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Top Five Mistakes Small Business Owners Are Making During Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

As the owner of a debt mitigation company, I have never seen such a wide variety of issues plaguing the fiscal health of small business owners. Some businesses are open, while others are closed but trying to reopen while the remainder are waiting for the government to allow them to reopen. No Dialogue with Commercial Landlord.

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Culture Isn’t Everything: 3 (Other) Traits Vital To Your Business’s Success

YoungUpstarts

It’s how your company operates internally, but it has no allegiance to the core of your business: making money and growing at a steady pace. Instead, focus on these three traits to help your small business blossom: 1. Set aside time to review metrics, evaluate clientele, or whittle down precise goals for the future.

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“Why give up that much equity for an amount we could raise other ways?:” SMB Tech Talk from ArtJamz

Hunter Walker

This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). HW: All of the social platforms claim to help small businesses and brands amplify their voice, find their customers. Everything else is tech.

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“Why give up that much equity for an amount we could raise other ways?:” SMB Tech Talk from ArtJamz

Hunter Walker

This week I’ll be running a series of Five Question interviews with small businesses which were facilitated by BondStreet , a SMB lending platform (we’re investors). HW: All of the social platforms claim to help small businesses and brands amplify their voice, find their customers. Everything else is tech.

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Think Big, Start Small: The Story of a Startup

Up and Running

A business with simple origins but big plans. Him and his team of technically-minded co-founders began with just a grant and the advisory help of the MBA faculty at American University. Tim tells me that before joining the MBA program, he has never had experience owning or running a business. Where do you go from here?

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

In particular, small businesses and exporters have a fundamental problem navigating the Federal Government’s myriad resources. In Round 1 of the PIF program, the RFP-EZ team opened the door to small businesses by building a platform for small, creative businesses to more effectively sell to the Federal Government.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #22: Calculate Return On Analytics Investment!

Occam's Razor

Why is it that we analysts feel like we have some amazing untapped ability that could revolutionize any business we touch, and yet we have to fight to be included in strategic conversations where we could do the most good, and we have to fight not to be ignored when we have something important to say? Let your mind roam wild.

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