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Estimating App Development: What Small Businesses Need To Know?

YoungUpstarts

by Julia Kravchenko, partner and VP of HR at Qubit Labs. “Why don’t we make an app?”. Obviously, if you open this article you are also interested in creating the one. If we look through the statistics, it’ll show us that mobile phones are gradually becoming more and more popular. They follow the way of websites: a couple of decades ago having a page in the internet was considered to be luxury, though now you cannot surprise customers with online presence.

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The US is a leader in Clean!

deal architect

The French President tweeted yesterday "Tonight the United States has turned its back on the world, but France will not turn its back on Americans," He is talking about President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord. Turned.

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

Light a path for the better angels. Thank you, Chancellor McLellan, President Florizone, Dean Charlebois, Dr. Hewitt, and Dr. Kilfoil for the invitation to speak today and thank you for the honorary degree. I’m honored to speak at a university whose motto is: Pray and Work. It’s pretty close to the one I had as an entrepreneur, which was – Pray it Will Work. — First, my congratulations.

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Can A Salesperson Really Think Like a Marketer?

Duct Tape Marketing

Can A Salesperson Really Think Like a Marketer? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Scott Ingram. Podcast Transcript. I wrote a book titled Duct Tape Selling – Think like a marketer, sell like a superstar. Occasionally, I hear from salespeople who read the book and acted on the advice and the story is always the same – it’s a lot of work but the payoff is worth it.

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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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Should You Outsource Your Company’s Mobile App Development? Here’s Why You Should

YoungUpstarts

Mobile applications are paramount for the success of marketing campaigns today. While the existence of a company app is not something that has gotten to the level of the website, where not having one is instant marketing doom, it’s not far from it. While not having an app is still something you can get away with as a company, it’s something that will keep you from gaining a considerable amount of extra profit.

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The Talent Paradox

deal architect

Phil Fersht wrote a cheerful (not) post this weekend where he asks Is our sole purpose now simply to eliminate people? We spend a couple of decades displacing "expensive" workers because we could find less expensive able ones to do.

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Mary Meeker’s Internet And Digital Trends for 2017

Brandanew

The much awaited Mary Meeker digital trends report is out. Lo and behold, Internet growth is stagnating if you take out India. India still is at only 27% Internet penetration so there’s a lot of growth opportunity. It makes me wonder how connected we will be when the next billion is online. Here are some of my favorite key takeaways: Mary Meeker’s Key Internet and Digital Trends for 2017.

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7 Key Risk Areas During Optimization Of ERP Implementation

YoungUpstarts

Businesses that use Enterprise Resource Planning, or ERP, are usually in a better position to manage all their critical operations under one platform. Often, the businesses will require optimizing the ERP if they have to make an impact on the operations. However, this optimization effort may draw other risks which limit the productivity of the business.

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10 Behavioral Tips To Raise Your Cool Factor At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business professional needs to stay cool under pressure, to be a top performer, and for the sake of their own health. Yet everyone has a melting point – a critical threshold where pressure causes them to respond irrationally. Many people believe their threshold is permanently set by family genetics, or cultural influences, but I believe anyone can train themselves to stay cool.

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How to transition a company from startup to scale-up

The Next Web

Guns and Roses was a constant presence in my yellow Sony Walkman, and later my Jeep Wrangler’s aftermarket CD player. The band’s leader, Axl Rose, was famous (or perhaps infamous) for a great many attributes; but organizational guru sharing advice, he was generally not. But, as I attempt to transition a company from start-up to a scale up, his words, not Welch’s or Buffet’s or Collins’, ring most loudly in my ears.

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Two Major Supreme Court Decisions on Patents

Feld Thoughts

In moments of political despair, Amy reminds me that we have three branches of government. Around issues that I care a lot about and have engaged in over the years, the Judicial Branch seems to be the most functional right now, at least from my perspective. This was reinforced by two things this week. The first was a conversation Jason and I had with senior staffers of a non-Colorado senator.

