Tue.Apr 16, 2019

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How To Write A Marketing Plan In Just Six Easy Steps

YoungUpstarts

by Lonny Kocina, CEO of Media Relations Agency and author of “ The CEO’s Guide to Marketing: The Book Every Marketer Should Read Before Their Boss Does “ A well-executed marketing plan is like a GPS. It guides your customers into your sales process. Done right, your marketing should result in more leads, higher sales and a stronger brand.

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ERP: Moving Fast and Yet So Slow

deal architect

A guest post from Ton Dobbe, Chief Inspiration Officer, Value Inspiration "Every week I interview entrepreneurs and experts from around the world to share their big idea about new forms of value creation and the potential we can unlock when.

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Are You Living An Adventure-Starved Life? 11 Ways To Shake Things Up

YoungUpstarts

by Vella Mbenna, author of “ Muddy Roads Blue Skies: My Journey to the Foreign Service, From the Rural South to Tanzania and Beyond “ Have you fallen into a routine of drudgery? Do you feel stuck there? You’re not alone. If we’re honest, many of us will admit that we’re kind of going through the motions — work, home, eat, TV, sleep, repeat — and living by default instead of design.

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Groan - yet another TLA

deal architect

Every good analyst is entitled to coin a couple of TLAs in their career. It is a badge of honor. So, I certainly understand why my friend Phil Fersht and his team at HfS have coined a new one IAP.

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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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The Top 5 Tips to Get Your Gym “Fiscally Fit” by Dean Carlson

Mike Michalowicz

As a fitness professional, you are a world changer. You do some of the most important work on the face of the earth; you create happy and healthy by helping people move better, perform better, look better, and probably most importantly, feel better. You are a superstar. But, you say, if the work I do is so important and so many people need it, why am I struggling to get ahead?

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That Day When Your VC Tells You She Is Leaving Her Firm

Feld Thoughts

There are some blog posts that every entrepreneur should read. Hunter Walk at Homebrew recently wrote one of them. It’s titled Oh S**t, Your VC Just Quit Her Fund! What a Good CEO Should Do Next. He covers three cases: Bullish aka You Are Absolutely Killing It Written You Off Too Early To Tell – Some Good Stuff, Some Challenges But A Lot To Do.

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7 Personal And Professional Growth Strategies For Entrepreneurs

YFS Magazine

Here’s a glimpse at how entrepreneurs can grow their businesses and capitalize on opportunities all the while prioritizing personal development.

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EverlyWell Lands $50 Million More in Venture Capital Funding

SiliconHills

EverlyWell, the Austin-based healthcare testing platform, announced Tuesday that it has received $50 million more in venture capital funding. To date, the Austin-based company, founded four years ago, has received $55 million in total funding. Goodwater Capital led the Series B funding along with Highland Capital Partners. Other investors included Next Coast Ventures, NextGen Venture […].

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Part two: More impressive (and free) tools for bootstrapping your business

Austin Startup

The cool dashboards are coming. Starting a company is many things?—?exciting, stressful, a little bit crazy and nothing if not a lesson in being resourceful. You learn to make the most of every minute of the day, and of every dollar you’re investing. Whether you are bootstrapping or not, resourcefulness is as the heart of building a successful company.

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Mastercard Buys Austin-based Vyze

SiliconHills

Mastercard announced Tuesday that it has acquired Austin-based Vyze, a cloud-based financial technology company. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Vyze, founded in 2008, has raised $48.1 million to date. Vyze works with lenders to provide consumer finance products like branded store credit cards, installment loans and lease to own payment plans.

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What Does Insurance For Contractors Cover?

YFS Magazine

If you are a residential or commercial builder, general contractor, or own a design and build firm, here are common insurance policies you may need asap.

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Supporter Channel: Storytech

NZ Entrepreneur

Listen to the interview. “Everybody has a better product. That’s why you need a better story.” When award winning ad man James Hurman set out to provide New Zealand businesses with access to brand consulting services typically only affordable for large companies and household brands, it was this reasoning that drove him. That and a desire to help “NZ Inc” become not just a nation of great innovators and entrepreneurs, but also great storytellers and marketers.

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Prevention Versus Detection: What Are the Main Differences Between Quality Inspection and Quality Control?

Our Own Start-up

Quality Inspection (QI) and Quality Control (QC) differ in many ways.

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You gotta wipe out a lot before you can get better

Jeff Hilimire

Zac right before a huge wipeout. We took the family skiing for Spring Break. Well, all but the little guy, he stayed home with his bestie. My oldest son, Zac, grew more bold as the week went on, trying jumps and black diamonds. He was having the most fun, improving faster than the others, and… wiping out. A LOT. After a particularly big wipeout, we were riding up the ski lift and I asked him if it bothered him that he kept falling.

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MSME lender Aye Finance raises Rs 233.6 crore in the Series D resulting into two fund raise in the same year

Our Own Start-up

Aye Finance raised Rs 233.62 crore in a Series D equity round led by Falcon Edge Capital.

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Private Label Manufacturing Helps Startups

The Startup Magazine

Private labeling is an increasingly popular technique that many businesses can benefit from. It allows manufacturers and businesses to benefit from another business’s brand. In return, that brand gets to sell the products made by those manufacturers or businesses. One of the most remarkable things about private labeling is how prevalent it is while being a largely unknown practice amongst consumers.

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Why Being a Podcast Guest Is Your Secret SEO Weapon

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Being a Podcast Guest Is Your Secret SEO Weapon written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. We all know that there’s a lot of SEO value in generating your own content. Blogs, videos, webinars, and podcasts are all great ways to build your brand’s online reputation, drive more traffic to your site, and boost your SERP standing. But creating your own content takes a lot of time and effort.

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