Tue.Mar 19, 2019

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How To Start A New Business

YoungUpstarts

by Amanda Bowman of crowdspring. It’s not easy to start a new business. About two-thirds of businesses with employees survive 2 years and only about half survive five years. Businesses that survive and thrive have an unfair advantage. They’re started and run by people who are prepared for what’s ahead of them. If you want an unfair advantage, we’re here to share 4 of the 12 steps you’ll need to know to get started.

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How to Test and Optimize Your New Business’s Customer Journey

Up and Running

If your business is up and running, you’re probably starting to think about how to grow your revenue and build a successful and sustainable enterprise for the long-term. If your business has an online component, and almost every business does, optimizing the path to a purchase conversion and building a strategy for customer retention is essential. You’re looking at allocating budget, time, and resources to conduct tests on everything you can to figure out what works best.

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Model for Marketing Maturity, Stage Two: Grow

Duct Tape Marketing

Model for Marketing Maturity, Stage Two: Grow written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch on the Model for Marketing Maturity, Stage 2: Grow. This is the second episode in our three-part series on the Model for Marketing Maturity. Want to learn more? Check out Stage 1: Build. The idea behind the marketing maturity model is that every business needs to begin by building the foundation for their marketing.

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[INTERVIEW] Brandon Seigel, President, Wellness Works Management Partners, Madison, Wisconsin

YoungUpstarts

Brandon Seigel is targeting his business talent toward helping health practitioners in private practice, and at the same time filling a niche he recognized when helping a family member shore up a practice that was in a tailspin. Seigel recognized that, while health practitioners in a variety of healthcare roles are passionate about providing health and wellness in their communities, they aren’t often versed in the financial processes that will allow their private practices to prosper.

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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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Good Authority – my book notes

Jeff Hilimire

In 2018 read the book, Good Authority , and found it to be full of great insights on leadership. If that’s a topic you’re into, you should give it a read, but also sign up for the mailing list for my upcoming book, The Five-Day Turnaround ;). Here are the passages I highlighted as I read Good Authority : One idea from the top can spiral into 100 projects for the team and overwhelm them in ways the CEOs can’t even imagine.

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4 Tips For Small Business Online Marketing

YoungUpstarts

Not sure how to launch or improve your small business’s online marketing? Should your business include social media buzzwords in your communication strategy? What type of content is the most alluring? Let’s delve into the top four tips that all small businesses can use to improve their online presence. Expand Your Local SEO. Every brick-and-mortar business on the planet wants more customers.

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Employment Gaps Raise Red Flags, But They Can Be Overcome

YoungUpstarts

by Steven Starks, Senior Career Counselor at University of Phoenix. Throughout the course of a career, working professionals may experience brief or extended gaps of unemployment between positions. While hiring managers understand that these gaps can be caused by a variety of reasons – such as illness, family situations, travel or the inability to find a new job – they can be viewed as red flags.

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Birth of An Entrepreneur

Feld Thoughts

In the past 24 hours, I’ve gotten a bunch of emails with positive feedback about my 81st birthday tribute to my dad and the Storyworth history I posted on how we ended up in Dallas. I woke up this morning to another Storyworth history from him, this time titled Birth Of An Entrepreneur: Brad Feld. I read it and loved it, especially since it reflected so significantly on how integral he was to the entrepreneurial path I ended up on.

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The Smartest Most Unsympathetic Guys in the Room: Tech's Responsibility Going Forward

This is going to be BIG.

I'm a bit tired of tweeting, donating, protesting, etc. to end gun violence--so I'll take a different tact in the wake of the Christchurch shooting. If you're an investor, employee, or just user of a large media distribution network, please ask the hard questions about the responsibilities of those platforms to prevent the spread of hate and violence--again and again until these platforms take their role seriously.

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Exceptional Leaders Learn Faster To Lead Further

YFS Magazine

In today's marketplace change seems to happen at lightning speed, making it essential for leaders to learn faster and apply knowledge systematically.

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Startup Feature: Football, Tennis, and Rugby Sports and Safety Surfaces

The Startup Magazine

The sports facilities services can give the right thought in UK. so the specialists can carry various projects from all over the country. It is one of the ways which gives the right deal to get experiences. There are more companies designs can be manufactured in artificial grass surfaces for the sports and leisure has landscape applications. And it can perform consistently to look natural in any kind of climate.

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OJO Labs Raises an Additional $45 Million in Venture Capital

SiliconHills

OJO Labs, an artificial intelligence startup, has raised $45 million in additional funding. The Austin-based company plans to use the funds to accelerate its development and market expansion. It plans to hire more employees in the areas of engineering, data science, product and design. The Series C funding round is being led by LiveOak Venture […].

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Forensic Accounting: When Do You Need It

The Startup Magazine

The need for forensic accounting is fast growing in this day and age. Private individuals, as well as big corporations, rely on forensic accountants when they need to resort to court action to address their problems. For company owners, forensic accounting is critical to uncovering fraud carried out by their employees. More importantly, forensic accountants now play a major role in investigating crimes that are conducted over the Internet.

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10 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Product Licensing

YFS Magazine

Product licensing is an efficient way to turn a business idea into a product that's ready for sale. Here's a look at ten clear benefits.

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The Sales Team Dos and Don’ts for Creating Content

Duct Tape Marketing

The Sales Team Dos and Don’ts for Creating Content written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Content creation falls squarely in the domain of your marketing team, right? Yes, it’s true that marketers set strategy and create the content that supports that vision. But no team is an island, and in reality, it’s the sales team that is out there interacting with prospects and customers each and every day.

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Escaping the Modern Business SQUEEZE

Growthink Blog

The daily reality at too many companies is just a series of squeezes: Pricing squeezes driven by aggressive competition and ever-higher customer demands Margin squeezes driven by shrinking gaps between employee profitability potential and their pay expectations And ideas and innovation squeezes between the changes that executives know are needed at their companies… …and their […].

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Idea Generation Fails, or, How to Hose Your Next Ideation Session

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Idea Generation Fails. How to Hose Your Next Idea Generation Project*. If you want to improve , get the training. This post is a self-explanatory graphic for the most part. Those who regularly do Idea Generation don’t need my text below (but don’t be smug, even one of these fails can do you in). I posted this graphic on LinkedIn a couple days ago it got so much attention I thought I’d do a bit of explaining.