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If Your Customers Can Be Everywhere, Why Can’t Your Talent?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Written for EO by Vikram Ahuja. Ahuja is a serial entrepreneur, co-founder at X10 and founder of Byond Travel. He is also a member of EO Bangalore. At the 2019 Web Summit , Ahuja joined a delegation of 16 EO members from 11 countries to lead workshops and speed mentoring sessions. As a Web Summit speaker, he presented on the rise of the “2nd City Office.” Read on for his perspective on the problem of finding talent. .

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Protected: Solution Stories: The Bold Experiment of the Community Entrepreneurship Accelerator

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Talent Attraction Incentives: The Debate Heats Up

EntreWorks Consulting

In today’s tight labor markets, communities around the US are starved for talent. Some places are so starved that they’ve created incentive programs to attract talented workers. Some years ago, several places in Kansas opted for free land as a potential talent magnet. Today’s incentives tend to be cash-based, either as direct payments or some form of alternative support such as student loan forgiveness in certain high-demand fields.

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Protected: Building Change: The Bold Experiment of the Community Entrepreneurship Accelerator

Forward Cities

Password Protected. To view this protected post, enter the password below: Password: Submit. The post Protected: Building Change: The Bold Experiment of the Community Entrepreneurship Accelerator appeared first on Forward Cities.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Vikrum Nijjar: Engineer #1 at Firebase and Founder of Gold Fig Labs (YC S19)

Y Combinator

Vikrum Nijjar joined as the first engineer at Firebase, and did whatever it took to help the company succeed: scaling out infrastructure, shipping mobile SDKs, hosting 1-1 office hours with developers and even standing in as SRE for 24×7 hour shifts… for over a year. In this interview, Vikrum tells us what he found most valuable about his YC experience, how to build successful developer tools, and why Gold Fig is going to put an end to embarrassing and costly configuration changes, on

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Why Fundraising Is Different In Silicon Valley

Y Combinator

Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel on why fundraising in Silicon Valley is different. Topics. 00:00 – Why Fundraising Is Different In Silicon Valley. 00:25 – Overcorrecting based on investor feedback outside Silicon Valley. 00:35 – Investors are not spread evenly around the world. 00:50 – Why Silicon Valley investors are different. 1:50 – Investors in Silicon Valley are less likely to dismiss ideas out of hand. 2:30 – Judging based on if a team is exe

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Mastercard Small Business Summit Celebrates Women Business Owners

Smart Hustle Magazine

Ramon Ray caught up with Cheryl Guerin, Executive Vice President of Integrated Marketing and Communications for North America Mastercard at Mastercard’s Small Business Summit in partnership with Create and Cultivate in New York City. The summit was held in celebration of National Women’s Small Business Month and Cheryl was there as part of Mastercard’s Women’s Business Advisory Council. .

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Private Equity and Venture Capital Origination Best Practices

David Teten VC

I’m speaking at Wells Fargo’s Dec. 3, 2019 SBIC Symposium on “Origination Best Practices” I welcome feedback on my draft deck: Here’s a related deck I prepared on origination best practices for venture capitalists: If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter. The post Private Equity and Venture Capital Origination Best Practices appeared first on David Teten.

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Mailchimp Exec Shares Her 5 Best Secrets for Marketing Success

Smart Hustle Magazine

Mailchimp is one of the leading brands enabling businesses to get more customers and keep the ones they have. Mailchimp is best known as an email marketing company, but it now does so much more, including websites, marketing automation, CRM , advertising and more. Darcy Kurtz, VP of Product Marketing at Mailchimp shared with Ramon Ray the things that businesses need to do to improve their marketing.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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[Beyond Meat in Veg News] Los Angeles Lakers Partner with Beyond Meat

OurCrowd

The partnership kicked off with a Beyond Meat truck serving vegan burgers outside of the Lakers’ solar-powered training facility in El Segundo (where Beyond Meat is also based). “As an LA-based company, we are excited to team up with one of LA’s most iconic brands to engage our local community and further amplify awareness of our delicious plant-based meats that serve both body and planet,” Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown said.

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[Zebra in Yahoo Finance] Zebra Medical Vision joins forces with Nuance to bring more AI to diagnostic imaging

OurCrowd

Zebra Medical Vision, the deep-learning medical-imaging analytics company, announces today that its AI1 “all-in-one” bundle of AI products will be available on the Nuance (NUAN) AI Marketplace. Read more here. The post [Zebra in Yahoo Finance] Zebra Medical Vision joins forces with Nuance to bring more AI to diagnostic imaging appeared first on OurCrowd.