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The Pros And Cons Of Digital Learning

YoungUpstarts

A recent report from by the CMI and Oxford Strategic Consulting highlighted how attitudes to online learning have started to shift in the workforce. Many employees now believe that companies choose online learning methods as a way of cutting costs rather than as a smarter alternative to traditional classroom learning. Gil Mulders, the head of learning at InterContinental Hotels Group, was speaking last month at the 2017 HR Tech World Conference in London , where he touched on the difficulty of f

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Share Each business has a story. No matter if the business is a Goliath like Wal-Mart, or a local business owned by a couple or family, the business has roots in an idea. For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each and brand.

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Embracing Digital Disruption in the Business World

The Startup Magazine

Technology has become so disruptive in the business world that sometimes its exact purpose can be forgotten. . From marketing to product development, to new software tools and communications, the list is almost endless as to the digital transformations taking place. While disruption can be scary at first, it is absolutely necessary for any entrepreneurial aspiration. .

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Colorado Global EIR 2017 Applications

Feld Thoughts

The 2017 applications for the Colorado Global EIR are now open through April 15, 2017. The Colorado Global EIR program is a way for experienced international entrepreneurs to receive an H-1B visa, allowing them to work in Boulder. They must commit to working 20 hours per week at CU Boulder (supporting cross-campus entrepreneurial activities), and of course, will be paid for doing so.

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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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How To DIY Your Home Office Security With These Gadgets

YoungUpstarts

Connected devices have made how we live in the 21 st century a whole lot more interesting. While we’re still a bit far from The Jetsons with their personal rocket ships, Back to the Future Part II wasn’t too far off predicting what life is like today with things like video chat and holograms. Nike was also gracious enough to make self-lacing shoes happen.

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How to Build a High Performing Growth Team

ConversionXL

As technology continues to make data-driven marketing easier to implement and control, one thing remains constant: it’s all about the effectiveness of your team. As Paul Rouke says, we need to prioritize human intelligence in the face of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence, and building a high performing team is the most impactful thing you can do when it comes to growth.

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Why Great Executives Avoid Shiny Objects

Both Sides of the Table

The modern world is filled with constant distractions. Only those with maniacal focus on results and a willingness not to engage in every activity achieve extraordinary results. As executives we’re all seemingly accessible at any moment to anybody via email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Text. We are over-intro’d and at the same time under-resourced in terms of staff to handle the barrage of in-bound requests.

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Five innovative tools of the trade for startups in 2017

Austin Startup

In the world of technology everything can change over the course of a year. While five years ago Skype was a cutting-edge way for companies to communicate internally, today Slack has clearly taken the lead. Remember when the portable music market was owned by Sony? Now Apple takes the cake when it comes to taking your music with you. What about those big clunky receivers with all the wires that brought music into your living room?

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Trust starts at 100% and goes down…

Hippoland

Investors (especially those who have been in the game for a little bit) are jaded. Winning over investors is not just about showing traction / progress (although that is a big component to getting investors onboard). It’s also about trust. Fundamentally, investors have to trust you in order to invest in you. And, I think most investors will give entrepreneurs the benefit of the doubt…until they cannot.

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How Social Media Can Bring The Right Customers For Your Business Using Word Of Mouth

Duct Tape Marketing

How Social Media Can Bring The Right Customers For Your Business Using Word Of Mouth written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Word-of-mouth has been both King of Advertising and a marketer’s best friend for ages – and I mean literally, ages. A naturally occurring phenomenon, word-of-mouth is as old as human communication itself.

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Machines as colleagues: implications for HCM executives

deal architect

I presented themes from my book Silicon Collar at the IHRIM conference in Toronto a couple of weeks ago. Automation technologies (robotics, AI, drones, autonomous vehicles, wearables, etc.) are changing the nature of work in every industry. The book looked.

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10 Ways To Get The Most Out Of Leadership Coaching

YoungUpstarts

by Gregg Thompson, author of “ The Master Coach: Leading with Character, Building Connections, and Engaging in Extraordinary Conversations “ When it comes to helping you perform at your best and accelerate your career, nothing compares to the power of being coached. But while working with a great coach is a highly effective way of accelerating your development as a leader, it also represents a significant investment of time and money.

