Sun.Feb 18, 2018

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6 Dream Team Members Will Energize Any Tech Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. That’s why investors say they invest in people (bet on the jockey, not the horse), rather than the idea. Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team.

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Tips For Business Owners To Reply To Their Reviews

YoungUpstarts

It is a very difficult task to start a small business. There are many other companies that you will need to compete with. You also must be good at putting together a budget and managing your finances. However, one of the things that few small business owners are prepared for involves replying to online reviews they receive. The Internet has created a place where consumers are instantly able to give their opinion on just about anything.

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Why corporations are starting their own in-house ad agencies

The Next Web

Last fall, the telecommunications company Sprint created an in-house digital ad agency, signaling a major shift in the company’s advertising strategy. At the time, I thought, “there goes another one.” A major brand trying to become more nimble, gain control of the ad buying process and save money — during a time when confusion and frustration is mounting in digital advertising.

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What Do Cyber Professionals Teach Children About Security?

YoungUpstarts

by Amy Burnis of CyberArk . School break is over, and children have returned to school armed with new phones, laptops and other devices. I witnessed the excitement of a pair of primary fours receiving laptops for Christmas. I can’t recall what I wanted at that age — probably games or a bike — but surely a laptop wasn’t on my list. I watched one sister help the other to set up her laptop.

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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 Game of Thrones can teach you about developing your organization

The Next Web

My first reaction after having finished watching the seventh season of Game of Thrones was probably the same as yours: We have to wait until 2019 for the final season?! I mean, it’s six episodes, some of this should be on cruise control at this point, no? But, like a fine wine cultivated from the best grapes, GoT will not rush its final season to market until its creators are absolutely, positively convinced it’s ready.

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Is A Business Credit Card An Essential For Your New Startup?

YoungUpstarts

When you first start a business, finance is usually one of the biggest concerns. Even if you have all of the capital you need to start up, or are running a business that doesn’t require too much by way of initial investment to get off of the ground, you do need a strategy for how you will handle money coming into and out of the business. One financial product that could help with this are small business credit cards.

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