Software de gaming en recursos humanos introducido

Can competition among team members drive results? Detroit’s LevelEleven bets on itVenture Beat   LevelEleven helps kick your salesforce’s performance up a notch for those instances where you “need that extra push over the cliff.” The Software-as-a-Service company accomplishes this by introducing game-based competition to your sales team via an integration with the Salesforce CRM. Founder Bob Marsh is no stranger to the impact game-based competition can have on an organization’s bottom line. He most recently served as a sales executive at Detroit-based Eprize, a company that facilitates online contests and promotions for companies ranging from Travelocity to Microsoft’s Xbox Live Rewards. It was at Eprize...

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Sobre desarrollo de negocios y asociatividad para emprendedores

3 Things You Need To Know About Entry-Level Business Development and Partnerships at Startups Alexander Taub, Contributor - Forbes Roles in BD and partnerships are some of the most sought after non-technical positions at startup companies. But what exactly does someone do in this department? Here are three things you need to know: What does someone in Business Development and Partnerships do? In my experience, BD and partnerships consists of three main things: The first is the process of marketing, selling, and developing strategies for your company. This means doing whatever it takes to grow the business side: working on user acquisition, figuring out what is wrong (or right) with engagement, working with partners to launch...

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Colectivos con Wi-Fi en SV

Shuttle buses taking over Silicon Valley, awesome visualization shows If you live in San Francisco and work at a tech company in Silicon Valley, you probably take a shuttle to work. A fantastic new map by design company Stamen Design shows just how extensive these shuttle services are. Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, eBay, and Electronic Arts all operate shuttles that go up and down the San Francisco Peninsula every workday. It’s a substantial employee benefit: You can live in culturally-rich San Francisco, surrounded by young, well-off techies like yourself; you get to work in the heart of Silicon Valley where the biggest and best-paying companies are located; and instead of spending hours a day driving, you pass the...

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CEO: De Google a Square

Former Google executive joins Square Francoise Brougher, former vice president of SMB global sales and operations at Google, has joined Square as business lead to aid in the company’s growth operations. Brougher, who spent eight years at Google, was most recently entrusted with leading global teams in charge of acquiring, growing, and retaining small advertisers. An MBA from Harvard business school, Brougher also served as vice president of business strategy at Charles Schwab & Co. for five years. “Francoise is a perfect fit for Square,” said Square co­-founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey. “Her accomplishments in growing and managing large, global teams, and her focus on building simple, scalable solutions that empower...

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Facebook genera enormes ingresos por publicidad por celular

Las fuerzas impulsoras del cambio en publicidad en celulares Por Cheryl Morris Cheryl Morris es el director de marketing de Nanigans. En menos de un año, Facebook se convirtió en el líder del mercado de anuncios gráficos móviles - superando a gigantes como Google y Apple para controlar aproximadamente una cuarta parte de todos los ingresos de visualización en celulares. Lo que representó el cero por ciento de los ingresos por publicidad de Facebook hace un año está en camino de ser un mercado de mil millones de dólares este año en los Estados Unidos solamente. Facebook ampliamente lanzó su primer producto publicidad móvil pocas semanas después de su salida a bolsa. Haciendo una visualización acelerada de tres meses y los celulares representaron...

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Nuevas publicidades generan 49 veces más clics a 45% menos costo

Facebook news feed ads generate 49X more clicks at 45% less cost (study) Social has never performed as well as search for advertisers. That looks like it could be about to change, because Facebook’s new News Feed ads are absolutely killing it. And the metrics are, frankly, mind-blowing. According to a new one-billion-impression ad study by retargeting giant AdRoll, news feeds ads have a massive 21 times higher click-through rates than standard web retargeting ads and an incredible 49 times the click-through rate of Facebook’s right-hand side ads. “A year ago we were having the discussion that Facebook doesn’t work, and GM is pulling its ads,” AdRoll president Adam Berke told me this morning. “Now we’re having...

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Cómo organizar reuniones de consejo super extrafalarias

How Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and other business chiefs hold ruthlessly effective meetings By Anna Codrea‑Rado @annacod Richard Branson preparing his conference room. AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee Why does Jeff Bezos keep a chair empty in the boardroom? Where does Richard Branson hold his meetings? And who’s always late for appointments? Here are some of Quartz’s favorite tips for holding meetings from the some of the world’s top business leaders: Throw out the least necessary person in the room Steve Jobs reportedly threw people out of meetings if he didn’t feel they added any value. The Jobsian way of running meetings, much like Apple’s core design principle, is to keep everything simple. Only absolutely essential people...

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Stratays compra a su competidor

Stratasys just acquired MakerBot, the one 3D printing firm that could have disrupted it By Christopher Mims @mims Turns out that giving people the ability to 3D print random tchotchkes is worth about $600 million. You can’t 3D print money, but Stratasys just did the next best thing in buying MakerBot, the one company with the potential to disrupt Stratasys’s 3D-printing business. The deal will be transacted entirely in Stratasys stock, and the initial acquisition price is 4.76 million shares (worth $403 million today). Depending on MakerBot’s performance, an additional 2.38 million shares could be exchanged as part of the acquisition, yielding a total acquisition value of $604 million. Stratasys is up 3.3% in after-hours...

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Análisis de la tablet Ainol Novo 10 Hero

Ainol Novo 10 Hero: Análisis y experiencia de uso en un precio muy contenido Quiero que, para leer el siguiente párrafo, os remontéis a los últimos días de 2012. Llegaba de una mañana un tanto aburrida a casa, y Papá Noel personificado en cartero se presentó en la puerta con un paquete para mi. Que casi no me pilla es otra historia… Después de esta introducción un tanto navideña cuando ya está muy pasado, toca hablar de los Android Chinos, unos grandes desconocidos e infravalorados. Muchas veces a la hora de escoger un Android ni los tenemos en cuenta, cuando se pueden encontrar verdaderas maravillas si buscamos bien. Hoy os traemos una Tablet china de gama media que cumple, aunque con altibajos. Lo que hoy os presentamos...

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