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What YouTube Taught Me About Facebook Live & Violent Footage

Hunter Walker

“A technical glitch.” That’s what Facebook stated was the cause of the temporary removal from their service of the video capturing Philando Castile’s shooting. Ben Thompson has a smart Stratechery column today about Facebook’s emerging role as a Journalism Company. And the internal discussions (debates?) which are likely occurring.

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Inforum update

deal architect

I spent a couple of days at Infor’s user conference in New York this week. I did a podcast with Jon Reed of Diginomica about the event, and have included excerpts from that conversation and added some other thoughts below.

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What YouTube Taught Me About Facebook Live & Violent Footage

Hunter Walker

“A technical glitch.” That’s what Facebook stated was the cause of the temporary removal from their service of the video capturing Philando Castile’s shooting. Ben Thompson has a smart Stratechery column today about Facebook’s emerging role as a Journalism Company. And the internal discussions (debates?) which are likely occurring.

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Think Like An Entrepreneur For Business Longevity

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new venture that survives the first five years starts to drift away from their entrepreneurial thinking, and assumes they have achieved the path to longevity. In fact, even within Fortune 100 companies, almost 90 percent have encountered growth stalls or flirted with failure, or worse, in the last 50 years. No company can afford to lose the agility, flexibility, and innovation of a startup.

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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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5 Awesome Tips From Bird by Bird to Improve Your Brand Stories

Brandanew

Writing is a hard job. And writing brand stories with authenticity, while staying true to the tonality and elements of your brand, is even more complicated. We’ve all had days where we look at open documents on our computer and stare at them wondering how to inspire ourselves with something new and exciting. A little inspiration from Anne Lamott’s iconic book – Bird by Bird, comes in handy.

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15 Quick Tips To Help Stressed-Out Professionals Better Manage Their Time

YoungUpstarts

by Jackie Gaines, author of “ Wait a Hot Minute!: How to Manage Your Life with the Minutes You Have “ Ask any working professional what they could use more of, and you’ll probably keep getting the same answer. Time. In the frantic pace of the digital age, time is something everyone seems to be short on now. (It’s almost laughable that we once thought technology would help create more leisure time!

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Why Lifestyle Entrepreneur Blogs Are Taking Over (And How To Build One)

YoungUpstarts

In the modern age of transparency, today’s socially-driven audiences are in search of personality when it comes to who they follow. Likewise, many young entrepreneurs are looking to remove the traditional “suit and tie” vibe of their marketing efforts in order to reach such an audience. Blurring the lines between “work” and “play,” lifestyle entrepreneurs are taking over the blogosphere to make their voices heard.

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Startup Marketing: The 4 Building Blocks of Brand Identity You Can’t Ignore

crowdSPRING Blog

First impressions are everything for a startup. When offering a new product or service it is important for a business to quickly demonstrate value to prospective customers and differentiate itself from the competition. In some situations the product or service itself can accomplish these goals, but often it is great brand identity that can make the difference between your first customer or a lost lead.

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Top Tips For Startups To Leverage Big Data

YoungUpstarts

Big data and startups: two terms that should inherently go hand-in-hand. Innovative new startups and small businesses tend to be the most willing to accept technology as an essential part of their day-to-day operations, and it’s this acceptance that also allows them to grow and become successful. What’s unique to understand here is that both big data and startups are really intertwined in so many ways, especially as big data is growing at an impressive pace, and that kind of growth is something

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This Is Why Customers Are Bored With Your Brand

YFS Magazine

You have an opportunity to get them in your club; the question is, will you stop looking at logos long enough to capitalize on this?

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What Makes A Business More Than Just Okay?

YoungUpstarts

If you are in charge of your own business, then you are probably keen to make it as successful as possible. This is what most business owners are looking for. Everyone has their own unique solution, and everybody is sure that their way is the only way. However, the truth is that business can be done in a million different ways. However, that is not to say that we can’t learn a thing or two from one another – of course we can.

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Six Reasons Your Logo Might Need a Makeover

crowdSPRING Blog

We ask a lot of our logos. We expect them to be the visual representation of everything our brand stands for, to be the recognizable “face” of our companies, to be the picture worth a thousand words every day for so long as our business persists. So it’s really not all that surprising that logo design is one of the most difficult challenges a young brand will face.

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How To Get More Done With Simple Changes To The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Everyone on some level can understand that their environment affects their ability to think and function. Put someone in a raucous setting and ask them to concentrate on learning something new and the likelihood of success is small. Put them in a setting like a library and they are more likely to understand what it is they are learning. The same goes for the workplace.

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Wistful Thinking in VC

Babbling VC

I read a blog post the other day from a well respected VC. This is someone whom I know and whose blogging I have been following religiously for years at this point. Nevertheless, I was for the first time turned off by what they had written. The reason is that this VC was quite wistful in his thinking and honestly was completely off. Were you to go to any VC nowadays and exhibit behaviour as recommended in this post, you wouldn’t come far.

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Starting A Business In The Fitness Industry

YoungUpstarts

There’s never been a better time to start up a business in the fitness industry. The latest figures from the 2015 State of the UK Fitness Industry Report has found one-in-eight people in the UK are a member of a gym. This also means that competition will be fierce, particularly for independent start-ups who will have to take on the heavyweights like Fitness First, Total Fitness, and the many hotel-based fitness clubs across the country.

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The Future of Social Media Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

The Future of Social Media Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jason Keath. Not long ago I wrote a post titled – Why Social Media Isn’t Working Anymore. In it, I shared my view of the role of social media marketing going forward. I’m not alone in this view as research certainly backs this up.

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Why is bootstrapping so important for startups?

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Why is bootstrapping so important for startups? appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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How The Blockchain Can Unshackle Us

thebarefootvc

Once every 20 years or so, new technology comes to market that has the potential to change how we communicate, how we do business, and pushes the boundaries of everything we thought was possible. In the 1970’s it was the personal computer; in the mid-1990’s, the commercial Internet. We are now in the early stages of another major technological development called the blockchain.

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How The Halo Effect Affects Optimization (the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)

ConversionXL

“What is beautiful is good,” the saying goes. This saying stems from a belief that attractiveness correlates to other good qualities. In a phrase, attractiveness is a Halo Effect. Of course you can see that on the surface, the logic in that saying is flawed. What’s beautiful has nothing to do with what is good. But we still conflate overall perception and individual traits, making our judgement of things less accurate than we believe.

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How to Make More Money As an Event Planner

Up and Running

While the recession of 2008 may have caused a slight downturn in the number of events held in the U.S. every year, one thing is still certain: Everyone loves a good party. Event planners are always in demand; from weddings to corporate gatherings, there is always call for someone who can help make an event run smoothly. However, not all event planning businesses are created equally.

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E-comm opportunity – Surfacing products that consumers don’t even know they want

The Equity Kicker

Benedict Evans recently published a post noting that there’s no Facebook of ecommerce. He notes that we get our news from sites like Facebook that direct us to articles we might find of interest from all over the world, but that when it comes to products there’s nothing similar. All we have is Amazon, which is amazing, but only when we know what we want.

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Episode 104: Growing towards Profitability With Cory Vieth

Mike Michalowicz

Also Available On. Show Summary. Today we talk with Cory Vieth, and help guide him through growing a profitable computer business! We discuss some great tips on tackling unexpected problems that could cross your path on the way to profitability. Welcome to Episode 104 of the Profit First Podcast! Our Guest. Cory Vieth, 25 years old from Waterloo, Iowa, had a photography business in high school, and purchased a Computer Repair franchise called Computer Troubleshooters in 2012 after working there

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