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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The idea of exactly what your business is going to usually come first. Secondly, most often, is giving a title to your idea. What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Some people turn to their childhood for inspiration or a beloved family pet. It could be a made up word you dream of one night and feel it has the right ring to it. Even still there are some people who study foreign words for the perfect meaning behind their chosen business.

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Ruby on Rails: Five tips for cleaner controller code

Austin Startup

Source 1. Keep controller actions small and focused solely on receiving a request and returning a response. Rule of thumb: your controller actions should be no more than 5–7 lines of code. 2. For handling requests, move the business logic out of controllers and into plain old Ruby objects like Service objects (app/services) or models (app/models) that don’t inherit from ActiveRecord, and call that in your controller to handle the business logic. 3.

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Verticals, the Uptake way

deal architect

Readers know I have lamented for a while that enterprise software has paid lip service to verticals. Two decades of cloud and in-memory computing and still most of the available functionality is around horizontal areas - accounting, HCM and CRM.

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5 Lies Told Online That People Still Believe

YoungUpstarts

by Carmen Jacob, co-founder of UpJourney. Today, we’ll talk about 5 lies told online most people still believe without a question. The reasons why we believe these things are either wishful thinking, conspiracy theories, or plain and simple laziness. Here you have five lies told online you might want to question from now on: 1. “ I have read the terms and conditions. ” That is a lie that you say quite often.

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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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Verticals, the Uptake way

deal architect

Readers know I have lamented for a while that enterprise software has paid lip service to verticals. Two decades of cloud and in-memory computing and still most of the available functionality is around horizontal areas - accounting, HCM and CRM.

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You can’t force workplace culture

The Next Web

Websites and publications tailored for entrepreneurs and the startup crowd are saturated with articles and guides on how to create the ‘perfect’ company culture; everything from redesigning offices to throwing more team parties. As a company executive in previous ventures, I often observed my employees at these “company bonding” events and wondered, is this working?

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5 Steps to Strengthen your Lean Startup Experimentations

Where to Play

The post 5 Steps to Strengthen your Lean Startup Experimentations appeared first on Where to Play. Before you ‘get out of the building’: How to adopt a top-down orientation to improve your lean startup experimentations. Lean Startup , by Steve Blank and Eric Ries , is a great bottom-up approach. Through local experimentations, you can gradually reveal a promising market opportunity.

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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “3:30, I’m Up – I Always Beat the Sun Up” (via Bow Wow)

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur or founder — and whether you’re launching your startup, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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5 Steps to Strengthen your Lean Startup Experimentations

Where to Play

The post 5 Steps to Strengthen your Lean Startup Experimentations appeared first on Where to Play. Before you ‘get out of the building’: How to adopt a top-down orientation to improve your lean startup experimentations. Lean Startup , by Steve Blank and Eric Ries , is a great bottom-up approach. Through local experimentations, you can gradually reveal a promising market opportunity.

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