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A Few Reasons To Use Video Production Services In Your Internet Marketing Campaign

YoungUpstarts

Without any doubt, marketing is one of the crucial elements of business success. Every experienced marketer and business owner knows that poor or inadequate marketing efforts can affect the sales and vice versa. With the help of a solid marketing plan, you will get a chance to promote your product, showcase its abilities and increase awareness about your unique service our product.

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What Is a SWOT Analysis?

Up and Running

This article is part of our “ Business Planning Guide “ —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Conducting a SWOT analysis of your business is a lot more fun than it sounds. It won’t take much time, and doing it forces you to think about your business in a whole new way. The point of a SWOT analysis is to help you develop a strong business strategy by making sure you’ve considered all of your business’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as the op

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We’re Programming Around Your Needs: Highlights of Lean Startup Week 2017

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. For eight years, our flagship conference has focused on sharing stories and lessons of putting Lean Startup’s entrepreneurial methodology into practice. We’ve hosted talks, workshops, and interactive sessions on the challenges and successes of modern management techniques from a wide variety of business leaders around the world.

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4 ERP Questions You Were Afraid to Ask

The Startup Magazine

You don’t always remember to ask the most important questions when salespeople demonstrate a product. Even if you plan ahead by thinking of a few things to ask, sometimes you just forget them. Here are four questions about ERP software you were too afraid to ask when you had the chance; and their answers. What’s Makes Cloud ERP Different? Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is just a system that helps businesses integrate departments and offices onto one platform.

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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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4 Ways In Which Millennial Entrepreneurs Do Business Differently

YoungUpstarts

Millennials are a generation which stretches from the mid-eighties to the late nineties, and the name itself comes from the people born between these two dates being the first generation to move into further education in the new millennium. Millennials themselves are generally viewed rather negatively as a whole, despite the statistics surrounding their lives giving an entirely different story.

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What Is a Business Model? Business Models Explained

Up and Running

Airbnb is a well-known example of the marketplace business model. Understanding the problem you are solving for your customers is undoubtedly the biggest challenge you’ll face when you’re starting a business. Customers need to want what you are selling and your product needs to solve a real problem. But, ensuring that your product fits the needs of the market is only one part of starting a successful business.

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Data Centers – On-Premise, Cloud, or Hybrid – What’s Best for Your Company

The Startup Magazine

Data. Whether you are a startup, a small- to mid-sized business, or a large corporation, data management can make you cringe. It is no secret that security is priority one, with hacked-data stories populating the news seemingly each week. There are plenty of options to manage your data center and data management needs, but how do you choose what is best for your company?

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[Interview] Brian Connell-Tombs, Founder Of CT Compliance Consulting

YoungUpstarts

In today’s world where large-scale data breaches and hacks of private client information seem to be happening with increasing frequency, the issue of cybersecurity has never been more pressing to the financial industry. Knowing the protections to put in place, and particularly the relevant requirements from a regulatory perspective, is essential.

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Do You Know How Your Business Is Doing and Where It’s Going?

Up and Running

I think it’s safe to say that most new business owners don’t jump into their entrepreneurial dream because they are financial experts or are particularly excited about spending a lot of time knee deep in their business’s financial reports. But, it is important to understand what’s going on within their business—it’s really the only way to plan for growth.

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Using Dual Process Theory for Higher Conversions

ConversionXL

Designing your website requires a studied understanding of human behavior if you want to increase your conversions. Using psychological tactics in your design to appeal to potential customers can help do this, but you must first know how users’ decisions are made. Daniel Kahneman presents two thought systems that can give marketers a framework for how to target their ideal clients through site design and get a major uplift in conversions.

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Navigating the Tricky World of ‘Experts’ – Start Up Advice from Founder of MyArtBroker  

The Startup Magazine

Ian Syer founded online art platform MyArtBroker in 2010, after recognising a gap in the market for people to sell the art they own. A startup success, now MyArtBroker has some 10,000 members around the world, both art buyers and art sellers who use the site to find the artwork they want or sell the art they no longer want! In 2016, the most popular works bought and sold via MyArtBroker were signed and unsigned Banksy prints.

