Wed.Nov 06, 2019

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10 Ways To Trample And Smother Business Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. Yet in my role as a small business advisor, I still see a singular focus on achieving repeatable processes and “cookie-cutter” manufacturing. I don’t believe these two objectives have to be mutually exclusive.

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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

We all want our teams to work as effectively as they can. We aim for amazing results — powerful systems, groundbreaking innovations, and insights that will give us a competitive edge. But how do we get everyone to actually delivery on that kind of promise? By putting people first — as opposed to process. Though agile is all about process and that’s where much of our attention has gone, it’s time we shifted out focus on people and interactions.

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Eliminating the Distractions of Modern Life

Duct Tape Marketing

Eliminating the Distractions of Modern Life written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Nir Eyal. Podcast Transcript. Today on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, writer, consultant and teacher Nir Eyal stops by to discuss his latest book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. An expert on the intersection of psychology, technology, and business, Eyal’s latest book is a look at what’s really at the root of our modern, di

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Maximizing Your Digital Marketing Channel Mix

YoungUpstarts

by Adriana Lynch , CMO at Chief Outsiders. “Going digital” with your marketing mix has never been more essential. Most advertisers continue to increase their digital marketing spend in 2019 as billions of consumers are using online social media as a jumping off point into purchase decisions. With more money flowing into digital marketing, the digital channel mix continues to grow in complexity.

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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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Looking for Mentors for Entrepreneurs for All – Longmont, Colorado

Feld Thoughts

Earlier this year Amy and I, along with a number of other local friends, supported the rollout of a new organization in Longmont called Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll). EforAll is a nonprofit organization that partners with communities nationwide to help under-resourced individuals pursue their dream of starting a business. They believe everyone should have the opportunity, resources, and support they need to successfully start their business.

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Is Your Investment Rental Safe With A Property Manager?

YoungUpstarts

As a property owner and investor, you have to do your homework when selecting the best tenants to place in your rental property. What you may not realize is that it is also important to make sure that your investment is safe and cared for when hiring a property manager. Hire the wrong one and you could be out more than money, so it’s a big issue to be aware of.

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5 Reasons Why Your Link Building Efforts Are Going In Vain

YoungUpstarts

by Prince Kapoor. Link building is a great contributor to the success of any business. If implemented properly, link building can help your business rise to new levels. I am not saying that if you implement them well, it is a guarantee to success, but yes, it is surely a way towards it. In fact, backlinks are still the first search engine ranking factor.

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From Entrepreneur To Boss: Hiring Your First Employees

The Startup Magazine

When setting out to launch a new business, there are many factors to be considered before launching. One key requirement? You need to be prepared and equipped with the right resources. This means securing the funding, business premises, building your business presence online and hiring the perfect human resources. Around 62 percent of small businesses have no staff while 28 percent employ 1-5 employees.

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The Importance Of A State Collection Agency When Collecting Debts

YoungUpstarts

Running a company is already hard as it is, but one challenge that stresses business owners to their wits’ end is when a customer doesn’t pay their bills. There are different reasons why clients don’t settle their accounts. Some customers may experience a sudden cash shortage leading to missed payments. Other clients will not pay when they’re not satisfied with a product or service.

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Zack Creed Learned Entrepreneurial Lessons on the Golf Course [SPONSORED POST]

Hearpreneur

Oakville’s Zack Creed has been involved in the game of golf since his teen years as captain of his high school golf team in New Jersey. He continued to pursue his passion while attending college in Las Vegas, winning championships, teaching the sport, joining the PGA, managing courses, marketing golf at trade shows, and more. He’s now about to open a multipurpose golf facility in Oakville, Ontario, where he now lives, where he will offer a range of services and amenities to other golfers at all

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Interview: Simeon Burnett, 5 years of Snowball Effect

NZ Entrepreneur

It’s been five years since New Zealand equity crowdfunding company Snowball Effect got the go ahead from the Financial Markets Authority to bring Kiwi founders and investors a new way to raise and invest capital in ambitious New Zealand business ventures. Enabling the public to participate in the types of deals usually reserved for angel investors and those “in the know”, Snowball Effect has assisted nearly 50 companies at various stages of growth to raise over $55M, from 6000+

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Powerful Questions to Ask During an Interview for Corporate Secretary

Board Effect

Despite advances in technology and the fast pace of the business world, the corporate secretary is still the glue that holds the board and the rest of the organization together. The corporate secretary still needs to have the knowledge and experience that’s required of corporate secretaries. Generally, they deal with statutory and compliance issues, meeting planning, record-keeping and carrying out board decisions, resolutions and changes.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

Eric Ries once described the minimum viable product (MVP) as a version of a new product that allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort: Instead of spending years perfecting our technology, we build a minimum viable product, an early product that is terrible, full of bugs, and crash-your-computer-yes-really stability problems.

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Transcript of Eliminating the Distractions of Modern Life

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Eliminating the Distractions of Modern Life written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Nir Eyal. He is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor, known for his bestselling book, Hooked.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

Eric Ries once described the minimum viable product (MVP) as a version of a new product that allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort: Instead of spending years perfecting our technology, we build a minimum viable product, an early product that is terrible, full of bugs, and crash-your-computer-yes-really stability problems.