Tue.Apr 17, 2018

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Recruiting Should Be Your #1 Priority From Day 1

YoungUpstarts

by Felix Winstone, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Talkative. As a new entrepreneur or business owner, the most important thing you will do is hire talent. As a startup co-founder with a growing team, here are the recruiting tips I’ve learnt over the last couple of years. Hiring = Sales. A good recruitment process has many parallels with a sales funnel.

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Developing Content for Your Mobile Audience

Duct Tape Marketing

Developing Content for Your Mobile Audience written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Have you ever seen content on a mobile device that you’re excited to read and click through to view it only to realize you need to squint or zoom in to read it? It’s frustrating, not only because it’s inconvenient, but because it’s so easily avoidable.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Online Storefront

Up and Running

In our connected world, people shop online almost as often as they physically shop in stores. In fact, according to Shopify , global retail ecommerce sales are on track to reach $4.5 trillion in 2021, up from $1.3 trillion in 2014. And, these trends don’t just apply to businesses selling directly to consumers (B2C). B2B ecommerce sales , (businesses selling directly to other businesses) generate three times as much revenue as B2C, at $7.7 trillion in sales, compared to B2C’s $2.3 trillion.

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Meet the Committee: Estevan Aviles

Austin Startup

Estevan Aviles, a native Austinite and life-long gamer, serves as a Festival Programming Specialist for the SXSW Gaming Festival. Responsible for all the “fun” things that take place during SXSW Gaming, such as organized play, cosplay, panels, and parties, Estevan leverages his extensive experience in gaming alongside the explosive creativity of SXSW to create one of the most unique gaming festivals in the country.

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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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[Interview] Cindy Dayman, Founder of Take Time Home Cleaning & Lifestyle Services

YoungUpstarts

Cindy Dayman is the founder and owner of Take Time Home Cleaning & Lifestyle Services , a multiple award winning, full-service Winnipeg cleaning company established in 2009. With a team of over 40 employees, Take Time Home Cleaning happens to be the largest residential full service cleaning company in Winnipeg, and a company well known for providing an excellent employment opportunity for staff.

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Why It’s Time To Rethink Your Office Culture

YFS Magazine

Traditional thought assumed that drab, sterile offices or cubicles would promote greater productivity because they would offer fewer distractions. Surprisingly, it turns out the opposite is true.

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Jewelry Designer Jana Reinhardt Built A Successful Online Business. Here’s How She Did It

YFS Magazine

When I started my jewelry business I was an experienced goldsmith, but had never run an online store before. I had to learn on my feet.

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Hanging Out In Pioneer Square

Feld Thoughts

I’m in Seattle for the next few days. I’ve built this trip around Techstars Seattle Demo, a bunch of time at PSL, and a Moz board meeting. Oh – and time with several of our portfolio companies as well as some nice social stuff with long time friends. Today, PSL announced their new $80 million venture fund. We are significant LPs in the fund and my partner Lindel is joining the PSL advisory board.

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6 ideas to help you get organized and get more done

Jeff Hilimire

I spend a lot of time focusing on time optimization and focus. The ability to focus on the right things and “get stuff done” is the difference between mediocrity and greatness. Since we’re all here to try to accomplish greatness, here are six ways you might consider getting on top of things: #1 – Identify your personal Operating System.

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What Jobs Can I Get With a Criminal Record?

Transformify

While it's common knowledge that having a criminal record can impact your life, few people know exactly how much of a burden it can be. When you're convicted of a crime, the way society sees you inevitably shifts. It can be challenging to do things that once were easy - and even harder to do things that require significant effort. One of the most significant problems faced by those with records is finding work.

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What Are Poverty Olympics and Why Are They Terrible?

Austin Startup

I’ve made no secret about that fact that I grew up in a low income household, and that I was a very low income earne r for the first few years after college. I share this because I’ve found that very few people are sharing their stories of being low income. It’s incredibly isolating to be broke all the time. You can’t do anything because you don’t have any money.

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