Sun.Oct 08, 2017

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When Not What

Austin Startup

Heroic WW II General George C. Marshall taught officers at Fort Benning that the crucial issue issue on the battlefield is usually when a decision is made as much as what is the decision. I’ve learned that many founders tend to ignore this all-important dimension of time as they proceed with their startups. It proves to be the key element of nearly every decision they make.

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Workday Rising: Sneak Preview from Dan Beck

deal architect

Workday’s annual user conference, Workday Rising, is in Chicago starting Monday. The European version is in Barcelona in a few weeks. It’s always an enjoyable event with “The Citizens of the Cloud” - some of the happiest customers in the.

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The 5 Key Secrets To Having A Great Meeting

YoungUpstarts

by Dr. Rick Brinkman, author of “ Dealing with Meetings You Can’t Stand: Meet Less and Do More “ The word “meeting” often elicits audible groans. Middle managers spend an estimated 35% of their time in meetings. Upper managers spend half their time in meetings. But 67% of these meetings are woefully unproductive, costing businesses more than $37 billion a year.

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NetSuite: Still alive and kicking

deal architect

Oracle OpenWorld had even more going on than usual. Larry Ellison was so focused on autonomy facilitated by database version 18c that he had only slide for a number of other features it will introduce like 5 times faster RAC.

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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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8 Weak Change Signals That Can Have Explosive Impact

Startup Professionals Musings

When the economy tanks as it did in the last recession, that’s a strong signal that things have to change, and it’s hard to miss. But most of us in business have to deal most of the time with weak signals, or change that is happening in a far more subtle way. These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world.

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Marathon #25: Run Crazy Horse in South Dakota

Feld Thoughts

I finished marathon #25 today and checked South Dakota off the list. I ran it with ten friends (nine of us did the marathon, two did the half) who were all part of my Chorus team that I started in June. While this was one of the most enjoyable marathon weekends that I’ve had, it was a rough marathon for me. I finished it in a personal worst of 5:58:26 (gun time right at 6:00:00 – the clock said 5:59:59, but the website says 6:00:00.).

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The Cold E-mail and the Crazy Big Idea: Industrial Organic Announces Seed Round

This is going to be BIG.

"Hi Charlie, I've requested a meeting with you during the first week of March. Here are ten reasons why you should take the meeting." This is an e-mail I got from Amanda Weeks in February 2014, and the beginning of a two and a half year journey that culminated with Brooklyn Bridge Ventures leading a pre-seed round for Industrial Organic that kicked off about a year ago.

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Five Branding Mistakes That Could Put Your Small Business Out of Business

crowdSPRING Blog

You’ve invested in a beautiful logo. You have a terrific tagline. You have great business cards and stationery. Your brand is ready, right? Almost. There are still a lot of places where even the best branding plans can go awry. As we wrote previously , If your branding is confusing, inconsistent, generic, or otherwise sub-par, you can easily undermine your business’s credibility and ruin your chance for success.

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Putting yourself out there! (part 1)

Austin Startup

Speaking in the US A few months back I was in procrastination mode and trawling Google to keep an eye out for any new Wantu competitors. I lucked on a conference about Children and Digital Media, the next day an industry body email mentioned the same conference — the internet was telling me something and the 2-day program sounded great! There was a catch, it was in Texas USA!

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5 Sure-Fire Ways to Drive Your Business Growth (& One That Can Kill It).

Small Business Force

Whether you’re an early stage company or you’ve been around for ten years, growth is something every entrepreneur or small business owner is continually chasing. Not always for the right reasons, but chasing, nonetheless, because it’s the yardstick most businesses use to measure their success. But, business growth is more than just beating last year’s numbers.

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