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4 Ways Start-Ups Can Make Their Virtual Meetings More Productive

YoungUpstarts

by Brian Zeng, owner of Ponbee.com. “We spend as much as half our days in meetings.” – ‘ State of Modern Meeting ’ by Blue Jeans Network. It is therefore essential for business owners to think of ways to make meetings more productive and reduce the time spent in the conference rooms. This will not only ensure higher productivity and better efficiency within the organization, but the employees will be better engaged.

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Are You And Your New Venture Positioned For Success?

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the most diligent investors are often surprised by apparently solid business startups that fail, while others succeed, despite the odds. In my own experience as an investor, I have concluded that success is more about the people than the product. The best founders operate with a key set of internal principles that allow them to break through all but the toughest business obstacles.

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How To Keep Up In Our Job-Jumping Society

The Startup Magazine

The average person will change jobs ten to fifteen times, according to the Balance , a source of personal finance and career information. As 87 percent of workers within the age of 25 to 29 have an average length of employment of fewer than five years and a similar percentage for those within the ages of 30 to 34, workers need to be constantly ready to pick up new opportunities.

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More Slow-Motion Automation

deal architect

In this Strategy+Business article I summarized a century of automation from Silicon Collar like UPC scanners in groceries and ATM machines in banking and related impact of jobs. The summary: History shows that new technologies evolve faster than society adopts.

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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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Seven Leadership Tips That Make People Feel Great And Achieve Incredible Results

YoungUpstarts

by Jon Gordon, author of “ The Power of Positive Leadership: How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World “ Any business leader will tell you that running a world-class organization is no easy feat. It’s challenging to work toward a vision and create a positive future for you and your team, especially since you are guaranteed to face all kinds of challenges, adversity, negativity, and tests along the way.

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Stop making minimum viable products

The Next Web

If a week is a long time in politics, it’s an epoch in the world of startups. Things change on the toss of a coin, unicorns are made and businesses broken with just one unfortunate decision. With an industry reaching global levels of saturation, certain things have changed irrevocably. One of those is our now outdated concept of Minimal Viable Product.

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How to succeed as a millennial woman entrepreneur

The Next Web

Female entrepreneurs have now become a powerful force in today’s competitive business world. The number of businesses owned by women is rapidly increasing day by day. Women are running 30% of the U.S. businesses and employ approximately eight million workers. Women-owned firms provide one in seven employment opportunities in privately-owned businesses, Womenable.com reports.

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Why It’s The Best Time To Start A Business In The U.S.

YFS Magazine

The climate around American business is an uncertain one. But the picture is not all doom and gloom - far from it. Here's what you should know.

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How Ottawa is Attracting Tech Talent

The Startup Magazine

Recent reports show Ottawa as the most attractive tech hub in Canada with the best cost of living and second best average salary. Located in the same timezone as New York and Boston, it is increasingly becoming a promising city for job-seeking tech talent looking north. Alongside its affordable living conditions, both local agencies and the government play a key role in the growth of its tech scene.

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How To Grow An Engaged Instagram Following

YFS Magazine

Do you ever wonder: "How do I grow my Instagram account?" Perhaps you've considered, "How can I use Instagram to grow my business?".

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Join the Startup Opportunities Launch Team

Feld Thoughts

We are getting ready to launch the 2nd Edition of Startup Opportunities. Sean and I are working with Jesse Tevelow, a founder from the very first Techstars Boulder program, on this launch. If you are interested in helping out, join our Startup Opportunities Launch Team. You can also join the Facebook Launch Team Group. There is a lot more coming soon.

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Why robots should have rights

Start Up Blog

Up until very recently, I used to think it was a ridiculous idea for robots to have rights. You can even hear me say that on a recent Future Sandwich podcast I was featured in. But, I’ve changed my mind. And here’s why. The incredible science fiction TV series Westworld is solely responsible for this change of. Continue reading → The post Why robots should have rights appeared first on Steve Sammartino.

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Wandering Around Cambridge

Feld Thoughts

It’s a gray and rainy early summer day in Cambridge. As I was walking home from dinner last night through Kendall Square, I had a thought as I passed the Otto Piene designed Galaxy Earth Sphere sculpture. “I will never be lost here.” I lived in Cambridge for four years when I was an undergrad at MIT. I then lived in Boston for eight more years after moving across the river to downtown while running Feld Technologies.

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Why Good Design is More Important Than Ever for Your Business

crowdSPRING Blog

As we enter into a new golden age of design, good design has never been more important to the success of a business. Consumer awareness of good design is at an all-time high, thanks to companies like Apple , Target , and Starbucks , who make design a top priority. The most successful companies know there are compelling reasons to prioritize design to improve the odds of success.

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Three Apps Parents Should Know About

The Startup Magazine

Being a parent is hard. Kids need an education, good food, good sleep and entertainment and in the first eighteen years of their lives, this comes down largely to the parents. With schools integrating tech into the everyday classroom and most newly released entertainment products tech based, quick-learning children already have their fingers twitching over keyboards and sliding down screens long before they even enter school.

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Monday Morning Motivation – Gary Vaynerchuk is Fearless

Hearpreneur

This motivational videos is for entrepreneurs and business owners to start the week off on the right foot. The title of this video is “I Hate Gary Varynerchuck.” This was modern day “click bait” because the video actually turned into a celebration of Gary Varynerchuk and a celebration of his “fearlessness.” Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do for the rest of my life?

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June 20 event: Tech and Transportation

Austin Startup

RSVP here! Austin Tech Alliance and General Assembly are joining forces to host civic leaders working to combine the world of tech and transportation. At this exclusive keynote and panel event at WeWork Congress, we’ll host thought-leaders from the City of Austin and the transportation industry to explore new intersections between their fields and technology: Keynote: Rob Spillar , Director, Austin Transportation Department Product preview: Chris Nielsen , Founder & CEO, Electric Cab North A

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What to Do When Your Business Hits a Rough Patch

Up and Running

Just three years after launching, FedEx was burning a million dollars per month just to stay afloat. Cash supplies were dwindling and the outlook was grim. With just five thousand dollars in the bank and a five-figure monthly fuel bill, the curtain was about to drop. With few other options, FedEx founder Fred Smith flew to Las Vegas and sat down at a blackjack table.

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Five Ways Incivility Decapitates Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

A Culture of Incivility Harms USA Innovation. Five Ways Incivility “Decapitates” Innovation. The recent flap around Kathy Griffin’s posting a picture of a fake severed head, of our President, was a sad attempt at humor, but incredibly successful at provocation. It’s brought up the discussion, once again, of the civility of our discourse in America.