3 Steps for Crafting a Crowdfunding Pitch (and Improve Your Marketing)

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Crowdfunding is an excellent way for startups to raise funds beyond the usual friends and family, angel investor and venture capital route. Learn how startups market themselves through crowdfunding, from crafting a pitch to creating effective video marketing pieces, to aid your own marketing efforts.

Bridging the Cultural Divide in International Business Negotiations

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Question: Before taking my new job, I had 10 years of successful experience negotiating with suppliers all over the United States. The company I just joined sources materials and components from almost everywhere but the United States. What advice can you give me on negotiating with foreign suppliers? Program on Negotiation faculty member and negotiation instructor Jeswald Salacuse responds.

TED: Oren Yakobovich: Hidden cameras that film injustice in the world’s most dangerous places - Oren Yakobovich (2014)

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To see is to believe, says Oren Yakobovich — which is why he helps everyday people use hidden cameras to film dangerous situations of violence, political fraud and abuse. His organization, Videre, uncovers, verifies and publicizes human-rights abuses that the world needs to witness.

Leadership Lesson from an Off-Road Champion Driver

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by Gary CohenIf you are the one driving the organization, limit the hairpin turns in strategy, vision, or mission. Your helmet may be screwed into the car, but your coworkers' helmets aren't. Don't give them whiplash. The post Leadership Lesson from an Off-Road Champion Driver appeared first on Elements of Leadership.

The Appeal of Data Protection-as-a-Service For Enterprise IT

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I recently came across a quarterly publication of Asian Scientist, that reported how nanotechnology is reinventing medicine (Asian Scientist, Vol. 1, Issue 3, July – September 2014). The rise of the nanorobots has huge implications to our battle against many diseases. For those familiar with nanorobots, they are like drones locking onto the bad cells such as cancerous cells and releasing drugs to kill them off while sparing the healthy ones. Therefore legacy treatments will need to be re-evaluated.

HealthSpot Kiosks Powered by Dell Create New Model for Access to Healthcare

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So begins the story of serendipity and listening with an ear to solve problems -- not just sell things -- that evolved into an end-to-end relationship between Dell and HealthSpot the Consumer Electronics Association’s Small Business of the Year 2014, soon to be seen in Rite Aid stores.

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