Mon.Sep 25, 2017

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8 Steps To Build Winning Self-Confidence In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In my years of mentoring entrepreneurs, a problem I have seen too often is low self-esteem, and over-compensating through arrogance and ego. These entrepreneurs find it hard to respect customers or team members, and their ventures usually fail. As a team member, low self-esteem leads to low confidence, poor productivity, and no job satisfaction. Fortunately, both can be fixed.

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Tips to Make CEO of your Company

The Startup Magazine

Here are some great tips for how you can manage your career and get yourself a promotion to the highest of leadership positions, CEO. Manage Your Talent. The people who are working with and for you are a primary asset. Have a complete understanding about those individuals and know what motivates your staff. Take the time to review and develop their strengths.

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Build the Ultimate In-Store Customer Experience With These 5 Tips

Up and Running

Even though shopping online has never been more popular, you may be surprised to hear that many customers still prefer to shop in good old-fashioned brick-and-mortar stores. According to a recent survey by IBM and the National Retail Federation, this is true even for Generation Zs, the very people who grew up during the ecommerce revolution. While this is great news if you’re a brick-and-mortar store owner, this certainly isn’t a reason to slack off.

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5 Brilliant Ways Marketers Cultivate Creativity

YFS Magazine

Creativity: Is it something innate? Can creativity be learned? The following five tips have helped me cultivate creativity amongst my teams.

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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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When did tech become a dirty word?

The Equity Kicker

The world is turning against tech. Silicon Valley is in danger of becoming the new Wall Street – public enemy number one. And it’s easy to see why. Facebook is being used to influence elections and promote hate speech. Google is pressuring think tanks to fire people they don’t like. And meanwhile Uber has grown into one of the most obnoxious companies on the planet.

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8 Proven Marketing Strategies That Work

YFS Magazine

Over the years, I have seen many businesses succeed and fail at marketing. Here are several marketing strategies that always work.

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How to Grow Great Product Driven Companies in NYC?—?A conversation with Brent Tworetzky, EVP of Product at XO Group Inc.

Eric Friedman

I have been sitting down with many smart folks via Expa , and the latest is with Brent Tworetzky , EVP Product from XO Group. I published the full interview on Medium , head on over and give it a read there. The post How to Grow Great Product Driven Companies in NYC — A conversation with Brent Tworetzky, EVP of Product at XO Group Inc. appeared first on Eric Friedman.

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Interview With Bill Michelon: How To Become A Successful Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

Bill Michelon is a recognized name in the digital media industry. From humble beginnings to becoming a highly sought-after digital marketing analyst, Michelon has worked his way to the top of his field. Bill Michelon is a University of San Francisco graduate with a Master’s Certificate in Internet Marketing. His professional history includes a diverse array of experiences, including being a successful entrepreneur and marketing consultant.

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How to Create Mind Space to Get Back Your Attention + Make Better Decisions (w/ Mayor Adler)

Austin Startup

The Mayor and I. Sounds like a bad rom-com movie title, doesn’t it? This is a post based on a podcast interview I did with the Mayor on The Fire Show. If you’d like to listen to it, here’s a link to iTunes and the website (includes transcription). Entrepreneurs have a lot to do. Now that we started with a gross oversimplification, let’s jump to a relevant problem I am trying to solve in my own life, and seen many in the startup community find their own ways to solve…. or perpetually struggle wit

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When You Do Something For Someone Else (Simon Sinek Motivation)

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is for entrepreneurs, startups and business owners to start their week off on the right foot. Simon shares about how our sense of fulfillment is directly tied to how generous we are towards others. When you do something for someone else is the only way you get fulfillment. Do something for someone else, expecting nothing in return.

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Strategic Activities for a Company Retreat

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I am planning a company retreat. What are some great questions we can work on as a company? cc @RNeivert @robwalling @asmartbear. — James Kennedy (@JamesKennedy) July 15, 2017. I happened to be sitting on the tarmac, delayed. In the confines of six square feet of personal space, I sent a few answers. As James later said, these are useful exercises even if it’s not a retreat!

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6 reasons you should join me at SuperNova South next week

Jeff Hilimire

Atlanta is a fantastic marketing and technology town. We have loads of great talent, brands, marketing agencies, and technology companies. It’s one of the reason I’m hoping Amazon “chooses ATL” ;). Next week is the South’s largest marketing and tech conference, and its in Atlanta! It’s called SuperNova South and I really think you should join me there.

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Tomorrow, Built Today — The Podcast

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Fintech Companies Redesigning The Financial World

YoungUpstarts

by Caroline Capitani, VP of Business Innovation of ilegra. Our relationship with money, whether physical or virtual, is being reinvented by revolutionary startups called fintechs. This new scenario was assessed by CB Insights, who released a report listing 250 fintechs that are transforming banking around the world. As an enthusiast of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and in particular the financial sector, I decided to focus and look into the list, review the fintech companies selected one by on

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What are the advantages of Auto.Loan and where you can find it?

The Startup Magazine

In the world of globalization everything is increasing and developing at a fast pace, new and emerged form of innovations are made. Every facility for the customers is available online, and this online availability is very beneficial for the ordinary people and the businessman. Businessmen who do not have time are benefitted a lot by this digital market.

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Not Just Any Given Sunday #takeaknee

This is going to be BIG.

Posted this in what used to be my tech newsletter, and what has lately been about more. Yesterday wasn't just any given Sunday, was it? I would imagine most of the NYC-based readers of this newsletter don't take the position that "these athletes should just stick to sports" nor do they feel that way about Jimmy Kimmel and his recent conversations around healthcare.