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SAP Data & Analytics Analyst Summit - a review

deal architect

I was invited to an analyst summit on SAP's Data and Analytics portfolio of products. What a remarkable difference from last year! I had flown to a similar event in Vancouver - first to Seattle, then taken a bus across.

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Third-Party Risk Management: What It Is And Why You Need It

YoungUpstarts

Even the smallest companies rely on vendors to provide them with the supplies and services they need to stay in business themselves. Strong vendor relationships can allow your company to save money and work towards business goals while mitigating risk — and all vendor relationships come with inherent risk. The more essential the vendor is to your business, the greater those risks can be, and many of them are out of your control.

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5 Ways to Cut Costs with Business Analytics

The Startup Magazine

In 2020, each and every person generates 1.7 megabytes of data per second , and each internet user generates 2.5 quintillion bytes per day. That’s mountains of data, and many companies worry about their ability to keep up. The growing data analytics industry is poised to help businesses optimize analytics to reduce costs without jeopardizing growth.

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3 Technology Trends Streamlining Operations for Healthcare Startups

Up and Running

The healthcare space is adapting at a rapid pace and the startup ecosystem is one of the major reasons why this is happening so quickly. . If one looks at some of the most far-reaching changes in healthcare tech over the last decade alone, they will observe a major spike in the role startups play within the healthcare niche. These surfacing organizations are flexible, lean , and determined and will continue to shape the industry on a global scale moving forward.

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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 Shining Digital City On the Hill

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Digital Technology Remains An Unharvested Field. There is so much innovation potential being left on the table, right now, that our future could truly be that shining city on the hill. The potential, much of it, lays in digital technology. Your future could be that company that thrives amidst chaos. Your future could be that person who surfs above the waves of massive change.

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Tips For Launching Influencer Campaigns For Your E-Commerce

YoungUpstarts

If you’re an e-commerce site, you’re probably always looking for new ways to generate more sales. And if you can find influencers to promote your e-commerce on social media, you may be able to achieve this goal. Did you know that 87% of consumers say they’ve made a purchase based on content they saw from influencers? If you’ve already launched influencer campaigns, hopefully you saw similar results.

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Late to the Mechanical Keyboard Party

Babbling VC

I've had my eye on a Keychron keyboard after I saw a bunch of reviews on various tech sites over the past year or two. It seemed quite hyped and the original Kickstarter project blossomed out to a full blown company with a bunch of various keyboards on offer. I was forced to be pati ent as it took forever for them to bri ng out a German version. I contemplated getting the US layout b ut it's just too much hassle when regularly writing in German.

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How Motivation Can Drive You to Produce Your Best Work

Duct Tape Marketing

How Motivation Can Drive You to Produce Your Best Work written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Todd Henry. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Todd Henry, author, international speaker, consultant, and advisor. Todd Henry is the founder of A ccidental Creative, and author of The Accidental Creative as well as Die Empty.

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8 Inspirational Insights For Those Chasing Your Dream

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level, or are not truly innovative. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements.

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SetSchedule Reviews: What to Know Before You Sign Up

The Startup Magazine

If you are looking to get more leads for your real estate business, you may be considering a lead generating service like SetSchedule. Every business and agent has their own distinct needs, and not every service will be appropriate for every agent. Let these SetSchedule reviews help you determine if your business could benefit from this real estate lead generation program.

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Burning Platform: Episode 3 - School Buses or RVs

deal architect

In this episode of the Burning Platform series, Brian Sommer and I discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on SIs and outsourcers. With travel challenged, they will need to move to much more remote projects and support. In doing.

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Snyk: How Freemium Can Help Your Start-up Grow from Series A to $2.6B in 30 Months

Cracking the Code

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. The company’s success has been largely driven by its developer-led freemium model, going from Series A funding to a valuation of $2.6B in just 30 months. Accel had the chance to lead Snyk’s Series A 30 months ago and then the Series B a year later, before the company reached unicorn status with its $150m Series C in late 2019.

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7 Ways To Get Key People Committed To Supporting You

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors invest in people, not ideas. Customers buy from people, not companies. Employees rally for a great leader, not a brand. As an entrepreneur, you need relationships to succeed. That means relationships with team members, investors, customers, and vendors. One of the best ways to build a good relationship with anyone is to make them feel important.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 2

Steve Blank

We just held our second session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a 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.

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4 Business Ideas to Start at Home in 2020

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Working from home is probably one of the most used terms this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Home working may have once seemed like a distant fantasy, but whether you have lost your job due to the pandemic, or you are looking for a great business idea or an additional source of income, it is very much possible to work from home. There are about 15 million home-based businesses in the United States alone, and if you want to try one out for yourself, check out these business ideas below for so

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NextView’s Early Stage Startup Guide: Product

View from Seed

Welcome to the first installment of the NextView Ventures Early Stage Startup Guides. Over the years, we’ve worked with, and talked to thousands of founders just starting out. Every stage of building a company comes with a certain set of challenges, and we have written a lot of content around the earliest set of challenges. That’s why we decided to create a series of guides that help tackle some of these early stage problems.

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How To Learn From New Venture Trials And Tribulations

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs seem more quickly frustrated these days when their “million-dollar idea” doesn’t turn into a sustainable business overnight. They don’t realize that it takes many skills to build a business under the best of circumstances, and today’s world of instant gratification doesn’t leave room for the patience and practice to develop these skills.

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In This Sink-Or-Swim Business Environment, Now Is Not The Time For Your Creative Teams To Go Wild

YoungUpstarts

by Lonny Kocina, CEO of Media Relations Agency and author of “ The CEO’s Guide to Marketing: The Book Every Marketer Should Read Before Their Boss Does “. Since the pandemic started, it seems businesses are either growing or going under. Marketing is a necessity to remind customers why they should be doing business with you, but spending money without a systematic approach is scary.

