Thu.Jun 20, 2019

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Coping With A Burned Out Boss 

YoungUpstarts

by Vicky Oliver, author of “ Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots “ Your boss is on vacation. Permanently. Maybe in the past she was the golden child of the firm, but that was in the distant past. When you try to talk to her, she gets a glazed, faraway look in her eyes. You’re not sure if she’s listening. When you email her, her responses are vague and hard to decipher.

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Zoho's strikingly different global path

deal architect

I have heard Zoho talk about doing business in UAE and Nigeria. That is so different from other cloud vendors which tend to mostly focus on N. America and Europe. Over the last decade, their US revenues have steadily declined.

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Startups: Avoid These Inner-Series Mistakes When Scaling Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. It’s not uncommon for startups that are laser-focused on fundraising to deprioritize certain challenges. But to get to the finish line successfully, there are several key company milestones that leadership must identify and address. Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow.

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Open Plan Offices Kill Productivity. Here’s What to Do Instead.

ReadWriteStart

For years, the business world lived under the false pretense that open plan offices were a killer idea. I myself even bought into the hype. At Netconcepts, the digital agency I founded (and sold in 2010), only the executives had offices with doors that closed. Open plan offices were a win-win for anyone looking to […]. The post Open Plan Offices Kill Productivity.

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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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10 Terrific Tips For Manchester Business Travellers

YoungUpstarts

With two world-class football teams, a musical heritage that’s the envy of every other city in the UK and a trendy Northern Quarter packed with chic bars, cafes and independent boutiques, it’s a wonder anyone ever wants to leave Manchester. However, thousands of business travellers each week head off from here each week for high powered meetings in destinations from Barcelona to Reykjavik.

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Building a Workplace for the Next 100 Years

ReadWriteStart

Growing and maturing a company are two different operations, yet they share a common goal: to stay in business for the long run. As the number of new companies multiplies all over the globe, competition grows fierce. Surviving the digital age in a sea of competitors requires thoughtful preparedness and agility. What we want to […]. The post Building a Workplace for the Next 100 Years appeared first on ReadWrite.

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We Make the Future We Invest In

Feld Thoughts

Over the past few years, you’ve seen me write about Glowforge, the 3D laser printer that made history with their crowdfunding campaign back in 2015. Glowforge launched that very campaign at a jam-packed World New York Maker Faire, where folks lined up for hours to get a glimpse at the shiny new machine. Over the next 30 days, they sold $28 million worth of pre-orders to an insatiable crowd of makers.

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Top 5 Cities For Remote Entrepreneurs And Digital Nomads

YFS Magazine

One of the main reasons many entrepreneurs start their businesses is for locational flexibility. Yet, it can be hard to determine where to go.

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data.world Acquires Austin-based Capsenta

SiliconHills

Two Austin companies focused on data have joined forces. data.world announced this week it has acquired Capsenta, founded at the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Capsenta created patented data translation and integration software allowing its customers to combine and analyze relational databases faster and more efficiently. Data.world, which launched in July of 2016, has […].

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Video Hosting Platforms: Which Is Best for Your Business?

ConversionXL

Google “video hosting platforms,” and you’ll get about 50 million results, along with several paid ads. How do you choose the platform that suits your needs? There’s no single answer. The best video hosting platform varies business by business, depending on factors like: How often you’re uploading; How you plan to use the video; The viewing experience you want to give your audience; The analytics you need; The cash you have to spend.

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On Capital Formation, Smaller Companies, and IPOs

Ben's Blog

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner (and former chairman of the board of the National Venture Capital Association) Scott Kupor to the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of their investor advisory committee meeting agenda “discussion …

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How much do you spend on R&D? Is it enough?

Berkonomics

Why do profitable, mature businesses die away? One of the most obvious reasons mature businesses die away – when we look in the rear view mirror – is that they did not spend to renew their product or service when newer entrants into the business arrived with better products and services built upon newer technology. Should be an easy fix for companies making annual net profit.

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How to Deal With Public Criticism

Software By Rob

Photo by Pedro Simoes. Every once in a while I receive an email from a reader/ podcast listener that goes a little something like: I made a change to my [UX/UI/positioning/pricing/terms] and it seemed to go well. But out of my 900 customers, 3 wrote in with scathing emails (1 even raged at me on Twitter). It had a huge impact on me, and affected my mindset for the next day and a half.

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4 Testing Tips You Need To Read Before Launching Your Business Website

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Your website is such an important marketing tool and it’s vital that everything is perfect before it goes online. If the website doesn’t load properly or the links aren’t working correctly, consumers will quickly get frustrated and leave the site. Even a few small mistakes can have a serious impact on your sales which is why you need to test your website thoroughly before launch.

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Blitzscaling | Competitive Strategy

Reid Hoffman

This episode in our Greymatter Blitzscaling capsule series , with Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, focuses on the topic of competitive strategy. In an ideal world, you won’t have any competition. But the world is far from ideal. How should a blitzscaling company think about and respond to the competition? Below is an edited transcript of Reid and Chris’s discussion.

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10 Powerful Ideas for Project Management Success

The Startup Magazine

Leading a project to success is no small feat, and doing it time and time again takes experience, discipline, and lots of hard work. The project plan to completion can be a winding road. Whether you are just getting started with project management or are capable at the practice yet looking for possible areas of improvement, we are pleased to present 10 ideas to contribute to your success in project management.

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Blitzscaling | Competitive Strategy

Reid Hoffman

This episode in our Greymatter Blitzscaling capsule series , with Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, focuses on the topic of competitive strategy. In an ideal world, you won’t have any competition. But the world is far from ideal. How should a blitzscaling company think about and respond to the competition? Below is an edited transcript of Reid and Chris’s discussion.

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Identity Crisis: Are You A Freelancer Or An Entrepreneur?

The Startup Magazine

The “work” situation, as we know it, has changed crazily since our parents knew it. While they worked for decades on in the same company, with the same people and sometimes even in the same position, we, as millennials, are nowhere close to this situation in our work lives. And the matter is not only about switching from unfulfilling jobs but starting up own businesses as an entrepreneur or freelancer.

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Smart Marketing Techniques That Hold Relevance Until 2022

YoungUpstarts

It’s the year 2019, and digital marketing is thriving around the world. Where businesses and brands depend upon it for building up their brand name and generating leads, freelancers are using it to attract as many clients as possible. And even in the coming years, digital marketing is forecasted to remain one of the most critical, and practical marketing tactics.