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6 Ways Your Business Processes Could Be Hurting Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Nick Candito, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly. Time and time again, there’s one critical component that hampers productivity and efficiency: We are wired to work within the confines of organizational silos. Your prospects, customers and partners (and employees for that matter) do not see you as a series of disparate organizations.

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How The Marine Corps Builds an Innovation Culture

Steve Blank

Jennifer Edgin is the Chief Technology Officer of the Intelligence Division at the Headquarters of the Marine Corps. As the Senior Technical Advisor to the Director of Intelligence, she is responsible for building and infusing new technologies within the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE). Jennifer is one the “innovation insurgents” inside the Department of Defense driving rapid innovation.

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Help Make Pioneer In Skirts A Reality

Feld Thoughts

One of my core values is diversity of everything. I’ve been involved deeply in several organizations, such as National Center for Women and Information Technology , that have been focused on increasing gender diversity in computer science and entrepreneurship. More recently, I’ve expanded my lens a lot to include many other dimensions of diversity.

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How The Marine Corps Builds an Innovation Culture

Steve Blank

Jennifer Edgin is the Chief Technology Officer of the Intelligence Division at the Headquarters of the Marine Corps. As the Senior Technical Advisor to the Director of Intelligence, she is and is responsible for building and infusing new technologies within the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE). Jennifer is one the “innovation insurgents” inside the Department of Defense driving rapid innovation.

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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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Struggling To Think Of A Business Plan? Why Not Keep It Close To Home

YoungUpstarts

You want to get into business? How very valiant of you but you’re really not sure of what type you want to get into. Don’t worry. A lot of people are in the same boat as you. One thing’s for certain is that in business, you need to be absolutely positive of the direction that you’re going to take. Here are some pointers for you which could start working the cogs in your entrepreneurial mind: What kind of things are you into?

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Should you move to a managed marketplace model?

Version One Ventures

On October 20, we hosted a marketplace meetup in San Francisco. More than 75 founders and investors joined us for the event – and for those of you who couldn’t make it, we will be sharing some of the key insights and discussions from the event in a series of posts (check out our first post on growth strategies for marketplaces ). Anthony Marino , CMO of ThredUp , gave a very interesting and well-received lightning talk on managed marketplaces.

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Why Your First Blog Post Should Be A “Life Story” Article

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

One of the key techniques I’ve taught Blog Mastermind members since 2007 is the value of a ‘Life Story’ post or series. In simple terms, a Life Story post is your background story as it relates to the topic of your blog. If you blog about collecting colonial stamps, your. The post Why Your First Blog Post Should Be A “Life Story” Article appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Where Can You Go If You Want To Learn PHP?

YoungUpstarts

by AJ Morris, Managed WordPress Product Manager for Liquid Web. Although WordPress uses several different programming languages – HTML, CSS, MySQL and JavaScript, to name a few – PHP is what primarily drives the platform’s backend. And if you ever plan to get involved with plugin development (or even just tweaking your own site), it’s the first language I would advise you to learn.

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How Being A Parent (Of 4 Kids) Has Helped Me Grow My Business

YFS Magazine

I am still in the early stages of my business and I am still learning so much as a parent.

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Your Most Dangerous Security Threats And How You Can Fight Back

YoungUpstarts

Another year is drawing to a close. And yet again we’re asking ourselves how our businesses fell prey to malicious actors. Every year entrepreneurs seem to be under attack from new threats, both online and in the real work. The behaviour of criminals is, obviously, disgraceful. But even today businesses are making their jobs a lot easier by not protecting themselves.

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NastyGal Files Bankruptcy: How Your Startup Can Avoid The Same Fate

YFS Magazine

Here’s a look at three practical ways you can reinforce and shore up your business before you have to bring it back from the brink.

