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The US is a leader in Clean!

deal architect

The French President tweeted yesterday "Tonight the United States has turned its back on the world, but France will not turn its back on Americans," He is talking about President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord. Turned.

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E-commerce Is So Easy, Anyone Can Do It

YoungUpstarts

If you want the easiest business possibility to get right for budding entrepreneurs, it’s ecommerce. Before we get into why this is, let’s explain e-commerce. Ecommerce used to be the sale of goods and services over the phone. Then the internet came along and opened up a whole new world of possibilities. Now, we can sell goods and services online, all over the world to literally massive audiences.

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10 Behavioral Tips To Raise Your Cool Factor At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business professional needs to stay cool under pressure, to be a top performer, and for the sake of their own health. Yet everyone has a melting point – a critical threshold where pressure causes them to respond irrationally. Many people believe their threshold is permanently set by family genetics, or cultural influences, but I believe anyone can train themselves to stay cool.

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Two Major Supreme Court Decisions on Patents

Feld Thoughts

In moments of political despair, Amy reminds me that we have three branches of government. Around issues that I care a lot about and have engaged in over the years, the Judicial Branch seems to be the most functional right now, at least from my perspective. This was reinforced by two things this week. The first was a conversation Jason and I had with senior staffers of a non-Colorado senator.

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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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Employee Retention: 7 Ways To Attract And Keep Top Talent

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin Faber, founder of Silver Summit Capital. In today’s business world, the ongoing battle to increase profit and competitive advantage rages on like never before. But the playing field has become more crowded and leveled out. As a result, more and more organizations are realizing that their greatest assets are their employees. And as the trend of employees changing jobs every three years continues to gain traction, organizations need to do all they can to attract and retain top talent.

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What Startups Can Learn From Amazon’s Annual Letter To Shareholders

YFS Magazine

Jeff Bezos led his team to create a company more valuable than many of its peers combined. 

He created a company that not only survived – but thrived.




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5 Ways To Retain Top Talent Without Paying More

YFS Magazine

There’s nothing worse spending time, money, and energy training employees to be the best, just to have them walk out on you a year or two later.

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Are You Wasting Your Potential?

YoungUpstarts

The employment world is absolutely filled with young people working jobs that they hate and get absolutely no satisfaction from. The real tragedy of this is that so many of those people could well be doing something more with their lives, but they let a combination of fear and comfort stand in their way. Rather than chasing down what they really want, thousands of young people are willing to let their potential go to waste because it’s just easier to stay in one place rather than taking a

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Everfest Raises $3.6 Million in VC Funding

SiliconHills

Everfest, a festival aggregation and promotions site, announced this week it has raised $3.6 million in funding. Live Nation co-led the series A round along with ATX Seed Ventures. Other investors included Red Frog Events, Chip Conley and Bob Kagle. The company plans to use the funds to hire key employees and on product development […] The post Everfest Raises $3.6 Million in VC Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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You’ve Got Your Degree – What Next?

YoungUpstarts

This summer marks the end of an era for those graduating in 2017- and after three or four years of solid work, you can finally collect your hard earned degree. But what do you do next? Some people have a clear plan and have their lives mapped out, but others might be a bit more unsure- or just plan on taking it as it comes. If you’re wondering what to do now you’ve gained your undergrad degree, here are a few options to consider: Go on a Gap Year.

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The Language of Innovation

Start Up Blog

In my adult life, I’ve learned to speak two foreign languages. During my studies I came to the conclusion that it is very difficult to truly understand a culture, until you can speak its language(s). There are nuances and belief systems locked inside the words of a culture. The way a culture’s words are put together, how. Continue reading → The post The Language of Innovation appeared first on Steve Sammartino.

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Sexual harassment: where there’s smoke there’s usually fire

David Cohen

It’s an unfortunate fact in our industry that people (mostly women) still regularly deal with harassment and assault in the workplace. Not only is this tragic for the individuals involved, but it is also driving talented women away from what is often a male-dominated tech and startup culture. Adding to the problem is that the victims often become the accused, and find themselves under scrutiny.

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48in48 Boston here we come!

Jeff Hilimire

I’m boarding a flight in a few hours to Boston, where we will be holding the fourth 48in48 event! I can barely believe we’ve held three of these events already (Atlanta in 2015, and New York + Atlanta in 2016). And get this, our event this weekend is the first of four this year (Boston, Minneapolis, Atlanta, New York)! Each of our events – where we bring 250+ web designers and developers together to build 48 nonprofit websites in 48 hours – brings $1.5 million of donated

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15 Tips for Turning Your Craft Hobby Into a Successful Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Are you a crafter? Does plucking an idea from your brain and crafting it into a reality with your very own hands make your heart sing? If so, you may have said to yourself at some point, “I wish I could do this for a living.”. The amazing news is that you can. The market for hand-made crafts is growing. Etsy, the internet’s largest crafting marketplace has reported steady revenue increases since 2015.

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How to minimize customer acquisition costs

Duct Tape Marketing

How to minimize customer acquisition costs written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If it costs too much to bring in customers, you’re quickly going to find yourself treading water. You congratulate your staff on the sale (keep it going!), yet your marketing spends translates into zero net gain–or even a loss in some cases. Continue treading these waters and you’ll need a life vest.