Fri.Aug 17, 2018

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For Booming Medtech Startups, Liability Remains A Concern

YoungUpstarts

Medtech startups are big money in today’s marketplace, producing high-value solutions for healthcare, ranging from health records software to genetic testing and diabetes management devices. But medtech isn’t all money and innovation – it’s also an industry that’s responsible for people’s lives, and when things go wrong, startups can be liable, with serious legal and financial consequences.

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7 Lead-Generation Tactics Thrive On Limited Budgets

Startup Professionals Musings

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI).

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5 Onboarding Improvements You Can Make Today

Transformify

69% of employees say they're more likely to stick with a company for 3 years or more if they get a great experience during their initial "onboarding" sessions. Despite this, there are still many businesses out there that simply leave their new hires to "jump in at the deep end," with little to no guidance whatsoever. No matter how much experience your new employee might have with your industry, it's important to remember that a new job is a complex and often nerve-wrackin

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Twitter Link Roundup #344 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

You probably know plenty of middle children. Maybe you’re a middle child, yourself. Middle children, the long-suffering sibling stuck with a bad reputation and a number of complexes, are experiencing an increased appreciation in popular opinion. Regularly regarded as jealous, overlooked, and attention starved, middle children are indeed a misunderstood and underappreciated group.

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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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Robert Gerrish: The Story Behind FlyingSolo.com.au And How It Was Acquired By Australian Morning Television Star David Koch

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

? [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Back in 2005, this podcast was brand new. I had only just started to interview entrepreneurs and one of the very first guests was Robert Gerrish, co-founder of Australian small business community FlyingSolo.com.au (and author of the Flying Solo Book). You can listen in […].

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Why Social Media Stories Are a Big Marketing Phenomenon (And How To Use Them to Market Your Business)

crowdSPRING Blog

It doesn’t seem like that long ago that everyone touted Facebook’s newsfeed and Instagram’s feed as the new world for marketers to go forth and conquer. How quickly times change. Initially dismissed as the playground of Millennials, “stories” have grown to become a viable media format in their own right. Not bad for a format that mostly consists of photos, pithy text overlays, and concise videos that sometimes disappear within 24 hours of being posted.