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Building A Tech Startup: Avoiding Silicon Valley Mishaps

YoungUpstarts

Every startup faces an initial period of uncertainty and perhaps even public resistance, but the tech field has its own pitfalls that can break a fledgling company before it ever has a chance to find its footing. Beware the tech kill zone. Following what made a tech startup popular five years ago will rarely, if ever, lead to success.

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[Interview] PSB Academy: Up-Skilling In A New Learning Economy

YoungUpstarts

This accentuates the need for talents in the hospitality industry to harness the power of digital marketing and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, in preparation for the Hospitality 4.0 Visitors are more keen to share their positive reviews and experiences on online travel sites, and their circle of friends and family.

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How a Virtual Assistant can Help Startup Make More Sales

ReadWriteStart

Meetings are one of the sales areas that suffered the biggest hit due to the ever-growing transition to a virtual environment. If you want to go one step further, your virtual assistants can deliberately harvest data necessary for your conversion teams. That is why this form of outreach is best left to the trained virtual assistants.

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Shortening The Small Business Software Selection Process

YoungUpstarts

In fact, selecting and integrating a piece of software can take months to do; even years, depending on the size of the company, the complexity of the software and the technical skill level of the person implementing it. Tim Handorf is Co-Founder and President of G2 Crowd, a crowdsourced business software review site.

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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus, I’m more impressed with entrepreneurs who ask me to review their implementation plan, rather than listen again to their idea. Some dreams sound great, but may not yet be viable or proven with today’s technology. There are lots of resources available for the challenge of that activity, including the Internet and mentors like me.

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Founder Interview: Abraham Gin on Entrepreneurs and Leadership

The Startup Magazine

Here Abraham tells us more about lessons learned from his own entrepreneurship journey and success story: TSM: To get us started, describe what Gin Consulting Group does in 10 words or less: Abraham: We offer scalable performance, culture, and leadership development via hi-tech SAAS platform and high-touch coaching.

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[INTERVIEW] David Mimran, Director Of The Mimran Group

YoungUpstarts

Due to their location above the seafloor bedroom, harvesting them is not a major technical challenge, although there are obvious challenges involved in underwater extraction. Those challenges may be worthwhile, as global reserves may exceed 500 billion tons.