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LinkedIn is shutting down its last remaining polling feature, Polls in Groups, on May 15

Apr20
by on April 20, 2014 at 3:12 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, linkedin

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There’s bad news if you use LinkedIn to run polls, as the professional-focused social network is removing the ability for you to do so from next month. The company says its LinkedIn Polls in Groups feature will be retired on May 15, and all data related to polls will be removed. Polls were introduced to groups in December 2011 as “a simple way to unlock the insights of the members of the group”, but the feature is being made obsolete as part of ongoing efforts to provide “a simple and efficient experience” to LinkedIn users, as a notice explains: We’re…

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10 guidelines to help you innovate and get stuff done

Apr20
by on April 20, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's, LifeHacks

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West Stringfellow is the CPO of Bigcommerce. Innovation is simple. You don’t have to be a genius, or boast an MBA from Harvard, or carry some McKinsey strategy in your back pocket. You don’t even have to have an original idea. You simply have to be able to get shit done. Gates, Ellison, Jobs and Zuckerberg are our modern-day geniuses of technology and business. Yet not one of these geniuses graduated from college, and not one single-handedly invented a business, much less an entire industry. Indeed, these guys didn’t do anything first–they simply did it better. Every one of them…

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Tech is exploding all across the UK, not just in London

Apr20
by on April 20, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider

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James Parton is the European Director at Twilio. The Internet economy currently accounts for around 8.3 percent of British GDP according to Boston Consulting Group’s latest study, The Connected World. Not only is this a larger percentage than any other G20 nation, but this figure is expected to hit 12.4 percent by 2016. We certainly can’t underestimate the significant role that London – and Tech City – is playing in these developments, but we have to recognise it’s the UK as a whole that will be key to hitting these 2016 projections. London certainly is a heavyweight player. Last year, in…

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