A Sale Vs Building A Community – Which Comes First?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

When you first launch your online business you’re going to feel pulled in two directions – Start by building up your community, so you have an audience to learn from and eventually sell to Start by trying to sell something, so you have money, which is what you need the. The post Making A Sale Vs Building A Community – Which Comes First? appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Fresh from the SPRING: skyram

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this small website design project. Let us start the slow clap for skyram. Check out more great work on skyram’s profile page. Nicely done, skyram, nicely done!

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Top 6 Ways To Deter Business Security Threats

YFS Magazine

Every business is vulnerable to risk — especially startups that don't always know the lay of the land.

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Why (and how) we use OpenBSD at VidiGuard

Austin Startup

Update: This is an updated version of an earlier article that was previously posted on the VidiGuard Blog. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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The Cost of Customer Acquisition: How Much Can You Spend to Earn New Business?

Duct Tape Marketing

The Cost of Customer Acquisition: How Much Can You Spend to Earn New Business? written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Shutterstock. Marketing has become a very data-driven discipline. Marketers spend a lot of time and energy looking at the metrics that illuminate the costs of finding new customers and keeping current customers.