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The Pros And Cons Of Digital Learning

YoungUpstarts

A recent report from by the CMI and Oxford Strategic Consulting highlighted how attitudes to online learning have started to shift in the workforce. Many employees now believe that companies choose online learning methods as a way of cutting costs rather than as a smarter alternative to traditional classroom learning. Gil Mulders, the head of learning at InterContinental Hotels Group, was speaking last month at the 2017 HR Tech World Conference in London , where he touched on the difficulty of f

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How Systems Make Your Business More Human

Duct Tape Marketing

How Systems Make Your Business More Human written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I’m a huge fan of technology. Without it, my business would be in a much different place than it is now. However, over-reliance on it can be a trap that puts you out of touch with your customers and can prevent you from building relationships that will help you get better at what you do and help you build a strong network and community.

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The wrong question: Is now the right time to start a company?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Yes. The answer is always yes. But it’s the wrong question. I started Smart Bear in a recession (2002) and it went great. I’ve been explaining for eight years why recessions are a great time to start a company. It’s wise because costs are low (every vendor is thrilled to have new business) and if you can get people to buy when money is tight, you’ve really proved you have a desirable product.

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5 Ways To Protect Your Idea From Theft

YoungUpstarts

by Lewis Robinson. With the constantly increasing ease in which information can be shared, it’s becoming harder for business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs to secure their business ideas to ensure competitors or other people do not unfairly steal them. But even with this ongoing problem, businesses owners and aspiring entrepreneurs should not just keep their ideas to themselves, just so they can protect them from those who will pilfer them.

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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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Life Is The Bucket

Feld Thoughts

I’m sitting up in Amy’s office on a beautiful Tuesday morning listening to the Liz Wright station Pandora. Amy is downstairs doing something with the dogs. I just cried for a few minutes after reading Ted Rheingold’s post As I Lay Dying. When I got to the final section, which he calls “Now,” I read it three times. “I’ve gained some powerful emotional powers (super powers) in what I’ve been calling my second life.

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Restaurant Business: 4 Ways To Control Costs And Boost Sales

YFS Magazine

Opening a restaurant can be tough. Managing a restaurant efficiently limits waste. Here's a look at 4 tips to lower restaurant costs and boost sales.

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5 Ways EdTech Companies Can Stay Relevant

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at how edtech companies can agilely respond to state changes, as well as emerging trends, and score big wins.

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How to Appeal to the Next Generation of Renters

The Startup Magazine

If you are a landlord , you undoubtedly have encountered a newer, younger set of renters in recent years. Millennials now make up the largest population of people in the U.S., surpassing even the Baby Boomer generation. This generation is showing higher rates of renting than any other previous generation, and remain renters for much longer than their parents and grandparents ever did.

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Simplify

David Cohen

Remember factoring out from math class, where you had to simplify an equation by finding the common factors? Startups often start out as a fairly simple equation. But over time, as your organization grows, it becomes more complex. As you scale, your business model gets complex. It creeps in naturally. You know what’s complex in your business. As you scale, focus on simplifying those things.

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How leasing a car can be useful to your business

The Startup Magazine

When you discover that you will need to invest in a car for your job, you may quickly find yourself overwhelmed by the range of options available. However, we aren’t just talking about different manufacturers and models – we’re also referring to how you may get behind the wheel in the first place. Indeed, you may decide not to strictly acquire your car at all.

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TaskUs Expands to San Antonio and Plans to Hire 500 Employees

SiliconHills

TaskUs, based in Santa Monica, Calif., announced plans to expand its San Antonio office to accommodate up to 500 employees. The company, which provides outsourced customer service jobs for companies, has leased two floors or 32,000 square feet in the Finesilver Building, an old uniform factory. The company has 60 employees in San Antonio right […] The post TaskUs Expands to San Antonio and Plans to Hire 500 Employees appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Ways to Save Money on a Fridge for Your Business Kitchen Area

The Startup Magazine

Welcome to the entrepreneurial world of food! It is fast paced and can become very stressful if an owner does not possess the correct equipment for their kitchen area. Commercial fridges can be expensive for any environment but provide the protection between your produce and dangerous bacteria. However, there are alternative ways to avoid these dangers without spending too much money!

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AMD Acquires Austin-based Nitero

SiliconHills

AMD, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., announced this week it has acquired Austin-based Nitero, which makes chips to stream virtual reality and augmented reality content to wireless headsets. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Nitero, founded in 2009, had raised $4.71 million in two rounds from two investors, according to its Crunchbase profile. […] The post AMD Acquires Austin-based Nitero appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Allset Now Serving Austin

Austin Startup

After successfully launching Chicago and Boston in 2017, we are expanding south to Austin , Texas. This is our 6th market in the United States to date. We’re excited to meet our newest partner restaurants like Il Forte , Gourdough’s Public House , and Maiko Sushi , and start serving wait-free meals to local busy professionals. With just a few taps of the Allset app, you can book a table and pre-order your meal at Austin’s great restaurants.

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Millennial Entrepreneurs: How to Fund a Business When You Still Have Student Loans

Up and Running

Starting a business from scratch isn’t easy under any circumstances. But for members of the millennial generation, many of whom still sit atop a mountain of student loan debt, it can seem virtually impossible. Student debt has risen dramatically in recent years to become the largest single debt source among those under 40. In fact, the average class of 2016 graduate will be saddled with $37,172 in student loan debt —enough to crush the entrepreneurial spirit of any would-be business owner.

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Can a sinking start-up reaccelerate growth?

Version One Ventures

Conventional wisdom, at least in VC land, is that no start-up sees a reacceleration of growth. Once the growth curve starts heading down, it only sees a downward slope. This is partly due to the law of big numbers: a bigger denominator makes it harder and harder to keep up year-over-year growth rates. Things get even worse if growth rates drop dramatically (and even turn negative) – whether it’s due to changes in the marketplace, executives dropping the ball, or a loss in product leadership.

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Segmentation Is Killing Your Brand: Five Reasons To Find Your Unicorn Customer

YoungUpstarts

by Deb Gabor, author of “ Branding Is Sex: Get Your Customers Laid and Sell the Hell Out of Anything “ A store is a place you go to buy stuff, usually out of convenience or habit. In contrast, brands inspire irrational loyalty and yes, even love. How does a company build itself into a brand that people can fall deeply, madly in love with?

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2016 Most Pirated Content From The Internet

Transformify

The war with online piracy is a constant battle for those that are trying to stop it. Web companies are fighting to stay on top of the never ending stream of movies that appear on sites like YouTube every day, or the music that pops up on hundreds of sites online that people are able to download for free whenever they want. Since 2011 there were a few hundred thousand requests for Google to remove links that go to copyrighted materials every single week.