Mon.Oct 01, 2018

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5 Pieces of Bad Advice That All Entrepreneurs Should Ignore

Up and Running

Starting a new business is always daunting. There are just so many balls to juggle. Prioritizing all the tasks that entrepreneurs have to wrestle with is a constant battle. Everything is urgent, and everything is important. No wonder then that new entrepreneurs are always hungry for advice from people who have already built successful businesses. Their pearls of wisdom can help them avoid the mistakes that they made and provide some much-needed support.

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Two HCM institutions

deal architect

As Workday Rising kicks off in Vegas, it is time to also recognize two other HCM resources which allow us to keep annual tabs on the changing face of HR HR Executive magazine announces their annual list of top products.

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How A Strong Logo And Brand Can Help Your Etsy Store Thrive

YoungUpstarts

by Amanda Bowman of crowdspring. 2018 has been the year of a lot of things, but towering over all of them in bespoke heels has been the year of the crafter. With 1.9 million sellers, 31.7 million active buyers, and 45 million products , Etsy offers an enormous marketplace filled with ample opportunity for the nimble-fingered entrepreneur. Etsy can take credit for many stories in which a good old-fashioned side hustle explodes into a legitimate, sustainable business.

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Q318 Staycation: Resting, Reading, and Little Running

Feld Thoughts

I took last week off the grid for my Q318 vacation. Amy and I were originally going to Alaska to look at polar bears but canceled everything after I got sick and did a staycation in Boulder instead. I got at least 10 hours of sleep each day, did a bunch of self-care things (PT, massage, meditate), ran a few times (to the extent that 14-minute miles can be considered running), and read a half dozen books.

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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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Start Up Your Culture, Series A, B And C

YoungUpstarts

by Harold Hardaway and Shannon Hernandez, Co-Founders of Cardigan Communications Group. One of your most important roles as a business owner is defining and curating the culture of your organization. A good culture ensures a strong connection between your product, purpose, people and work environment to support your long-term strategy. When we started Cardigan Communications Group , we talked up our company to our friends and told them how we help organizations find their voice and bring their

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How To Prevent Business Betrayal (And Protect Your Ideas)

YFS Magazine

Good IP practices can actually prevent partnerships and employee relationships from turning sour. Here's a set of best practices that can reduce your risk.

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How To Keep Your Kids Engaged While Working From Home

YFS Magazine

Learn how to keep your kids productive and engaged while you get on with running your home-based business in an effective and productive manner.

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Monday Motivation: TAKE ACTION – Best Motivational Video

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Keep taking action. Just decide and take action before the idea gets dim. You’re either moving forward or standing still. Hesitation defeats us so we must defeat it. Go forward, move and win.

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LivePerson Acquires Conversable

SiliconHills

LivePerson has acquired Conversable, an intelligent conversation platform for businesses, based in Austin and Dallas. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Conversable’s AI and automation development teams will join LivePerson, which has created the LiveEngage platform to interact with customers via text and other messaging services. “Conversational commerce is about using AI […].

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Uber’s Powerful Rebrand and What Your Business Can Learn From It

crowdSPRING Blog

Brand identity constantly evolves and changes in public opinion and bad press can tarnish a company’s brand. That’s exactly what happened with Uber when it rebranded for the second time in three years. The Uber brand became associated with negative attention rather than a positive brand experience, and its existing branding was undermining Uber’s marketing efforts.

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Biometric ID Company CLEAR Opens a new Office near the Domain

SiliconHills

New York-based CLEAR, a biometric identity company, is opening an office Monday with 30 new employees near The Domain in North Austin. Opportunity Austin, the Greater Austin Chamber’s five-county economic development initiative, announced CLEAR’s new hub office. CLEAR jas created a biometric scanning system using iris or fingerprint scans to identify people at airports and […].

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This week I’ll be speaking at Purpose on Tap – come join me!

Jeff Hilimire

I’m really excited this Wednesday night to be invited to talk at Purpose on Tap. Purpose on Tap is a men’s leadership group that meets at Monday Night Brewing once a month for fellowship and good conversation. I’ll be talking about my journey and how I landed on my Purpose , which I rarely get to talk too much about…can’t wait!

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Finding Purpose in the Pursuit of Profits

Jason Ball

What is a Company’s purpose? To be profitable, and self sustaining, while providing a product or service. But can it make a difference, not just make money? The answer is yes, and this has been the key question in my mind for the past few years. Both personally and professionally, I’ve gone through a process where I’ve evaluated how I work and what I work on, and how I might be able to make a difference within my sphere of influence.

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How Much Can I Earn Through Forex Affiliate Marketing?

YoungUpstarts

Affiliation, as you probably already know, is a type of marketing channel where an individual encourages other people to deal with a particular business. A person who refers someone gains a substantial reward. Accordingly, the forex affiliate marketing means referring other people to a particular forex trading merchant in return for a certain pay-out as a referral reward.

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The World Is Crying Out For Blockchain Developers! Here Are The Skills You Need

Transformify

Blockchain is still a relatively new technology, however, it is astounding how quickly it is changing the way transactions are carried out. As William Mougayar (author The Business Blockchain ) puts it, “The blockchain cannot be described as just a revolution. It is a tsunami-like phenomenon, slowly advancing and gradually enveloping everything along its way by the forces of its progression” Many businesses are now adopting blockchain.