Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

This holiday season is the best ever for your business for two simple reasons. The first is that we currently have awesome economic conditions: a roaring stock market, low unemployment, and solid consumer and business confidence, all of which make right now as good a time as ever to start, grow, finance, and/or sell a business. The second reason is the calendar, with Christmas and New Years Day falling on Mondays, sets up next week very nicely to both spend quality time with family and friends a

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Interested in starting a business in the cannabis industry? I can’t blame you—business is booming and there’s the potential to make huge profits as this sector continues to grow exponentially. Over half of the United States already have legalized cannabis in some form—that’s 29 states plus the District of Columbia. Many states have only legalized cannabis for medical use, but that’s gradually changing as well.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 20, 2017

There are over 170 published talks from Business of Software Conferences available to watch right now. That’s a lot of talks. Tens of Thousands of hours worth of Business of Software talks were watched this year. New talks, old talks, short talks, long talks. Out of those 170, which talks did the good people of the Business of Software Newsletter deem the most useful to them in 2017?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Have you ever wished to take an idea and turn into a product? But are constrained by limited resources? Well, worry not, this post is all about how you can design and build a product without burning up all your resources. Great tactics to build a product without breaking the bank, trust me, I’ve used them myself. When it comes to design, limited resources, and the resulting constraints force you to be wiser and more innovative in tackling challenges.

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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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Transformify

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Ever wondered why your perfectly written job ads don’t attract top applicants? For a long time, starting the job listing with a company self-introduction paragraph has been considered a best practice. The bigger the brand, the higher the interest of the candidates. BUT… Somehow, the job listings of our tech and startup clients always attracted more top applicants who were genuinely interested in the job and the company than the big brands.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You can learn useful entrepreneurial skills in all sorts of odd places. My training ground was the streets of Sweden, going door to door as a teenage evangelist. What I learned there was resilience, persistence, and self-belief. No matter how often I got turned away, no matter how badly I crashed and burned, I always found the strength to keep going on to the next house and keep pitching.

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 20, 2017

If you are side hustling or you have plans to ramp up a side hustle, I really want to know what (and if you’re willing to share, why). Oh, and according to the Google, a side hustle is: A side hustle is a way to make some extra cash that allows you flexibility to pursue what you’re most interested in. It can also be your true passion – a chance to delve into fashion, travel or whatever it is you care about the most without quitting your day job.

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