Fri.Sep 01, 2017

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Top Tips For Planning The Perfect Event

YoungUpstarts

Are you a company owner that is looking to host an event to launch a new product or service? Have you been tasked by your employer to set up an event to host all the best speakers on a particular subject? There is no doubt that holding such an event takes a lot of organization and hard work. It isn’t just the logistics of where you will hold the event, it is also trying to arrange the speakers and any catering that will be laid on for the day.

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8 Steps From A Control Freak To Effective Delegator

Startup Professionals Musings

For a few, delegating comes easily, maybe too easy. For others who are perfectionists, letting go of even the most trivial task is almost impossible. If you are in this second category, you probably don’t like the references behind your back that you are a “control freak” or a “micro-manager.” London business school professor John Hunt notes that only 30 percent of managers think they can delegate well, and of those, only one in three is considered a good delegator by his or her subordinates.

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How To Choose A Free Shipping Threshold For Your Online Store

YoungUpstarts

The phrase “free shipping” is music to a shopper’s ears. Suddenly, that cart full of purchases they were pondering seems so much more accessible. In fact, nine out of 10 shoppers named free shipping as the top incentive that would make them shop online more often. Offering deliveries gratis boosts conversions and customer loyalty. . Still, as much as you’d love to offer fast free shipping under any conditions, there’s a cost associated with fulfillment.

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How to Make More Money Off Of Your Content Right Now

Rembrandt Communications

Discover content marketing strategy, SEO , B2B copywriting, and PR tips here from Melanie Rembrandt. Does Your Current Content Boost Sales to the Max or are you Missing Opportunities? You write content including blogs, social media posts, newsletters, emails, and more each month. You know that it’s important. But… you are not seeing results from all of this work.

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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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Force Friday

Feld Thoughts

Welcome to Force Friday, one of my favorite days of the year. I still fondly remember watching Star Wars with my dad when I was 11. As I walked out of the theater, I asked him if we could buy another ticket right then and watch it again. He denied me that night, but we went and saw it again a few days later. Sphero just released two new droids, R2-D2 and BB-9E , which now rounds out the family that includes BB-8 and the Force Band (so you can control the droids with the Force).

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$100,000 Diversity & Inclusion Investment Challenge

Austin Startup

Capital Factory is committed to creating and supporting diversity in the tech community. Mellie Price recently stepped up to the plate as our Director of Diversity & Inclusion, and she has been working with many community stakeholders to organize and collaborate with the many different organizations focused on this mission in Austin. “We jump at every opportunity to host events at Capital Factory that bring diverse entrepreneurs of all faiths, races, genders, and sexual orientations into our

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The 3 requirements of a great company culture

Jeff Hilimire

Dagger put on an incredible event last night at General Assembly (at Ponce City Market) focused on building great company cultures. There were three of us that spoke – the amazing Katie Kortnie of SalesLoft , the bursting-with-energy Kyle Stapleton of Turner Studios, and me – and we each took a different direction on sharing our view of company culture.

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5 Reasons for Replacing Intuition with Data in Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Reasons for Replacing Intuition with Data in Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Is marketing an art or science? Less than five years ago most CEOs would have classified marketing as a creative industry, requiring intuition, imagination, and talent, just 5% would have mentioned big data as the core of their success. These statistics are rapidly changing in favor of a data-driven approach, showing that over 60% of companies are using Big Data.