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Berlin’s Silicon ‘Allee’ vs. Silicon Valley: Which is better for your startup?

The Next Web

As the general manager of Europe for a global marketplace serving startups, entrepreneurs and freelance designers from around the world, I often find myself in debate over which city will be seen as the new business hub of the EU. With the UK on the brink of “Brexit,” few tech insiders see London continuing to hold its top position. In its place, it seems that Berlin’s “Silicon Allee” will emerge as the EU’s future tech center.

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4 Ways To Find Tranquility In Stressful Times

YoungUpstarts

by Jane Bernard, author of “ Lucid Living: in The Virtual Age “ Americans have experienced tense times lately as Mother Nature unleashed her fury with a series of hurricanes that pummeled Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Meanwhile, wildfires ravaged California and the Northwest U.S. Anyone living through these disasters certainly felt stressed, and to a lesser degree so did millions of others who saw news reports updated constantly on their laptops or phones.

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The NBN is bigger than the internet as we know it

Start Up Blog

The number of people who want slower internet in Australia is exactly zero. The speed we need data transfers to occur at is much fast than our politicians think. The reason for that is simple, we haven’t even invented the technology or industries which will be underpinned by the required connectivity. This is merely the. Continue reading → The post The NBN is bigger than the internet as we know it appeared first on Steve Sammartino.

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Grow Your Small Business With These 7 Website Design Best Practices

crowdSPRING Blog

You have a terrific product, a strong brand, and a solid marketing plan. Now it’s time to create a website that will help convert visitors into sales. Or maybe you already have a website but it’s not working as well as you expected. Today, it’s impossible to reach most customers without a website. This is especially true for new small businesses and startups trying to compete in an increasingly noisy world. but it’s also true for even established companies.

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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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14 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Each business has a story. No matter if the business is a Goliath like Wal-Mart, or a local business owned by a couple or family, the business has roots in an idea. For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each and brand.

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5 Ways To Turn Your Business Into A Brand

YoungUpstarts

The concept of branding is not something that popularized only recently. It’s been existent for decades, if not centuries. However, even today a large number of businesses don’t realize its true significance, let along try to create one of their own. So, before you learn about some of the best ways to turn your business into a strong brand , it’s worth understanding why you need it in the first place.

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When to Sell

Austin Startup

The time to sell is when you have a customer. That’s a line I heard in a sales talk some years ago. It’s an appropriate thought to lead off this essay. Every founder has to make decisions about when to start selling. When should you sell some shares in the company if you need to raise money? When is your product ready to meet the test of a live customer?

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