Sun.Dec 29, 2019

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5 Keys To Maximizing Your Impact In People Mentoring

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. I have found it to be more productive and effective to lead with the model that no meetings will take an hour, and may be done in as little as five minutes.

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4 Questions To Ask Before You Hire An App Developer

YoungUpstarts

by Guy Cooper, Managing Director of Wave Digital. The startup industry is littered with stories of founders being taken for a ride by their app developer. So if you want an app that not only works at the end but will be a hit with your users, what should you do? The key to choosing an app developer is research. Here are four critical questions to ask both yourself and an app developer before making the decision to engage them to design and deliver your app. 1.

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Where to Play – Where to Impact

Where to Play

The post Where to Play – Where to Impact appeared first on Where to Play. I recently came back from running a ‘Where to Play’ workshop for double-bottom-line startups at EPFL’s Tech4Impact program. The interesting aspect of this workshop was the need to estimate the social or environmental impact of different market opportunities, and add this key dimension to the set of considerations when choosing where to play.

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Impact Of Instagram Influencers On The Business Of Restaurants

YoungUpstarts

Instagram is getting a good hike in the modern days, and it has millions of users sharing their thoughts, experiences, and opinions. The platform is now business persons as well. Instagram has broadened the scope to reach millions of target audiences within a short period. The traders are using the scope and expanding their business from the small to medium and large scale.

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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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Book: One Base at a Time

Feld Thoughts

29 years of nightmares. Over 10,000 nights in a row. That’s hard to fathom. David R. Mellor , the Senior Director of Grounds for the Boston Red Sox Baseball team, experienced this. His eloquent memoir, One Base at a Time: How I Survived PTSD and Found My Field of Dreams , takes the reader on a very complicated journey, with extremely obvious physical pain intermingled with less apparent emotional pain.

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A Guide To Monetizing A Mobile Game App

YoungUpstarts

Designing mobile video games has become a big business for developers. Mobile games are incredibly popular and relatively speaking, they can be easy to design and distribute. Designing and distributing a game doesn’t mean it’s going to be successful in terms of profitability, though. . There are different ways to monetize a game, ranging from in-game payments to games that charge by the download.

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