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8 Work Trends Driven By New Ventures And Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

Both are required to stay competitive. An increasing number of startups are adopting a BYOD policy, realizing that individuals have their own preferences in the way they access data, collect emails or ‘chat’ to colleagues. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’ Bring your own device to work (BYOD).

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One Simple Way to Eliminate Distractions in a Board Meeting

Both Sides of the Table

How to Deal with Electronic Distractions Of course the biggest competition you have with the attention of your board members is their mobile phones. Most board members don’t have the intention of checking email, reading the news or sending a quick text message but just like most smokers don’t want to pull out a cigarette?

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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Per a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 17-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 11.5 According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.”

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Would the Last Blackberry User Please Turn Out the Lights? I Already Left the Building

Both Sides of the Table

If you were caught sending out an email on your Blackberry you had to quickly whip out your iPhone to show that – wait! But over time email became pervasive in our culture. And email was the most obvious thing they were missing. – we all needed email. And by content I mean email. Palm obliterated.

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I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

Both Sides of the Table

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. Competition isn’t won or lost by your marketing decks?

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Have you heard? Eyeballs aren’t everything.

Berkonomics

Email users, continue here… ] That is the quandary which entrepreneurs face today in building models for new companies around a web presence. Revenue models became more important a measure than traffic, although market share was and still is an over-weighted part of the value of any Internet-based entity.

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7 Ways To Improve Return On Your Marketing Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

Display ads on mobile devices, including video and audio, also offer a new opportunity to reach target customers. Email marketing. To use online display ads to generate leads, you post ads on websites frequented by your target audience or ones with content related to the ad.

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