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Are You a Leader or a Laggard?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

GS1 US, an information standards organization that helps brands identify their products for commerce, recently surveyed more than 500 entrepreneurs to identify best practices to achieve sustained success. Can a consultant or solution provider help you grow? Are you prepared to think big?

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

That said, Navid Nathoo, Founder at The Knowledge Society , told us, “The ability to self-learn and self-start is a superpower that is not learned in school; in fact it must be learned outside of school.” We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. 1) Your school. 1) Your school.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework.

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Neko, Daniel Ek’s next play, is another spin on preventative healthcare

TechCrunch

Neko says the scan takes 15 minutes — and is “immediately” followed by an in-person doctor’s consultation to discuss the results (so the full visit would be longer, although it doesn’t say how long the customer gets with a doctor).

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HR Signal helps companies figure out who is most likely to quit and why

TechCrunch

HR Signal wants to make retention easier by using algorithms to predict which employees are most likely to seek another job. One of HR Signal’s algorithms, called the Employee Retention Engine, crunches billions of data points from public sources, market data and peer career path data, including a million anonymized resumes.

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Twitter’s first comms exec is building a comms network for execs

TechCrunch

He also advised the Obama White House on digital strategy and communications, Slack, and created two other communications consultancies. All background that makes his latest bet all the more interesting: Mixing Board , a startup to bring together communications and marketing leaders in one spot to help clients avoid “the BS PR stuff.”.