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7 Tips On Maximizing Social Media Returns At Low Cost

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. But, contrary to what most people preach, it isn’t entirely free. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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How Systems Make Your Business More Human

Duct Tape Marketing

How Systems Make Your Business More Human written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I’m a huge fan of technology. Without it, my business would be in a much different place than it is now. However, over-reliance on it can be a trap that puts you out of touch with your customers and can prevent you from building relationships that will help you get better at what you do and help you build a strong network and community.

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The wrong question: Is now the right time to start a company?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Yes. The answer is always yes. But it’s the wrong question. I started Smart Bear in a recession (2002) and it went great. I’ve been explaining for eight years why recessions are a great time to start a company. It’s wise because costs are low (every vendor is thrilled to have new business) and if you can get people to buy when money is tight, you’ve really proved you have a desirable product.

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Nine Ways To Avoid Getting Hooked By W-2 Phishing Schemes

YoungUpstarts

by John Farley and Emily Seick, Hub International. The W-2 phishing expedition is one of the fastest growing cyber scams today, and it’s especially relevant as the April 15 income tax filing deadline approaches. Here’s how it works: Scammers pose via email as a senior company executive and request HR and Finance managers provide them copies of employee tax forms.

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7 Partner Relationships That Can Kill A Good Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Most entrepreneurs who start a company alone soon come to the conclusion that two heads are better than one – someone to share the workload, the hard decisions, and the costs. In a moment of crisis, you may be tempted to take on the first person expressing interest as a co-founder. This would be a mistake, and could easily cost you your startup. If you think about it, you should realize that not everyone is ‘ideal partner material.

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Is Social Media Hurting Your Business?

YFS Magazine

Does social media help our hurt your business? Here are five tips to make social media work for your business and not be the death of it.

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Life Is The Bucket

Feld Thoughts

I’m sitting up in Amy’s office on a beautiful Tuesday morning listening to the Liz Wright station Pandora. Amy is downstairs doing something with the dogs. I just cried for a few minutes after reading Ted Rheingold’s post As I Lay Dying. When I got to the final section, which he calls “Now,” I read it three times. “I’ve gained some powerful emotional powers (super powers) in what I’ve been calling my second life.

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Five Business Clichés And “Don’t Says” To Avoid

YoungUpstarts

by Richard Moran, author of “ The Thing About Work: Showing Up and Other Important Matters “ Look up “business buzzwords” or “business clichés” and you’ll find article after article about these irritating, overused phrases. In fact, new ones come out each year documenting the latest crop that’s flourishing in workplaces across America.

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7 Keys To Loving What You Do And Doing What You Love

Startup Professionals Musings

Is it possible to be successful in business and not fulfilled? The answer is a resounding yes today, and I’m convinced that it will be even more true tomorrow, as young idealistic entrepreneurs try to adapt to the long-standing business culture if success is only measured in the money you make for yourself and your business. That isn’t very fulfilling to the growing number of entrepreneurs whose vision and satisfaction comes from making the world a better place, and enjoying a leisurely lifestyl

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#2 Secret About Running Your Own Copywriting Business You Rarely Hear

Rembrandt Communications

Secret #2: You don’t need to spend a cent on marketing to get clients. In the first article in this series, I told you about how I started my own business immediately after an unexpected lay-off. My employer became my first client. Sure. I had one client to start, but I needed more to pay […]. The post #2 Secret About Running Your Own Copywriting Business You Rarely Hear appeared first on Boost sales fast with content marketing strategy and PR here.

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Here are ten vision tests for your success

Berkonomics

Your vision for success must be solid and flexible enough to pass several critical tests if it is to guide a business enterprise to greatness. Here in brief are ten tests for your successful vision. Try these on for size, and test yourself for attractiveness to the marketplace, to investors and to history. Ten tests for your successful vision. Is your market identifiable and accessible?

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Learning This One Language Will Instantly Make You A Better Leader

YoungUpstarts

by Rafael Romis , founder of Weberous. No matter where in the world your company is based, the number one language in offices is always the same and no, I’m not talking about English. In fact, the language I’m talking about doesn’t even involve talking at all. It’s a little system of communication called body language and you should look into it. Why Learn It?

