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Four Reasons Why Retailers Should Consider International Trade

YoungUpstarts

by Dr. Karen Reddington, President of FedEx Express, South Pacific. A digitally connected, borderless world presents the opportunity for retailers of any size to expand by selling their products to an international audience. It may seem daunting but the results could push your business forward in the right direction. Your next question should be: How do I take advantage of the growth opportunities present in the global marketplace?

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Third-party data isn’t gone forever: Tips for marketers employing data-driven strategies in the GDPR era

The Next Web

Third-party data is often obtained without explicit consent, so we can reasonably expect that all third-party activity will vanish now that GDPR is in effect, right? Don’t panic yet — third-party data isn’t going anywhere. Data collected without GDPR-level consent will become obsolete, but the practice of acquiring data from outside sources is here to stay.

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Failure is Always an Option

This is going to be BIG.

I was talking to another investor the other day about the stress that surrounds the ups and downs of the job--winning and losing deals, and having some companies succeed versus others going south on you. I shared with this VC my secret to keeping stress at bay: I concede the fact that the possibility exists that I'm not good at this. My fund performance is positive and things seem to be going in the right direction--I've been fortunate enough to back a lot of interesting companies--but there's a

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3 Day Startup Names Alexis Taylor as its New CEO

SiliconHills

After eight years at the helm of 3 Day Startup, Cam Houser has moved into the founder and chief innovation role and Alexis Taylor will take over as Chief Executive Officer. “I saw Alexis as our future CEO two years ago,” Houser said in a news statement. “She is one of the most impactful individuals […]. The post 3 Day Startup Names Alexis Taylor as its New CEO appeared first on SiliconHills.

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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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Walker Twitter Highlights: April 21st – June 2nd

Scott Edward Walker

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting articles, blog posts and video clips relating to startups, entrepreneurship and legal issues. Below are my three most popular tweets for the past six weeks. Cheers, Scott. Top Three Tweets. Here is Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letter to Shareholders – a must-read for all founders: [link] => “a culture of high standards is protective of all the ‘invisible’ but crucial work that goes on in every company&

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Pingboard Raises $4.3 Million in Additional Funding

SiliconHills

Pingboard, an Austin-based startup spun out of Capital Factory, has raised $4.3 million of a $5 million round, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company, founded in 2013, makes organizational chart software for companies. It now has more than 1,000 customers, including “GoFundMe, Popsugar, Udemy, Sequoia Capital, WPEngine, and the […].