Fri.Jun 28, 2019

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A dream team to negotiate with SAP

deal architect

Geoff Scott, CEO of ASUG, wrote this in his foreword to SAP Nation 3.0 "For many years, licensing was a “third rail” topic: look at it, discuss it among yourselves but don’t ever collectively — as a customer contingent —.

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The Role of Governance in Healthcare Organizations

Board Effect

Governance is a framework that accounts for all the processes of governing organizations and businesses. It’s a structure that holds boards and leaders accountable for continuously improving operations, clinical staff and processes, society and financial performance. A healthcare board of directors and executive management are in charge of all aspects of corporate governance.

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5 Keys To Business Culture That Are Counter-Intuitive

Startup Professionals Musings

In the popular press, it’s easy to find articles that will convince you that companies with a good culture, such as Google, do it by lavishing perks and benefits , including some combination of free meals, trips and parties, financial bonuses, gyms, and a dog-friendly environment. These things are clearly good for morale, but its not so clear that they translate into a competitive advantage.

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Security Tips For Start-Ups

YoungUpstarts

When you finally take the leap to start your own business, it can be incredibly exciting. Of course, it can also be quite stressful at the same time as you need to think about your finances and any kind of security concerns. Security is very important as technology advances and hackers become better at what they do. Here, we are going to give you some of our security tips for start-ups.

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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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Did Abraham Lincoln Invent Pancakes?

Feld Thoughts

I love weird Internet memes. Recently, I plumbed the depths of this one with my friend Quinn. Go to your Google browser and type “did ab” and see what comes up for you. If it’s “Did Abraham Lincoln Invent Pancakes” then the Internet is working as expected. Of course, our next move was to go see if there was a website at [link].

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Hypergiant Adds Bill Nye, the Science Guy, to its Advisory Board

SiliconHills

Hypergiant Industries has big goals like creating smart cities, flying cars, and finding a cure for cancer, Bill Nye, one of the world’s most famous mechanical engineers, known as The Science Guy., says in a video created for Hypergiant. “We’re not aiming for utopia, but simply a better universe,” Nye says in the video. “This […].

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6 Questions to ask when hiring a bankruptcy lawyer

The Startup Magazine

Unfortunately startups too often end up in bankruptcy. It’s part of the high risk/high return nature of entrepreneurship. In these cases, it is very important that one hires a bankruptcy lawyer so that they do not lose their property in case they owe so much that they are unable to pay. The bankruptcy process requires one to be quite informed about the whole process so that they can get the best help and come out with the least amount of scars from financial ruin.

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What’s A Brand Anyway? The 7 Layers Of A Strong Brand

YFS Magazine

Successful brand strategies are not squishy, elusive, or superficial. They are logical, proven, and always ready to guide you.

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a16z Podcast: Entrepreneurs, Then and Now

Ben's Blog

A lot in technology — and venture — happens in decades. New cycles of technology come and go, including some secular shifts; a new generation of founders matures; and so much more changes.

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Avoiding competitor distractions

Eric Friedman

Looking at what the competition is doing can be a huge distraction. The chances of another company having the same vision and services are remote, and typically what you see on the outside on their site and in the press don’t perfectly reflect what is really going on inside. Too often I hear about focusing on what the competition is up too, the latest press release, or other announcement that takes the management team by surprise and sends folks spinning – all away from their core mi

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How IoT Can Help Your Small Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a tech concept that has been circling around the interweb for years now. Yet, many fail to comprehend its role and impact as a valuable business asset. By 2020 there will be over 50B connected devices. This interconnected network is already impacting the way we do things. However, there some people are terrified of the Internet of Things, including Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the internet.