High Support, High Expectations
The Power of High Expectations — and Strong Support Year Up Bay Area trains low-income youth for high-paying jobs in a variety of sectors. Its success stems from high standards and a strong system of...
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3 Steps to Landing an Internship for Freshman We’re a couple weeks into college and the freshman rush is winding down. You’ve got your class schedule memorized and the cafeteria food is already...
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Why apps need more innovation The Gutenberg press started printing books and news columns hundreds of years ago, so why haven’t apps innovated the simple newspaper feed? Plug for my beta app, sign up...
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Snapchat: A Guide to Make Your Creative Work Harder The social platform is making a big push for your advertising dollars. We’ll leave the “why” to their sales team, but here’s the “what” and the...
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Using the Airtable App to Create an Editorial Calendar (This post originally appeared on the Uncork Your Dork blog.) First…I would like to stress to you HOW MUCH I HATE USING SPREADSHEETS!!!! I know…I...
View ArticleRapid Prototyping: The Best Route To Happy Customers
In June 2014, Jeff Bezos took the stage at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters to announce its latest product: the Fire Phone. He had no idea he was announcing the biggest flop in the company’s history....
View Article3 Steps To Building A Predictive Analytics System
If you want your business to take off and scale, you need to embrace data from day one. Scratch that: Don’t merely embrace data. Put a ring on it and shout a resounding, “I do!” Here’s why: As the...
View ArticleBelief And Behavior Is What Makes Sales Training Stick
Back in the 1970s, IBM was the gold standard of sales training. They would put their salespeople through a program that lasted up to six months and relied heavily on high-intensity role plays and...
View ArticleMicrosoft Feels Frisky After Winning August, Disses Sony Over Fallout 4 User...
Above: Xbox One S vs. PlayStation 4. Image Credit: Jeffrey Grubb/GamesBeat Bethesda revealed this morning that the reason user mods are not in the PlayStation 4 version of Fallout 4 is because Sony is...
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Teaching Identity in a Chicago Charter School This is the third piece of the series “Who Are Urban Innovators?” an effort to show what’s possible when urban innovators and people of color get the...
View ArticleBECOME VALUE DRIVEN
How to Tame a Tiger (UX methods Pt. 1) Make sure your customers love you“Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a nightmare” ~Japanese Proverb I’ve never tamed a tiger before...
View ArticleThe DeanBeat: What Pokémon Go, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, And Mafia III Share...
Above: The world of Mafia III, set in New Orleans in 1968. Image Credit: 2K Games It’s hard to see the common thread between the wildly popular Pokémon Go, the console/PC blockbuster Deus Ex: Mankind...
View ArticleHere’s What The Dropbox Breach Should Teach Small Business About Cybersecurity
Days after it emerged that details of over 68 million Dropbox users has been leaked online, it now appears an employee reusing a password was to blame for the problem. Dropbox earlier revealed that...
View ArticleFirst Impressions Count Just As Much Online
There's a lot of analysis and science that goes into wowing a digital audience. But despite the numerable studies indicating best practices, most website owners just tend to wing it. Not following best...
View ArticleInploi Co-founder Reveals How His Team Is Building A Jobs Network For The...
The recruitment tech space is crowded, with the vast majority of players looking at optimising existing solutions for mobile. inploi wants to change that. The team at inploi is redefining this process...
View ArticleHow 6 Fast-Growth Software Companies Are Surviving In The Challenging SMB Market
When you think of online forms, file sharing, competitive intelligence, marketing automation, lead generation and social media management, you likely think of the giants. While the enterprise companies...
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SourceBeing Scrappy Is Not a Strategy We’re surrounded by agile startups. Companies that proudly boast about being dynamic, highly adaptable, and most of all scrappy. Filled with a small team of...
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Reasons you should invest in ICONOMI startup right now! In my last post I gave you an introduction to ICONOMI — ico.iconomi.net and also a detailed account on why I personally chose to invest in ICN....
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A Quick Guide to Hackathons Image Credit: certificationgame.comI just finished attending the Box Hack Day 2016 (https://developer.box.com/box-hack-day). We ended up being 1 of the 5 finalists and...
View ArticleThe Entrepreneur's Complete Guide To Ghostwriting
You have a book in your head that you need to write. You know it will help you and your business, but you haven't done it, and you probably aren't ever going to do it yourself. So, what now? One common...
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