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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Global interest in Canadian tech jobs has increased by 58%. Experts believe the global interest has made these jobs easier to fill. Graphic designers and illustrators are no longer considered a starving artist and computer network technicians are keeping the tech companies running. Websites such as 604jobs.ca

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5 Phases of Leadership Growth Lead To Company Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Most of you aspiring entrepreneurs have no idea how dramatically your own role has to evolve as you develop a solution, start a business, and expect it to scale into a successful self-managed company. Thus my job as a small business advisor really is really more about getting you developed than perfecting the business.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. Customer Development. Numerous VCs.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

In a sweeping expose on the dynamic forces shaping the “New East”, Ben Simpfendorfer’s “ The Rise of the New East: Business Strategies for Success in a World of Increasing Complexity ” provides an in-depth view of how the economic resurgence of Asia and the Middle East are changing global markets.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. They have a good story to tell about how your product or service helped them succeed. Highly trained salespeople.

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Beauty On Demand

YoungUpstarts

With men and women increasingly investing in beauty services to get their groove on in today’s globalized world of style and luxury, a beauty on demand app would terminate the one thing people cannot afford despite needing the next-gen trendy haircut – TIME. Lucintel forecasts that the beauty industry globally will grow at a rate of 3.4

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The Expert Guide to Creating a Marketing Growth Strategy

ConversionXL

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. Such as UK-based money app Cleo’s expansion into the United States : Cleo’s marketing team might test actions like: Regional or global expansion. Product development. New channels.

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