The Guardian
The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world
20+ min · · We check our phones every 12 minutes, often just after waking up. Always-on behaviour is harmful to long-term mental health, and we need to learn to the hit the pause button · Shared by 1635, including Gabriele, Andreas Heer, Leo Babauta, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Dominik Grolimund, Harpreet Singh, John Battelle, Thomas Power, fernand0, Stefan Niemeyer, Mark Kaigwa, Ines Bieler, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Mark Little, Sachin Rekhi, Klaus Eck, Josep M. Ganyet, Katja Evertz, Jane, Liliane Ferrari ™
Entrepreneur
4 Ways Visuals Can Make Your PR Pitch a Success
2 min · · Sometimes, images are everything. · Shared by 15, including John Hall
Entrepreneur
How to Make PR Work For You
3 min · · Here are the decisive factors you won't learn in an online marketing course. · Shared by 25, including Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Ron McIntyre
First Round
How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb from a Failing Startup to a Billion Dollar Business
5 min · · Airbnb Co-founder Joe Gebbia talks about the true meaning of being scrappy and being willing to do things that don't scale. · Shared by 30, including Dave, Dave de Céspedes, Dominik Grolimund
Fast Company
How We Got Our First 2,000 Users Doing Things That Don't Scale
5 min · · So you need a crowd to launch to. Here's the way we got one. · Shared by 106, including Tom Connor, Dominik Grolimund, Ricky Yean, Gabriele, Ryan Hoover, Thomas Power, hiten.eth, mary elisabeth, Niklaus Gerber, Chris Messina
Groove
How We Got 2,000+ Customers by Doing Things That Didn’t Scale
7 min · · Some of our growth tactics will never scale. Here’s why we’re okay with that… · Shared by 37, including Dominik Grolimund, cbz, Courtney Bolton ★, Startupxplore, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷
medium.com
How to Scale a Magical Experience: 4 Lessons from Airbnb’s Brian Chesky
6 min · · Over the last 20 years, I’ve worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. And just about every… · Shared by 37, including Tom Connor, Kunal Bhatia, Dominik Grolimund
The Guardian
Facial recognition is now rampant. The implications for our freedom are chilling
5 min · · This new technology is being secretly used on streets and in shopping centres across Britain, making potential suspects of us all · Shared by 111, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Tris Hussey, Gerrit Eicker, Tauno, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Power, Evan Selinger, Ines Bieler, ahg, Matthias Lampe, Ste Davies, Azeem Azhar, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛
FORTUNE
America’s CEOs Seek a New Purpose for the Corporation
Summary · 15+ min · · Putting the needs of shareholders above all else has been the leading aim of the US corporation for decades. The Business Roundtable, an influential association of the top bosses of America’s most noteworthy firms, is seeking to alter that singular focus. Alan Murray, head of Fortune magazine, pens a succinct yet wide-ranging look at what is prompting these executives to rethink capitalism’s mission, at a time in which employees, customers, suppliers and voters are demanding greater accountability from their leaders. Readers could regard this insightful analysis as a manifesto for corporate change. · Shared by 124, including rudolph regter, Mark Kaigwa, felix salmon, Thomas Power, Tiffani Bova, Jonathan Kogan, davidabrock, getAbstract, Marc Benioff, Gerd Leonhard
startupdecks.co
Startup – DECKS
1 min · · Magic Leap is combining that inherent visual ability with mobile computing · Shared by 90, including Ryan Hoover, 瑞拿頭, L. Taylor Banks, Scott Williams, Quim, Thomas Kaul, Jonathan Kogan, Dominik Grolimund, Thomas Power
a16z
16 Sales Contract Clauses to Balance Risk and Reward
16+ min · · I often hear from founders of B2B companies, especially in the early stages, about the difficulty of negotiating customer contracts. As a startup, negotiating is tough because you are not yet estab… · Shared by 40, including Bernhard Huessy, Philippe Gauvin, steve blank
Harvard Business Review
Don’t Sell a Product, Sell a Whole New Way of Thinking
7 min · · Customers need the right mental model to understand why they need your product. · Shared by 956, including Call Me ❝MICKEY❞, Jörg Linder, Chris Messina, Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power, Lord Travis Wright, Davo ⚡, Brent Summers, Liza Sperling, Bertrand Maltaverne, Dewane Mutunga 🧠💰, Howard Getson, Kris Fannin, Dominik Grolimund, Raphael Bratschi, Shawn Venasse, ⛓ José Luis Núñez ⛓, Dave, Sérgio Vieira, Florian Hanke 🍎
Darren Rowse
The Ultimate Guide To Creating Evergreen Content For Your Blog
17+ min · · Want your posts to keep bringing traffic to your blog for years to come? Then you should be creating evergreen content. And here's how to do it. · Shared by 97, including Tris Hussey, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Shawn Venasse, Klaus Eck, LARRY ELKAN, Lluís Codina, Aldo Gnocchi
TechCrunch
Sales professionals get a bad rap. Bravado wants to change that.
3 min · · With support from venture capitalists, Bravado is evangelizing the sales industry. · Shared by 16
GrowthHackers
Neuromarketing: Use These 3 Brain-Targeting Hacks to Sell More
· Top-performing marketers don’t achieve success by chance! They understand how to tap into the brains of customers for powerful. The following ‘neuro’ tips and tricks are based on years of… · Shared by 60, including Walid Ark, Jonathan Kogan, Gabriele
messengerpeople.com
MessengerPeople: Your experts in professional messenger communication
2 min · · Successful customer-company communication via WhatsApp, Facebook & more: Your MessengerPeople solution: Customer Service ✔️ Marketing ✔️Chatbots ✔️ · Shared by 9