Fri.Oct 07, 2016

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The Future of Government: Hayward & the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. It’s been exciting to watch the Lean Startup movement grow from a practice utilized in the tech world to one implemented in a wide variety of sectors ranging from enterprise to education, religious organizations, nonprofits, and government groups. When we talk about government, we mean both the macro outfits whose work affects the entire country (perhaps you’ve heard of the IRS ) and regionally-focused groups alike.

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A Paperboy Explains The Keys To Success In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Creating a new business is not rocket science. Whether you are starting a paper route, or commercializing a complex technology, the same basic principles of success apply. I found this illustrated well in a new book I just finished, “ A Paperboy’s Fable ,” by a young entrepreneur and writer Deep Patel. It doesn’t take a superior intellect or big credentials to succeed in business.

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6 Brands That’ve Created Business Value Via Niche Social Communities

Brandanew

We’ve time and again shared the importance of niche social communities in today’s digital world. Niche social communities work when they’re connected, engaged and generate consumer value. It’s more desirable to be appreciated by a select set of followers in a specific area, rather than run around getting generic likes that amount to nothing.

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Are You Providing Customers With Enough Convenience?

YoungUpstarts

One area of customer service that many new business owners overlook is convenience. It’s a huge driver for loyalty and relationship building. Just think of the independent grocery stores you find in every community for the perfect example. Sure, they can’t compete with the supermarkets on price. But they are easier to access, less hassle, and people are prepared to pay a little more for the pleasure of convenience.

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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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Rise in corporate venture shows innovation is moving to startups

The Equity Kicker

Regular readers will know that for me the rising pace of change is one of the defining features of the early 21st century. Things are now changing so quickly that traditional structures are breaking down. Within a decade or so we will have adjusted to rapid change as the new normal, but in the short to medium term expect more disruption rather than less.

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[ADV] Making The Most Of Your Food Purchases

YoungUpstarts

When it comes to conserving your food dollars, do you know the best ways to save money? Check out these tips and then head over to mamma.com to spend wisely! Buy in Bulk, Cook in Batches. You probably already recognize that buying in bulk is a thing that people do to save money, but don’t think that it is only reserved for soccer moms on a shoestring budget.

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If It Ain’t Broke, Break It!

YoungUpstarts

By Michael S. Melfi JD, MBA. We have all heard the old saying, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. While this could be a great mantra for the old stereo you have in the garage, it is not the philosophy for creating success as an entrepreneur. If anything, you want to break it fast and break it often and pivot repeatedly until you have a viable product.

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6 Ideas To Refresh Your Email Marketing Strategy

YFS Magazine

If you are ready to improve your email marketing campaigns, here are six tactics you can leverage.

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Money Men: Attracting Investment for Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Attracting investors and money men to your startup will become a necessity at some point. You will need an injection of cash to help the company evolve as much as possible. So, these are a few of the techniques you can use to help your company attract investment. Show Them You’re Well Run. It’s important that you illustrate that you are a well-run and organized business.

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Using Promotional Items to Gain Customer Awareness

The Entrepreneurial Mind

TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious. The post Using Promotional Items to Gain Customer Awareness appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Take your Professional Development to the Crowd

crowdSPRING Blog

There’s no denying the power of the crowd when it comes to creative projects. At crowdSPRING, a community of over 190,000 creatives collaborates with businesses around the world to help them stand out with quality designs and copywriting on a daily basis. But can the crowd contribute to professional development? According to Jonathan Chan at Foundr Magazine , the crowd doesn’t just contribute to your professional development, it is vital: History teaches us that in order to be succes

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9 Reasons to Implement Your Social Media Employee Advocacy Program Today (And The Necessary Tools to Do It)

Duct Tape Marketing

9 Reasons to Implement Your Social Media Employee Advocacy Program Today (And The Necessary Tools to Do It) written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. photo credit Pexels. Just as the adage goes, brands are what people say they are. If you looked closely at giants like Starbucks and Whole Foods, you would notice that they have communities built around their brands.

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Take your Professional Development to the Crowd

crowdSPRING Blog

There’s no denying the power of the crowd when it comes to creative projects. At crowdSPRING, a community of over 190,000 creatives collaborates with businesses around the world to help them stand out with quality designs and copywriting on a daily basis. But can the crowd contribute to professional development? According to Jonathan Chan at Foundr Magazine , the crowd doesn’t just contribute to your professional development, it is vital: History teaches us that in order to be succes

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The KPI you haven’t considered yet

Spencer Fry

When you first set out to build a new product, you have very little to go on. Before talking to potential customers, friends, and family, all you have is a problem you want to solve and a hunch as to how to go about solving it. Then as you start to make the product and give it life, you gather more and more data points as to how your product is going to do.

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Setting up your VR headset doesn’t have to be torture!

Austin Startup

Vive Setup Deconstructed — tips and tricks I would have wanted before spending over 20+ hours setting up my device After spending almost the entirety of last weekend hooking up an HTC Vive, I thought I would put together a 5 min summary to streamline setup for the next lucky reader. While Oculus and Vive both offer a fantastic VR experience, I decided to purchase the Vive because I wanted the room scale experience with the handheld controllers.

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Are you listening?

Austin Startup

Listening to people is one of the most basic yet fundamental actions you can do as a leader. Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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