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Growing Your Influence At Work

YoungUpstarts

by Ron Price and Stacy Ennis, coauthors of “ Growing Influence: A Story of How to Lead with Character, Expertise, and Impact “ One of the long-term challenges of the workplace is how many employees feel powerless. For many years, employee surveys around the world have measured levels of engagement as high as 70% or more. What creates levels of disengagement this high?

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Where have all the process visionaries gone?

deal architect

A recent visit to an Amazon Fulfillment Center was eye-opening. They have completely redefined the old warehouse pick, pack, ship mindset. It's now stow, pick, pack, verify, and in their lingo, SLAM and "chaotic storage". Kiva robots and miles of.

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Running A Great Business Means Knowing How To Work With People

YoungUpstarts

One of the most tempting and exciting things about running your own business is the idea that you are going to be in charge of everything. That, rather than doing whatever you’re told by a manager or an employer, you’re the one calling the shots. Of course, as exciting as this can be, it does come with a trade-off. Being in charge and calling the shots means that you also have a huge amount of responsibility and you can’t always guarantee that everything that you’re respo

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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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Y Combinator-backed startup opens up intelligent sales platform

The Startup Magazine

Apollo.io, backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Y Combinator, has introduced an intelligent sales platform that is self-service and provides 50 free credits per month. Aiming to be a pioneer in the intelligent sales space, Apollo.io’s sales platform will provide access to data from over 200 million businesses and allows users to author and automate personalized messages.

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Developers Break Ground on Natiivo Austin, a High-Rise Hotel Built for Homesharing

SiliconHills

The transformation of Rainey Street District continues with the groundbreaking Thursday morning on Natiivo Austin. The high-rise building at 48 East Avenue is being built for home-sharing by Austin-based Pearlstone Partners and Newgard Development Group., based in Miami. The condos allow owners to own, stay and share their condos and is powered by Airbnb, a […].

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Never grow your vegetables in someone else’s garden

Start Up Blog

In an attention economy it is a compelling offer for a website to offer access to an audience of 2.4 billion people (Facebook) or promise that 90% of all internet searches start with you (Google). It would seem as though the only rational choice would be to do business on their platform. It’s here that the most important business lesson my father taught me comes to mind: Never grow your vegetables in someones else’s garden.

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Let your board help with “what” and “why” – but rarely “how.”

Berkonomics

I am sure you can argue with this one. Sometimes a board member is valuable in teaching the “how” to get things done inside the company. But experience reinforces the usual fact that a board member telling the CEO or founder “how” to perform a function crosses a line and can diminish the CEO’s confidence and denigrates his or her ability, often in front of the board itself.

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Promoting Great Customer Service In Your Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

You know that your customers expect fantastic customer service , you know that your staff are aware of these expectations and you KNOW precisely why excellent customer service is so important. Excellent customer service always brings more business your way, whether it’s in the form of referrals or repeat business, you always win when your customers love what you do!

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Does Your Business Really Needs Big Data Analytics?

YoungUpstarts

“Big Data” has become a phrase that sets itself apart in the tech industry. Unlike a host of other technologies that rise to the spotlight as buzzwords, only to die in the internet’s disposal bin a few years later, big data is actually useful. It is used to make stock market predictions, detect fake news and prevent fraud by fintech companies. Big data has become so useful that merely having your company associated with the term seemingly makes it more valuable.

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Making Your Business as Eco-Friendly as Possible

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Small business owners are becoming increasingly ethical – and this is a good thing. We’re taking steps to make sure our companies have a positive impact on the world, or, at least, that they don’t have a detrimental impact on the world they’re operating in. One way that you can improve your company is to make it as eco-friendly as possible. We’re living in a time where many major corporations are drastically damaging the environment and spurring on climate change at an unnatural pace.

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Venture Deals Online Course – Fall 2019

Feld Thoughts

Techstars and Kauffman Fellows are once again running the Venture Deals online course that Jason Mendelson and I put together several years ago. If you’re an entrepreneur who wants to raise capital and grow your business, this online course teaches you the basics you need to know for working with VCs. And, if you are starting off as a VC or a lawyer for venture capital deals and you want a refresher on the core issues in a term sheet, this online course is for you.

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The Speed Dial List Every Successful Business Woman Owns

Women Entrepreneurs Can

For startup companies and the self-employed, it’s easy to get caught up in the idea that the only person we need to rely on in the process of launching and running a business is ourselves. As the popular saying goes ‘if you want something doing properly, do it yourself. This statement can only take you so far in business. The fact is, as much as we are multitasking, intelligent beings, with the ability to grasp new concepts with ease, we are restricted in terms of the energy and time we ha

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4 Easy Ways You Can Modernize Your Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

When it comes to business, one of the most important things you can do is stay current and up to date with everything that you’re doing. Here are some ways that you can modernise your business easily and cheaply. Opt for Cloud-Based Storage. First of all, it’s time to ditch paper at your office. Not only will going paper-free give you a reputation for being eco-friendly, but it will also mean that you’ll have to use more modern and convenient storage solutions.

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Finding A Company To Assist With Money Matters

Women Entrepreneurs Can

If you are a contractor, business owner, a freelancer or an interim, financial outsourcing companies offer an excellent service for you. They can make your life a lot easier by handling all of your paperwork and taxes, as well as dealing with payroll HR and other matters. The only thing you must do is submit your timesheet. The company will then make sure all of the right taxes are paid, and the net profit is then placed in your bank.

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