Sat.Jun 17, 2017 - Fri.Jun 23, 2017

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Are ERP vendors in touch with a changing services economy?

deal architect

UNIT4 had an analyst day last week. FinancialForce is hosting its user conference this week. I missed both due to other commitments but I see lots of tweets from fellow analysts.

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Six Simple Ways To Digitally Declutter Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

by Brad Harding, Technical Support Supervisor for North America for Crucial. Any small business owner can tell you that if you’re not careful, it’s easy for clutter to pile up in the office. It’s a best practice to clear out that clutter on a regular basis to ensure peak workplace productivity. Similarly, it’s important for small business owners to clean out their digital lives to keep their computers running quickly and to maximize efficiency.

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Making Better Business Decisions

Growthink Blog

There are only 3 things to know to make dramatically better decisions: 1) How we’ve done in the past. 2) What our competition is doing now. 3) What our customers will want in the future. 1. How We’ve Done in the Past. At this point in the Big Data and SaaS revolutions at our fingertips should always be dead accurate data on mission critical processes like customer acquisition costs by marketing and sales channel, profitability by client type / employee role, and really anything else that moves a

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Best Budget-Friendly Tech Gifts

The Startup Magazine

Buying the latest in trendy tech gifts can seem impossible. Skyrocketing prices can make buying gifts difficult, but with a little research, there’s a treasure trove of gadgets just waiting to be snatched up. Below is a simple list of budget-friendly tech gifts you or a loved one will love. 1. Amazon Fire TV. Amazon Fire TV offers the best of Netflix, Hulu, HBO NOW , YouTube, Amazon Video, and so much more.

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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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24 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Inspirational Business Quote

Hearpreneur

André Gide wrote that,”Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” Quotes are an important part of motivation, though many of them are repeats of another turn of phrase. Business owners are particularly partial to famous quotations. Reading a motivational speech from a business legend or famous creative mind can give you a spark.

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Moving Your Business To Greener Pastures?

YoungUpstarts

You might be thinking about relocating your business to a new address, and this is probably not going to be a bad idea. Indeed, it’s fair to say that by moving your company to a new place of work, you can usually claim cheaper deals on costs or in other cases grab a bigger slice of the market due to getting a better location for levels of foot traffic.

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Tips for Starting Your Own Real Estate Business

The Startup Magazine

Are you taking the leap into the real estate business? As a real estate agent, your income depends on the commission you earn from every sale. This is why you are constantly looking for properties that can give you a good deal. The moment you decide to take a break, your income stops as well. No deals closed means no earnings. Having your own real estate business frees you up from all these limitations.

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Maybe this will spur SAP?

deal architect

I honestly cannot remember the last time SAP showed in the lower left quadrant – for niche players – in a Gartner MQ. But in the latest MQ for “Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises”.

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The Missing Link: Revolutionizing Performance Management Through Execution Management

YoungUpstarts

by Bruce Hodes, CEO of CMI Teamwork Chicago and author of “ Front Line Heroes “. Over the years, I have been haunted and vexed by four enigmas. What has eluded me is a process that supports the implementation of the strategic plan. A lot of time and energy goes into yearly planning. A leadership team remaining focused on execution of the plan becomes the challenge given the day-to-day fires.

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Here are 5 Keys To Become An Influential Leader

Austin Startup

Your team is a reflection of you as the leader. If you are an amazing leader, then your team will have an opportunity to be amazing. If you are a poor leader, then they don’t stand a chance to succeed. There is no question about it. If you are reading this thinking: “Well, that statement is not completely fair because [ insert excuse ]” then we have work to do.

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Focus on Your Sales Funnel FIRST

The Startup Magazine

I love watching the venture funding show Shark Tank for entertainment and education purposes, especially with my two teenage boys who have caught the e-commerce fever. The Sharks tend to like businesses that come with some matured development in terms of recent and growing sales and most of the ones that don’t get a deal have significant inventories of product and assets without any supporting sales.

