Fri.Jan 04, 2019

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The Best-Ever Culture Decks: Learn From Netflix, GoDaddy, LinkedIn, And Other Rock Stars

YoungUpstarts

by Bretton Putter , author of “ Culture Decks Decoded: Transform your culture into a visible, conscious and tangible asset “ 21 st -century business has had its watershed moments. One gamechanger: when Netflix’s CEO, Reed Hastings, published the Netflix culture deck online in 2009. Hastings wanted potential job candidates to truly grasp what Netflix was about so he could attract the right talent.

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4 Keys To Consciously Making Your Team More Creative

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs I know are individually very innovative, but a successful startup can’t be a one-man show (for long). That means they need to build an innovative team, which is not a skill that most people are born with. In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams.

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Facts Have No Feelings

Feld Thoughts

The following post is the one I was referring to when I wrote The Moment You Realize You Aren’t Comfortable With What You Wrote. After I wrote it, I searched around for the quote but came across links to a speech by Ben Shapiro titled “Truth Is A Microagression” along with a bunch of commentary about Shapiro suggesting “Facts don’t care about your feelings” and counterarguments that “Facts do care about your feelings.” I got sucked into a rabbit hole of trying to u

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2019

Hearpreneur

It’s a new year and right after the ball drops, it’s time to go to work. Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. We asked 20 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2019. #1- Recruit female executives recruitment.

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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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Innovation is a Brutal DIY Project

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Innovation Learning Points From the Great Faucet DIY Fiasco. DIY is a Form of Innovation. I’m the Abraham Lincoln of home fix-it DIY projects. Like Lincoln, I ultimately win, but painfully fail many, many times before I “git-er done” (FYI: DIY = Do It Yourself.). As an innovation consultant who is a facilitator, team builder, idea person, and strategist, my need for hands-on engineering skills are minimal.

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Difference Between ICO, IEO and STO

Kodorra

This article compares the difference between ICO (initial coin offering), IEO (initial exchange offering) or STO (security token offering) and explains the subtle but significant differences between the three fundraising options. Evolution in blockchain can be a double-edged sword. When it comes to fundraising the blockchain way, you might get lost with ever-changing technology advancement coupled with roller-coaster market sentiment rides.

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Entrepreneurship in Sound Production: Side Hustle Tips

The Startup Magazine

Any music producer, be it a professional or an amateur understands the need of having good sound quality and some go to great lengths to achieve this goal. When making music in your company, or as a side hustle, the quality of the sound can determine the kind of music you produce. In addition, it will be high quality if you put in a great deal of effort.

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What To Do When You’re Unsure About Your Future Career

YoungUpstarts

If you’re like most people, you’re not doing (or still planning to do) what you told the rest of your class you’d do for work during Career Day when you were 13. The funny thing is that many people seem to become less sure about their career path as they advance toward adulthood or even middle age. A good career counselor can help you navigate the many decisions that go into planning out your career.

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5 Tips to Setting up Marketing Goals

The Startup Magazine

Marketing is getting indispensable in business today, and several entities engage. What do you wish to achieve from marketing? You ought to answer this question from the onset. Marketing is an intensive initiative considering the costs involved. Setting out clear goals and objectives envisioning your organizations future will be essential in rating the success of the process.

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Seeking a Search Engine for Foreign Language Movies

David Teten

I’m looking for a search engine for foreign language movies available via streaming. We tightly limit our kids’ viewing of videos/TV/movies, except for any content in the foreign languages they speak (Hebrew and Russian). Our challenge is that it’s hard to find professional caliber content (e.g., made by Hollywood, Bollywood, Netflix, Amazon, HBO, etc.) online, dubbed in other languages.

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Mistakes to Avoid When Acquiring Your Company Vehicles

The Startup Magazine

Given the way cars are bought and sold, anxiety when purchasing or leasing your company vehicles is natural. And, the anxiety can significantly diminish the joy of team tooling around in your new vehicle. Here are some mistakes to avoid when acquiring your next company vehicles. Source: Pixabay. Ignoring Your Budget. Before you go shopping you should take some time to figure out how much you can afford to spend on a vehicle each month.

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If you want to be an Entrepreneur, you need to develop these 10 habits

Our Own Start-up

If you too, want to break out of the 9 to 5 cycle and begin calling your own business shots, here are 10 habits you must develop in order to be successful.

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Come be a part of the “Super-est” 48in48 ever!

Jeff Hilimire

Adam and I with Warrick Dunn at a previous 48in48. You might just see Warrick at the Super Service event… At 48in48 , we like to dream BIG. As if our goal of putting on 48 events on the same weekend globally by 2025 wasn’t dreaming big enough, we’re putting on a special 48in48 event at the Atlanta Tech Village (birthplace to so many companies, including Dragon Army ) the week before the Super Bowl (January 25th – 27th).

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The Growth of Women Owned Businesses

Women Entrepreneurs Can

A few decades ago, if you went searching for a woman-owned business you might have a harder time of it. That’s because for centuries, women have been relegated to the back burner of building wealth and controlling revenue. They were either legally prevented from ownership or not allowed in to certain positions or professions. But today, in comparison to 30 years ago, the number of women-owned businesses has nearly tripled.

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Is Your Business Stumbling? Here are 5 Reasons Why You Need a Marketing Agency in 2019

Our Own Start-up

If you don’t have a well-planned marketing strategy, the chances are that you will stumble.

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The Best Slideshow Videos for Content Marketing

The Startup Magazine

Contrary to what many people believe, slideshows aren’t just useful as presentations. In fact, they can actually make for convincing video content. All you really need to do is set it to a voiceover narration or some background music. Source: Pixabay. To be perfectly honest creating slideshow videos in that way is not only easy, but can be great for content marketing.

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How to Find the Best Custom Rubber Stamp for the Job

Our Own Start-up

Custom rubber stamps can be made for you if you want something unique.

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The Power of B2B Data Sharing In Improving Customer Satisfaction

YoungUpstarts

Startups usually enjoy a high level of enthusiasm especially during the early stages of working on an innovative idea. As companies grow, it becomes more challenging to identify what problems need to be solved and how to come up with the most effective solution. For many, these problems can persist for an extended period, causing inefficiencies in the workplace that ultimately impact sales and conversions.

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