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Drama in enterprise computing

deal architect

Ray Lane, a top-notch tech executive and investor over decades, said this about my new book "Don't be fooled by the title—the book is not just about SAP. It's about drama in enterprise computing." I then used "drama" in the.

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7 Steps For Assuring Business Success And Fulfillment

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay Is it possible to be successful in business and not fulfilled? The answer is a resounding yes today, and I’m convinced that it will be even more true tomorrow, as young idealistic entrepreneurs try to adapt to the long-standing business culture if success is only measured in the money you make for yourself and your business. That isn’t very fulfilling to the growing number of entrepreneurs whose vision and satisfaction comes from making the world a better place, and enjoying a

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Avoiding Complexity Makes You More Likely To Be Successful

YoungUpstarts

If you’re an entrepreneur with a singular focus, the last thing you need is complexity. Complexity takes your time and attention away from your goals and can be a source of stress. Nothing creates complexity like quitting your day job and jumping into complex investments just because everyone else is doing it. Before you quit your job and start flipping houses to fund your business, consider the following: Real estate investments can distract you from your business.

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Resisting Digital Technology in the Swiss Watch Market

The Startup Magazine

Making Swiss watches such as Breitling Navitimer or Tag Heuer Formula is more conservative than creative. This conveys the market views that oscillate between there being too much focus on luxury and inheritance, and not a lot of industrialization and a little innovation, preferring to rely on tradition rather than investing in watchmaking research and development.

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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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Dhivya Suryadevara: First female CFO of General Motors

Our Own Start-up

General Motors, a renowned carmaker company has appointed 39-year-old Dhivya Suryadevara as its first female chief financial officer (CFO).

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Founding Principal Revolutionizing The Contract Furniture Industry

Hearpreneur

A lot is changing in the furniture consultancy field and Scott Lesizza is a trusted advisor helping firms make smart furniture decisions and revolutionizing the contract furniture industry. Scott’s decades of industry experience, combined with his passion for design and commercial furniture, make him the perfect figure to lead the contract furniture renaissance.

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We’re Live!

Austin Startup

A new user playing with Beertender Beertender is Live! The day has finally come! Beertender is officially available to download in the App Store. At first, the app was only able to be downloaded by devices most currently updated with the newest version of iOS 12. Our first update to the app was to lower that threshold to OS 11+ devices, considering I had just bought a new phone and STILL could not download it.

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Kylie Jenner: Youngest self-made billionaire, Forbes magazine

Our Own Start-up

She reached the milestone earlier than Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

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What You Need To Know About RPA and How It Will Impact Your Accounting Firm

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Have you heard of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? If you haven’t, it’s one of the biggest trends in business automation, and it has the potential to increase your ROI up to 200% by allowing you to focus your resources where they really matter. On your Customer. RPA, by definition, is software that directly interacts with, and performs, daily business operations.

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Lok Sabha elections 2019: Here’s how political parties are spending on ads on Facebook

Our Own Start-up

Be it BJP or Congress, have started pumping up their ad spends on Facebook.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed via Goldman Sachs

Scott Edward Walker

To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post our favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we present short clips from a number of successful business leaders and entrepreneurs via Goldman Sachs. My three favorite quotes: “Never stop thinking about how to delight your customer.

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Finding Alternatives Before Needing Ivanka’s Solution to Student Debt

The Startup Magazine

Reducing levels of student debt is a hot-button issue in the U.S. as college tuition costs continue to rise. It seems that everyone has an opinion on how to reduce student debt, including the President’s daughter, Ivanka Trump. Ivanka’s proposed “new solution” involves altering the types of loans available for parents of undergrads and for grad students.

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