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Find Out Why Nobody is Finding Your Content

Duct Tape Marketing

Find Out Why Nobody is Finding Your Content written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Brian Dean. I believe that elements of SEO are now elevated to the strategic level. In other words, as you plan your message, website structure, and content for your marketing, you better include some research commonly seen as a technical aspect of SEO.

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Kara Swisher interviews Mark Hurd

deal architect

As part of Recode Decode webinar series, Kara Swisher interviewed Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle on their Media Day in May. It’s always interesting to hear a consumer tech journalist interview an executive in enterprise tech. Kara did a nice.

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What Got You Here, Won't Get You There. Change Drives Business Growth.

Small Business Force

While all entrepreneurs want to grow their business, growth is not inevitable. And just as often, elusive. What got you here, won’t get you there. Because you were successful in getting to a particular level of revenue or profit for one year doesn’t mean that beating it (or even meeting it) the following year is a given. To do better, you need to perform better.

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The Value Of Personalizing Scaled Communication

The Startup Magazine

Personalized communication between customer and client is an important strategy to generating a better Return On Investment. According to The Harvard Business Review , personalization can deliver five to eight times the ROI on marketing spend and can lift sales by 10% or more. Yet with many clients and a little amount of time it can be difficult to personalize and scale at the same time.

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

There are certain topics that even some of the smartest people I talk with who aren’t startup oriented can’t fully grok. One of them is whether profitability matters. It’s common cocktail party chatter to hear people confidently pronounce that some well known startup is sure to blow up because, “How could they succeed when they’re not even profitable!

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Oracle: Does good luck also come in threes?

deal architect

1. Oracle does very well in the premier version of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for “Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises”. Only Oracle’s ERP cloud and Workday are in the Leader’s quadrant, and Oracle’s NetSuite.

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We Have A Moral Obligation

Steve Blank

I was in Boston and was interviewed by The Growth Show about my current thinking about innovation in companies and government agencies.The interviewer was great and managed to get me to summarize several years of learning in one podcast. It’s worth a listen. At the end of the interview I got surprised by a great question – “What’s the Problem that Still Haunts You?

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Do You Have The Right Stuff For A Growth Business?

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor, I get approached regularly by aspiring entrepreneurs who can talk endlessly about their latest great idea, and little else. While I recognize that every new venture starts with an idea, a successful business of lasting value is all about people and execution. Every investor is looking for someone who can turn an idea into a solution, and turn that solution into a business.

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What is the Right Burn Rate for your Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs make when they start a company and raise outside capital is figuring out what an acceptable “burn rate” is. That is, how much should your company be willing to lose in cash every month as you make investments in staff and equipment that funds technology, sales, marketing and management. Of course there is no right answer but it’s a function of how much capital you have raised, your prospects for raising more capital in the future, your growth rate and y

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Son of SMAC

deal architect

Cognizant popularized the acronym SMAC for the stack of Social, Mobile, Analytic and Cloud technologies where most innovation IT dollars are going. Indeed Malcolm Frank, EVP Strategy and Marketing was talking about it as far back as November of 2012.

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10 Best Automotive Business Ideas For 2017

YoungUpstarts

The automotive industry is constantly expanding and there are new businesses popping up each year. These are the 10 best automotive businesses in 2017: Comparison Websites. The world of online shopping has exploded in the last decade and now you can even purchase your car tires online. The best way to buy your tires is to compare tire sales to find the best deal.

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Is Your Leadership Style Motivating or Demoralizing?

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business leader realizes their primary objective is to motivate people to do what is required, yet all of us with any experience in business tend to remember most those times when we felt highly demotivated by our leaders. Since I can’t imagine any leader demoralizing their team intentionally, I’ve concluded that the challenge must be how to see your own faults and fix them.

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Lessons From The Internet Bubble: Growth vs. Profitability

Feld Thoughts

Over the weekend, Mark Suster and Fred Wilson each put up awesome posts discussing the idea of profitability in startups. Mark’s is a master class about how to look at the financial characteristics of a startup and Fred’s discusses what he’s been working on with some of his more mature companies. They are both worth reading right now.

