Mon.Jul 23, 2018

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How Wise Is The Conventional Wisdom On Closing?

YoungUpstarts

by Brian Signorelli, author of “ Inbound Selling: How to Change the Way You Sell to Match How People Buy “ When you work in sales, there’s no end to the advice you field. Everyone — from bosses to consultants and trainers to the industry veterans you meet at the hotel bar — has tips and techniques that (supposedly) vastly improve your likelihood of making a sale.

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Book excerpt: My Morning Ritual

Jeff Hilimire

The book I’m writing, The Five-Day Turnaround , is written as a narrative, first-person story, and throughout I share tips and tricks on how the main character, Will, manages his time as a leader and CEO. Yes, Will is basically me, so these strategies are tools that I’ve honed over the years to help me be more successful. Below is an unedited passage from the book, focusing on the process I…er, I mean Will, uses each morning to get going. ~~~.

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Webinars: The Learning Revolution

Transformify

As we have gone hurtling headfirst into the digital age over the last few decades, we have developed a completely new style of learning. We no longer traipse into the library searching for hours for the exact information, but now at the click of a button can find exactly what we are looking for and even have our specific questions answered. Questions varying vastly in their complexity and answered by many different people with many different opinions, views and experiences.

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4 Steps To The Support You Need To Save Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs and small businesses I know are struggling with business-threatening issues, but are reluctant to seek any assistance. Some assume that the help will be too expensive or doesn’t exist, but I find that others are just horribly uncomfortable asking for any kind of help. This results in personal and business failures that could have been easily prevented.

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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 Successfully Introduce New Workplace Technology

YoungUpstarts

As various companies look to build upon their productivity and efficiency gains, their attention can understandably turn to whether new technology could help them to meet those ends. You might not be surprised to learn that, yes, refreshing your workplace technology can help prevent your company falling behind in the corporate race. Still, you need to be careful how you implement new technological solutions; otherwise, they could falter in their effectiveness.

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What Makes (And Breaks) A Great Company Culture?

YFS Magazine

If you want to build a thriving and resilient business, you have to build a culture that connects your employees and encourages them to flourish.

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How to Know When to Close Your Business and Start Over

Up and Running

A few years back, I was working as a business consultant for a venture located in a small city in India. The company used a mix of offline and online methods to connect job seekers and recruiters. After one year as a consultant to the business owners, I realized it was not in a position to succeed. The sales numbers did not look very encouraging, their growth was slow, and they were continuously missing all the targets we set.

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What To Do In Cases Of Breach of Employment Contract

YoungUpstarts

Unlike most countries in the world, where employers can dismiss an employee only for a valid reason, employment in the US is predominantly at-will. At-Will employment is a common term used in US labor law for contractual relationships, giving employers the convenience to dismiss employees without any reason or just cause for termination. Such employment also gives the employee the advantage to leave at any time, with or without reason, without fearing adverse legal consequences.

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Why VC Feedback is Often Bad Data

This is going to be BIG.

I've seen this so many times over: A founder pitches a VC, or several of them, and then they come back from that process with all sorts of new strategy goals or worries that they need to be doing something differently. Nine times out of ten, if you're pitching more than one VC, the advice seems to conflict with itself, and the founder winds up playing Wack-a-Mole trying to figure out what to do next.

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The SME Instrument: How Innovative Startups Can Receive EU Funding?

Transformify

When speaking of startups’ funding, most founders first consider VC or Angel Investor funding. Somehow, it is perceived in the startup world that this is the way to go. However, it is not necessarily the only option. To boost innovation and SME sector growth, the EU Commission has launched the SME Instrument of the Horizon 2020 program – the largest non-dilutive fund in the world.

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6 Content Marketing Mistakes App Developers Make

YFS Magazine

Here are 6 mistakes app developers make with their content marketing strategies that turn readers right off (and what to do instead).

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The Worst Start-Up, Ever!

Austin Startup

Angel Sheet is the world’s first fully-social, AI infused, machine learning toilet paper, on the blockchain. Yes, you heard me correctly. Behold, Angel Sheet. Angel Sheet is the world’s first fully-social, AI infused, machine learning toilet paper, on the blockchain. Yes, you heard me correctly. You see, Angel Sheet does what no toilet paper has done before, optimizing its cleaning mission with artificial intelligence, learning your individual needs and improving with every use.

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Monday Motivation: SUCCESS Motivation | How to Play the INFINITE Game

Hearpreneur

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Let your business have a just cause. So strong that people will sacrifice for it to succeed. Have courage as a leader. Leadership creates an environment. A trusting team is essential for business, it creates an environment of no fear. Be of service to others.

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Don’t mistake good leadership for good management

NZ Entrepreneur

There is plenty of advice out there for employees about the importance of not mistaking good management for good leadership. But entrepreneurs also need to be reminded that good leadership is not the same as good management. Because while leadership may come naturally to many entrepreneurs, management is a completely different ball game. As an entrepreneur, the very act of starting a business or venture from scratch – grabbing the bull by the horns and getting on with making something happ