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Should Your Company Develop a Mobile App?

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Pulatech.com. It’s no secret that mobile web use has skyrocketed over the past several years, with smartphone ownership in the U.S. nearly doubling between 2011 and 2015. And these smartphone users are all about the apps. The average smartphone user downloads 8.8 apps per month, spending 90% of their time on their phone in apps versus in mobile browsing windows.

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There are 145 Entrepreneurship Courses at Stanford

Steve Blank

Stanford is an incubator with dorms. Download the full text file with links to the courses here. [link]. Filed under: Hacking For Defense , Hacking for Diplomacy , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Should Your Company Develop a Mobile App?

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Pulatech.com. It’s no secret that mobile web use has skyrocketed over the past several years, with smartphone ownership in the U.S. nearly doubling between 2011 and 2015. And these smartphone users are all about the apps. The average smartphone user downloads 8.8 apps per month, spending 90% of their time on their phone in apps versus in mobile browsing windows.

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There are 145 Entrepreneurship Courses at Stanford

Steve Blank

Stanford is an incubator with dorms. Download the full text file with links to the courses here. Filed under: Hacking For Defense , Hacking for Diplomacy , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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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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Should Your Company Develop a Mobile App?

crowdSPRING Blog

Image Source: Pulatech.com. It’s no secret that mobile web use has skyrocketed over the past several years, with smartphone ownership in the U.S. nearly doubling between 2011 and 2015. And these smartphone users are all about the apps. The average smartphone user downloads 8.8 apps per month, spending 90% of their time on their phone in apps versus in mobile browsing windows.

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How To Build Authority And Boost Credibility

YoungUpstarts

by Jamillah Rahmaad, principle consultant at JR|PR. Regardless of whether you run a well-established business, are a 9 to 5 corporate ladder climber, or are a side-hustle-preneur, your personal brand is an important factor directly connected to your success. Having a personal brand is the best way to influence and gain the trust of others, especially within your industry.

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Why Your E-commerce Startup Needs A Payment Gateway – Now

YoungUpstarts

When starting a new online store of any kind, the one thing you know you will need above all else is payment for what you are selling. After all, that’s why you are in business and not being a charity, you need to make a profit. However, that is where most e-commerce startups struggle because they try to set up ways to take payments individually from credit cards to PayPal to digital currency and even ACH options for recurring payments.

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To Shred, or Not to Shred? Record Keeping for New Businesses

Up and Running

Starting your own business is an exciting first step into the world of entrepreneurship. It’s also the beginning of your relationship with the IRS. You are legally obligated to keep financial records on-hand for the IRS’ sake. But which ones should you hold on to, and which ones are just extra office clutter? At online bookkeeping service Bench, we’re experts when it comes to the finer nuances of tracking your financials.

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[ADV] Old Age Turns To Rich Numbers With Trusted Annuity Planning

YoungUpstarts

As the age old saying goes, ‘Age is just a number!’ Well, everything is, to be precise. From your account details to the access PIN for your ATM card, and the money you invest on consultations, numbers are everywhere. You want them richer and better, and to that end, observe careful planning. Behind every best thing happening, a perfect plan must be in place.

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Fareness.com Team Reveals Must-Know Tips For Working With Friends

YFS Magazine

After Scott Wainner sold his second business, ResellerRatings for $34M, he embarked on a new business with his longtime friend Steve Bitner.

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4 Smart Steps When Your Business Gets A Cease And Desist Letter

YoungUpstarts

by Taylor Johnson, business consultant at LegalTemplates.net. Few events are scarier than getting a cease and desist letter for a small business owner (unless it’s this one from Jack Daniels ). If you’ve received one, you’ve probably experienced some panic, frustration, and probably been a little incredulous too. Once you get over the relative shock, however, it’s time to approach it head-on.

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What do you wish you’d known yesterday?

Berkonomics

Wouldn’t it be great if there were no more digital or printed reports to tell us what happened in the past? I know. We need financial data for comparison, and to a degree – for planning. But we should be thinking of finding ways to make data available to us much earlier, when it is more meaningful and actionable. Call it “pervasive access” or just–in–time reporting.

