Sat.Jul 28, 2018

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10 Commonly Held Myths That Limit Competitive Efforts

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur believes in their heart that their startup is more innovative and creative than their competitors. Yet none knows exactly where creativity comes from within, or how to pick and motivate the most creative people for the team. Most believe and follow one or more of the popular myths on business creativity, even though none of them have much scientific evidence.

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Prime Day is bad for Amazon’s brand

The Next Web

Amazon introduced Prime Day in 2015 as a way to celebrate its 20th anniversary as a one-day sale with the aim of overshadowing Black Friday. The sale was available only to Prime members and over the years has become a premier shopping day that grabs media attention and drives competitive brands to launch side-by-side sales. This year, Prime Day had several added elements to drive buzz like a concert and extended hours.

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Flight of the BAT: Chinese Tech Charging Ahead

VC Cafe

We seem to have hit an inflection point as more VC funding went to China than the US in Q2 2018. Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are investing billions in innovation and have a play in seemingly every. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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This is how you can personalize marketing campaigns — without violating GDPR

The Next Web

GDPR — no other four letters are giving tech companies a bigger headache this year. So many articles have been written about it, you might wonder why you should read this one. It’s simple, really, you shouldn’t unless you are one of the 92 percent of marketers who according to a recent study by Evergage Inc use digital personalization. Instead of boring you with yet another generic explanation of what the GDPR is, I’d like to address the new regulations through the looking-glass of personalizati

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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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Ten leadership lessons from Alibaba’s founder

VC Cafe

I finished the book “Alibaba, The House that Jack Ma Built” by Duncan Clark. I recommend it. Its hard not to get drawn to Jack’s Cinderella story. Coming from a very humble background, his. This is a content summary only. Click on the post title to continue reading this post, share your comments, browse the website and more!

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Entrepreneur Grows Pet Food Company Through Inspiration of the Benefits of Less-processed Food For Animals

Hearpreneur

Moody established Stella & Chewy’s in 2003 in a tiny New York City apartment, but the impetus for the business came years earlier when Chewy, who had been rescued from an animal shelter, developed severe health problems. On a veterinarian’s recommendation, Marie put Chewy on a raw meat/vegetable diet. Within a short period of time, he made a complete recovery, and this inspired her to learn more about the benefits of less-processed food for animals.