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What Your Sales Team Really Needs from Young Executive Leadership

YoungUpstarts

Millennial CEOs in today’s business climate face a changing role from the traditional leadership image of the suit in the C-suite, especially when it comes to sales. It’s becoming increasingly important for top leadership to work directly with their sales managers to develop a stellar sales process. Even more than that, it’s imperative to spend time with the salespeople who are actually using those processes.

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How to Optimize Your Event Marketing Campaigns: Before, During and After Events

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Optimize Your Event Marketing Campaigns: Before, During and After Events written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Frost and Sullivan report that the live events industry is worth around $512 billion. Alon Alroy, CMO of Bizzabo, explains how event marketers can measure and optimize their event marketing campaigns before during and after the event process.

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Biometric Face Recognition and Border Security

Austin Startup

Governments everywhere are looking for ways to increase border security without making the border crossing process more onerous for both the passengers and the people responsible for security. They are experimenting with biometric facial recognition technology and it’s easy to see why. The technology has many advantages over traditional “flash pass” ID verification.

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What’s an SSL Certificate and What are its Benefits?

The Startup Magazine

An SSL Certificate refers to a collection of data files added to a server to attain a connection that’s encrypted between your server and a browser. When it is installed, a green padlock is displayed when users visit your website showing that it is secure. What is the Difference Between HTTPS and SSL? You may have probably already heard of the terms “SSL Certificate” or “SSL” being used interchangeably with HTTPS.

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Going Concern Rules And Your Company

YoungUpstarts

by Michael Gallaher, Audit Associate at Sensiba San Filippo . To outside investors, the future of early stage and startup companies can be murky. Many of these companies are pre-revenue and in the cash burn stage as they try to establish their technology and market. When investors believe in the founders, products, or ideas they will provide companies with funding.

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Why English Isn't Enough

Babbling VC

As I've had to answer this question so many times at this point, I thought I'd just save myself the time in the future and make a blogpost out of it. If you are going to apply to work for us at Liquid Labs, you have to speak German. No, it doesn't have to be perfect but it has to at least be conversational. No one expects you to sound local.I being the best example of sounding like Schwarzenegger, just in reverse.

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When Not What

Austin Startup

Heroic WW II General George C. Marshall taught officers at Fort Benning that the crucial issue issue on the battlefield is usually when a decision is made as much as what is the decision. I’ve learned that many founders tend to ignore this all-important dimension of time as they proceed with their startups. It proves to be the key element of nearly every decision they make.

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Workday Rising: Sneak Preview from Dan Beck

deal architect

Workday’s annual user conference, Workday Rising, is in Chicago starting Monday. The European version is in Barcelona in a few weeks. It’s always an enjoyable event with “The Citizens of the Cloud” - some of the happiest customers in the.

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10 Tips To Be A Better Public Speaker

YoungUpstarts

by Topher Morrison, author of “ The Book on Public Speaking “ If you’re a small business owner or entrepreneur, chances are you have had to face the microphone and give a speech at one time or another. Maybe it was a keynote, or perhaps a more formal lecture. Chances are if you haven’t been in this position yet, your time will come eventually.

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Why English Isn't Enough

Babbling VC

As I've had to answer this question so many times at this point, I thought I'd just save myself the time in the future and make a blogpost out of it. If you are going to apply to work for us at Liquid Labs, you have to speak German. No, it doesn't have to be perfect but it has to at least be conversational. No one expects you to sound local.I being the best example of sounding like Schwarzenegger, just in reverse.

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7 New Initiatives To Fearlessly Grow Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Growth has always been fundamental to business success, but it’s never been more critical than it is now, nor more difficult. Every opportunity is global, but so is the competition. Evolving customer expectations and technology are the norm, forcing every company, from startups to large enterprises, to innovate quickly, despite their fear of change, uncertainty, and doubt.

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Workday and the Age of Intelligence

deal architect

Mike McNamara is CEO of a remarkable $ 25 bn a year company that many people do not know much about. Flex is contract manufacturer for a wide range of products from automobiles to medical devices. Its design and shop.

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Embrace Artificial Intelligence & Move Your Startup Forward

YoungUpstarts

by David Kosmayer, CEO and Founder of Bookmark. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for a long time but it’s only in recent years that people have begun to understand how pervasive it’s become. What’s more, most of us who are always digitally connected will find that we’ve become increasingly reliant on AI without even realizing it. What is artificial intelligence?

