Wed.Sep 04, 2019

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8 Keys To Business Success For Entrepreneur Introverts

Startup Professionals Musings

It really is possible for an introvert to succeed as an entrepreneur, even though you can’t expect to start and build a business alone. You need to build business relationships with partners, team members, investors, and of course customers. In fact, all you need to do is follow the model of some famous self-proclaimed introverts , including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates.

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7 Key Insights You Can Get From Analyzing Your Financial Statements

Up and Running

According to a study recently published by the consulting firm Bain & Company , only about 10 percent of all businesses are capable of achieving sustained, profitable, and continuous growth. To ensure that your business is capable of pushing itself into this talented group, you will need to pay careful attention to your financial statements and make a few adjustments. .

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8 Tips On Better Email Deliverability

YoungUpstarts

Email marketing continues to be an all-time favorite for businesses to promote offers and build connections with customers. . Who wouldn’t love it? Email has brought different businesses an average of $38 ROI for each $1 spent. 59% of marketers even attest to this huge ROI brought by emails. Not to mention that active email accounts are expected to grow by 5.6 billion this 2019.

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Hypergiant Industries Creates Augmented Reality Helmet for Military, Police, and Firefighters

SiliconHills

Hypergiant Industries has created a smart helmet prototype designed to keep the military, police, firefighters and other first responders safe. The space-age helmet, called Project Orion, comes equipped with night vision, infrared, thermal imaging and more. Its display screen also provides users with all kinds of information that might be useful in an emergency.

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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 Essentials For Business Success

YoungUpstarts

It’s true that some businesses begin and flourish based on the strength of their product, or the fact that they have found a gap in the market with no competitors, but these cases are rare. In most cases, businesses are built on substantial foundations which are added to steadily over time. While no two businesses are the same and the path to success rarely runs smoothly, when you examine the journeys of the most successful businesses, there are some common factors.

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R&D – What’s Your Competition Doing, Anyway?

Mike Michalowicz

How do you stay above the fray in your industry? One answer? R&D – Research and development, otherwise known as rip off and duplicate. Ok not exactly, but what lessons can you learn from how other businesses operate? A critical device to stay ahead of your competition is to observe how they succeed, as well as fail. What do they do that is remarkable and truly effective?

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Becoming Board Chair of a Nonprofit Organization

Board Effect

As someone who did not chair any of the four nonprofit boards that I observed this summer, I have great respect and admiration for those who did. I also have compassion, curiosity and some suggestions for them as dedicated, determined and weary board chairs. As a consultant who facilitates the board process, I watched four extraordinary volunteer leaders work hard — and long — to lead their nonprofits through significant transitions in their organizations.

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Learning Foreign Languages Is Not Difficult At All

YoungUpstarts

The goal of studying a foreign language might be a night for some people, while some people sail fluently through the language like it is their native one. Still, when we compare a linguistic environment and language learning possibilities at the beginning of the 21st century, and now some 20 years after, the advancement is huge in every aspect of studying the foreign language.

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The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur Reading: September 4

Duct Tape Marketing

The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur Reading: September 4 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur – September 4. This is the first podcast in a series of episodes about my new book, The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur , due out in October 2019. The book is structured as 366 daily meditations for entrepreneurs, with readings from famous Transcendentalist authors and commentary from me on how it all relates to the entr

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fitppl On B Corp’s 2019 Best For The World: Environment List

Austin Startup

fitppl wellness brand innovates as the first CPG company of their kind to tie litter abatement pledge to organic plant-based supplements Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Progressive Web Apps: What Do Marketers Need to Know?

ConversionXL

Often, marketing creativity encounters technical limitations. A web page can load only so fast. UX is constrained by browsers. Cutting-edge solutions are accessible only to those with large budgets. Native applications resolve some of these issues but bring their own baggage—development costs, platform irregularities, download requirements, update needs, and issues with search indexability.

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They thought they buried us but they didn’t know we were seeds

Jeff Hilimire

“They thought they buried us but they didn’t know we were seeds.” That is the opening quote in Terence Lester ‘s new book, I See You. Friends, spend your money to buy his book and commit to reading it! Then consider having Terence come speak at your company/event/organization. I’ve not only seen him speak several times, but also had him come to Dragon Army for a talk to the team.

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Misty II is Shipping

Feld Thoughts

I’m a proud investor (and crowdfunding backer) in Misty Robotics. As of today, Misty Robotics has started shipping Misty II to its crowdfunding backers. The team at Misty Robotics has been hard at working getting Misty in shape to ship. The backers now have a key role in the next step of Misty’s journey, as they get the first crack at Misty II and her SDK in advance of Misty’s general availability in the market later this year.

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3 Reasons To Get Out Of The Office And Start Selling

YoungUpstarts

by Sharon Fishburne. In the digital age, most entrepreneurs feel tied to their desks. There’s no way they can make time to go out and sell to customers face to face. And anyway, they have nothing offline to actually sell, right? Wrong. Selling face to face gave thousands of top entrepreneurs their first taste of business. Highly successful individuals including John Mills of JML , John Paul DeJoria founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems , and even Richard Branson , all started out selling dir