Fri.Feb 15, 2019

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Seven Facilitation Fails

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Facilitation of Innovation Meetings Requires a Highly Specific Set of Skills, Frameworks, Tools — and Experience. Professional Facilitation and/or Training Makes a Difference*. Seven Facilitation Fails. Innovation projects are about a lot of meetings. Meetings about getting a project mandate, visioning, what to innovate, how to innovate, challenges to take on, jobs to do, experiences to create, research exploration, insights development, problem framing and problem reframing, project road-

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Businesses Without A Website Are The “Walking Dead”

Startup Professionals Musings

These days, if your startup does not have an Internet home base up and running, you are not ready for business or potential investors. Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information.

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Michelle Weinstein Talks Mental Hacks, Confidence And Conquering Self-Doubt

YFS Magazine

By YFS Magazine. Entrepreneur Michelle Weinstein shares four mindset hacks that’ll clear your mind, build real confidence, and help you get out of your own way.

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Ecommerce UX Battle: Benchmarking 4 Beauty & Cosmetics Mobile Websites

ConversionXL

Which popular beauty and cosmetics website has the best user experience? This is a conversion-focused benchmark analysis of four competing beauty and cosmetics websites : Clinique. Fresh. Lush. Sephora. We selected sites from among the top 25 in their category, according to Alexa rankings. Our analyses measure overall user experience of each site as a composite of 5 separate UX dimensions.

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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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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Sweden

The Next Web

Dubbed a ‘unicorn factory’ Sweden has become a powerhouse incubator for some of the most innovative startups. It’s no wonder, with massive success stories such as iZettle and Mojang Games (the creators of Minecraft) that the country has been experiencing an influx of growth in technology in the last decade. In fact, in 2017 Sweden more than doubled its number of startup exits.

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6 Marketing Ideas to Try in 2019

The Startup Magazine

Effective marketing may be the key to an outstanding year for your business. If you’re using social media, email, and video without success…the problem might be how you’re using it. How can you change a few things to make this year better? Here are six ideas to up your marketing game. Think content not ads. For several years, studies conducted by such companies as Nielsen have shown customers are not looking at ads first before making a purchase.

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Twitter Link Roundup #357 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

Cabin fever is a phenomenon known to any of us who have suffered through cold, unreasonably long winters. While the specifics may vary from person to person, cabin fever generally encompasses feelings of boredom, irritability, restlessness, and the vague impulse to set fire to the walls. Feeling stressed out because of a marathon of mandatory stay-at-home days is common, even for people living in routinely cold places – we’re looking at you, Winnipeg.

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Four Science-Backed Ways To Increase Employee Productivity

YFS Magazine

By YFS Magazine. Productivity is the new currency. For startups and small businesses, especially, resources have to be managed carefully.

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10 Glorious Office Desks That Will Transform Your Workspace

YFS Magazine

By YFS Magazine. A great office desk represents more than the intersection of form and function—it rises to the level of art.

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