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The Benefits of Encouraging Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace

StartupNation

Creativity is essential for any organization if you want to keep your business moving forward. There are numerous organizations that have designed a cool, funky, creative environment for their employees to help them relax and spark creative thinking to get their projects moving forward. Dopamine, curiosity and creativity.

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How Entrepreneurs Can Prevent Problems In Their Work-From-Home Strategy

Entrepreneurs' Organization

When Pete approached me for advice, I recommended the “Failure-Proofing” strategy, which is a pragmatic and easy-to-use technique to defend against planning and project disasters. Doing so empowers everyone, even those who are confident that the plan will succeed, to tap their creativity in coming up with potential reasons for the failure.

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7 strategies for learning new skills

The Zapier Blog

If you've been wanting to learn a new skill or even strengthen existing ones, here are the seven tried-and-trued strategies I used to boost my expertise—and how you can, too. Now that we're on the same page, let's dive into the seven strategies you can use to learn a new skill or enhance the ones you already have.

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FundersClub Weekly Newsletter - June 15, 2017

FundersClub

technology startup founders and how that affects the gender diversity of the employees they hire in " The 2017 US Startup Team Gender Diversity Study. " Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz discusses why you should never begin with the sales channel itself when designing a distribution strategy in " Distribution.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.).

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Five Lessons Learned from the Ample Hills $8 Million Raise

This is going to be BIG.

Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) on Dec 20, 2017 at 8:06am PST When you're Ample Hills Creamery , the #1 rated ice cream shop in the country you can pretty much throw everything you've been told about fundraising out the window.

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What Is Out-Of-Home Advertising? – Types & Examples

Feedough

These advertisements are a component of above the line advertising strategy that is largely non-targeted and has a wide reach. These generally consist of large print ads displayed on high elevated boards. Hoarding graphics: A hoarding is defined as a temporary boarded fence in a public place. These are: Billboard Advertising.