Thu.Aug 18, 2016

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Why The Food Service Business Might Be Just Perfect For You

YoungUpstarts

If you’re thumbing through a catalog of restaurant supplies with the idea of starting a food service business, you’re reviewing an idea that dates back through history. Busy Romans out on the town enjoyed the fare of street vendors. Meanwhile, public cooks gratified affluent Romans in their villas with delicious meals. Later, the catering business expanded into hostelries, monasteries, taverns, and inns for medieval travelers.

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Learn 4 Secrets That Will Make A Positive Change In Your Business

YFS Magazine

Change is challenging, both for you as a leader, your organization, it's people and the structures that you rely on to manage desired outcomes.

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Digital Advertising Is Broken: Three Alternatives For Businesses Looking To Monetize Their Website

YoungUpstarts

by Max Emelianov, CEO of HostForWeb. I’m equal parts baffled and agitated when I see someone complaining about how adblock is killing the Internet. Websites, they claim, need advertising revenue to survive. Without clicks and impressions, they can’t pay the bills – and with that in mind, anyone who uses adblock is a dirty, no good thief. There are several things wrong with that perception.

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Becoming Your Own Boss: A Bplans Checklist

Up and Running

Imagine waking up every day and working on projects that challenge, inspire, and fulfill you. It’s something you’ve envisioned for a long time—the dream of creating a life you love based on doing work that you can truly take ownership of. You know that to get there, you need to become your own boss. The prospect of this is both thrilling and terrifying—so much so that taking those first steps feels like an insurmountable challenge.

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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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Startup HR Advice: How To Retain Millennial Employees

YoungUpstarts

by Lewis Robinson. Managing millennials can often be seen as a challenge in helping them to stay fulfilled and keep them from becoming bored. According to a study commissioned by Elance-oDesk & Millennial Branding, millennials were the largest generation in the workforce in 2015 but employers were having a hard time hiring them and, once they were hired, it was also hard to retain them.

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Cars, phones and drones – where disruption comes from

Start Up Blog

There’s a lot of talk about young adults having far less desire to drive. Car purchasing has declined by 30% with 18-34 year olds in the past 10 years. While the number of teens with a drivers licence is nearly in free fall. The number of 16 year olds with a drivers license is down 47 percent in past 20 years, while 19 year olds with a drivers license declined by 21 percent in the same period.

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Cars, phones and drones – where disruption comes from

Start Up Blog

There’s a lot of talk about young adults having far less desire to drive. Car purchasing has declined by 30% with 18-34 year olds in the past 10 years. While the number of teens with a drivers licence is nearly in free fall. The number of 16 year olds with a drivers license is down 47 percent in past 20 years, while 19 year olds with a drivers license declined by 21 percent in the same period.

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5 Areas Of A Business Where You Should Not Cut Corners

YoungUpstarts

If you want to build a better business, cutting corners in vital areas of your organisation is not an option. The businesses who realise this and take the appropriate actions are the businesses that become the most successful. Below are five of the main areas of a modern business where you should not cut corners: 1. Finance. As the old saying goes ‘money makes the world go round’ and this is particularly true in the business world.

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How our rational brains justify our intuitive decisions

The Equity Kicker

I’m sure you’ve heard about how unless we’re careful we very often make our minds up about things in just a few seconds – decisions on candidates in job interviews is a well known example. Here’s how that happens. We make an intuitive, largely subconscious, decision based on what we’ve seen and learned over the years, a decision that will often display all of our prejudices and biases.

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Launch Your Startup with an Infographic

crowdSPRING Blog

Image credit: Everlane. In 2011, it was relatively unknown that most designer tees are marked up as much as 10 times. In the traditional retail model, manufacturers normally double their cost before selling clothing to a retailer, who then doubles or triples the cost they paid. Ultimately, a $6 tee shirt can be sold to the consumer for $50 or more. This simple fact led Michael Preysman to create Everlane , an online retail startup that intended to sell “Barney’s quality at one-third the pr

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Shrimp with A Side of Dry Ice

Mike Michalowicz

A shrimp cocktail appetizer may sell for $12. A shrimp cocktail appetizer served in a “smoking” chilled glass, you know that cool dry ice effect that creates a fog cloud rolling out under your appetizer, may sell for $18. Perception matters. Packaging matters. Profit awaits.

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Fresh from the SPRING: newziner

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 logo project. Let us start the slow clap for newziner. Check out more great work on newziner’s profile page. Nicely done, newziner, nicely done!

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Why bother to sit in with customer service?

Berkonomics

Over fifty years ago, I was CEO of a record manufacturing company in Hollywood. We were the only such facility on the West coast to provide and control the entire process from studio, through finished vinyl record pressings in the same building, therefore able to promise quality control others could only dream about. As founder and CEO of the then public company, I was expert in several of the “clean” processes such as studio recording, record mastering, cover design and photo– lithography.

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ESO Solutions Helps Ambulance Services Perform Better

SiliconHills

By HOJUN CHOI Reporter with Silicon Hills News The culture that Chris Dillie has implemented into his company is simple: be passionate about what you’re doing, and the money will follow. ESO Solutions, a health data exchange startup, provides software to help ambulance services better monitor their performance, and helps hospitals use that data to […] The post ESO Solutions Helps Ambulance Services Perform Better appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Infographic Promotion: 5 Methods That Will Work For Your Business

YFS Magazine

Infographics are fun to view, easy to share and can do wonders for your brand.

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When Automation Goes Wrong: A Better Approach to Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

When Automation Goes Wrong: A Better Approach to Social Media written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Pexels. Given the sheer scale of social media and the number of social channels (there are over 90 social networks ) – and the volume of people using them (Facebook has over 1.59 billion active monthly users ) – you could say it’s a bit of a chore keeping up with everything.

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The 7 minute rule 

Jeff Hilimire

One of my more organized and disciplined buddies, same guy who created the awesome Atlanta Stacks newsletter , taught me about his 7 minute rule recently. I was asking him how he gets so much done. What was his process for knocking stuff out and how does he hold himself accountable? I’m always fascinated to find out how people do this, because I need to be better at it (particularly with the book I’m writing.).

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How to Run Startup PR Like an Election Campaign

This is going to be BIG.

Campaigns, conventional or not, are highly motivated and energetic storytelling machines. They come up with a narrative, figure out who they want to get it in front of, and work like all hell every single minute to get it out there. That's the kind of pace a startup needs to be on--except that most startups treat their PR as if all you need to do is to launch your message at a debate and cross your fingers after that.