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Top Six Emerging Trends For Group Health Insurance In India

YoungUpstarts

Health insurance has seen quite a few events in India. With growth in economy, prosperity, and awareness, individuals are more inclined to negotiate, avail and use services like group insurance benefits. For employers, as well, group insurance schemes like health, critical illness, life and superannuation have offered an inexpensive way to attract talent and differentiate themselves as a mor e attractive employer.

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

Light a path for the better angels. Thank you, Chancellor McLellan, President Florizone, Dean Charlebois, Dr. Hewitt, and Dr. Kilfoil for the invitation to speak today and thank you for the honorary degree. I’m honored to speak at a university whose motto is: Pray and Work. It’s pretty close to the one I had as an entrepreneur, which was – Pray it Will Work. — First, my congratulations.

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All Interviewers Watch Out For These Traits

YoungUpstarts

Are you stuck in a rut on the job market? If you are it’s possible that you’re simply not giving the right impression to potential employers. If you apply for a popular position or job, you could be up against at least a few hundred other candidates. They are all going to be eager to impress and make sure they’re the one that walks away with the prize.

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Mary Meeker’s Internet And Digital Trends for 2017

Brandanew

The much awaited Mary Meeker digital trends report is out. Lo and behold, Internet growth is stagnating if you take out India. India still is at only 27% Internet penetration so there’s a lot of growth opportunity. It makes me wonder how connected we will be when the next billion is online. Here are some of my favorite key takeaways: Mary Meeker’s Key Internet and Digital Trends for 2017.

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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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Why we expanded our startup to South Korea

The Next Web

Regardless of where your startup resides, you should always monitor where else in the world your product is gaining traction. Expanding to a new country can lead to a larger client base, a foothold in another market, more media exposure, and more investors. Additionally, if the expansion goes well, you’ll have also demonstrated the adaptability and versatility of your product on a world stage.

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3 Ways Your Start-Up Can Project A Professional Image

YoungUpstarts

A term that you may have heard before – image is everything. Although this isn’t entirely true when it comes to business, image does play an important role in the success of your business. It takes 0.1 seconds to form a lasting impression of a stranger, so you want to project a professional image, whether it’s your personal image or your business’s.

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Tips For Opening A Successful Coffee Shop

YoungUpstarts

If you are like most people, your day cannot start well until you have coffee. When you consider the number of people who drink coffee on a daily basis, you will see that it is good for business. Here are some tips that you should follow if you want to open up your own coffee shop: Create a Plan. One of the most serious steps that you can take toward opening your own coffee shop is creating a solid plan.

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People who say “fail fast” have probably never failed

The Next Web

We humans have fear of failure baked into our DNA. If our ancestors stuck around a little longer to gather a couple extra nuts, they might risk being the last one remaining in the group and the first one to get eaten by a nearby predator. The danger of being eaten (hopefully!) remains in the distant past, but a vestigial fear of taking risks remains.

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How To Make The Most Of Your Small Startup Office

YoungUpstarts

When you first launched your business, you were full of ideas about the office you were going to open, complete with nap pods, gourmet staff cafes and hi-tech break areas to make Google’s headquarters look naff. And then you started looking at rent and square footage and locations, and very quickly you realised why most dream offices never actually become a reality – and it’s all to do with money.

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9 Steps To Find And Connect With Your Brand Tribe

YFS Magazine

These days, everyone from marketers and entrepreneurs to VCs need to know what makes their audience tick; what they want, and how they look for it.

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Go Global, Stay Local

YoungUpstarts

by Gail Martin, author of “ The Essential Social Media Marketing Handbook: A New Roadmap for Maximizing Your Brand, Influence, and Credibility “ Whether your company is purely local or has a global footprint, you need to be active and visible on social media. Why? Because your prospects and customers expect you to be findable online, and will consider your absence to be suspicious, perhaps even unprofessional.

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littleBits Code Kit

Feld Thoughts

littleBits just shipped their newest product – the littleBits Code Kit. If you have a kid, this product is for you (and them). littleBits Code Kit leverages kids love of games to learn to code. It uses Google Blockly which has rapidly become a popular visual editor. My favorite line from a teacher so far is that littleBits Code Kit is “better than recess”, citing a situation where students would rather stay in the classroom and invent with Code Kit instead of going out to rece

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Chris Taylor Built Square Root into a Thriving Software Company in Austin with no Outside Investment

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Publisher and Reporter with Silicon Hills News As a kid growing up in rural West Virginia, Chris Taylor launched his first entrepreneurial venture, ranching turtles. In the summertime, he would capture turtles from the woods and create a “Turtle Ranch” that people would pay $1 to visit. At the end of the […] The post Chris Taylor Built Square Root into a Thriving Software Company in Austin with no Outside Investment appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Fresh from the SPRING: prasoonmohantk

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/app icon for a billiard game app. Designers were to pit the 8 ball vs. the 9 ball in a sword duel using pool cues. Let us start the slow clap for prasoonmohantk.

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Latinitas Volunteer Spotlight: T.C. Waugh

Austin Startup

T.C. Waugh is an experienced entrepreneur, marketer, and philanthropist. Before returning to his hometown of Austin, he spent much of his life in Mexico and Argentina; his wife Giselle is from Uruguay. Originally trained in the world of advertising and marketing for the U.S. Hispanic market, he also has vast experience in the field of sales and marketing of mass market and luxury consumer goods through traditional media, online channels, and social media.

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Company of Origin

OnlyOnce

Most psychologists, and lots of executive coaches, end up talking to their clients about their “Family of Origin” as a means of more deeply understanding the origins of their clients’ motivations, fears, hopes, and dreams. Presumably they do this in service of helping their clients gain self-awareness around those things to be more effective in their personal or professional lives.

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How to Stay Top of Mind

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Stay Top of Mind written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Hall. Podcast Transcript. Guiding today’s customer journey means staying top of mind at every stage. Like so many things today that often involves content, but there’s so much more. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is John Hall.

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Organizational Tips For Small Businesses Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

It’s easy for a business to become busy and forget about the organization of your files, forms and equipment. You may not even notice that you’re working in chaos, that is, until it’s unavoidable to face the facts, or that the clutter has caused a costly mistake. It’s difficult to continue making money if your business is disorderly. In fact, your employees may become unhappy in their environment, or important information is lost and not relayed to the person in need of it; ultimately, losing mo

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Is your budget a forecast? When do you change mid-course?

Berkonomics

Hold it! These are confusing terms. When does a budget become obsolete? Do we rely upon constant changes and call it a forecast? So, let’s spend a few moments defining this sometimes-confusing set of terms. A budget should be created each year after a series of negotiations between departmental managers and their superiors all he way yup to the CEO, all in support of the next year’s tactics previously agreed upon (which in turn support the longer-term strategies leading to the next goal beyond)

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Proof Email Marketing Converts Leads Into Customers

Duct Tape Marketing

Proof Email Marketing Converts Leads Into Customers written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As a small business, lead conversion can mean a lot of things to different people. Most likely you can think of a handful of things yourself. Someone signed up for your newsletter, clicked on a call-to-action, opened an email, visited your website, filled out a form or downloaded an ebook….

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Texas Gender War

Austin Startup

This is a letter to the mayor of Austin from a man that was trying to boycott the woman only showing of Wonder Woman. Seems to be an outbreak of gender war in my hometown, which doesn’t surprise me because I believe I am a bi-product of its bipolar extremes in cultural gender roles. Let me break it down through my response to this man’s letter and it’s arguments: I hope every man will boycott Austin and do what he can to diminish Austin and to cause damage to the city’s image.

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