Thu.Jun 22, 2017

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Focus on Your Sales Funnel FIRST

The Startup Magazine

I love watching the venture funding show Shark Tank for entertainment and education purposes, especially with my two teenage boys who have caught the e-commerce fever. The Sharks tend to like businesses that come with some matured development in terms of recent and growing sales and most of the ones that don’t get a deal have significant inventories of product and assets without any supporting sales.

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Oracle: Does good luck also come in threes?

deal architect

1. Oracle does very well in the premier version of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for “Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises”. Only Oracle’s ERP cloud and Workday are in the Leader’s quadrant, and Oracle’s NetSuite.

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10 Best Automotive Business Ideas For 2017

YoungUpstarts

The automotive industry is constantly expanding and there are new businesses popping up each year. These are the 10 best automotive businesses in 2017: Comparison Websites. The world of online shopping has exploded in the last decade and now you can even purchase your car tires online. The best way to buy your tires is to compare tire sales to find the best deal.

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Diversify This: “Why aren’t there any chicks at our pizza and beer nights?”

The Next Web

Recently, Apple promoted its resident VP of Worldwide Talent and Human Resources to the coveted position of VP of Diversity and Inclusion. Other major power players like Microsoft, Atlassian and Philips have implemented inclusive hiring practices, and startups in locales around the world are championing both exponential growth and social conscientiousness.

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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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Top 5 Things Every Employee Would Love To See In The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

When it comes to designing an office space, it is imperative that you not only consider costs and functionality, but that you also consider the needs and interests of your employees. It is a known fact that office spaces that are more “employee-friendly” have a higher morale and productivity than boring, traditional office spaces. Although the entire office design doesn’t have to be geared towards the interests of your employees, here are some suggestions that most employees would love: 1.

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Diversify This: “Why aren’t there any chicks at our pizza and beer nights?”

The Next Web

Recently, Apple promoted its resident VP of Worldwide Talent and Human Resources to the coveted position of VP of Diversity and Inclusion. Other major power players like Microsoft, Atlassian and Philips have implemented inclusive hiring practices, and startups in locales around the world are championing both exponential growth and social conscientiousness.

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Will tech kill your job?

Berkonomics

Close. Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. “My job as a (newspaper publisher telephone installer, stockbroker, travel agent, retail store manager) is safe as this economy continues to grow.” Yup. Thought so. We are in a decade of creative destruction that will affect most everybody. And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before.

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3 Reasons Smart People Pick The Wrong Goals

YFS Magazine

I used to fall for goals that weren’t truly my own. As a result, I lacked commitment and perseverance. Here's how to keep from making the same mistake.

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A Clever Short Story About Discrimination

Feld Thoughts

On May 23rd, I got an email from one of my favorite sci-fi writers (and close friend) Eliot Peper. It was titled “My very first scifi short story” and said: “David Cohen shared the idea that inspired this story. I drafted it last week. Thought you might enjoy and would love to hear what you think.” I was in the middle of grinding through my email backlog, so this stopped me in my tracks as I spent the next 15 minutes reading Eliot’s new short story.

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4 Ways To Keep Your Clients Happy And Loyal

YFS Magazine

Your reputation in business is everything, and here's a look at how we empowered our customers and clients to build ours for us.

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Increase Employee Performance Through Perks and Bonuses

The Startup Magazine

The “customer is always right” is a motto a lot of businesses live by. While customers are important for any business wanting to continue to thrive, your employees and their perks should be considered just as important. Why? Well, you can have all the customers in the world and it won’t do you a lick of good if your employees aren’t up to snuff. The question is – what do you do to motivate your employees and improve their performance?

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Why I decided to open a creative co-working space in Austin, Texas

Austin Startup

If you asked me at age eight what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said, “a mermaid.” If you asked me the same question ten years later I would have said, “a pediatric surgeon.” I’m about to turn 28 and (sadly) I do not have a mermaid tail and I barely made it out alive in pre-med. If you would have told me in college that someday I would be creating a community for creatives next to The Driskill Hotel I would have laughed in disbelief.

