Tue.Jul 12, 2016

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Top Benefits Of VoIP For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

The world is changing, and the way you do business should evolve as well. Voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, is a revolutionary way to potentially increase your business’s productivity and save money on bills. Here are some of the top benefits of using VoIP in your business: What is VoIP? If you’ve never heard of VoIP, the term can be confusing.

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Making an amazing introduction via email (via John Exley)

Eric Friedman

John Exley takes relationships seriously. We have been friends for a number of years and after his latest email intro I wanted to share how he does it. With the permission of Mike Falb and John, I wanted to share the following exchange that recently took place. I have never seen someone as thorough or thoughtful about an intro and John does this *EVERY* time.

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Looking Forward to 2025

Feld Thoughts

If we fund an early stage startup company today and it’s hugely successful, it’ll be coming into its own in 2025. Ponder that for a moment. That’s how our business – and entrepreneurship – really works. With all of the excitement around entrepreneurship in the past few years, there has been a lot of shorter term thinking.

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Is social dead?

Version One Ventures

At Version One, we’ve centered our investment thesis around companies that leverage network effects. We have talked at great lengths about them in marketplaces and in artificial intelligence and machine learning startups. Social platforms can have incredibly strong network effects, but we’ve been relatively quiet on the subject. And, we’re not alone.

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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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How to Tell Your Company’s History in Your Business Plan

Up and Running

Company history in a business plan? Yes, it’s a good addition to some business plans, but not all. For this article, I want to look at how to decide whether or not you include company history, and if you do, what to include and where to put it in the plan. The purpose of the business plan. When considering what to do with company history for your business plan, first consider the use of your business plan.

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Entrepreneurs: Effective Selling Is About This, Not That

YFS Magazine

It took me a long time to realize that effective selling – the kind that leads to positive word of mouth, enjoyable work and terrific clients who happily pay you what you’re worth – has nothing to do with this.

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5 Tips To Stay Fit And Survive Sitting In Your Office All Day

YFS Magazine

When you conduct business in a home office or work primarily at your desk or in a coffee shop, it’s often hard to offset the negative health effects of sitting all day.

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Why Your Company NEEDS to Start Playing Pokémon Go

crowdSPRING Blog

Everyone and their fifth grade cousin are playing Pokémon Go right now. Maybe it’s because it’s trendy. Maybe it’s because it’s a stupid amount of silly fun. Maybe it’s because it keeps them active. Maybe it’s because, like me, they were that kid who used to get caught playing Pokémon Blue on Gameboy Color in the back of their sixth grade math class.

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How to Be Better and Different and Why You Must

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Be Better and Different and Why You Must written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Stop trying to be better than the competition and start figuring out how you can be better and different than your competition. Many business owners or would-be start-ups sit around trying to figure out how they can be better than the competition – better product, better service, better features, and, the real killer, better price.

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Want to Boost Your Search Performance? Invest in UX Design

crowdSPRING Blog

The world of SEO is an inherently volatile one. For a while it was about having all the keywords in all the places all the time. Then it was about links — any links at all, anywhere you could get ’em, in any context you could secure. Then it was about making sure those links were quality and the keywords weren’t stuffed. With every Google algorithm update, conventional wisdom on SEO has crumbled and risen anew from the ashes.

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Letter to a young CEO of a small, growing company: Do this or stop growing

Jeff Hilimire

I sent this email to the CEO of a small, growing company recently. And it seems to be advice I find myself giving to leaders of small companies. He had asked me for advice about him potentially getting training in programming so he could have a better grasp of his company’s production. — At this stage in your company (as you have less than 10 people and are starting to see growth) I would encourage you to put every ounce of energy you have into the “growth” side of the bu

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Is there a point where I need to define my role?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Is there a point where I need to define my role? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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All you want to know about blockchains

Transformify

A positive about this technology, is that no middle man is needed in the whole process, as it is a computer that essentially adds all the relevant content to the ledger, and maintains its integrity. This fact is actually one of the main reasons that the banks are starting to become attracted to this new technology. Using a blockchain could drastically reduce costs for banks, therefore naturally almost every major player in the financial service industry is interested in it.

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Why We Can’t Let Luddites Ruin Global Trade

Both Sides of the Table

Luddites. It’s a term most of you know as being somebody who is backward or uninterested in learning new technology. Actually, the Luddites were worse than this. They were a movement in England during the Industrial Revolution who had the objective of ruining machinery that was used to build products at scale. They thought factories were a threat to custom assembly of products and ultimately to the agrarian way of life (as more people were moving to urban environments).

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