Fri.Nov 25, 2016

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Automate this!

deal architect

In my new book, Silicon Collar I looked at automation and impact on jobs in 50+ work settings. On my innovation blog I have been excerpting weekly from those settings — you can see some of them linked below. In.

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How To Use Technology To Enhance Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Keeping up with all the latest gadgets and gizmos can be tiring, especially in this fast-paced digital age. However, in business, in can be essential for keeping ahead of the game, especially when trying to compete with the big leagues. Your staff may be the most competent and efficient human beings available, but equipped with ancient tech, you might as well be taking fists to a gunfight.

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#GivingThanks: David Cohen and the Techstars Foundation

Feld Thoughts

Today’s #GivingThanks is to David Cohen , one of the founders and co-CEO of Techstars. If David has done something that has touched your life is a positive way and you want to give thanks to him, make a donation online to the Techstars Foundation. I met David on one of my random days in 2006. I can’t remember who introduced us, but David reminds me that it took him four months to get a meeting with me.

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Climb the Ladder Of Intentionality To Unleash Your Potential

YoungUpstarts

by Jeremy Cage, President of The Cage Group and author of “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work “ Most of us will die full of potential – and that includes businesses as well as people. One of the key drivers of this phenomenon is the lack of intentionality. We all have dreams – for our businesses, our careers and our lives – but far too often we lack the intentionality to make them happen.

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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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16 key red flags for startup investors

The Next Web

I recently a read a good book called The Art of Startup Fundraising written by Alejandro Cremades, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Onevest, a venture investing community platform. One of the chapters in Alejandro’s book specifically talks about these red flags for investors, and Alejandro was kind enough to let me share that list with you. Too many members of the founding team Giving equity is a great way to motivate and enroll the help of more individuals when your startup is lean on ca

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Fear of failure can be a good thing, absence of courage never is

The Equity Kicker

Last night at FPLive I was chatting with an entrepreneur called Nick who has just closed his startup. He talked impressively about what he’d learnt and has an interesting idea for his next company which I am keen to investigate. There’s an important point lurking in there. He has just failed with his first company but that isn’t putting us off looking at his second.

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Why Media Outreach Matters. A Story About a Startup

Austin Startup

Our company, AutomoDeals, started at a Techstars Startup Weekend in September of 2016 in San Antonio, Texas. The idea is great, let… Continue reading on Austin Startups ».

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5 Keys To Success In Rolling Out Software Worldwide

Startup Professionals Musings

By Ernst Gemassmer, Chairman, Startup Professionals With the pervasiveness of the Internet, the world is smaller. The cloud makes software easily accessible, without waiting for CD shipments to arrive and installed. The good news is that the reach of your new software application is instantly worldwide, and the bad news is that most people still prefer to work in their own native language.

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How to simplify complex decisions by cleaving the facts

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We all face complex business decisions for which there is no one, correct answer, and yet a strong and occasionally permanent decision is required of us. Sometimes the puzzle is created by fundamental uncertainty inherent in the decision. Examples: how a market will evolve, what competitors are investing in, whether new marketing campaigns will be successful, or how an important new hire will perform.