Fri.Aug 24, 2018

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Why You Should Be Selective With Contractors And Outsourced Work

YoungUpstarts

Outsourcing tasks to outside contractors is a smart move. There are endless tasks you can outsource to save time and money, but you need to proceed with caution. Outsourcing to get something off your plate is a strategy that will inevitably end in disaster. Choosing contractors carefully is as important as hiring the right employees. When you’re overwhelmed with work, it’s difficult to think clearly, and you might make the wrong choice.

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6 Steps to High Performance - Start Your Own Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of the people I know in business are just plodding along, working hard, and hoping that their natural talent, with a little random luck, will somehow keep them ahead of the crowd, and let them enjoy their life as well. They don’t realize that you can make your own luck as an entrepreneur, start your own business, and get an unprecedented opportunity to achieve your highest potential.

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Eleven Elements That Must Intersect To Create A Vibrant Community 

YoungUpstarts

by Quint Studer, author of “ Building A Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America “. Every community wants to be a great place to live and work. Yet even with the economic resurgence America is feeling, many towns and cities have a long way to go. They’re grappling with unemployment. Neighborhoods are deteriorating. People are moving away.

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Expanding our bio/healthcare thesis

Version One Ventures

Our first investment in healthcare was five years ago in Figure 1 , a platform for viewing. and discussing real-world medical cases with healthcare professionals. This investment shaped our original thesis in the category. Figure 1 plays outside the healthcare care system; it’s permissionless innovation, like Yammer or Slack in the enterprise. As we wrote in our Digital Healthcare blog series , “ Even more complex than the enterprise, the healthcare market is muddled by byzantine incumbency, l

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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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4 Digital Skills to Make Your Resume More Marketable

Transformify

To get the right job , you'll need to have a marketable resume. Marketing yourself to the companies you would love to work for is never a simple task. Why would a recruiter choose one candidate over the other? How to attract the interest and increase the chances of getting hired? In our connected world, the digital skills are essential for getting a job.

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Brown University Talk

Steve Blank

Every year I head to the East coast for vacation. We live in a semi-rural area, just ~10,000 people in town, with a potato farm across the street and an arm of the ocean in the backyard. While they own tech, smartphones and computers, most of my neighbors can’t tell you about the latest trends in AI, Bitcoin or Facebook. In contrast, Silicon Valley is an innovation cluster, a monoculture of sorts, with a churning sea of new tech ideas, sailed by entrepreneurs who each passionately believe they&#