Tue.Jan 09, 2018

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Key Tips For Bridging the Generational Divide In The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

by Kelly Riggs and Robby Riggs, co-authors of “ Counter Mentor Leadership: How to Unlock the Potential of the 4-Generation Workplace “ Millennials now make up the largest percentage of the workforce. As workers, they’re characterized as brazen, fearless and unwilling to take “no” for an answer. Their assuredness and technological expertise have radically changed office dynamics.

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How to Write a Cleaning Service Marketing Plan

Up and Running

Finding new clients is hard for just about any business, but the task can be especially difficult for cleaning services businesses. Why? Here’s my honest opinion—there are a lot of people out there who don’t want to admit they have their house cleaned by a professional. In my mind, allowing yourself a little free time to enjoy a professionally cleaned house isn’t anything to be ashamed of.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen. My friend sat in the conference room, and Cohen walked in. He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success.

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Salesforce Analyst Summit: A solid B

deal architect

I prefer going to vendor analyst summits over user conferences. I always feel like I am intruding on customer time at conferences. Salesforce hosted an analyst summit last week. Here are my scores: Venue: A The venue was to say.

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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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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen. My friend sat in the conference room, and Cohen walked in. He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success.

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Oracle Database: Solid for Now

deal architect

Kicking the year off, Information.com ran a story which said “But Mr. Ellison’s comments about Amazon and Salesforce don’t tell the whole story. In reality, both companies are actively working to replace Oracle software running on critical business systems with.

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The Benefits Of Business Car Leasing

YoungUpstarts

If you haven’t come across the expression before, business car leasing is a way in which SMEs can run company cars with low monthly payments, the maximum miles are set for the contract period which is normally between two and four years. Every month you pay a rental for the lease of the car and once the contract period ends you give the car back and start over again.

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5 Ways To Boost Your Happiness And Productivity

YFS Magazine

Something had to change. Here's a look at five solutions that I’ve found extremely helpful to boost my productivity and happiness.

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5 Tips to Planning Your Honeymoon in Cannes

The Startup Magazine

Entrepreneurs desire and deserve great vacations, and exotic locales and unique destinations appeal to your adventurous side. Cannes is one of the most prolific holiday destinations in the French Riviera. Blessed with a year-round idyllic climate, it has grown to become a trendy playground for international celebrities and other jet-setters. From its humble origins as a fishing port in the 1830s, Cannes is now a tasteful and extravagant stomping ground for the wealthy.

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6 Simple Tips To Design An E-Commerce Website That Converts

YFS Magazine

Need to boost online sales? These 6 tips are proven strategies designed to increase your website conversion rate and overall customer experience.

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How to Maximise Your Training Impact as a Corporate Trainer

The Startup Magazine

If you are a corporate trainer, then you will want to have the best impact that you possible can on your trainees. To an extent this means that you need to focus on delivering good sessions, and on engaging with your trainees. Your own personality and that of the people that you work with will always have some impact on the effectiveness of your sessions, but these tips will help you to produce the best results for most clients.

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Veteran-owned Business Closing The Gap Between Gender and Work Leadership Gaps

Hearpreneur

Every business needs support at some point in its development, especially financial. Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA) steps in to offer the much-needed support by offering various services. One of their services include provision of valuable information through market intelligence groups. We had a chance to interview Dr. Gordon and asked about their story, how they have made it to this far and the future of FCEDA.

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Understanding, Narrowing, and Choosing Your Ideal Client

Duct Tape Marketing

Understanding, Narrowing, and Choosing Your Ideal Client written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In marketing today it’s common to hear that you must know who your target audience is in order to be effective with your marketing. This mostly implies that you determine the makeup of a market that your business is most likely to attract.

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28 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Affect Your Business and Life in 2018

crowdSPRING Blog

Image courtesy of Chris Sampson. Like it or not, the machines are claiming new territory. And by “machines” I mean artificial intelligence (AI). Our business and personal lives are touched by AI every day. That friendly lady who took your information and looked up your account when you called your insurance company? A robot. That helpful service on Netflix that recommends new shows to watch?

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Korean University at Consumer Electronics Show

Campus Entrepreneurship

While perusing through the Consumer Electronics Show website I noticed a University Innovations section for exhibitors, from there I found a list of featured innovators — assuming that means they paid extra for marketing dollars. A few of the featured include, Case Western University (with a heavy presence), the University of Nevada Las Vegas (the Shark and Guy Fieri?

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You can’t be successful reporting to two managers

Eric Friedman

I attended a great breakfast session with former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, put on by TechNYC , and it was a great reminder of the title of this post. During breakfast he talked about the MTA, and the governance of the system. If you have been following things at home you know it is a mess and has been for quite some time. Between the city of New York getting the brunt of commuter complaints, the governors actual responsibility, and the federal governments meek involvement – this trifecta ha

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Supporting Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund

Feld Thoughts

Yesterday, my partners at Foundry Group announced financial support for the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund. We strongly believe that sexual harassment is unacceptable in any form. While there can be a debate about whether sexual harassment is about sex, power, or something else, there’s an additional pernicious element of it when the harasser threatens to sue the person being harassed.

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What 5 books would you recommend above all others? Here are mine…

Jeff Hilimire

First off, I would LOVE your answer to this question! I would bet everyone has books that have made a big impact on their lives. I was thinking recently about books that I loved above all others or that have made the biggest impact on my life. And as I work to read more – one book a week in 2018! – I want to make sure I keep reading impactful books.

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