Fri.Feb 02, 2018

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The Importance Of Building A Secure Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Health, safety, and security must be a primary concern for every business, regardless of its size. You must proactively take steps to find and implement the best onsite security practices, otherwise your business may pay the price. Learn more about the importance of building a secure workplace. Secure Your Assets and Business. You will likely have invested much time, money, and effort into developing your company, which is why you must secure your premises, equipment, and sensitive data as much

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Free rides are the future of public transport, according to this German startup

The Next Web

At 5pm today, Berliners get the get the chance to try a brand new carpooling service. 25 shuttle cars will hit the streets, offering shared rides to up to five passengers at a time. Oh yeah, and it’s free. Carpooling offers the same features as conventional ride-sharing, but is often vastly cheaperThe initiative will run for three months, and is from mobility platform startup Door2Door, and Germany’s largest automobile club, Allgemeine Deutsche Automobil-Club (ADAC).

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How To Start A Loans Company

YoungUpstarts

The loans business can be very profitable and there is a strong demand for customers and businesses who are looking for finance in the UK. This has emerged as high street banks have become stricter with their lending criteria and with the Internet at our fingertips, there is a low barrier to entry to starting your own company. No matter what kind of loan your company intends to offer, there are a number of standard rules which will help you to successfully set up your loans company.

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Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America

Steve Blank

I just read book – Janesville – that reminded me again of life outside the bubble. Janesville, tells the story of laid-off factory workers of a General Motors factory that’s never going to reopen. It’s a story about a Midwest town and the type of people I knew and worked alongside. When I got out of the Air Force after Vietnam, I lived in Michigan and I installed process control systems in automobile assembly plants and steel mills across the industrial heart of the Mid

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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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This Is A Really Good Place To Be Right Now

Feld Thoughts

As I was meditating this morning, the thought “this is a really good place to be right now” came to the front of my mind. As is my way when I meditate, I noted that I’d had the thought, placed it on a leaf, set it on the virtual river flowing in front of me, and let it drift away. Then, I brought my attention back to my breath. I took a shower right after I meditated and the thought came back to me.

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5 Machine Learning Trends That Will Impact Business In 2018

YFS Magazine

Here are five machine learning trends that will continue to define business in 2018 and beyond.

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5 Reasons a Startup Needs an Editorial Calendar

SiliconHills

Content marketing is driving readers to websites. Startups that produce their own content can become an authoritative voice in the industry that they cater to. That creates trust, which can lead to higher sales of products and services. But it’s not just about throwing content onto a website and hoping something resonates with the audience. […].

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How a Virtual Assistant Can Save Your Sanity and Grow Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

How a Virtual Assistant Can Save Your Sanity and Grow Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jess Ostroff. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Jess Ostroff. She is the Founder and Director of Calm at Don’t Panic Management , the first virtual assistant agency to embody a people-first approach to virtual assistant success.

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Dell Technologies Considers a Public Offering or Merger with VMware

SiliconHills

In 2013, Dell went private in a $24 billion buyout deal backed by Silver Lake and Michael Dell. Today, Dell Technologies filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission disclosing that the company’s board is considering taking the company public again with an initial public offering or by merging with VMWare. Normally, the company doesn’t […].

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Twitter Link Roundup #323 – Terrific Reads for Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, and Designers!

crowdSPRING Blog

[Source Image: Starbucks]. The Starbucks siren is alluring, mythical, and readily identifiable by coffee drinkers worldwide. As far as logos go, the Starbucks Siren has remained relatively consistent over the company’s history. However, recent edits to the logo show how powerful subtle changes can be in a redesign. This interesting piece from Fast Company considers the evolution of the Starbucks logo and how, sometimes, perfection really isn’t so perfect after all.

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Eight Reasons You Must Demonstrate the ROI of Your Innovation Projects 

YoungUpstarts

by Jack J. Phillips, PhD, and Patti Phillips, PhD, are coauthors of “ The Business Case for Learning: Using Design Thinking to Deliver Business Results and Increase the Investment in Talent Development ” In recent years there’s been lots of passionate discussion around the topic of innovation. Leaders are obsessed with it. Politicians cheer it.

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8 Lessons From Military Strategy For Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Winning customers as an entrepreneur in a startup has many parallels to a young army trying to penetrate some formidable new and unfamiliar territory. You need a strategy as well as a goal, and you need to pick your battles well. Even in this age of purpose before profits, a business won’t survive by pretending there are no competitors out there to worry about.

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How Business can Minimize Shipping Costs

The Startup Magazine

There is something that will take a small nip out of your profits and budgets, and that is the increase in the cost of postage and shipping. The impact of this increase varies from one business to another depending on the amount of mail and shipping they do. The cost of the first-class letter has not changed from the 49 cents it has been, but people using Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express in the US will have to pay a little more because of an average increase of 15.6%.

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Transcript of How a Virtual Assistant Can Save Your Sanity and Grow Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of How a Virtual Assistant Can Save Your Sanity and Grow Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is sponsored by Podcast Bookers. Podcasts are really hot, right, but do you know what’s also really hot? Appearing as a guest on one of the many, many podcasts out there.

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Should You Apply for PayPal Working Capital?

The Startup Magazine

According to a recent survey, it has been found out that PayPal has lent more than $3 Billion in loans to its users. It seems that the PayPal loan service has been successful with the masses and the company is looking forward to expanding its approach. Source: Flickr. The terms are easy, and processing is instant. Still, some naysayers discourage small business owner from benefiting from the loan service.

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Book #5: The Revolution of Bobby Kennedy

Jeff Hilimire

My goal in 2018 is to read 52 books. Here is a list of all the books I’ve read so far this year. Each book is ranked on a 5-star scale (5 is best). * The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK. Ok, at this point I think its fair to say that I’m mildly obsessed with Bobby Kennedy. I’ve written about some of the reasons why, including this speech I wish could be given today and his incredible Ripples of Hope speech , but the main gist is that he inspires me to

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