deal architect
JUNE 20, 2017
UNIT4 had an analyst day last week. FinancialForce is hosting its user conference this week. I missed both due to other commitments but I see lots of tweets from fellow analysts.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 20, 2017
You might be thinking about relocating your business to a new address, and this is probably not going to be a bad idea. Indeed, it’s fair to say that by moving your company to a new place of work, you can usually claim cheaper deals on costs or in other cases grab a bigger slice of the market due to getting a better location for levels of foot traffic.
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The Startup Magazine
JUNE 20, 2017
Personalized communication between customer and client is an important strategy to generating a better Return On Investment. According to The Harvard Business Review , personalization can deliver five to eight times the ROI on marketing spend and can lift sales by 10% or more. Yet with many clients and a little amount of time it can be difficult to personalize and scale at the same time.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 20, 2017
by Bruce Hodes, CEO of CMI Teamwork Chicago and author of “ Front Line Heroes “. Over the years, I have been haunted and vexed by four enigmas. What has eluded me is a process that supports the implementation of the strategic plan. A lot of time and energy goes into yearly planning. A leadership team remaining focused on execution of the plan becomes the challenge given the day-to-day fires.
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
deal architect
JUNE 20, 2017
I honestly cannot remember the last time SAP showed in the lower left quadrant – for niche players – in a Gartner MQ. But in the latest MQ for “Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises”.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 20, 2017
A lot of business owners are at a complete loss when it comes to choosing a phone system for their business. While choices were limited in the past, nowadays it can be difficult for current business owners to make the best decision because of the amount of choice available. In this article, we’re going to give you a few tips on how to find the best phone system for your business: How to Assess Which Type of Service You Need.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 20, 2017
Guest post by Marcus Gosling, VP of Product, Long-Term Stock Exchange. I’m excited to reveal the final cover for Eric’s next book, THE STARTUP WAY , coming October 17. I’ve been working with Eric since the IMVU days and designed the cover for The Lean Startup … I was excited to help with the new cover and, after months of testing different iterations, we’ve decided on a design that checks all the boxes that Eric, the Crown Business publishing team at Penguin Random House, and I wanted to hit goi
View from Seed
JUNE 20, 2017
Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert are the cofounders of Crashlytics, which Twitter acquired in 2013. Today, as angel investors, they see dozens of entrepreneurs every quarter, and they’ve joined the show today to help us answer some tough questions: How should you structure communication with your cofounder? How do you work through difficult decisions, especially if nobody on the founding team is a domain expert?
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 20, 2017
What do young people value most in the workplace? A 2015 study by Ernst & Young showed that millennial workers value time freedom, personal development and the opportunity to make a difference all above even a higher salary. These are great soundbites, but what do they really mean to the people who desire them most? The Opportunity to Make a Difference: Millennials want their work to matter — not just show up and collect a paycheck.
Version One Ventures
JUNE 20, 2017
The original thesis for cryptocurrencies was that it would be a winner-takes-all game due to the strong network effects around mining. And Bitcoin’s first few years seemed to prove this thesis true. Its share of the total market cap for cryptocurrencies was as high as 90% and was still holding at 80% at the beginning of 2017. However, Ethereum has gained so much value since the beginning of the year that it’s looking quite possible that it could soon replace bitcoin as the largest and best capit
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 20, 2017
Good managers know that no matter how large or small a business, the most effective way to boost productivity amongst your staff is to maintain a high level of employee satisfaction and loyalty. Workers who are satisfied with their position will also stay longer in their jobs and become more valuable senior members of the team. If your employee morale is dropping or if you want to kick-start your team with a little extra pep, then here are three simple ways you can grow goodwill in the workplace
Hunter Walker
JUNE 20, 2017
My Twitter feed is historically filled with tech snark and startup news but in 2017 I’ve seen a disproportionate number of #Resist House Parties, protest signs and town halls. For this I credit Indivisible , a new grassroots org which is really mobilizing local level progressives. Indivisible started as a viral Google Doc, which is just an amazing story.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 20, 2017
They say that with great power comes great responsibility. This is definitely the case when it comes to big data. You’re wielding a powerful, valuable source when you have a big data processing platform at your fingertips. Enterprises of all sizes need to act wisely and cautiously when it comes to handling and managing big data platforms. Here are the six best practices for managing your big data analytics platform: 1.
Up and Running
JUNE 20, 2017
From sales and marketing to internal memos, text messaging is one of the best ways for modern small businesses to communicate. Most smartphone users have their devices in-hand 93 percent of their waking life. 90 percent of the time, people read texts within three minutes of receiving them. No other communication method competes. But before thinking about the best ways to use text messages for communicating with customers or employees, make sure you understand the legal requirements.