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How Traveling Helped Me Prepare for Startup Life

Up and Running

If there’s anything that traveling outside the U.S. taught me, it was how to adapt. Unless you can afford to build a bubble around yourself that keeps things exactly like they are at home (which some people do, I guess) travel is a series of surprises and new information that you need to constantly react to. As it turns out, this is very similar to the experience of working at or founding a startup company.

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5 Things Great Leaders Say To Their Employees

YFS Magazine

What you say, and what you don't, can make a huge impact on your team. Need the right thing to say? Start with phrases that empower your employees.

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Why I Care About Problem Size More Than Market Size

Hunter Walker

For seed investors, overfocusing on TAM (total addressable market) can be a trap. It causes founders to think that displaying a generic sizable dollar stat (“$150 billion is spent on Education annually”) is sufficient versus really spending time understanding important characteristics about the problem they’re solving. Namely, Is the problem large?

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4 Brain Foods That Any Successful Business Person Should Have In Their Diets

YoungUpstarts

by Helen Sanders, chief editor at HealthAmbition.com. Most of us associate “diet foods” with foods that will help us look better physically. While this is a common motive for people to begin watching what they eat, there are many other reasons why we should be mindful of what we consume. I know firsthand that eating the right foods is an excellent way to not only improve physical appearance but general health as well.

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Reading Your VC Pitch Meeting

VC Adventure

I’ve come to realize that many – most – entrepreneurs suck at reading pitch meetings. Frequently what I hear from a company CEO is completely uncorrelated to what I hear from the VC they were pitching. In thinking about why this is, the answer is actually relatively straightforward: VCs are predisposed to give good meetings. AND By being equivocal at the end of a meeting they preserve maximum option value.

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Smart Marketers Leverage Marketing Technology And Data Intelligence

YFS Magazine

Is your marketing working? Learn how to use use data intelligence and technology to ensure your marketing strategy delivers on your goals.

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Bezos Annual Letter

Feld Thoughts

I just sent this note out to our CEO list. I was going to write a different post today about The Founder Wellness Pact: How Accelerators are Addressing Depression Among Founders but I’m going to save it for next week. After sending this note out, I decided it was the clearest thing I could add to your world today going into the weekend. . Jeff Bezos’ annual letter is now up there with Warren Buffett’s annual letter as must reads for me.

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10 Common Causes Of Conflicts Within Small Businesses (And How To Fix Them)

YoungUpstarts

by Patrick Dahm , consultant at Samuel Seow Law Corporation (via AsiaLawNetwork ). Here’s a harsh truth – when people extend their familiar or friendly relationship to a business environment, corporate trouble beckons, sometimes even disaster. A common scenario is that of family members, friends or fellow students starting a business with great ideas but without great (or any) legal agreements.

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The Enlightenment, the lean startup and Steve Jobs

The Equity Kicker

As a keen observer of startups over the last 17 years, one of the most remarkable and welcome developments has been the application of scientific method to building startups. In 1999 when I started in venture capital there were no blogs and very few business books that were useful for entrepreneurs. All founders could do was accumulate wise advisors and rely on their wits and instinct.

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How To Build Great Working Relationships With Employees

YFS Magazine

People work better when they feel supported and appreciated. Here's a look at 5 ways to create a positive and meaningful relationship with your team.

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Is there a right time of year to raise a seed round?

This is going to be BIG.

It's hard to answer that question, because even if you look at fundraising data, you don't always know a) when the round was actually closed vs. just announced or filed and b) you don't know when fundraising actually started. Maybe it was wrapped up in a week or maybe it took six months. That being said, I was super curious what my own track record had to say about it.

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5 Ways To Protect Your Idea From Theft

YoungUpstarts

by Lewis Robinson. With the constantly increasing ease in which information can be shared, it’s becoming harder for business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs to secure their business ideas to ensure competitors or other people do not unfairly steal them. But even with this ongoing problem, businesses owners and aspiring entrepreneurs should not just keep their ideas to themselves, just so they can protect them from those who will pilfer them.