Wed.Oct 24, 2018

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Even the Best Startup Solutions Need Modern Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time advisor to aspiring entrepreneurs, and a technology fan myself, I still meet dozens of techies with great solutions who assume they don’t need marketing to change the world. They subscribe to the myth that “if we build it, they will come.” In fact, with today’s information overload, modern marketing is the key to raising even the most innovative solution above the crowd.

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‘Wide Niches’ Exist – How To Find Them

YoungUpstarts

by Nicky Bowers, director of LetLoos. You don’t often get into a niche market by casting a wide net, but there are broad service requirements in almost every industry. The key to developing an enduring business model is to find a market for your product that needs your input or expertise. In other words, you need to have an extremely niche product or service that is demanded by a wide — and most importantly, profitable — audience.

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MobilityX HR Hackathon: Digital Ideas for Employee Wellness

Austin Startup

Thirty-five developers, programmers, and entrepreneurs joined together for a hackathon to compete for the top prize of $10,000. All with the goal of improving the professional personal wellness of Daimler employees through digital innovation. The event was sponsored by Daimler Financial Services in collaboration with the Digital Transformation Office for HR at Daimler.

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Transcript of Building Accountable Leadership to Transform Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Building Accountable Leadership to Transform Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: You know, leadership might be the hardest job for an entrepreneur. You’ve got to decide that you want that job, you have to understanding that it’s an obligation, and let’s face it, it is hard work every

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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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The All-New Innovation Culture: 6 Ways To Involve Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day

YoungUpstarts

by Doug Hall, author of “ Driving Eureka!: Problem Solving with Data Driven Methods and the Innovation Engineering System “ News Flash: Innovation is no longer just a specialist’s job. What’s needed to keep up in today’s digital and global economy is a culture in which innovation is the mission of everyone, everywhere, every day. . Most people think that innovative ideas are magical and only randomly reveal themselves to so-called creative people.

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Top 5 Live Streaming Software Solutions

The Startup Magazine

Videos have become easier and more powerful than they used to be a few years back. We can get evidence in the stats that say, “ Videos drive two-thirds of the whole internet traffic and is anticipated to grow to about 82% by 2020”. Businesses in 2018 have already anticipated the trend and have adopted this emerging tech for gaining a grip on their audience base.

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7 Options For Small Business Accounting Software

YFS Magazine

Unsure which small business accounting tools are best for you? Perhaps you're ready for a change? Here's a quick look at 7 smart options.

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Four Challenges For Crypto Entrepreneurship In 2019

YoungUpstarts

There are lofty expectations regarding the opportunities provided by cryptocurrency in 2019, and many entrepreneurs are rightly excited by what the next year may hold. However, there are notable challenges in place, and if you are a crypto entrepreneur looking for success in 2019, you will need to overcome these challenges. Security remains crucial in the crypto market.

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Silicon Flatirons GiveFirst Conference: Feld and Zell

Feld Thoughts

I had a lot of fun at the Silicon Flatirons #GiveFirst conference last week and the smaller academic colloquium session the next day. It was a challenging topic, as we are simply exploring the idea of GiveFirst, how it works, and putting some scaffolding on the overall concept, both practically and intellectually. Brad Bernthal, who spearheaded the two-day effort, led off with a short overview.

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Take Care Of These 6 Must-Do’s Before Getting Too Deep Into The Startup “Grind”

YoungUpstarts

Startup culture is notoriously competitive, driving up-and-coming business owners to put their blood, sweat and tears into their companies by any means necessary. And while this sort of “grind” mentality might be appealing to go-getters, it can also be quite toxic. Think about it. Obsession over launch hype, all-nighters and attending conferences is no replacement for what really matters when it comes to your startup.

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Building Accountable Leadership to Transform Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Building Accountable Leadership to Transform Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Vince Molinaro. Podcast Transcript. My guest this week on the Duct Tape Marketing podcast is Vince Molinaro. He is an expert on creating a healthy, resilient leadership culture, and is the author of the best-selling book The Leadership Contract: The Fine Print to Becoming an Accountable Leader.

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3 Ways To Protect Corporate Business Assets

YoungUpstarts

Security and IT directors must consider myriad factors to protect a company against threats. Not only do enterprise-level businesses need to protect their intellectual property, but they must also protect physical assets. The best way to do this is to utilize technology such as enterprise security cameras and IT infrastructure to keep sensitive data away from hackers.

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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – Your Board Package

VC Adventure

This is the 3rd post in my “ Designing the Ideal Board Meeting ” series. I didn’t mention this in my prior post but thought of it as I started writing this section on how to put together a good board package. Companies often bias to wanting to hold their board meetings a few weeks after the end of each quarter. The rationale is that this allows the board to review quarterly results.

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Why Last Month’s Funding Strategies Won’t Work Today

Growthink Blog

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Childhood Coder Now Saves Failing College Classrooms

Hearpreneur

Meet an executive who took his childhood passion for coding and turned it into a company that is now saving today’s failing college experience. Brian Rowe began coding at age 13. He took that love for data to a position at Cummins that won him an award from CIO Magazine for “50 Best Intranets.” Later, he founded a software company, which eventually sold to Salesforce for $21M.

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