Tue.Jul 11, 2017

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Why good people leave large tech companies

Steve Blank

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I was visiting with an ex-student who’s now the CFO of a large public tech company. The company is still one of the hottest places to work in tech. They make hardware with a large part of their innovation in embedded software and services.

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Ready To Revamp Your Website? Here’s How To Do It Right

YoungUpstarts

Whether you have a small business or a super large corporation, you will need a website. But it cannot be just any website. It has to be a website that is going to work for you. It needs to work on both a technical level and a personal level. It has to resonate with your readers. If you have no idea where to get started, you are in luck. Everything you need to know to point you in the right direction can be found here: Get The Best Hosting Possible.

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Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge: The Make or Break Difference

Up and Running

Most successful business plans entail launching a new product, service, or distribution outlet that attacks existing market competitors on what military planners would term an exposed flank. In battle, an effective flanking attack hits the opponent (or competition ) where they are less able or unable to respond. A smart commander will mass forces against this flank, just as an astute business leader will pour resources into their flanking effort.

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How To Reduce Unsubscribe Rates For Your Email Marketing Campaigns

YoungUpstarts

by Chris Low, founder of MyTeamPlan. No matter how useful and interesting your newsletter is, there is still a small percentage of your subscribers who may no longer find your content relevant. A Mailchimp study found that between 0.1 to 0.4 percent of subscribers opt out of mailing lists on average during any given email campaign. Mailing lists that offer discounts and vouchers have extremely low rates of opt-out.

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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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What You Need to Know About Google Posts

Duct Tape Marketing

What You Need to Know About Google Posts written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Google is at it again! After much anticipation, Google has released Google Posts for all Google My Business users. Originally this feature was only available to select small businesses, celebrities, sports leagues, movies studios, and even political candidates (you may have noticed “candidate cards” throughout 2016 which were essentially the same as Google Posts).

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This startup wants to save the planet by keeping your tires rock-hard

The Next Web

Even great ideas need the right circumstances to succeed. Without the right funding or opportunity, startups can be stuck with their innovative solutions and technologies, unable to make the impact that they want. For the Tel-Aviv-based startup Neomatix, which developed an automated car tire monitor system that runs on computer vision and big data, this opportunity proved to be the New Energy Challenge: the competition that aims to find and fund the most sustainable ideas by European and Israeli

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How To Vet And Hire An Expert iOS Developer

YFS Magazine

Hiring an expert iOS app developer is rather a big deal. Not every developer can cut it. Here are five things to keep in mind.

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5 Lessons To Learn From Germany’s Thriving Startup Scene

YoungUpstarts

Germany is obviously a great place to build a business. This is evident in the fact that many of the companies that were birthed in Germany have grown to be world leaders. But it’s not just old companies that are thriving in Germany. The country has proven to be a great breeding ground for start-ups. And unlike America that’s currently on the move to get rid of imported talent from certain countries, Germany embraces the concept of importing talent.

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Chargebacks: The Hidden $4.8 Billion Dollars Lost to Fraud Each Year

The Startup Magazine

Based on various retail studies, chargeback.com estimates that US ecommerce lost out on $6.7 billion in 2016 due to fraud. A significant amount of this sum is lost due to chargeback fraud. The chargeback system was introduced some forty years ago as a form of consumer protection for credit card holders, safeguarding their funds and protecting them from dangers such as identity fraud.

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4 Major Rebranding Failures And What You Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

A brand is more than the company name and logo, but a strong brand starts with a great name and logo. If you have decided that it’s time to refresh your brand, keep in mind that giving customers something new does not always mean they will love it. When done properly, a rebranding effort can help your business realign with your target audience, embrace a new direction, build customer buy-in and drive sales.

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Creating Noise or Disrupting an Industry: A Look at Google Jobs and the Potential Outcomes

Jeff Hilimire

Google has recently released the next big step in changing recruitment marketing with its Google for Jobs feature. Now, whenever a search is engaged that is identified as a job-related in nature, Google will automatically aggregate job listings from nearly all job boards, third party and company career pages alike. This comes as a major disruption to a marketplace that was otherwise cornered by giants like Indeed, Monster, and CareerBuilder.

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Introducing our first investment in genomics, Gencove – making genomic data accessible and useful

Version One Ventures

Today, we’re excited to announce our first investment in the genomics space. We welcome Gencove to the Version One portfolio: they’re making genomics accessible and useful to all. We first met Joe Pickrell, the founder of Gencove , a year ago when he shared that he was building an inexpensive technology that actually sequences the genome as opposed to genotyping it.

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American Is Pushing Entrepreneurship To Other Countries

Feld Thoughts

Yesterday, the White House announced it was delaying and likely eliminating the International Entrepreneur Rule. This rule is the closest we’ve come to a Startup Visa , something I’ve been working on with numerous other people since 2009. Several failed bills in Congress, a failed bipartisan Senate comprehensive immigration reform bill, and an Executive Order later, and we still have nothing.

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How Code for America Makes Good Government Great

Reid Hoffman

Every year in the U.S., individuals, foundations, and corporations donate around $47 billion a year to non-profit organizations that focus on child welfare, food security, homelessness, and other areas that fall under the domain of "human services." In comparison, federal, state, and local government spend around $411 billion a year providing similar safety-net services.

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