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8 Must Have Tools For Your Next App Build

YoungUpstarts

by Matt Shealy, President of ChamberofCommerce.com. When it comes to app builds, there are three key components that will drive success: People. Tools. Automation. It starts with assembling the right team of developers and IT operations into a collaborative DevOps operation. Adding the right tools and automation, teams can design, test, build, and deploy software more agilely.

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Managing Meetings At Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

Communication is a big part of the vast majority of jobs in this world. It doesn’t matter if you are at a startup, or work in public relations, in graphic design, in the medical field or in the culinary arts. There’s a strong chance that you have to interact with others on a regular basis. Meetings are a significant aspect of many positions as well.

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7 Strategies For Brand Leadership Through Influencers

Startup Professionals Musings

Jeff Bezos via Flickr by jdlasica These days, the influencers at the top of your business make your brand, rather than a brand making influencers of your leaders. Consider Jeff Bezos at the top of Amazon, or Howard Schultz at the top of Starbucks. They were influencers before they were a brand. You too can become an influencer through social media, videos and blogs, and people will follow you on what to buy, what causes to support, and who to vote for.

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16 Design Symbols Your Business Can Use to Improve Its Brand Identity

crowdSPRING Blog

Symbols are one of the earliest forms of written communication. From cave walls to hieroglyphics to the printed word as we know it today, symbols are a powerful way to communicate concepts at a glance. The ability of symbols to convey information, culture, and identity has made them an invaluable part of our shared visual language. This is true not only in popular culture but also when it comes to business.

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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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6 Business Ideas For Students With Low Investment

YoungUpstarts

Time is college is a great opportunity for those who want to start their own business. Of course, students are usually low on a budget, but there are many opportunities that do not require huge investments. Why is it a great time to start? Well, first of all, students do have time and energy. Secondly, if you don’t succeed with the first try, it is not a big deal – you still have college and can start over with a new idea again.

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How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jules Pieri. Podcast Transcript. Today’s podcast guest is Jules Pieri. She is the founder and CEO of The Grommet and the author of the book How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas Into Products That Build Successful Businesses.

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9 Entrepreneurs Explain Some of the Traits They Admire in Innovators

Hearpreneur

Anyone can be an innovator, but it takes special traits to lead in innovation. It’s about how you implement the lessons you gain along the way and dare situations as they come. It’s about being future-oriented, paying special attention to details and putting yourself in vulnerable situation when you think it’s worth the risk. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the traits they admire in innovators and here are the responses; #1- Ability to move forward amidst diffi

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Agio On Hedge Fund Cybersecurity And The Difficulty Of Securing Private Equity Firms

YoungUpstarts

When thinking about how to start a private equity firm or a hedge fund, security should be on the list of priorities. Both financial service institutions have to handle a lot of sensitive data as well as monetary assets, which means that hedge fund cybersecurity or private equity cybersecurity is an area that needs a lot of attention. Agio is a New York-based cybersecurity provider, having 9 years of experience in the industry and servicing healthcare and payments industries as well as financial

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7 Reasons Why Proposal Software Will Boost Your Sales

Duct Tape Marketing

7 Reasons Why Proposal Software Will Boost Your Sales written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. You’re probably well aware of how important business proposals are to getting clients and winning new business. If you’ve been writing a lot of them, you may have thought about investing in proposal software to make the process easier. However, is proposal software really all that great compared to writing the proposals yourself?

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Understanding Board Meeting Procedures

Board Effect

The terminology and pace of a board meeting can easily confuse meeting participants or observers who are unfamiliar with board meeting procedures. For some, it can be like learning a new language or a new technique. Both of those things come easier for some people than others. Boards must accomplish much during the space of a board meeting. It’s crucial for boards to prioritize board discussions and use board meeting procedures to handle board issues in the most efficient way possible.

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Workday: The Power of Focus

deal architect

I kept thinking of Southwest Airlines while I was at the Workday Innovation Summit in CA this week. I had read this tribute to the legendary founder, Herb Kelleher on the flight over and it reminded me how revered he.

