Thu.May 25, 2017

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Thousand points of influence

deal architect

It’s been a decade since I wrote this post in which I said We all have our roles to play - but put yourself on the grid of 1000 and see what steps, decision makers, and influence impact you have.

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4 Emotional Intelligence Skills To Transform Your Leadership Style

YoungUpstarts

by Steven Stein, Ph.D., author of “ The EQ Leader: Instilling Passion, Creating Shared Goals, and Building Meaningful Organizations through Emotional Intelligence “ In today’s work settings, many of the old-style hierarchal and authoritarian styles of leadership have become obsolete. We’ve witnessed significant strides in replacing rewards-punishment “transactional” management styles – that have mostly proven unproductive – with “transformative sty

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CIOs love their jobs

deal architect

I have not heard that in a long time and so was struck by that statement in this press release from Harvey Nash, the recruiting firm and KPMG, the public accounting and advisory firm announcing results from their annual CIO.

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Campfire – 5 Things To Consider To Be A Digital Nomad

YoungUpstarts

by Wang Tse, co-founder and director of Campfire Collaborative Spaces. There is a certain charm in the idea of being able to work remotely, lounging beside the beach with a mojito in one hand, while updating your social media page, knowing you have it better than the inane 9 to 5. With more of the world working online, it is easier to take remote working and kick it up a notch, to live the lifestyle of a digital nomad.

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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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The Biggest Business Lie: ‘It Takes Money To Make Money’

YFS Magazine

People think you need to have money in order to make money. That is simply not true. Instead, you need to change how you look at business.

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3 Offline Marketing Methods To Use To Build Your Brand

YoungUpstarts

When it comes to marketing your startup, you most likely have all the usual methods covered – creating a website and blog, creating social media marketing, setting up an email marketing list, and perhaps even placing advertisements on other popular websites and blogs in your industry. However, that isn’t all that you need to do. Although the older methods of offline marketing may be declining in popularity today, that doesn’t mean you cannot effectively utilize them to help with building your br

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Settling Legal Corporate Standings Proficiently

YoungUpstarts

There’s no telling when you might feel the need for an attorney by your side; in fact, not too many of us realize it until time slips away. If you’re a business owner, consider it imperative to invest in the skills and experience of an established and committed lawyer. When you work with corporate lawyers , they work on behalf of the business to back you up with legal counsel and services.

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Here’s the test: Can you create 5 strategies and 5 tactics to achieve your goal?

Berkonomics

In past weeks, we explored the need for a tangible goal and strategies that are measurable as steps toward achievement of your goal. Today, we explore how to create tactics to accompany each strategy, and even suggest a number of tactics to consider for each strategy. Tactics support strategies and are more short term and procedural than the strategies they support.

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Uber and Lyft Announce Plans to Return to Austin on Monday

SiliconHills

Uber and Lyft, the ride hailing companies, that rode off into the sunset a year ago when they couldn’t reach agreement with local officials, have announced plans to return to Austin on Monday. “Austin is an incubator for technology and entrepreneurship, and we are excited to be back in the mix. Our local team is […] The post Uber and Lyft Announce Plans to Return to Austin on Monday appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Five cutting edge AI startups get the chance to pitch for $100,000 from Austin’s top Angel…

Austin Startup

Five cutting edge AI startups get the chance to pitch for $100,000 from Austin’s top Angel Investors If you’ve been paying attention to the tech news lately, you know that one of the hottest trends of 2017 is around Artificial Intelligence, or “AI.” As the #1 best city in the world for tech ( according to the World Economic Forum ), Austin has been at the center of this trend.

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Billionaire Mark Cuban Leads $1.5 Million Investment into Austin-based Meta SaaS

SiliconHills

Billionaire Mark Cuban is leading a $1.5 million seed round investment into Austin-based Meta SaaS, which runs a platform for managing software as a service subscriptions for companies. The startup announced the investment this week which also includes Bazaarvoice and data.world Founder Brett Hurt and participation from Barracuda Networks, Capital Factory, Deep Space Ventures and […] The post Billionaire Mark Cuban Leads $1.5 Million Investment into Austin-based Meta SaaS appeared first on

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Fresh from the SPRING:? xtrada

crowdSPRING Blog

When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize a gem submitted in this logo project: The challenge of this project was to create a logo for a business that does automated payments. They were looking for a text based logo with a robot character as part of the “i” Many wonderful designs were submitted in the project, including this cool one from xtrada.

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Drone bills in the Texas Legislature

Austin Startup

What’s still alive with only 5 days left in session? The Texas Capitol captured, appropriately enough, by a drone. Source: Christopher Sherman You might assume that public policy related to drones — or “unmanned aircraft systems” — is strictly limited to the Federal Aviation Administration , but a number of bills were filed during 2017 Texas legislative session that could impact the technology.

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Want to Be Like Amazon?

Duct Tape Marketing

Want to Be Like Amazon? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Bryan Eisenberg. Podcast Transcript. C’mon, how are you going to be like Amazon – I mean, why would you want to? Here’s the thing most don’t realize about Amazon – they do so many things like a small business that they are actually more nimble than much smaller organizations and they can teach small business a ton.

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How to Avoid Being Deceived By Data

ConversionXL

From the outside, it seems like data is impartial. It’s cold, objective, accurate. In reality though it’s more complicated. In the hands of someone with an agenda, data can be weaponized to back up that viewpoint. Even in the hands of someone benevolent, data can be misinterpreted in dangerous ways. Someone who wants to win an argument using data can usually do so. “I like data because it helps me win arguments” – Never has a phrase better revealed someone who doesn’t get

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What’s the Difference Between Small Business and Large Enterprise SEO?

Duct Tape Marketing

What’s the Difference Between Small Business and Large Enterprise SEO? written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Big data and cloud-based software have definitely helped level the playing field for businesses of all sizes. Yet, despite easy access to data and improved large-scale management capabilities, small businesses still have to approach some parts of their business differently.

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