Tue.Nov 29, 2016

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Why Brand Consistency Is Key When Creating Your Website

YoungUpstarts

When done right, branding can be a powerful thing. There are hundreds of companies out there that most of us would instantly recognise by their logo alone, and this is something we should all aspire to achieve. One way to start is through the development of your website. In creating your website, you need clear communication throughout in what your company represents.

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What the Harvard Business Review and The People’s Daily think about leadership succession

Steve Blank

I had to laugh when my post about what happens when innovative CEOs retire or die appeared in both the bastion of capitalism– the Harvard Business Review — and in the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party – The People’s Daily. Then I didn’t. A Story is Just a Story. Why the Harvard Business Review published the story has a pretty simple explanation.

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How Indiegogo Grew its Business

Version One Ventures

This is the fourth and final post covering speakers’ insights from our marketplace meetup held in San Francisco on October 20. If you haven’t already, check out previous posts detailing Andrew Chen’s (Uber) fireside chat on growth strategies , Anthony Marino’s (ThredUp) talk on managed marketplaces , and B2B marketplace dynamics from Shippo’s Mikhail Ledvich.

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What the Harvard Business Review and The People’s Daily think about leadership succession

Steve Blank

I had to laugh when my post about what happens when innovative CEOs retire or die appeared in both the bastion of capitalism– the Harvard Business Review — and in the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party – The People’s Daily. Then I didn’t. A Story is Just a Story. Why the Harvard Business Review published the story has a pretty simple explanation.

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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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UX Benchmarking: What Good Is It for Conversion Optimization? [Original Research]

ConversionXL

Competitive analysis is an important element of business strategy. Knowing where you stand in relation to competitors helps define product positioning, channel acquisition, messaging, and more. But what good is it looking at your competitors specifically in regards to testing and optimization? Depending how you’re benchmarking and with what metrics, it could be beneficial or it could be a waste of time.

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The #1 Travel Hack Every Successful Business Person Knows

YFS Magazine

While it might seem like a steep initial investment, the professional connections you’ll make can prove invaluable.

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Is Retargeting The Same As Remarketing?

YFS Magazine

While the two terms are often used synonymously, there is actually a big difference.

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Every Business is a Lifestyle Business

Bryce Dot VC

As we walked around the block, away from the team and the screens in the office, the founder started to open up: “In the last year I’ve gained 20lbs, I’ve stopped exercising, I’m basically living at the office, not seeing my family, I’ve never been so stressed in my life.” The t-shirt was definitely tighter and the bags under the eyes were definitely bigger than they were just a year earlier.

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Workplace Laws Most Important For Entrepreneurs And Emerging Companies In 2017

YoungUpstarts

By Jason Brown, associate in the San Francisco office of Fisher Phillips. Independent contractors, interns, wage exemptions, hiring and firing, trade secrets… these are the most common concerns that impact entrepreneurs and emerging companies. Most young companies face ambitious tasks in the realm of funding, securities, corporate formation, insurance, intellectual property, and compliance; however, for many of these companies, it is the people that come and go that will have the most significan

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5 Restaurant Technologies to Have Before Your Grand Opening

Up and Running

As opening day for your restaurant nears, it’s common to start double-checking all of the processes and systems you have put in place. You may meet with your employees and managers to make sure they’re prepared for opening night, or give your business plan another glance to see if there are any glaring issues you have overlooked. But aside from all the necessary talk about tables, kitchen equipment, food suppliers, menus, employees, and everything else that goes on behind the scenes of your rest

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Optimizing Marketing Resources – What to Automate and What Your Team Needs to Handle

Duct Tape Marketing

Optimizing Marketing Resources – What to Automate and What Your Team Needs to Handle written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When you work in a small marketing department with a shoestring budget, you’re often faced with the dilemma of paying for automation or investing hours in managing the work internally. Through my years in various marketing roles, I’ve gotten lucky and also learned the hard way about which processes should and should not be automated.

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Don’t Let Your Employees Become Bored

YoungUpstarts

Boredom spells death in many a relationship. This holds true for the employer-employee connection as well, and when employees are uninterested, their productivity drops. Their engagement and loyalty to a business sinks, and the operation as a whole suffers. Act proactively to ensure this does not happen to your company. Challenge Employees. Employees thrive on challenges.

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Why You Must Address Problems Before You Can Offer Solutions

Duct Tape Marketing

Why You Must Address Problems Before You Can Offer Solutions written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. You make a product, hone your pitch and then get busy prescribing the benefits of your tools to anyone who’ll listen. That’s the way it works. You know what people need, and you tailor your solutions to meet what they need. You even give your unique methodology a fancy name and construct branded processes to deliver results.

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#GivingTuesday: Donate to Path Forward

Feld Thoughts

When I woke up this morning, I wondered which non-profit that I should highlight today on #GivingTuesday. After reading Sallie Krawcheck’s article in Fortune titled A Letter to My Daughter, Post-Trump , I immediately decided the organization of the day is Path Forward. Fundraising Websites – Crowdrise. Path Forward began as a program at Return Path, a data-solutions company with more than 500 employees in 12 offices around the globe.

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