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Top Six Emerging Trends For Group Health Insurance In India

YoungUpstarts

Health insurance has seen quite a few events in India. With growth in economy, prosperity, and awareness, individuals are more inclined to negotiate, avail and use services like group insurance benefits. For employers, as well, group insurance schemes like health, critical illness, life and superannuation have offered an inexpensive way to attract talent and differentiate themselves as a mor e attractive employer.

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Customer Service Can Kill Your Customer’s Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

With the advent of the Internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. They expect you to be there, to know their history as a customer, and to treat them with priority and respect. They tell their friends and the world everything, and a bad experience can kill your business.

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Why we expanded our startup to South Korea

The Next Web

Regardless of where your startup resides, you should always monitor where else in the world your product is gaining traction. Expanding to a new country can lead to a larger client base, a foothold in another market, more media exposure, and more investors. Additionally, if the expansion goes well, you’ll have also demonstrated the adaptability and versatility of your product on a world stage.

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Discover 5 Competitive Advantages of Great Content

Rembrandt Communications

Why Do You Need Copywriting That Sells, Anyway? Give your target market valuable content on a regular basis. Have a professional copywriter write copy that sells. Share content via social media. You hear about how important it is to provide fresh, new content to your target audience on a daily basis. And while you […]. The post Discover 5 Competitive Advantages of Great Content appeared first on Get health and technology copywriting for more sales here.

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All Interviewers Watch Out For These Traits

YoungUpstarts

Are you stuck in a rut on the job market? If you are it’s possible that you’re simply not giving the right impression to potential employers. If you apply for a popular position or job, you could be up against at least a few hundred other candidates. They are all going to be eager to impress and make sure they’re the one that walks away with the prize.

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Do You Have What it Takes To Be a Business Leader?

Startup Professionals Musings

Running a business is not rocket science. As a long-time business advisor, and occasional investor, I have seen many successful businesses lead by college dropouts and people with average intelligence. Investors don’t look at CEOs for advanced degrees, but they do look for experience and emotional intelligence, often before they even evaluate the business plan.

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How I Became A Successful Entrepreneur Without A College Degree

YFS Magazine

College isn't a prerequisite for success. I started as an entry-level receptionist and rose through the ranks quickly, becoming a business owner by age 25.

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Trust your gut if you really want to scale

The Next Web

There’s no doubt that technology has, in so many ways, transformed our lives and the way we do business. It has given us access to endless information, research and advice. Google “how to…” and it will come up with endless results on pretty much every topic you can think of, but as useful as data can be, it pays no attention to basic human instincts, which can be more powerful and important when it comes to making business decisions.

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E-commerce Is So Easy, Anyone Can Do It

YoungUpstarts

If you want the easiest business possibility to get right for budding entrepreneurs, it’s ecommerce. Before we get into why this is, let’s explain e-commerce. Ecommerce used to be the sale of goods and services over the phone. Then the internet came along and opened up a whole new world of possibilities. Now, we can sell goods and services online, all over the world to literally massive audiences.

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7 Culture Elements Will Keep Your Business Learning

Startup Professionals Musings

Many startups and entrepreneurs I advise still default to growing their business via the traditional top-down, order-taking culture. I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions.

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3 Lessons From High Achievers On Work-Life Balance

YFS Magazine

Take a look at 3 valuable lessons from high-achievers who have successfully maintained fulfilling personal lives while advancing in their career.

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People who say “fail fast” have probably never failed

The Next Web

We humans have fear of failure baked into our DNA. If our ancestors stuck around a little longer to gather a couple extra nuts, they might risk being the last one remaining in the group and the first one to get eaten by a nearby predator. The danger of being eaten (hopefully!) remains in the distant past, but a vestigial fear of taking risks remains.

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How To Hire Great Employees

YoungUpstarts

by Ross Kimbarovsky, founder of crowdSPRING. Building a great team is nearly always the difference between the success or failure of a business. But it’s not easy to build a great team that shares your vision. What common habits do nearly all great employees have? Look for these habits when you interview and make hiring decisions. Great employees have strong discipline.

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I Just Started a Business—Should I Focus on the Destination?