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Key Tips For First Time Business Owners

YoungUpstarts

Getting a business off the ground is hard work and entails many sacrifices. A mentor to guide you as you take your first baby steps would surely help. If you’re on your own, it matters greatly to know the why and how of taking actions and being clear of what steps you should take in an orderly fashion. You need to have a solid plan that is still flexible to adapt to the times, a definite idea of your product, your market and competition, your goals and your vision and your strategies to ma

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5 Digital Marketing Trends That Will Rock 2017

YFS Magazine

Here's an inside look at some major trends that have already been forecasted for 2017.

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Fresh from the SPRING: UWAK4

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 logo project. Let us start the slow clap for UWAK4. Check out more great work on UWAK4’s profile page. Nicely done, UWAK4, nicely done!

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How may graduates in Africa secure extra income?

Transformify

Steve has just graduated from Daystar University in Kenya. As most ambitious young people, Steve hopes that his degree will help him build his career in marketing and eventually start a marketing agency of his own. "It's so exciting. A graduate of my university, Wilkins Odinga Fadhili, the CEO of Fashion Torch Africa , has already secured funding of Sh16.5 million.

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Twyla Officially Launches Art Acquisition Site and Raises $19 Million

SiliconHills

Finding a great work of art to display in an apartment is apparently a big problem for a lot of people. And now a new Austin startup, Twyla, has got the solution. The company officially launched on Thursday. It provides a new way to discover and buy art by providing access to limited-edition artworks by […] The post Twyla Officially Launches Art Acquisition Site and Raises $19 Million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Is there a downside to hiring internally?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Is there a downside to hiring internally? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Fresh from the SPRING: UWAK4

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 logo project. Let us start the slow clap for UWAK4. Check out more great work on UWAK4’s profile page. Nicely done, UWAK4, nicely done!

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How Many Variations Can You Have in an A/B/n Test?

ConversionXL

Just when you start to think that A/B testing is fairly straightforward, you run into a new strategic controversy. This one is polarizing: how many variations should you test against the control? There are many different opinions on this one, some completely opposite. Some of it comes down to strategy, some of it to mathematics. Some of it may depend on the stage of business you are the sophistication of your program.

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Fresh from the SPRING: UWAK4

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 logo project. Let us start the slow clap for UWAK4. Check out more great work on UWAK4’s profile page. Nicely done, UWAK4, nicely done!

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Talent and Opportunity in the Next Economy

Reid Hoffman

Traditionally, technological innovation has always led to profound shifts in our work lives, which in turn has led to shifts in the culture at large. And while these shifts have caused disruption and unease, as people try to adapt to new work patterns, a need for new skills, and new rhythms of life in general, they’ve always led to greater overall prosperity and a widening range of opportunities to pursue meaning through one’s work.

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A Simple 5 Step Planning Guide For Your Online Business

YoungUpstarts

Online business is the trend these days and with a number of benefits associated with it, it is rightly getting the attention it should. The Internet has allowed fledgling businesses to increase both visibility and revenue, reaching a potential customer population never before seen in history. A few reasons why one should focus on online business are: Internet marketing is a lot more affordable than traditional marketing.

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Tapping into Your Franchise’s Local Audience via Social Media

Duct Tape Marketing

Tapping into Your Franchise’s Local Audience via Social Media written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. For many people looking to get into the world of business ownership, purchasing a franchise is the ideal situation. You’re able to get behind an established brand, and you have access to proven marketing materials that will give you an advantage over starting a business from scratch.

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Dreams and Garbage Collection

Feld Thoughts

I love dreams. Mine are often very detailed, clear, extremely colorful, linger for a while (several hours) after I wake up, and full of strange and complex linkages between things that often cause me to make associations I wouldn’t have otherwise made. Ever since I learned about the concept of garbage collection in 6.001 at MIT in 1984 while using Scheme on HP Chipmunks , I’ve always thought of dreaming as the same as garbage collection for a computer.

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