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3 Keys To Winning New Customers

YoungUpstarts

by Rich Allen, author of “ The Ultimate Business Tune Up: A Simple Yet Powerful Business Model That Will Transform the Lives of Small Business Owners “. One of the most critical activities within a business is to define, without hesitation, the process used to win new customers. Without new customers, any business is doomed to a slow death as their current customers fade away for any number of reasons.

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5 Productivity Tips When You’re Working From Home

YFS Magazine

Working from home is the new normal. If you are serious about your business want to get more done from home, here are 5 ways to be more productive.

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Lean Startup Conference Comes to New York & London

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Melissa Moore & Jennifer Maerz of Lean Startup Co. Over the last eight years, we’ve learned that our Lean Startup community members are constantly searching for better ways to build and scale products. Whether you need advice on how to design a good experiment, how to get buy-in from your boss, or what key metrics to track to hold your team accountable, we’re here to help.

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Renew Your Mind, Banish Mediocrity And Detox Your Life

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at 6 practical suggestions to help you move from unconscious mediocrity to conscious empowerment and detox and declutter your life.

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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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iOS Border Crossing Mode

Feld Thoughts

Now that US Border agents are aggressively asking for your cell phone and passwords when you cross the border , it’s time for Apple and Google to add a new feature to iOS and Android. The feature is needed because it’s not enough to just lock your phone, or turn it off before you go through the border. A while ago, to make it easy to comply with FAA regulations, which many believe to be unnecessary , iOS airplane mode and Android airplane mode were created.

Cloud 101
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How to Use Social Media to Find the Perfect Employee for Your Business

Up and Running

Whether you run a well-established company or are a budding entrepreneur, you’ll likely experience growing pains while building your team. At Bond Street , we’re experts in term loans , but we cover just about everything related to small business, including how to hire the perfect employees for your new company. For small business owners, committing to a new employee’s salary is daunting.

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Pitching America’s mayors

Austin Startup

Startups make their case to mayors & tech leaders At SXSW, seven startups had the opportunity to pitch a group of mayors and tech leaders on their unique approaches to addressing civic challenges. Hosted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the City of Austin with support from Amazon Web Services, the Civic I/O Mayors Match Up featured a strong lineup of entrepreneurs from across the country working to fix problems as diverse as deteriorating roads, recycling household chemical waste, improv

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How to Convert Abandoned Visitors

The Startup Magazine

Your site is performing, and you are succeeding in bringing traffic to your site – kudos to you! But wait, then you notice they are dropping off…. This is not a problem that you are alone in experiencing; it’s reported that nearly 68% of online shopping carts are abandoned. In fact, in some cases – they don’t even put items in the cart before they leave; two years ago, the dismal figure of international shoppers that made it to the court was 5.31%.

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Finally, The Walk Has Come Back to 20 Minute VC

Hunter Walker

FINALLY, THE WALK HAS COME BACK TO 20 MINUTE VC!!!! Wait, ok, so until this most recently episode, I’d actually never appeared before on Harry Stebbing’s 20 Minute VC podcast but it felt momentous to me and Harry for two reasons: We’d talked about it for a long time. Harry says he was “stalking” me, which might be a little dramatic… Harry let me turn the tables on him at the end by becoming the interviewer and asking questions.

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6 Tips to negotiate with your Chinese vendors

The Startup Magazine

Many retailers in the west are turning east for their suppliers, due to the availability of low cost manufacturing. The level of English of many Chinese business owners has improved considerably in recent years, meaning expensive translators are no longer as necessary as they once were. Outsourcing to China is undoubtedly is not just cost effective.

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Austin Entrepreneur Joseph Kopser Considers Run for Congress

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Publisher and Reporter with Silicon Hills News Host of the Ideas to Invoices Podcast Most people in Austin’s technology community know Joseph Kopser. He is one of those people who seems to be everywhere and involved in everything from Austin’s smart city efforts and transportation issues to promoting veteran entrepreneurs and higher […] The post Austin Entrepreneur Joseph Kopser Considers Run for Congress appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Monday Motivation – How to Get Rid of Self Limiting Doubts

Hearpreneur

Share. This video is from Grant Cardone about self-limiting doubts and what keeps entrepreneurs and business owners from being successful. Remember to change your thinking and your environment.

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Sorry, folks. There is no such thing as a billion dollar idea.

Jeff Hilimire

“I would really like to meet with you soon to talk about a can’t-miss billion dollar idea that I have!” That’s a message I received via email recently. You might think I’m exaggerating, but I get messages like that quite frequently. Lest you think I’m making fun of the person that sent that email, I’m most definitely not.

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Cyber Security For Your Business – 6 Common Myths Debunked

YoungUpstarts

by David Midgley, Head of Operations at Total Processing. With more and more businesses embracing the efficiency and accessibility of on-the-go technology and online transactions now being processed quicker than ever, it’s no surprise that these new technologies are also attracting potential security threats. These security threats can often be blown out of proportion though, whether it’s via word of mouth, social media or marketing stunts, and which can add unnecessary concern for both business

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Austin’s Entrepreneurial Landscape

Austin Startup

What’s the number one city for startups in the United States? Is it Silicon Valley, home to accelerators Y Combinator and 500 Startups and to tech giants Google and Facebook? Or perhaps it’s New York City — where companies like Foursquare, Warby Parker, and Rent the Runway got their start. According to the most recent annual Kauffman Index report , which ranks “the rate of new entrepreneurs, the number of entrepreneurs who started their companies when unemployed, and the number of startups per c

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Why Mentors Are Needed To Spark Future Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time mentor and advisor to new business owners, I can attest to both the need for mentoring, and the satisfaction that comes from watching an aspiring but tentative entrepreneur grow into someone capable of changing the world. Business is not rocket science, and one-on-one guidance face-to-face, with a real project, trumps the classroom and mistakes every time.