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More Businesses Turn to ‘Near-Sourcing’ to Save Time and Money | Entrepreneur.com
Entrepreneur.com (Carol Tice) – Gary Castelle, president of specialized apparel company Magnum Plastics in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., used to buy shipping boxes from a major national supplier in Pennsylvania to ship his wares to customers, but he quickly became dissatisfied with the arrangement. The bulky cardboard boxes were pricey to ship and were sometimes damaged in transit. What’s more, the supplier’s customer service wasn’t the greatest.
In late 2011, Castelle started searching for a better option closer to home, and sure enough he located a small vendor with a better price right in his own town. Now, instead of waiting for a delivery, he loads his dog into his truck and makes a 40-minute trip to Dauson Container in Franklin, N.J., which saves him about $100 on shipping costs each time. The switch has also resulted in more business.
Continue reading… More Businesses Turn to ‘Near-Sourcing’ to Save Time and Money | Entrepreneur.com.
In the figure below I summarize, in terms of funding volumes, a small part of a very interesting and detailed report on Crowdfunding Global Market carried out in 2012 by Massolution, and available on CROWDFUNDING INDUSTRY REPORT (ABRIDGED VERSION): Market Trends, Composition and Crowdfunding Platforms, compared with the funding volume of one of the most popular Crowdfunding Platforms: Kickstarter.
US and Europe are the most active areas in numerical terms.
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Forbes (George Anders) – LinkedIn has upended corporate recruiting in the past decade, allowing talent scouts to scour a vast database of 200 million people’s career profiles. That was just the start. Now LinkedIn has created algorithms that might do the sorting even more nimbly. The result: a digital cheat-sheet for recruiters, called: “People You May Want to Hire.”
Fruits of the new algorithms won’t be visible to ordinary users of the workplace social network, who get a basic service for free. Instead, the latest offering is aimed exclusively at LinkedIn’s best customers: the 16,400 enterprises that buy LinkedIn’s top-of-the-line profile-searching system, known as Recruiter. In a San Francisco briefing today, LinkedIn executives explained that they are about to roll out an updated version of Recruiter, with “People You May Want to Hire” as a prime example of what’s new…
Continue reading… Who Should You Hire? LinkedIn Says: Try Our Algorithm – Forbes.
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I believe that the true Innovation, the one with the capital “i”, comes from training and know-how. What better way to innovate by learning about the innovative successful stories?
In the following interview Giuseppe De Nicola, founder of the “Premio Best Practices“, explains us the concept described in the post title. A mix of tips and good “practices” that you should take into account if you have the willing to start the your own business.
1) How did the idea of this Award come about? Who is it for?
The “Premio Best Practices” award was born eight years ago to escape the associationism logics and to learn more about the work of colleagues who attended Confindustria Salerno, in short, a little healthy voyeurism useful to understand the true skills of local companies, through the story of their most significant project realized for a specific customer. Continue reading
If we are seeking the real meaning of “innovation” we can find the answer into the video below.
It’s something revolutionary! Google Glass can really change the way we communicate and interact with the world.
For more info visit: Google Glass Official Page
Nvidia (s nvda) has launched an integrated smartphone chip designed for mainstream smartphones in a bid to take on Qualcomm's (s qcom) processor dominance in mobile handsets. The Tegra 4i is part of what will now be a family of Tegra 4 smartphone chips, with the 4 aimed at high-end phones and tablets and the 4i aimed at phones in the $100 to $200 range.
Source: http://quriio.us/
“quriio.us” an innovative Italian ICT startup close to launch, here’s what it is!
Alessandro Carboni tell us about his experience.
1) quriio.us: the social that aims to break the classic way to shop. What is able to do and discover a “quriio.users” on your platform?
We like the definition you just used: quriio.us in meant for very curious users indeed! It’s a platform about your (or your 1000-mile-away friend’s) city’s small and medium businesses. Merchants can easily manage their web presence and sell online, whereas private users can live a truly shared shopping experience. These can find information about already known businesses, discover new ones, buy unique products and create a network of people based on their shopping tastes. They can comment on the shops, advice products they love, ask for suggestion before buying and interact with friends (because the funniest thing in shopping is telling your friend what you just bought!).
2) When and how did this project? What are the key factors to walk on the path of success? Continue reading
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3 Apps to Help You Write a Business Plan | Entrepreneur.com.
Very useful apps to write a traditional business plan. Free and Paid version.
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Valerio Genovese, StartupHighway catalyst and online marketing strategist in Western Europe, tells us about his experience and about the StartupHighway acceleration program based in Vilnius (Lithuania).
From official website:
” .. StartupHighway is 13 week acceleration program that combines €14K in funding, business advice from our international network of mentors and access to essential resources for starting up .. “
Below there is a short interview with Valerio, made in collaboration with Andrea Solimene, a young and talented italian Business Consultant Freelance & “Startupper”.
1) Why far from Italy and why Lithuania?
I went away from Italy not looking for better conditions, but for spirit of adventure. I started working when I was eighteen and six year later I decided to leave my role, as creative director in advertising, to explore Europe. So I took a gap year, which was soon transformed into “digital nomad lifestyle”. Since three years I’m living in several European capitals and I’m working in the “HUB” and in contact with the startup communities.
2) Which are the main characteristics of lithuanian startup ecosystem? Continue reading
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