Tue.Jul 18, 2017

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Six Big Problems You’ll Solve When You Apply Design Thinking To Your Learning And Development 

YoungUpstarts

by Jack J. Phillips, PhD, and Patti Phillips, PhD, are coauthors of “ The Business Case for Learning: Using Design Thinking to Deliver Business Results and Increase the Investment in Talent Development “ It’s no secret that learning and development departments are in a tough spot. Though businesses rely on skilled employees, CEOs and other senior leaders today are far more skeptical about the payoff of the learning and development programs that create those skills — and far mor

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How to fail gracefully

David Cohen

Of course nobody wants their startup to fail, but the fact is that it happens and it’s a completely normal part of company building. Investors understand this and realize that failure is often a part of the process. If your company has failed, make sure you go out of your way to let all of your investors know what’s going on. At Techstars, part of our Code of Conduct is to communicate with your investors at least every six months.

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How Founders Can Become Better Leaders

Up and Running

Dr. James R. Bailey, of George Washington University School of Business and the Centre for Management Development, London Business School. As a founder, you’ve probably been focused on writing your business plan , building out your financial forecasts to position yourself to get funding, and managing the day-to-day minutia of running a business. But have you thought about how your leadership skills and your ability to shape positive company culture can affect your startup’s survival ?

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Designing a digital health platform for Generations X & Y: What you can learn

The Startup Magazine

Designing a user experience for both Generation Y and Generation X is not simple. They’re demanding, they’re used to fast, easily streamed, top quality, low cost products and top customer service. It’s definitely easier when built by a young team, aligned with the generations’ mindsets. The mobile generation. Generations X and Y are known for being constantly on their phone; it’s how they read the news, catch up with friends, shop, play games, track their health and fitness, check the weather fo

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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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What Customers Mean to our Startup

Austin Startup

Note that got left by a customer. Last week I had the honor of speaking at the “Engineers turned Entrepreneurs” panel at the 3 Day Startup Global Roundup. Having graduated as an Electrical Engineer and worked as a Software Engineer at IBM, I felt I perfectly fit the bill. Since I’ve been doing my own startups for the past couple of years, I got excited about the opportunity to share some of the wonderful-yet-painful lessons learned through this journey.

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How Can Employers Cut Back On the Productivity Loss Due to Smoking Breaks?

The Startup Magazine

Whether you work in a building full of thousands of people or a small team of less than ten workers, maximising the productivity of each and every employee is vital for any business to succeed. However whilst the quality of each of these workers is (hopefully) undeniable, being human means the vast majority if not all of them will fall victim to distractions of some sorts.

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How to stand out from the crowd in an interview

The Startup Magazine

Got an interview coming up? Want to stand out from the crowd? Then read on to discover some great tips for success. Do your research. Before the interview, do research on the company and about the specific role. Go through the job description and specification; and think of examples of how your skills and experiences match their needs. This preparation will help you to demonstrate how you could make a valued contribution to the organisation.

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Curating On-Demand Content For Your Readers

Brandanew

I just came across SFMOMA’s fantastic text response service. Send a text with your mood or keywords, and they send you back a relevant art-work. This curation process has so many possibilities! Imagine were curating on-demand content your readers who are interested in various topics. You could send it at a moment’s notice. Using text as the main platform to send/ receive these content pieces makes art extremely accessible.

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Ecommerce in the Middle East: Amazon’s entrance and difficult legislation

The Next Web

In the last couple of years, entrepreneurs across the Middle East have launched new products, businesses, and shown the possibility of creating a vibrant startup scene similar to Europe and the United States. Startups from the region have shown great promise with big exists. One such example is the recent acquisition of Souq, an ecommerce player that got acquired by Amazon for close to $800 million.

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How To Handle Unreasonable Client Requests

YFS Magazine

At many points in my career, I’ve been faced with the predicament of sky-high performance expectations that can’t be fulfilled. Here's how I handle it.

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Legitimate Front’s She on Rock Band

Feld Thoughts

Readers of this blog likely know that my partners Jason and Ryan have a band called Legitimate Front. You also probably know I’m on the board of Defy Ventures. And it’s likely you know that we are investors in Harmonix. When you mix all three, you get a new DLC for Rock Band from Legitimate Front. Their song, She, is now available to play on Rock Band.

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A Great Tool for Taking a Slice of the Pizza Market

The Startup Magazine

Of all the restaurant franchise opportunities on the market today, how many of them can you truly call “game-changing”? Disruption in the pizza market is a rarity. Over the last century or so, pizza pie has become as American as an apple pie, but it has also taken on a distinctly different form from its multiple-centuries-old Italian counterpart. In some ways, the Americanization of pizza is a story of heroic innovation, grand expansion from small beginnings, and a “taste revolution.

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We Need A Massive Remote-Worker Hiring Spree In The American Heartland

Transformify

The 2016 election laid bare multiple divisions in American society, but one of the biggest is geographical. In major cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, people are generally doing well (if not equally so), while many places situated far from urban business centers aren’t. Remarkably, faith in the American dream runs highestin locales where social mobility is lowest.

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5 Successful Rebrands And What You Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

A brand is more than the company name and logo, but a strong brand starts with a great name and logo design. As we previously explained : A brand is the sum total of the experience your prospects and customers have with your company. A strong brand communicates what your company does, how it does it, and at the same time, establishes trust and credibility with your prospects and customers.

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Questions Worth Asking

Bryce Dot VC

That number. I hadn’t seen that number pop up on my phone in years. 12 years to be exact. I’ve thought a lot about the conversation I had the last time that number popped up on my phone. I can still remember where I was standing, the time of day and the way the air felt on my skin as I sat on the stoop in front of my house as I answered that call. It was the fall of 2005 and we were in the final stretches of closing our first fund.

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Famous Logos And What Your Business Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

Every company wants to be popular and for its logo to be instantly recognizable and famous. In fact, some entrepreneurs think that companies become famous because they have great logos. That’s only partially correct. For example, Nike, McDonald’s, and Coca-Cola have instantly recognizable and famous logos but each has spent hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars to promote their brands.

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In-House vs. Hiring an SEO Professional: Which Path Should You Choose?

Duct Tape Marketing

In-House vs. Hiring an SEO Professional: Which Path Should You Choose? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Search Engine Optimization is an essential part of the marketing mix today – few businesses can afford to ignore or abdicate this tactic. If you have a well-optimized website, and a content-driven SEO strategy , you are guaranteed to improve your rankings.

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Keep Your Business Pot Boiling

The Startup Magazine

Everyone that has ever tried and succeeded to start a business knows how hard it is to keep that momentum that you had at the beginning when things simply went hand-in-hand with perfect results. We have compiled a list of five factors that you need to keep a close eye on in order to keep your business pot as hot as in the beginning. And it doesn’t really matter the domain that you’re into, keep reading and you will see that it can be applied to your business as well.

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Product Analytics: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Data for Better Product Decisions

ConversionXL

I remember the first time that a client told me how much analytics had helped their business. They were able to increase their sign up rate for their product by 22% while reducing their marketing costs. It wasn’t magic or fancy tactics. They simply used their analytics data to make informed decisions. They didn’t have to guess or take huge bets. They knew exactly what was working and what they needed to do more of.

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Product Analytics: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Data for Better Product Decisions

ConversionXL

I remember the first time that a client told me how much analytics had helped their business. They were able to increase their sign up rate for their product by 22% while reducing their marketing costs. It wasn’t magic or fancy tactics. They simply used their analytics data to make informed decisions. They didn’t have to guess or take huge bets. They knew exactly what was working and what they needed to do more of.

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