Wed.Oct 21, 2020

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Secure Collaboration Best Practices: The Dangers of Password Protected PDFs

Board Effect

It’s taken the general public some time to get used to various document formats. It’s taken even more time, as well as a few serious and publicly embarrassing mishaps, for most people to give credence to the security risks of file-sharing. In general, people are using the PDF format more, now that technology has produced programs that make it easier to use.

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5 Key Recovery Strategies Counter Economic Downturns

Startup Professionals Musings

Every dark cloud has a silver lining. Driven by the current pandemic, smart entrepreneurs of all ages are jumping into the fray with new ideas, new recovery strategies, and discarding outmoded business models. I see it most in the newest generation of entrepreneurs (Gen-Y), who were shocked out of entitlement into action by an economic downturn. Donna Fenn, in her book from the last decade, “ Upstarts!

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In Uncertain Times, Leaders Must Bring Their Best Selves To Work

YoungUpstarts

by Edward D. Hess, author of “ Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change “. Leaders, are you feeling the pressure? Of course you are. (After the past five months, how could you not be?) Even those thought to be the “best” leaders are falling apart like two-dollar watches these days. Times of extreme disruption (like right now) underscore the need for many of us to move to a completely new way of leading (and being).

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The Analyst Cam: Avasant Research study of COVID-19 impact on IT

deal architect

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings and events, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Computer Economics, now part of Avasant Research, has benchmarked IT spending for.

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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 Challenges Can You Face When Starting Out In eCommerce? Advice From Custom Plugs, A Multi-Million Pound Startup Company

YoungUpstarts

Life in business is never just plain sailing. Challenges are an inevitable part of any startup journey, but how you deal with and overcome them will determine your fate. Matthew and Chris from Custom Plugs set up their business from scratch in 2011, selling plugs for ears, ear gauges , body jewelry , accessories, and alternative clothing. They are now one of the top companies in the world selling these products across the globe.

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Burning Platform: The Post-Pandemic world of the CIO

deal architect

In episode 8 of the Burning Platform series, Brian Sommer and I discuss how the world of the CIO has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. We cover a lot of ground around how on-premise and cloud applications fared as employees.

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Simply Begin Again

Feld Thoughts

One of my mantras for v54 is “Simply Begin Again.” As I get closer to v55 (58 days from now), I’ve been thinking about it more. During my morning meditation, I repeated it for a stretch and then did the same for about a mile on my run this morning. Garth gets so many things correct. I made a big shift earlier this summer after I finished up some of the work I was doing with the State of Colorado around Covid, specifically around the Innovation Response Team.

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Protecting Your Eyesight When You Stare At A Computer All Day

YoungUpstarts

It’s so common for people to spend eight hours a day sitting in front of a computer screen and when you add up all of the time you spend looking at your phone or a TV outside of work, you’ll notice that you spend the majority of your time in front of screens. That’s why it’s important to protect your eyes and look out for any potential signs of damage, but many people don’t give it a second thought.

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11 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business

Hearpreneur

Have a goal that’s third parties think is impossible? Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their daily, weekly, quarterly or yearly goals around their business. It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. Some of the goals may sound unrealistic or unachievable to someone but if you and your team believe in it, there’s no reason why you should not go for it.

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5 Strategies For Corporate Conflict Resolution

YoungUpstarts

When it comes to conflict in the workplace, be it a mega Fortune 500 publicly traded company or a relatively small mom and pop operation, employees always look towards the company CEO to step in and create resolution. Recently, Stanford University Graduate School of Business conducted a study in which a number corporate CEOs were asked to assess their responsibilities in the workplace.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

We just held our seventh session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Today’s topic was Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

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9 Types Of Business Insurance You Need To Have A Sustainable Business

YoungUpstarts

Are you an entrepreneur searching for suitable business insurance to protect your business? Every business deals with various kinds of risks. Talking about the facts, 56% of the startups fail within the first four years due to many reasons and wrong decisions. Hence, it is required to protect your assets with proper insurance and policies to have a sustainable business.

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How to Find Inspiration in Doubt

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Find Inspiration in Doubt written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Kara Goldin. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Kara Goldin, the founder, and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005. She is also the author of Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters. Kara Goldin is an active speaker, writer, and host of the podcast Unstoppable with Kara Goldin where she interviews founders, entrepreneurs, and other

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Show up for yourself today!

Mike Michalowicz

Accountability. We all seek it. But what if you can just be accountable to you today? What if you just show up…for you? Write it down. Write down just a few things. Promise yourself you are going to show up for yourself. And please, no comparing yourself to others! We are on our own individual journeys. Whatever you want to get today, step forward and get it!

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How To Start a Food Truck Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Food trucks provide a modern, trendy alternative to sit-down restaurants, but much like their traditional counterparts, running one requires hard work, a firm budget, and careful planning. If you’re wondering how to start a food truck business in a simple and profitable way, here’s how. Consider Your Budget. The first thing you’ll want to have in order is your budget.

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Idea Cellular case study: From Idea to Vi

What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

With this piece, we take a look at the Idea cellular case study. The brand went from being known as.

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No-Code is Here to Stay: What’s the Play for Marketers?

ConversionXL

No-code and low-code tools are on the rise , with thousands of businesses and makers turning to a faster and cheaper way to test, validate, and build out their ideas. Leading the way, you have companies such as Zapier, Webflow, and Airtable transforming the way we work. As the reliance on these tools continue to grow, so too does the opportunity for technical and non-technical marketers alike to gain an edge and advance their marketing skill set.

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This Proves it?—?The Pandemic Is A Startup Accelerant

Austin Startup

This Proves it?—?The Pandemic Is A Startup Accelerant New integrated communications agency S?d launches with “Next Startup Wave” study and intends to help startups, born from the pandemic, achieve hypergrowth, fast. [link] While firmly established companies and brands struggled to find their footing through the chaos of the pandemic, S?d Communications Founder, Loretta Markevics, saw an opportunity to, as she says, “turn quaranlemons into quarantade,” and to support those who were doing the same

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