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8 Advantages of Leader Focus on People Versus Process

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pexels Every business needs repeatable processes to grow and thrive, but modern business processes need the right people to make them efficient and productive. In addition, today’s customers judge a company by perceived people relationships through social media, phone conversations, and sales experiences. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around.

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How Robots Are Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Industry (and saving jobs!)

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Today, we stand on the brink of manufacturing revolution that has the potential to change the way we work, the way we live and ultimately the quality of life as we know it. We live in an age that is driven by information and automation, and it’s ushering us into a place where the established systems in manufacturing are shifting. Advancements in technology are changing the industry, and this is a great thing.

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Why Today’s Nonprofits Need Board Management Software

Board Effect

At one time or another, most of us have grabbed a flathead screwdriver when we knew that what we really needed was a crosshead screwdriver, simply because the flathead screwdriver was handy and within easy reach. It usually doesn’t take too long to figure out that the wrong tool just won’t work well. Just as in carpentry, board directors also need the right tools for the job.

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SAP Nation 3.0 excerpts: Chapter 7 Diversifier customers

deal architect

My new book is now available to buy here in print version, and in the Kindle eBook version. As with my earlier books, I am excerpting roughly 10% of the 400 page book in a series of posts on my.

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5 Keys To Happiness, Even For New Business Founders

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay Building a startup is hard work for low pay, it’s risky, and it requires total responsibility to make it work. Yet, many entrepreneurs are the happiest people I know. On the other hand, I know many unhappy individuals who are always partying, have minimal commitments, and little responsibility. I suspect the real parameters of happiness have eluded these people.

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Back to The Future: Power of SMS-Native

View from Seed

It is the one message-space on your phone that you always pay attention to: SMS text messages. Not just “messaging” broadly, as there are numerous apps where people send and receive communications & messages. Couple that noise with the flurry of AI/messaging startups from a few years back (set off by Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition), in conjunction with app developers’ notification euphoria… all of which have resulted in a state on our mobile phones where “ our brains being overloaded with

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5 clever startups that are making money recycling waste

The Next Web

Can you remember what you were doing on New Year’s Day, 2018? Celebrating or perhaps nursing a hangover? What happened that day created a significant change in global recycling. China, the world’s largest scrap importer, stopped accepting recycled plastic, unsorted scrap paper and significantly reduced imported cardboard from abroad. According to the World Bank, annual waste generation is expected to rise from 2.01 billion tons in 2016 to 3.40 billion tons in 2050.

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How To Modernize Your Family Business While Staying True To Its Mission

YoungUpstarts

by Kevin Xu , CEO of MEBO International. The family-owned business is an important and dynamic component of the world’s economy. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , about 90 percent of American businesses are family-owned or -controlled and account for half of the nation’s employment. While many people cite the adage about separating business and personal matters, family businesses benefit from the linking the two.

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5 Problems To Solve With Unlimited Startup Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via jisc Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Equally often, I see startups who are on the road to implementing an idea, but haven’t figured out what problem it solves – the business plan waxes on eloquently for 20 pages about how great t

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How New Tech Startups Can Differentiate Themselves

ReadWriteStart

Most tech entrepreneurs get lost in the logistical plans for their businesses. You’re worried about the timetables and deadlines for your developers or how you’re going to stretch your initial capital investment to last a full six months. These are important considerations, especially for AI and IoT startups tinkering with revolutionary new technologies.

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Business Is A Growth Game – Here’s How To Win It

YFS Magazine

Stop reacting in your business. Declare that money leaks are no longer acceptable and get off the feast-or-famine runway forever by taking action now.

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How Traditional Marketing Can Benefit From A Digital Twist

YoungUpstarts

by Jonathan Musgrave, owner and chief digital marketer for Steep Digital Marketing. At one time, marketing meant using such tactics as buying commercial time on TV or radio stations, advertising in a newspaper or magazine, or sending your message through direct mail. All of those remain options today, but they are joined by a plethora of digital alternatives for reaching potential customers or clients, who spend a lot of time hanging out in the digital world.

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How to Design User Flow

ConversionXL

User flow is the path a user follows through your website interface to complete a task —make a reservation, purchase a product, subscribe to something. It’s also called a user journey. And it has a massive impact on conversions. To maximize your conversions, you have to get the user flow right on your site. Do it by building a user flow that matches user’s needs.