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3 reasons why top-down approach to product strategy are a bad idea

The Next Web

Many of the tech companies I’ve worked for have employed a top-down approach to product strategy. This typically entails a small number of leaders within the organization — usually from the C-suite — dictating the entire product roadmap. While a top-down approach is definitely better than no plan at all, it doesn’t always lead to long-term success. There are many risks associated with this strategy — here are three to watch out for and a few tips for avoiding those pitfalls: 1.

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7 Leadership Actions To Win In This New World Of Work

Startup Professionals Musings

We are living in a new generation of business, where customers drive the experience, and highly engaged employees are required to keep up with customer expectations. Traditional business leadership practices, including autocratic, reactive, and narcissistic, aren’t working. Only 13 percent of workers are fully engaged, and half have left a job because they hated their boss.

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NetSuite: Still alive and kicking

deal architect

Oracle OpenWorld had even more going on than usual. Larry Ellison was so focused on autonomy facilitated by database version 18c that he had only slide for a number of other features it will introduce like 5 times faster RAC.

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How To Build Your Personal Brand – 8 Tips

YoungUpstarts

by Pamela Webber, Chief Marketing Officer at 99designs . Maybe you hear the phrase “personal brand” and think it doesn’t apply to you; however, in today’s ever-connected, cached-forever world, your personal brand affects who hires you, who fires you, who follows you, and who trolls you, which is particularly important to remember as you enter the job market.

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Welcoming Melody Koh to the NextView Team

View from Seed

We are very excited today to announce that Melody Koh is joining NextView as a Venture Partner based in our New York office. For those of you who don’t know Melody, she was an early member of the team at Blue Apron, joining the company as their first PM and eventually going on to lead their product, design, and analytics teams. Melody was instrumental to the hyper-growth phase of Blue Apron.

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10 Secrets For Getting More Things Done In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business professional I know faces the challenge of getting more things done on time, and getting the right things done. They all dream of working less, and accomplishing more. Yet I see that most are their own worst enemies. They seem to all fall victim to a common set of mistaken priorities and well-meaning distractions that keep them from exceeding their own objectives.

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I Built My Startup To A $15M Valuation – While Living In A Van

YFS Magazine

Over a course of two years, I bootstrapped a startup to a $15M valuation – while living in a van. After that experience my sense of reality was redefined.

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The 5 Key Secrets To Having A Great Meeting

YoungUpstarts

by Dr. Rick Brinkman, author of “ Dealing with Meetings You Can’t Stand: Meet Less and Do More “ The word “meeting” often elicits audible groans. Middle managers spend an estimated 35% of their time in meetings. Upper managers spend half their time in meetings. But 67% of these meetings are woefully unproductive, costing businesses more than $37 billion a year.

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Why cash is only one measure of employee happiness

Berkonomics

Close. In 1981, Herb Cohen wrote and published “ You Can Negotiate Anything ”, an excellent guide to great negotiating. I’ve read and reread the book a number of times and find myself using the techniques often in many areas of my life. One of his lessons remains clearly on my mind and is a variant of the old “You name the price and I’ll name the terms” challenge that works so well in negotiation.

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8 Weak Change Signals That Can Have Explosive Impact

Startup Professionals Musings

When the economy tanks as it did in the last recession, that’s a strong signal that things have to change, and it’s hard to miss. But most of us in business have to deal most of the time with weak signals, or change that is happening in a far more subtle way. These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world.

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5 Smart Ways To Increase Your Website Traffic

YFS Magazine

Here's a look at five ways you can create better content, grow your personal brand and effectively promote it to audiences around the world.

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You Don’t Need To Change Your Company Culture To Attract Millennials

YoungUpstarts

by Brad Deutser, president of Deutser LLC. Employers spend a lot of time puzzling over what they need to do to attract millennials and how to retain those young employees once they hire them. Many organizations even adjust their corporate culture to better appeal to the generation of young adults who are expected to make up half the global workforce by 2020, and who are said to be uncomfortable with rigid corporate structures, expect rapid progression and want constant feedback.

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