Tue.May 01, 2018

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Cloud Is The New Black

YoungUpstarts

by Guilherme Sesterhein, CSM and software development/Google area leader at ilegra. I heard “cloud is the new black” during a training session inside a Google’s office. You could think that this means that cloud is basic. But why did they say it? Google didn’t forge this beautiful sentence. Gartner did. What Gartner means at that point by assuming that “cloud is the new black”?

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Seven Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Innovation Fundamentals for Leaders. First of Seven Blogs. Invest in Frameworks, But First, Establish a Culture Where Innovation Thrives. Leaders — How Are You Doing With These Basics? Success is built on doing the basics well. For results, leaders need to foster innovation fundamentals and integrate them into organizational culture. More structure is needed as fundamentals take hold, and that means an innovation process framework.

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How to Build a Better Network

VC Adventure

A few notes before I jump into this. First, I realized in running through several drafts of this post that it can be hard to talk about networking without coming across as a bit cold or transactional in how one approaches relationships. I hope the note below doesn’t come off that way – my aim was to talk about something that I really care deeply about and offer some ideas for how to strengthen and deepen the working relationships in your life.

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Cashgold: A Hybrid Of Gold And Cryptocurrency

YoungUpstarts

Gold is a universally valid, crisis-proof precious metal that can be converted into cash at any time and used worldwide as payment. However, paying with gold in modern times is difficult because you have to exchange a gold bullion or a coin into a currently-accepted currency before carrying out a transaction. Ethereum is also considered a crisis currency and is a modern means of payment which is not however backed by a material asset.

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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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Pushing team members to think more like entrepreneurs

Jeff Hilimire

My friend Gene Hammett , whose book I loved and review recently, wrote an article for Inc.com entitled, “ 6 Ways Employees Should Think More Like Entrepreneurs.” I recommend you check it out, Gene knows what he’s talking about! Gene interviewed me for this topic and included this blurb on my thoughts: Jeff Hilimire, CEO of Dragon Army , a company that develops mobile strategy and applications, shared with me his take on the entrepreneurial mindset across all levels of the organ

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5 Ways Small Business Owners Plan Intelligently For Retirement

YoungUpstarts

by Troy Bender, President and CEO at Asset Retention Insurance Services Inc. Preparing financially for retirement can be complicated for anyone, but for small business owners the process often poses even more challenges. Teachers, police officers, firefighters and other government employees generally receive a pension. The corporate world can offer benefit plans or matching contributions.

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An Interview with Steve Ligouri, Serial Innovator

Startup Lessons Learned

I first met Steve Liguori when we were both working at GE, where he was heading up a lot of their innovation efforts. But he’s been a change agent for much longer than that. We spoke recently about his path as a serial innovator, his beginnings in marketing, and what he’s been doing lately with his experience in teaching big companies how to transform themselves from the inside out.

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Stop Selling And Start Solving Problems Instead

YFS Magazine

There's an old business adage that states, “Nothing happens until a sale is made!” This is true. You must sell. it is that simple.

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Starting a Used Car Dealership Business With No Money

The Startup Magazine

A lot of people want to create a business and they even have the right ideas. But the reality is that even if you have an idea, you do need some money to back it up. And doing that is not as easy as you would imagine. You really have to do everything in your power to bring that idea to the next level. Aspiring to be a car dealer is no different than any other business.

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Collision Tech Conference Is Moving To Canada In 2019

YFS Magazine

Hosting a successful conference starts with choosing the right venue and locale. For Collision, Toronto is building an inclusive type of innovation that brings people together to solve the world's biggest challenges and that's an attractive proposition. .

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Mistakes Small Business Owners Make When Scaling Their Services

Duct Tape Marketing

Mistakes Small Business Owners Make When Scaling Their Services written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. An increasingly global world means there is more competition than ever, and commoditization is a growing threat. Businesses that scale the right way, are going to be positioned to increase market share as weaker players are sifted out.

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Entrepreneurship for Superwomen

Up and Running

I believe that there is no better way for a woman to succeed than to have her own business. I went through the information technology revolution and was on the bleeding edge of both technology and the acceptance of women in the workplace. . I left the corporate world after 35 years with my self-esteem in tatters and reputation tarnished. Why? I had written a book in which I discussed: Women in the workplace.

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Importance Of Finding And Hiring A Good Freelance Logo Designer For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

When you’re building a company from the ground up, there’s a whole host of important decisions that must be made. One crucially important decision that is far too often overlooked, though, is the decision regarding your company’s logo and the designer you hire to create it. The importance of having a great logo is multi-faceted. Likewise, there are several reasons why it’s important to hire a great freelance logo designer that go beyond simply ensuring the quality of the logo itself.

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Digital Investing: Funding a Low Fee Digital IRA

The Startup Magazine

More and more people of all ages are looking at building a diverse retirement portfolio using non traditional assets period one of the most popular non traditional assets at present is the cryptocurrency. Potentially these currencies will appreciate tremendously as they have been doing. So it makes sense to invest in them. Specifically, investing in them through a digital IRA will help to ensure you don’t have to pay a lot of taxes on any games you make.

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