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How To Improve Healthcare Patient Experiences

YoungUpstarts

Both successful and effective communication and positive physician-patient relationships have been associated with favorable patient health outcomes. This alone should be a strong clinical indication that improved patient experiences could lead to better healthcare outcomes overall. If the following suggestions can be made use of and the patient experience is improved overall, a given clinic or hospital may be seeing fewer malpractice attorneys.

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5 Investing Ideas from only experienced stock day traders

The Startup Magazine

When you are looking to trade stocks and shares online, what better a type of person to ask than one that is experienced, and that can give you valuable online trading tips and advice based on that experience?! When you are first entering the stock market, your initial goals may include thoughts of “how can I get rich and generate wealth as quickly as possible?

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Sample of a Board Resolution

Board Effect

At times, boards of directors or shareholders may act on behalf of a corporation. A board resolution offers a formal way for boards to document in writing a decision that the board of directors made. Board resolutions serve as a formal, legal record of certain important decisions. In addition, certain board resolutions serve as proof of compliance. In a legal sense, board resolutions are treated as board decisions that are legally binding.

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The bad old days of consumer tech

deal architect

Not a day passes without some harsh story about Facebook and data protection. How un-innovative Apple has become. Why Amazon should be broken up. Why Google should be regulated. And I ask do these folks not remember the days when.

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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 To Set A Balance Of User Growth Vs Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Max Pixel A question that I still hear debated often is whether a new startup growth strategy should focus on user count or profits. First of all, the glory days of “dot.coms” are gone, when investors “didn’t care” about profitability, and all the big money was focused on user count growth. In the long run, everyone wants both profitability and user growth, but the question is which comes first.

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Top 10 Latin American IoT Startups to Watch

ReadWriteStart

IoT is taking the world by storm and rapidly gaining ground. In 2015, there were about 15.4 billion connected devices. IHS says this number will grow to 30.7 billion in 2020, and 75.4 billion by 2025. As the demand for connected device technology increases, so does the number of emerging IoT startups. But it’s not […]. The post Top 10 Latin American IoT Startups to Watch appeared first on ReadWrite.

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Navigating Retirement Savings When Self-Employed

YoungUpstarts

If you’re self-employed or even own a small business with employees of your own, planning for retirement can present serious challenges. That’s because self-employed individuals are subject to complex taxes, don’t have the benefits of automatic employer withholdings, and typically don’t have access to a sponsored 401(k) or pension. How underprepared for retirement are self-employed individuals and small business owners?

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Customer Interviews: Voice of the Customer and Jobs-to-Be-Done

ConversionXL

Conversations with prospects or customers can improve practically every metric or user state model you’re aiming for. As Jen Havice noted here on the CXL blog , insights from customer interviews can: Accelerate the customer journey; Increase conversions; Drive more leads, sales, and revenue. To do that, you don’t need to reinvent the customer interviewing wheel.

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7 Habits Of A Happy Brain

YoungUpstarts

by Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of “ Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels “ The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They are not designed to be on all the time. They evolved to do a job, and when you understand their job, you can find sustainable ways to trigger them.

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Should Startups Use a Controversial Marketing Campaign?

The Startup Magazine

Many startup owners have seen controversy in action for marketing purposes. They secretly wonder whether there are advantages to using such a strategy. Creating a controversial marketing campaign may initially seem like a cool idea if implemented well. But there is always a chance that your well-intended, feather-fluffing campaign may backfire. With so many contenders in the marketplace, some may feel it is one of the few ways to really get noticed in the daily shuffle without golden opportuniti

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10 Years for K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

My typical Wednesday schedule is pretty grueling (by choice, to try and free up other days of the week) as I do between 9–10 back to back 45 minute meetings with K9 portfolio companies. I have a 45 minute break for lunch. As I sit here eating my apple and peanuts, I realized that today, April 17th, 2019, is the 10 year anniversary for K9 Ventures. I had this date marked on my calendar, but with just getting from one day to the next, going from one task to another, from one fire to the next, it’s

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Finally, Tech Accessories That Help Entrepreneurs Work Smart, And Look Good Doing It

YFS Magazine

Save an extra 5% off select Dell branded electronics and accessories for every business need. Access your savings today.