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Focusing On Debt Consolidation Helps Startups To Be More Organized

ReadWriteStart

More often than not debt consolidation has proved to be the best option for the startups to manage their debts, stay away from further obligations as well as be more organized in their finance and business management. Ideally, the workload on startup businesses is much more as compared to the established business and given the […]. The post Focusing On Debt Consolidation Helps Startups To Be More Organized appeared first on ReadWrite.

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Why Do So Many Leaders Fail To Build Great Relationships?

YFS Magazine

We are meant to live in community—in relationships with others that encourage us to move toward maturity and are valuable at every stage of business.

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5 Major Factors That Can Ding Your Credit Score

YoungUpstarts

Credit score is the number assigned to a person that indicates their capacity to repay a loan. Simply, it indicates how creditworthy you are in the eyes of bankers and lenders. Add to that, it is the basis of certain services such as telecommunications, broadband, and even apartment renting. This affects your financial status in ways you cannot imagine.

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Announcing our investment in Guesser, the easiest way to engage with prediction markets

Version One Ventures

We are extremely excited to announce our investment in Guesser , the easiest way to engage with Augur prediction markets. Among all the crypto opportunities, we are most excited about crypto native opportunities – and prediction markets are clearly native. We spent some time with Augur right after it launched (you can read about that initial experience here).

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The Leaders Guide audio book from Audible is available today

Startup Lessons Learned

Back in March of 2015, I launched a Kickstarter campaign with these words: “Hi, my name is Eric Ries. I’m an entrepreneur and the author of The Lean Startup. Since writing The Lean Startup, I’ve traveled around the world, helping companies of every size adopt the Lean Startup approach. In just five years, the Lean Startup movement has grown and transformed in ways I never could have imagined.

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Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Measure Daily Productivity

YFS Magazine

How do you measure productivity. We asked entrepreneurs to finish the sentence "I know my day has been productive when…" Here's what they said.

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Why Reviews Are So Important For Your Overall Business And Your Products

YoungUpstarts

Today, businesses have a tight competition and reviews play a crucial role so you can achieve success. Consumers are way smarter nowadays as compared in the past, and many check online review sites, social media, and get referrals from family and friends before making a purchase or availing a service. In this post, you’ll learn the important benefits of reviews for a successful brand or business.

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Physical Space in Boulder for the Media Archaeology Lab

Feld Thoughts

Amy and I are big supporters of the Media Archaeology Lab (MAL). I love the idea of a computer museum and believe Boulder deserves to have a large one. We’ve donated our computer collection to it, which includes my original Apple ][, my first portable computer (a Compaq luggable), an Apple III, an Apple Lisa, my original Mac 128K, a MITS Altair 8800b, a NeXTstation, and a bunch of other random stuff.

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Austin-based Affinegy is Acquired by NISC

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK, publisher of Silicon Hills News Homes are increasingly becoming smarter with devices like Nest thermostats, Ring doorbells, voice-activated assistants and more connecting them to the Internet. And Austin-based Affinegy, a 13-year-old company that creates software to manage Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things, has been at the forefront of the industry.

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Four Smart Marketing Tips To Increase Social Media Conversions

YFS Magazine

Creating a social media marketing strategy designed to increase social media conversions is a wise move for any business.

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Isabel Dos Santos Believes In Investing In Tomorrow’s Leaders

YoungUpstarts

The youth are the future. They are the ones who will bring about the transformative changes so desperately needed in society. Inculcating the youth with the right values is a complex undertaking. In Angola, this comprises a paradigm shift from a traditional male-dominated mindset to one which is gender neutral. These ambitious objectives can best be accomplished by way of grassroots initiatives aimed at fostering a new mindset within the collective consciousness.

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Is Cash or Accrual Accounting Best for Small Businesses?

Up and Running

Customers owe your business money. Your business owes its vendors money. Would you rather keep track with records in your books, or just in your head? That, in a nutshell, is the difference between cash-basis and accrual accounting. . That is what’s at stake as you choose between cash-basis or accrual accounting. It turns out that all business bookkeeping is going to be either cash basis or accrual.