Fri.Jan 05, 2018

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The End of ‘Do Not Disturb’?

YoungUpstarts

These are disturbing times. A few days before Christmas, four Walt Disney World hotels in Orlando replaced their “do not disturb” signs with ones that read “room occupied.” A Disney employee is now required to enter every room at least once every 24 hours. Disney told The New York Times it plans to make the same change at all Disney World resorts, as well as at Disneyland properties in Anaheim, California.

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4 Elements of Great Storytelling, Backed by Neuroscience

Austin Startup

Content marketing is in a crisis. Once you sign up for a few brand newsletters, you get pounded with the same generic how-to articles. How to Use Social Media to Boost Your Small Business. How to Make Your Team More Productive. How to Save Money for Your Kid’s Future. And, most ironically, How to Deal With Email Overload. The onslaught of the status quo drives us crazy because, deep down, we all know this strategy doesn’t work.

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Are we Heading Towards a Cyber-security Meltdown?

YoungUpstarts

Photo credit: meltdownattack.com. You’ve probably seen the terms Meltdown and Spectre this week. Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with James Bond, though the news might get your heart racing. Information was recently leaked that nearly every computer, smartphone, tablet, laptop and cloud system in the world is subject to critical vulnerabilities in modern processors.

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Walmart’s Been On A Buying Spree. Which Company Could It Acquire Next?

Up and Running

Walmart’s $3.3B acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. Driven by Lore, Walmart acquired e-commerce platform Shoebuy in January 2017, followed by outdoor apparel retailer Moosejaw in February, womenswear site Modcloth in March, direct-to-consumer premium mens

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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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Focus

Eric Friedman

Coming to the end of the last year with so many meetings, I wanted to make focus one of my themes for 2018. One easy way to do this is to focus on less. I wanted to set a “goal” of only doing a certain number of things, but that seemed like spending time on the negative vs. the positive. In this case, a theme of focus accomplishes my macro goal; make the things I am working on successful.

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Which Line of Credit Financing is Best for Your Business?

The Startup Magazine

Business establishments go through different financial phases and therefore, whether you are just beginning or a little bit old in it, you may need some cash to pump in your business at some point. Your ability to access cash is an important aspect to help your business withstand the test of time. Financing decisions are as critical as development and hiring decisions.

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Authors Help to End the Epidemic of Toxic Workplaces & Destructive Culture

Hearpreneur

Co-authors Karin Hunt and David Dye of Winning Well: A Managers Guide to Getting Results Without Losing Your Soul help companies and businesses “win well” and get results by ending the epidemic of toxic workplaces and destructive cultures and not just about winning (aka getting results) — but, as you can guess, Winning Well. Karin Hurt is a former Verizon Wireless executive with over two decades of experience in sales, marketing, customer service, and human resources.

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2018 Reconstruction Awards Entry Information

YFS Magazine

The goal of the BD+C Reconstruction Awards is to find the best reconstructed, renovated, or remodeled projects , based on overall design, engineering, and construction project quality. Here are some tips to help you win: 1. Eligibility: Only projects completed or occupied between January 1, 2017 and July 13, 2018 are eligible. 2. Entry deadline: Friday, July 13, 2018.

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Twitter Link Roundup #319 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

It’s a new year. You know what that means! It’s that special time of year when people think, often with regret, about all the things they didn’t accomplish the previous year – and all the things they will try to accomplish in the new one. Some people call them resolutions, some people call them goals, and mostly everyone calls them stressful.

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Men’s Grooming Bag Full of Samples and Products $7.00 Shipped!

YFS Magazine

Men’s Grooming Bag Full of Samples and Products $7.00 Shipped! There is a new Walmart Men’s Grooming Bag available to order for only $7.00. Each bag contains Dove Men + Care Elements Mineral & Sage 2 in 1 Shampoo & Conditioner, Dove Men + Care Elements Clean Comfort Body Wash, Degree Men MotionSense Antiperspirant Deodorant […].

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Kroger MEGA Sale: Chi-Chi’s Salsa ONLY $1.00

VC Adventure

Kroger MEGA Sale: Chi-Chi’s Salsa ONLY $1.00 Kroger has Chi-Chi Salsa on sale for just $1.50 thru 1/9. We also have a coupon to use on this sale price to make your final price just $1.00. Here is your deal: Kroger deal through 1/9 Buy (2) Chi-Chi’s Salsa 16 oz $1.50 (mega sale price – […]. The post Kroger MEGA Sale: Chi-Chi’s Salsa ONLY $1.00 appeared first on FTM.

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Top Schools for Female Entrepreneurs

ithacaVC

Hope you are staying warm! CollegeMagazine just ranked Cornell #10 in group of “top schools for female entrepreneurs.” See [link]. What is most interesting is that Cornell is the only Ivy in the group….and that the group does not include Stanford or Berkeley….and that 3 of the schools in the list are very small colleges (Babson #1, Mt. Holyoke #6 and Smith #2).

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Shark Kevin O’Leary Visits Harvard Business School

Campus Entrepreneurship

Kevin O’Leary of Shark Tank visits Harvard Business School and offers a few nuggets of truth. Kevin also listens to pitches from some of the student founders. While Kevin recognizes the advantages of launching at Harvard University, he does not realize how much schools like George Mason University, University of Chicago and others are doing to provide real opportunities to experience entrepreneurship and innovation on campus — now.

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A few months with no desk

Jeff Hilimire

This is an image of our new office building. We will take the entire bottom floor along with Dagger. So, whoever said growth was always good? Oh right, yeah I said that. I say that all the time, in fact. My mentality is, if you’re not growing, you’re dying. And if you have momentum and you stifle it in order to “catch up to the growth”, you risk losing the momentum you built up.

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How To Validate Your Innovative Product As A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience with technical entrepreneurs, they work hard on creating an innovative and elegant solution, and assume that customers will flock to them (“if we build it, they will come”). The reality is that successful businesses these days require an equally elegant business model, with the right marketing, delivery channel, price, and target customers, to get real traction.

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Why you need an intentional workplace culture in 2018

Feld Thoughts

To help you successfully navigate 2018, we put together a CHRO trends report to cover the five most important trends for every CHRO in the coming year — and tips for leaders who are ready to take action. Over the next couple months, we’ll dive into each trend in our new CHRO trends blog series. Trend #1: Intentional workplace cultures . Companies and their CHROs are starting to truly understand the role of culture in the workplace.

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Bio Roundup: Trump, Gottlieb, Gene Therapy Prices, IPO Hopes & More

Austin Startup

Welcome to the new year. What will it bring? Hopefully a lot less hatred, greed, stupidity, and angst than 2017. But we’re not holding our breath. We emerged from the winter break pondering several of the year’s burning biopharma questions, including the volatility of the U.S. president and what it means for the biopharmaceutical business, a frequent target of his scattershot rants.

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Optimism In The Face Of Current Reality

Feld Thoughts

Let’s start with an awesome dog taking himself sledding. Now, let’s move on to Bill Gates opening essay in this week’s Time Magazine (he’s their first ever guest editor) titled Some good news, for once. It’s short and powerful. He starts out with context. “Reading the news today does not exactly leave you feeling optimistic.

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