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4 Ways to Keep Your Team Creatively Inspired

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4 Ways to Keep Your Team Creatively Inspired

One of the biggest challenges chief marketing officers face is ensuring that their teams continue to deliver fresh thinking for their brand. Though many brands lean heavily on agency partners to produce great creative output, this skill should never be entirely outsourced. Related: 5 Key Tips For Starting A Small Business Even if the extent of the creative skill you want your brand manager to exhibit consists simply of recognizing great creative when it presents itself, this individual may be ill equipped to do so if he or she doesn't regularly flex those muscles. Depending on the size of your team or company culture, one or more of the strategies described below could help shake things up at your company and set your team on a path to greater creative thinking. (more…)...

Dorsey’s Twitter stock gift well-timed to stem brain drain

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Dorsey’s Twitter stock gift well-timed to stem brain drain

Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey's novel move to give a third of his company stock to an employee equity pool is a smart gesture to restore confidence in a company that lost its way, according to recruiting and compensation experts. Beyond its generosity, the gift is a strategic effort to retain and attract key talent at the social media company, roiled by months of leadership uncertainty and questions over its long-term growth. "It's a deliberate and wise and somewhat necessary move to shore up the talent you want to keep," said recruiter Jason Hanold, who places executives and top managers in the technology industry. (more…)

Jack Dorsey Has A Secretive Business, Charged Millions To Square & Twitter

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Jack Dorsey Has A Secretive Business, Charged Millions To Square & Twitter

Business Insider- There is an interesting line in Square's recent IPO filing that reveals that CEO and founder Jack Dorsey's companies appear to be profiting from one another. The S-1 filing states that West Studios LLC, a marketing firm in which Dorsey has "direct ownership interest," received $1.2 million from Square for "consulting services." (more…)

5 Key Tips For Starting A Small Business – Manpreet

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5 Key Tips For Starting A Small Business – Manpreet

Are you planning to start a small business? Are you struggling to find a mentor who could warn you about everything that could go wrong or everything that you must be careful for. Worry no more! I would love to help you with small business advice and this is one such post where I am going to list 5 key tips for starting a small business from the very founder of this blog. This is because when it comes to running a small business, I am still in the learning phase while Navneet is an expert in it. So, his advice is the one you really want. Not mine. (more…)

9 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting My First Startup- Neil Patel

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9 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting My First Startup- Neil Patel

Lesson #1: Investors love to make excuses on why they don’t want to invest When we first started pitching Crazy Egg, no investor would write us a check. It wasn’t their fault as my co-founder and I sucked at pitching. They all had different reasons why they didn’t want to invest. After getting over 20 “No’s” from investors, I realized something was off. Each one would sugarcoat the “No” and tell it to you in a way that would make them come off nice. (more…)

5 Ways to Build an Extraordinary Team Culture- Peter Economy

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5 Ways to Build an Extraordinary Team Culture- Peter Economy

Employee teams are one of the best ways to get things done in any business. When you take a group of independently talented people and create a team in which they can merge their talents, not only will a remarkable amount of energy and creativity be released, but their performance, loyalty and engagement will be greatly improved. Here are five steps for building an extraordinary team culture: (more…)

How Timing Can Make or Break a Startup – Brandon Watts

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How Timing Can Make or Break a Startup – Brandon Watts

What comes to your mind when you think about companies like Webvan, Dodgeball, Pets.com, Kozmo.com, and WebTV? All were pioneers in their markets in many ways, but all were—in some respects, anyway—failures. In the business world, it's the unlucky fate of certain companies to serve as proof, or even punchlines, about how ambitious technology companies can implode in sometimes spectacular ways. But while it's easy, and occasionally instructive, to critique a company once it’s gone and dissect the reasons why, it's important to remember there's one tricky element that all startups face and few manage to fully control: timing. TIMING TRUMPS (ALMOST) ALL Startups like to tell themselves that execution beats everything. That idea is widely endorsed within the tech world, but it's probably ...

James Altucher- How To Diversify Your Life

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James Altucher- How To Diversify Your Life

About - James Altucher is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, bestselling author, podcaster, Blogger, author, social media and investor. He has founded or cofounded over 20 companies, including Reset Inc. and StockPickr and claims to have failed at 17 of them. He has published 11 books, and is a frequent contributor to publications including The Financial Times,TheStreet.com, TechCrunch, Seeking Alpha, Thought Catalog, and The Huffington Post. USA Today named his book "Choose Yourself" among the 12 Best Business Books of All Time. One time I wanted to sell my company to HBO. The CFO was looking at the numbers. They were willing to buy it for a tiny amount but it was an amount that would’ve taken me about one billion years to save because that’s just the way I ...