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Your First Business Logo: Our Six-Step Guide To Success

YoungUpstarts

You can’t have a good business without a good logo. Just look at the thousands of successful examples out there, from Apple to McDonald’s. They have all developed logos that stick long in the memory, and it has brought them much success as a result. It can be daunting to know where to start when you’re just starting out in business. So, follow our six-step guide to success, and you’ll be all set.

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Rinse and repeat: revitalizing your business

Berkonomics

Here’s a statement that you never thought would apply to your business planning. Sometimes we get stuck in the muck with our marketing, product, management focus, and in keeping up with trends. It is natural for executives and entrepreneurs with lots on their plate and little extra time – to just keep up the same activities that have made the company a success.

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How To Upgrade Your Self-Identity For Entrepreneurial Success

YFS Magazine

You’re not doing it all wrong, you’re just doing it backwards.

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It’s Time for Austin to Become “Startup Capital of the World”

SiliconHills

By DAVE MANZER Sponsored Contribution to Silicon Hills News Many are familiar with Austin’s official slogan: “Live Music Capital of the World.” The city officially adopted the slogan in 1991 after it was discovered that Austin had more live music venues per capita than any other city in America. In a bit of marketing hocus […] The post It’s Time for Austin to Become “Startup Capital of the World” appeared first on SiliconHills.

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48in48 New York City 2016 in photos

Jeff Hilimire

We did it! We pulled off 48in48 in a city outside of Atlanta. That showed us that our mission is not just something our friends care about, but the broader community embraces it as well. To be able to pull off New York City helped us realize that our BIG long-term goal, to run the event in 48 cities worldwide over the same weekend, is that much more achievable (granted, we have a lot of work left to do, but still.).

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5 Keys to Adopting Marketing Automation

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Keys to Adopting Marketing Automation written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit fotolia. When it comes to online marketing, there’s a lot to keep up with. What messages should you send via email? Who is interacting with your social media pages? What are prospects looking for when they visit your website? One way to keep up with all of your marketing channels and messaging is to use marketing automation.

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Combatting hidden cultural bias with stock photos

Austin Startup

I’m going to give it to you straight: it took me a full day to process the change that is upon us. I might have even cycled through the… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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5 Keys to Adopting Marketing Automation

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Keys to Adopting Marketing Automation written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When it comes to online marketing, there’s a lot to keep up with. What messages should you send via email? Who is interacting with your social media pages? What are prospects looking for when they visit your website? One way to keep up with all of your marketing channels and messaging is to use marketing automation.

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Fresh from the SPRING: sumit_s

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we noticed this gem submitted in this book cover project. Let us start the slow clap for sumit_s. Check out more great work on sumit_s’s profile page. Nicely done, sumit_s, nicely done!

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Why Your First Blog Post Should Be A “Life Story” Article

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

One of the key techniques I’ve taught Blog Mastermind members since 2007 is the value of a ‘Life Story’ post or series. In simple terms, a Life Story post is your background story as it relates to the topic of your blog. If you blog about collecting colonial stamps, your. The post Why Your First Blog Post Should Be A “Life Story” Article appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Sunsetting popular features

Spencer Fry

As a founder, removing a feature from your product is often one of the hardest things you have to do. It’s even harder when it’s a popular feature — as I’m sure you can imagine — but these are the tough decisions you have to make when you’re building and growing a product. Quick background for context. When I first founded Coach about a year and a half ago, our go-to market audience was tutors.

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A Simple(ish) Guide to App Marketing, Part 2

Austin Startup

Measuring App Engagement & Monetization Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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Symbiosis with the Biohub

Reid Hoffman

Today, my wife Michelle and I are announcing a $20 million commitment to support the work of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub , a new laboratory space in San Francisco where researchers and clinical scientists from Stanford, UCSF, and UC Berkeley will pursue life science breakthroughs in a cutting-edge, collaborative environment. I will be joining the Biohub board.

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Most parents wonder….

Austin Startup

Floodgate is a place of unexpected contradictions in so many ways. I think Ann Miura-Ko would agree that I tend to be the emotional person… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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