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Women at Work On Downward Trend – Accelerator Offers A Solution

The Startup Magazine

Women’s presence in the workplace has reduced by 5% from 1990 to 2010. Though the U.S. ranked 6th in 1999 among developed countries for its share of women at work, it slipped to 23rd in 2015 , and the downward trend has been increasing. Though many women want to be working, the different constraints family responsibilities place on women and their career paths has 61% of women between the ages of 25 and 54 citing family responsibilities as the key factor preventing them from working.

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Fresh from the SPRING: IM3D

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize a gem submitted in this logo project: The challenge of this project was to create a unique retro logo for a stable. They wanted a horse design that was more abstract and different from the norm. The solution was this sweet design.

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How Mobile Technology Changed Casinos

The Startup Magazine

Casinos, in a similiar way to a number of today’s businesses, have been revolutionised by new technology. Mobile technology, in particular, has made the casino business much more pronounced by bringing the niche to a much wider market segment. In days gone by, online casinos had a limited games selection, with some of the notable genres such as slots, blackjack, poker, and roulette.

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11 Austin Individuals, Companies and Nonprofit Organizations Chosen to Compete at WeWork’s Creator Awards

SiliconHills

This week, WeWork announced 11 Austin companies have been selected as finalists for The Creator Awards South Regional Final, which will be held next week at ACL Line. WeWork selected the finalists from more than 2,000 applications from all across the south. The event is Tuesday, June 27 at ACL Live at The Moody Theater, […] The post 11 Austin Individuals, Companies and Nonprofit Organizations Chosen to Compete at WeWork’s Creator Awards appeared first on SiliconHills.

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How to Perfect Your Lead Generation Follow-up

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Perfect Your Lead Generation Follow-up 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.

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Hacking The Core – my new book on startup innovation

Scalable Startup

Here’s the intro on iBooks, Amazon and other online sites for my new book, released in April 2017. – – – – – Hacking The Core explains entrepreneurship in the tech startup world in a refreshing way. Pulling no punches, the author draws from 2 decades of experience as a startup CEO, strategist, M&A consultant and investor.

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How to Build a Business Around An Unmet Need

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Build a Business Around An Unmet Need written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Kim Doyal. It’s so easy to start a business today. You simply get online and start. Now I’m not saying it’s easy to own, operate, and profit from a business – but I do know if you don’t start you’ll never know.

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From Brick to Click: Optimizing Your Customer’s Experience

Up and Running

Bplans and Palo Alto Software are strong supporters of entrepreneurs and small business owners. We work with like-minded partners who also want to help your businesses succeed by providing the best tools and content for the job. If our readers choose to learn more or purchase from links to our partners, sometimes we earn affiliate commissions that support Bplans’ mission.

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True Blue by Eliot Peper

David Cohen

These are troubling times, not just for the United States, but for the world. To be sure, there has been tremendous progress over the last 50 years with regard to human rights and equility. But today the remaining factions that support racism, hate, sexism, and other-ism have grown more vocal, more frustrated, more visible, and more extreme. Those who persist with their misguided attempts to categorize and repress people based on nothing more than the circumstances that they are born into have m

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#GrabYourWallet Urges Consumers to Vote With Their Dollars, Not Just Their Ballots

Hunter Walker

I’ve got nothing against non-traditional politicians and realize those who come from the private sector likely have a long list of business ties they need to manage. But I also believe our current administration has done little to separate their private interests from those of the public good. Shannon Coulter began the #GrabYourWallet effort to help Americans vote using their wallets, highlighting brands and retailers who are associated with Trump.

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Five Must-Do’s For Women Seeking Greater Influence In 2017

YoungUpstarts

by Nancy D. O’Reilly, PsyD, author of “ Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life “ Charlene Ryan had never been political, but the polarizing candidates in 2016 changed that. For the first time, she worked to elect a candidate and even donated money. This year, she feels ready to increase her influence in business as well as her community, but where to begin?

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