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Marc Benioff and "Market Relevance"

deal architect

I liked Marc Benioff's recent comments particularly around Oracle and TikTok “Because I’m mostly worried about the companies that aren’t making aggressive moves.

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4 Tips to Enhance Your Real Estate Marketing Strategy

The Startup Magazine

Effective marketing is central to the success of any real estate business, and even if you think your current tactics are producing positive results, there are always areas to improve upon. With that in mind, here are a handful of tips to take your real estate marketing strategy to the next level and secure a welcome boost to your business’ revenues.

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8 Steps For Moving From A Business Dream To Results

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor, I listen to many of you entrepreneurs talking about achieving your dreams, but too few of you have structured that dream, and can express it in a set of specific goals, with a timeline for getting there. You all hope I have some magic formula for success , but the reality is that only you can pick the goals that match your passion, work ethic, and desired outcome.

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How To Improve Your Personal Finances Before Starting A Business

YoungUpstarts

Before starting a business, it’s a good idea to get your personal finances in order. Too many ambitious entrepreneurs jump into the business creation game before they have stable financial footing in their own lives, and it ends up limiting their full potential. Mastering your personal finances is a process that could take months, or even years in extreme cases, but the time you invest upfront could set you up for a much brighter future.

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New Normal: A conversation with Bill Hewitt of Aternity

deal architect

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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Understanding Employer’s Liability: What Happens if an Employee Gets Into an Accident?

The Startup Magazine

Does your heart skip a beat when one of your employees jumps in their vehicle during work hours? Sometimes it doesn’t matter if their job involves a car or if someone is just running down to the post office to mail something important. If an accident occurs, then employer liability can get questioned. If the driver of the car, truck, bike, or other vehicle is on the job, then it’s likely that the employer is liable for injuries that result from an accident where the employee is at fa

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Make Someone Smile

Mike Michalowicz

Someone is excited about receiving their You’ve Got This t-shirt! Meet Paul Maskill – Entrepreneur, and clearly on board with the encouragement movement! Paul’s key focus is helping small business owners automate their businesses. Our kind of guy! This is the kind of spirit we love to see. Business owners helping other business owners, and encouraging those in their community.

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4 Reasons Why Smart Bloggers Are Also Influencers

YoungUpstarts

Once upon a time, blogging was a way for people to share their thoughts with the world, and not expect much in return. While people still share their thoughts for free, smart established bloggers have found ways to make money for their trouble. It all started with the OG of blog monetization: Google Adwords. This was, and still is, an easy way to make a little money for your blog.

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The Analyst Cam: Workfront Briefing

deal architect

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. The key word is "excerpt" - no more than 15-20% of what is presented.

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5 Benefits to Employing a Property Management Company

The Startup Magazine

Investing in rental properties is the surest way of securing your future. This is because you will always earn decent money from the rent that you collect every month. If you are just getting your feet wet into real estate, you might think that money will come automatically once your property is occupied to full capacity. Developing the property is actually the easier part because there are many lenders out there that can give you credit.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 2 – Max Boot

Steve Blank

We just held our second session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a 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.

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Staffing Agencies – A Good Or Bad Choice For Startups?

YoungUpstarts

Finding talent in competitive markets is a huge challenge for a startup these days. Reviewing applications to conducting interviews and discussing salaries and terms and conditions for the contract can be quite time-consuming and intimidating for the new business owners. . Furthermore, since new business owners do not have any experience in the field, they may end up hiring the wrong individuals for the job.

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The Analyst Cam: Aternity Briefing

deal architect

As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series. Bill Hewitt, CEO presented to me on Aternity's Digital Experience Management (DEM) platform. They.

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4 Accounting Techniques You Should Use For Your Business

The Startup Magazine

Accounting plays a vital role in every business as this allows you to keep track of your expenditures and income, and provides investors with financial information about your business. The information you can gain from your accounting records will enable you to make sound decisions that can pave the way towards your success in the industry. Accounting is important in businesses, but not all business owners know which accounting techniques to use or, in worse cases, what accounting really is.

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Austin’s ICON Lands NASA and Air Force Contract to Build Habitats on the Moon and Mars

SiliconHills

NASA wants to go to the moon and Mars and stay there awhile. And it’s contracted with Austin-based ICON to begin research and development of a space-based construction system. ICON is known for its massive 3-D printers that can build a home in less than a day using a concrete substrate. “Building humanity’s first home […]. The post Austin’s ICON Lands NASA and Air Force Contract to Build Habitats on the Moon and Mars appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Does Your Culture Inspire Courage… Or Stamp It Out?

YoungUpstarts

by Edward D. Hess, author of “ Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change “. In today’s fast-paced, highly competitive marketplace, we need our employees to excel at collaboration in pursuit of innovation. To connect with each other in meaningful ways. To disrupt the status quo, take risks within financial parameters, fail, learn, and get back up again.

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Graduate to Greatness

Start Up Blog

To make it to the upper echelon in any field, we need to be able to do one thing: Graduate from competence to confidence. The foundation of any career is technical capability. You need to prove you are a competent accountant, lawyer, marketer, electrician, whatever. This is your time in the field and getting some metaphorical dirt under your fingernails.

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9 Ways To Use Shipping Containers

The Startup Magazine

When you think of shipping containers, you’d probably imagine big steel boxes that are used for hauling cargo to various places. While that’s their most popular function, they can be used for plenty of other purposes. Container stacking in freight yard. Several years ago, people began using shipping containers as the foundation for building their homes to save money and pursue a low-maintenance lifestyle.