Fri.Jul 13, 2018

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7 Key Steps To Getting Top Performance From Your Team

Startup Professionals Musings

During my early years of managing in business, I always assumed that if I hired and trained the smartest and most experienced people I could find, I would get outstanding productivity. I quickly learned that top performance also required the right initiatives and responsiveness on my part, high employee engagement, and a matching chemistry and culture with other team members.

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How Gamification in the Workplace Impacts Employee Productivity

The Startup Magazine

When employees are happy, their productivity is usually high. Employees who enjoy what they do are likely going to perform well in their duties as well as stay longer in the company. Therefore, the employer should invest in ways that will enhance the joy of employees in the workplace. Gamification is considered one of the ways that employees’ work and workplace as well can be made enjoyable.

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My Journey with MELD

Austin Startup

My dream has always been to work from home as a graphic designer, but little did I know, it’s not as great as it sounds. It certainly has its perks but what many people don’t realize is the extent to which you are constantly alone. When I worked from home, it was hard to differentiate home from work. It was all the same. It killed my productivity, creativity and I was always distracted by dishes, laundry, naps, cats, etc.

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Zero to 100 – A High Growth SaaS Playbook

For Entrepreneurs

I have great pleasure in announcing a new program called Zero to 100 – The Growth Academy. This program is my response to what so many of you have been asking for: a detailed instruction manual for how to take your startup from zero to $100m, with a particular focus on the area of building.

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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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How Start-Up Chile Helps Entrepreneurs and Chile Alike

ReadWriteStart

The Start-Up Chile accelerator was arguably the spark that ignited Chile’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Chilean government, through the development agency CORFO, founded Start-Up Chile in 2010 as a way to bring in foreign entrepreneurs who would galvanize Chile’s transition into an economy built on technology and innovation. Since then, Start-Up Chile has accelerated over 1,500 […].

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“Zero to 100” for High Growth SaaS – A workshop on how to build your Go-to-Market

For Entrepreneurs

I have great pleasure in announcing a new program called Zero to 100 – Matrix Growth Academy. This program is my response to what so many of you have been asking for: a detailed instruction manual for how to take … The post “Zero to 100” for High Growth SaaS – A workshop on how to build your Go-to-Market appeared first on For Entrepreneurs.

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Paying Attention To Inbound Deal Flow

Haystack

About a month ago, I wrote a post about how the Bay Area seed ecosystem is generating deal flow levels that are nearly impossible to keep up with. In the post, titled “ Seed Deal Flow Tsunami And The Quick Kill ,” I attempted to explain how, in the face of the deal flow firehose, I get to a quick “no” which I hope is helpful for both sides.

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Benefits of Inventory Management for Wholesalers and Distributors

The Startup Magazine

In this day and age of online shopping, retailers are spoilt for choice when it comes to e-commerce software. However, wholesalers and distributors aren’t left behind when it comes to looking for software to do the heavy lifting for them in the background. EMERGE App is one such software that has been adopted by wholesalers and distributors around the world, and one that has enjoyed a quiet and loyal following among its users.

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Version One has a new look! Announcing our updated website

Version One Ventures

We’re excited to announce that our new and refreshed website is live! This update was designed to make the experience of our site better with a stronger sense of who we are, what we do, and why we do it. In addition, we aimed to re-surface evergreen content so we spent some extra time revamping our blog. To date, we’ve written 405 posts; hopefully now, you can easily (re-)discover some “oldies but goodies”… for instance, here are our top 5 of all time (by number of page v

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Twitter Link Roundup #340 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

Have you ever looked back on something you’ve written and cringed? You’re not alone. Take a hard look at your work and edit with a firm hand. Here’s a terrific article by Ryan Holiday about the importance of reflection. Now, we hope you enjoy another great set of links and articles that we shared with you over the past week on our crowdspring Twitter account (and on Ross’s Twitter account ).

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The Future Is Inbound PR: Is Your Business Ready?

YFS Magazine

PR agencies can't keep "selling" the old-school way. The author of Inbound PR explains how PR professionals can start making the shift.

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Twitter Link Roundup #340 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

Have you ever looked back on something you’ve written and cringed? You’re not alone. Take a hard look at your work and edit with a firm hand. Here’s a terrific article by Ryan Holiday about the importance of reflection. Now, we hope you enjoy another great set of links and articles that we shared with you over the past week on our crowdspring Twitter account (and on Ross’s Twitter account ).

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When You Listen To Customers, What Are You Really Hearing?

YoungUpstarts

by Aytekin Tank, founder & CEO of JotForm. What does it mean to “listen” to customers? Companies toss around this language while, ostensibly, chasing their competitors and ignoring what customers want. It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to find cases where technological innovation and the best interests of customers are at odds. What are such companies “listening” for?

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