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The Top 3 Reasons Why Going Deep Is the Best Way to Grow Your Engineering Firm

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Have you ever wondered what makes one engineering firm more successful than another? Why is it that some just naturally win over more clients, and what is their strategy? As a growing engineering firm, these are the questions you are asking yourself, but the answer might not be what it seems. The first answers that come up when asking these questions are almost always innovation, pricing competitiveness and talent, but they don’t hit the nail on the head.

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[Interview] Louis Carter, Author Of ‘In Great Company: How To Spark Peak Performance By Creating An Emotionally Connected Workplace’

YoungUpstarts

Louis Carter is a well-known executive coach, CEO, and social/organizational psychologist. His books include “ The Change Champion’s Field Guide “, “ Best Practices in Talent Management ” and “ In Great Company: How to Spark Peak Performance by Creating an Emotionally Connected Workplace ” (McGraw-Hill Education, February 21, 2019).

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Segovia’s Next Step

Reid Hoffman

Mobile money is transforming financial services in the frontier markets with over 850M registered accounts. The best way to combat global poverty at scale is to put money directly into the hands of millions of people who have very little of it. That’s the simple, powerful vision that Segovia CEO Michael Faye and his co-founder Paul Niehaus pitched me in 2015, and the reason I was excited to lead their Series A round with a personal impact investment from my foundation.

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5 Powerful Ways Today’s Thriving Startups Are Becoming More Proactive

YoungUpstarts

Today’s startup environment is dynamic. It’s impossible to grow your business with purpose and conviction if you don’t make a concerted effort to get ahead of things before they happen. And while you won’t always be successful in predicting what happens next, a proactive approach to startup growth and development will, more often than not, put you in a place to be successful.

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5 Top Content Types For Ecommerce Store Marketing

The Startup Magazine

Content marketing remains one of the top ROI friendly strategies to generate relevant leads for your business. But there are many content types to choose from. The average content marketing conversion rate is around 2.9%. Businesses who don’t use it fall way below with just 0.5% conversions. When it comes to ecommerce stores, content marketing is certainly a game changer that can power up the success of your marketing strategy.

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Purchase Decisions: 9 Things to Know About Influencing Customers

ConversionXL

If you want to get people to buy your stuff, you need to understand how consumers make purchasing decisions. People research products. They compare competitors. Some 87% of buying decisions begin with research conducted online, usually on Amazon or Google. Product quality and seller reputation matter , of course. But what about when the product matches the customer’s needs and they trust the seller?

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How To Maximize Your Meeting Culture

YoungUpstarts

by Cory Treffiletti, Chief Evangelist and CMO for Voicea. Did you know more than 15% of any organization’s time is spent in meetings? 99% of the time this headline is followed by a statement of how much meetings can suck. I am 100% positive this is not how I want to think about it. I am someone who doesn’t think my cup is half empty or half full. I am the kind of person who is happy to have a cup with which to get water and my goal is to make sure everyone has the right kind of cup to work with

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What exactly is a managed marketplace?

Version One Ventures

Over the past few years, the term “managed marketplace” has become so widely used that Bill Gurley from Benchmark recently tweeted that it is not clear to him what the difference is between a “managed marketplace” and a “true marketplace.”. I think this is an important discussion to have and I am trying to develop a framework to differentiate between the different terms.

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8 Web Design Principles to Know in 2019

ConversionXL

Your website design is more important for conversions than you think. You can implement every conversion-boosting tactic in the world, but if your web design looks like crap, it won’t do you much good. Design is not just something designers do. Design is marketing. Design is your product and how it works. The more I’ve learned about the principles of web design, the better results I’ve gotten.

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Transcript of How to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Customers

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Customers written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. This is John Jantsch.

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How to Find an IT Provider for Your Small Business

Up and Running

As a small business owner, you’re no doubt aware that protecting your website and all your web- and network-based tools is crucial. Startups and small businesses are targeted in 58 percent of all cyber attacks , according to Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigation Report. However, you may feel like expert IT support is a luxury you can’t afford.

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How to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Customers

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Customers written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Donna Cutting. Podcast Transcript. My guest on today’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Donna Cutting, CSP, Founder & CEO of Red Carpet Learning Systems. She is also the author of 501 Ways to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Customers.