Wed.Jul 11, 2018

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Influencer Marketing: Proven Strategies To Find Influencers Who Fit Your Brand

crowdSPRING Blog

The digital marketplace changes more often than Kylie Jenner switches her hair color. It not easy for entrepreneurs, small business owners, and marketing strategists to keep their marketing campaigns relevant and competitive. Influencer marketing, if done right, can help your startup or small business grow your audience, improve sales, and expand brand awareness through social media.

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Why We Invested in The Nudge

View from Seed

Sometimes we just need little push to take action. A little motivation to make things happen. And having a plan already put together makes things just that much easier. Yep, sometimes all you need is just little a nudge. Enter just that, The Nudge. It’s a “planner friend in your pocket,” as the team calls it. A personal digital lifestyle advisor which sends SMS-based ideas about things to do (with a link to an detailed entire plan to make it easier to follow through).

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Influencer Marketing: Proven Strategies To Find Influencers Who Fit Your Brand

crowdSPRING Blog

The digital marketplace changes more often than Kylie Jenner switches her hair color. It not easy for entrepreneurs, small business owners, and marketing strategists to keep their marketing campaigns relevant and competitive. Influencer marketing, if done right, can help your startup or small business grow your audience, improve sales, and expand brand awareness through social media.

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Hitting The Business Books — 3 Ways To Educate Yourself For Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Succeeding in business is an iterative process and sometimes the most useful lessons emerge from failure. There’s no real substitute for experience — but there are several formal and informal ways to learn painlessly from those who’ve blazed a trail before you. So if you’re hitting the business books, here are three ways to educate yourself for entrepreneurship. 1.

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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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9 Innovation Practices For Long-Term Business Health

Startup Professionals Musings

A guiding principle for startup success, as well as the long-term health of a mature business, is a liberal dose of innovation at the beginning, with additions of the same on a regular basis. Unfortunately, innovation means change, and most business professionals and existing customers, by default, hate change. Thus without thinking, every company becomes more static.

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How The 5G Revolution Emerged And How It Will Give Business A Boost

YoungUpstarts

As a tariff war between the U.S. and China threatens to escalate, 5G wireless technology has emerged as one of the major fronts in the long-term competition between the two superpowers. The U.S. currently trails China and South Korea in 5G development, a situation which puts America at a disadvantage if it is not addressed. The National Security Council concurs, seeing the 5G gap with China as a potential military threat as well as an economic and political one.

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The 3 Stages Of Evolution For Forward-Moving Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

by Peter J. Strauss , founder and managing member of The Strauss Law Firm and author of “ The Business Owner’s Definitive Guide to Captive Insurance Companies “. Growing a business sometimes demands that the owner grow as well. The willingness and ability to evolve – in part by embracing change and creating it around them – is an important trait shared by successful entrepreneurs, experts say.

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Get a Business Credit Card to Build Your Startup’s Credit

Up and Running

Building business credit creates more financial opportunities for your business. Banks, lenders, and other suppliers all rely on business credit reports to assess the creditworthiness of your company. According to the Small Business Administration, 46 percent of businesses used personal credit cards for business expenses. This statistic shows that many businesses fail to separate business and personal expenses, which is necessary to establish business credit.

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Austin’s DroneSense: Helping to Integrate Drones Into Public Safety Missions

SiliconHills

This is a Sponsored Post Austin is home to several interesting and innovative drone technology companies, but when most people think of drones they typically think of a toy or a piece of military equipment. Software companies in the drone space are now taking off, helping businesses across a wide array of sectors. One of […]. The post Austin’s DroneSense: Helping to Integrate Drones Into Public Safety Missions appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Most Startup Failure Statistics Are Misleading (Here’s The Truth)

YFS Magazine

To judge from old and misleading statistics across the internet, starting a business seems scarier than diving off a 100 ft. cliff.

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How to predict the future

Start Up Blog

Predicting the future seems like an impossible task, but there is a trick to it. It’s less about guessing what’s next, and more about piecing together what’s already here. A veritable mash up of tools, [ READ POST ]. The post How to predict the future appeared first on Steve Sammartino.

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Bringing Moore’s Law to Space

Reid Hoffman

Apollo Fusion’s mission? To help “enable the second space race” with a more powerful approach to satellite propulsion systems. I am thrilled to have invested in the company and to have joined the board. Read the full post on LinkedIn.

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The Ultimate Guide To Background Checks

Transformify

WHY DO EMPLOYERS CONDUCT BACKGROUND CHECKS? Although checking for criminal records is one of the biggest, there are many other reasons why employers conduct background checks when hiring, including: Mitigating the risk of hiring someone with fraudulent credentials. Complying with federal and/or state laws regarding certain jobs, such as teaching or providing elder care.

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Bringing Moore’s Law to Space

Reid Hoffman

Apollo Fusion’s mission? To help “enable the second space race” with a more powerful approach to satellite propulsion systems. I am thrilled to have invested in the company and to have joined the board. Read the full post on LinkedIn.

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Transformify wins 2018 Enterprise Award

Transformify

Winners have just been announced for the 8th annual Enterprise Awards. Thirteen entrepreneurs were honored for their achievements at a ceremony on 27th June 2018 in London’s prestigious Dorchester Hotel. Uniquely focused on Founders, rather than Companies, the Enterprise Awards recognizes those that demonstrate vision, growth, innovation, financial management (including funding success), external recognition and stamina.