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The Evolution of THE STARTUP WAY Cover

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Marcus Gosling, VP of Product, Long-Term Stock Exchange. I’m excited to reveal the final cover for Eric’s next book, THE STARTUP WAY , coming October 17. I’ve been working with Eric since the IMVU days and designed the cover for The Lean Startup … I was excited to help with the new cover and, after months of testing different iterations, we’ve decided on a design that checks all the boxes that Eric, the Crown Business publishing team at Penguin Random House, and I wanted to hit goi

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Does College Really Make Sense?

YoungUpstarts

by Margot Machol Bisnow , author of “ Raising an Entrepreneur: 10 Rules for Nurturing Risk Takers, Problem Solvers, and Change Makers “. I’m all for kids going to college who are studying something they love, preparing themselves for the next phase of their life. But increasingly kids are graduating without a clue what they want to do, because for the last 15 years, all they’ve done is what they’ve been asked.

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9 Steps To A Balanced Business – Purpose vs Execution

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m a big proponent of building your business based on a higher purpose, rather than financial gain alone. Today I find that some entrepreneurs, are putting all their focus on a social or environmental cause, and perhaps naively expect that purpose alone will lead to a sustainable business. The reality is that purpose must be balanced with execution for long-term survival.

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How to Vet & Work With Your Cofounder [Traction #43: Wayne Chang & Jeff Seibert]

View from Seed

Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert are the cofounders of Crashlytics, which Twitter acquired in 2013. Today, as angel investors, they see dozens of entrepreneurs every quarter, and they’ve joined the show today to help us answer some tough questions: How should you structure communication with your cofounder? How do you work through difficult decisions, especially if nobody on the founding team is a domain expert?

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Diversify This: “Why aren’t there any chicks at our pizza and beer nights?”

The Next Web

Recently, Apple promoted its resident VP of Worldwide Talent and Human Resources to the coveted position of VP of Diversity and Inclusion. Other major power players like Microsoft, Atlassian and Philips have implemented inclusive hiring practices, and startups in locales around the world are championing both exponential growth and social conscientiousness.

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Payment Challenges And Fixes For Today’s Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

By Tina Hsiao, Vice President of Risk & Chargeback Operations at WePay. You’ve delivered that big new client project. Yet before you can call it truly done, you need to get paid. And the client that had been operating with great urgency is now saying the invoice needs to works its way through Accounting. The approver is on vacation but she’ll be back next week.

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Entrepreneurs Need Viking Ships, Not Dinghies

YFS Magazine

More often than not we become like the people we're around. When you need to achieve big goals, you need the right people — you need Viking ships.

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5 Small Business Marketing Ideas for Every Holiday

Up and Running

If your business just launched recently, you’re probably thinking about ways to attract customers and raise awareness about your brand. Holidays are an important time to increase your marketing efforts, whether it’s Independence Day or Black Friday. People are already planning to shop and scouting sales, so your task is to stand out and give them a better reason to shop with you than your competitors.

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Diversify This: “Why aren’t there any chicks at our pizza and beer nights?”

The Next Web

Recently, Apple promoted its resident VP of Worldwide Talent and Human Resources to the coveted position of VP of Diversity and Inclusion. Other major power players like Microsoft, Atlassian and Philips have implemented inclusive hiring practices, and startups in locales around the world are championing both exponential growth and social conscientiousness.

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Be First In A Queue: Track Your Market

YoungUpstarts

by Sonal Patil, Research Analyst at Market.biz. The only thing constant in life is change. Although this statement sounds paradoxical it is true. With the passage of time, everything changes including your industry. Now you can either remain ignorant and sit at ease in your comfort zone or keep up with the emerging trends in your market and continue to reinvent yourself.

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The Good, Bad And Ugly Of Entrepreneurship

YFS Magazine

Entrepreneurship is a lifestyle completely customized to your own liking and it can bring you success, the good and the bad of it.

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Will tech kill your job?

Berkonomics

Close. Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. “My job as a (newspaper publisher telephone installer, stockbroker, travel agent, retail store manager) is safe as this economy continues to grow.” Yup. Thought so. We are in a decade of creative destruction that will affect most everybody. And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before.