Wed.Aug 23, 2017

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6 Customer Journey Mapping Examples: How UX Pros Do It

ConversionXL

Customer journey mapping is a widely used and impactful technique that can help you make better product, marketing, UX, and merchandising decisions. However, like other UX research techniques (including user personas ), there’s some vagueness and obscurity around how to actually create customer journey maps. This article will draw processes and customer journey mapping examples from experts in the field, and you’ll hopefully walk away with a real and clear picture of how to do it on

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Essay: The Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Development

The Startup Magazine

Enterprise is defined as the act of creating, innovating and setting up a business, taking financial risks expecting profits. The enterprise in company form offers a product, a process or service for sale or hires to professionals or individuals, contributing to a community’s overall economic development. Entrepreneurship is known for the high risks involved in launching a startup.

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ProductCamp Austin 2017 — a few lessons

Austin Startup

ProductCamp Austin bringing the product community together. Recently many of us dedicated our Saturday attending and presenting at the biannual un-conference, ProductCamp. I personally am a conferences nerd. They can be focused on anything — education, health, environment, technology or products — good conferences have a welcoming vibe of sharing ideas and personal growth, with a bonus of getting to meet new people with similar interests.

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The Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Development

The Startup Magazine

Enterprise is defined as the act of creating, innovating and setting up a business, taking financial risks expecting profits. The enterprise in company form offers a product, a process or service for sale or hires to professionals or individuals, contributing to a community’s overall economic development. Entrepreneurship is known for the high risks involved in launching 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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Student Startups: How To Launch Your Business While In College

YoungUpstarts

When we look at successful startups we often focus on how the company has been successful with their end products or services but we often ignore what the founders went through and did to be successful. Like any other startups, those started by students often begin with ideas, but venture capitalists may dismiss the individuals as being young, inexperienced and naive.

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8 Keys To Raising Your Level Of Employee Engagement

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor, one of the most disheartening things I see in business today is a serious lack of engagement at all levels, consistent with Gallup’s most recent global engagement survey , finding only 13 percent of workers fully engaged in their job. I see people walking around every day like zombies in a trance. The sad part is that is seems to be getting worse, rather than better.

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Organization in a decentralized world – how will decentralized platforms be managed?

Version One Ventures

There’s a lot of excitement surrounding the decentralized Internet and cryptocurrencies. Technological advancements plus tokens are shaking up traditional business models, enabling organizations to emerge outside the form of traditional companies that we know of today. There’s great promise to build large scale platforms to run open source projects among other things.

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Going It Alone: Boost Your Solo Business

YoungUpstarts

Being a solo business owner is an interesting way to maintain your livelihood. It can sometimes get a little lonely, but you’re in charge. You don’t have to manage any employees, although you might sometimes work with freelancers or outsourcers. It’s up to you what you do with your business, and it can be easy to go back to being an employee if you want to.

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How a Design Startup Scaled and Gained International Credibility

Up and Running

I co-founded Designhill in 2014 with my brother Rahul. I knew that a platform that focused exclusively on graphic design was needed both for freelance designers (like myself), and for people looking for quality, affordable design solutions. This was the driving force behind our company, which became both a custom design marketplace and a creative platform for designers for learning and showcasing their creative work.

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[ADV] Why Forex Trading Is Preferred By New Age Investors

YoungUpstarts

Being a businessman, you might have very few people or things around, which you can treasure as a friend. However, your economic calendar can be a true business-buddy. You need not to spend more than a minute with it every day. The sixty seconds you spend with it is crucial to build yourself to a fine day trader. There are more to it that you might want to know.

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Cash in on Your Million Dollar Idea

Mike Michalowicz

So you came up with a brilliant idea. A million dollar idea! But right now, that’s all it is. So how do you turn that concept into cold hard cash? Write it down. How many light bulb moments do you have at 2am and then forget come 9am? Or you don’t want your idea to be stolen so you keep it to yourself, promising to chase it when you have time.

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How To Get The Most Out Of Your Next Trade Show

YFS Magazine

When you attend or exhibit at a trade show it is a significant and valuable marketing investment. Here's how to get the most out of it.

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Women Entrepreneurs are Key to Economic Growth in the U.S.

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News “Entrepreneurship is essential to our standard of living and economic growth,” said Stephanie Breedlove, co-founder of Care.com Homepay. “Entrepreneurs create new wealth and new jobs,” Breedlove told several hundred people attending Capital Factory’s Women in Tech Summit Wednesday afternoon in downtown Austin.

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How to solve the “Search Gap”: Media storage decluttered

The Startup Magazine

We can all relate to rummaging through drawers of clothes looking for one elusive item we need or shuffling through an entire stack of papers in search of one important piece of paper you’re “sure” was in there. Unfortunately, we no longer have only physical objects to keep track of, but increasingly, cyber junk drawers stuffed full of photos, important documents, and all the other random odds and ends that get downloaded, shared, and squirreled away.

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Young Athletes vs Old Business People

Growthink Blog

How can we learn from the other group? And use that wisdom to dramatically grow our businesses? As a father of two sports-crazed sons, ages ten and eleven, and as the coach of now more than a dozen of their AYSO soccer and little league baseball teams, I have thought a lot about these questions, and into making the best sense of the “journey of competition.

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5 Startup Benefits of Identity and Access Management

The Startup Magazine

Identity and Access Management (IAM) has over the last few years become an area of focus in enterprise IT security. As large-scale cyber threats on corporate networks continue to shake both the business and consumer market, staying on top of the latest trends and best practices in IAM is becoming critical, especially for startups. Image courtesy of Pixabay.

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If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right

Jeff Hilimire

Photo by Thomas Millot. Henry Ford is credited with saying: If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. This is so true! If you believe you can achieve something – and you hustle , give yourself enough runway , focus on the right things , and remain positive on the journey – then you can certainly achieve it. It might take a lot longer than you originally thought, and you might acquire some battle wounds along the way, but you can do it.

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Transcript of The Myth of the Starving Artist

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of The Myth of the Starving Artist written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by SaneBox. Get some sanity back in your inbox. Take control of your inbox. Get all that stuff out of there that is dragging you down. I’m going to give you a special offer later in the show.

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Comcast Ventures, Ribbit Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners Invest $10 Million in Cheddar

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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The Myth of the Starving Artist

Duct Tape Marketing

The Myth of the Starving Artist written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jeff Goins. Podcast Transcript. There are very few – maybe no – original ideas left, so stop beating yourself up looking for that one amazing new idea. The best and most profitable innovations are often created when someone blends two or three existing ideas in entirely new ways.

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Lightspeed China Partners Closes Oversubscribed USD Fund III at $260M and Launches RMB Fund

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire AppDynamics

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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The First Episode of Apple’s Reality Show Is Packed With Powerful Women

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Apple’s first TV series shows what it takes to build an app

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Could watching someone pitch an app make great TV? Apple Music hopes so

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Cloud security broker Netskope raises $100m more led by Lightspeed and Accel

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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What if Your Environmentally Correct Shoes Were Also Cute?

Lightspeed Venture Partners

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