Up and Running

When Airbnb experienced a period of hypergrowth, it did what any company would do—it quickly hired as many talented people as it could. However, the data science department soon noticed a problem : Almost all of the new hires were men. In a company founded on diverse collaboration and fostering a sense of universal belonging, having a key department so off-kilter from company goals was cause for alarm.

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9 Steps To Find And Connect With Your Brand Tribe

YFS Magazine

These days, everyone from marketers and entrepreneurs to VCs need to know what makes their audience tick; what they want, and how they look for it.

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Is marijuana a legitimate startup business?

The Startup Magazine

There was a time when any mention of the word marijuana was made in hushed tones. Not anymore. With cannabis use legal in more and more places, the questions have arisen about whether it’s a legit business. To date, approximately 13 of the 50 United States have made it legal for qualified patients to use marijuana for medical reasons. Because of that, more and more enterprising people have begun to wonder how to turn that reality into a profitable business.

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5 Company Initiatives That Reduce Employee Burnout

YoungUpstarts

by Jessica Thiefels, owner of Honest Body Fitness. Employee burnout is on the rise thanks to our digital lives — it’s easy to answer an email at 9p.m. when you’re in bed because your phone is likely already in your hands, or on your bed stand. This burnout, otherwise known as stress, impacts employee performance, the quality of their work and relationships with coworkers and management, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.

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How to Start a Thriving Drive-Thru Coffee Shop

Up and Running

Image via HeraldNet. Have you opened up a drive-thru coffee shop? Are you thinking about opening one? Drive-thru coffee seems like an automatic cash machine—everyone loves fast, convenient coffee, right? While owning a drive-thru coffee shop can be profitable, there are some lesser-known secrets to creating a thriving coffee business. Being moderately successful is okay if you want to run your business for the rest of your life, but if you want to retire, you’re going to need some power tips—esp

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What Startups Can Learn From Amazon’s Annual Letter To Shareholders

YFS Magazine

Jeff Bezos led his team to create a company more valuable than many of its peers combined. 

He created a company that not only survived – but thrived.




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littleBits Code Kit

Feld Thoughts

littleBits just shipped their newest product – the littleBits Code Kit. If you have a kid, this product is for you (and them). littleBits Code Kit leverages kids love of games to learn to code. It uses Google Blockly which has rapidly become a popular visual editor. My favorite line from a teacher so far is that littleBits Code Kit is “better than recess”, citing a situation where students would rather stay in the classroom and invent with Code Kit instead of going out to rece

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Artificial Intelligence And Global Ethics

YoungUpstarts

by Shane Cragun, founding partner at SweetmanCragun Group and coauthor of “ Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption “ Two years ago, Boston Dynamics released a video showing a 6’ tall, 320 lb. humanoid robot named Atlas running freely through the woods. Imagine the reaction of those out picnicking trying to escape worldly cares.

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The Building Blocks of a Cold Call They Can’t Say No To

Up and Running

Some people say cold calling is dead , so many new business owners shy away from giving it a try. The technique often gets a bad rap because entrepreneurs and salespeople don’t put in the time and effort to prepare for and deliver their cold calls effectively. That’s a shame, because it can open doors to decision makers, and begin business relationships on a positive and productive note.

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5 Excuses Holding You Back From Global Business Expansion

YFS Magazine

Countries outside the U.S. are eager to encourage economic growth. If you haven't jumped into business overseas yet, here are 5 hurdles you must overcome.

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This Is What Democracy Looks Like

Feld Thoughts

Following is a beautiful and brilliant TED talk by Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU. It’s definitely worth 12 minutes of your life to watch. The post This Is What Democracy Looks Like appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Tips For Opening A Successful Coffee Shop

YoungUpstarts

If you are like most people, your day cannot start well until you have coffee. When you consider the number of people who drink coffee on a daily basis, you will see that it is good for business. Here are some tips that you should follow if you want to open up your own coffee shop: Create a Plan. One of the most serious steps that you can take toward opening your own coffee shop is creating a solid plan.