YFS Magazine
JUNE 20, 2017
There are several variables I've found helpful to sustain growth and diversify my business. Here is how they can be applied to your business.
SiliconHills
JUNE 20, 2017
By LAURA LOREK Publisher and reporter with Silicon Hills News Creating a great company culture isn’t just about having perks like free lunches, Ping Pong tables, and nap rooms. “They are important in a sense,” said Courtney Branson, head of culture at Square Root in Austin. “Having a Ping Pong table does bring people together […] The post Culture can Make or Break a Technology Company appeared first on SiliconHills.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 20, 2017
I’m going to run my next marathon in October. I haven’t chosen it yet, but I’m getting close to deciding which one I want to do. And – I’m looking for some help on my training. Early this year, we invested in Dick Costolo’s new company, Chorus. Some of you know Dick from Twitter, where he was CEO for four years. But you may not remember that before he was at Twitter, he was at Google, and before that, he was the CEO / co-founder of Feedburner, where we were on
The Equity Kicker
JUNE 20, 2017
I’ve been thinking a lot about authenticity recently. The first thing to say is that it’s a woolly concept. As an individual I am clearly me, and therefore of undisputed origin and not a copy. In common parlance then to be authentic is to be genuine, to be truly what we say we are. The problem with this is that most of us are, in fact, many different people.
SiliconHills
JUNE 20, 2017
Rishi Bhilawadikar created the movie, “For Here or to Go?” to tell the story of H1-B Visa workers in the U.S. living in limbo. He knows the story firsthand. For 12 years, Bhilawadikar, a native of India, has been in the U.S. first under a graduate student Visa at Indiana University and later as a […] The post The Movie “For Here or to Go?
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 20, 2017
There are countless things that go into the relative success or failure of a business. There are marketing considerations, input sourcing, assembly processes, training issues, and countless other areas where the right decisions can make all the difference–and so can the wrong decisions. But there are factors that influence things at every level of your operation, and the most common one is employee morale.
SiliconHills
JUNE 20, 2017
One of the latest startups to spin out of the University of Texas at Austin, GenXComm has received a $1.5 million seed round of financing. The Austin-based startup is focused on doubling the amount of traffic a wireless network can handle. Its patent-pending technology is called S-SIX. FAM Capital Partners led the investment with investments […] The post UT Austin Spinout Startup GenXComm Lands $1.5 Million in Seed Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 20, 2017
Small business combined with an entrepreneurial mindset were the foundation of this country and are what drive it to financial freedom and prosperity for the millions of people who live here. Making the decision to invest is an exciting prospect, but one that needs to be grounded in reality. Planning strategically and making sure that you have done adequate research into the various options surrounding investment opportunities for small businesses are what serve to separate businesses that are s
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 20, 2017
Branding. That buzzword has taken design, marketing, and startup blogs by storm and has put pressure on companies of all sizes to create the “perfect image”. In an increasingly competitive and noisy market, companies are more pressed than ever to carefully curate and create a recognizable identity – whether online or in the real world. Branding is important.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 20, 2017
Have You Been Injured by a Semi Truck? Let’s face it. Whether it’s distribution of oil or gasoline, household goods, even food simply could not be the same without the trucking industry. Trucking companies and their drivers play a vital role in the everyday lives of Americans everywhere. However, this fact doesn’t put them above and beyond the law. There are still rules and guidelines that must be followed in order to protect the citizens who use our roads and interstate system.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 20, 2017
7 Must Have Elements of Every Small Business Website written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this post – 5 Steps to Restart, Recharge and Revive Your Marketing Right Now! – I introduced an aggressive initiative to help any business owner struggling to stay on plan with their marketing for the year. The idea is to take the mid-point of the year and get a fresh restart.
Austin Startup
JUNE 20, 2017
We Made an App for All the Wrong Reasons Let’s start with the facts: we just released an iOS app called FRAME on the App Store. FRAME is a simple tool for making stop motion animations and composite images using your live camera. You can keep the photos as stills and just use the app to create variations on a theme. You can animate them to make simple photo-booth like GIFs or elaborate productions without much hassle and minimal editing.
ConversionXL
JUNE 20, 2017
Technology and consumer preferences are quickly evolving (seemingly by the hour), but in this turbulent world of fast-paced change we often forget that some core tenets of sensory perception and human psychology remain the same. One of those functions is how we view and process visual information, and in particular, visual hierarchy. Humans are visual creatures.
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