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4 Startup Myths That Hold Innovation Back (and How to Overcome Them)

StartupNation

The benefits of building a diverse startup team are overwhelming; from increased creativity and faster problem solving, to a greater diversity of thought opening up new market opportunities and more revenue streams, to better understanding the customer base and building better products… the list goes on. hyper-growth, acquisition, or IPO).

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5 Mistakes Derailing Startup Founders

StartupNation

As a consultant to many of the world’s most innovative global brands as well as motivated founders looking for a jump-start, it’s important to be able to know what steps along the way are absolutely necessary and which ones are nice to have. Hiring consultants in the wrong places.

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20 Women Entrepreneurs Changing Their Industries (and the World)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Recognizing that inflexible company structures and policy negatively affected both employees and organizations—especially women—Auerbach and Dean left careers in consulting and corporate law to build tools and training to make flexibility a competitive advantage for everyone. Written for EO by Michael Neidert, a writer and consultant. .

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Creating a Millennial-Friendly Workplace

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Toward this end, here are some of the lessons we have learned at Glen Eagle in our ongoing development of a creative multigenerational workplace: Leverage Technology to Build Client Relationships. Boston Consulting Group, January 15, 2014 “ How Millennials Are Changing the Face of Marketing Forever”.

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Memory.ai, the startup behind time-tracking app Timely, raises $14M to build more AI-based productivity apps

TechCrunch

Aimed not just at people who are quantified self geeks, but those who need to track time for practical reasons, such as consultants or others who work on the concept of billable hours. Timely has racked up 500,000 users since 2014, including more than 5,000 paying businesses in 160 countries. Now, Memory.ai Now, Memory.ai previously.

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Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce

TechCrunch

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. They also have a very smart and efficient approach to creative development that was critical to helping us scale,” she wrote.

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Why generic marketing approaches don’t work on software developers

TechCrunch

The idea for this book dates back to my time at ProgrammableWeb (2009-2014). Every developer (the origin of our name) has a few basic needs, like clear documentation, help getting started and use cases to spark creativity. To reach more developers requires more education and less promotion. Every press release looked the same.