Wed.Nov 22, 2017

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5 Keys To Satisfaction From Solving Market Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

Perhaps sparked by the now forgotten recession, I’m seeing a new era of the entrepreneur, with startups springing up all around. Based on my own mentoring and investing experience, the best entrepreneurs are pragmatic problem solvers. They have an uncanny ability to find elegant, easy, and fast solutions to pain points in the marketplace, as well as their own challenges.

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How to Avoid Killing Your Startup

Up and Running

Whether the widely reported statistic that eight out of ten businesses fail in the first 18 months is accurate or not, few will disagree with the fact that most startups fail. However, it’s rarely from a lack of owner passion, interest, hard work, or desire for success. In many cases, businesses are started by people with years of corporate experience.

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How To Start Your Own Business As A Forensic Accountant

YoungUpstarts

The field of forensic accounting isn’t one that you hear much about, but it can be a very exciting field to break into. If you’ve been eyeing an online bachelors of accounting and you still aren’t sure it’s for you, then you may want to take a little time to read up on forensic accounting. This field will make use of all you’ve learned in your bachelors degree in accounting, yet takes you on a different path than that of a CPA.

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MassChallenge Texas Deadline is Dec. 5th

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Publisher with Silicon Hills News MassChallenge Texas is a new startup accelerator that is currently accepting applications for its inaugural Texas cohort. One of the things that is unique about MassChallenge is since it doesn’t take any equity, it can work with all the other accelerators and incubators statewide to grow the […].

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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 Important Forex Trading Tips You Need To Know

YoungUpstarts

Having success in the world of Forex trading is no accident. A lot of time and hard work will go into choosing the right trades. Doing things like looking at FX webinars is a great way to start developing your own trading strategy right out of the gate. You will also need to set up a demo trading account to see how you fare in the world of Forex trading.

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Can you Start a Taxi Business with Leased Cars?

The Startup Magazine

We don’t get this question very often, but once in awhile someone does ask about leasing a car. You might be a taxi driver, or getting started as one and noticed how cheap it can be to lease a car. So, is it possible to take advantage of that, and lease a car to use it as a taxi? The answer is, yes and no. We will be taking a closer look in this article at whether or not a leased car can be used as a taxi. .

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How to Understand and Solve Your Customers’ Problems

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Understand and Solve Your Customers’ Problems written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch About Problem Solving. I want to talk about solving problems. I really think in the end that is our job and I think it takes a special point of view. We as business owners and marketers are so in tune with this idea of promoting what we do and talking about our solutions, but until a prospect or a client understands that we understand their prob

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The Old Debate: Quality Versus… Saving Money?!

YoungUpstarts

It’s the age-old debate, quantity versus quality. Everybody has their own opinion on it, and usually, the consensus falls on the side of quality. But in this debate about achieving high quality, which will affect everything else, when you are at the very start of your business, where everything is about saving money , is this the most important thing at the outset?

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Tim Keane - Untitled Article

Tim Keane

New podcast with successful entrepreneurs: [link].

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The one constant in a changing customer environment

Jeff Hilimire

Technology has changed the way we serve our customers. Evolving threats have changed the way we protect them. But through it all, the one constant in the ever-changing customer environment has been the contact center. In the recent article, ”How Call Centers Cope with Ever-Changing Threats and Technology,” the PYMNTS Call Center Commerce Tracker reported that despite the evolution from home phones to smart phones and cash to mobile checking accounts, the call center is the one interaction that c